BIOSIGNALS 2008 - International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing

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	BIOSIGNALS is organized by INSTICC (Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication) SCOPE The purpose of the International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing is to bring together researchers and practitioners from multiple areas of knowledge, including biology, medicine, engineering and other physical sciences, interested in studying and using models and techniques inspired from or applied to biological systems. A diversity of signal types can be found in this area, including image, audio and other biological sources of information. The analysis and use of these signals is a multidisciplinary area including signal processing, pattern recognition and computational intelligence techniques, amongst others. BIOSIGNALS encourages authors to submit papers to one of the main topics indicated below, describing original work, including methods, techniques, advanced prototypes, applications, systems, tools or survey papers, reporting research results and/or indicating future directions. Accepted papers will be presented at the conference by one of the authors and published in the proceedings. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality. There will be both oral and poster sessions. The proceedings will be indexed by several major international indexers. Special sessions are also welcome. Please contact the secretariat for further information on how to propose a special session. Additional information can be found at http://www.biosignals.biostec.org. CONFERENCE TOPICS - Medical Signal Acquisition, Analysis and Processing - Wearable Sensors and Systems - Real-time Systems - Biometrics - Pattern Recognition - Computational Intelligence - Evolutionary Systems - Neural Networks - Speech Recognition - Acoustic Signal Processing - Time and Frequency Response - Wavelet Transform - Medical Image Detection, Acquisition, Analysis and Processing - Physiological Processes and Bio-signal Modeling, Non-linear dynamics - Bioinformatics - Cybernetics and User Interface Technologies - Laser and opto-electronics Signal Processing Applications - Electromagnetic fields in biology and medicine - Education and Training in Science and Technology for Medical Signal Processing KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Sergio Cerutti, Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy Kevin Warwick, University of Reading, U.K. F. H. Lopes da Silva, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Gert Pfurtscheller, Graz University of Technology, Austria Vipul Kashyap, Partners HealthCare System, Clinical Informatics R&D, U.S.A. David Hall, Research Triangle Institute in North Carolina, U.S.A. Albert Cook, University of Alberta, Canada PUBLICATIONS All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support. A book including a selection of the best conference papers will be edited and published by Springer. SECRETARIAT BIOSIGNALS Secretariat Address: Av. D.Manuel I, 27A 2ºesq. 2910-595 Setúbal - Portugal Tel.: +351 265 520 185 Fax: +44 203 014 5436 Email: Biosignals.secretariat@insticc.org Web: http://www.biosignals.biostec.org VENUE The conference will be held in the Hotel Tivoli Ocean Park. The Tivoli Ocean Park is a truly stunning property located 5 minutes from Funchal city centre and 30 minutes from Madeira International Airport. This award-winning hotel overlooks the beachfront promenade and guests are guaranteed gorgeous views of the sea with direct access from the hotel to the sandy beach. CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS Ana Fred, IST - Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal Joaquim Filipe, Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal / INSTICC, Portugal Hugo Gamboa, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal Jorge Cardoso, UMA, Madeira, Portugal PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Pedro Encarnação, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal António Veloso, FMH, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal PROGRAM COMMITTEE Andrew Adamatzky, University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom Cedric Archambeau, University College London, United Kingdom Magdy Bayoumi, University of Louisiana, United States Peter Bentley, University College London, United Kingdom Paolo Bonato, Harvard Medical School, United States Marleen de Bruijne, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Zehra Cataltepe, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey Gert Cauwenberghs, University of California San Diego, United States Mujdat Cetin, Sabanci University, Turkey Wael El-Deredy, University of Manchester, United Kingdom Eran Edirisinghe, Loughborough University, United Kingdom Eugene Fink, Carnegie Mellon University, United States Luc Florack, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands David Fogel, Natural Selection, Inc., United States Alejandro Frangi, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain Sebastià Galmés, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain Aaron Golden, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland Rodrigo Guido, University of São Paulo, Brazil Bin He, University of Minnesota, United States Roman Hovorka, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Helmut Hutten, Graz University of Technology, Austria Christopher James, University of Southampton, United Kingdom Lars Kaderali, University of Heidelberg, Germany Gunnar W. Klau, Free University Berlin, Germany Alex Kochetov, Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Russian Federation T. Laszlo Koczy, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Georgios Kontaxakis, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain Igor Kotenko, St.Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation, Russian Federation Narayanan Krishnamurthi, Arizona State University, United States Arjan Kuijper, RICAM, Austria Andrew Laine, Columbia University, United States Anna T. Lawniczak, University of Guelph, Canada Jason JS Lee, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan, Province of China Kenji Leibnitz, Osaka University, Japan Marco Loog, University of Copenhagen, Denmark David Lowe, Aston University, United Kingdom Mahdi Mahfouf, The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom Luigi Mancini, Universita di Roma La Sapienza, Italy Elena Marchiori, VUA, Netherlands Fabio Martinelli, IIT-CNR, Italy Martin Middendorf, University of Leipzig, Germany Mariofanna Milanova, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, United States Charles Mistretta, University of Wisconsin, United States Gabor Mocz, University of Hawaii, United States Kayvan Najarian, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, United States Tadashi Nakano, University of California, Irvine, United States Asoke K. Nandi, The University of Liverpool, United Kingdom Antti Niemistö, Institute for Systems Biology, United States Maciej J. Ogorzalek, Jagiellonian University, Poland Kazuhiro Oiwa, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan Jean-Chistophe Olivo-Marin, Institut Pasteur, France Ernesto Pereda, University of La Laguna, Spain Leif Peterson, The Methodist Hospital, United States Gert Pfurtscheller, Graz University of Technology, Austria Vitor Fernao Pires, ESTSetubal / IPS, Portugal Chi-Sang Poon, MIT, United States Jose Principe, university of florida, United States Nikolaus Rajewsky, Max Delbruck Center for Molecular Medicine, Germany Dick de Ridder, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Joel Rodrigues, Institue of Telecommunications / University of Beira Interior, Portugal Marcos Rodrigues, Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom Virginie Ruiz, University of Reading, United Kingdom Heather Ruskin, Dublin City University, Ireland William Zev Rymer, RIC/Northwestern University, United States Gerald Schaefer, Aston University, United Kingdom Dragutin Sevic, Institute of Physics, Belgrade, Serbia Iryna Skrypnyk, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland Alan A. Stocker, New York University, United States Jun Suzuki, University of Massachusetts, Boston, United States Andrzej Swierniak, Silesian University of Technology, Poland Boleslaw Szymanski, RPI, United States Asser Tantawi, IBM, United States Lionel Tarassenko, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Gianluca Tempesti, University of York, United Kingdom Anna Tonazzini, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - CNR, Italy Duygu Tosun, Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, United States Bart Vanrumste, Katholieke Hogeschool Kempen, Belgium Didier Wolf, CRAN CNRS UMR 7039, France Andrew Wood, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Guang-Zhong Yang, Imperial College London, United Kingdom Eckart Zitzler, ETH Zurich, Switzerland