[Comp-neuro] Tenure-track positions at Cognitive Psychology Dept of HSE, Moscow

The Faculty of Psychology of the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Russia invites applications for full-time, tenure-track positions of Assistant Professor, or higher, in all subfields, and notably in cognitive and social psychology, cognitive neuroscience (including neuroeconomics). 

The HSE is a young, dynamic, fast-growing Russian research university providing unique research opportunities (http://hse.ru/en, http://psy.hse.ru/en/ )

Work Conditions:

•       Access to the brain-navigated TMS, multichanel EGG, MEG, gaze-tracking, etc. http://psy.hse.ru/en/res-center 
•       Internationally competitive сompensation, 13% flat income tax rate and other benefits
•       Generous travel support and research grants provided by the university's Centre for Advanced Studies (www.cas.hse.ru )
•       Low teaching load, minimal service required
•       Heavy emphasis on high quality research

 Requirements:

•       Ph.D. in psychology, neuroscience, social sciences or related fields
•       Fluent English (knowledge of Russian is not required)
•       Ability and high motivation to conduct high-quality research publishable in reputable peer-reviewed journals and international university presses

 
Generally appointments will be made for an initial three-year period and upon successful completion of an interim review, contracts would normally be extended for a further three years until the tenure review.

Please provide a CV, at least 2 letters of reference forwarded directly, a statement of research interest and a recent research paper. All materials should be addressed to Martin Gilman, Director, Centre for Advanced Studies at cas@hse.ru no later than January 31, 2014.

Re: [visionlist] ABSTRACT DEADLINE NOW 1/2/2013 (11:59 pm EST): Conference & Bard Ermentrout's 60th Birthday: Nonlinear Dynamics and Stochastic Methods

Nonlinear dynamics and stochastic methods: from neuroscience to other biological applications

March 10-12, 2014

Pittsburgh, PA

 

This conference on nonlinear dynamics and stochastic methods will bring together a mix of senior and junior scientists to report on theoretical methods that proved successful in mathematical neuroscience, and to encourage their dissemination and application to modeling in computational medicine and other biological fields. This conference will coincide with a celebration of G. Bard Ermentrout's sixtieth birthday. The invited speakers will present on mathematical topics such as dynamical systems, multi-scale modeling, phase resetting curves, pattern formation and statistical methods. The mathematical tools will be demonstrated in the context of the following main topics: i) Rhythms in biological systems; ii) The geometry of systems with multiple time scales; iii) Pattern formation in biological systems; iv) Stochastic models: statistical methods and mean field approximations.

The conference runs from March 10-12, 2014 at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. Travel support may become available for young investigators. Currently, this conference is partial funded by the Mathematical Biosciences Institute and the University of Pittsburgh.

REGISTRATION, ABSTRACT SUBMISSION, AND SCHEDULE:

http://homepage.math.uiowa.edu/~rcurtu/conferencePitt2014.htm
 

Important Dates: December 22, 2013: Deadline for travel award application and abstract submission.

SPONSORS:

Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh

Mathematical Biosciences Institute

National Science Foundation (pending)

 
CONTACT:  rodica-curtu@uiowa.edu or areynolds2@vcu.edu

Confirmed Speakers:

Paul Bressloff (University of Utah)

Carson Chow (National Institutes of Health)

Sharon Crook (Arizona State University)

Jack Cowan (University of Chicago)

Jonathan Drover (Cornell Medical College, NYC)

Leah Edelstein-Keshet (University of British Columbia, Vancouver - Canada)

Roberto Fernandez Galan (Case Western Reserve University)

Pranay Goel (Indian Institute of Science, Education and Research, Pune - India)

Boris Gutkin (Ecole Normale Superieure/ ENS, Paris - France)

Zachary Kilpatrick (University of Houston)

Nancy Kopell (Boston University)

Cheng Ly (Virginia Commonwealth University)

Remus Osan (Georgia State University)

George Oster (University of California, Berkeley)

John Rinzel (New York University)

Jonathan Rubin (University of Pittsburgh)

Daniel Simons (University of Pittsburgh)

David Terman (Ohio State University)

If you have questions now please contact one of the organizers, Angela Reynolds, areynolds2@vcu.edu, or Rodica Curtu, rodica-curtu@uiowa.edu.

