LAST CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline Extended Due to several requests, the submission deadline for BICS 2010 has been extended to: January 31, 2010. (23.59 GMT+1) ============================================================================== ____ _____ _____ _____ ___ ___ __ ___ | _ \_ _/ ____|/ ____| |__ \ / _ \/_ |/ _ \ | |_) || || | | (___ ) | | | || | | | | | _ < | || | \___ \ / /| | | || | | | | | |_) || || |____ ____) | / /_| |_| || | |_| | |____/_____\_____|_____/ |____|\___/ |_|\___/ BRAIN-INSPIRED COGNITIVE SYSTEMS CONFERENCE Madrid, Spain, July 14-16, 2010 www.bicsconference.org Ricardo Sanz, General Chair Sponsored by ICSC ============================================================================== BICS 2010 is a multitrack conference organised around four strongly related symposia (NC 2010, BIS 2010, CNS 2010 and MoC 2010). The three previous BICS conferences were BICS 2008 (Sao Luis, Brasil), BICS 2006 (Lesbos, Greece) and BICS 2004 (Stirling, UK). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Conference Symposia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sixth International ICSC Symposium on Neural Computation (NC 2010) Fifth International ICSC Symposium on Biologically Inspired Systems (BIS 2010) Fourth International ICSC Symposium on Cognitive Neuroscience (CNS 2010) Third International ICSC Symposium on Models of Consciousness (MoC 2010) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Motivation ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems - BICS 2010 aims to bring together leading scientists and engineers who use analytic and synthetic methods both to understand the astonishing processing properties of biological systems and, specifically those of the living brain, and to exploit such knowledge to advance engineering methods for building artificial systems with higher levels of cognitive competence. BICS 2010 is a meeting point of cognitive systems engineers and brain scientists where cross-domain ideas are fostered in the hope of getting new emerging insights on the nature, operation and extractable capabilities of brains. This multiple approach is necessary because the progressively more accurate data about brains is producing a growing need of both a quantitative and theoretical understanding and an associated capacity to manipulate this data and translate it into engineering applications rooted in sound theories. BICS 2010 is intended for both researchers that aim to build brain inspired systems with higher cognitive competences, and as well to life scientists who use and develop mathematical and engineering approaches for a better understanding of complex biological systems like the brain. BICS 2010 is organized around four major interlaced focal symposia that are organized into patterns that encourage cross-fertilization across the symposia topics. This emphasizes the role of BICS as a major meeting point for researchers and practitioners in the areas of biological and artificial cognitive systems. Debates across disciplines will enrich researchers with complementary perspectives from diverse scientific fields. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Workshops and Tutorials ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Organizing Committee for BICS 2010 requests proposals for a full or half day workshop or tutorial, to be held on Tuesday, July 13, 2010 at the Technical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain. This day of workshops and tutorials will precede the main conference. The workshops and tutorials have consistently provided high-quality, topically-focused forums for researchers at the forefront of basic and applied research in brain inspired cognitive systems. Workshops should be focused on interactions of participants to exchange new ideas and explore new directions in research. Tutorials should provide self-contained descriptions of established research topics. The primary criteria for selection are anticipated level of interest, impact, novelty or creativity, and technical background of presenters. We request that workshop and tutorial organizers initially email a brief, single-paragraph description of the proposed topic and a list of organizers by January 31, 2010 to the BICS Program manager at ipc@bicsconference.org. A template for the final proposal of approximately 3 pages will be mailed to all interested parties. The full proposal submission should include a title, an abstract and a description of the proposed content, a tentative schedule, and the expected requirements for space and equipment. Full proposals for review will be due by January 31, 2010. All decisions will be made by February 15, 2010. