CALL FOR PAPERS
Paper Submission Deadline: April 30, 2019
2nd LATIN-AMERICAN WORKSHOP ON COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE
September 18-20, 2019
Federal University of São João Del-Rei, São João Del-Rei, Brazil.
Contact: organization@lawcn.
THE EVENT
In order to overcome the immense challenge of fully understanding the brain, a very fruitful approach is to gather the best minds from different scientific fields in multi and interdisciplinary scientific endeavors. With this purpose, the Latin-American Workshop on Computational Neuroscience (LAWCN) was born in 2017, putting together students and researchers from the fields of Computational Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence, and Neuroengineering in an enthusiastic atmosphere for sharing ideas, form networks, and foster collaboration. This time, the Workshop leaves the fast-paced life of the big city for a more relaxed take in the countryside of the welcoming state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, in the three hundred years old colonial city of São João Del-Rei, with its historic buildings and churches, beautiful mountains and cold waterfalls, and exquisite culinary.
We are proud to highlight that we have already secured the presence of four world-class scientists as keynote speakers: Jim Torresen (Norway), Michela Chiappalone (Italy), Sidarta Ribeiro (Brazil), and Diego Hernán (Ecuador). Also, we have confirmed that the best papers related to computer science will be published with Springer.
The LAWCN 2019 Organizing Committee is very proud to invite researchers from Latin-American and around the world to submit their best data and ideas as papers to be presented at LAWCN 2019.
AREAS OF LAWCN 2019
a) Computational Neuroscience; b) Neuroscience; c) Neuroengineering and; d) Artificial Intelligence and related topics
GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS
The following information, article templates, and complete guidelines from Springer can also be found on the event website https://www.lawcn.com.br/
- Prospective authors are invited to contribute to the conference by electronically submitting papers in English, Portuguese or Spanish, according to the model found at the event website;
- Best papers that are related to Computer Science will be published as a book volume in Springer-Verlag Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS; ISSN 1865-0929) series. CCIS is abstracted/indexed in DBLP, Google Scholar, EI-Compendex, Mathematical Reviews, SCImago, Scopus. CCIS volumes are also submitted for the inclusion in ISI Proceedings;
- Papers that are not related directly to Computer Science will be published online in the II Latin-American Workshop on Computational Neuroscience Proceedings (with ISBN) and can be submitted in English, Portuguese, or Spanish.
- Papers will be evaluated based on their quality and significance of the theoretical and practical contribution to Computational Neuroscience, Neuroengineering, Artificial Intelligence, and Neuroscience in general;
- All papers (Short or Full) must be in PDF format and include abstract, figures, tables and references in the minimum/maximum number of pages (according to the category desired);
- Papers can be submitted in four categories (see image below):
- Papers can be submitted in English, Portuguese or Spanish, but only the best articles, in English, and directly related to Computer Science will be published in CCIS;
- Papers should be submitted exclusively through the conference submission system, linked in the event website;
- At least one author must register, pay the registration fee, and present the accepted paper orally in order for the manuscript to be included in the workshop proceedings / CCIS volume. If more than one article per the first author is accepted, there will be an extra registration fee.
- One of the authors must sign and attach the disclosure form if the paper is accepted;
- It is encouraged that authors own an identification from ORCID to be included in the manuscript main body.
COMPLETE LIST OF TOPICS
Computational Neuroscience
- Biophysically realistic models
- Single-neuron modeling
- Models of brain networks and circuits
- Sensory processing
- Development, axonal patterning, and guidance
- Memory and synaptic plasticity
- Consciousness
- Computational clinical neuroscience
- Neuroinformatics
- Related topics
Neuroscience
- Sensory processing
- Network dynamics
- Reinforcement learning
- Motivation and decision making
- Statistical approaches in neuroscience
- Systems Neuroscience
- Learning and memory
- Attention and arousal
- Sensory-motor integration
- Learning in networks
- Educational Issues
Neuroengineering
- Large-scale recordings
- Neural signal processing
- Neuromodulation
- Neuroprosthetics
- Robotics
- Humanoid robots
- Robots in health
- Robots for elderly people
- Sensoring in robotics
- Fusion of sensors
- Hardware implementations in neuroscience
- Software implementations in neuroscience
- Brain Computer Interfaces: design and applications
- Educational Issues
Artificial Intelligence and related topics
- Artificial Intelligence
- Techniques in neuroscience
- Bioinformatics
- Clustering and applications
- Computer vision, cognitive and humanoid vision
- Databases, Data Mining, Intelligent Data Analysis, Knowledge-based Systems and Linguistic Tools
- Data visualization and applications
- Deep Learning
- Statistical pattern recognition / Document Processing and Recognition
- Fuzzy and hybrid techniques
- Geometric algebra application in perception action
- High performance computing for pattern recognition
- Image coding, processing and analysis
- Kernel machines
- Mathematical theory of Computational Neuroscience
- Natural language processing and recognition
- Neural Networks
- Parallel and distributed applications for Computational Neuroscience
- Robotics and humanoids shape and texture analysis
- Signal processing and analysis
- Spatiotemporal analysis
- Educational Issues
IMPORTANT DATES
* 30th April 2019: Submission deadline for papers
* 31st May 2019: Notification of acceptance
* 29th July 2019: Camera-ready papers due for
* 18 - 20th September 2019: Workshop, UFSJ – São João Del-Rei, Brazil.
