CFP Neurocomputing - Special Issue on Spiking Neural Systems

[Koning, Esther (ELS)]

CALL FOR PAPERS



NEUROCOMPUTING

An International Journal


published by Elsevier Science B.V., vol. 49-55, 28 issues, in 2003
ISNN 0925-2312, URL:  <http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/neucom>


Special Issue on Spiking Neural Systems

Paper Submission Deadline: March 31, 2003

Spiking neural systems are based on biologically-inspired neural
models of computation. Accordingly, individual neurons communicate
with each other by means of short electrical pulses called action
potentials or spikes, which are generated by a threshold process and
generally as elements of spike sequences or trains. These systems can
remarkably process time-varying signals, are more elaborated than
simple neuron models found in artificial neural systems, and attempt
to more closely approach biophysical models of neurons, synapses, and
related elements, that describe neuronal activity by ionic currents
that pass through specialized channels in dendritic branches and
somatic compartments. Spiking neural systems are suitable to analyze
dynamical aspects of neuronal signal transmission and due to their
simplicity, they are useful for large-scale implementation of cell
ensembles and neural circuitry....

The Neurocomputing journal invites original contributions for the
forthcoming special issue on Spiking Neural Systems from a broad scope
of areas. Some topics relevant to this special issue include, but are
not restricted to:

		-- Theoretical foundations, neural circuitry, cell
ensembles, systems
		-- Modeling of neurons, synapses, dendrites, spike trains
including biophysical, biochemical, integral and differential equations,
integrate-and-fire, IFB, ...
		-- Spike-based learning including Hebbian, temporal
difference, etc.
		-- Effects of architecture, single-neuron properties, and
network dynamics.
		-- Issues in chaos, coding, correlation, decoding, firing
rate, latency, noise, oscillations, plasticity, synchrony, timing
variability, etc.
		-- Connections to biophysics, brain research, computer
science, pattern recognition, etc.
		-- Realization of spiking neurons as software simulation and
VLSI hardware.
		-- Applications including memory, information processing,
learning, ...

Please send two hardcopies of the manuscript before March 31, 2003, to:

V. David Sánchez A., Neurocomputing - Editor in Chief -
Advanced Computational Intelligent Systems
P.O. Box 60130,
Pasadena, CA 91116-6130, U.S.A.
Street address:
1149 Wotkyns Drive
Pasadena, CA 91103, U.S.A.
Fax: +1-626-796-9458
Email:  vdavidsanchez at earthlink.net

including abstract, keywords, a cover page containing the title and
author names, corresponding author name's complete address including
telephone, fax, and email address, and clear indication to be a
submission to the Special Issue on Spiking Neural Systems.

Guest Editors

Kazuyuki Aihara
University of Tokyo
Department of Mathematical Engineering
7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, 113-8656 Tokyo
Japan
Phone:  +81-3-5841-6910
Fax:      +81-3-5841-8594
Email:  Aihara at sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp


Prof. Walter J. Freeman
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-3200 USA
tel:     +1-510-643-8896
fax:    +1-510-643-6791
email: wfreeman at socrates.berkeley.edu


Wulfram Gerstner
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne
Laboratory of Computational Neuroscience, DI-LCN
CH-1015 Lausanne EPFL
Switzerland
Phone:  +41-21-693-6713
Fax:      +41-21-693-5263
Email:  wulfram.gerstner at epfl.ch


Günther Palm
University of Ulm,
Department of Neural Information Processing
Oberer Eselsberg
D-89069 Ulm
Germany
Phone:  +49-731-502-4151
Fax:      +49-731-502-4156
Email:   palm at neuro.informatik.uni-ulm.de


V. David Sánchez A., Neurocomputing - Editor in Chief -
Advanced Computational Intelligent Systems
P.O. Box 60130
Pasadena, CA 91116-6130, U.S.A.
Fax: +1-626-796-9458
Email:  vdavidsanchez at earthlink.net