Authors are invited to submit previously unpublished papers describing theoretical advances, applications, and ideas in the fields of Information Sciences and Systems including signal and image processing and analysis; systems biology and control; communication and information theory; computer engineering, and photonic systems.

Two types of contributed papers are solicited:
Regular papers, requiring approximately 30 minutes for presentation; these will be reproduced in full (up to six pages) in the conference proceedings.
Short papers, suitable for presentation in approximately 15 minutes; one-page summaries of these papers will be published in the proceedings.

Electronic summaries in Adobe PDF format, together with a 'regular' or 'short' designation and 2-3 keywords must be submitted by January 5, 2009 via the conference website: http://ciss.jhu.edu. Summaries should be of sufficient detail and length to permit careful reviewing. Authors will be notified of acceptance no later than January 30, 2009. Final manuscripts of accepted papers are to be submitted in PDF format no later than February 27, 2009. These are firm deadlines that will permit the distribution of the Proceedings at the Conference.