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/). -- Jun Suzuki Associate Professor of Computer Science University of Massachusetts, Boston [log in to unmask] http://www.cs.umb.edu/~jxs/ http://dssg.cs.umb.edu/ @JunSuzukiBoston