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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Call for Paper for Special Session on <span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><u><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Computationally Intelligent Methods in
Processing and Analysis of Neuronal Big Data<span></span></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;text-align:center;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">at the </span></b><b><span style="line-height:107%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">11th Brain
Informatics Conference (BI 2018)</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;text-align:center;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Organized by: </span><span style="line-height:107%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Mufti Mahmud</span><sup><span style="line-height:107%;font-family:Symbol"><span>§</span></span></sup><span style="line-height:107%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">, M Shamim
Kaiser</span><sup><span style="line-height:107%;font-family:Symbol"><span>¨</span></span></sup><span style="line-height:107%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">, Ning Zhong</span><sup><span style="line-height:107%;font-family:Symbol"><span>©</span></span></sup><span style="line-height:107%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">, Nitish V
Thakor</span><sup><span style="line-height:107%;font-family:Symbol"><span>ª</span></span></sup><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><sup><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>§</span></span></sup></i><i><sup><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"> </span></sup></i><i><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Computing and Technology, Nottingham Trent University,
NG11 8NS – Nottingham, UK<span></span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Email: <a href="mailto:muftimahmud@gmail.com">muftimahmud@gmail.com</a></span></i><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><span></span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><sup><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Symbol"><span>¨</span></span></sup><i><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Institute of Information Technology, Jahangirnagar
University, Savar, 1342 – Dhaka, Bangladesh</span></i><i><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Nirmala UI",sans-serif"><span></span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Email: <a href="mailto:mskaiser@juniv.edu">mskaiser@juniv.edu</a></span></i><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><span></span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><sup><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Symbol"><span>©</span></span></sup><i><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Dept. of Life
Science and Informatics, Maebashi Institute of Technology, 371-0816 -
Maebashi-City, Japan<span></span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Email: <a href="mailto:zhong@maebashi-it.ac.jp">zhong@maebashi-it.ac.jp</a><span></span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><sup><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>ª</span></span></sup></i><i><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Singapore Institute
for Neurotechnology, National University of Singapore, 117456 – Singapore;
& <span></span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Dept. of Biomedical
Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 21205 – MD, USA<span></span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Email: <a href="mailto:nthakor@bme.jhu.edu">nthakor@bme.jhu.edu</a>
and <a href="mailto:sinapsedirector@gmail.com">sinapsedirector@gmail.com</a></span></i><i><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><span></span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><u><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Introduction:<span></span></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:18pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:107%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">The brain receives and processes
information simultaneously coming from diverse sources. The neurons, being the basic
information processing units, interconnect to each other to form hierarchical
and/or parallel pathways. Technologies related to neural systems engineering
have been employed to study these pathways along with processing and modelling
of neuronal data for disease diagnosis and brain decoding purposes. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:18pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:107%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Combining both experimental and computational approaches in recent
years, thanks to the advancements in neurotechniques, scientists can access large
amount of neuronal data and apply computationally intelligent and nature-inspired
machine learning techniques including deep learning and reinforcement learning
on those data to suggest next generation experimental design aiming to decipher
brain’s information processing capabilities and diagnose its diseases.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><u><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Scope:<span></span></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:18pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:107%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Developing data-intensive and intelligent tools, as well as
sophisticated neurotechniques, to process and analyse the neuronal big data is
one of the biggest challenges posed to today’s multidisciplinary brain science
community. To share recent progress in decoding neuronal information processing,
both in healthy and diseased brain, this special session aims to provide a
forum for scientists from diverse disciplines including – computer, electrical,
biomedical, and neuro engineering – who are looking for more relevant
information in interpreting brain functions and diagnosing diseases using
expert and computationally intelligent systems. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:18pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:107%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">This special session expects to attract papers on recent research
progress in the area of intelligent computational tools and techniques in acquiring
and processing neuronal big data. The focus areas include, but not limited to,
the following:<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 18.9pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="PL" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Ø</span><span lang="PL" style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"> </span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Neural systems
engineering and technology to study neural pathways;<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 18.9pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="PL" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Ø</span><span lang="PL" style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"> </span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Processing and
