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<div>CFP: 8th International Conference on Bio-inspired Information
and Communications Technologies (BICT 2014, formerly BIONETICS)</div>
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href="http://www.bionetics.org/">http://www.bionetics.org/</a></div>
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<div>Paper submission deadline extended: September 1, 2014</div>
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<div>December 1 (Mon) - December 3, 2014 (Wed)</div>
<div>Boston, MA, USA</div>
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<div>In-corporation with ACM</div>
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<div>BICT 2014 aims to provide a world-leading and
multidisciplinary venue for researchers and practitioners in
diverse disciplines that seek the understanding of key
principles, processes and mechanisms in biological systems and
leverage those understandings to develop novel information and
communications technologies (ICT). BICT 2014 targets two
thrusts:</div>
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<div>THRUST 1: Indirect/Weak Bioinspiration (ICT designed after
biological principles, processes and mechanisms). Examples
include evolutionary computation, artificial gene regulatory
networks, neural computation, swarm intelligence, cellular
automata, artificial immune systems, artificial life, artificial
chemistry, reaction-diffusion computing, simulated annealing,
self-organization and network science. </div>
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<div>THRUST 2: Direct/Strong Bioinspiration (ICT utilizing
biological materials and systems). Examples include cellular
computing, molecular computing/communication, membrane
computing, DNA computing and memory, bacterial computing,
Physarum computing and quantum computing. </div>
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<div>Expected, but not exclusive, topics are: </div>
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<div>* Signal/information processing and communication for
bio-inspired ICT</div>
<div>* Algorithms and their applications for bio-inspired ICT</div>
<div>* Formal models and methods for bio-inspired ICT</div>
<div>* Bio-inspired software and hardware systems</div>
<div>* Modeling, simulations and empirical experiments of
bio-inspired ICT</div>
<div>* Self-* and stability properties in bio-inspired ICT</div>
<div>* Security, robustness and resilience in bio-inspired ICT</div>
<div>* Design, configuration and management issues in bio-inspired
ICT</div>
<div>* Software engineering and performance engineering in
bio-inspired ICT</div>
<div>* Tools, testbeds and deployment aspects in bio-inspired ICT</div>
<div>* Applications, experiences and standardization of
bio-inspired ICT</div>
<div>* Socially-aware, game theoretic and other metaphor-assisted
interdisciplinary research</div>
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<div>Application domains include, but not limited to, autonomic
computing, bioinformatics, biomedical engineering, computer
networks, computer vision, data mining, e-health, green
computing and networking, grid/cloud computing, intelligent
agents, mechanical engineering, molecular communication,
nano-scale computing and networking, optimization, pervasive
computing, robotics, security, social networks, software
engineering and systems engineering.</div>
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<div>IMPORTANT DATES: </div>
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<div>Regular paper submission due: September 1</div>
<div>Short and poster/demo paper submission due: September 22</div>
<div>Notification for regular papers: September 22</div>
<div>Notification for short and poster/demo papers: October 6</div>
<div>Camera ready due: October 13</div>
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<div>SPECIAL TRACKS: </div>
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<div>In addition to the regular track that covers
general/mainstream topics, BICT 2014 features the following
special tracks that focus on specific, emerging or
underrepresented topics.</div>
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<div>* Artificial, Biological and Bio-Inspired Intelligence
(ABBII)</div>
<div>* Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering (AISE)</div>
<div>* Body Area Soft Computing (BASC)</div>
<div>* Biologically-Inspired Process Calculi (BIPC)</div>
<div>* Bio-Inspired Machine Vision (BIMV)</div>
<div>* Bio-inspired/Biomimetic Microsystems & Microdevices
(BMM)</div>
<div>* Bio-inspired Wireless Network Security (BWNS)</div>
<div>* Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS)</div>
<div>* Engineering Applications from Molecular and Gene Regulatory
