CFP

BICS 2018: The 9th International Conference on Brain-Inspired Cognitive System

Xi'an, China, July 7-9, 2018

Conference website	http://bics2018.org
Submission link	https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bics2018
Submission deadline	May 10, 2018
Notification	May 31, 2018
Camera-ready paper due	June 10, 2018
SI date	August 10, 2018
Post-proceedings	December 31, 2019

Topics: cognitive neuroscience neural computation models of consciousness biologically inspired systems

The 9th International Conference on Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (BICS’18) will be held in Xi’an, China, as a sequel of BICS 2004 - 2016. It is co-organised by Northwestern Polytechnical University (www.nwpu.edu.cn) and The Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Digital Content Processing and Security Technologies(www.gpnu.edu.cn).

BICS 2018 aims to provide a high-level international forum for scientists, engineers, and educators to present the state of the art of brain inspired cognitive systems research and applications in diverse fields. The conference will feature plenary lectures given by world renowned scholars, regular sessions with broad coverage, and some special sessions and workshops focusing on popular and timely topics.

BICS’2018 conference proceedings will be published as part of Springer LNAI Series and indexed by EI. Selected papers will be published in a special issue of the leading (ISI SCI indexed) Springer journal: Cognitive Computation Journal (http://springer.com/12559 - current ISI Impact Factor: 3.44).

Submission Guidelines

All prospective authors are invited to submit full-length papers (up to 10 pages maximum, using Springer LNAI format) through the conference website. The submission of a paper implies that the paper is original and has not been submitted, under review, or copyright protected elsewhere. All submitted papers will be subject to a rigorous peer review process, and authors of accepted papers will have an opportunity to revise their papers before camera-ready submission. If a paper is accepted, at least one of the authors listed on the paper must attend and present the conference, otherwise, the paper may be excluded from the conference proceedings.

The following paper categories(but not limited to ) are welcome:

Full papers describing Biologically Inspired Systems,Cognitive Neuroscience,Models of Consciousness,Neural Computation and so on.

List of Topics

Topic 1: Biologically Inspired Systems	Brain inspired systems Brain inspired vision Brain inspired audition and sound processing Brain inspired other sensory modalities Brain inspired motion processing Brain inspired robotics Brain inspired adaptive and control systems Brain inspired evolutionary systems Brain inspired oscillatory systems Brain inspired signal processing Brain inspired learning Neuromorphic systems Others
Topic 2: Cognitive Neuroscience	Cognitive neuroscience Cognitive neuroscience of vision Cognitive neuroscience of non-vision sensory modalities Cognitive neuroscience of volition Systems neuroscience Attentional mechanisms Affective systems Language Cortical models Sub-cortical models Cerebellar models Neural correlates Others
Topic 3: Models of Consciousness	World awareness Self-awareness Global workspace theory Imagination Qualia models Virtual machine approaches Formal models fo consciousness Control theoretical models Developmental/Infant models Will and volition Emotion and affect Philosophical implications Neurophysiological grounding Enactive approaches Heterophenomenology Analyitic/Synthetic phenomenology Others
Topic 4: Neural Computation	Neuro-computational systems Hybrid neural systems Neural learning Neural control systems Neural signal processing Architectures of neural computation Neural devices Neural perception and pattern classifiers Neuro-fuzzy systems Evolutionary neural networks Biological neural network models Applications Others

IEEE BDB Competition

The IEEE Brain Initiative has sponsored several challenges and competitions during 2017 to analyse a range of brain/neuro datasets. The first IEEE Brain Data Bank (BDB) Challenge was held in June at St. Petersburg, as part of the IEEE SPCN 2017 Symposium (https://spcn.co/). Other challenges were held in Glasgow, Scotland, October 31, 2017, during the IEEE SENSORS Conference (http://ieee-sensors2017.org/), followed by the IEEE BDB Competition in Boston, USA, December 9, 2017 (https://brain.ieee.org/news/call-participation-ieee-brain-data-bank-challenge-boston/).

Following the success of BDB Challenges in 2017, there are new activities planned in 2018. Apart from last year’s global events, the BDB will be held for the first time in China in July 2018, in conjunction with the 9th International Brain-Inspired Cognitive Systems (BICS) Conference. You are cordially invited to participate in the Xi’an competition, and to exercise your curiosity and creativity to make sense of your chosen datasets (see details below for access).

On-line/Remote Participation

WebEx will be set up for on-line participation in keynote, tutorials and final project presentations remotely.

Keynote, 10:00-12:00 GMT +8 (Xi’an)
Meeting URL: https://ieee.webex.com/xxx
Meeting number (access code): xxx

Project Presentation, 14:00-18:00 GMT +8 (Xi’an)
Meeting URL: https://ieee.webex.com/xxx
Meeting number (access code): xxx

Organizers

N. Nan Chu, CWLab International and IEEE Brain Initiatives, USA
Jiangbin Zheng, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China
Jinchang Ren, University of Strathclyde, UK
Amir Hussain, University of Stirling, UK

Judging

Entries will be judged in three categories:

Data analysis including well-justified, innovative, and rigorous methodologies

Data visualization including novel, highly informative, and aesthetically appealing visualization techniques

Presentation and interpretation of findings including clear, informative delivery and compelling investigation and interpretation

Awards

There will be 3 awards given:

1st place – $600.00
2nd place – $400.00
3rd place – $200.00

They will be judged based on the 3 categories described above: data analysis, data visualization, presentation and interpretation of findings.

Committees

General co-Chairs

Yanning Zhang
Jiangbin Zheng
Amir Hussain
Jinchang Ren
Narisa Nan Chu

Honorary co-Chairs

Derong Liu
Igor Aleksander
Tariq Durrani
Tieniu Tan

Program Chairs

Xiaoya Fan
Huimin Zhao
Chenglin Liui
Bin Luo

Publication Chairs

Xinbo Zhao

Venue

The conference will be held in Xi'an,Shaanxi Province,China.

Conference Venue: ZhengHe hotel

Address:No. 127, West Youyi Road, Beilin, Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province, PRC,710072.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to npurjc@yahoo.com and/or xiaocx@nwpu.edu.cn