Call for Papers

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

December 1 - 3, 2010 Boston, MA, USA

Sponsored by ICST (Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering)

Technical cooperation with Create-Net

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.

Topics of interest include (but are 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 of up to 15 pages in the Springer LNICST format. Please visit http://www.bionetics.org/submission.shtml for detailed submission instructions.

Important Dates:

• Regular paper submission due: July 30
• Notification of acceptance: September 12
• 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
• Int'l Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems
• Elsevier Nano Communication Networks Journal
• Int'l Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering
• Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing
• Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

Keynote Speakers (tentative):

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