BICT 2015 - 9th International Conference on Bio-inspired Information and Communications Technologies (formerly BIONETICS)

You are cordially invited to participate in BICT 2015 to be held at Columbia University, NY, USA, in December 2015.
Sponsored by EAI and Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science, and CREATE-NET, BICT 2015 aims to provide a world-leading and multidisciplinary venue for researchers and practitioners in diverse disciplines that seek the understanding of key principles, processes and mechanisms in biological systems and leverage those understandings to develop novel information and communications technologies (ICT). BICT 2015 targets two thrusts:
THRUST 1: Indirect Bioinspiration (ICT designed after biological principles, processes and mechanisms). Examples include evolutionary computation, artificial gene regulatory networks, neural networks/computation, swarm intelligence, cellular automata, artificial immune systems, amorphous computing, artificial life, artificial chemistry, reaction-diffusion computing, self-organization, chaotic systems, social networks, game theory, computational epidemics, agent-based modeling, and nature-inspired models and calculi.
THRUST 2: Direct Bioinspiration (ICT utilizing biological materials and systems). Examples include biosensing, molecular assembly, cellular computing, molecular computing/communication, membrane computing, bacterial computing/communication, DNA computing and memory, Physarum computing, quantum computing, biometric security/authentication, and brain-computer interfaces.
BICT will feature the state-of-the-art keynote speeches, parallel technical sessions, focused special tracks, interactive demo/poster sessions, informative co-located workshops and entertaining social functions. Here are several important notes and announcements:
Keynote speeches by world authorities are being arranged.
The technical program consists of the main track and a series of special tracks.
Artificial, Biological and Bio-Inspired Intelligence (ABBII)
Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering (AISE)
Bio-inspired Wireless Network Security (BWNS)
Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS)
Combinatorial Optimization (COP)
Engineering Applications from Molecular and Gene Regulatory Networks (EmNet)
Molecular Communication and Networking (MCN)
Modularization for Practical Software Engineering (MPSE)
Selected papers will be considered for publication in leading journals.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Bud Mishra, New York University, USA
Title: The Internet of the Future: From Codons to Coding
Date and Time: TBA
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Maurizio Porfiri, New York University, USA
Title: TBA
Date and Time: TBA
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Yechiam Yemini, Columbia University, USA
Title: TBA
Date and Time: TBA
STUDENT PARTICIPATION GRANTS
BICT 2015 provides a limited number of student participation grants. Full-time students are qualified to apply. Details will be announced soon.