<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;word-wrap:break-word;width:1298.64px">FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS - BICS 2018 & IEEE Brain Data Bank (BDB) Challenge Competition (see details below)
International Conference on Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (BICS 2018)
Xi'an, China, July 7-8, 2018 (<a href="http://bics2018.org">http://bics2018.org</a> )</pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13.3333px;word-wrap:break-word;width:1298.64px"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:"Open Sans";font-size:15px;white-space:pre-line;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The 9th International Conference on Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (BICS 2018) will be held in Xi’an, China, as a sequel of BICS 2004 - 2016. It is co-organised by Northwestern Polytechnical University (<a href="http://www.nwpu.edu.cn/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">www.nwpu.edu.cn</a>) and The Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Digital Content Processing and Security Technologies (<a href="http://www.gpnu.edu.cn/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">www.gpnu.edu.cn</a>).</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:"Open Sans";font-size:15px;white-space:pre-line;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:"Open Sans";font-size:15px;white-space:pre-line;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Geographically located at the heart of China, Xi’an is the capital and largest city of Shaanxi Province. It once served as the capital city of ancient China for 13 dynasties, with a history of 5,000 years. Xi’an witnessed the most glorious history of China, and now ranks as one of the top 10 tourist destinations in China with a distinctive culture. Xi'an is the starting point of the Silk Road and home to the Terracotta Army of Emperor Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor in Chinese history.</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:"Open Sans";font-size:15px;white-space:pre-line;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:"Open Sans";font-size:15px;white-space:pre-line;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">BICS 2018 aims to provide a high-level international forum for scientists, engineers, and educators to present the state of the art of brain inspired cognitive systems research and applications in diverse fields. The conference will feature plenary lectures given by world renowned scholars, regular sessions with broad coverage, and some special sessions and workshops focusing on popular and timely topics.</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:"Open Sans";font-size:15px;white-space:pre-line;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:"Open Sans";font-size:15px;white-space:pre-line;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">BICS 2018 conference proceedings will be published as part of Springer LNAI Series (indexed by EI). </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:"Open Sans";font-size:15px;white-space:pre-line;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Selected papers will be published in a special issue of the leading (ISI SCI indexed) Springer journal: Cognitive Computation Journal (<a href="http://springer.com/12559" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://springer.com/12559</a> - current ISI Impact Factor: 3.44).</div><font face="Tahoma" style="font-size:14px">
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</font><ul style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0.3em 0px 2em;list-style-position:outside;clear:both;color:rgb(68,68,68);text-align:center;white-space:pre-line;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;text-align:left"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="m_-2304558115161260345gmail-m_-5125858944741522139m_1569627091803351066gmail-theme-text-color-0-4" style="color:rgb(5,5,5)"><span>Full paper submission:</span></span><span style="color:rgb(191,13,13)"><span> <em><strong>15 April 2018</strong></em></span></span></font></li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;text-align:left"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="color:rgb(191,13,13)"><span></span></span><span class="m_-2304558115161260345gmail-m_-5125858944741522139m_1569627091803351066gmail-theme-text-color-2-3"><span></span></span><span class="m_-2304558115161260345gmail-m_-5125858944741522139m_1569627091803351066gmail-theme-text-color-0-4" style="color:rgb(5,5,5)"><span>Notification:</span></span><span class="m_-2304558115161260345gmail-m_-5125858944741522139m_1569627091803351066gmail-theme-text-color-2-3"><span> </span></span><span style="color:rgb(191,13,13)"><span><em><strong>15 May 2018</strong></em></span></span></font></li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;text-align:left"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="color:rgb(191,13,13)"><span></span></span><span