Virginia Commonwealth University

Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics

Assistant Professor

areynolds2@vcu.edu

804-828-5664

Grace Harris Hall 4176

[Comp-neuro] Re: ABSTRACT DEADLINE NOW 1/2/2013 (11:59 pm EST): Conference & Bard Ermentrout's 60th Birthday: Nonlinear Dynamics and Stochastic Methods

Nonlinear dynamics and stochastic methods: from neuroscience to other biological applications

March 10-12, 2014

Pittsburgh, PA

 

This conference on nonlinear dynamics and stochastic methods will bring together a mix of senior and junior scientists to report on theoretical methods that proved successful in mathematical neuroscience, and to encourage their dissemination and application to modeling in computational medicine and other biological fields. This conference will coincide with a celebration of G. Bard Ermentrout's sixtieth birthday. The invited speakers will present on mathematical topics such as dynamical systems, multi-scale modeling, phase resetting curves, pattern formation and statistical methods. The mathematical tools will be demonstrated in the context of the following main topics: i) Rhythms in biological systems; ii) The geometry of systems with multiple time scales; iii) Pattern formation in biological systems; iv) Stochastic models: statistical methods and mean field approximations.

The conference runs from March 10-12, 2014 at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. Travel support may become available for young investigators. Currently, this conference is partial funded by the Mathematical Biosciences Institute and the University of Pittsburgh.

REGISTRATION, ABSTRACT SUBMISSION, AND SCHEDULE:

http://homepage.math.uiowa.edu/~rcurtu/conferencePitt2014.htm
 

Important Dates: December 22, 2013: Deadline for travel award application and abstract submission.

SPONSORS:

Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh

Mathematical Biosciences Institute

National Science Foundation (pending)

 
CONTACT:  rodica-curtu@uiowa.edu or areynolds2@vcu.edu

Confirmed Speakers:

Paul Bressloff (University of Utah)

Carson Chow (National Institutes of Health)

Sharon Crook (Arizona State University)

Jack Cowan (University of Chicago)

Jonathan Drover (Cornell Medical College, NYC)

Leah Edelstein-Keshet (University of British Columbia, Vancouver - Canada)

Roberto Fernandez Galan (Case Western Reserve University)

Pranay Goel (Indian Institute of Science, Education and Research, Pune - India)

Boris Gutkin (Ecole Normale Superieure/ ENS, Paris - France)

Zachary Kilpatrick (University of Houston)

Nancy Kopell (Boston University)

Cheng Ly (Virginia Commonwealth University)

Remus Osan (Georgia State University)

George Oster (University of California, Berkeley)

John Rinzel (New York University)

Jonathan Rubin (University of Pittsburgh)

Daniel Simons (University of Pittsburgh)

David Terman (Ohio State University)

If you have questions now please contact one of the organizers, Angela Reynolds, areynolds2@vcu.edu, or Rodica Curtu, rodica-curtu@uiowa.edu.

Virginia Commonwealth University

Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics

Assistant Professor

areynolds2@vcu.edu

804-828-5664

Grace Harris Hall 4176

[Comp-neuro] CFP - Emerging Spatial Competences: From Machine Perception to, Sensorimotor Intelligence

Dear Researcher,

We would like to remind you the Special Issue on “Emerging Spatial Competences: From Machine Perception to Sensorimotor Intelligence”,  organized by the PSPC Lab (www.pspc.unige.it) for the journal RAS - Robotics and Autonomous Systems.

The Special Issue (see below for a more detailed description) aims to investigate how the mutual influence between the perception of the environment and the interaction with it can be extended to support co-evolution mechanisms of perceptual and motor processes. Considering your expertise in the topics we would be glad to receive a contribution from you. All the received contributions will be refereed by a panel of experts according to the policies of the RAS journal.

We use the occasion to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!

 
Regards,

 

Agostino Gibaldi

 

 

Robotics and Autonomous Systems Journal

 

Special Issue on “Emerging Spatial Competences: From Machine Perception to Sensorimotor Intelligence”

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

Aims and Objectives

Following the recent evolution of robotics and AI in different fields of application, the increasing complexity of the actions that an artificial agent needs to perform, is directly dependent on the complexity of the sensory information that it can acquire and interpret, i.e. perceive.

