CALL FOR SPECIAL TRACK PAPERS

In addition to the regular track that covers general/mainstream topics,
BICT 2014 features the following special tracks that focus on specific,
emerging or underrepresented topics. All special tack papers will be
peer-reviewed with the same criteria and quality standard used in the
regular track. All accepted special track papers will be included as
conference papers in the proceedings.

• Artificial, Biological and Bio-Inspired Intelligence (ABBII)
  Track Chairs: Hiroshi Sato (National Defense Academy of Japan), Andrew Adamatzky (University of the West of England, UK) and Tomohiro Shirakawa (National Defense Academy of Japan)

• Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering (AISE)
  Track Chairs: Shih-Hsi "Alex" Liu (California State University, Fresno, USA), Marjan Mernik (University of Maribor, Slovenia), Jun Suzuki (University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA) and Haiping Xu (University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, USA)

• Body Area Soft Computing (BASC)
  Track Chairs: Isao Hayashi (Kansai University, Japan) and Douglas Dow (Wentworth Institute of Technology, USA)

• Biologically-Inspired Process Calculi (BIPC)
  Track chair: Gabriel Ciobanu (Romanian Academy, ICS, Iasi, Romania)

• Bio-Inspired Machine Vision (BIMV)
  Track Chairs: Marc Pomplun (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA), Tyler Garaas (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, USA) and Florian Raudies (Boston University, USA)

• Bio-inspired/Biomimetic Microsystems & Microdevices (BMM)
  Track Chairs: Yu-Hsiang Hsu (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

• Bio-inspired Wireless Network Security (BWNS)
  Track Chairs: Parisa Memarmoshrefi (University of Goettingen, Germany)

• Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS)
  Track Chairs: Saori Iwanaga (Japan Coast Guard Academy, Japan), Masao Kubo (National Defense Academy, Japan) and Hiroshi Sato (National Defense Academy, Japan)

• Engineering Applications from Molecular and Gene Regulatory Networks (EMNET)
  Track Chairs: Preetam Ghosh (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA) and Michael L. Mayo (US Army Engineer Research and Development Center, USA)

 

• Molecular Communication and Networking (MCN)
  Track Chairs: Tadashi Nakano (Osaka University, Japan), Michael Moore and Jun Suzuki (University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA)

 

• Morphogenetic Collective Systems (MCS)
  Track Chairs: Hiroki Sayama (SUNY Binghamton, USA)

 

• Modularization for Practical Software Engineering (MPSE)
  Track Chairs: Hiroaki Fukuda (Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan) and Paul Leger (Universidad Católica del Norte, Chile)

 

• Resilient Networks (RN)
  Track Chairs: Marco Carvalho (Florida Institute of Technology, USA)

• Swarm and Modular Robotics (SAMR)
  Track chairs: Jon Timmis (University of York, UK) and Alan Millard (University of York, UK)

• Smart Body Area Networks (SBAN)
  Track Chairs: Jun Suzuki (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA), Honggang Wang (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA) and Douglas Dow (Wentworth Institute of Technology, USA)

• Security and Privacy in Bio-inspired Networks (SPBN)
  Track Chairs: Jun Zhou (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China) and Athanasios V. Vasilakos (Kuwait University)

Important dates:

Regular paper submission due:	September 1 August 4
Short and poster/demo paper submission due:	September 22
Notification for regular papers:	September 25 September 22
Notification for short and poster/demo papers:	October 6
Camera ready due:	October 13

Paper Submission

Papers will be judged on originality, correctness, clarity and relevance. Submitted papers must be original work, and may not be under consideration for another conference or journal.

Submission of the paper implies agreement of the author(s) to attend the conference and present the paper if accepted. For additional information see the registration information page.

Full details of submission procedure through Easy Chair are available here.

Publication

All accepted papers will be published by ACM.

The proceedings will be submitted for inclusion to leading indexing services, including ISI, EI Compendex, Scopus, ACM Library, DBLP, Google Scholar as well as ICST's own EU Digital Library (EUDL).

Selected papers will be considered for publication in leading journals including:

• ACM/Springer Mobile Networks and Applications
• Elsevier Information Sciences
• Elsevier Nano Communication Networks Journal
• Cloud-integrated Cyber-Physical Systems (Springer book)