modelling of neuronal data for disease diagnosis and brain decoding;<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 18.9pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="PL" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Ø</span><span lang="PL" style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"> </span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Bio</span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">-</span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">inspired methods
for network analysis and pattern recognition in neural data;<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 18.9pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="PL" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Ø</span><span lang="PL" style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"> </span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Novel machine learning techniques
for neuronal big data analysis;<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 18.9pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="PL" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Ø</span><span lang="PL" style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"> </span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Application of deep and
reinforcement learning to neuronal big data analysis;<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 18.9pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="PL" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Ø</span><span lang="PL" style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"> </span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Computationally intelligent
techniques for neuroscience applications;<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 18.9pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="PL" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Ø</span><span lang="PL" style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"> </span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Neuroinformatics </span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">(including cloud
computing and real-time systems);</span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 18.9pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="PL" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Ø</span><span lang="PL" style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"> </span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Cognitive science
applications (learning, workload, decision making, etc.) and data analytics; <span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 18.9pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="PL" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Ø</span><span lang="PL" style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"> </span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Computational and
imaging methods for human brain connectome; and<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 18.9pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="PL" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Ø</span><span lang="PL" style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"> </span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Information analysis in
human brain machine interface (invasive, noninvasive).<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><u><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Submission of papers:<span></span></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:18pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Submit Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) complaint –
10 page – pdf paper to the Special Session following the steps below:<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 28.7pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Ø Prepare the paper as per the Springer
LNCS template from: <a href="http://www.springer.com/us/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines">http://www.springer.com/us/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines</a><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 18pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Ø Visit <a href="https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2018/bi18/scripts/ws_submit.php?subarea=S">https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2018/bi18/scripts/ws_submit.php?subarea=S</a><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 27.5pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Ø Select the link: Special session on
Computationally Intelligent Methods in Processing and Analysis of Neuronal Big
Data<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 27.5pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Ø Select the link Submit a New Paper
(TYPE I Submission) <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 27.5pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Ø Provide paper details (i.e., Author(s),
Paper Title, Abstract, Keywords, PDF file to upload).<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><u><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Important dates:<span></span></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 21.3pt;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Ø Paper submission deadline: <b>30 July
2018</b> <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 21.3pt;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Ø Decision notification: <b>30 August 2018</b>
<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 21.3pt;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Ø Special Session date: <b>7 December 2018</b>
<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 21.3pt;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Ø Conference dates: <b>8-9 December 2018</b>.</span></p></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font color="#0000ff" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><b><i>Mufti Mahmud, PhD</i></b> | (Senior) Lecturer of <a href="https://www.ntu.ac.uk/sat/about/academic_teams/comp_tech.html" target="_blank">Computing & Technology</a> | <a href="https://www.ntu.ac.uk/sat/" target="_blank">School of Science & Technology</a><br>Office: ERD200 | <a href="https://www.ntu.ac.uk/" target="_blank">Nottingham Trent University</a> | Clifton Campus | NG11 8NS – Nottingham, UK<br>Phone: +44 (0)115 84 83202 | Email: <a href="mailto:mufti.mahmud@ntu.ac.uk" target="_blank">mufti.mahmud@ntu.ac.uk</a><br>Meeting requests: <a href="https://doodle.com/mufti" target="_blank">https://doodle.com/mufti</a><br><br><a href="http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2037-8348" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.8px">http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2037-8348</span><br></a></font><div><font color="#0000ff" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/muftimahmud/" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/muftimahmud/<br></a><a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=L8em2YoAAAAJ&hl=en" target="_blank">https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=L8em2YoAAAAJ&hl=en<br></a><br>Senior Member, <a href="https://www.ieee.org/" target="_blank">IEEE</a> & <a href="https://www.acm.org/" target="_blank">ACM</a><br>Associate Editor, <a href="http://ieeeaccess.ieee.org/" target="_blank">IEEE Access</a> <br>Editorial Board Member, <a href="https://www.springer.com/biomed/neuroscience/journal/12559" target="_blank">Cognitive Computation</a> & <a href="https://bdataanalytics.biomedcentral.com/" target="_blank">Big Data Analytics</a></font></div></div></div></div>