Call for paper
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INNS Symposium on Nature Inspired Creativity (SoNIC2012)

SoNIC2012 is part of the third INNS Winter Conference 2012 (INNS-WC2012)
http://inns.sit.kmutt.ac.th/wc2012/
October 3-5, 2012, 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. However, many research issues are still open in this area. 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 Nature Inspired Computing and knowledge representation issues.

Important dates
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Paper submission deadline: 31 May 2012
Notification of paper acceptance: 30 June 2012
Camera-ready deadline: 31 July 2012
Early-bird registration deadline: 31 August 2012
Conference dates: 3-5 October 2012

Paper Submission
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The INNS-WC2012 online submission system is open at EasyChair here (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=innswc2012). Please submit to one of the following tracks:
INNS-WC general track: Trends in Natural and Machine Intelligence
INNS Symposium on Nature Inspired Creativity (SoNIC2012)
INNS Symposium on Vision and Image Processing (SoVIP2012)
INNS Symposium on Data Analytics and Competitions (SoDAC2012)

Prospective authors are invited to submit original, high quality manuscripts of up to twelve (12) pages electronically. The submission must conform to the Elsevier Procedia Computer Science format. All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of INNS-WC2012 as an Elsevier Procedia Computer Science open access volume (http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/719435/description). Extended version of selected papers may be invited for publication in special issues of international journals after the conference. All submissions will be checked by VeriGuide/VeriConf for originality.

Symposium Organisers
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Somnuk Phon-Amnuaisuk (Chair), Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia
Jonathan H. Chan (Co-Chair), King Mongkut University of Technology, Thonburi, Thailand
Alan Dorin, Monash University, Australia
Chee-On Wong, Multimedia University, Malaysia
Choo-Yee Ting, Multimedia university, Malaysia
Chuan-Kang Ting, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan
Eduardo R. Miranda, Plymouth University, United Kingdom
Jon McCormack, Monash University, Australia
Penousal Machado, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Simon Colton, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
Yun-Li Lee, Sunway University, Malaysia