Connectionists: Call for Papers: BICS 06

[Dr. Amir Hussain]

Please circulate the CFP below/attached to friends and colleagues who may be
interested..

Thank you in advance and apologies for any cross postings.

Amir Hussain

Co-Chair BICS'2006

2nd International Conference on: Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (BICS 06)
Island of Lesvos, Greece
Hotel Delfinia
October 10 - 14, 2006 

http://www.icsc-naiso.org/conferences/bics2006/bics06-cfp.html
General Chair: Igor Aleksander, Imperial College London, U.K.

 

First International ICSC Symposium on
Machine Models of Consciousness (MoC 2006)
Discussions of this new burgeoning paradigm
Chair: Ron Chrisley , University of Sussex, U.K.
 
Third International ICSC Symposium on
Biologically Inspired Systems (BIS 2006)
Broader issues in biological inspiration and neuromorphic systems
Chair: Leslie Smith, University of Stirling, U.K.


Second International ICSC Symposium on
Cognitive Neuro Science (CNS 2006)
>From computationally inspired models to brain-inspired
computation
Chair: Igor Aleksander, Imperial College London, U.K
 
Fourth International ICSC Symposium on
Neural Computation (NC'2006)
Progress in neural systems
Chair: Amir Hussain, University of Stirling, U.K.
 

Why this conference, and who should attend:

Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems 2006 aims to bring together leading
scientists and engineers who use analytic, syntactic and computational
methods both to understand the prodigious processing properties of
biological systems and, specifically, of the brain, and to exploit such
knowledge to advance computational methods towards ever higher levels of
cognitive competence. The four major symposia are organized in patterns that
encourage cross-fertilization across the symposia topics. This emphasizes
that BICS 2006 will be a major point of contact for researchers and
practitioners who can benefit from not only the major advances in their
specialist fields but also from the diversity of each other's views. Each of
the four mornings is devoted to papers that will be selected for their clear
novelty and proven scientific impact, while the afternoons will provide
scope for researchers to present their current work and discuss their aims
and ambitions. Debates across disciplines will unite researchers with
differing perspectives.
 

SUB-THEMES (including, but not limited to):

 
Models of consciousness: (MoC)
Global Workspace Theory
Imagination/synthetic phenomenology
Virtual Machine Approaches
Axiomatic Models
Control Theory/Methodology
Developmental/Infant Models
Will/volition/emotion/affect
Philosophical implications
Grounding in neurophysiology
Enactive approaches
Heterophenomenology
 
Cognitive Neuroscience (CNS)
Attentional Mechanisms
Cognitive Neuroscience of vision
CN of non-vision sensory modalities
CN of volition
Affective Systems
Language
Cortical Models
Sub-Cortical Models
Cerebellar Models
Event location in the brain
Others 
 
Biologically Inspired Systems (BIS)
Brain Inspired (BI) Vision
BI Audition and sound processing
BI Other sensory modalities
BI Motion processing
BI Robotics
BI Evolutionary systems
BI Oscillatory systems
BI Signal processing
BI Learning
Neuromorphic systems
Others
 
Neural Computation (NC)
NeuroComputational (NC) Hybrid Systems
NC Learning
NC Control Systems
NC Signal Processing
Architectures
Devices
Pattern Classifiers
Support Vector Machines
Fuzzy or Neuro-Fuzzy Systems
Evolutionary Neural Networks
Biological Neural Network Models
Applications
Others
 

INVITED SPEAKERS:
 

Christof Koch, Koch Laboratory CALTECH, USA
Shun-ichi Amari, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan
Holk Cruse, University of Bielefeld, Germany
Pentti Haikonen, Nokia Research Center, Finland
Timothy K Horiuchi, University of Maryland, USA
John Taylor, Kings College, London, U.K.
Steve Potter, Gatech, USA
Jacek M Zurada, University of Louisville, USA
Marios Polycarpou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Others TBA

 
CONFERENCE VENUE:
Hotel  Delphinia ( <http://www.molyvoshotel.com/>
http://www.molyvoshotel.com/) at the ancient village of Molivos (
<http://www.molivos.net/index.htm> http://www.molivos.net/index.htm).
 
ORGANIZED BY:
ICSC Interdisciplinary Research, Planning Division 
Canada (http://www.icsc-naiso.org/html/



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