Scope
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The International Conference on Bio-inspired Information and Communications Technologies (BICT) provides a unique venue for researchers and practitioners in diverse disciplines to seek the understanding of key principles, processes, and mechanisms in biological systems and leverage those understandings in design, engineering, and technological applications.

The 2019 edition of the conference, due to be held at the Carnegie Mellon University on March 12-13, is expected to have a vibrant program featuring peer-reviewed papers, keynote speakers, panels, multiple technical sessions, focused special tracks, interactive demonstrations, poster sessions, informative co-located workshops, tutorials, artwork, and social events.

Topics
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THRUST 1: Direct Bioinspiration (systems utilizing biological materials, processes, and systems)

• Bacterial computing and communication
• Biometric security and privacy
• Biosensing
• Brain-computer and human-computer interface
• Cellular and membrane computing
• Chemical signaling and communication
• DNA computing and memory
• Energy harvesting from biological sources
• Molecular assembly computing and communication
• Physarum computing

THRUST 2: Indirect Bioinspiration (systems and application design upon biological principle, processes and mechanisms)

• Amorphous computing
• Artificial chemistry, immune systems, gene regulatory networks and life
• Autonomous vehicle systems
• Biological process and data analysis
• Cellular automata
• Chaotic systems
• Computational epidemics
• Cyber security, privacy and intelligence
• Evolutionary computation
• Healthcare
• Intelligent systems
• Internet of Things (IoT)
• Mobile robotics
• Modeling and simulation
• Nature-inspired models and calculi
• Neural networks/computation
• Reaction-diffusion computing
• Self-organization
• Smart services and cities
• Swarm intelligence

Publication
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All registered papers will be published by Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library.

BICT proceedings are indexed in leading indexing services, including Ei Compendex, ISI Web of Science, Scopus, CrossRef, Google Scholar, DBLP, as well as EAI’s own EU Digital Library (EUDL).

Authors of selected best accepted and presented papers will be invited to submit an extended version to:

• Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) Journal (IF: 3.259)
• EAI Endorsed Transactions on Collaborative Computing
• EAI Endorsed Transactions on Context-aware Systems and Applications

Instructions for paper submission
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Papers should be in English.
Regular papers should be up to 10 pages in length.
Short papers should be up to 4 pages in length.
Previously published work may not be submitted, nor may the work be concurrently submitted to any other conference or journal. Such papers will be rejected without review.

General Chair
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Bud Mishra
New York University

Technical Program Committee Co-Chairs
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William Casey
Carnegie Mellon University

Yang Cai
Carnegie Mellon University

Jun Suzuki
University of Massachusetts, Boston

About EAI
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This event is organized by EAI (www.eai.eu).

EAI – European Alliance for Innovation is a non-profit organization and a professional community established in cooperation with the European Commission to empower the global research and innovation, and to promote cooperation between European and International ICT communities.