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face="ＭＳ Ｐゴシック">[Apologies if you receive this more than once]<BR><BR>Deadline
Extended -- 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
style='href: "http://uta.engineering/conferences/bi-2018/"'><FONT
face="ＭＳ Ｐゴシック">http://uta.engineering/conferences/bi-2018/</FONT></A><BR><BR><FONT
face="ＭＳ Ｐゴシック">---Advancing BI Technologies from Basic Science Research to
Real-World Practice---
<BR><BR>==============================================<BR>August 10, 2018:
Papers submission deadline (Extended)<BR>September 15, 2018: Abstract submission
deadline<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
style='href: "http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319707716"'><FONT
face="ＭＳ Ｐゴシック">http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319707716</FONT></A><FONT
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
style='href: "http://www.springer.com/series/15148"'><FONT
face="ＭＳ Ｐゴシック">http://www.springer.com/series/15148</FONT></A><FONT
face="ＭＳ Ｐゴシック">).<BR><BR>*** Topics and Areas ***<BR><BR>Track 1: Cognitive and
Computational Foundations of Brain Science<BR>Track 2: Human Information
Processing Systems<BR>Track 3: Brain Big Data Analytics, Curation and
Management<BR>Track 4: Informatics Paradigms for Brain and Mental Health
Research<BR>Track 5: Brain-Machine Intelligence and Brain-Inspired
Computing<BR><BR>IMPORTANT DATES: <BR>================<BR><BR>August 10, 2018:
Papers submission deadline (Extended)<BR>August 30, 2018: Notification of paper
acceptance<BR>September 15, 2018: Abstract submission deadline<BR>December 7,
2018: Workshops & 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
style='href: "http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0"'><FONT
face="ＭＳ Ｐゴシック">http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0</FONT></A><FONT
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>The Brain Informatics conferences have the formal ties with the
Open Access<BR>Brain Informatics journal (Springer-Nature, </FONT><A
style='href: "http://www.springer.com/40708"'><FONT
face="ＭＳ Ｐゴシック">http://www.springer.com/40708</FONT></A><FONT
face="ＭＳ Ｐゴシック">).<BR><BR>Accepted full papers will be selected to publish in
the Open Access<BR>Brain <BR>Informatics Journal upon revision. No
article-processing fee will<BR>be charged <BR>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
face="ＭＳ Ｐゴシック">shouyiw@uta.edu</FONT></A><BR><BR><FONT face="ＭＳ Ｐゴシック">Vicky
Yamamoto<BR>Email: </FONT><A
style='href: "mailto:Vicky.Yamamoto@med.usc.edu"'><FONT
face="ＭＳ Ｐゴシック">Vicky.Yamamoto@med.usc.edu</FONT></A><BR><BR><FONT
face="ＭＳ Ｐゴシック">Yang Yang<BR>Email: </FONT><A
style='href: "mailto:yang@maebashi-it.org"'><FONT
face="ＭＳ Ｐゴシック">yang@maebashi-it.org</FONT></A><BR></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>