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8th International Conference on Bio-inspired Information and Communications Technologies (formerly BIONETICS)

December 1–3, 2014 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States

BICT 2014 Technical Program at a Glance

DAY 1 (Dec 1)

  Room 1 (Dining Room) Room 2 (Lowell)
8:00 - 8:15 Registration
8:15 - 8:30 Opening  
8:30 - 9:30 Keynote 1: Collective Construction by Termites and Other Robots
9:30 - 10:00 Coffee break
10:00 - 12:00 Main-1 ABBII-1
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 2:30 Keynote 2: Agent-based Models and Ill-posed Problems
2:30 - 4:00 Main-2 BWNS-1
4:00 - 4:30 Coffee break
4:30 - 6:00 Poster session

DAY 2 (Dec 2)

  Room 1 (Dining Room) Room 2 (Lowell)
8:00 - 9:00 Keynote 3: Socialized WBANs in Mobile Sensing Environment
9:00 - 10:00 Keynote 4: Computational Power of Chemical Kinetics in Living Cells
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 - 12:00 BIPC MCN+BMM
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 2:30 Keynote 5: Molecular Communication: From Theory to Practice
2:30 - 4:30 EMNET MPSE
4:30 - 5:00 Coffee break
5:00 - 7:30 CAS BASC
8:00 - 10:00 Banquet

DAY 3 (Dec 3)

  Room 1 (Dining Room) Room 2 (Lowell)
8:00 - 9:40 Main-3 (4S, 80min) ABBII-2 (2R+S2, 100 min)
9:40 - 10:00 Coffee break
10:00 - 12:00 BIICT Workshop
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 3:00 Main-4 + BWNS-2 (3R, 90 min) BIMV (2R, 60min)
3:00 - 3:30 Coffee break
3:30 - 5:30 AISE (3R+2S, 130 min) BIICT Workshop

Special Tracks

ABBII Artificial, Biological and Bio-Inspired Intelligence
AISE Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering
BASC Body Area Soft Computing
BIPC Biologically-Inspired Process Calculi
BIMV Bio-Inspired Machine Vision
BMM Bio-inspired/Biomimetic Microsystems & Microdevices
BWNS Bio-inspired Wireless Network Security
CAS Complex Adaptive Systems
EMNET Engineering Applications from Molecular and Gene Regulatory Networks
MCN Molecular Communication and Networking
MPSE Modularization for Practical Software Engineering

Paper Presentation Guidelines

Presentation time

  • 30 minutes, including QAs, for a regular paper presentation.
  • 20 minutes, including QAs, for a short paper presentation.

Equipment available

  • Projector
  • Connection to a projector
  • Microphone
  • (Please bring your own laptop. PCs will NOT be available at presentation rooms.)

Session chairs

  • Arrive early.
  • Ensure your session runs strictly on schedule.
  • Give a 5-minute-remaining warning to each paper presenter.

BICT 2014 Full Program

Version 6.1 as of November 30