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dates ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Conference: July 14-16, 2010 Workshops and tutorials: July 13, 2010 Paper submission Submission of contributions: January 31, 2010 Notification of acceptance: March 10, 2010 Final contributions due: May 15, 2010 Workshops and Tutorials submission Submission of proposals: January 31, 2010 Notification of acceptance: February 15, 2010 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Conference Publications ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All accepted papers will be included in the Conference Proceedings, which will be published in electronic format. Attendant authors will receive a copy of them on CD. * BICS'10 book by Springer Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of them after the conference, to be included as book chapters in the BICS'10 book to be published by Springer. * Special Issue of Cognitive Computation A post-conference Special Issue of the journal Cognitive Computation will also be published by Springer with extended versions of selected BICS'2010 papers chapters and invited contributions. * Special Issue of the International Journal of Machine Consciousness A post-conference Special Issue of the International Journal of Machine Consciousness will also be published with extended versions of selected contributions to the Symposium on Models of Consciousness of BICS'10. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Venue ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The conference will be held at the Escuela Superior de Ingenieros Industriales of the Technical University of Madrid (UPM ETSII). Address: Jose Gutierrez Abascal 2 28006 Madrid Spain Geo:lat=40.4404 lon=-3.6902 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Conference Scope ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Neural Computation (NC) NeuroComputational (NC) Systems ˇ NC Hybrid Systems ˇ NC Learning ˇ NC Control Systems ˇ NC Signal Processing ˇ NC Architectures ˇ NC Devices ˇ NC Perception and Pattern Classifiers ˇ Support Vector Machines ˇ Fuzzy or Neuro-Fuzzy Systems ˇ Evolutionary Neural Networks ˇ Biological Neural Network Models ˇ NC Applications Biologically Inspired Systems (BIS) Brain Inspired (BI) Systems ˇ BI Vision ˇ BI Audition and sound processing ˇ BI Other sensory modalities ˇ BI Motion processing ˇ BI Robotics ˇ BI Adaptive and Control systems ˇ BI Evolutionary systems ˇ BI Oscillatory systems ˇ BI Signal processing ˇ BI Learning ˇ Neuromorphic systems Cognitive Neuroscience (CNS) CN of vision ˇ CN of non-vision sensory modalities ˇ CN of volition ˇ Systems Neuroscience ˇ Attentional Mechanisms ˇ Affective Systems ˇ Language ˇ Cortical Models ˇ Sub-Cortical Models ˇ Cerebellar Models ˇ Neural correlates Models of consciousness (MoC) World awareness ˇ Self-awareness ˇ Imaginationˇ Qualia models ˇ Virtual Machine Approaches ˇ Formal Models of Consciousness ˇ Control Theoretical Models ˇ Developmental/Infant Models ˇ Will and Volition ˇ Emotion and Affect Philosophical implications ˇ Neurophysiological Grounding ˇ Enactive approaches ˇ Heterophenomenology ˇ Analytic/Synthetic phenomenology ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Program Committee ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jaime Gómez (Technical University of Madrid), Chair of the PC Amir Hussain (University of Stirling, UK), NC Chair Leslie Smith (University of Stirling, UK), BIS Chair Igor Aleksander (Imperial College, UK), CNS Chair Antonio Chella (University of Palermo, UK), MoC Chair David Gamez (Imperial College, London, UK) Hugo Gravato Marques (University of Essex, UK) Alexei Samsonovich (George Mason University, VA, USA) Raul Arrabales (Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain) Pentti Haikonen (University of Illinois, Springfield, IL, USA) Tom Ziemke (University of Skövde, Sweden) David Balduzzi (University of Wisconsin, WI, USA) Riccardo Manzotti (IULM, Milan, Italy) James Albus (George Mason University, VA, USA) James Austin (Cybula Ltd, UK) Giacomo Indiveri (University of Zurich, Switzerland) Alister Hamilton (University of Edinburgh, UK) F. Claire Rind (Newcastle University, UK) Sue Denham (University of Plymouth, UK) Philip Hafliger (University of Oslo, Norway) David Windridge (University of Surrey, UK) Luis Rocha (Indiana University, Bloomington, USA) Shun-ichi Amari (RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan) Jose C. Principe (University of Florida, USA) Professor Ron Sun (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) Anil K Seth (University of Sussex, UK) Bernard Widrow (Stanford University, USA) Stephen Grossberg (Boston University, USA) Umamaheshwari Ramamurthy (University of Memphis, TN, USA) Hans-Heinrich Bothe (Technical University of Denmark Lyngby, Denmark) Marcilio Souto (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil) Irene Macaluso (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland) Will Browne (University of Reading, UK) Petros A. M. Gelepithis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece) Mark Humphries (University of Sheffield, UK) Robert Lowe (University of Skövde, Sweden) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Organizing Committee ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ramon Galán, Chair of the OC Carlos Hernández Ińaki Navarro Manuel Rodríguez Pascual Campoy Paloma de la Puente Adolfo Hernando Miguel Olivares Guadalupe Sánchez ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Contact ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ General requests: info@bicsconference.org Organization committee: oc@bicsconference.org Program committee: pc@bicsconference.org Conference website: www.bicsconference.org Conference mailist: http://lists.aslab.upm.es/mailman/listinfo/bics ============================================================================== Other posts:
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