Call for Papers & Participation

International Workshop on

Nonlinear Brain Dynamics for Computational Intelligence

As part of JCIS - Joint Conference of Information Systems

Location: Marriott Salt Lake City Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

Workshop Chair: Dr. Robert Kozma, University of Memphis, TN

Workshop Date: July 20, 2007

In order to honor the 80th birthday of our distinguished neuroscientist Dr. Walter J. Freeman, JCIS LLC, a consortium of 16 global universities, organizes a one-day workshop in conjunction with the tenth JCIS. Dr Freeman has been scheduled to deliver an important keynote speech for the joint conferences in the morning of July 16, 2007. All invited and submitted papers will be organized as morning and/or afternoon sessions on this same day. The event will be concluded with a dinner banquet honoring Dr. Freeman¡¯s pioneering contributions to biologically-inspired computational intelligence research. 

The study of human brain functions is arguably the most important scientific endeavor of the 21st century. It is clear that even 'simple perception' is an act of creation that involves many distributed brain regions. Discovering the network interactions among these regions is important for understanding a range of issues in neuroscience, psychology and cognitive science, neurology and psychiatry, computational intelligence, and philosophy. Spatio-temporal dynamics of neuronal populations and their interactions during cognition is a key aspect of understanding human brain functions. 

Professor Walter Freeman has contributed to research on brain dynamics over the past five decades .This workshop particularly welcomes the research results on nonlinear brain dynamics as related to computational intelligence and its applications in intelligent systems design, robotics, economics, and the society. The workshop is open to a broad range of research topics, including, but not limited to target areas as follows:  

1. Experimental advances in cortical network dynamics

2. Brain imaging and monitoring, structural and functional approaches

3. Brain network modeling and cognitive dynamics

4. Potential diagnosis and treatment of dynamic brain diseases

5. Applications in computationally intelligent devices

6. Neurodynamic methods in economics

The workshop will feature a number of invited speakers who are leader in their respective research field. The detailed speaker list and program can be found in the workshop schedule below:

Important dates for this event:

April 01, 2007 - 50 words abstract due

April 15, 2007 - Deadline for papers submission

May 10, 2007 - Review results notification

June 10, 2007 - Final camera-ready papers due/Invited papers due

Materials of the workshop are to be published as special issue in a suitable journal. Details of the publication are under negotiation and will be communicated to workshop participants during the event. 

Workshop schedule is ready to download: JCIS07-W80-Schedule.doc

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Further questions should be addressed to: Dr. Robert Kozma, Workshop Chair, rkozma@memphis.edu or Dr. Paul P. Wang, Coordinator, Special Events, JCIS, ppw@ee.duke.edu