From this point of view, an efficient and internal representation of the sensory information is at the base of a robot to develop a human-like capability of interaction with the surrounding environment. Particularly, in the space at a reachable distance, not only visual and auditory, but also tactile and proprioceptive information rise to be relevant to gain a comprehensive spatial cognition. This information, coming from different senses, can be in principle integrated and used to experience an awareness of the environment both to actively interact with it, and to calibrate the interaction itself. Besides, the early sensory and sensorimotor mechanisms, that at a first glance may appear simple processes, are grounded on highly structured and complex algorithms that are far from being understood and modeled. By exploiting an early synergy between sensing modules and motor control, the loop between action and perception comes to be not just closed at system level, but shortened at an inner one. This would allow not only the emergence of spatial competences but also their continuous adaptation to changes in the environment or in the body, which could modify its interactions with the world.

The aim of this special issue is to survey a state of the art of methodologies, concepts, algorithms and techniques that would serve as bricks on which to build and develop artificial agents with such a spatial competence; perceptual and cognitive understanding of space should emerge from sensorimotor exercise.

The action-perception loop has never been so close!

Paper Submission

We invite original contributions that provide novel solutions to address the relevant topics including but not limited to:

• -   Theoretical or practical aspects of machine sensing (for computer vision, robot audition, artificial touch, etc.)

  -       Multisensory data fusion, processing, learning and integration

  -       Computational neural modeling

  -       Embodied robotics: perception, cognition, and behaviors

  -       Machine learning for sensorimotor control and intelligence

  -       Neural networks: models, theories, learning algorithms and applications

  -      Engineering application of sensorimotor intelligence to pattern recognition, computer vision, speech recognition, human-robot interactions.

As a follow-up of the IJCNN 2013 special session, we invite in particular the special session participants to submit profoundly extended versions of their conference submission to go through a new peer review process, together with contributions not published in the conference proceedings.  

Papers should be typeset according to the format instructions for the Robotics and Autonomous Systems Journal, available on the Elsevier web site (http://www.elsevier.com/journals/robotics-and-autonomous-systems/0921-8890/guide-for-authors).

Important Dates

§       January 31, 2014: Paper submission deadline

§       March 31, 2014: Notification of paper acceptance

§       April 30, 2014: Camera ready paper submission

§       Late Spring 2014: Expected publication date

Guest editors

Agostino Gibaldi, agostino.gibaldi@unige.it

Department of Informatics, Bioengineering, Robotics and System Engineering

University of Genoa, Italy

Advanced Research Center on Electronic Systems (ARCES)

University of Bologna, Italy

Agostino Gibaldi received his degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Genoa, Italy, in 2007, and his Ph.D. in 2011. Since the master thesis he is with the Physical Structure of Perception and Computation (PSPC) Group where he is actually a post doc. Recently, he joined the Computer Vision Group of the Advanced Research Center on Electronic Systems (ARCES), working on data analysis computer aided diagnosis for CT perfusion related to tumour lesions. His research interests are related to cortical models of V1, MT and MST areas, in relation with the estimation of disparity, the control of vergence eye movements, and the optic flow analysis for navigation, for their real-time implementation on robot platforms so to obtain active behaviours and adaptation to the environment. Aside, he also worked on neural networks and learning, eye tracking algorithms, camera calibration, 3D data modelling for virtual reality, CT perfusion and image registration.

 

 

Silvio P. Sabatini, silvio.sabatini@unige.it

Department of Informatics, Bioengineering, Robotics and System Engineering

University of Genoa, Italy

http://www.pspc.unige.it/~silvio/home/

 

Silvio P. Sabatini received the Laurea Degree in Electronics Engineering and the Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Genoa in 1992 and 1996. He is currently Associate Professor of Bioengineering at the Department of Informatics, Bioengineering, Robotics and System Engineering of the University of Genoa. In 1995 he promoted the creation of the “Physical Structure of Perception and Computation” (PSPC) Lab to develop models that capture the “physicalist” nature of the information processing occurring in the visual cortex, to understand the signal processing strategies adopted by the brain, and to build novel algorithms and architectures for artificial perception machines. His research interests relate to visual coding and multidimensional signal representation, early-cognitive models for visually-guided behavior, and robot vision. He is author of more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals, book chapters and international conference proceedings.

