BLISS 2009 was held in Edinburgh, Scotland's Capital
Following the success of BLISS 2007 & 2008, the 3rd International Symposium on Bio-inspired, Learning, and Intelligent Systems for Security, BLISS 2009 took place in Edinburgh during its famous festival, between 20 to 22 of August.
BLISS News
Sessions and Highland tour pictures
The highland tour was enjoyed by the participants, thanks for the great sunny day with amazing Scottish weather. It was a tour around Scotland, starting with the west by visiting Glasgow city, then toward the north for the Loch Lomond and a fantastic one hour boat trip on the loch. Other visited places were the Aberfoyle, Loch Katrina, The highland cow (Hamish) and finalized by a visit to Stirling and its famous Castle.
The symposium and the tour pictures are available on this link, the pictures will be regularly updated with the new pictures we received from participants.
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Best Paper Award for Real World Applications
BLISS 2009 Best Paper Award for Real World Applications to Charlie Frowd, Anna Petkovic, Kamran Nawaz, and Yasmeen Bashir, for their contribution titled "Automating the Processes Involved in Facial Composite Production and Identification". A picture of Charlie Frowd while receiving the award certificate from Adrian Stoica.
BLISS Best Paper Award for Scientific Contribution
Best Paper Award for Scientific Contribution to Steven C. Dakin and Roger J. Watt, for their contribution titled "Finding and Discriminating Faces Using Biological Barcodes".
Special Award
Special Award to Prof. Wael Adi, Technische Universitaet Braunschweig, Germany, in recognition of his Innovative contribution to hardware security applications at the 2009 International Symposium on Bio-inspired, Learning, and Intelligent Systems for Security.
BLISS Final Program
BLISS final program is avaliable now, details here.
BLISS 2009 Program
BLISS preliminary program is avaliable now, details here.
BLISS 2009 Venue
BLISS 2009 will take place at the University of Edinburgh KINGS BUILDINGS CAMPUS at the south of Edinburgh. While the conference dinner will be in the heart of the city at the Radisson Hotel. For full details and maps please click here
The Highland tour on 22nd August
The tour will depart at 09.00hrs. The Tour includs going to Loch Lomond including a boat trip there, then Aberfoyle at 13.15hrs for a 1 hour lunch stop. After lunch the tour travels through the Trossachs and to Loch Katrine where is a walkway/cycle path on the side of the Loch where we could go for a walk, thereafter we will go to Stirling. Finally the tour to arrive in Edinburgh for 18.00hrs.
Information Security Course
Information Security: Design Fundamentals and Selected Research Topics Course will take place at The University of Edinburgh for a 3-day intensive course on August 17-18-19 2009. The course is going to be delivered by Prof. Wael Adi from the Institute of Computer and Communication Network Engineering, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany. See attached flyer for more details. The cost to BLISS attendees is just £250, you can register through BLISS registration website. For full details please check the course flyer here. Places are limited so please register early.
Registration is Open
Registration link now is live, please see details on the registration page. Please note that the deadline for registering paper's authors is July 17, 2009 in order to have the paper published in the symposium proceedings.
Accommodation Bookings
To the BLISS 2009 Papers' Authors, Program committee members and attendees, we would like to remind you to reserve you accommodation now, as the Edinburgh Festival is a famous event that attracts millions to Edinburgh to attend (even during the economic recession - already some of the hotels and B&Bs are fully booked for all August).
Camera Ready instructions submitted to accepted papers
We would like to thank the reviewers for the great effort of reviewing all the submission, and ensuring the high quality of BLISS 2009 papers.
The acceptance/rejection emails have been circulated to the contact authors. Camera ready instructions have been emailed to the accepted papers.
Hope to see you all in Edinburgh this year.
Paper Submission Deadline Extended
Due to the Easter break in Europe, we have extended our deadline until May 3rd. BLISS important dates.
Special Sessions Announcement
We would like to thank all who take the effort and submitted special sessions proposals. As the deadline for special sessions Proposals has passed, we are proud to announce BLISS 2009 special sessions on the following link (BLISS 2009 - Special Sessions).
BLISS 2009 Tutorial and Special Sessions Proposals
Tutorials and Special Sessions Proposals deadline is approaching, so if you intend to propose any of them please do so by emailing Adrian Stoica (adrian.stoica@jpl.nasa.gov) before 20th March 2009.
BLISS 2008 Proceeding online
BLISS 2008 proceeding is now available online on the IEEE Xplore (Here)
BLISS 2008 Best paper Award
Award for best paper won by K. Harmer, W. Sheng, G. Howells, M. Fairhurst & F. Deravi, University of Kent, UK for the paper "Fuzzy Vault Fingerprint Smartcard Implementation Using an Orientation-Based Feature Vector".
BLISS 2009
This symposium is of interest to developers and users of reliable, versatile and intelligent systems* needed by a broad range of security applications. Examples of such applications are: the detection and prevention of cyber-crimes and identity theft, internet security, security of financial systems, security of public transportation systems, emergency response systems (e.g. combining space-based systems with geographical information systems), etc. Systems with different degrees of autonomy of operation benefit greatly from incorporating aspects and mechanisms that are found in a broad range of biological systems: from survivability and adaptation of the simple living structures to learning, creativity, cognition and various forms of intelligence that are normally associated with humans. The symposium will bring together: (a) investigators of bio-inspired and intelligent techniques (more exactly, techniques that increase the machine intelligence quotient (MIQ), such as, for example, techniques of Artificial Intelligence) and their implementations on high-performance systems with (b) real-world application developers, project managers, system integrators and end users of security applications.
