[AISWorld] Brain Computer Interfaces: Current Trends and Applications Call for Book Chapters

[Ahmad Taher Azar]

Call for Book Chapters 
Brain Computer Interfaces:Current Trends and Applications 
http://egyptscience.net/BCI/ 

To be published by: 
Intelligent Systems Reference Library by Springer 


Introduction 

Communication and the ability to interact with the environment are basic human needs. Millions of people worldwide suffer from such severe physical disabilities that they cannot even meet these basic needs. Even though they may have no motor mobility, however, the sensory and cognitive functions of the physically disabled are usually intact. This makes them good candidates for Brain Computer Interface (BCI) technology, which provides a direct electronic interface and can convey messages and commands directly from the human brain to a computer. BCI technology involves monitoring conscious brain electrical activity via electroencephalogram (EEG) signals and detecting characteristics of EEG patterns via digital signal processing algorithms that the user generates to communicate. It has the potential to enable the physically disabled to perform many activities, thus improving their quality of life and productivity, allowing them more independence and
 reducing social costs. The challenge with BCI, however, is to extract the relevant patterns from the EEG signals produced by the brain each second. Recently, there has been a great progress in the development of novel paradigms for EEG signal recording, advanced methods for processing them, new applications for BCI systems and complete software and hardware packages used for BCI applications. In this book a few recent advances in these areas are discussed 

Topics include, but are not limited to, 

Brain Computer Interface 
Decision Support Systems 
Feature Extraction 
Mutual Information 
Machine learning 
Data Acquisition 
Signal processing 
Evolutionary computation 
Neural networks 
Probabilistic and evidential reasoning 
Artificial intelligence and expert systems 
Hybrid intelligent systems 
Wireless architectures 
Sensors and actuators 
Mathematical models and design 
Robotics 

Scheduling time 

30 Sept 2013: Tentative title and one page abstract 
10 October 2013: Acceptance decision 
15 December 2013: Draft chapter due 
15 February 2014: Feedback to the authors 
15 March 2014: Camera ready chapter due 
30 March 2014: Final Acceptance notification 

Chapter Submission 

Submitted manuscripts should conform to the standard guidelines of the Springer's book chapter format. Manuscripts must be prepared using Latex, and according to the Springer's svmlt template that can be downloaded from the (link). Manuscripts that do not follow the formatting rules will be ignored. Prospective authors should send their manuscripts electronically to the following email addresses: (ahmad_t_azar at ieee.org), with cc-ing to (aboitcairo at gmail.com), with the subject title as: "Brain Computer Interfaces - Book Chapter" in PDF. Submitted manuscripts will be refereed by at least two independent and expert reviewers for quality, correctness, originality, and relevance. The accepted contributions will be published in Intelligent Systems Reference Library by Springer. More information about Intelligent Systems Reference Library can be found (here). 

Volume Editors 

Aboul Ella Hassanien, 
Faculty of Computers and Information - Cairo University; Egypt 
Chair of Scientific Research Group in Egypt (SRGE) 
Email: aboitcairo at gmail.com www.egyptscience.net 

Ahmad Taher Azar, 
Faculty of Computers and Information, Benha University, Egypt 
Scientific Research Group in Egypt (SRGE), Egypt 
Email: ahmad_t_azar at ieee.org, ahmad_t_azar at yahoo.com, ahmad.t.azar at gmail.com 

 
Best Regards 

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Ahmad Taher Azar, PhD, IEEE Member
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