Connectionists: call for papers: Computational Intelligence for Artificial Sensing: Olfaction and Touch

[santiago marco]

World Conference on Computational Intelligence,

July 18-23, Centre de Convencions Internacional de Barcelona, Barcelona,
Spain

 Related Conference: International Joint Conference on Neural Networks 2010

Call for papers for Special Session:

Computational Intelligence for Artificial Sensing: Olfaction and Touch

* *

*Scope:**

*

Recently there has been an renewed research activity in the field of
biologically inspired computation for artificial sensing. While vision and
hearing have received a great deal of attention in past decades, in new wave
of research is being devoted to olfaction and hearing. Both olfaction and
touch rely on large sensor arrays and both have an important component on
signal and data processing, first in peripheral neural circuits and further
on in higher cortical areas.

On the other hand, while in vision and audition stimuli can be
systematically varied by frequency; there is not an equivalent metric for
olfaction. The relationship between odour and structure is hardly
understood.

Artificial Olfaction Systems combine an array of chemical sensors with
partial specificity with pattern recognition systems for complex odour
detection and identification. While the concept is more than 30 years old,
most of the attention has been devoted to chemical sensor technology. Since
the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology for Linda Buck and Richard Axel
in 2004 for their discoveries of odorant receptors and the organization of
the olfactory system, the research link to biology and to the psychophysics
of olfaction has been strengthened.

In this sense, the field of computational intelligence for artificial
sensing is growing fast. The new trend is not just to build computational
neuroscience models of olfaction and touch, but to construct engineered
artefacts where the operation of those models can be tested and validated.
However, this path is just starting.

The aim of the special session is to present latest’s advances in
computational intelligence for Artificial Olfaction and Touch. The session
will mainly focus on biologically inspired algorithms, although statistical
learning techniques are also considered.



*Topics:* We encourage submissions addressing the following issues:



-          Large sensor arrays: chemical and mechanical

-          Sensor diversity and redundancy

-          Noise reduction techniques

-          Computational models of olfaction and touch

-          Computational Intelligence Techniques applied to Olfaction and
Tactile Data

-          Analysis of biological data with computational intelligence
tools.

-          Psychophysics of Touch and Olfaction: Scenarios for algorithm
testing.

-          Benchmarking of Artificial Sensing Systems

-          Robots with Olfactory/Tactile capabilities.

-          Active Chemical/Mechanical Sensing

-          Embedded algorithmic implementation for real-time operation.



*Paper submission*
All instructions and templates for submission can be found in the WCCI'10
web site (http://www.wcci2010.org/submission). Please, contact to the
special session organizers if you are planning to submit any paper.


*Important Dates*
Deadline for paper submission                  January 31, 2010
Notification of acceptance                     March 15, 2010
Final Paper Submission                         May 2, 2010


*Organizers*


- Santiago Marco, Institut for BioEngineering of Catalonia & Universitat de
Barcelona, Spain,  smarco at el.ub.es

-  Agustín Gutierrez, Institut for BioEngineering of Catalonia & Universitat
de Barcelona, Spain,  agutierrez at el.ub.es

- Tony J Prescott, Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield,
t.j.prescott at sheffield.ac.uk
Dr. Santiago Marco
Intelligent Signal Processing
Department of Electronics
University of Barcelona
Martí i Franquès 1
08028-Barcelona
http://isp.el.ub.es
http://www.el.ub.es

Artificial Olfaction Lab
Institute for BioEngineering of Catalonia
http://www.ibecbarcelona.eu
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: https://mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu/mailman/private/connectionists/attachments/20100104/a9887e49/attachment.html