Special Session on Nature Inspired Creative Computing (SoNIC 2015)

SoNIC2015 is part of the 19th Asia Pacific Symposium on Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems (IES 2015)

http://www.ies-2015.org/
November 22-25, 2015, Bangkok, Thailand

Nature inspired computing techniques have successfully been applied to many different kinds of creative applications, notably, in multimedia content generation and content analysis. The proposed symposium aims to bring together leading researchers and practitioners in this field who are working on applying natural inspired computing techniques to applications in creative industries. It aims to provide the opportunity to promote, present and discuss on-going research in this area.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

1. Application of Nature Inspired Computing in Creative Industries: Creative computing for digital multimedia; Computer-generated contents for film, games and animation; Special visual effects; Edutainment; Generative art; Aesthetic evaluation, etc.

2. Art and Cognition: Art and the Brain; Creative process; Emotion and meaning in paintings, music, sculptures, poetry, etc.

3. Theoretical or Empirical analysis of Creative Computing Artefacts: Creativity and knowledge representation issues; Analysis of teaching and learning process of creative concepts, best practices, etc.

Important dates
Paper Submission Deadline: August 7, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: September 1, 2015
Camera-ready Deadline: September 15, 2015
Conference dates: 22-25th November 2015

Paper Submission
Submit your paper via the following site using your EasyChair login information:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ies2015
NOTICE: In submission page in the site, you must to choose a track from a list. For general session papers, IES 2015 should be chosen. For invited session papers, their invited session must be selected.

All manuscripts submitted should be full papers and prepared according to the Springer conference paper templates (Click here). The manuscript text should be in one-column page format. The length of the manuscripts prepared with the given template is 8 to 12 pages, up to 15 pages.

The IES 2015 proceedings will be published in a Springer-Verlag book series.
Selected papers from IES 2015 will be invited to extend and publish in Special Issues of SCI/SCIE/Scopus-indexed international journals.

Accepted papers will be considered for the Best Paper Awards and the Best Student Paper Awards, which will be presented during the banquet.


Special Session Organisers

Ahmad Rafi Mohamed Eshaq (Chair), Multimedia University, Malaysia
Somnuk Phon-Amnuaisuk (Co-chair), Institut Teknologi Brunei, Brunei
Nyuk-Hiong Voon (Co-chair), Institut Teknologi Brunei, Brunei
Ak Hj Azhan bin Pg Ahmad, Institut Teknologi Brunei, Brunei
Chuan-Kang Ting, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan
Deenina Salleh, Institut Teknologi Brunei, Brunei
John See Su Yang, Multimedia University, Malaysia
Mohamad Izani Bin Zainal Abidin, Sharjah University, UAE
Penousal Machado, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Simon Colton, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
Simon Su, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Siti Noorfatimah Binti Hj Awg Safar @ Hj Sapar, Institut Teknologi Brunei, Brunei
Lai-Kuan Wong, Multimedia University, Malaysia