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2012 Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (BICS 2012) |
| July 11-14, 2012, Shenyang, China |
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The 2012 International Conference on Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (BICS 2012) will be held in Shenyang, China, as a sequel of BICS 2004 - 2010. Shenyang is the capital city of Liaoning Province with a long history and rich heritages. Shenyang was first used by the Manchu people as their capital in the 17th century and is today the biggest city in Northeastern China. Shenyang is now an important political, industrial, and cultural center, and serves as the transportation and commercial hub of Northeastern China. The city is well-known for its modern infrastructure, convenient land and air transport network, and abundant natural resources. BICS 2012 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 symposium will feature plenary lectures given by world renowned scholars, regular sessions with broad coverage, and some special sessions focusing on popular and timely topics.
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Call for Papers
BICS 2012 solicits papers in the following areas:
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
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
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
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
Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length papers (6-8 pages normally and 10 pages maximum) by the submission deadline through the online submission
system (http://bics2012.mae.cuhk.edu.hk). The submission of a paper implies that the paper is original and has not been submitted under review or copyright protected
elsewhere and will be presented by an author if accepted. All submitted papers will be refereed by experts in the field based on the criteria of originality,
significance, quality, and clarity. The authors of accepted papers will have an opportunity to revise their papers and take consideration of the referees' comments
and suggestions. All papers accepted by and presented at BICS 2012 will be published by Springer as multiple volumes of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
which will be indexed by EI and ISTP. Selected papers will be published in special issues of several SCI journals.
Special sessions: Potential organizers are also invited to enlist five or more papers with cohesive topics to form special sessions.
Click the tab "Special Sessions" on the left for more information.
Important Dates
Paper submission deadline-------------------------- extended to February 15, 2012
Notification of acceptance--------------------------------changed to March 15, 2012
Camera-ready copy and author registration---------------------------- April 5, 2012
Organizing Committee MembersGeneral Chair Derong Liu, China Advisory Committee Chairs Ruwei Dai, China Aike Guo, China Steering Committee Chair Huaguang Zhang, China Organizing Committee Chairs Bhaskar DasGupta, USA Jun Wang, Hong Kong Program Chairs Amir Hussain, UK Robert Kozma, USA Leslie Smith, UK Liang Zhao, Brazil Plenary Sessions Chair Marios Polycarpou, Cyprus Special Sessions Chairs Sanqing Hu, China Stefano Squartini, Italy Finance Chair Dongbin Zhao, China Publicity Chairs Song Ci, USA Qinglai Wei, China Erik Cambria, Singapore European Liaisons John Taylor, UK Anna Esposito, Italy Mohamed Chetouani, France Giacomo Indiveri, Switzerland Stefan Wermter, Germany Publications Chairs Jinhu Lu, China El-Sayed El-Alfy, Saudi Arabia David Gamez, UK Registrations Chair Zeng-Guang Hou, China Local Arrangements Chair Zhanshan Wang, China Electronic Review Chair Tao Xiang, China Symposium Secretariat bics2012@gmail.com
Program Committee
Program Chairs Amir Hussain, UK Robert Kozma, USA Leslie Smith, UK Liang Zhao, Brazil Program Committee Members Kazuyuki Aihara, Japan Yousef A. Alotaibi, Saudi Arabia Shun-Ichi Amari, Japan Peter Andras, UK Hughues Bersini, Belgium Joao Bertini Jr., Brazil John Bishop, UK Roman Borisyuk, UK Steven Bressler, USA Fabricio Breve, Brazil Erik Cambria, Singapore Jordi Sole i Casals, Spain Goutam Chakraborty, Japan Zengqiang Chen, China Mohamed Chetouani, France Damien Coyle, UK Jim Crutchfield, USA Vassilis Cutsuridis, UK Keshav Dahal, UK Rodney Douglas, Switzerland Peter Erdi, USA Anna Esposito, Italy Marcos Faundez-Zanuy, Spain Simone Fiori, Italy Hiroshi Fujii, Japan Takeshi