BICA 2025 is the 16th Annual International Conference on Brain-Inspired Cognitive Architectures for Artificial Intelligence, which is also the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the BICA Society. Started as a continuation of AAAI Fall Symposia on BICA (2008, 2009), the BICA conference demonstrated a steady growth in popularity over years, with remarkable success in many parts of the world (2010, 2011: Washington, D.C.; 2012: Palermo, Italy; 2013: Kiev, Ukraine; 2014: MIT, Boston, MA; 2015: Lyon, France; 2016: New York, USA; 2017: Moscow, Russia; 2018: Prague, Czech Republic; 2019, 2024: Seattle, WA, USA; 2020: Natal, Brazil; 2021: Kyoto, Japan and Vienna, Austria; 2022: Guadalajara, Mexico; 2023: Ningbo, China). This year's BICA conference will be held in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, in a hybrid format (online and face-to-face).

Brain-Inspired Cognitive Architectures (BICA) are computational frameworks for building intelligent agents that are inspired by natural intelligence.  Biological intelligent systems, notably the human brain, have many qualities that are often lacking in artificially designed systems including robustness, flexibility and adaptability to environments.  At a point in time where visibility into naturally intelligent systems is exploding, thanks to modern brain imaging and recording techniques allowing us to map brain structures and functions, our ability to learn lessons from nature and to build brain-inspired intelligent systems has never been greater.  At the same time, the growth in computer science and technology has unleashed enough computational power at sufficiently low prices, that an explosion of intelligent applications from driverless vehicles, to augmented reality, to ubiquitous robots, is now almost certain.  The growth in these fields challenges the computational replication of all essential aspects of the human mind (the BICA Challenge), an endeavor which is interdisciplinary in nature and promises to yield bi-directional flow of understanding between all involved disciplines.

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

• Full papers describing new exciting advances or preliminary results in experiment, theory, modeling, or technology;
• Position papers describing original visions of an area, a problem, or a challenge, supported by a minireview;
• Abstracts for online posting only (without publication), describing a talk, a demo, a discussion panel, or a poster.

All contributions will be peer-reviewed. Papers can be either published in Springer's Studies in Computational Intelligence (SCI) or recommended for publication in Elsevier's Cognitive Systems Research (CSR). The choice of the publication venue is made by decision of the Program Committee; however, authors should indicate acceptable publication options (when prompted during the submission process).

List of Topics

• Bio-inspired Artificial Intelligence
• Cognitive Science
• Neuroscience
• Intelligent cognitive systems
• Social emotional robots
• Human analogous learning
• Artificial creativity

Venue

The conference will be held in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, on August 6-10. Please find more details at the conference website:  https://www.bicaai.org

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to Félix Ramos (felix.ramos@cinvestav.mx) or Antonio Cervantes (antonio.alvarez@academicos.udg.mx)