Networks (EMNET)</div>
<div>* Molecular Communication and Networking (MCN)</div>
<div>* Morphogenetic Collective Systems (MCS)</div>
<div>* Modularization for Practical Software Engineering (MPSE)</div>
<div>* Resilient Networks (RN)</div>
<div>* Swarm and Modular Robotics (SAMR)</div>
<div>* Smart Body Area Networks (SBAN)</div>
<div>* Security and Privacy in Bio-inspired Networks (SPBN)</div>
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<div>PAPER SUBMISSION:</div>
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<div>Authors are invited to submit regular papers (up to 8 pages
each), short papers (up to 4 pages each) or poster/demo papers
(up to 2 pages each) in ACM's paper template. Up to two extra
pages are allowed for each paper with extra page charges. See <a
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href="http://bionetics.org/2014/show/initial-submission">http://bionetics.org/2014/show/initial-submission</a>
for more details. </div>
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<div>PUBLICATION:</div>
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<div>All accepted paper will be published through ACM Digital
Library and submitted for indexing by SI, EI Compendex, Scopus,
ACM Library, Google Scholar and many more. Selected papers will
be considered for publication in leading journals including: </div>
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<div>* ACM/Springer Mobile Networks and Applications</div>
<div>* Elsevier Information Sciences</div>
<div>* Elsevier Nano Communication Networks Journal</div>
<div>* Int'l Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge
Engineering</div>
<div>* Cloud-integrated Cyber-Physical Systems (Springer book)</div>
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<div>KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: </div>
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<div>* Andrew Adamatzky, University of the West of England,
Bristol, UK</div>
<div>* Gabriel Ciobanu, Romanian Academy, ICS, Iasi, Romania</div>
<div>* Andrew Eckford, York University, Canada</div>
<div>* Valeriy Perminov, BioTeckFarm, Ltd., Russia</div>
<div>* Hiroki Sayama, SUNY Binghamton, USA</div>
<div>* Theresa Schubert, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany</div>
<div>* Jon Timmis, University of York, UK</div>
<div>* Honggang Wang, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, USA</div>
<div>* Justin Werfel, Harvard University, USA</div>
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<div>GENERAL CHAIR:</div>
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<div>Jun Suzuki, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA</div>
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<div>PC CHAIR:</div>
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<div>Tadashi Nakano, Osaka University, Japan</div>
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<div>PC VICE CHAIRS:</div>
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<div>Andrew Adamatzky, University of the West of England, UK</div>
<div>Gabriel Ciobanu, Romanian Academy, Institute of Computer
Science, Romania </div>
<div>Douglas Dow, Wentworth Institute of Technology, USA</div>
<div>Hiroaki Fukuda, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan</div>
<div>Tyler Garaas, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, USA</div>
<div>Preetam Ghosh, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA</div>
<div>Isao Hayashi, Kansai University, Japan</div>
<div>Yu-Hsiang Hsu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan</div>
<div>Saori Iwanaga, Japan Coast Guard Academy, Japan</div>
<div>Masao Kubo, National Defense Academy, Japan</div>
<div>Paul Leger, Universidad Católica del Norte, Chile</div>
<div>Shih-Hsi "Alex" Liu, California State University, Fresno, USA</div>
<div>Michael L. Mayo, US Army Engineer Research and Development
Center, USA</div>
<div>Parisa Memarmoshrefi, University of Goettingen, Germany</div>
<div>Marjan Mernik, University of Maribor, Slovenia</div>
<div>Alan Millard, University of York, UK</div>
<div>Michael Moore, USA</div>
<div>Marc Pomplun, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA</div>
<div>Florian Raudies, Boston University, USA</div>
<div>Hiroshi Sato, National Defense Academy, Japan</div>
<div>Hiroki Sayama, SUNY Binghamton, USA</div>
<div>Tomohiro Shirakawa, National Defense Academy of Japan, Japan</div>
<div>Jon Timmis, University of York, UK</div>
<div>Athanasios Vasilakos, University of Western Macedonia, Greece</div>
<div>Honggang Wang, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA</div>
<div>Jun Zhou, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China</div>
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