[AISWorld] NaBIC 2014 - Call for special sessions - Porto, Portugal

[Ajith Abraham]

** Call for Special Sessions at NaBIC 2014 **

NaBIC -- 6th World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing

30th July to 1st August, 2014,

Porto, Portugal

http://www.mirlabs.net/nabic14/

Previous events:
http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~Ley/db/conf/nabic/index.html

Proposals for Special Sessions are welcome. The proposals should focus
on a specific topic that broad appeal and fall within the aims and
scope of the NABIC conference.

NaBIC2014 is intended to be a forum for discussing the
state-of-the-art in machine intelligence, and address various issues
on building up human friendly machines by learning from nature. The
conference theme is Nurturing Intelligent Computing towards
Advancement of Machine Intelligence.

Session organizer(s) will be responsible for advertising, promoting,
and chairing the parallel special session during the conference.
Papers will be reviewed by the panel reviewers from the Session
Program Committee and approved by the General Conference Program
Committee. Each Special Session is expected to have at least 5 papers
and at least one author of each paper must register for the paper
present during the session. Special Session paper submission will be
done through NABIC 2014 submission management system and been
evaluated with the same standards as the regular conference paper.

All proposal submissions will be reviewed by the NaBIC 2014 special
session chair and the general conference committee. The following
criteria will be considered: Relevance, interest, and value of the
topic to NABIC 2014 attendees. Complementarity to the NaBIC 2014
program provided by the other tracks. Completeness, clarity, and
quality of the session proposal. Qualification of the submitter(s) to
organize the Special Session. Likely success of the proposed session.
Overlap with other proposal or pre-selected activity. All accepted
papers will be included in the NABIC 2014 conference proceedings.

** Important dates **
* Special Session Proposal submission: March 15, 2014
* Notification of acceptance: March 31, 2014

** Important information **
* Proposal form
(http://www.mirlabs.net/nabic14/download/sessionNABICtemplate.doc)

Proposals for special session organization should be submitted
electronically to:
Amélia Loja (amelialoja at dem.isel.ipl.pt) or/and Eduardo Solteiro Pires
(epires at utad.pt)