CFP - Special session at IJCNN'05 on Computational Neuro-Genetic Modelling

[Nik Kasabov]

Call for Papers for a Special Session "Computational Neuro-Genetic
Modelling" 


International Joint INNS-IEEE Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)
2005
Hilton Bonaventure Hotel, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
July 31- August 4, 2005, IJCNN 2005,
(http://faculty.uwb.edu/ijcnn05)


The aim of the session is to bring together researchers in a new
research area called Computational Neuro-Genetic Modelling (CNGM),
that is concerned with the study and the development of dynamic
neuronal models integrated with gene models. This area brings together
knowledge from at least three areas of science: computer and
information science, neuroscience, and molecular biology.  A
computational neuro-genetic model is created to model a brain function
or a brain disease, or to be used as a general mathematical model for
solving complex scientific and engineering problems. The CNGM goes
beyond modelling simple relationship between a single gene and a
single neuronal function. It is the interaction between tens, hundreds
and possibly thousands of genes in a neuron and their relationship
with the functioning of a neuronal ensemble and the brain as a whole.
The computational neuro-genetic models constitute a new generation of
neural network models that are closer to biological neural networks in
their complex interaction of neuronal learning dynamics and gene
activities. 

Topics include: 
Genes and growth functions; Genes and gene regulatory networks
related to the brain; Genes and gene regulatory networks related to
the brain development, evolution and plasticity; Genes and gene
networks related to learning, memory and perception; Genes and gene
networks related to brain diseases, such as, epilepsy, mental
retardation, schizophrenia, etc; Functional integration of neural
networks and gene networks to model brain functions; Models of spiking
neurons and spiking neural networks with gene-defined parameters;
Evolving and evolutionary neural networks; Software and hardware
computational neurogenetic systems; Brain-like neurogenetic
architectures; Applications.

Organizers: 
Prof. Nik Kasabov  (nkasabov at aut.ac.nz ) and Dr. Luba Benuskova
(lbenusko at aut.ac.nz)
Knowledge Engineering and Discovery research Institute, KEDRI
www.kedri.info, New Zealand

Submissions and deadlines:

25 October 2004:  An abstract (1 page) should be sent electronically
to the organizers
15 December 2004: A full paper (see the IJCNN'05 instructions for
submissions) sent to the organizers.
15 January 2005:  Reviews and a notification of acceptance/rejection
sent to the authors.
31 January 2005:  Final paper submitted to the special session
electronically (IJCNN'05 portal)

All accepted papers will be published in the IJCNN 2005 Proceedings.
Papers not accepted for the special session can be submitted as
regular submissions for IJCNN'05 (the deadline is also January 31,
2005). Authors will be invited to submit extended versions of their
papers to a special issue of an international journal.

Each paper must have the title, authors with e-mails/web sites, and
as detailed an abstract as possible.  All accepted papers must be
presented at the conference. 

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Prof. Nik Kasabov, MSc, PhD
FRSNZ, FNZCS, SrMIEEE
Founding Director and Chief Scientist - 
Knowledge Engineering and Discovery Research Institute, KEDRI
Chair of Knowledge Engineering, School of Computer and Information
Sciences 
Auckland University of Technology 
phone: +64 9 917 9506 ; fax: +64 9 917 9501
WWW http://www.kedri.info
email: nkasabov at aut.ac.nz
(PA Joyce D'Mello: jdmello at aut.ac.nz; +64 9 917 9504)