 

 

Sylvain Argentieri, sylvain.argentieri@upmc.fr

Institute for Intelligent Systems and Robotics (ISIR)

Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France

http://www.isir.upmc.fr/index.php?op=view_profil&id=113&old=N&lang=fr

 

Sylvain Argentieri received his Master's degrees in Robotics from the Pierre et Marie Curie University, Paris, and in Electronics from Ecole Normale Supérieure, Cachan, France, in 2003. He then received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France, in 2006. After two years as an Assistant Professor at LAAS-CNRS (Laboratory for Analysis and Architecture of Systems) in the same University, he is now Associate Professor at the "Active Multimodal Perception" group in the Institute for Intelligent Systems and Robotics of the Pierre et Marie Curie University since 2008. He also obtained in 2002 the highest teaching diploma in France (Agrégation externe) in Electronical Science. His research interests relate to artificial audition in a robotics context, from array processing methods to binaural approaches, for sound source localization, speaker recognition, human-robot interaction, etc. He is also interested in active approaches to multimodal perception and sensorimotor integration.

 

 

Zhengping Ji, jizhengp@gmail.com

Advanced Image Research Laboratory (AIRL)

Samsung, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A

http://cnls.lanl.gov/External/people/Zhengping_Ji.php

 

Zhengping Ji received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Sichuan University, China, in 2003 and the Ph.D. in Computer Science from Michigan State University, USA, in 2008. From 2009 to 2010, he held a postdoctoral fellow position at the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Carnegie Mellon University, working on the DARPA RealNose Project. After that, he spent two years in Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he was a Research Associate conducting researches on computational modelling of the brain’s visual pathways. He is now a Senior Research Scientist at Advanced Image Research Laboratory of Samsung Electronics. His current research interests lie in computer vision, computational neuroscience and machine learning. Specifically, he seeks to develop a series of deep learning models to generate cortex-like hierarchical sparse representation for a variety of tasks in vision, including generic object recognition, object detection and segmentation, image denoising and compression, and vision-based autonomous navigation. He is a Vice Chair of Task Force on Bio-Inspired Self-Organizing Collective Systems at IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, and a committee member of the Brain-Mind Institute, USA.

 

 

 

[Comp-neuro] Postdoctoral position in Neuromorphic computing

Sent on behalf of Prof. Khaled Salama.

A Postdoctoral Fellow is sought with experience in the general area of neuromorphic computational systems. The ideal candidate will have experience in neural computing and biologically inspired computations. The successful applicant must have completed a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Physics or a related discipline, demonstrating proven capacity for world-class research that is reflected in his/her publication record. In particular, good technical writing skills are fundamental.

--*Experience in some of the following areas is desirable:*--

• Neuromorphic Circuits
  
• Biologically Inspired Computations
  
• Neural Computing 

The successful applicant will be involved in the publication of the research results, including journal publications and conference presentations. Furthermore, the successful applicant may be expected to help Graduate Research Assistants.

--*Application Deadline:*--
January 31, 2014, but applicants will be considered until the position is filled.

--*Position Start Date:*--

March, 2014.

--*Affiliation:*--
The Postdoctoral Fellow will be associated with the Electrical Engineering Program at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).

--*Application Materials:*--
Interested candidates should email Prof. Khaled Salama:

1. Complete, professional CVs, including educational backgrounds, experience and lists of publications.
   
2. Names, affiliations, telephone numbers and email addresses of three individuals, who will provide letters of reference, if requested.
   
3. Brief descriptions of past research experience and future research interests (no more than two pages).

A generous compensation package will be offered, including a competitive, tax-free salary, health care (medical and dental), housing and 15 days of paid annual vacation (in addition to 15 days of national holiday). The appointment is for one year and will be renewed for up to three years, based on performance.

--*About our group:*--

• Lab: sensors.kaust.edu.sa
  
• Division: cemse.kaust.edu.sa
  
• School: kaust.edu.sa
  
• Nanofab: http://anic.kaust.edu.sa/Pages/Home.aspx
  

--*Email:*--

{firstname.lastname}@kaust.edu.sa

--*About KAUST:*--

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) is actively recruiting world-class students, faculty and researchers who are committed to meeting the grand challenges of science through bold and collaborative inquiry that focuses on issues of regional and global significance. The diverse and international faculty, staff and student body create a unique multicultural experience, while the beautiful and quiet residential campus favors dedicated research and study. Located on the shores of the Red Sea in Saudi Arabia, KAUST offers superb research facilities, generous assured research funding, and internationally competitive salaries, attracting top international faculty, scientists, engineers and students to conduct fundamental and goal-oriented research to address the world's pressing scientific and technological challenges.

