IS 2011 - IEEE Intelligent Systems Call for Papers Special Issue on Brain Informatics

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Deadline: February 24, 2011 | Date: October 30, 2011

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Call For Papers - CFP

Special Issue on Brain Informatics

Publication: September/October 2011

Submissions due for review: 24 February 2011

Brain informatics (BI) is an emerging interdisciplinary and

multidisciplinary research field that focuses on studying the

mechanisms underlying the human information processing system (HIPS).

BI investigates the essential functions of the brain, ranging from

perception to thinking, and encompassing such areas as

multiperception, attention, memory, language, computation, heuristic

search, reasoning, planning, decision-making, problem-solving,

learning, discovery, and creativity. One goal of BI research is to

develop and demonstrate a systematic approach to an integrated

understanding of macroscopic- and microscopic-level working principles

of the brain via experimental, computational, and cognitive

neuroscience studies as well as using advanced Web intelligence

centric information technologies. Another goal is to promote new forms

of collaborative and interdisciplinary work. New kinds of BI methods

and global research communities will emerge through infrastructure on

the semantic/wisdom Web, knowledge grids, and cloud computing. This

new infrastructure will enable high-speed, distributed, large-scale

analysis and computation and radically new ways of data/knowledge

sharing.

This special issue will present some of the best work being done

worldwide to deal with the new challenges of brain informatics,

especially from intelligent systems perspectives. Submissions covering

the following areas are welcome:

- Human brain data collection, preprocessing, management, and analysis

- Brain data modeling and formal conceptual models of human brain data

- Multimedia brain data mining and reasoning

- Multiaspect analysis in functional magnetic resonance imagery,

electroencephalography, and magneto-encephalography (fMRI/EEG/MEG) activations

- Developing brain data grids and brain research support portals

- Multimodal information fusion for brain image interpretation

- Statistical analysis and pattern recognition in neuroimaging

- Cognitive architectures and their relations to fMRI/EEG/MEG

- HIPS meets complex systems

- The cyber-individual meets BI

- Eye-tracking meets fMRI/EEG for human-computer interaction and brain-computer

interfaces

- Modeling brain information-processing mechanisms

- Neuroeconomics, neuromarketing, and neurolinguistics

- New cognitive and computational models for intelligent systems

Submission Guidelines

Submissions should be 3,000 to 5,400 words (counting a standard figure

or table as 200 words) and should follow IEEE Intelligent Systems

style and presentation guidelines

(computer.org/intelligent/author.htm). Submit all manuscripts online

at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/is-cs.

We strongly encourage submissions that include real-world social

media, data, and community content. Selected live social-media content

and sites will be featured on the IEEE Computer Society Web site along

with the accepted papers.

Questions?

For more information, contact the guest editors:

Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology and the International WIC

Institute (Beijing University of Technology);

zhong(at)maebashi-it.ac.jp

Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Florida Institute for Human and Machine

Cognition; jbradshaw(at)ihmc.us

Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University and the International WIC

Institute (Beijing University of Technology);

jiming(at)comp.hkbu.edu.hk

John G. Taylor, King’s College London; john.g.taylor(at)kcl.ac.uk