AIMS

Biologically-inspired computing has a long history since 1950s. Innovative bio-inspired paradigms, models and algorithms have been developed, and they have been successfully applied in a number of scientific and engineering domains. It is now known that even mission-critical and safety-critical systems can be built in bio-inspired manners. In recognition of its achievements and potential, bio-inspired information and communication technology (bio-inspired ICT) was named one of Scientific American magazine's 10 "World Changing Ideas 2010."

BICT 2012 aims to provide a multidisciplinary venue for researchers and practitioners in Bio-inspired ICT. Particularly, BICT 2012 covers two areas: (1) ICT with biological materials and systems (e.g., molecular communication and Physarum computing/networking) and (2) ICT designed after biological principles, phenomena and processes (e.g., evolutionary computation and artificial immune processes).

TOPICS OF INTERESTS

• Signal/information processing and communication in bio-inspired ICT
• Formal models and methods for bio-inspired ICT
• Bio-inspired software and hardware systems
• Simulations and empirical experiments of bio-inspired ICT
• Self-* properties in bio-inspired ICT
• Design and management issues in bio-inspired ICT
• Software engineering and performance engineering in bio-inspired ICT
• Tools, testbeds and deployment aspects in bio-inspired ICT
• Applications, experiences and standardization of bio-inspired ICT
• Socially-aware, game theoretic and other metaphor-driven interdisciplinary approaches to bio-inspired ICT

Application domains include, but not limited to, autonomic computing, bioinformatics, biological engineering, computational finance, computer networks, computer vision, data mining, green computing and networking, grid/cloud computing, intelligent agents, mechanical engineering, molecular communication, nano-scale computing and networking, optimization, pervasive computing, robotics, security, software engineering, and systems engineering.

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission: July 1, 2012
Notification of Acceptance: August 10, 2012
Camera-ready Submission: September 5, 2012

PAPER SUBMISSION

Authors are invited to submit full papers (4 to 6 pages each) or short papers (2 to 4 pages each) in the IEEE proceedings format. Up to two extra pages are allowed for each full paper (8 pages in total) with extra page charges. Submit your paper by stating the subject area of "JS-2: Biologically-inspired Information and Communication Technology. See http://scis2012.j-soft.org/?file=paper-submission for detailed submission instructions.

PAPER PRESENTATION

Paper authors are required to present their papers at the conference venue. Alternatively, they can choose to deliver online presentations with a Skype-like tool rather than physically visiting the conference venue.

PUBLICATION

All accepted papers will be published by IEEE and indexed by EI Compendex. Selected papers will be published in special issues of:

• Springer Transactions on Computational Science,
• Elsevier Swarm and Evolutionary Computation Journal,
• Int'l Journal of Computational Science and Engineering (Inderscience), and
• Int'l Journal of Energy Optimization and Engineering (IGI Global).

SESSION CHAIRS

• Jun Suzuki (University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA)
• Tadashi Nakano (Osaka University, Japan)
• Tomohiro Shirakawa (National Defense Academy, Japan)
• Hiroshi Sato (National Defense Academy, Japan)
• Phan Cong Vinh (NTT University, Vietnam)

ADVISORY BOARD

• Andrew Adamatzky, University of West of England, UK
• Dipankar Dasgupta, University of Memphis, USA
• Marco Dorigo, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
• Tokuko Haraguchi, NICT and Osaka University, Japan
• Hisao Ishibuchi, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
• Yoshiteru Ishida, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan
• Toshiyuki Nakagaki, Future University Hakodate, Japan
• Jon Timmis, University of York, UK
• Athanasios Vasilakos, University of Western Macedonia, Greece

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

• Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, TSSG, Ireland
• Pruet Boonma, Chiang Mai University, Thailand
• Neil Bruce, University of Manitoba, Canada
• Iacopo Carreras, CREATE-NET, Italy
• Paskorn Champrasert, Chiang Mai University, Thailand
• Swagatam Das, Indian Statistical Institute, India
• Hiroaki Fukuda, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan
• Tyler Garaas, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, USA
• Yukio-Pegio Gunji, Kobe University, Japan
• Masamichi Hagiwara, Keio University, Japan
• Hisashi Handa, Kindai University, Japan
• Taichi Haruna, Kobe University, Japan
• Satoshi Hiyama, NTT DoCoMo, Inc., Japan
• Teijiro Isokawa, University of Hyogo, Japan
• Shohei Kobayashi, NICT, Japan
• Mario Koeppen, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
• Chonho Lee, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• Jian-Qin Liu, NICT, Japan
• Shih-Hsi Alex Liu, California State University, USA
• Kazuaki Masuda, Kanagawa University, Japan
• Marjan Mernik, University of Maribor, Slovenia
• Masoud Mohammadian, University of Canberra, Australia
• Michael Moore, Osaka University, Japan
• Haruhiko Nishimura, University of Hyogo, Japan
• Dusit Niyato, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• Yutaka Okaie, Osaka University, Japan
• Yi Pan, Yahoo!, Inc., USA
• Masahiro Sasabe, Osaka University, Japan
• Jian-Wei Shuai, Xiamen University, China
• Kanta Tachibana, Kogakuin University, Japan
• Christof Teuscher, Portland State University, USA
• Giuseppe Valetto, Drexel University, USA
• Hung-Yu Wei, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

ABOUT SCIS-ISIS

SCIS-ISIS 2012 is an international joint organization of the 6th International Conference on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems (SCIS) and the 13th International Symposium on Advanced Intelligent Systems (ISIS). SCIS-ISIS 2012 is co-sponsored by Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Intelligent Informatics (J-Soft; http://www.j-soft.org/) and Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems (KIIS; http://eng.fuzzy.or.kr/).