[alife] CFP: Special session on Brain-inspired Information Communication Technologies, BICT 2014

[Jun-nosuke Teramae]

Call For Papers: 8th International Conference on Bio-inspired Information and Communications Technologies (BICT 2014, formerly BIONETICS)
http://www.bionetics.org/
December 1 (Mon) - December 3, 2014 (Wed), Boston, MA, USA

Special session on Brain-inspired Information Communication Technologies
 
Scope:
Recent rapid progresses of computational and experimental neuroscience are starting to uncover key principles by which neuronal systems realize 
robust information processing that can often outperform conventional approaches especially for ambiguous real-world tasks. Computation is an 
inseparable part of the communication among neurons and it is realized by the continuous transmission of spikes among neurons in extremely 
large-scale brain networks. Despite the rather unreliable nature of neurons and synapses, complex interaction between them finally forms robust 
and reliable communication, for which the topology of large-scale functional networks and noise-induced phenomena in the brain can be utilized. 
These remarkable features of communication in the brain seem similar with the requirements of currently considered future information networks 
that should be highly scalable to number of nodes, robust against perturbations, adaptive to environmental changes, and tolerant of noise and diversity.
This session aims at bringing together researchers and scientists from various research fields including biology, neuroscience, and information 
science in an interdisciplinary way with the goal to foster research and development of new technologies in information networks of the future.
 
Topics of Interest:
1. Application of brain-inspired models to sensor networks, ad-hoc networks, or self-organized communication network architectures, protocols, or services
2. Mathematical models of neural dynamics, brain networks, or cognitive processes with adaptive, robust/resilient, or self-organizing behavior
3. Energy-efficient mechanisms inspired by neural functions
4. Brain machine interface technologies for controlling information systems
(and more)
 
Paper Submission:
Authors are invited to prepare “Regular papers” up to 8 pages, or “Short papers” up to 4 pages in ACM conference paper format. Paper templates 
are available at http://bionetics.org/2014/show/authors-kit. All papers should be submitted by email to Jun-nosuke Teramae (teramae at ist.osaka-u.ac.jp) 
and will be peer reviewed. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings.
 
Important Dates:
Paper Submission:			Sep. 29, 2014
Notification of Acceptance:  	Oct. 9, 2014
Camera-ready Submission:  	Oct. 13, 2014
Conference:				Dec. 1 - 3, 2014, Boston, MA, USA
 
Special Session Co-Chairs:
Naoki Wakamiya, Osaka University, wakamiya at ist.osaka-u.ac.jp
Kenji Leibnitz, NICT, leibnitz at nict.go.jp
Jun-nosuke Teramae, Osaka University, teramae at ist.osaka-u.ac.jp
 
Please feel free to contact the co-chairs if you have any questions.

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Jun-nosuke Teramae
Associate Professor, Bio-system analysis lab.
Department of Bioinformatic engineering,
Graduate school of information science and technology, Osaka University
teramae at ist.osaka-u.ac.jp