BIOSIGNALS 2009 - International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing

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	BIOSIGNALS is organized by INSTICC (Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication). SCOPE The purpose of the International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing is to bring together researchers and practitioners from multiple areas of knowledge, including biology, medicine, engineering and other physical sciences, interested in studying and using models and techniques inspired from or applied to biological systems. A diversity of signal types can be found in this area, including image, audio and other biological sources of information. The analysis and use of these signals is a multidisciplinary area including signal processing, pattern recognition and computational intelligence techniques, amongst others. BIOSIGNALS encourages authors to submit papers to one of the main topics indicated below, describing original work, including methods, techniques, advanced prototypes, applications, systems, tools or survey papers, reporting research results and/or indicating future directions. Accepted papers will be presented at the conference by one of the authors and published in the proceedings. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality. There will be both oral and poster sessions. The proceedings will be indexed by several major international indexers. Special sessions are also welcome. Please contact the secretariat for further information on how to propose a special session. Additional information can be found at http://www.biosignals.org. CONFERENCE TOPICS - Medical Signal Acquisition, Analysis and Processing - Wearable Sensors and Systems - Real-time Systems - Biometrics - Pattern Recognition - Computational Intelligence - Evolutionary Systems - Neural Networks - Speech Recognition - Acoustic Signal Processing - Time and Frequency Response - Wavelet Transform - Medical Image Detection, Acquisition, Analysis and Processing - Physiological Processes and Bio-signal Modeling, Non-linear dynamics - Bioinformatics - Cybernetics and User Interface Technologies - Electromagnetic fields in biology and medicine KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Edward H. Shortliffe, Arizona State University, United States Vimla L. Patel, Arizona State University, United States Pier Luigi Emiliani, Institute of Applied Physics “Nello Carrara” (IFAC) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR), Italy Maciej Ogorzalek, Jagiellonian University, Poland Egon L. van den Broek, University of Twente, The Netherlands PAPER SUBMISSION Authors should submit an original paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, using the on-line submission procedure. Please check the paper formats so you may be aware of the accepted paper page limits. The guidelines for paper formatting provided at the conference web site must be strictly used for all submitted papers. The submission format is the same as the camera-ready format. Please check and carefully follow the instructions and templates provided. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable. Papers that are out of the conference scope or contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews. Remarks about the on-line submission procedure: 1. A "double-blind" paper evaluation method will be used. To facilitate that, the authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper, WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors. This means that is necessary to remove the authors personal details, the acknowledgements section and any reference that may disclose the authors identity. LaTeX/PS/PDF/DOC/DOCX/RTF format are accepted. 2. The web submission procedure automatically sends an acknowledgement, by e-mail, to the contact author. Paper submission types: Regular Paper Submission A regular paper presents a work where the research is completed or almost finished. It does not necessary means that the acceptance is as a full paper. It may be accepted as a “full paper” (30 min. oral presentation) , a “short paper” (20 min. oral presentation) or a “poster”. Position Paper Submission A position paper presents an arguable opinion about an issue. The goal of a position paper is to convince the audience that your opinion is valid and worth listening to, without the need to present completed research work and/or validated results. It is, nevertheless, important to support your argument with evidence to ensure the validity of your claims. A position paper may be a short report and discussion of ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research (bibliographic, experimental, theoretical, or other) focused on one of the conference topic areas. The acceptance of a position paper is restricted to the categories of "short paper" or "poster", i.e. a position paper is not a candidate to acceptance as "full paper". Camera-ready: After the reviewing process is completed, the contact author (the author who submits the paper) of each paper will be notified of the result, by e-mail. The authors are required to follow the reviews in order to improve their paper before the camera-ready submission. All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings, under an ISBN reference, in paper and in CD-ROM support. PUBLICATIONS All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, in paper and in CD-ROM support. A book including a selection of the best conference papers will be edited and published by Springer. IMPORTANT DATES Conference date: 14 - 17 January, 2009 Regular Paper Submission: July 21, 2008 (deadline expired) Authors Notification (regular papers): October 13, 2008 (deadline expired) Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: October 