--*About EE department:*--
The EE Program currently has 13 full-time faculty and is recognized for its vibrant research programs and collaborative environment. EE research is strongly supported by KAUST's international research collaboration networks and KAUST's advanced research facilities, including the Nanofabrication, Imaging and Characterization and the Supercomputing Core Facilities. More information about the EE Program and its research activities is available at http://ee.kaust.edu.sa.

[Comp-neuro] Balance of excitation and inhibition in sensory cortex | Symposium in Paris, January 8, 2014

Balance of excitation and inhibition in sensory cortex ; January, 8, 2014
Center for Neurophysics, Physiology & Pathology - Institute of
Neuroscience and Cognition ; Paris Descartes University, 45 Rue des
Saints Pères, Paris

Organizers : Fréderic Chavane, David Hansel, Lionel Nowak & Carl van Vreeswijk
Sponsored by ANR and Ecole des Neurosciences de Paris
Contact: carole.sens@parisdescartes.fr

8:30 Coffee and croissants

9:00-11:00 : Chairperson : Claude Meunier (CNPP, Paris Descartes U.)

9:00 -10:00 Huizhong W.Tao (USC, Los Angeles) : Synaptic mechanisms
for visual information processing in mouse cortex

10:00-10:30 Lionel Nowak (CERCO, Toulouse): Mechanisms underlying
contrast-dependent receptive field expansion/contraction

10h30-11:00 Fréderic Chavane (INT, Marseille) : Normalization and
suppression within maps of awake monkey V1

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

11:30-12h45 Chairperson : Laurent Perrinet (INT, Marseille)

11:30-12:15 David Hansel/Carl van Vreeswijk (CNPP, Paris Descartes
U.): On selectivity, balance and maps

12:15-12h45 Jonathan Touboul (Collège de France, Paris): Collective
phenomena in large neural networks: the role of noise, heterogeneity
and balance in the emergence of synchronized activity

12:45-14:15 Lunch

14:15-15:15 Chairperson : Ivo Vanzetta (INT, Marseille)

Cyril Monier*, Julien Fournier and Yves Frégnac (UNIC, Gif/Yvette):
Role of transient imbalance between excitation and inhibition in the
temporal precision of the neural code in the early visual system

15:15-15:45 Coffee break

15:45- 16:45 Chairperson : Dan Shulz (UNIC, Gif/Yvette)

Li I. Zhang (USC, Los Angeles): Functional synaptic circuitry of the
auditory cortex


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Directeur de Recherche au CNRS
Center of Neurophysics, Physiology & Pathology - UMR 8119 CNRS
45 rue des Saints Peres 75270 Paris Cedex 06
Tel (33).1.42.86.22.71 - Fax (33).1.49.27.90.6
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[Comp-neuro] PhD position in computational neuroimaging

A doctoral (PhD) position is open in the research group Multimodal
Imaging in Normal and Pathological Cognition (Head: Dr. Igor Yakushev)
at the Department of Nuclear Medicine, Technische Universität München
(TUM), Munich, Germany.

The project is dedicated to mathematical modelling of cerebral networks
on the basis of brain images, as obtained using positron emission
tomography, diffuson tensor imaging, and functional magnetic resonance
imaging. Disease-related changes in patterns of cerebral connectivity
should be quantified in patients with Alzheimer's dementia and subjects
at risk.

The research group is integrated into the TUM Neuroimaging Center,
which possesses a broad methodological and thematic expertise:
http://www.tumnic.mri.tum.de/tumnic/index.html
The PhD student will be enrolled at the TUM graduate school, which
offers a structured curriculum of courses and seminars (mostly in
English) and supports participation in conferences and international
exchange: http://www.gs.tum.de/en/home/

The Dept. of Nuclear Medicine offers exciting opportunities for
neuroimaging research, in an interdisciplinary environment consisting of
medical physicists, radiopharmacists and clinicians, and access to
state-of-the-art technology including a hybrid PET/MR scanner (Siemens
Biograph mMR).

Eligible candidates should have a background in applied mathematics,
computer science, image analysis or related disciplines. Matlab
programming and excellent statistical skills are required. Prior
experience with image analysis is advantageous.

The student will be co-supervised by a partner department of the TUM
(e.g., Informatics, Mathematics), depending on his/her academic
background.

A tax-free stipend of ca. 1500 EUR / month (+ ca. 1200 EUR / year for
travel and material expenses) is available for initially two years, with
the intention of prolongation for a further year. In addition, up to 450
EUR / month (tax-free) can be granted by the partner department,
depending on performance of the student and availability of funds.

