Connectionists: 1st Call for Papers (CFP): Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (BICS) 2008, June 24-27, 2008, Brazil

[Dr. Amir Hussain]

Please circulate the CFP for the third International Brain Inspired
Cognitive Systems (BICS 2008) Conference (details below and at:
http://www.icsc-naiso.org/conferences/bics2008/bics_2008.html) to interested
colleagues and friends....

Many thanks, 

Dr. Amir Hussain
Centre of Cognitive & Computational Neuroscience, 
University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, Scotland, UK
Email: ahu at cs.stir.ac.uk  www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~ahu/

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1st Call for Papers (CFP):

Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (BICS) 2008, June 24-27, 2008

http://www.icsc-naiso.org/conferences/bics2008/bics_2008.html 

General Chair: Allan Kardec Barros <allan at ufma.br>
Depto. Eng. Eletrica, Universidade Federal do Maranhao
 
to be held at: Pestana São Luís, São Luís do Maranhão Brasil Hotels
www.pestana.com/hotels/en/hotels/southamerica/SaoLuisMaranhao/SaoLuis/Home/P
estanaSaoLuis.htm 

Second International ICSC Symposium on
Models of Consciousness (MoC 2006)
>From foundations to implementations       
Chair: Ron Chrisley , University of Sussex, U.K.

Fourth International ICSC Symposium on
Biologically Inspired Systems (BIS 2006)
Design and implementation of biologically inspired and  neuromorphic systems
Chair: Leslie Smith, University of Stirling, U.K.

Third International ICSC Symposium on
Cognitive Neuro Science (CNS 2006)
Models of  cognitive systems; 
Chair: Igor Aleksander, Imperial College London, U.K

Fifth International ICSC Symposium on
Neural Computation (NC'2006)
Progress in neural systems
Chair: Amir Hussain, University of Stirling, U.K. 

Why this conference, and who should attend:

The biennial Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems 2008 aims to bring together
leading scientists and engineers who use analytic, formal or computational
methods both to understand the prodigious processing properties of
biological systems, particularly the brain, and to exploit such knowledge to
advance technology towards ever higher levels of cognitive competence. The
four major symposia are organized in patterns that encourage
cross-fertilization across the symposia topics. This emphasizes that,
following the success of BICS 2004 (Stirling, Scotland) and BICS 2006
(Greece), BICS 2008 will continue be a major point of contact for
researchers and practitioners who can benefit from not only the major
advances in their specialist fields but also from the diversity of each
other's views. Each of the four mornings is devoted to papers that will be
selected for their clear novelty and proven scientific impact, while the
afternoons will provide scope for researchers to present their current work
and discuss their aims and ambitions. Debates across disciplines will unite
researchers with differing perspectives. 

Deadline for submissions:  31 January 2008

You may submit your abstract at www.x-cd.com/bics08/abstract.cfm

SUB-THEMES (including, but not limited to):

Models of consciousness: (MoC)
Global Workspace Theory 
Imagination/synthetic phenomenology
Virtual Machine Approaches
Axiomatic Models
Control Theory/Methodology
Developmental/Infant Models
Will/volition/emotion/affect
Philosophical implications
Grounding in neurophysiology
Enactive approaches
Heterophenomenology

Cognitive Neuroscience (CNS)
Attentional Mechanisms 
Cognitive Neuroscience of Sensory Modalities
CN of volition
Affective Systems
Language
Cortical Models
Sub-Cortical Models
Cerebellar Models
Event location in the brain
Others

Biologically Inspired Systems (BIS)
Brain Inspired (BI) Vision 
BI Audition and sound processing
BI Other sensory modalities
BI Motion processing
BI Robotics
BI Evolutionary systems
BI Oscillatory systems
BI Signal processing
BI Learning
Neuromorphic systems
Others

Neural Computation (NC)
NeuroComputational (NC) Hybrid Systems 
NC Learning
NC Control Systems
NC Signal Processing
Architectures
Devices
Pattern Classifiers
Support Vector Machines
Fuzzy or Neuro-Fuzzy Systems
Evolutionary Neural Networks
Biological Neural Network Models
Applications
Others

Important Dates: 
July 2008 
Acceptance - March/April/2008  
Submission deadline - January/2008

Publications: 
selected, expanded and revised BICS2008 papers  will be published in
follow-on special issues of international  journals

ORGANIZED BY:

Planning Division
ICSC Interdisciplinary Research
NAISO Natural and Artificial Intelligence Systems Organization
Canada 

Email: planning at icsc.ab.ca




Planning Division
ICSC Interdisciplinary Research
NAISO Natural and Artificial Intelligence Systems Organization
Canada 
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Email:       planning at icsc.ab.ca
Website:   www.icsc-naiso.org