Connectionists: CFP: NIP-LR Special Issue on Bio-Inspired Models and Hardware

[Yoonsuck Choe]

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///		Call for Papers for a Special Issue of 		    ///
///      Neural Information Processing-Letters and Reviews 	    ///
///		on Bio-Inspired Models and Hardware		    ///
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As announced earlier at the International Workshop on Biologically
Inspired Models and Hardware (BIMH2005, http://www.bimh2005.org), a
post-conference workshop at IJCNN2005 (Montreal, Canada), Neural
Information Processing-Letters and Reviews (NIP-LR) is preparing a special
issue on biologically-inspired models and hardware for human-like
intelligent functions.

Although artificial neural networks are inspired by information processing
mechanisms in the brain, there still exists a big gap between biological
neural networks and their artificial counterpart. To have more intelligent
characteristics incorporated into artificial neural systems, we need to
rely more on biologically inspired models and hardware. In this special
issue of NIP-LR, we invite contributions on biologically plausible
hardware systems and models with more human-like intelligent
characteristics that can help deal with real-world problems.

Relevant topics for this special issue include, but are not limited to:

	o Models of the auditory pathway
	o Models of the visual pathway
	o Models of cognition, learning, and inference
	o Models of attention, emotion, and consciousness
	o Models of autonomous behavior
	o Hardware implementation of bio-inspired models
	o Engineering applications of bio-inspired models

For more information on the special issue for NIP-LR, please visit:

	http://www.nip-lr.info

Submission instruction:

	Papers should be emailed as a PDF attachment to the guest editors
	Yoonsuck Choe (choe at tamu.edu) and Minho Lee (mholee at knu.ac.kr).

Important dates:

	December 15, 2005: Submission Deadline
	February 15, 2006: Deadline for the Reviews
	February 28, 2006: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection.
	March 2006: Publication, as a combined February-March Issue.

Copyright:
	Authors will maintain all rights to their papers, and may
	subsequently publish extended versions of their papers in other
	journals.


Yoonsuck Choe, Assistant Professor	Minho Lee, Associate Professor
Texas A&M University, USA	  	Kyungpook National University, Korea
choe at tamu.edu, 1-979-845-5466           mholee at knu.ac.kr, 82-53-950-6436