[Amdnl] International Conference on Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (BICS 2012)

[Derong Liu]

2012 International Conference on Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (BICS
2012)

The 2012 International Conference on Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (BICS
2012) will be held jointly with the 2012 International Symposium on Neural
Networks (ISNN 2012), July 11-14, 2012, Shenyang, China.
Cross-fertilization of the two technical disciplines and newly emerging
technologies is strongly encouraged.

Call for Contributed Papers

The 2012 International Conference on Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (BICS
2012) will be held in Shenyang, China, as a sequel of BICS 2004 - 2010.
Shenyang is the capital city of Liaoning Province with a long history and
rich heritages. Shenyang was first used by the Manchu people as their
capital in the 17th century and is today the biggest city in Northeastern
China. Shenyang is now an important political, industrial, and cultural
center, and serves as the transportation and commercial hub of Northeastern
China. The city is well-known for its modern infrastructure, convenient
land and air transport network, and abundant natural resources. BICS 2012
aims to provide a high-level international forum for scientists, engineers,
and educators to present the state of the art of brain inspired cognitive
systems research and applications in diverse fields. The symposium will
feature plenary lectures given by world renowned scholars, regular sessions
with broad coverage, and some s! pecial sessions focusing on popular and
timely topics.

BICS 2012 solicits papers in the following areas:
Biologically Inspired Systems:
- Brain inspired systems
- Brain inspired vision
- Brain inspired audition and sound processing
- Brain inspired other sensory modalities
- Brain inspired motion processing
- Brain inspired robotics
- Brain inspired adaptive and control systems
- Brain inspired evolutionary systems
- Brain inspired oscillatory systems
- Brain inspired signal processing
- Brain inspired learning
- Neuromorphic systems
- Others
Cognitive Neuroscience:
- Cognitive neuroscience
- Cognitive neuroscience of vision
- Cognitive neuroscience of non-vision sensory modalities
- Cognitive neuroscience of volition
- Systems neuroscience
- Attentional mechanisms
- Affective systems
- Language
- Cortical models
- Sub-cortical models
- Cerebellar models
- Neural correlates
- Others
Models of Consciousness:
- World awareness
- Self-awareness
- Global workspace theory
- Imagination
- Qualia models
- Virtual machine approaches
- Formal models fo consciousness
- Control theoretical models
- Developmental/Infant models
- Will and volition
- Emotion and affect
- Philosophical implications
- Neurophysiological grounding
- Enactive approaches
- Heterophenomenology
- Analyitic/Synthetic phenomenology
- Others
Neural Computation:
- Neuro-computational systems
- Hybrid neural systems
- Neural learning
- Neural control systems
- Neural signal processing
- Architectures of neural computation
- Neural devices
- Neural perception and pattern classifiers
- Neuro-fuzzy systems
- Evolutionary neural networks
- Biological neural network models
- Applications
- Others

Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length papers (6-8 pages
normally and 10 pages maximum) by the submission deadline through the
online submission system (http://bics2012.mae.cuhk.edu.hk). The submission
of a paper implies that the paper is original and has not been submitted
under review or copyright protected elsewhere and will be presented by an
author if accepted. All submitted papers will be refereed by experts in the
field based on the criteria of originality, significance, quality, and
clarity. The authors of accepted papers will have an opportunity to revise
their papers and take consideration of the referees' comments and
suggestions. All papers accepted by and presented at BICS 2012 will be
published by Springer as multiple volumes of Lecture Notes in Artificial
Intelligence which will be indexed by EI and ISTP. Selected papers will be
published in special issues of several SCI journals.

Call for Special Sessions

The BICS 2012 technical program will include special sessions. Their aim is
to provide a complementary flavor to the regular sessions and should
include topics of interest to the BICS community. Prospective organizers of
special sessions should submit proposals indicating:
(1) title of the session;
(2) rationale of the need for the special session at BICS. The rationale
should stress the novelty of the topic and/or its multidisciplinary flavor,
and must explain how it is different from the subjects covered by the
regular sessions;
(3) short biography of the organizers;
(4) list of 5-6 contributed papers (including titles, authors, contact
information of the corresponding author).
Proposals are due on or before 1 January 2012 and should be sent via e-mail
(in either pdf or plain ascii text form) to the Special Sessions Chairs,
"Sanqing Hu" (sanqinghu at gmail.com), "Stefano Squartini" (
s.squartini at univpm.it). Proposals will be evaluated based on the timeliness
of the topic, the qualifications of the organizers and the authors of the
papers proposed in the session. Sessions in which three or more papers are
co-authored by the same person, or by authors from the same group will not
be accepted. In its decision, the committee will try to realize a balance
of the topics across the technical areas represented in BICS. Notification
of acceptance will be sent to the organizers by 7 January 2012. Authors of
papers included in successful proposals should submit a manuscript on or
before 15 January 2012. Manuscripts should conform to the formatting and
electronic submission guidelines of regular BICS papers. When they submit
papers, there is a choice to indicate t! hat their papers are special
session papers. All papers will undergo peer review process. It is the
responsibility of the organizers to ensure that their special session meets
the BICS quality standards. If, at the end of the review process, less than
four (4) papers are accepted, the session will be cancelled and the
accepted papers will be moved to regular sessions.
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