Caros colegas, vide a chamada abaixo, serei Co-Editor deste número da revista. 

Abraços 

Alfredo Pereira Jr - Prof. Adjunto - UNESP 



We invite submissions to the journal Cognitive Computation for a special issue 
on Pointing at Boundaries: 

Integrating Computation and Cognition on Biological Grounds . The submission 
deadline is March 31, 2011. Pointing at Boundaries: 

Integrating Computation and Cognition on Biological Grounds . The submission 
deadline is March 31, 2011. . The submission deadline is March 31, 2011. 

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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS 

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The prospect of direct biological computing accelerated with Gibson et al.'s 
(2010) synthetic incubation of a 

bacterial genome. Cognitive computation practices may supply synthetic biology 
with a biological symbolic 

system, that is, facilitate the advent of biological machines: direct 
computing. The editors of the Cognitive 

Computation Journal have acknowledged the timeliness to promote 
interdisciplinary research within the purview 

of living organisms and cognitive computation. Due to the underlying spatial 
and self-modulating aspects of 

biological substrates it makes sense to consider the computational/cognitive 
capacity of living organisms. From 

the manipulation of biological substrates emerges the prospect to identify 
recipes for combinatorial, 

multidimensional, and topological organizations with a dynamics that escape 
conventional spatial or time-spatial 

representation. The integration of computation and cognition on biological 
grounds has the prospect of pointing 

at a boundary system that is excitable, configurable, and manipulated within 
the framework of living organisms 

and their biological substrates. The next step in the development of direct 
computing hinges upon the 

development of biological substrates as a computational diaphragm. 

To meet this next step in computing specialized biological research will 
revisit the pioneering olfactory receptor 

research pioneered by Linda Buck and Richard Axel (Nobel Prize) and the 
bio-luminescent in quorum sensing 

by Bonnie Blassler (Princeton and Howard Hughes Institute). The use of chemical 
signals or bioluminescent 

substrates bring further expertise to foster synthetic biology developed at JC 
Venter Institute. 

Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished research. Relevant areas 
of investigation and expertise 

include, but are not limited to: 

· synthetic biology synthetic biology 

· membrane, natural, or evolutionary computing membrane, natural, or 
evolutionary computing 

· unconventional and quantum computing unconventional and quantum computing 

· computational intelligence computational intelligence 

· bio-optics: quorum sensing, bio-markers bio-optics: quorum sensing, 
bio-markers 

· gene regulation in sensory pathways gene regulation in sensory pathways 

· protein folding/misfolding (in vivo, Alzheimer's) protein folding/misfolding 
(in vivo, Alzheimer's) 

· multi-sensory processing (visuo-tactile, motor-sensory, feedback systems) 
multi-sensory processing (visuo-tactile, motor-sensory, feedback systems) 

· pharmaceutical and biomedical cellular delivery systems pharmaceutical and 
biomedical cellular delivery systems 

· chemical ecology, chemosensory experimentation chemical ecology, chemosensory 
experimentation 

· membrane channels, action potentials, voltage clamps, or neurotransmitters 
membrane channels, action potentials, voltage clamps, or neurotransmitters 

· aliphatic odors, combinatorial encoding, or predictive chemosensory models 
aliphatic odors, combinatorial encoding, or predictive chemosensory models 

· dynamic olfactory architectures (metabolism and olfaction in neurobiology) 
dynamic olfactory architectures (metabolism and olfaction in neurobiology) 

· neuroanatomy or neurophysiology (glia, glomeruli, photoreceptors, olfactory 
receptors, neural firing) neuroanatomy or neurophysiology (glia, glomeruli, 
photoreceptors, olfactory receptors, neural firing) 

· theory of mind, simulation theory experimentation, or synaptic signaling 
theory of mind, simulation theory experimentation, or synaptic signaling 

· theory of intelligence, consciousness theory of intelligence, consciousness 

· hierarchical temporal memory, heterogenous logic hierarchical temporal 
memory, heterogenous logic 

· combinatorial or multidimensional applications in granular/dynamic systems 
combinatorial or multidimensional applications in granular/dynamic systems 

· competitive games or visual experimentation on cognition, learning, or memory 
competitive games or visual experimentation on cognition, learning, or memory 

· “games with purpose” or collaborative task experimentation “games with 
purpose” or collaborative task experimentation 

· mirror neurons, body maps, or brain plasticity mirror neurons, body maps, or 
brain plasticity 

· frmi experiments (dyslexia, autism, aphasia, Alzheimer's Disease) frmi 
experiments (dyslexia, autism, aphasia, Alzheimer's Disease) 

· vertebrate/invertebrate sensory behavior and communication 
vertebrate/invertebrate sensory behavior and communication 

· evolutionary primatology color vision and olfaction (comparative genomics or 
pseudogenes) evolutionary primatology color vision and olfaction (comparative 
genomics or pseudogenes) 

· amphibian embryology transgenics and microsurgery amphibian embryology 
transgenics and microsurgery 

· cladistics, phylogenetics, ontogeny, or sociobehavior across species 
cladistics, phylogenetics, ontogeny, or sociobehavior across species 

· facet analysis or pixelization paradigm methods 

This call for papers will identify researchers from systematic biology, 
neuroscience, symbolic systems, 

psychology, philosophy, linguistics, topology, and related fields as they 
contribute to computer science and the 

development of biological machines. Accepted research falls into one of two 
categories: biological-computing or 

cognitive computation. Pointing at boundaries in vivo extends in vitro 
research. Thus biological substrates points 

us toward far-reaching social, medical, and communication frameworks. facet 
analysis or pixelization paradigm methods 

This call for papers will identify researchers from systematic biology, 
neuroscience, symbolic systems, 

psychology, philosophy, linguistics, topology, and related fields as they 
contribute to computer science and the 

development of biological machines. Accepted research falls into one of two 
categories: biological-computing or 

cognitive computation. Pointing at boundaries in vivo extends in vitro 
research. Thus biological substrates points 

us toward far-reaching social, medical, and communication frameworks. in vivo 
extends in vitro research. Thus biological substrates points 

us toward far-reaching social, medical, and communication frameworks. 

This special issue is expected to appear in MAR/JUN 2012. 

Send submissions to: http://www.editorialmanager.com/cogn/ 
http://www.editorialmanager.com/cogn/ 

Nathaniel Bobbitt Guest Editor 

[email protected] 

Important Dates 

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Submission of full paper (to be received by): MAR 31, 2011 

First notification of acceptance: JUL 15, 2011 

Submission of revised papers: SEP 15, 2011 

Final notification to the authors: DEC 15, 2011 

Submission of final/camera-ready papers: JAN 15, 2012 

http://www.springer.com/journal/12559 



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