CLOSED Call for Papers: Special Issue on Software, Hardware, and Applications for Neuromorphic Computing

Inspired by biological neural systems, neuromorphic computing has drawn much attention for its great potential of achieving machine intelligence at extremely low energy dissipation. Bio-inspired computing models have been investigated for information encoding, sparse representation, event-driven communication/computation, and online learning. This new computing paradigm triggered a recent wave of innovations in software and hardware architecture and emerging device technology, which consequently enabled many novel applications. This is an exemplar research area where the application, computing model, architecture, and circuit-level design are closely coupled to deliver unprecedented functionality and energy efficiency.

This special issue of IEEE Transactions on Computers will explore academic and industrial research on all topics related to neuromorphic computing, from computing model, software, and hardware architecture to application design. Topics of interest to this special issue include, but not limited to:

Network, neuron, and synapse models of bio-inspired and spiking neural networks

Non-von Neumann computing architectures

Emerging devices and hardware implementations

Supervised or unsupervised learning in neuromorphic computing systems

Biologically inspired network structure and computing models

Applications where neuromorphic systems have the potential to outperform state-of-the-art techniques

Online learning and real-time applications of neuromorphic systems

Application, computing model, and hardware architecture co-design for neuromorphic systems

Important Dates

Submission Deadline: 1 November 2021

Reviews Completed: December 15, 2021

Major Revisions Due: February 1, 2022

Reviews of Revisions Completed: March 15, 2022

Notification of Final Acceptance: April 15, 2022

Publication Materials for Final Manuscripts Due: May 1, 2022

Publication: July 2022

Submission Guidelines

Submitted papers must include new significant research-based technical contributions in the scope of the journal. Papers under review elsewhere are not acceptable for submission. Extended versions of published conference papers (to be included as part of the submission together with a summary of differences) are welcome, but there must be at least 30% new impacting technical/scientific material in the submitted journal version, and there should be less than 50% verbatim similarity level as reported by a tool (such as CrossRef). Guidelines concerning the submission process and LaTeX and Word templates can be found on the Author Information webpage. While submitting through ScholarOne, please select this special-issue option. As per TC policies, only full-length papers (12 pages) can be submitted to special issues, and each author’s bio should not exceed 150 words.