Connectionists: Call for papers : Special Issue on Brain Simulation and Spiking Neural Networks ( Cognitive Computation - Springer)

Fri Oct 16 09:58:28 EDT 2020

*Call For Papers:Journal : Cognitive ComputationSpecial Issue : Brain
Simulation and Spiking Neural Networks*
https://www.springer.com/journal/12559/updates/18336610

*Scope and Motivation*

During the past 10 years, many experiments have been implemented with the
aim of improving our understanding on the brain’s structure and function.
Alongside, simulation neuroscience has become an important strategy to
investigate how the brain works. The Human Connectome Project in the US
started in 2009 and aimed to provide a big human brain mapping dataset on
which many brain models have already been tested. In the Human Brain
Project in the EU, a large-scale virtual rodent brain simulation is being
built with the purpose of revealing various brain activities. In Japan,
whole human-scale brain simulations on the Fugaku supercomputer are being
established to investigate how neural networks develop their learning
process.

On the other hand, the foundation of cognitive computing and control
mechanism can be revealed from the simulations of brain circuits and the
neural dynamics. Moreover, these are also critical to improve current
artificial intelligent systems and for building brain intelligence level
algorithms.

In this special issue, we invite researchers to present their
state-of-the-art approaches, introduce recent advances and therefore show
the potential of brain-simulation-related technologies.

*Guest Editors*

Jordi Solé-Casals (jordi.sole at uvic.cat)

Cesar F. Caiafa (ccaiafa at fi.uba.ar)

Zhe Sun (zhe.sun.vk at riken.jp)

Vassilis Cutsuridis (vcutsuridis at lincoln.ac.uk)

*Topics*

Topics include but are not limited to:
• Brain Connectivity mapping and functional mapping
• Data analysis methods for connectome data
• Multi-scale neural system simulation
• Neuromorphic hardware
• High-performance computing system for large scale simulations
• Neural system inspired spiking neural network
• Neuro-robotics systems
• Sensorimotor learning model

*Deadlines*

*Submissions Deadline*: *April 1, 2021*
First notification of acceptance: June 1, 2021
Submission of revised papers: August 1, 2021
Final notification to the authors: Oct 1, 2021
Submission of final/camera-ready papers: Nov 1, 2021
Publication of special issue: Nov 22, 2021

*Submission Instruction:*
Prepare your paper in accordance with the Journal guidelines:
www.springer.com/12559. Submit manuscripts at:
http://www.editorialmanager.com/cogn/.  Select “SI: Brain Simulation and
Spiking Neural Networks” for the special issue under “Additional
Information.”  Your paper must contain significant and original work that
has not been published nor submitted to any journals. All papers will be
reviewed following standard reviewing procedures of the Journal.

*Author Resources*

Authors are encouraged to submit high-quality, original work that has
neither appeared in, nor is under consideration by other journals.

All papers will be reviewed following standard reviewing procedures for the
Journal.

Papers must be prepared in accordance with the Journal guidelines:
www.springer.com/12559

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If you have additional questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Best regards,
Vassilis

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Dr Vassilis Cutsuridis

Senior Lecturer

School of Computer Science &

Lincoln Sleep Research Center

University of Lincoln

Lincoln

UK

Tel: +44 (0) 1522 83 5701

Email: vcutsuridis at lincoln.ac.uk

Web: http://staff.lincoln.ac.uk/vcutsuridis

Personal website: http://www.vassiliscutsuridis.org/
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