28, 2008 (deadline extended) Position Paper Submission: September 23, 2008 (deadline expired) Authors Notification (position papers): October 21, 2008 (deadline extended) Final Position Paper Submission and Registration: November 3, 2008 (deadline extended) SECRETARIAT BIOSIGNALS Secretariat Address: Av. D.Manuel I, 27A 2ºesq. 2910-595 Setúbal - Portugal Tel.: +351 265 520 185 Fax: +44 203 014 5436 Email: secretariat@biosignals.org Web: http://www.biosignals.org VENUE Well known worldwide for its wine, Porto is one of the most ancient European cities. It was born and developed from the northern bank of the Douro river (i.e. the “river of Gold”) during the Middle Ages. One of the most significant aspects of Porto and its historical centre is its landscape, combining harmony with the urban structure and presenting a frame of rare beauty. The city was classified as World Heritage by UNESCO in 1996. When discovering Porto, you will find many surprises. Besides its welcoming and conservative environment, Porto is also contemporary and artistic. This is shown not only in the streets, architecture, monuments and museums but also in the terraces, restaurants and leisure and shopping areas. CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS Ana Fred, IST - Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal Joaquim Filipe, Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal / INSTICC, Portugal Hugo Gamboa, Instituto de Telecomunicaçőes, Portugal PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Pedro Encarnaçăo, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal António Veloso, FMH, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal PROGRAM COMMITTEE Andrew Adamatzky, University of the West of England, United Kingdom Metin Akay, Arizona State University, United States Oliver Amft, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Peter Bentley, UCL, United Kingdom C.D Bertram, University of New South Wales, Australia Paolo Bonato, Harvard Medical School, United States Tolga Can, Middle East Technical University, Turkey Mujdat Cetin, Sabanci University, Turkey Marleen de Bruijne, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Dick de Ridder, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Suash Deb, C. V. Raman College of Engineering, India Wael El-Deredy, University of Manchester, United Kingdom Eugene Fink, Carnegie Mellon University, United States Sebastiŕ Galmés, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain Aaron Golden, National University of Ireland, Ireland Rodrigo Capobiaco Guido, University of Săo Paulo, Brazil Cigdem Gunduz-Demir, Bilkent University, Turkey Verena Vanessa Hafner, DAILab, Germany Bin He, University of Minnesota, United States Huosheng Hu, University of Essex, United Kingdom Helmut Hutten, University of Technology, Austria Yoshiteru Ishida, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan Christopher James, University of Southampton, United Kingdom Yasemin Kahya, Bogazici University, Turkey Borys Kierdaszuk, University of Warsaw, Poland Jonghwa Kim, University of Augsburg, Germany Gunnar W. Klau, FU Berlin, Germany Ina Koch, MPI for Molecular Genetics, Germany T. Laszlo Koczy, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Georgios Kontaxakis, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain Igor Kotenko, Institute For Informatics And Automation of RAS, Russian Federation Narayanan Krishnamurthi, Arizona State University, United States Arjan Kuijper, RICAM, Austria Vinod Kumar, IIT Roorkee, India Chee Keong Kwoh, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Jason JS Lee, National Yang Ming University, Taiwan KiYoung Lee, University of California, United States Kenji Leibnitz, Osaka University, Japan Derek Linkens, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom Marco Loog, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Elena Marchiori, VUA, Netherlands Kostas Marias, Institute of Computer Science (ICS), Greece Joaquim Marques De Sá, Faculdade De Engenharia, Portugal Martin Middendorf, University of Leipzig, Germany Alexandru Morega, POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest, Romania Mihaela Morega, POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest, Romania Kayvan Najarian, Virgina Commonwealth University, United States Tadashi Nakano, University of California, Irvine, United States Asoke Nandi, The University of Liverpool, United Kingdom Hasan Ogul, Baskent University, Turkey Kazuhiro Oiwa, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan Oleg Okun, Precise Biometrics AB, Sweden Ernesto Pereda, Univ. La Laguna, Spain Leif Peterson, The Methodist Hospital, United States Francisco Pinto, University of Lisbon, Portugal Vitor Pires, Escola Superior De Tecnologia De Setúbal - Ips, Portugal Marcos Rodrigues, Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom Virginie Ruiz, University of Reading, School of Systems Engineering, United Kingdom Heather Ruskin, University, Ireland Wim Rutten, University of Twente, Netherlands Maria Samsonova, St.Petersburg State Polytechnical University, Russian Federation Carlo Sansone, University of Naples, Italy Gerald Schaefer, Aston University, United Kingdom Dragutin Sevic, Institute of Physics, Belgrade, Serbia Iryna Skrypnyk, University Of Jyvaskyla, Finland Alan A Stocker, New York University, United States Junichi Suzuki, University Of Massachusetts, Boston, United States Asser Tantawi, IBM, United States Gianluca Tempesti, University of York, United Kingdom Hua-Nong Ting, University of Malaya, Malaysia Anna Tonazzini, CNR, Italy Duygu Tosun, Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, United States Bart Vanrumste, Katholieke Hogeschool Kempen, Belgium Yuanyuan Wang, Fudan University, China Didier Wolf, CRAN CNRS UMR 7039, France