The position is supported by Alzheimer Forschung Initiative e.v.
Germany, and can commence immediately. Interested researchers should
submit their applications including CV, two recommendation letters (or
names and contact details of personal references), and a brief letter of
motivation to Dr. Yakushev at igor.yakushev@lrz.tum.de

Applications will be considered until the position has been filled.

[Comp-neuro] Deadline Extension, January 20 || COGNITIVE 2014 || May 25 - 29, 2014 - Venice, Italy

INVITATION:

=================

Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to COGNITIVE 2014.

The submission deadline has been extended to January 20, 2014.

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org

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============== COGNITIVE 2014 | Call for Papers ===============

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

COGNITIVE 2014, The Sixth International Conference on Advanced Cognitive Technologies and Applications

May 25 - 29, 2014 - Venice, Italy


General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/COGNITIVE14.html

Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/CfPCOGNITIVE14.html

- regular papers

- short papers (work in progress)

- posters

Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/SubmitCOGNITIVE14.html


Submission deadline: January 20, 2014

Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org


Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org

Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html

Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: http://www.thinkmind.org


Please note the Poster and Work in Progress options.

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.

All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.

Before submission, please check and conform with the Editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html


COGNITIVE 2014 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)


BRAIN: Brain information processing and informatics

Cognitive and computation models; Human reasoning mechanisms; Modeling brain information processing mechanisms; Brain learning mechanisms; Human cognitive functions and their relationships; Modeling human multi-perception mechanisms and visual, auditory, and tactile information processing; Neural structures and neurobiological process; Cognitive architectures; Brain information storage, collection, and processing; Formal conceptual models of human brain data; Knowledge representation and discovery in neuroimaging; Brain-computer interface; Cognition-inspired complex systems

COGNITION: Artificial intelligence and cognition

Expert systems, knowledge representation and reasoning; Reasoning techniques, constraint satisfaction and machine learning; Logic programming, fuzzy logic, neural networks, and uncertainty; State space search, ontologies and data mining; Games, planning and scheduling; Natural languages processing and advanced user interfaces; Cognitive, reactive and proactive systems; Ambient intelligence, perception and vision; Pattern recognition

AGENTS: Agent-based adaptive systems

Agent frameworks and development platforms; Agent models and architectures; Agent communication languages and protocols; Cooperation, coordination, and conversational agents; Group decision making and distributed problem solving; Mobile, cognitive and autonomous agents; Task planning and execution in multi-agent systems; Security, trust, reputation, privacy and safety in agent-based systems; Negotiation brokering and matchmaking in agent-oriented protocols; Web-oriented agents (mining, semantic discovery, navigation, etc.; SOA and software agents; Economic agent models and social adoption

AUTONOMY: Autonomous systems and autonomy-oriented computing

Self-organized intelligence nature-inspired thinking paradigms; Swarm intelligence and emergent behavior; Autonomy-oriented modeling and computation; Coordination, cooperation and collective group behavior; Agent-based complex systems modeling and development; Complex behavior aggregation and self-organization; Agent-based knowledge discovery and sharing; Autonomous and distributed knowledge systems; Autonomous knowledge via information agents; Ontology-based agent services; Knowledge evolution control and information filtering agents; Natural and social law discovery in multi-agent systems; Distributed problem solving in complex and dynamic environments; Auction, mediation, pricing, and agent-based market-places; Autonomous auctions and negotiations

APPLICATIONS

Agent-oriented modeling and methodologies; Agent-based interaction protocols and cognitive architectures; Emotional modeling and quality of experience techniques; Agent-based assistants and e-health; Agent-based interfaces; Knowledge and data intensive classification systems; Agent-based fault-tolerance systems; Learning and self-adaptation via multi-agent systems; Task-based and task-oriented agent-based systems; Agent-based virtual enterprise; Embodied agents and agent-based systems applications; Agent-based perceptive animated interfaces; Agent-based social simulation; Socially planning; E-Technology agent-based ubiquitous services and systems

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Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/ComCOGNITIVE14.html

COGNITIVE Advisory Chairs
Hermann Kaindl, TU-Wien, Austria
??Sugata Sanyal, ??Tata Consultancy Services, Mumbai, India
Po-Hsun Cheng (???), National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan
Narayanan Kulathuramaiyer, UNIMAS, Malaysia
Susanne Lajoie, McGill University, Canada
Jose Alfredo F. Costa, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Brazil
Terry Bosomaier, Charles Sturt University, Australia
Hakim Lounis, UQAM, Canada
Darsana Josyula, Bowie State University; University of Maryland, College Park, USA
Om Prakash Rishi, University of Kota, India

COGNITIVE Industry/Research Chairs
Qin Xin, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway
Arnau Espinosa, g.tec medical engineering GmbH, Austria
Knud Thomsen, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland
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[Comp-neuro] Deadline Extension, January 20 || ADAPTIVE 2014 || May 25 - 29, 2014 - Venice, Italy

INVITATION:

=================

Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to ADAPTIVE 2014.