Furuhashi, Japan Carlos Gonzalez, Spain Claudius Gros, Germany Stephen Grossberg, USA Kevin Gurney, UK Hani Hagras, UK Pentti Haikonen, Finland Stephen Hanson, USA Derek Harter, USA Haibo He, USA Emilio Del Moral Hernandez, Brazil Dewen Hu, China Giacomo Indiveri, Switzerland Marwan Jabri, USA Li-Wei Ko, Taiwan Kang Li, UK Xuelong Li, UK Yuanqing Li, China Hualou Liang, USA Xiaoming Liang, Brazil Derong Liu, China Ju Liu, China Shulan Lu, USA Shuxian Lun, China Jianhua Ma, Japan Tiedong Ma, China William Marslen-Wilson, UK Eduardo Massad, Brazil Elvis Mazzoni, Italy James McClelland, USA Xiangping Meng, China Vincent C. Müller, Greece Tadahiko Murata, Japan Jay Myung, USA Takashi Omori, Japan Leonid Perlovsky, USA Francesco Piazza, Italy Jose Principe, USA Marko Puljic, USA Marcos Quiles, Brazil Nicla Rossini, Italy Raza Samar, Pakistan Jurgen Schmidhuber, Germany Bjoern Schuller, Germany Anil Seth, UK Shihab Shamma, USA Zdenek Smekal, Czech Republic Qiankun Song, China Stefano Squartini, Italy Qiuye Sun, China Ron Sun, USA Hideyuki Takagi, USA Azzam Taktak, UK Jianhua Tao, China John Taylor, UK Emmanuelle Tognoli, USA Isabel Trancoso, Portugal Ichiro Tsuda, Japan Minoru Tsukada, Japan Don Tucker, USA Geoff Underwood, UK David Vernon, United Arab Emirates Sethu Vijayakumar, UK Jhing-Fa James Wang, Taiwan Rubin Wang, China Zhanshan Wang, China Zhiliang Wang, China Kevin Warwick, UK Thomas Wennekers, UK Luda Werbos, USA Stefan Wermter, Germany Dedong Yang, China Dongsheng Yang, China Erfu Yang, UK Dezhong Yao, China Yuan Yuan, UK Zhigang Zeng, China Jun Zhang, China Li Zhang, UK Qiangfu Zhao, Japan JunMei Zhu, Germany Tom Ziemke, Sweden
Paper Submission
Papers submitted to BICS 2012 must be single-spaced in one column format within an area of
122 mm x 193 mm with 10-point Times-Roman font. Each paper must not exceed 10 pages including
figures and references (papers beyond 8 pages are subject to page surcharge). All papers must
be written in English using the Springer LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) style,
including all tables, figures, and references. Download the
Author instructions and sample files here.
It is required that the authors use the style file of Springer Lecture Notes in Computer
Science when preparing the manuscripts to ensure the uniformity of papers. Please use the
typeinst.tex (LaTeX users) or word_template.doc (WORD users).
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The BICS 2012 technical program will include special sessions. Their aim is to provide a complementary flavor to the regular sessions and should include topics of interest to the BICS community.
Prospective organizers of special sessions should submit proposals indicating:
(1) title of the session;
(2) rationale of the need for the special session at BICS. The rationale should stress the novelty of the topic and/or its multidisciplinary flavor, and must explain how it is different from the subjects covered by the regular sessions;
(3) short biography of the organizers;
(4) list of 5-6 contributed papers (including titles, authors, contact information of the corresponding author).
Proposals are due on or before 1 January 2012 and should be sent via e-mail (in either pdf or plain ascii text form) to the Special Sessions Chairs, "Sanqing Hu" (sanqinghu@gmail.com), "Stefano Squartini" (s.squartini@univpm.it).
Proposals will be evaluated based on the timeliness of the topic, the qualifications of the organizers and the authors of the papers proposed in the session. Sessions in which three or more papers are
co-authored by the same person, or by authors from the same group will not be accepted. In its decision, the committee will try to realize a balance of the topics across the technical areas
represented in BICS.
Notification of acceptance will be sent to the organizers by 7 January 2012. Authors of papers included in successful proposals should submit a manuscript on or before 15 January 2012.
Manuscripts should conform to the formatting and electronic submission guidelines of regular BICS papers. When they submit papers, there is a choice to indicate that
their papers are special session papers. All papers will undergo peer review process. It is the responsibility of the organizers to ensure that their special session meets the BICS quality standards.
If, at the end of the review process, less than four (4) papers are accepted, the session will be cancelled and the accepted papers will be moved to regular sessions.
