I am part of the Technical Program Committee of ”BIONETICS 2012, the 7th International ICST Conference on Bio-Inspired Models of Network, Information, and Computing Systems“.
BIONETICS 2012 aims to provide a world-leading and unique opportunity for bringing together researchers and practitioners from diverse disciplines that seek the understanding of the fundamental principles and design strategies in biological systems, and leverage on those understandings to build bio-inspired systems for problem-solving and engineering applications, with a special focus on: networking, distributed systems, information processing, multi-agent systems, single and multi-robot systems, biomimetics, optimization, bioinformatics, and modeling of biological and bio-synthetic systems.
All information can be found on the website of the conference at the following address: http://bionetics.org/2012/show/home
Important dates
- Workshops proposal deadline: 7 August 2012
- Submission deadline: 20 September 2012
- Notification and Registration opens: 30 October 2012
- Camera-ready deadline: 10 November 2012
- Start of Conference: 10 December 2012
Scope of the Conference
BIONETICS 2012 solicits contributions dealing with the modeling and application of ideas from natural processes and systems. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Signal/information processing and communication models in biological systems Coordination and cooperation models in biological systems
- Bio-inspired formal models and methods
- Bio-inspired algorithms and mechanisms
- Bio-inspired software and hardware systems
- Biomimetics, bioengineering, and synthetic biological systems
- Modeling and simulation of bio-inspired, biological, and synthetic biological systems
- Self-* properties in bio-inspired systems, biological systems and synthetic biological systems
- Design and performance issues in bio-inspired systems and synthetic biological systems
- Design of hybrid systems combining bio-inspired methods with methods from other domains
- Tools, testbeds, and deployment issues in bio-inspired and synthetic biological systems
- Real-world applications and standardization of bio-inspired and synthetic biological systems
- Socially-aware, game theoretic, and other metaphor-driven interdisciplinary approaches to bio-inspired systems and synthetic biological systems
Special Tracks
Bionetics 2012 will feature the following special tracks alongside the main conference program:
- Organic computing systems
- Bio-inspired cooperative networking
- Engineering emergence: techniques, applications, and practice
- Bio-inspired cooperation and coordination in swarm robotics and multi-robot systems
- Bio-inspired learning mechanisms in single and multi-agent/component systems
- Nano-scale communications and networking
- Design and engineering of swarm systems
- Bio-inspired intrusion detection in networks and multi-robot systems
- Bio-inspired processing of audio and visual information
- Modeling and application of gene regulatory networks
- Bioinformatics
Publication Details
Conference proceedings: accepted papers will be published in a volume of the LNICST series of Springer.
Journal fast track publication: a selection of the authors of the best papers presented at the conference will be invited to submit an extended version of their work for fast track publication either on Swarm intelligence (SJR 2010 impact factor 3.4) or Natural Computing (SJR 2010 impact factor 1.2), both published by Springer.
Best Paper Award
A Best Paper Award will be given to the author(s) of the paper presented at the conference that will receive the best evaluation marks from the reviewers and the Session Chairs.
Paper Submission
The deadline for paper submission is September 20, 2012. The maximum length for a paper is 15 pages in LNICST format. Papers will be reviewed by at least three reviewers according to a single blind peer process.
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