Connectionists: [Brain Informatics 2017] Call for Tutorial, Workshop, and Special Session Proposals

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CALL FOR TUTORIAL, WORKSHOP AND SPECIAL SESSION PROPOSALS

The 2017 International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI'17)

THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF BRAIN INFORMATICS

November 16-18, 2017, Beijing, China
Homepage: http://bii.ia.ac.cn/bi-2017/ 

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[EXTENDED!!] DEADLINE FOR WORKSHOP/SPECIAL SESSION PROPOSALS: April 20, 2017
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*** KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ***

  Alan Evans (McGill University, Canada)
  Tom Mitchell (Carnegie Mellon University, US)

  Yanchao Bi (Beijing Normal University, China)
  Adam Ferguson (University of California San Francisco, US)
  Bin Hu (Lanzhou University, China)
  Michael  Hawrylycz (Allen Institute for Brain Science, US)
  Dinggang Shen (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, US)

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Brain Informatics (BI) conference series provides a premier forum to
bring together researchers and practitioners in the fields of
neuroscience, cognitive science, computer science, data science,
artificial intelligence, information communication technologies, and
neuroimaging technologies.

BI'17 addresses the computational, cognitive, physiological,
biological, physical, ecological and social perspectives of brain
informatics, as well as topics relating to mental health and
well-being. It also welcomes emerging information technologies,
including but not limited to Internet/Web of Things (IoT/WoT), cloud
computing, big data analytics and interactive knowledge discovery
related to brain research. BI'17 also encourages submissions that
explore how advanced computing technologies are applied to and make a
difference in various large-scale brain studies and their
applications.

BI'17 welcomes workshop/special-session paper submissions (full paper 
and abstract submissions). Both research and application papers are 
solicited. All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of 
technical quality, relevance, significance and clarity. Accepted full 
papers will be included in the proceedings by Springer LNCS/LNAI.

The organizers of Workshops and Special-Sessions are invited to prepare 
a book proposal based on the topics of the workshop/special session 
for possible book publication in the Springer-Nature Brain Informatics & 
Health book series (http://www.springer.com/series/15148).

*** Topics and Areas ***

Track 1: Cognitive and Computational Foundations of Brain Science
Track 2: Investigations of Human Information Processing Systems
Track 3: Brain Big Data Analytics, Curation and Management
Track 4: Informatics Paradigms for Brain and Mental Health
Track 5: Brain-Inspired Intelligence and Computing

In addition to the topics of interest included on the Call for Papers, 
for the tutorials, workshops/special sessions, we are interested in 
the topics listed below:

* Big Data techniques for neuroimaging and neural recording applications
* Neurogenetics
* Data management and sharing for neuroscience
* Data analytic techniques in brain diseases and health
* Computational neuroscience
* Brain-inspired intelligence research
* Dendritic Computing
* Neuromorphic/neuroinspired computing
* Mental health, including neurodegenerative and neurodevelopmental diseases
* Computing for the brain and with the brain
* Clinical neuroscience and applications

IMPORTANT DATES (Extended):             
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April 20, 2017: Submission deadline for workshop/special-session proposals
April 30 , 2017: Notification of workshop/special-session acceptance
May 1, 2017: Submission deadline for full papers
May 20, 2017: Submission deadline for workshop/special-session papers
June 10, 2017: Notification of full paper acceptance
June 20, 2017: Notification of workshop/special-session paper acceptance
June 20, 2017: Submission deadline for abstracts
July 10, 2017: Notification of abstract acceptance
November 16, 2017: Tutorials, workshops and special-sessions
November 17-18, 2017: Main conference

PAPER SUBMISSIONS & PUBLICATIONS:
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TYPE-I (Submission deadline for workshop/special-session papers: May 20, 2017):

Papers need to have up to 10 pages in LNCS format:
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 All full
length papers accepted (and all special sessions' full length papers)
will be published by Springer as a volume of the series of LNCS/LNAI.

TYPE-II (Abstract Submissions; Submission Deadline: June 20, 2017):

Abstracts have a word limit of 500 words. Experimental research is
particularly welcome. Accepted abstract submissions will be included
in the conference program, and will be published as a single,
collective proceedings volume.

Title: Include in the title of the abstract all words critical for a
subject index. Write your title in sentence case (first letter is
capitalized; remaining letters are lower case). Do not bold or
italicize your full title.

Author: List all authors who contributed to the work discussed in the
abstract. The presenting author must be listed in the first author
slot of the list. Be prepared to submit contact information as well as
conflict of interest information for each author listed.

Abstract: Enter the body of the abstract and attach any applicable
graphic files or tables here. Do not re-enter the title, author,
support, or other information that is collected in other steps of the
submission form.

Presentation Preference: Authors may select from three presentation
formats when submitting an abstract: "poster only", "talk preferred"
or "no preference." The "talk preferred" selection indicates that you
would like to give a talk, but will accept a poster format if
necessary. Marking "poster only" indicates that you would not like to
be considered for an oral-presentation session. Selecting "no
preference" indicates the author's willingness to be placed in the
best format for the program.

Each paper or abstract requires one sponsoring attendee (i.e. someone
who registered and is attending the conference).  A single attendee
can not sponsor more than two abstracts or papers.

Oral presentations will be selected from both full length papers and
abstracts.

*** Publication ***

The organizers of approved workshops/ special sessions are 
required to announce the call for papers, assign papers to PC members 
for reviewing and decide upon the final program.

Accepted full papers will be included in the BI'17 conference proceedings 
to be published by Springer as a volume of the LNCS/LNAI series.

The organizers are also welcome to prepare a book proposal based on the 
topics of the workshop/special session for possible book publication in 
the Springer Brain Informatics & Health book series
(http://www.springer.com/series/15148).

*** Post-Conference Journal Publication ***

High quality papers from workshops/special sessions will be selected and 
considered for publication in special issues of international journals 
after their papers are extended to a journal-length paper and pass a 
review process. Tutorial organizers are invited to submit survey papers 
to the BI journal, and they will be published in the journal after a 
rigorous review process.

ORGANIZERS
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General Chairs

Bo Xu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Hanchuan Peng (Allen Institute for Brain Sciences, USA)
Qingming Luo (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China)

Program Committee Chairs

Yi Zeng (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Yong He (Beijing Normal University, China)
Jeanette Kotaleski (Karolinska Institute, Sweden)
Maryann Martone (University of California, San Diego, USA)

Organizing Chairs

Ning Zhong (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan, and
     Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Future Internet Technology,
     Beijing University of Technology, China
Jianzhou Yan (Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Future Internet Technology,
     Beijing University of Technology, China)
Shengfu Lu (Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Future Internet Technology,
     Beijing University of Technology, China)

Workshop/Special-Session Chairs

An'an Li (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China)
Sen Song (Tsinghua University, China)

Tutorial Chair

Wenming Zheng (South East University, China)
 
Publicity Chairs

Tielin Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Shouyi Wang (University of Texas at Arlington, USA)
Yang Yang (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan, and
           Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Future Internet Technology,
           Beijing University of Technology, China)
 
Steering Committee Chairs

Ning Zhong (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan)
Hanchuan Peng (Allen Institute for Brain Science, USA)

*** Contact Information ***
tielin.zhang at ia.ac.cn
shouyiw at uta.edu
yang at maebashi-it.org
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