Connectionists: CFPs on ISABEL2006 - International Symposium on Artificial Brain with Emotion and Learning

[Soo-Young Lee]

Call for Papers

ISABEL 2006
International Symposium on Artificial Brain with Emotion and Learning
- Bio-Inspired Models and Hardware
for Brain-like Intelligent Functions -

August 24-25, 2006
Seoul, Korea

1. Topic and Goals

This symposium aims to bring together international researchers from the
cognitive neuroscience and engineering communities for biologically-inspired
models and system implementations with human-like intelligent functions. The
previous meeting was held as a post-IJCNN Symposium on Bio-Inspired Models
and Hardware (BIMH2005) at Montreal, Canada, on August 5, 2005.

Although artificial neural networks are based on information processing
mechanisms in our brain, there still exists a big gap between the biological
neural networks and artificial neural networks. 
The more intelligence we would like to incorporate into artificial
intelligent systems, the more biologically-inspired models and hardware are
required. Fortunately the cognitive neuroscience has been developed
enormously during the last decade, and engineers now have more to learn from
the science.  

In this symposium we will discuss what engineers want to learn from the
science and how the scientists may be able to provide the knowledge. 
Then, mathematical models will be presented with more biological
plausibility. 
The hardware and system implementation will also be reported with the
performance comparison with conventional methods for real-world complex
applications. A panel will be organized for the future research directions
at the end.

This symposium will promote synergetic interaction among cognitive
neuroscientists, neural networks and robotics engineers, and result in more
biologically-plausible mathematical models and hardware systems with more
human-like intelligent performance in real-world applications.

Topics include, but are not limited to,
.	Models of auditory pathway 
.	Models of visual pathway
.	Models of cognition, learning, and inference
.	Models of attention, emotion, and consciousness
.	Models of autonomous behavior
.	Hardware implementation of bio-inspired models
.	Engineering applications of bio-inspired models 

 
2. Organizers

Symposium Chair
Soo-Young Lee
Director, Brain Science Research Center, KAIST
373-1 Guseong-dong, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, Korea
	Phone: +82-42-869-4311
	E-mail: sylee at kaist.ac.kr
	Web: http://bsrc.kaist.ac.kr/sylee.htm

3. Intended Audience

The symposium is aimed to be a high communicative forum for researchers from
the cognitive neuroscience, artificial neural networks, and robotics
communities. 

The presentation papers will be solicited from the cognitive neuroscience,
neural networks, and robotics communities. The members of the International
Advisory Board and Program Committee had already agreed to submit their
papers for the presentation. However, the submitted papers will be fully
refereed by the Program Committee and accepted based on the quality of the
papers. 

4. Format

The symposium will go on two full days with oral session with invited and
contributed presentations, and one panel discussion session. To encourage
exchange of ideas at least 20 minutes will be allocated for each talk with
additional 10 minutes. The balance between the science and engineering will
be made for the speakers and panelists.

5. Publicity

The contributed papers will be solicited from the cognitive neuroscience,
neural networks, and robotics communities though public list servers. 
Also, a dedicated homepage (www.isabel2006.org,
cnsl.kaist.ac.kr/isabel2006.htm) will be maintained, and several top
researchers will be cordially invited through personal e-mails.

The prospective authors are invited to submit one page summary by e-mail to
isabel2006 at neuron.kaist.ac.kr. Also, after acceptance, the presentation
materials will be collected and made available to the attendees as a
booklet.

The extended version of the presented papers will be published as a special
issue of the new online/offline journal, Neural Information Processing -
Letters and Reviews (www.nip-lr.info), of which the Editor-in-Chief is the
Symposium Chair..

6. Important Dates

February 5, 2006 	Homepage Start and Official CFPs
April 30, 2006		Deadline for Summary (1 page)
June 20, 2006		Acceptance Notification
July 20, 2006		Camera-ready notes due 

* It may be better to inform us your intention to join at your earliest
convenience.
especially, when you need some financial supports, please let us know by
February 15th, 2006.