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style='face: "ＭＳ' Ｐゴシック?>[Apologies if you receive this more than
once]<BR><BR>CALL FOR PAPERS<BR><BR>The 11th International Conference on Brain
Informatics (BI'18)<BR><BR>December 7-9, 2018, Arlington, Texas,
USA<BR>Homepage: </FONT><A
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style='face: "ＭＳ' Ｐゴシック?>---Advancing BI Technologies from Basic Science
Research to Real-World Practice---
<BR><BR>==============================================<BR>Workshop/Special
Session/Tutorial Proposals <BR>Submission Deadline: May 1, 2018<BR><BR>Full
Paper Submission Deadline: June 15,
2018<BR>==============================================<BR><BR>The International
Conference on Brain Informatics series (BI) <BR>has established itself as the
world’s premier research forum <BR>that brings together researchers and
practitioners from <BR>neuroscience, cognitive science, computer science, data
science, <BR>artificial intelligence, information communication technologies,
<BR>and neuroimaging technologies with the purpose of exploring the
<BR>fundamental roles, interactions as well as practical impacts of <BR>Brain
Informatics.<BR><BR>The BI'18 will provide a broad forum that academia,
professionals <BR>and industry people can exchange their ideas, findings, and
strategies <BR>in brain informatics research and brain-inspired concepts and
<BR>technologies. It welcomes emerging technologies for addressing
<BR>fundamental neurobiological questions about healthy brain function,
<BR>laying the groundwork for advancing treatments for brain disorders <BR>or
injury, and for generating brain-inspired "smart" artificial <BR>intelligence
and computing technologies to meet future societal needs. <BR>It will educate
and expand the brain informatics workforce and create <BR>new career
opportunities for brain research and related innovations.<BR><BR>The BI'18
welcomes paper submissions (full paper and abstract<BR>submissions). Both
research and application papers are solicited. All<BR>submitted papers will be
peer-reviewed on the basis of technical quality,<BR>relevance, significance and
clarity. Accepted full papers will be<BR>included in the proceedings by Springer
LNCS/LNAI (</FONT><A
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style='face: "ＭＳ' Ｐゴシック?>).<BR><BR>Workshop, Special-Session and Tutorial
proposals, and<BR>Industry/Demo-Track papers are also welcome. The organizers
of<BR>Workshops and Special-Sessions are invited to prepare a book
proposal<BR>based on the topics of the workshop/special session for possible
book<BR>publication in the Springer-Nature Brain Informatics & Health
book<BR>series (</FONT><A
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Ｐゴシック?>).<BR><BR>*** Topics and Areas ***<BR><BR>Track 1: Cognitive and
Computational Foundations of Brain Science<BR>Track 2: Investigations of Human
Information Processing Systems<BR>Track 3: Brain Big Data Analytics, Curation
and Management<BR>Track 4: Informatics Paradigms for Brain and Mental
Health<BR>Track 5: Brain-Machine Intelligence and Brain-Inspired
Computing<BR><BR>IMPORTANT DATES: <BR>================<BR><BR>May 1, 2018:
Submission deadline for workshop/special session/Tutorial proposals<BR>May 31,
2018: Notification of workshop/special session proposal acceptance<BR>June 15,
2018: Submission deadline for full papers<BR>July 30, 2018: Submission deadline
for workshop/special session papers<BR>August 15, 2018: Notification of full
paper acceptance<BR>August 30, 2018: Notification of workshop/special session
paper acceptance<BR>August 1, 2018: Submission deadline for abstracts<BR>August
30, 2018: Notification of abstract acceptance<BR>December 7, 2018: Tutorials,
workshops and special sessions<BR>December 8-9, 2018: Main
conference<BR><BR>PAPER SUBMISSIONS &
PUBLICATIONS:<BR>=================================<BR><BR>TYPE-I (Full Paper
Submissions):<BR>Papers need to have up to 10 pages in LNCS format:<BR></FONT><A
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style='face: "ＭＳ' Ｐゴシック?> All full<BR>length papers accepted (and all special
sessions' full length papers)<BR>will be published by Springer as a volume of
the series of LNCS/LNAI.<BR><BR>TYPE-II (Abstract Submissions):<BR>Abstracts
have a word limit of 500 words. Experimental research is<BR>particularly
