Call for Papers

NEUROCOMPUTINGJOURNAL

SPECIAL ISSUE: “ARTIFICIAL BRAINS”

GuestEditors Prof. Dr. Hugo de Garis (Executive Editor of the Journal of Artificial GeneralIntelligence (JAGI)), and Prof. Dr. John G. Taylor (European Chief Editor ofthe Neural Networks journal) invite you to submit an article for review to aspecial issue of the Neurocomputing journal, on the theme of “Artificial Brains”.

Backgroundof Special Issue

Moore’sLaw has made possible large clusters of PCs, increasingly powerful supercomputers,and more powerful FPGA based accelerator boards, etc. -- thus allowing buildersof “artificial brains” more electronic capacity to pursue their goals. At thesame time, neuroscientists have provided increasingly detailed accounts of theanatomy and functions of the many cortical areas of the mammalian brain. Thismarriage of computer science and neuroscience is making the construction of “artificialbrains” ever more timely, e.g. Markram’s efforts at EPFL (Switzerland) to modelthe function of a cortical column at synaptic level, or Artificial Development(AD) company’s efforts to simulate the whole human cortex on a PC cluster. Theguest editors therefore feel that the moment has come to bring these disparateefforts together in a special issue on “Artificial Brains”.

Aboutthe Special Issue

Theguest editors will accept a fairly broad interpretation of what is meant by theterm “Artificial Brain”. The following list provides some possibleinterpretations:

• Attempts to use a cluster of PCs to simulate the collective behaviors of many cortical areas of the mammalian brain.
• Constructing a network of neural networks, that behaves like an “electronic brain”.
• Theoretical models of “whole brain” function.
• Architectural models of the mammalian brain.
• Theoretical or computational models of specific aspects of brain or cognitive function, specifically created for compatibility with holistic artificial brains (and with arguments for why this sort of compatibility exists)
• Etc.

SubmissionDetails

Articlesfor review should be submitted online in the Elsevier Editorial System (EES)via http://ees.elsevier.com/neucom/.

Ifyou are a first time user of the system, please register yourself as an author.Choose “Special issue: Artificial Brains” in the Article Type list whensubmitting.

PeerReview

Allsubmissions, including invited submissions, will be peer reviewed, by 2reviewers.

Deadlinefor Submission

15January, 2009

FurtherQuestions

Ifyou have further questions, please contact Prof. Hugo de Garis at:profhugodegaris at yahoo.com