BI 2018

Call for Papers

CALL FOR PAPERS 

The 11th International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI'18) December 7-9, 2018, Arlington, Texas, USA 

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Advancing BI Technologies from Basic Science Research to Real-World Practice

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/comput... 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. 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, BJUT, 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