Connectionists: IEEE TMBMC Shannon Centennial Special Issue (Deadline 4/30/16)

[Peter Thomas]

In honor of Claude Shannon’s centennial:

We are pleased to announce a

Special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and
Multi-Scale Communications

on

Biological Applications of Information Theory

Submission deadline April 30, 2016

Claude Shannon, born April 30, 1916, pioneered the mathematical theory of
communication in his 1948 paper in the Bell System Technical Journal.
Information theory has since provided the foundation for the digital
revolution in communications technology.  In addition, it has provided a
powerful framework for investigating the fundamental limitations of
naturally occurring communications, particularly in biological systems.
Early applications included consideration of redundancy reduction in
sensory pathways (Attneave 1954, Barlow 1961), ionizing radiation and
mutagenesis (Yockey 1958), efficiency of metabolic processes (Johnson and
Knudsen 1965), and analysis of reliable computation in the presence of
noise (Cowan and Winograd 1963).

Modern developments have accelerated in recent years as a result of
advances in MEMS/NEMS and systems biology, the emergence of synthetic
bacteria and lab/process-on-a-chip techniques, and collection of large data
sets in both electrophysiology and cell biology.  It is now possible to
design chemical “circuits”, custom organisms, micro/nanoscale swarms of
devices, and a host of other new systems at small length scales, and across
multiple scales (e.g., micro to macro). This success opens up a new
frontier for interdisciplinary communications techniques using chemistry,
biology, and other principles that have not been considered in the
communications literature, as well as creating new ways of understanding
the principles underlying communication in biological systems at many
scales.

The special issue will celebrate Shannon’s centennial by highlighting
success stories and current progress in biological and bio-inspired
information theory.  In particular, we hereby solicit both invited and
submitted papers in three interrelated areas:

1.     Information theory and cellular/molecular biology/biochemistry
(including information theory and intercellular communication);

2.     Information theory and neuroscience; and

3.     Information-theoretic analysis of biologically inspired
communication systems (including nanonetworking and design of biologically
implemented information processing networks).

Contributions from researchers beyond the IEEE’s typical audience are
encouraged.



Submission Instructions

Submissions will be collected via Manuscript Central,
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tmbmc/ .

In your cover letter, state: “This paper is a submission for the Shannon
Centennial special issue".  For further information, please contact the
corresponding guest editor, Prof. Peter Thomas (pjthomas__at__case.edu).

Special Issue Guest Editors

Prof. Alexander G. Dimitrov

Department of Mathematics and Statistics


Department of Integrative Physiology and Neuroscience

Washington State University, Vancouver, Washington, USA

Prof. Faramarz Fekri

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Prof. Aurel Lazar

Department of Electrical Engineering

Columbia University, New York, New York, USA

Prof. Stefan M. Moser

Signal and Information Processing Lab (ISI)

ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Hsinchu, Taiwan

Prof. Peter J. Thomas*

Department of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Department of Biology

Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

*corresponding guest editor


-- 
Peter J. Thomas
Associate Professor, Case Western Reserve University,
Department of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Statistics.

homepage: http://www.case.edu/math/thomas/
g-scholar: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5ctD7qIAAAAJ
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