Call for Special Track Papers

Special tracks are intended to focus on specific research areas and bring together researchers and practitioners in those areas. Papers submitted to special tracks will be peer-reviewed with the same criteria used in the main conference. All accepted special track papers will be published in the conference proceedings.

• Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering (AISE)
  Co-chaired by Shih-Hsi "Alex" Liu (California State University, Fresno, USA) and Marjan Mernik (University of Maribor, Slovenia)


• Artificial Life and Bio-inspired Robotics (ALBR)
  Co-chaired by Jian-Qin Liu (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan) and Haruhiko Nishimura (University of Hyogo, Japan)


• Biologically-inspired Communications for Nanonetworks (BCN)
  Co-chaired by Ozgur Akan (Middle East Technical University, Turkey), Eduard Alarcón (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain) and Albert Cabellos-Aparicio (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)


• Bioinformatics (BI)
  Co-chaired by Nurit Haspel (University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA) and Amarda Shehu (George Mason University, USA)


• Bio-Inspired Machine Vision (BIMV)
  Co-Chaired by Marc Pomplun (University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA) and Tyler Garaas (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, USA)


• Game Theory and its Applications (GTA)
  Co-chaired by Athanasios Vasilakos (University of Western Macedonia, Greece) and Hung-Yu Wei (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)


• Network based computation (NBC)
  Co-chaired by Hideaki Suzuki (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan) and Hiroyuki Ohsaki (Osaka University, Japan)


• State-Topology Coevolution in Adaptive Networks (STCAN)
  Co-chaired by Hiroki Sayama (Binghamton University, State University of New York, USA) and Thilo Gross (Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Germany)