class="m_-2304558115161260345gmail-m_-5125858944741522139m_1569627091803351066gmail-theme-text-color-0-4" style="color:rgb(5,5,5)"><span>Camera-ready paper due:</span></span><span style="color:rgb(191,13,13)"><span> <em><strong>1 June 2018</strong></em></span></span></font></li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;text-align:left"><span><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="m_-2304558115161260345gmail-m_-5125858944741522139m_1569627091803351066gmail-theme-text-color-0-4" style="color:rgb(5,5,5)">BICS’2018 special Issue in Springer’s Cognitive Computation journal (SCI: 3.441 in 2017):</span><strong> <span class="m_-2304558115161260345gmail-m_-5125858944741522139m_1569627091803351066gmail-theme-text-color-4-2" style="color:rgb(131,96,187)">Planned, late Vol. 19, 2019</span></strong></font></span></li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;text-align:left"><strong><span class="m_-2304558115161260345gmail-m_-5125858944741522139m_1569627091803351066gmail-theme-text-color-4-2" style="color:rgb(131,96,187)"><strong style="color:rgb(68,68,68)"><span class="m_-2304558115161260345gmail-m_-5125858944741522139m_1569627091803351066gmail-theme-text-color-4-2" style="color:rgb(131,96,187)"><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;word-wrap:break-word;width:1298.64px;display:inline"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Conference: July 7-8, 2018</font></pre></span></strong></span></strong></li></ul><font style="font-size:14px"><font face="Tahoma">------------------
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</font><font face="Times New Roman">-</font></font><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-size:16px;white-space:pre-line;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="Times New Roman">Biologically Inspired Systems (BICS-BIS)</font></span></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13.3333px;word-wrap:break-word;width:1298.64px"><font><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-size:16px;white-space:pre-line;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="Times New Roman">-Cognitive Neuroscience (BICS-CNS)</font></span></font></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13.3333px;word-wrap:break-word;width:1298.64px"><font face="Times New Roman">-<span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-size:16px;white-space:pre-line;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Models of Consciousness (BICS-MoC)</span></font></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13.3333px;word-wrap:break-word;width:1298.64px"><font><font face="Times New Roman">-<span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-size:16px;white-space:pre-line;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Neural Computation (BICS-NC)</span></font></font></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13.3333px;word-wrap:break-word;width:1298.64px"><font><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:13.3333px;word-wrap:break-word;width:1298.64px"><font style="font-size:14px">----------------------</font></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:13.3333px;word-wrap:break-word;width:1298.64px"><font style="font-size:14px">IEEE BDB Competition</font></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;word-wrap:break-word;width:1298.64px"><font><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:13.3333px;word-wrap:break-word;width:1298.64px"><font style="font-size:14px">----------------------</font></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;word-wrap:break-word;width:1298.64px"><font><p style="margin:3pt 0pt;white-space:normal;font-size:11pt;max-width:650pt;padding-bottom:5pt;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The IEEE Brain Initiative has sponsored several challenges and competitions during 2017 to analyse a range of brain/neuro datasets. The first IEEE Brain Data Bank (BDB) Challenge was held in June at St. Petersburg, as part of the IEEE SPCN 2017 Symposium (<a href="https://spcn.co/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">https://spcn.co/</a>). Other challenges were held in Glasgow, Scotland, October 31, 2017, during the IEEE SENSORS Conference (<a href="http://ieee-sensors2017.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://ieee-sensors2017.org/</a>)<wbr>, followed by the IEEE BDB Competition in Boston, USA, December 9, 2017 (<a href="https://brain.ieee.org/news/call-participation-ieee-brain-data-bank-challenge-boston/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">https://brain.ieee.org/news/c<wbr>all-participation-ieee-brain-d<wbr>ata-bank-challenge-boston/</a>).</p><p style="margin:3pt 0pt;white-space:normal;font-size:11pt;max-width:650pt;padding-bottom:5pt;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Following the success of BDB Challenges in 2017, there are new activities planned in 2018. Apart from last year’s global events, the BDB will be held for the first time in China in July 2018, in conjunction with the 9th International Brain-Inspired Cognitive Systems (BICS) Conference. You are cordially invited to participate in the Xi’an competition, and to exercise your curiosity and creativity to make sense of your chosen datasets (see details on our<span> </span><a href="https://nemo.strath.