Deadline extended to July 30: BIONETICS 2010 (http://www.bionetics.org/)

The 5th Int'l ICST Conference on Bio-Inspired Models of Network, Information and Computing Systems

December 1 - 3, 2010
Boston, MA, USA

Technical cooperation with Create-Net, ACM SIGSIM and Springer

BIONETICS 2010 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 those understandings to build bio-inspired systems. We are soliciting high-quality original papers in the following topics (but not limited to):

* Signal/information processing and communication models in biological systems
* Bio-inspired formal models and methods
* Bio-inspired algorithms and mechanisms
* Bio-inspired software and hardware systems
* Biomimetics, bioenginereing and synthetic biological systems
* Modeling and simulation of bio-inspired systems, biological systems 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
* Tools, testbeds and deployment aspects in bio-inspired systems and synthetic biological systems
* Real-world applications and standardization of bio-inspired systems and synthetic biological systems
* Socially-aware, game theoretic and other metaphor-driven interdisciplinary approaches to bio-inspired systems and synthetic biological systems

Application domains include, but not limited to, autonomic computing, bioinformatics, biological engineering, 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.

Paper Submission:

Authors are invited to submit papers in the following categories:

* Regular papers: Up to 15 pages
* Short papers: Up to 2 pages
* Work-in-progress (WIP) papers: Up to 6 pages
* Demo papers: Up to 4 pages

Papers must follow the Springer LNICST format. Please visit http://www.bionetics.org/submission.shtml for detailed submission instructions.

Important Dates:

Regular paper submission due: July 30
Short, WIP and demo paper submission due: September 19
Notification of acceptance for regular papers: September 12
Notification of acceptance for short, WIP and demo papers: September 30
Camera ready due: October 10

Publication:

All accepted paper will be published by Springer. A selected number of best papers will be considered for publication in leading journals such as:

* ACM Trans. on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (http://taas.acm.org/),
* Int'l Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems (http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijaacs),
* Elsevier Nano Communication Networks Journal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/nanocomnet),
* Int'l Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (http://www.worldscinet.com/ijseke/ijseke.shtml),
* Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652), and
* Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (http://www.worldscinet.com/jbcb/).

Keynote Speakers:

* Radhika Nagpal (Harvard University)
* Cheng Li (Harvard School of Public Health and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute)
* Ian F. Akyildiz (Georgia Institute of Technology)
* Karl Lieberherr (Northeastern University)
* Thilo Gross (Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems)

Special Tracks (http://www.bionetics.org/sp/):

* Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering
* Artificial Life and Bio-inspired Robotics
* Biologically-inspired Communications for Nanonetworks
* Bioinformatics
* Bio-Inspired Machine Vision
* Game Theory and its Applications
* Network based computation
* State-Topology Coevolution in Adaptive Networks

General Chair:

Junichi Suzuki, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA

PC Chair:

Tadashi Nakano, Osaka University, Japan

Steering Committee:

Tatsuya Suda, chair, University of California, Irvine, USA
Iacopo Carreras, Create-Net, Italy
Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net and University of Trento, Italy
Falko Dressler, University of Erlangen, Germany

PC Vice Chairs:

Ozgur Akan, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Eduard Alarcón, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Albert Cabellos-Aparicio, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Tyler Garaas, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, USA
Thilo Gross, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Germany
Nurit Haspel, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA
Shih-Hsi "Alex" Liu, California State University, Fresno, USA
Jian-Qin Liu, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan
Marjan Mernik, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Hiroyuki Ohsaki, Osaka University, Japan
Marc Pomplun, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA
Hiroki Sayama, Binghamton University, State University of New York, USA
Amarda Shehu, George Mason University, USA
Hideaki Suzuki, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan
Athanasios Vasilakos, University of Western Macedonia, Greece

Workshop Chair:

Marc Pomplun, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA

Publication Chair:

Foad Dabiri, University of California, Los Angels, USA

Publicity Chairs:

Pruet Boonma, Chiang Mai University, Thailand
Michael Moore, University of California, Irvine, USA

Local Arrangement Chair:

Tyler Garaas, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, USA

Web Chair:

Chonho Lee, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA

Conference Coordinator:

Gabriella Magyar, ICST