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<span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12px">EXCUSE---CROSS---POSTINGS<span style="font:12.0px Helvetica"> </span></span><br><p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman"><span style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><br></span></p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman">We invite submissions to the Springer journal <i>Cognitive Computation</i> for a special issue on Pointing at </p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman">Boundaries: Integrating Computation and Cognition on Biological Grounds. The submission deadline </p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman">is May 16, 2011.<span style="font:12.0px Helvetica"> </span></p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman">=====================<span style="font:12.0px Helvetica"> </span></p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman">FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS<span style="font:12.0px Helvetica"> </span></p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman">=====================<span style="font:12.0px Helvetica"> </span></p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman">Spurred by the advancement in synthetic biology (Gibson et al., 2010) at the J. Craig Venter Research </p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman">Institute the editors of Cognitive Computation Journal (Springer Publishers) invite submissions to a </p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman">special issue on biological substrates as a computational diaphragm. This topic leads to further research </p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman">questions on computation and the bio-signals produced by living organisms. </p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman"><br></p><p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman">We anticipate submissions will contribute to the identification of a new breed of technologies: 1.) bio-<span style="font:12.0px Helvetica"> </span></p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman">computing applications (synthetic biology); 2.) chemical/microbial induced biological configurations; </p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman">3.) enhancing cognition and animal models; and 4.) neuroengineering sensory circuits and </p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman">clinical/biomedical research. This special issue will provide a forum for interdisciplinary discussion </p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman">that points towards the next step in cognition and computing through the excitability of biological </p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman">substrates. </p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman"><br></p><p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman">The integration of computation and cognition on biological grounds has the prospect of pointing at a </p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman">boundary system that is excitable, configurable, and manipulated within the framework of living </p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman">organisms and their biological substrates. The next step in the development of <i>natural</i> <i>computing </i></p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman">hinges upon the development of biological substrates as a computational diaphragm. </p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman">Authors are invited to submit unpublished research, original position papers, or literature reviews that </p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman">address challenges unique to bio-inspired computation. Relevant areas of investigation and expertise </p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman">include, but are not limited to:<span style="font:12.0px Helvetica"> </span></p><p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman"><span style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><br></span></p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman"> synthetic biology, systematic biology, soft-computing </p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman"> computation theory (membrane, natural, quantum, or evolutionary) </p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman"> bio-nanotechnology, computational biology, computational linguistics<span style="font:12.0px Helvetica"> </span></p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman"> medical informatics (decision making, medical diagnostics, catastrophic disease research)<span style="font:12.0px Helvetica"> </span></p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman"> underlying spatial and self-modulating aspects of biological substrates (sRNA, siRNA, proteomics)<span style="font:12.0px Helvetica"> </span></p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman"> bio-optics: quorum sensing, bio-markers, molecular probes<span style="font:12.0px Helvetica"> </span></p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman"> neurobiology, gene regulation, neural circuits<span style="font:12.0px Helvetica"> </span></p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman"> pharmaceutical and biomedical cellular delivery systems<span style="font:12.0px Helvetica"> </span></p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman"> chemical ecology, interfacing with aliphatic odors (GPCR encoding) </p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman"> neural signal transduction, neurotransmitters<span style="font:12.0px Helvetica"> </span></p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman"> neuroimaging, neuroanatomy, neurophysiology </p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman"> mirror neurons, neuropsychology, theory of mind, simulation theory<span style="font:12.0px Helvetica"> </span></p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman"> swarm intelligence, theory of intelligence, consciousness<span style="font:12.0px Helvetica"> </span></p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman"> hierarchical temporal memory, heterogenous logic<span style="font:12.0px Helvetica"> </span></p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman"> neuroplasticity, learning, memory<span style="font:12.0px Helvetica"> </span></p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman"> games with purpose or collaborative task experimentation<span style="font:12.0px Helvetica"> </span></p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman"> bayesian biomedical techniques (clinical studies, morphological data, <i>in vitro </i>embryo selection)<span style="font:12.0px Helvetica"> </span></p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman"> translational cognition for decision support in critical care environments<span style="font:12.0px Helvetica"> </span></p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman"> soft-computing research and control of unknown diseases </p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman"> molecule to man decision support in individualized e-health<span style="font:12.0px Helvetica"> </span></p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman"> biomedical informatics and pharmacogenomics </p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman"> animal behavior, transgenics models<span style="font:12.0px Helvetica"> </span></p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman"> developmental biology, embryology<span style="font:12.0px Helvetica"> </span></p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman"> linguistic or philosophic barriers to bio-computing<span style="font:12.0px Helvetica"> </span></p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman"> cladistics, detecting and overcoming systematic errors in genome-scale phylogenies<span style="font:12.0px Helvetica"> </span></p><p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman"><span style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><br></span></p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman">This special issue places into perspective computation and cognition from a post-genome viewpoint. </p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman">Since the Human Genome Project recent discovieries suggest a bio-computation that specifies a more </p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman">complex mechanisms along a multi-scale. Where a micro-meso-macro feedback occurs as a systemic </p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman">self-organization with non-linear dynamics.<span style="font:12.0px Helvetica"> </span></p><p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman"><span style="font:12.0px Helvetica"><br></span></p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman">Participation in this project proposes to advance the break with the "dogma" of one gene producing </p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman">only one class of protein, assumed in the classic Monod-Changeux-Jacob model of the "Operon." </p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman">Without the idea of a DNA "program" determining the phenotype of living systems the incubation of </p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman">bio-computing may gain strides through experimental literature on "small RNAs" (sRNA) interfering </p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman">with gene expression and protein production. Through the manipulation of biological substrates </p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman">emerges the prospect to identify recipes for combinatorial, multidimensional, and topological </p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman">organizations with a dynamics that escape conventional spatial or temporal-spatial representation. A </p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman">biological substrate represents a self-contained symbolic and logical neighborhood.<span style="font:12.0px Helvetica"> </span></p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman"><br></p><p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman">This special issue is expected to appear in JUN 2012.<span style="font:12.0px Helvetica"> </span></p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman"><br></p><p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman">Post submissions at: http://www.editorialmanager.com/cogn/<span style="font:12.0px Helvetica"> </span></p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman">Co-Editors Alfredo Pereira Jr., Eduardo Massad, Nathaniel Bobbitt </p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman">bobbittn@cwu.edu<span style="font:12.0px Helvetica"> </span></p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman"><br></p><p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman">Important Dates<span style="font:12.0px Helvetica"> </span></p>
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<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman">Submission of full paper (to be received by): MAY 16, 2011<span style="font:12.0px Helvetica"> </span></p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman">First notification of acceptance: AUG. 15, 2011<span style="font:12.0px Helvetica"> </span></p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman">Submission of revised papers: OCT 15, 2011<span style="font:12.0px Helvetica"> </span></p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman">Final notification to the authors: JAN 15, 2011<span style="font:12.0px Helvetica"> </span></p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman">Submission of final/camera-ready papers: FEB 15, 2012<span style="font:12.0px Helvetica"> </span></p>
<p style="font:12.0px Times New Roman">http://www.springer.com/biomed/neuroscience/journal/12559?detailsPage=press</p> </body>
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