CALL FOR PAPERS: SCIS-ISIS Special Session on Biologically-inspired 
Information and Communication Technology (BICT)

Kobe, Japan

Paper submission due: June 30, 2012
Conference date:      November 20 - 24, 2012

The proceedings will be published by IEEE and indexed by EI.
Technically-sponsored by IEEE, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, 
and IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society.

Biologically-inspired computing has a long history since 1950s. 
Innovative bio-inspired paradigms, models and algorithms have been 
developed, and they have been successfully applied in a number of 
scientific and engineering domains. It is now known that even 
mission-critical and safety-critical systems can be built in 
bio-inspired manners. In recognition of its achievements and potential, 
bio-inspired information and communication technology (bio-inspired ICT) 
was named one of Scientific American magazine’s 10 "World Changing Ideas 
2010."

BICT 2012 aims to provide a multidisciplinary venue for researchers and 
practitioners in Bio-inspired ICT. Particularly, BICT 2012 covers two 
areas: (1) ICT with biological materials and systems (e.g., molecular 
communication and Physarum computing/networking) and (2) ICT designed 
after biological principles, phenomena and processes (e.g., evolutionary 
computation and artificial immune processes).

TOPICS OF INTERESTS

- Signal/information processing and communication in bio-inspired ICT
- Models and algorithms for bio-inspired ICT
- Bio-inspired software and hardware systems
- Simulations and empirical experiments of bio-inspired ICT
- Self-* properties in bio-inspired ICT
- Design and performance issues in bio-inspired ICT
- Tools, testbeds and deployment aspects in bio-inspired ICT
- Real-world applications and standardization of bio-inspired ICT
- Socially-aware, game theoretic and other metaphor-driven 
interdisciplinary approaches to bio-inspired ICT

Application domains include, but not limited to, autonomic computing, 
bioinformatics, biological engineering, computational finance, computer 
networks, computer vision, data mining, green computing and networking, 
grid/cloud computing, intelligent agents, mechanical engineering, 
molecular communication, nano-scale computing and networking, 
optimization, pervasive computing, robotics, security, software 
engineering, and systems engineering.

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission:           June 30, 2012
Notification of Acceptance: August 10, 2012
Camera-ready Submission:    September 5, 2012

PAPER SUBMISSION

Authors are invited to submit full papers (2 to 6 pages each) or short 
papers (2 to 4 pages each) in the IEEE proceedings format. Up to two 
extra pages are allowed for each full paper (8 pages in total) with 
extra page charges. See 
http://scis2012.j-soft.org/?file=call-for-participation for detailed 
submission instructions.

PAPER PRESENTATION

Paper authors are required to present their papers at the conference 
venue. Alternatively, they can choose to deliver online presentations 
with a Skype-like tool rather than physically visiting the conference venue.

PUBLICATION

All accepted papers will be published by IEEE. A selected number of 
papers will be considered for publication in leading journals.

SESSION CHAIRS

- Jun Suzuki (University of Massachusetts, Boston)
- Tadashi Nakano (Osaka University)
- Tomohiro Shirakawa (National Defense Academy of Japan)
- Hiroshi Sato (National Defense Academy of Japan)


ADVISORY BOARD (not completed yet)

- Andrew Adamatzky, University of West of England, UK
- Dipankar Dasgupta, University of Memphis, USA
- Marco Dorigo, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
- Tokuko Haraguchi, NICT and Osaka University, Japan
- Hisao Ishibuchi, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
- Yoshiteru Ishida, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan
- Toshiyuki Nakagaki, Future University Hakodate, Japan
- Jon Timmis, University of York, UK
- Athanasios Vasilakos, University of Western Macedonia, Greece

PROGRAM COMMITTEE - TBA


ABOUT SCIS-ISIS

SCIS-ISIS 2012 is an international joint organization of the 6th 
International Conference on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems 
(SCIS) and the 13th International Symposium on Advanced Intelligent 
Systems (ISIS). SCIS-ISIS 2012 is co-sponsored by Japan Society for 
Fuzzy Theory and Intelligent Informatics (J-Soft; 
http://www.j-soft.org/) and Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems 
(KIIS; http://eng.fuzzy.or.kr/).



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Jun Suzuki
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   University of Massachusetts, Boston
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