[agents] Brain and Health Informatics 2013 - CFP (Type-2 submissions due: August 15, 2013)

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The Type-2 submission (abstract submission) deadline has been extended to August 15th.

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           Brain and Health Informatics 2013 (BHI'13)
           CALL FOR PAPERS (Type-2 submissions)
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2013 International Conference on Brain and Health Informatics 2013 (BHI'13)

October 29-31, 2013, Maebashi, Japan

Homepage: http://wi-consortium.org/conferences/amtbi13/

Co-organized by Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC)
                IEEE-CIS Task Force on Brain Informatics (IEEE TF-BI)
Co-sponsored by Maebashi Institute of Technology
                Maebashi City and Gunma Prefecture Government
                Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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# Type-2 submissions: Abstract Submission Due: *** 15 August 2013 *** 
# Selected abstract submissions will be considered for publication 
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Special BHI-AMT 2013 Joint Keynote:
Yuichiro Anzai
President, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Keynote Speakers:

Shinsuke Shimojo, California Institute of Technology, USA
Marcel A. Just, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, HK SAR
Yuzuru Tanaka, Hokkaido University, Japan
Carl K. Chang, Iowa State University, USA
Andrzej Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland

Panel: Brain Big Data in the Hyper World

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On-Line Submissions and Publication
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Type II of Submissions and Publication: Abstract Submissions:
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Accepted abstract submissions will be included in the conference
program.  Selected abstract submissions will be considered for
publication in special issues of international journals after their
abstracts are extended to a full-length paper and pass a peer review
process.

Detailed instructions and a paper submission form can be found 
from the BHI'13 Web page at http://wi-consortium.org/conferences/amtbi13/

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Journal Special Issues 
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Computational Cognitive Science journal (Springer) and Web
Intelligence and Agent Systems journal (IOS Press) have the formal
ties with AMT-BHI conferences.

A selected number of accepted papers from these conferences, including
their Best Paper Award papers, will be expended and revised for
possible inclusion in the journals each year.

We also organize special issues to be published in journals,
including: Health Information Science and Systems (Springer),
Cognitive Systems Research (Elsevier), Computational Intelligence
(Wiley), International Journal of Information Technology & Decision
Making (World Scientific), and International Journal of Semantic
Computing (World Scientific).

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Important Dates (Type 2 submission)
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Electronic (Type-2) submission of abstracts
*** 15 August 2013 *** 

Notification of (Type-2) abstract acceptance: August 30, 2013

Conference:  October 29-31, 2013

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Conference Organization
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BHI-AMT'13 Honorary General Chair:
Setsuo Ohsuga, University of Tokyo, Japan

BHI'13 Conference General Chairs:
Tomoaki Shirao,	Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan
Takuji Kasamatsu, The Smith Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, USA

BHI'13 Program Chairs:
Kazuyuki Imamura, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
Shiro Usui, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan

BHI'13 Workshop/Special Session Chair:
Lars Schwabe, University of Rostock, Germany

BHI-AMT'13 Organizing Chairs:
Kazuyuki Imamura, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
Tetsumi Harakawa, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan

BHI-AMT'13 Panel Chair:
Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA

BHI-AMT'13 Journal Special Issue Chairs:
Xin Yao, University of Birmingham, UK
Runhe Huang, Hosei University, Japan

BHI-AMT'13 Publicity Chairs:
Shinichi Motomura, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
Dominik Slezak, Infobright Inc., Canada & Univ. of Warsaw, Poland
Jian Yang, Beijing University of Technology, China

AMT'13 Conference General Chairs:
Andrzej Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland
Jian-Nong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, SAR China

AMT'13 Program Chairs:
Tetsuya Yoshida, Hokkaido University, Japan
Gang Kou, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

AMT'13 Workshop/Special Session Chair:
Hakim Hacid, Alcatel-Lucent Bell lab, France

IEEE-CIS-TFBI Chair
Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan

WIC Co-Chairs/Directors
Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, HK

WIC Advisory Board
Edward A. Feigenbaum, Stanford University, USA
Setsuo Ohsuga, University of Tokyo, Japan
Benjamin Wah, Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK
Philip Yu, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
L.A. Zadeh, University of California, Berkeley, USA

WIC Technical Committee
Jeffrey Bradshaw, UWF/Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA
Nick Cercone, York University, Canada
Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Georg Gottlob, Oxford University, UK
Lakhmi Jain, University of South Australia, Australia
Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan
Jianchang Mao, Yahoo! Inc., USA
Pierre Morizet, Mahoudeaux Compiegne University of Technology, France
Hiroshi Motoda, Osaka University, Japan
Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan
Andrzej Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland
Jinglong Wu, Okayama University, Japan
Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA
Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada

*** Contact Information ***
Kazuyuki Imamura (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan)
<imamurak at maebashi-it.ac.jp>