Connectionists: CFP: IEEE TAMD Special Issue on "Computational Modeling of Neural and Brain Development"

[Yaochu.Jin@honda-ri.de]

Call for Papers

IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development

Special Issue on "Computational Modeling of Neural and Brain Development"

http://www.soft-computing.de/CFP_TAMD_CMNBD.html

==== Objective and Scope ====

Neural and brain development include mitosis, cell differentiation, 
neuron migration, axon and dendrite growth and guidance, spine growth, 
synapse maintenance, role determination, neuro-modulation and various 
levels of plasticity, synaptic, neuronal, circuit and system.  These 
processes are shaped by underpinning principles of genome functions 
and activities.  These principles are essential for the brain to 
display capabilities in perception, cognition, behaviors and emotion. 
Perceptual, cognitive, behavioral and emotional models tend to have 
major flaws and are computationally less efficient, less plastic and 
less systematic if they are not informed by such underpinning principles.

Research efforts devoted to the computational modeling of neural 
and system development have been made already at the beginning of 
1990s. Recently, new findings are quickly growing in neuroscience, 
psychology, genetics and systems biology, which provides new impetus 
for research on understanding neural and brain development using 
computational approaches. 

This special issue aims at presenting research efforts that reflect 
the state-of-the-art in computational modeling of neural and brain 
development.  The results reported in this special issue papers are 
expected to be of great relevance and importance to all the readers 
who are interested in autonomous development of mental capabilities, 
such as perception, cognition, emotion, motivation and behaviors. The 
topics of this special issue include but are not limited to:

o Genetic, biochemical and cellular mechanisms in neural development
o Model of neural, circuit, system and brain plasticity
o Neuro-modulation and its roles
o Bio-inspired learning rules and methods
o Structure, connectivity and neural dynamics
o Cellular mechanisms for perceptual, cognitive, behavioral and emotional 
development
o Age dependent neurogenesis and death
o Computational neuro-genetic modeling: Methods and applications

==== Tentative Schedule ====

o Deadline for submissions: October 31, 2010
o Decision of the first round of review: December 31, 2010
o Final decision: February 15th, 2011
o Expected publication date: April 2011 (online), June 2011 (print) 

==== Submission Procedure ====

Two kinds of submissions are possible:
Regular papers, up to 15 double column pages; Correspondence papers 
either presenting a perspective that includes insights into issues 
of wider scope than a regular paper but without being highly computational 

in style or presenting concise description of recent technical results, up 

to 8 double column pages. Instructions for authors:
http://ieee-cis.org/pubs/tamd/authors/
We are accepting submissions through Manuscript Central at:
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tamd-ieee (please select "Computational 
Modeling" 
as the submission type)

When submitting your manuscript, please also cc to 
yaochu.jin at surrey.ac.uk. 

==== Guest Editors ====

Yaochu Jin, University of Surrey, UK
Yan Meng, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
John Weng, Michigan State University, USA
Nikola Kasabov, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
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