ORGANIZATION
Laboratory of Neuroengineering and Neuroscience (LINNce)
Federal University of São João Del-Rei (UFSJ)
Conference chair
Vinícius Rosa Cota Federal University of São João Del-Rei, Brazil
Conference co-chair
Dante Augusto Barone Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Organizing Committee
Álvaro César de Oliveira Penoni Federal University of São João Del-Rei, Brazil
Christian Puhlmann Brackmann Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology Farroupilha, Brazil
Dárlinton Carvalho Federal University of São João Del-Rei, Brazil
Diego Roberto Colombo Dias Federal University of São João Del-Rei, Brazil
Eduardo Teles Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Bahia, Brazil
Erika L. Fonseca Costa de Alvarenga Federal University of São João Del-Rei, Brazil
Erivelton Nepomuceno Federal University of São João Del-Rei, Brazil
Guillermo Cecchi IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Jaime Andres Riascos Salas Federal University of São João Del-Rei, Brazil
Jasiara Carla de Oliveira Federal University of São João Del-Rei, Brazil
Jim Jones da Silveira Marciano Federal University of São João Del-Rei, Brazil
Laila Damázio Federal University of São João Del-Rei, Brazil
Leonardo Rocha Federal University of São João Del-Rei, Brazil
Rodrigo Sierra Ordoñez University of Szeged, Hungary
Sen Cheng Ruhr University Bochum , Germany
Program Committee
Alan Talevi
Antônio Carlos Roque da Silva Filho Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Carlos Dias Maciel, Universidade de São Paulo em São Carlos, Brazil
Carlos Madrigal Instituto Tecnológico Metropolitano, Colombia
César Collazos
Cleiton Lopes Aguiar Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Cleo Zanella Billa Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Brazil
Cristiane Queixa Tilelli Universidade Federal de São João del-Rei, Brazil
Daniel de Castro Medeiros Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Daniel Margulies Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
Diego Hernán Peluffo-Ordóñez Universidad Yachay Tech, Ecuador
Dimitris Kugiumtzis Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Eduardo Mazoni Andrade Marçal Mendes Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Erivelton Geraldo Nepomuceno Universidade Federal de São João del-Rei, Brazil
Flávio Afonso Gonçalves Mourão Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Fransciso Sotres Bayón Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
Gabriel Mindlin
Gloria Mercedes Diaz Cabrera Instituto Tecnológico Metropolitano, Colombia
Guillermo Cecchi IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Hu Danqing
Ives Cavalcante Passos Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Jaime Andres Riascos Salas Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Jasiara Carla de Oliveira Universidade Federal de São João del-Rei, Brazil
Jean Faber Ferreira de Abreu Escola Paulista de Medicina, UNIFESP, Brazil
Jim Torresen
Jose Donoso Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
Juan David Martinez Vargas Instituto Tecnológico Metropolitano, Colombia
Juan Verdejo-Román Universidad de Granada, Spain
Juliana Valencia Instituto Tecnológico Metropolitano, Colombia
Laila Cristina Moreira Damázio Universidade Federal de São João del-Rei, Brazil
Leonardo Bonato Félix Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Brazil
Leonardo Duque Instituto Tecnológico Metropolitano, Colombia
Lubomir Kostal Czech Academy of Science, Czech Republic
Marcelo Pias
Márcio Falcão Santos Barros Universidade Federal de São João del-Rei, Brazil
Márcio Flávio Dutra Moraes Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Michela Chiappalone Central Research Lab Genova, Instituto Italiano de Tecnologia, Italy
Patricio Orio
Patrick Forcelli
Pedro Almeida
Premsyl Jiruska The Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
Radek Janca
Reinhold Scherer University of Essex, UK
Rodrigo Alejandro Sierra Ordoñez University of Szeged, Hungary
Salvador Dura-Bernal SUNY Downstate, USA
Sen Cheng
Sidarta Ribeiro
Stiliyan Kalitzin
Thomas Walther Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
