[alife] Invitation to BICT 2015

[Paul Leger]

Dear, 

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Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups  
the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results  
to BICT 2015 
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CFP: 9th International Conference on Bio-inspired Information and  
Communications Technologies (BICT 2015, formerly BIONETICS) 

http://www.bionetics.org/ 

Paper submission deadline extended: August 3, 2015 

December 3 (Thu) - December 5, 2015 (Sat) 
New York City, NY, USA 

Sponsored by European Alliance for Innovation (EAI) and Department of  
Biomedical Engineering at the Columbia University School of Engineering and  
Applied Science 

In-corporation with ACM (Pending) 

BICT 2015 aims to provide a world-leading and multidisciplinary venue for  
researchers and practitioners in diverse disciplines that seek the  
understanding of key principles, processes and mechanisms in biological  
systems and leverage those understandings to develop novel information and  
communications technologies (ICT). BICT 2015 targets two thrusts: 

THRUST 1: Indirect Bioinspiration (ICT designed after biological  
principles, processes and mechanisms). Examples include evolutionary  
computation, artificial gene regulatory networks, neural  
networks/computation, swarm intelligence, cellular automata, artificial  
immune systems, amorphous computing, artificial life, artificial chemistry,  
reaction-diffusion computing, self-organization, chaotic systems, social  
networks, game theory, computational epidemics, agent-based modeling, and  
nature-inspired models and calculi. 

THRUST 2: Direct Bioinspiration (ICT utilizing biological materials and  
systems). Examples include biosensing, molecular assembly, cellular  
computing, molecular computing/communication, membrane computing, bacterial  
computing/communication, DNA computing and memory, Physarum computing,  
quantum computing, biometric security/authentication, brain-computer  
interfaces and energy harvesting from biological sources. 

Expected, but not exclusive, topics are: 

* Signal/information processing and communication for bio-inspired ICT 
* Data management and analytics for bio-inspired ICT 
* Algorithms and their applications for bio-inspired ICT 
* Formal models and methods for bio-inspired ICT 
* Bio-inspired software and hardware systems 
* Modeling, simulations and empirical experiments of bio-inspired ICT 
* Self-* and stability properties in bio-inspired ICT 
* Security, robustness and resilience in bio-inspired ICT 
* Design, configuration, performance and management issues in bio-inspired  
ICT 
* Tools, testbeds and deployment aspects in bio-inspired ICT 
* Applications, experiences and standardization of bio-inspired ICT 

Application domains include, but not limited to, autonomic computing,  
bioinformatics, biomedical engineering, computer networks, computer vision,  
data mining, e-health, green computing and networking, grid/cloud  
computing, intelligent agents, mechanical engineering, nanoscale/molecular  
computing and communication, optimization, pervasive computing, robotics,  
security, social networks, software engineering and systems engineering. 

IMPORTANT DATES: 

Regular paper submission due: August 3 
Short and poster/demo paper submission due: September 22 
Notification for regular papers: September 21 
Notification for short and poster/demo papers: October 1 
Camera ready due: October 15 

SPECIAL TRACKS: 

In addition to the regular track that covers general/mainstream topics,  
BICT 2015 features the following special tracks that focus on specific,  
emerging or underrepresented topics. 

* Anthropomorphic Robot and Physiological Information for Cares and Daily  
Communication (ARPI) 
* Artificial, Biological and Bio-Inspired Intelligence (ABBII) 
* Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering (AISE) 
* Bio-inspired Algorithms and Technologies for Cyber Security and Defense  
Applications (DEFENSE) 
* Bio-Inspired Communications and Computing (BICC) 
* Bio-inspired Wireless Network Security (BWNS) 
* Biological Computing and Bio-medical Informatics (BCBI) 
* Biologically Inspired Computer Vision Models and Techniques (BioVis) 
* BioNanoNetworks: Modeling, Design, Performance and Applications (BMDPA) 
* Combinatorial Optimization (COP) 
* Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) 
* Computational Intelligence on Information Security (CIIS) 
* Engineering Applications from Bio-Molecular Networks (EmNet) 
* Game Theory and its Applications (GTA) 
* Molecular Communication and Networking (MCN) 
* Modularization for Practical Software Engineering (MPSE) 
* Nano-networks and Communication in Bacteria Populations (NCBP) 
* Physarum Computing (PhysComp) 
* Soft Computing on Brain-Body Area (SCBBA) 
* Swarm Robotics (SR) 
* Topology-driven bio-inspired methods and models for complex systems  
(TOPDRIM​4​Bio) 

CO-LOCATED WORKSHOPS: 

* Bioinformatics 2015 
* Brain-Inspired Information Communication Technologies (BIICT) 
* Computational Models of the Visual Cortex (CMVC): Hierarchies, Layers,  
Sparsity, Saliency and Attention 
* Int'l Workshop on Electro-Chemical Signaling in Neuron Organelles (ESNO) 
* The First Int'l Workshop on Combining Machine Learning and  
Search-BasedSoftware Engineering (MLSBSE) 
* Int'l Workshop on Physarum Transport Networks (PhysNet) 

PAPER SUBMISSION: 

Authors are invited to submit regular papers (up to 8 pages each), short  
papers (up to 4 pages each) or poster/demo papers (up to 2 pages each) in  
ACM's paper template. Up to two extra pages are allowed for each paper with  
extra page charges. See http://bionetics.org/2015/show/initial-submission   
for more details. 

PUBLICATION: 

All accepted paper will be published through ACM Digital Library and  
submitted for indexing by SI, EI Compendex, Scopus, ACM DL, Google Scholar  
and many more. Selected papers will be considered for publication in  
leading journals including: 

* IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience 
* ACM/Springer Mobile Networks and Applications 
* Elsevier Information and Software Technology 
* Elsevier Information Sciences 
* Springer Software Quality Journal 
* Elsevier Nano Communication Networks Journal 
* Springer Complex Adaptive Systems Modeling 
* Int'l Journal of Soft Computing and Networking 

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: 

* Dmitri Chklovskii, Simons Foundation, USA 
* Simon Garnier, New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University,  
USA 
* Radu Marculescu, Carnegie Mellon University, USA 
* Bud Mishra, New York University, USA 
* Maurizio Porfiri, New York University, USA 
* Yechiam Yemini, Columbia University, USA 

FEATURED SPEAKERS IN CO-LOCATED WORKSHOPS: 

* Emanuela Merelli, University of Camerino, Italy 

GENERAL CHAIRS: 

Jun Suzuki, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA 
Tadashi Nakano, Osaka University, Japan 
Henry Hess, Columbia University, USA 

PC CHAIRS: 

William Casey, Carnegie Mellon University, SEI, USA 
Adriana Compagnoni, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA 
Simon Garnier, New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University 
Mario Koeppen, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan 


BICT 2015 Publicity Chair, 
Paul Leger (http://pleger.cl)