<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black">2016 IEEE World Congress on Computational
Intelligence</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black">July
25-29, 2016 - Vancouver, Canada</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black">International Workshop on</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black">Neuromorphic Computing and Cyborg Intelligence</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman, serif" size="4"><b>Update:</b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(192,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:13.5pt;line-height:17.25pt;text-align:justify"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:13.5pt;line-height:17.25pt;text-align:justify;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#0000ff"><b>High quality workshop papers will be invited
to submit their full studies to an upcoming special issue on IEEE Transactions
on Cognitive and Developmental Systems!</b></font></span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:17.25pt"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:rgb(192,0,0)"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:24pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black">Overview</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:17.25pt"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black">T</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black">he development of novel data representation and
learning approaches from recent advances in neuromorphic systems have shown
appealing computational advantages. For example, using neural coding theory to
represent the external sensory data, and developing spiking timing based
learning algorithm have achieved real-time learning performance, either in
neuromorphic computational models or hardware systems. Attributed to the new
visual or auditory sensors, neuromorphic hardware has provided a fundamentally
different technique for data representation, i.e., asynchronous events rather
than frames of images as in main stream recognition algorithms. However, the
current neuromorphic information processing algorithms are not comparable to
achieve sophisticated features and power learning performance as what machine
learning approaches can offer. One promising method is to develop integrated
learning models that apply brain-like data presentation and learning
mechanisms, e.g., implementing deep learning in neuromorphic systems.
Neuromorphic systems also overlap with another framework called cyborg
intelligence, combining brain functions with computational machines to achieve
the best of both via brain-machine interface. The workshop will target the
challenging problems in these areas by reporting new solutions, theoretical and
technical advances in neuromorphic computing and cyborg intelligence from the
worldwide researchers and engineers.</span></p>
<h1><span style="color:black">Relevant Topics</span></h1>
<p style="line-height:17.25pt"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">Cognitive
computing and cyborg intelligence<span class=""> </span><br>
Neuromorphic information/signal processing<span class=""> </span><br>
Brain-inspired data representation models<span class=""> </span><br>
Neuromorphic learning and cognitive systems<span class=""> </span><br>
Spike-based sensing and learning<span class=""> </span><br>
Neuromorphic sensors and hardware systems<span class=""> </span><br>
Intelligence for embedded systems<span class=""> </span><br>
Cognition mechanisms for big data<span class=""> </span><br>
Embodied cognition and neuro-robotics</span></p>
<h1><span style="color:black">Important Dates</span></h1>
<p style="line-height:17.25pt"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><font color="#000000">Submission
deadline: </font><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#ff0000">15 January 2016<span class=""> </span></font></span><br><font color="#000000">
Notification of acceptance: 15 March 2016</font><span class="" style="color:black"> </span><br><font color="#000000">
Camera-ready deadline: 15 April 2016</font><span class="" style="color:black"> </span><br><font color="#000000">
Workshop date: 25 July 2016</font></span></p>
<h1><span style="color:black">Submission Guidelines</span></h1>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:17.25pt"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">Prospective authors are invited to submit
papers according to the IEEE format. All submissions should follow the
specifications of WCCI 2016. Manuscripts will be submitted through the IEEE
WCCI 2016 paper submission website and will be subject to the same peer-review
procedure as the WCCI2016 regular papers. Accepted contributions will be part
of the IJCNN conference proceedings, which will be available in IEEE Xplore.</span></p>
<h1><span style="color:black">Organizers</span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span class=""><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Huajin Tang</span></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt">, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China (<a href="mailto:htang@scu.edu.cn">htang@scu.edu.cn</a> )</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span class=""><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Gang Pan</span></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt">,
Zhejiang University, China (<a href="mailto:gpan@zju.edu.cn">gpan@zju.edu.cn</a>)</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span class=""><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Arindam Basu</span></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt">, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
(<a href="mailto:arindam.basu@ntu.edu.sg">arindam.basu@ntu.edu.sg</a>)</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span class=""><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Luping Shi</span></span></font><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><font color="#000000">, Tsinghua University, China (<a href="mailto:lpshi@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn">lpshi@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn</a>)</font></span></p></div>