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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)">[Apologies for cross posting.]</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)">Call for
Paper for Special Session on</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)">Computationally
Intelligent Methods in Processing and Analysis of Neuronal Big Data</span></u></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)">11th Brain
Informatics Conference (BI 2018), Arlington, Texas, USA, December 7-9, 2018</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)">Web: <a href="http://uta.engineering/conferences/bi-2018/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-weight:normal">http://uta.engineering/conferences/bi-2018/</span></a></span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)">Organizers:<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)">Mufti Mahmud¹,
M Shamim Kaiser², Ning Zhong³, Nitish V Thakor⁴</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i>^{<span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)">1 </span>}</i><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)">Computing and Technology, Nottingham
Trent University, NG11 8NS – Nottingham, UK</span></i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">^{<span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)">2</span>}<i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)">Institute of Information Technology,
Jahangirnagar University, Savar, 1342 – Dhaka, Bangladesh</span></i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">^{<span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)">3</span>}<i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)">Dept. of Life Science and Informatics,
Maebashi Institute of Technology, 371-0816 - Maebashi-City, Japan</span></i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i>^{<span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)">4</span>}</i><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)">Singapore Institute for Neurotechnology,
National University of Singapore, 117456 – Singapore; &</span></i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)">Dept. of
Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 21205 – MD, USA</span></i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)"><span> </span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)">Introduction:</span></u></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)">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;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)">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></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)"><span><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></span></span></u></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)">Scope:</span></u></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)">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;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)">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="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="PL" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)">Ø </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)">Neural systems engineering and
technology to study neural pathways;<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="PL" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)">Ø </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)">Processing and modelling of neuronal
data for disease diagnosis and brain decoding;<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="PL" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)">Ø </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)">Bio</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)">-</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)">inspired methods for network analysis
and pattern recognition in neural data;<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="PL" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)">Ø </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)">Novel machine learning techniques for
neuronal big data analysis;<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="PL" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)">Ø </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)">Application of deep and reinforcement
learning to neuronal big data analysis;<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="PL" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)">Ø </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)">Computationally intelligent techniques
for neuroscience applications;<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="PL" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)">Ø </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)">Neuroinformatics </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)">(including
cloud computing and real-time systems);</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="PL" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)">Ø </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)">Cognitive science applications
(learning, workload, decision making, etc.) and data analytics;<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="PL" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)">Ø </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)">Computational and imaging methods for
human brain connectome; and<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="PL" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)">Ø </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)">Information analysis in human brain machine
interface (invasive, noninvasive).<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)"><span><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></span></span></u></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)">Submission
of papers:</span></u></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)">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 36pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)">Ø Prepare the paper as per the Springer LNCS template
from: <a href="http://www.springer.com/us/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline">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 36pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)">Ø Visit <a href="https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2018/bi18/scripts/ws_submit.php?subarea=S" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline">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 36pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)">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 36pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)">Ø Select the link Submit a New Paper (TYPE I Submission)<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)">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:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)"><span><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></span></span></u></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)">Important
dates:</span></u></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)">Ø Paper submission deadline: <b>30 July 2018</b><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)">Ø Decision notification: <b>30 August 2018</b><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)">Ø Special Session date: <b>7 December 2018</b><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(0,112,192)">Ø Conference dates: <b>8-9 December 2018</b>.<span></span></span></p>





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