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The 11th International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI'18)
December 7-9, 2018, Arlington, Texas, USA Homepage: http://uta.engineering/conferences/bi-2018/
---Advancing BI Technologies from Basic Science Research to Real-World Practice---
============================================== Workshop/Special Session/Tutorial Proposals Submission Deadline: May 1, 2018
Full Paper Submission Deadline: June 15, 2018 ==============================================
The International Conference on Brain Informatics series (BI) has established itself as the world’s premier research forum that brings together researchers and practitioners from neuroscience, cognitive science, computer science, data science, artificial intelligence, information communication technologies, and neuroimaging technologies with the purpose of exploring the fundamental roles, interactions as well as practical impacts of Brain Informatics.
The BI'18 will provide a broad forum that academia, professionals and industry people can exchange their ideas, findings, and strategies in brain informatics research and brain-inspired concepts and technologies. It welcomes emerging technologies for addressing fundamental neurobiological questions about healthy brain function, laying the groundwork for advancing treatments for brain disorders or injury, and for generating brain-inspired "smart" artificial intelligence and computing technologies to meet future societal needs. It will educate and expand the brain informatics workforce and create new career opportunities for brain research and related innovations.
The BI'18 welcomes paper submissions (full paper and abstract submissions). Both research and application papers are solicited. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance and clarity. Accepted full papers will be included in the proceedings by Springer LNCS/LNAI
(http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319707716).
Workshop, Special-Session and Tutorial proposals, and Industry/Demo-Track papers are also welcome. The organizers of Workshops and Special-Sessions are invited to prepare a book proposal based on the topics of the workshop/special session for possible book publication in the Springer-Nature Brain Informatics & Health book series (http://www.springer.com/series/15148).
*** Topics and Areas ***
Track 1: Cognitive and Computational Foundations of Brain Science Track 2: Investigations of Human Information Processing Systems Track 3: Brain Big Data Analytics, Curation and Management Track 4: Informatics Paradigms for Brain and Mental Health Track 5: Brain-Machine Intelligence and Brain-Inspired Computing
IMPORTANT DATES: ================
May 1, 2018: Submission deadline for workshop/special session/Tutorial proposals May 31, 2018: Notification of workshop/special session proposal acceptance June 15, 2018: Submission deadline for full papers July 30, 2018: Submission deadline for workshop/special session papers August 15, 2018: Notification of full paper acceptance August 30, 2018: Notification of workshop/special session paper acceptance August 1, 2018: Submission deadline for abstracts August 30, 2018: Notification of abstract acceptance December 7, 2018: Tutorials, workshops and special sessions December 8-9, 2018: Main conference
PAPER SUBMISSIONS & PUBLICATIONS: =================================
TYPE-I (Full Paper Submissions): Papers need to have up to 10 pages in LNCS format: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 All full length papers accepted (and all special sessions' full length papers) will be published by Springer as a volume of the series of LNCS/LNAI.
TYPE-II (Abstract Submissions): Abstracts have a word limit of 500 words. Experimental research is particularly welcome. Accepted abstract submissions will be included in the conference program, and will be published as a single, collective proceedings volume.
Title: Include in the title of the abstract all words critical for a subject index. Write your title in sentence case (first letter is capitalized; remaining letters are lower case). Do not bold or italicize your full title.
Author: List all authors who contributed to the work discussed in the abstract. The presenting author must be listed in the first author slot of the list. Be prepared to submit contact information as well as conflict of interest information for each author listed.
Abstract: Enter the body of the abstract and attach any applicable graphic files or tables here. Do not re-enter the title, author, support, or other information that is collected in other steps of the submission form.
Presentation Preference: Authors may select from three presentation formats when submitting an abstract: "poster only", "talk preferred" or "no preference". The "talk preferred" selection indicates that you would like to give a talk, but will accept a poster format if necessary. Marking "poster only" indicates that you would not like to be considered for an oral-presentation session. Selecting "no preference" indicates the author's willingness to be placed in the best format for the program.
Each paper or abstract requires one sponsoring attendee (i.e. someone who registered and is attending the conference). A single attendee can not sponsor more than two abstracts or papers.
Oral presentations will be selected from both full length papers and abstracts.
*** Post-Conference Journal Publications ***
The Brain Informatics conferences have the formal ties with the Open Access Brain Informatics journal (Springer-Nature, http://www.springer.com/40708). Accepted full papers will be selected to publish in the Open Access Brain Informatics Journal upon revision. No article-processing fee will be charged for authors of Brain Informatics conference.
*** Awards ***
Best Paper awards will be conferred at the conference on the authors of (1) the best research paper and (2) the best student paper.
ORGANIZERS ========== General Chairs Tom Mitchell (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Leon Iasemidis (Louisiana Tech, University, USA) Ning Zhong (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan)
Program Committee Chairs Jianzhong Su (University of Texas at Arlington, USA) Vicky Yamamoto (University of South California, USA) Yu-Ping Wang (Tulane University, USA)
Organizing Chairs Shouyi Wang (University of Texas at Arlington, USA) Erick Jones (University of Texas at Arlington, USA) Fenghua Tian (University of Texas at Arlington, USA)
Workshop/Special-Session Chairs Chou, Chun-An (Northwestern University, USA) Xiangnan Kong (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA) Felicia Jefferson (Fort Valley State University, USA) Jing Qin (Montana State University, USA)
Panel/Tutorial Chairs Yang Yang (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan/Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Future Internet Technology, China) Vassiliy Tsytsarev (University of Maryland, USA)
Publicity Chairs Paul Wen (University of Southern Queensland, Australia) Huiguang He (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Mufti Mahmud (University of Padova, Italy)
Steering Committee Chairs Ning Zhong (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan) Hanchuan Peng (Allen Institute for Brain Science, USA)
*** Contact Information *** Shouyi Wang Email: shouyiw@uta.edu
Vicky Yamamoto Email: Vicky.Yamamoto@med.usc.edu
Yang Yang Email: yang@maebashi-it.org