CALL FOR PAPERS
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	1st Workshop on Bio-inspired Models and Technologies for Ambient
		      Information Society (BioAmbIS 2010)
		       http://www.anarg.jp/bioambis2010/
		   Date and place: Dec. 1-3, Boston, MA, USA
		   (held in conjunction with Bionetics 2010)
				   
In the future ambient information society, not only can a user obtain
information in a flexible manner as in the ubiquitous information
society, but also the information systems autonomously provide desired
information to the user and control the environmental conditions
according to the context of the user, e.g. time, place, occasion, and
personal preferences. To realize the ambient information society
beyond simply extending conventional IT, new innovative technologies
are required to tackle the expected challenges, such as inference of
user's desires, recognition of environmental conditions, adaptation of
ambient systems, and provisioning of information to users. The new
technologies also need to be scalable, adaptive, reliable, and
robust. Biologically inspired approaches are promising in building
such technologies by opening up an interdisciplinary way of thinking
and working.

This workshop aims at bringing together researchers and scientists
from several research areas including biology and information sciences
to foster research and development of novel technologies,
architectures and control methods in an ambient information society.

Topics of interest for this workshop include, but are not limited to,
the following:

1) Mathematical models of biological systems
- Models of the adaptive behavior in biological systems
- Models of the robust and resilient behavior in biological systems
- Models of self-organizing behavior in biological systems
- Models of the cognitive process in brain functional networks

2) Bio-inspired application technologies for ambient information society
- Context-aware applications for information services and environmental 
  control 
- Discovery and organization of ambient information services
- Smart services and ambient-assisted living spaces/healthcare

3) Bio-inspired information technologies for ambient information society
- Information technology for reliable and dependable ambient information 
  society
- Self-organization schemes in information networks
- Energy-efficient schemes inspired by nature for Green ICT

4) Bio-inspired networking technologies for ambient information society
- Wireless sensor networks, mobile ad-hoc network, and overlay network
- Optical network to support ambient information society

5) Bio-inspired interface technologies for ambient information society
- Recognition of the environmental condition and user demand
- Human-Machine Interface for smooth and seamless interaction among users 
  and environment

Paper Submission Instructions
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Authors are requested to submit full papers of up to 12 pages in
Springer LNICST format available from
ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/lnicst/. The contribution must be
original and previously unpublished. Only PDF files will be
accepted. Papers must be submitted online in a PDF format using the
EasyChair conference management system
(http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bioambis2010) and will be
peer reviewed by the Technical Program Committee. Accepted papers must
be presented at the workshop by one of the authors and will be
published in the Bionetics 2010 conference proceedings by Springer.

* A selected number of best papers will be considered for publication in
* Springer's Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing. 

Important Dates
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Paper submission:        September 15, 2010 (extended)
Acceptance notification: September 30, 2010
Camera ready paper due:  October 10, 2010
Workshop date:           December 1-3, 2010

Organizing Committee
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Workshop Co-Chairs
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Naoki Wakamiya (Osaka University, Japan)
Kenji Leibnitz (NICT, Japan)

PC Members
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Nazim Agoulmine, University of Evry Val d'Essonne, France
Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland
Ana M. Bernardos Barbolla, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Seungjin Choi, Postech, Korea
Jean-Guy Fontaine, Italian Institute of Technology, Italy
Chikara Furusawa, Osaka University, Japan
Yuji Kakugawa, Osaka University, Japan
Yasushi Naruse, NICT, Japan
Carlo Regazzoni, University of Genoa, Italy
Boon-Chong Seet, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Douglas Sicker, University of Colorado, USA
Hideki Tode, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
Katarzyna Wac, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Hui Wang, Postech, Korea
Daqing Zhang, Institut TELECOM SudParis, France