Connectionists: CFPs: Brain Informatics & Health (BIH 2014)

[Ning Zhong]

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                The 2014 International Conference on
                 Brain Informatics & Health (BIH'14)

                 August 11-14, 2014, Warsaw, Poland

                        2ND CALL FOR PAPERS
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Homepage:http://wic2014.mimuw.edu.pl/bih/homepage

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BIH'14 is a part of the 2014 Web Intelligence Congress (WIC 2014).

The series of Brain Informatics conferences was started in China,
in 2006, with the International Workshop on Web Intelligence
meets Brain Informatics (WImBI'06). The next events have been
held in China, Canada and Japan. Since 2012 the conference topics
have been extended with major elements of Health Informatics in
order to investigate some common challenges in both areas. In
2014, this series of events will visit Europe for the first time.

Important Dates:
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# Electronic submission of full papers:         March      2, 2014
# Workshop paper submission:                    March     23, 2014
# Notification of paper acceptance:             May     4-11, 2014
# Camera-ready of accepted papers:              May       18, 2014
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BIH'14 Keynote Speaker:
- Karl Friston (University College London)

Turing Keynote Speaker:
- Andrew Chi-Chih Yao (2000 Turing Award Winner)

Other WIC 2014 Speakers:
- Stefan Decker (National University of Ireland)
- Sadaaki Miyamoto (University of Tsukuba)
- Yi Pan (Georgia State University)
- Andrzej Szalas (Linkoping University & The University of Warsaw)

BIH'14 Co-Organizers/Co-Sponsors:
- Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC)
- IEEE-CIS Task Force on Brain Informatics (IEEE TF-BI)
- The University of Warsaw
- Polish Mathematical Society (PTM)
- Warsaw University of Technology
- Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS) Committee on Informatics
- Polish Artificial Intelligence Society

BIH'14 Program Co-Chairs:
- Xiaohua (Tony) Hu, USA
- Lars Schwabe, Germany
- Ah-Hwee Tan, Singapore

On-Line Submissions & Publications:
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# Papers need to have up to 10 pages in LNCS format:
#http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0
# Accepted papers will be published by Springer as a
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CONFERENCE TOPICS INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:

1. Foundations of Brain Understanding
* Brain Organization & Reaction Modelling
* Causal, Hierarchical & Granular Brain Modelling
* Human Reasoning & Learning Mechanisms
* Neural Basis for High-Level Human Concepts
* Higher Cognitive Functions & Consciousness
* Systematic Design of Cognitive Experiments
* Visual, Auditory & Tactile Information Processes
* Spatio-Temporality of Human Information Processes

2. Brain-Inspired Problem Solving
* Brain & Cognition-Inspired Intelligent Systems
* Foundations & Applications of Neurocomputing
* Deep, Hierarchical & Energy-based Learning
* Brain-Related Aspects of Natural Computing
* Brain Informatics for Cyber-Individual Models
* Human Factors in Computing Systems
* Neuroeconomics & Neuromarketing
* Neurolinguistics & Neurosemantics

3. Brain & Health Data Management
* Digital, Data & Computational Brain
* Big Brain Data Centers & Computational Grids
* Brain Data/Information Flow Simulations
* Brain & Health Data Repositories & Benchmarks
* Brain & Health Data Cleaning / Quality Assurance
* Brain & Health Data/Evidence Integration
* Electronic Patient Record Management
* Medical Knowledge Abstraction & Representation

4. Biomedical Decision Support
* Neurological/Mental Disease Diagnosis & Assessment
* Therapy Planning & Disease Prognostic Support
* Risk Management for Diagnostic/Therapeutic Support
* Computer Support for Surgical Intervention
* Physiological, Clinical & Epidemiological Modelling
* Operations Research for Biomedicine & Healthcare

5. Brain & Health Data Analytics
* Pattern Recognition Methods for Brain & Health Data
* Knowledge Discovery from Brain & Health Databases
* Multimodal Brain Information Fusion
* Neuroimaging & Electromagnetic Brain Signals
* Discovery of Biomarkers & New Therapies
* Healthcare Workflow Mining for Quality Assurance
* Domain Knowledge in Medical Image/Signal Analysis
* Mining Brain/Health Literature & Medical Records
* Survival Analysis & Health Hazard Evaluations
* Interactive & Visual Analytics for Biomedicine

6. Healthcare Systems
* Healthcare Systems as Complex Systems
* Risk Management for Healthcare Processes
* IT Solutions for Healthcare Service Delivery
* IT Solutions for Hospital Management
* Organizational Impacts of Healthcare IT Solutions
* Public Health Informatics & Healthcare Networks
* Medical Compliance Support & Automation
* Social Aspects of Healthcare Mechanisms

7. Biomedical Technologies
* Brain-Computer Middleware
* Biomedical Intelligent Devices
* Biomedical Sensor Calibration
* Assistive & Monitoring Technologies
* Biomedical Software Engineering
* Biomedical Robotics & Microrobotics

8. Applications of Brain & Health Informatics
* Brain & Health Scientific Research Support Portals
* Brain Signal Interfaces & Non-verbal Communication
* Telemedicine, E-medicine & M-medicine
* Clinical/Hospital Information Systems
* Biomedical & Health Recommender Systems
* Business Intelligence based on Brain & Health Data

Tutorial Proposals:
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# Electronic submission of proposals:           April     13, 2014
# Notification of proposal acceptance:          April     20, 2014
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*** Post-Conference Journal Publications ***

- Web Intelligence and Agent Systems (IOS Press)
- Brain Informatics (Springer)
- Information Technology & Decision Making (World Scientific)
- Computational Intelligence (Wiley)
- Health Information Science and Systems (Springer)
- Cognitive Systems Research (Elsevier)
- Computational Cognitive Science (Springer)
- Semantic Computing (World Scientific)

*** About WIC 2014 ***

The 2014 Web Intelligence Congress (WIC 2014) is a Special Event
of Web25 (25 years of the Web). It includes four top-quality
international conferences related to intelligent informatics:

- IEEE/WIC/ACM Web Intelligence 2014 (WI'14)
- IEEE/WIC/ACM Intelligent Agent Technology 2014 (IAT'14)
- Active Media Technology 2014 (AMT'14)
- Brain Informatics & Heath 2014 (BIH'14)

They are co-located in order to bring together researchers and
practitioners from diverse fields with the purpose of exploring
the fundamental roles, interactions and practical impacts of
Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Information Technology.

*** About the Venue ***

The conference will be held in August - the best Summer period
to visit Warsaw and Poland. Lectures will take place in Central
Campus of the University of Warsaw, in the Old Library building
converted to a modern conference center. The campus is located
in downtown Warsaw, close to the Old Town and Vistula River.

*** Contact Information ***

Dominik Slezak<slezak at mimuw.edu.pl>
WIC 2014 Congress Program Chair