The submission deadline has been extended to January 20, 2014.

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org

=================


============== ADAPTIVE 2014 | Call for Papers ===============

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

ADAPTIVE 2014, The Sixth International Conference on Adaptive and Self-Adaptive Systems and Applications

May 25 - 29, 2014 - Venice, Italy


General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/ADAPTIVE14.html

Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/CfPADAPTIVE14.html

- regular papers

- short papers (work in progress)

- posters

Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/SubmitADAPTIVE14.html


Submission deadline: January 20, 2014

Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org


Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org

Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html

Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: http://www.thinkmind.org


Please note the Poster and Work in Progress options.

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.

All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.

Before submission, please check and conform with the Editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html


ADAPTIVE 2014 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)


Fundamentals and design of adaptive systems

Fundamentals on adaptive and self-adapting systems; Frameworks and architectures for adaptive supporting platforms; Architectures for adaptive applications; Specification of adaptive behavior; Specification of adaptive structures and topologies; Design and implementation of adaptive components; Composition of adaptive behaviors and structures; Adaptive individual and collective behavior and structures; Adaptive deterministic and non-deterministic behavior; Semantic modeling

Adaptive entities

Adaptive environments; Adaptive hardware configurations; Adaptive software applications; Adaptive protocols; Adaptive algorithms; Adaptive and interactive interfaces; Adaptive filters; Adaptive clock speeds; Adaptive schedulers; Adaptive load balancers

Adaptive mechanisms

Adaptive real-time strategies; Learning-based adaptive strategies; Adaptive mechanisms (trees, ant algorithms, fuzzy-logic, etc. ); Agent based-adaptive mechanisms; Policy- based adaptation; Feedback-based adaptive systems; Context-aware adaptation; User-aware adaptation

Adaptive applications

Adaptive artificial intelligence in computer wargames; Intelligent complex adaptive systems; Adaptive virtualization; Adaptive social networks; Adaptive entertainment applications; Adaptive disaster recovery systems; Anticipative adaptive systems; Fault-tolerant adaptive systems; Adaptive ad hoc networks; Application domains, e,g., building (AEC projects, simulation models, facility management), tourism, etc.; Adaptive economic applications (finance, stock exchange, regulatory decisions, etc.); Adaptive vehicular traffic

Adaptivity in robot systems

Adaptive robot behavior; self-organization and emergence; flexible and reconfigurable robot structures; adaptation in collective and swarm robotics

Self-adaptation

Theory of self-adaptation and control; Self-adaptive networks, systems, and applications; Self-adaptive services; Self-adaptive behavior and topology/structure; Specification of self-adaptive behavioral control

Self-adaptation applications

Self-monitoring and self-management; Self-configuration, self-healing, self-management; Self-defense, self-protection, self-diagnosis; Self-adaptation of overlay networks; Self-adaptation in ad hoc sensor networks; Context-aware self-adaptation of networks and services

Computational Trust for Self-Adaptive Systems

Trust models for adaptive systems; Trust models for self-organizing and autonomics systems; Agent-based trust models for cooperation; Privacy and Security in self-organizing and adaptive systems; Human and social factors involved in trust and adaptation; Applications of trust and security on adaptive systems, with a focus on web-based applications, social networks, social search; Trust models for self-organizing systems of information (wikis, forums, blogs.); Trust and personalisation for enabling adaptation; Models for learning trust and the evolution of trust; Decentralised trust models; Case studies; Theoretical trust models for self-adaptation

Metrics for adaptive and self-adaptive systems

Stability and convergence; Optimal (self-) adaptation; Accuracy validation of (self-) adaptation; Real-time (self-) adaptive performance

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Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/ComADAPTIVE14.html

