BICT 2019 - 11th EAI International Conference on Bio-inspired Information and Communications Technologies

The International Conference on Bio-inspired Information and Communications Technologies (BICT) provides a unique venue for researchers and practitioners in diverse disciplines to seek the understanding of key principles, processes, and mechanisms in biological systems and leverage those understandings in design, engineering, and technological applications.
Biology offers an empirical and profound glimpse of dynamic stability, robustness, control, resilience, and survival. Accordingly, the application of biological research to systems and technology holds immense potential and reveals many technical challenges. BICT 2019 welcomes formal and rigorous research focused on the following three thrusts: Direct Bioinspiration, Indirect Bioinspiration and Foundational Bioinspiration. Details about each of the three thrusts, including example topics, can be found below.
The 2019 edition of the conference, due to be held at the Carnegie Mellon University on March 12-13, is expected to have a vibrant program featuring peer-reviewed papers, keynote speakers, panels, multiple technical sessions, focused special tracks, interactive demonstrations, poster sessions, informative co-located workshops, tutorials, artwork, and social events.
Thrusts and Topics
BICT 2019 offers three thrusts. Direct bioinspiration focus on utilizing physical/biological materials and systems within technology advances. Indirect bioinspiration focuses on utilizing biological principles, processes and mechanisms within the design and application of technology. Foundational Bioinspiration focuses on biology and technology evolving similar schemes and considers reasoning and validity studies examining the natural connections between biology and technology.
Thrust 1: Direct Bioinspiration (systems utilizing biological materials, processes, and systems)
Bacterial computing and communication
Biometric security and privacy
Biosensing
Brain-computer and human-computer interface
Cellular and membrane computing
Chemical signaling and communication
DNA computing and memory
Energy harvesting from biological sources
Molecular assembly computing and communication
Physarum computing
Thrust 2: Indirect Bioinspiration (systems and application design upon biological principle, processes and mechanisms)
Amorphous computing
Artificial chemistry, immune systems, gene regulatory networks and life
Autonomous vehicle systems
Biological process and data analysis
Cellular automata
Chaotic systems
Computational epidemics
Cyber security, privacy and intelligence
Evolutionary computation
Healthcare
Intelligent systems
Internet of Things (IoT)
Mobile robotics
Modeling and simulation
Nature-inspired models and calculi
Neural networks/computation
Reaction-diffusion computing
Self-organization
Smart services and cities
Swarm intelligence
Thrust 3 Foundational Bioinspiration (biology and ICT evolving similar schemes and validity)
Adversarial modeling
Agent based models
Biological theory change and its impact on corresponding bioinspired technology
Cellularization
Costly signaling (Proof of work, stake, etc.)
Deception
Evolution
Game theory
Identification of theoretical obstacles that prevent transition from biology to technology
Measures of validity and validation of methodology
Mechanistic adaptability of theories from philosophy of biology to technology
Natural kinds and species (i.e., classification of bioinspired technology)
Network theory
Recommender and verifier systems
Signaling games, equilibria and conventions
Smart contracts (Block chains, ICO, Governance)