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?SURL=aGWSN4UNwRCzMFvGv2hyr5Z2kEhOt3kO8yssqY-UA4GA6hs2t3rVCGgAdAB0AHAAOgAvAC8AYgBpAGMAcwAyADAAMQA4AC4AbwByAGcALwBpAGUAZQBlAC0AYgBkAGIALQBjAG8AbQBwAGUAdABpAHQAaQBvAG4A&URL=http%3a%2f%2fbics2018.org%2fieee-bdb-competition" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">website</a>)</p><p style="margin:3pt 0pt;white-space:normal;max-width:650pt;padding-bottom:5pt;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b><font size="4">Judging</font></b></p><div style="white-space:pre-line;margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans";font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="m_-2304558115161260345gmail-m_-5125858944741522139m_1569627091803351066gmail-theme-text-color-3-4" style="color:rgb(5,5,5)"><span style="font-size:16px">Entries will be judged in three categories:</span></span></div><div style="white-space:pre-line;margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans";font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="m_-2304558115161260345gmail-m_-5125858944741522139m_1569627091803351066gmail-theme-text-color-3-4" style="color:rgb(5,5,5)"><span style="font-size:16px"></span></span><br></div><ul style="white-space:pre-line;margin:0px;padding:0px 0.3em 0px 2em;list-style-position:outside;clear:both;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans";font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><span class="m_-2304558115161260345gmail-m_-5125858944741522139m_1569627091803351066gmail-theme-text-color-3-4" style="color:rgb(5,5,5)"><span style="font-size:16px">Data analysis including well-justified, innovative, and rigorous methodologies<br></span></span></li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><span class="m_-2304558115161260345gmail-m_-5125858944741522139m_1569627091803351066gmail-theme-text-color-3-4" style="color:rgb(5,5,5)"><span style="font-size:16px">Data visualization including novel, highly informative, and aesthetically appealing visualization techniques<br></span></span></li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><span class="m_-2304558115161260345gmail-m_-5125858944741522139m_1569627091803351066gmail-theme-text-color-3-4" style="color:rgb(5,5,5)"><span style="font-size:16px">Presentation and interpretation of findings including clear, informative delivery and compelling investigation and interpretation</span></span></li></ul><font color="#050505"><span style="white-space:pre-line"><b><font size="4"><font face="Verdana">Awards</font></font></b></span></font><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans";font-size:14px;white-space:pre-line;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="m_-2304558115161260345gmail-m_-5125858944741522139m_1569627091803351066gmail-theme-text-color-3-4" style="color:rgb(5,5,5)"><span style="font-size:16px">There will be 3 awards given:</span></span></div><ul style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0.3em 0px 2em;list-style-position:outside;clear:both;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans";font-size:14px;white-space:pre-line;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><span class="m_-2304558115161260345gmail-m_-5125858944741522139m_1569627091803351066gmail-theme-text-color-3-4" style="color:rgb(5,5,5)"><span style="font-size:16px">1st place – $600.00<br></span></span></li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><span class="m_-2304558115161260345gmail-m_-5125858944741522139m_1569627091803351066gmail-theme-text-color-3-4" style="color:rgb(5,5,5)"><span style="font-size:16px">2nd place – $400.00<br></span></span></li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><span class="m_-2304558115161260345gmail-m_-5125858944741522139m_1569627091803351066gmail-theme-text-color-3-4" style="color:rgb(5,5,5)"><span style="font-size:16px">3rd place – $200.00</span></span></li></ul><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans";font-size:14px;white-space:pre-line;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="m_-2304558115161260345gmail-m_-5125858944741522139m_1569627091803351066gmail-theme-text-color-3-4" style="color:rgb(5,5,5)"><span style="font-size:16px"></span></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Open Sans";font-size:14px;white-space:pre-line;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="m_-2304558115161260345gmail-m_-5125858944741522139m_1569627091803351066gmail-theme-text-color-3-4" style="color:rgb(5,5,5)"><span style="font-size:16px">They will be judged based on the 3 categories described above: data analysis, data visualization, presentation and interpretation of findings.</span></span></div></font></pre></font></pre>----------
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General Chairs
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Program Chairs
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