ADAPTIVE Advisory Chairs
Radu Calinescu, University of York, UK
Thomas H. Morris, Mississippi State University, USA
Serge Kernbach, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Antonio Bucchiarone, FBK-IRST of Trento, Italy
Jose Alfredo F. Costa, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Brazil
Marc Kurz, Johannes Kepler University Linz - Institute for Pervasive Computing, Austria

ADAPTIVE Industry/Research Chairs
Dalim�r Orf�nus, ABB Corporate Research Center, Norway
Weirong Jiang, Xilinx Research Labs, San Jose, USA

ADAPTIVE Publicity Chairs
Kier Dugan, University of Southampton, UK
Kai Nehring, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany
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[Comp-neuro] [IEEE] Invitation for participation in ICeND2014-Beirut, Lebanon

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We apologize for multiples copies. Please circulate this CFP among your
colleagues and students.
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[ICeND 2014] The Third International Conference on e-Technologies
and Networks for Development

All registered papers will be submitted to IEEE for potential inclusion to
IEEE Xplore

Important Dates
Paper due: March 1, 2014
Author Notification: April 15, 2014 or 4 weeks from the submission date
Camera-ready due and Registration: April 19, 2014, however, it is
recommended to do it few days before
Conference Date: April 29 – May 1, 2014
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For more information: http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2014/icend2014/
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This conference, among other things, wants to bring together researchers
to present and discuss novel approaches and solutions as well as recent
results in this area of research, e.g. specially designed for Access
Controls, Assurance of Service, Cloud Computing, Computational
Intelligence, Computer Forensics and Security, e-Commerce, e-Government,
e-Learning, e-Logistics, e-Procurement and e-Services

Technical Topics

- Access Controls
- Ad hoc and Sensor Networks
- Anti-cyberterrorism
- Assurance of Service
- Biometrics Technologies
- Computer Crime Prevention and Detection
- Confidentiality Protection
- Critical Computing and Storage
- Critical Infrastructure Management
- Cryptography and Data Protection
- Data Compression
- Data Management in Mobile Peer-to-Peer Networks
- Data Mining
- Data Stream Processing in Mobile/Sensor Networks
- Distributed and Parallel Applications
- Electronic Auctions
- Electronic Payment Systems
- Embedded Systems and Software
- Forensics, Recognition Technologies and Applications
- Fuzzy and Neural Network Systems
- Green Computing
- Grid Computing
- High Speed Networks
- Image Processing
- Indexing and Query Processing for Moving Objects
- Information Content Security
- Information Ethics
- Information Propagation on Social Networks
- Information and Data Management
- Internet Modeling
- Internet and Web Applications
- Mobile & Broadband Wireless Internet
- Mobile Networking, Mobility and Nomadicity
- Mobile Networks & Wireless LAN
- Mobile Social Networks
- Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Management
- Mobile-Commerce
- Multimedia Computing
- Multimedia Networking
- Network Security
- Peer-to-Peer Social Networks
- Quality of Service, Scalability and Performance
- Real-Time Systems
- Resource and Knowledge Discovery Using Social Networks
- Self-Organizing Networks and Networked Systems
- Semantic Web, Ontologies
- Sensor Networks and Social Sensing
- Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition and Applications
- Social Networks
- Social Search
- Soft Computing Techniques
- Ubiquitous Computing, Services and Applications
- User Interfaces and Usability Issues form Mobile Applications
- User Interfaces,Visualization and Modeling
- Web Services Architecture, Modeling and Design
- Web Services Security
- Wireless Communications
- Wireless Networks

Submitted papers will be reviewed by the conference Program Committee and
judged on originality, technical correctness, relevance, and quality of
presentation. An accepted paper must be presented at the TAEECE 2014 venue
by one of the authors registered at the full registration rate. All
registered papers will be published in one of the following special issues
provided that the author do major improvements and extension within the
time frame that will be set by the conference and his/her paper is
approved by the chief editor:

International Journal of New Computer Architectures and their Applications
(IJNCAA)
International Journal of Digital Information and Wireless Communications
(IJDIWC)
International Journal of Cyber-Security and Digital Forensics (IJCSDF)
International Journal of E-Entrepreneurship and Innovation (IJEEI)
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Paper submission:
http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2014/icend2014/openconf/openconf.php
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*General Chairs:
- Dr. Rafic Younes, Lebanese University, Lebanon
- Dr. Nazih Moubayed, Lebanese University, Lebanon
*Program Chairs:
- Dr. Jan Platos, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic.
- Dr. Jacek Stando, Technical University of Lodz, Poland

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