Connectionists: Call for Papers: Special Issue on Brain Big Data in the Hyper World

[Ning Zhong]

[Apologies for cross-postings]

Call for Papers:
Special Issue on Brain Big Data in the Hyper World

Brain Informatics: Brain Data Computing and Health Studies (BRIN)
An International Journal (Springer)

Guest Editors:
Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA
Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan

The "hyper world" means a new world encompassing coupling and
empowering humans in the social world, information/computers in the
cyber world, and things in the physical world.  Brain Informatics
related technologies offer informatics-enabled brain studies and
applications in the hyper world, which can be regarded as a brain big
data cycle.  This brain big data cycle is implemented by various
processing, interpreting, and integrating multiple forms of brain big
data obtained from atomic and molecular levels to the entire brain.
The implementation involves using powerful new neuro-imaging
technologies, including fMRI, PET, and MEG/EEG, as well as other
sources like eye-tracking and wearable, portable, micro and nano
devices.  Such brain big data will not only help scientists improve
their understanding of human thinking, learning, decision-making,
emotion, memory, and social behavior, but also help cure disease,
serve health-care, facilitate environmental control and
sustainability, using human-centric information and computing
technologies in the hyper world.

This special issue will present some of the best work being done
worldwide to deal with fundamental issues, new challenges and
potential applications of brain big data in the hyper world.
Although this special issue is based on a very successful panel
at AMT-BHI 2013 in Maebashi, Japan
(http://wi-consortium.org/conferences/amtbi13/),
we extend the call for papers to all active researchers and
practitioners who are working on this exciting topic.
  
Topics of interests include, but are not limited to:
- Hyper world and cyber individual model
- Future of brain big data and big data on the brain
- Assessing the brain's white matter with diffusion imaging
- A big brain vs the main requirement for big data
- Big data in neuroimaging and connectome
- Heart to heart science
- Multimodal data analysis for depression early stage prediction and
   intervention
- Multi-granular computing for brain big data
- Big data analytics and interactive knowledge discovery
   with respect to brain cognition and mental health
- Big data policy for life and brain sciences and
   its implications to future research

All manuscripts must be in English.  Manuscripts submitted for
publication are reviewed by at least three peer reviewers, according
to the usual policies of the BRIN Journal.

Important Dates:
- Paper submission deadline: March 20, 2014
- First round notification:  March 31, 2014
- Revised version due:  April 20, 2014
- Final decision notification: April 30, 2014
- Publication: June, 2014

Contact information: Ning Zhong<zhong at maebashi-it.ac.jp>
Please submit your paper to<zhong at maebashi-it.ac.jp>  and
CC to Dr. Jian Yang<jianyang at bjut.edu.cn>