The 2012 International Symposium on Neural Networks and The 2012 International Conference on Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems will be held at the Shenyang Hotel in Shenyang. We have secured a block of rooms with the following rates:The deadline for hotel room reservations is June 20, 2012. Our conference will be held during the hot tourist season. Please book your hotel rooms early to avoid last minute problems.You can call the hotel directly to reserve your rooms by dialing +86 24 86688888. When you call please mention our conference code: ISNN/BICS, in order to get our conference rates. Alternatively, you can click here to download the hotel room reservation form. Click here to download a note you can show to your taxi driver. Hotel address: Shenyang Hotel 2 Taishan Road Shenyang 110033 P. R. China Tel: +86 24 86688888
Standard double rooms (two full-size beds with one breakfast) 360 RMB (60 USD)/night Standard double rooms (two full-size beds with two breakfast) 400 RMB (65 USD)/night Standard queen-bed rooms (one queen-size bed with two breakfast) 420 RMB (67 USD)/night Deluxe king-bed rooms (one king-size bed with two breakfast) 598 RMB (95 USD)/night Suites (two breakfast) 798 RMB (126 USD)/night
SponsorsThe 2012 International Conference on Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems has the following financial sponsors: Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences University of Stirling Chinese University of Hong Kong University of Illinois at Chicago National Natural Science Foundation of China The 2012 International Conference on Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems has the following technical co-sponsors: IEEE Computational Intelligence Society International Neural Network Society Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behavior ICSC Interdisciplinary Research
Shenyang contains a true mixture of past and present, with magnificent temples, grand palaces, historic tombs and landscaped botanical gardens, all contrasting with glitz new shopping centers and contemporary high-rise buildings, which tower over the city center.
1. Imperial Palace 沈阳故宫
The Shenyang Imperial Palace is a particularly famous attraction and generally based upon its much larger predecessor in Beijing, the Forbidden Palace. One difference however is in the intricate Tibetan and Mongolian architectural features, which were favored by the Qing Dynasty. Although many of the palace's exhibitions are poorly maintained, the complex itself is quite impressive.
2. Zhongshan Square 中山广场
One of the main attractions in Shenyang's downtown district is this lively, bustling plaza, named after Sun Yat Sen. The most impressive site within Zhongshan Square is the towering statue of Chairman Mao, which is surrounded by a legion of soldiers, peasants and workers, each carrying a tool of the revolution. Even more interesting is the entertaining prospect of people-watching, as this is the main hangout for locals.
3. Hunhe Amusement Park 浑河乐园
A great place for all the family, the Hunhe Amusement Park is full of fast rides and themed areas. Highlights include the rather unexpected Ice and Snow World, where it is possible to ice skate throughout the year, while for the grown-ups, a rifle range, golfing area and eateries complete the main attractions here.
4. Guai Po (Strange Slope) 沈阳怪坡
Amongst the world's strangest phenomena and Shenyang's most unusual attractions is this bizarre sloping stretch of road, where objects move up rather than down the hill, with their own momentum. Riding a bike offers the best sensation, as you will quickly coast to the top, but then you will strain hard to ride down the hill. Can you believe it?
5. Meteorite Mountain Park 沈阳陨石山森林公园
If you have an interest in astronomical things, you may want to visit this Mecca of meteorites in southern Shenyang. Amongst the dozens of fallen heavenly bodies on display is the world's oldest known meteorite, weighing in at around two million tons and dating back over four billion years.
6. Mount Qipanshan Scenic Spot 沈阳棋盘山风景区
Just 20 minutes drive northeast of central Shenyang is this tranquil paradise, surrounded by mountains and dotted with lakes. The natural attractions at the Mount Qipanshan Scenic Spot include three main hills, which are criss-crossed by dozens of well-marked hiking trails, leading to view points and many scenic sites. Highlights include Xiuhu Lake, where visitors are able to swim, fish and sail on boats during the summer, and even ice skate in the winter months.
7. Benxi Water Cave National Park 辽宁本溪水洞
Liaoning Shenyang's Benxi Water Cave National Park is often called a wonder of the world. This unique flooded cave allows visitors to simultaneously indulge in both boating and caving. Bizarre rock formations, like something out of a Dr. Seuss story, fill the enormous cavern, which is so large that its entrance contains an underground wharf capable of holding up to 40 boats. A guide accompanies each boat into the underground attractions of this incredible world.
BICS 2012, Shenyang, China BICS 2010, Madrid, Spain BICS 2008, Sao Luis, Brazil BICS 2006, Island of Lesvos, Greece BICS 2004, Stirling, Scotland, UK
History of BICS
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