welcome. Accepted abstract submissions will be included<BR>in the conference
program, and will be published as a single,<BR>collective proceedings
volume.<BR><BR>Title: Include in the title of the abstract all words critical
for a<BR>subject index. Write your title in sentence case (first letter
is<BR>capitalized; remaining letters are lower case). Do not bold
or<BR>italicize your full title.<BR><BR>Author: List all authors who contributed
to the work discussed in the<BR>abstract. The presenting author must be listed
in the first author<BR>slot of the list. Be prepared to submit contact
information as well as<BR>conflict of interest information for each author
listed.<BR><BR>Abstract: Enter the body of the abstract and attach any
applicable<BR>graphic files or tables here. Do not re-enter the title,
author,<BR>support, or other information that is collected in other steps of
the<BR>submission form.<BR><BR>Presentation Preference: Authors may select from
three presentation<BR>formats when submitting an abstract: "poster only", "talk
preferred"<BR>or "no preference". The "talk preferred" selection indicates that
you<BR>would like to give a talk, but will accept a poster format
if<BR>necessary. Marking "poster only" indicates that you would not like
to<BR>be considered for an oral-presentation session. Selecting
"no<BR>preference" indicates the author's willingness to be placed in
the<BR>best format for the program.<BR><BR>Each paper or abstract requires one
sponsoring attendee (i.e. someone<BR>who registered and is attending the
conference). A single attendee<BR>can not sponsor more than two abstracts
or papers.<BR><BR>Oral presentations will be selected from both full length
papers and<BR>abstracts.<BR><BR><BR>*** Post-Conference Journal Publications
***<BR><BR><BR><BR>The Brain Informatics conferences have the formal ties with
the Open Access<BR>Brain Informatics journal (Springer-Nature, </FONT><A
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Ｐゴシック?>).<BR><BR>Accepted full papers will be selected to publish in the Open
Access<BR>Brain Informatics Journal upon revision. No article-processing fee
will<BR>be charged for authors of Brain Informatics conference.<BR><BR>***
Awards ***<BR><BR>Best Paper awards will be conferred at the conference on the
authors <BR>of (1) the best research paper and (2) the best student
paper.<BR><BR>ORGANIZERS<BR>==========<BR>General Chairs<BR>Tom Mitchell
(Carnegie Mellon University, USA)<BR>Leon Iasemidis (Louisiana Tech, University,
USA)<BR>Ning Zhong (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan)<BR><BR>Program
Committee Chairs<BR>Jianzhong Su (University of Texas at Arlington,
USA)<BR>Vicky Yamamoto (University of South California, USA)<BR>Yu-Ping Wang
(Tulane University, USA)<BR><BR>Organizing Chairs<BR>Shouyi Wang (University of
Texas at Arlington, USA)<BR>Erick Jones (University of Texas at Arlington,
USA)<BR>Fenghua Tian (University of Texas at Arlington,
USA)<BR><BR>Workshop/Special-Session Chairs<BR>Chou, Chun-An (Northwestern
University, USA)<BR>Xiangnan Kong (Worcester Polytechnic Institute,
USA)<BR>Felicia Jefferson (Fort Valley State University, USA)<BR>Jing Qin
(Montana State University, USA)<BR><BR><BR>Panel/Tutorial Chairs<BR>Yang Yang
(Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan/Beijing Advanced <BR>
Innovation Center for Future Internet Technology, China)<BR>Vassiliy Tsytsarev
(University of Maryland, USA)<BR><BR>Publicity Chairs<BR>Paul Wen (University of
Southern Queensland, Australia)<BR>Huiguang He (Chinese Academy of Sciences,
China)<BR>Mufti Mahmud (University of Padova, Italy) <BR><BR>Steering Committee
Chairs<BR>Ning Zhong (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan)<BR>Hanchuan Peng
(Allen Institute for Brain Science, USA)<BR><BR><BR>*** Contact Information
***<BR>Shouyi Wang<BR>Email: </FONT><A
style='href: "mailto:shouyiw@uta.edu"'><FONT style='face: "ＭＳ'
Ｐゴシック?>shouyiw@uta.edu</FONT></A><BR><BR><FONT style='face: "ＭＳ' Ｐゴシック?>Vicky
Yamamoto<BR>Email: </FONT><A
style='href: "mailto:Vicky.Yamamoto@med.usc.edu"'><FONT style='face: "ＭＳ'
Ｐゴシック?>Vicky.Yamamoto@med.usc.edu</FONT></A><BR><BR><FONT style='face: "ＭＳ'
Ｐゴシック?>Yang Yang<BR>Email: </FONT><A
style='href: "mailto:yang@maebashi-it.org"'><FONT style='face: "ＭＳ'
Ｐゴシック?>yang@maebashi-it.org</FONT></A><BR></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>