CALL FOR PAPERS

2003 Special Issue on Neuroinformatics

Neuroinformatics is an emerging field, integrating approaches from neuroscience and information science/technology to understanding the structure and function of the brain. Neuroinformatics research is interdisciplinary and aims at unraveling the complex structure-function relationships of the brain at all levels and scales of analysis.

Neuroinformatics will accelerate the progress of neuroscience and informatics, for example, by

* more efficient use of neuroscience data by information-based approaches
* developing and applying new tools and methods for acquiring, visualizing and analyzing data
* developing new methodologies for generating theories to derive further experiments and engineering applications
* generating computational theories connecting neuroscience and information science/technology.

The Special Issue will include invited and contributed articles taking a broad view of neuroinformatics, with special emphasis on database construction, data mining, ontologies for neural systems, and the integration of simulation methods with data analysis.

Co-Editors

Professor Shun-ichi Amari, RIKEN Brain Science Institute
Professor Michael A Arbib, University of Southern California
Dr. Rolf Kotter, Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf

Submission

Deadline for submission: October 30, 2002
Notification of acceptance: March 31, 2003
Format: as for normal papers in the journal (APA format) and no longer than 10,000 words

Address for Papers

Dr. Mitsuo Kawato
ATR Human Information Science Laboratories
2-2-2 Hikaridai, Seika-cho Soraku-gun, Kyoto 619-0288, Japan.