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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Special Session on
<b>Brain-Computer Interfaces and Cognitive Computation in Intelligent Systems </b>
@IEEE SMC Workshop on Brain-Machine Interface (BMI) Systems,</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Held in conjunction with International Conference on System, Man and Cybernetics (IEEE SMC 2024) - Sarawak, Malaysia, 7 - 10 October 2024</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><b>IMPORTANT DATES:</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Submission Paper: April 8, 2024</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Notifications to Authors: May 30, 2024</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Camera-Ready Due : July 15, 2024</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Early-Bird Registration Deadline: July 29, 2024</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">The workshop will be in person or hybrid.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><b>AIM AND SCOPE:</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">A Brain–Computer Interface (BCI) is a computer-based system that captures Electroencephalography (EEG) signals, processes them, and translates them into commands that are transmitted
to an output device for the execution of a desired action. Thanks to their affordable cost and non-invasive nature, BCIs offer unparalleled capabilities for controlling various devices.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">The BCI paradigm seamlessly aligns with Cognitive Computation and Intelligent Systems, including human-machine systems (HMS), cognitive IoT, Edge, Healthcare, and wearable computing
applications. Leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques, these systems can predict human cognitive-related outcomes.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">However, in everyday activities, the interaction between BCIs and AI is limited. The lack of systematic approaches hampers the development of methods, applications, and services that
can seamlessly integrate with people's daily activities. This integration is crucial for predicting future actions and adapting behavior according to individuals' intentions.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">The primary objective of this special session is to bring together researchers and practitioners to present cutting-edge research results that support the advancement of BCI-based
systems and Cognitive Computation methods and approaches in the context of novel Intelligent Systems. The focus will be on introducing innovative methodologies for integrating AI algorithms and Cognitive computation methods with BCI technologies and Intelligent
Systems across various applications, such as HMS, IoT, Healthcare, Cyber-Physical-Social Systems. By doing so, the integration facilitates the ability to predict specific outcomes and offer corresponding explanations, all within the framework of explainable
AI methodologies and optimal human-centered AI.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><b>SPECIAL SESSION TOPICS:</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Topics include, but are not limited to:</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI) in Intelligent Systems</span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;">
<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">BCI for people’s daily routine systems</span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;">
<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Machine Learning (ML) for BCI Systems</span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;">
<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Cognitive Computation models for BCI systems and Intelligent Systems</span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;">
<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) in Intelligent Systems</span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;">
<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">EEG signal analysis and applications</span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;">
<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">User studies on BCI and AI usages</span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;">
<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Neuroergonomics</span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;">
<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Human-AI teaming</span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;">
<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Next generation Human-Machine Systems</span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;">
<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">BCI for Robotics</span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;">
<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Cognitive Robotic</span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><b>SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Special Session Code:
<b>7579m</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Submission guidelines:
<a href="https://www.ieeesmc2024.org/#/call-for-paper" target="_blank" id="OWA8b21931e-6297-05e2-49dd-b1276c85d9a3" class="ms-outlook-linkify OWAAutoLink" style="margin: 0px;">
https://www.ieeesmc2024.org/#/call-for-paper</a></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Submission link:
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https://conf.papercept.net/conferences/scripts/start.pl</a></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">All Special Session accepted papers will be included in the official SMC '24 proceedings. The official publication date is when the proceedings are made available in the IEEE Xplore
Digital Library (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/).</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><b>SPECIAL SESSION ORGANIZERS:</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Giuseppe D’Aniello, University of Salerno, Italy, gidaniello@unisa.it</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Domenico Lofů, Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy, domenico.lofu@poliba.it</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Elvira Brattico, Aarhus University, elvira.brattico@clin.au.dk</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Denmark Tiago Falk, University of Quebec, Canada, tiago.falk@inrs.ca</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Angela Lombardi, Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy, angela.lombardi@poliba.it</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Hasan Ayaz, Drexel University, USA, ha45@drexel.edu</span></p>
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