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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>[Apologies if you receive this more than once]</p><p class=MsoNormal>** CALL FOR PAPERS **</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The 12th International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI'19)</p><p class=MsoNormal>December 13-15, 2019, Hainan, China</p><p class=MsoNormal>http://wi-consortium.org/conferences/bi2019/</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>--- Brain Science meets Artificial Intelligence ---</p><p class=MsoNormal>===================================================</p><p class=MsoNormal>Full papers</p><p class=MsoNormal>Submission deadline: August 4th, 2019 (Extended)</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Workshop/special session papers</p><p class=MsoNormal>Submission deadline: August 4th, 2019 (Extended)</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Abstracts</p><p class=MsoNormal>Submission deadline: August 30th, 2019 (Extended)</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>================</p><p class=MsoNormal>Keynote Speakers</p><p class=MsoNormal>================</p><p class=MsoNormal>Aaron Ciechanover (Nobel Prize in Chemistry, The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)</p><p class=MsoNormal>Lin Chen (Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)</p><p class=MsoNormal>Hongkui Zeng (Allen Institute for Brain Science, USA)</p><p class=MsoNormal>Michael Fox (Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, USA)</p><p class=MsoNormal>Hesheng Liu (Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, USA)</p><p class=MsoNormal>Jin Luo (Capital Normal University, China)</p><p class=MsoNormal>Tianzai Jiang (Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)</p><p class=MsoNormal>Yong He (Beijing Normal University, China)</p><p class=MsoNormal>===================================================</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The International Conference on Brain Informatics series (BI) has established itself as the world's premier research conference on Brain Informatics, which is an emerging interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research field that combines the efforts of Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, Machine Learning, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to explore the main problems that lie in the interplay between human brain studies and informatics research.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The BI'19 provides a premier international forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from diverse fields for presentation of original research results, as well as exchange and dissemination of innovative and practical development experiences on brain Informatics research, brain-inspired technologies and brain/mental health applications. </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The BI'19 solicits high-quality original research and application papers (both full paper and abstract submissions).</p><p class=MsoNormal>Relevant topics include but are not limited to: </p><p class=MsoNormal>Track 1: Cognitive and Computational Foundations of Brain Science</p><p class=MsoNormal>Track 2: Human Information Processing Systems</p><p class=MsoNormal>Track 3: Brain Big Data Analytics, Curation and Management</p><p class=MsoNormal>Track 4: Informatics Paradigms for Brain and Mental Health Research</p><p class=MsoNormal>Track 5: Brain-Machine Intelligence and Brain-Inspired Computing</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>* Paper Submission and Publications *</p><p class=MsoNormal>Paper Submission: Full papers should be limited to a maximum of 10 pages including figures and references in Springer LNCS Proceedings format.</p><p class=MsoNormal>All papers will be peer-reviewed and accepted based on originality, significance of contribution, technical merit, and presentation quality. </p><p class=MsoNormal>All papers accepted (and all special sessions' full length papers) will be published by Springer as a volume of the series of LNCS/LNAI.</p><p class=MsoNormal> </p><p class=MsoNormal>Research Abstract: Research abstracts are encouraged and will be accepted for presentations in an oral presentation format and/or poster presentation format.</p><p class=MsoNormal>Each abstract submission should include the title of the paper and an abstract body within 500 words.</p><p class=MsoNormal> </p><p class=MsoNormal>Journal Opportunities: High-quality BI conference papers will be nominated for a fast-track review and publication at the Brain Informatics Journal (https://braininformatics.springeropen.com/), an international, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary Open Access journal published by Springer Nature.</p><p class=MsoNormal>Discount or no open access article-processing fee will be charged for BI conference paper authors.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Special Issues & Books: Workshop/special session organizers and BI conference session chairs may consider and can be invited to prepare a book proposal of special topics for possible book publication in the Springer-Nature Brain Informatics & Health Book Series (https://www.springer.com/series/15148),</p><p class=MsoNormal>or a special issue at the Brain Informatics Journal (https://braininformatics.springeropen.com/).</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> </p><p class=MsoNormal>IMPORTANT DATES: </p><p class=MsoNormal>================</p><p class=MsoNormal>August 4th, 2019: Submission deadline for full papers (Extended)</p><p class=MsoNormal>August 4th, 2019: Submission deadline for workshop/special session papers (Extended)</p><p class=MsoNormal>September 6th, 2019: Notification of full paper acceptance (Extended)</p><p class=MsoNormal>September 6th, 2019: Notification of workshop/special session paper acceptance (Extended)</p><p class=MsoNormal>August 30th, 2019: Submission deadline for abstracts (Extended)</p><p class=MsoNormal>September 20th, 2019: Notification of abstract acceptance (Extended)</p><p class=MsoNormal>December 13th, 2019: Tutorials, workshops and special sessions</p><p class=MsoNormal>December 14th - 15th, 2019: Main conference</p><p class=MsoNormal> </p><p class=MsoNormal>=================</p><p class=MsoNormal>Conference Venue</p><p class=MsoNormal>=================</p><p class=MsoNormal>Hainan University</p><p class=MsoNormal>Haikou, at Hainan Island, China</p><p class=MsoNormal> </p><p class=MsoNormal>===========</p><p class=MsoNormal>ORGANIZERS</p><p class=MsoNormal>===========</p><p class=MsoNormal>General Chair</p><p class=MsoNormal>Qingming Luo (Hainan University, China)</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Program Chairs</p><p class=MsoNormal>Peipeng Liang (Capital Normal University, China)</p><p class=MsoNormal>Vinod Goel (York University, Canada)</p><p class=MsoNormal>Chunlei Shan (Shanghai U. Traditional Chinese, Medicine, China)</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Organizing Chairs</p><p class=MsoNormal>Xin Lou (Chinese PLA General Hospital, China)</p><p class=MsoNormal>Nan Ma (Beijing Union University, China)</p><p class=MsoNormal>Feng Xu (Tsinghua University, China)</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Workshop/Special-Session Chairs</p><p class=MsoNormal>Yang Yang (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan)</p><p class=MsoNormal>Mufti Mahmud (Nottingham Trent University, UK)</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Publicity Chairs</p><p class=MsoNormal>Zhiqi Mao (Chinese PLA General Hospital, China)</p><p class=MsoNormal>M Shamim Kaiser (Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh)</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Steering Chairs</p><p class=MsoNormal>Qionghai Dai (Tsinghua University, China)</p><p class=MsoNormal>Ning Zhong (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan)</p><p class=MsoNormal>Hanchuan Peng (Allen Institute for Brain Science, USA)</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>*** Contact Information ***</p><p class=MsoNormal>Yang Yang</p><p class=MsoNormal>Email: yang@maebashi-it.org</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>New Visa-Free Policy for Hainan</p><p class=MsoNormal>Individuals from 59 countries can visit the Hainan province for 30 days visa-free as long as they book their tour through travel agencies.</p><p class=MsoNormal>Countries benefiting from the policy include Russia, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Norway, Ukraine, Italy, Austria, Finland, the Netherlands, Denmark, Switzerland, Sweden, Spain, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Poland, Portugal, Ireland, the United States, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Kazakhstan, the Philippines, Indonesia and the UAE, etc.</p></div></body></html>