[alife] [Bio-ADIT2004] final CFP and extension of submission deadline: 19 Sept.

[Bio-ADIT2004]

Bio-ADIT 2004 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS 
   + 2-WEEK SUBMISSION EXTENSION: SEPTEMBER 19, 2003

The First International Workshop on 
Biologically Inspired Approaches to Advanced Information Technology

January 29 - 30, 2004

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland

Web site: http://lslwww.epfl.ch/bio-adit2004

Sponsored by 
- Osaka University Forum
- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL)
- The 21st Century Center of Excellence Program of
  The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and
  Technology (MEXT), Japan, under the Program Title 
  "Opening Up New Information Technologies for Building 
  a Networked Symbiosis Environment"


Biologically inspired approaches have already proved successful in
achieving major breakthroughs in a wide variety of problems in
information technology (IT).  A more recent trend is to explore the
applicability of bio-inspired approaches to the development of
self-organizing, evolving, adaptive and autonomous information
technologies, which will meet the requirements of next-generation
information systems, such as diversity, scalability, robustness, and
resilience.  These new technologies will become a base on which to
build a networked symbiotic environment for pleasant, symbiotic
society of human beings in the 21st century.

Bio-ADIT 2004 will be the first international workshop to present
original research results in the field of bio-inspired approaches to
advanced information technologies.  It will also serve to foster the
connection between biological paradigms and solutions to building the
next-generation information systems.

SCOPE: 

The primary focus of the workshop is on new and original research
results in the areas of information systems inspired by biology. We
invite you to submit papers that present novel, challenging, and
innovative results.  The topics include all aspects of bio-inspired
information technologies in networks, distributed/parallel systems,
hardware (including robotics) and software.  We also encourage you to
submit papers dealing with:
  - Self-organizing, self-repairing, self-replicating and
    self-stabilizing systems
  - Evolving and adapting systems
  - Autonomous and evolutionary software and robotic systems
  - Scalable, robust and resilient systems
  - Complex biosystems 
  - Gene, protein and metabolic networks
  - Symbiosis networks

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

Authors are invited to submit complete and original papers.  Papers
submitted should not have been previously published in any forum, nor
be under review for any journal or other conference.  All submitted
papers will be refereed for quality, correctness, originality and
relevance.  All accepted papers will be published in the conference
proceedings.  It is also planned to publish accepted papers as a book.
Manuscripts should include an abstract and be limited to 16 pages in
single spaced and single column format.  Submissions should include
the title, author(s), author's affiliation, e-mail address, fax number
and postal address. In the case of multiple authors, an indication of
which author is responsible for correspondence and preparing the
camera ready paper should also be included.  Electronic submission is
strongly encouraged. Preferred file formats are PDF (.pdf) or
Postscript (.ps).  Visit our Web site at
http://lslwww.epfl.ch/bio-adit2004/ for more information.  Please
contact Dr. Murata if you have to submit hard copies.  Manuscripts
should be submitted by September 5, 2003 through the Bio-ADIT Web
site. Please contact the technical program co-chairs for any
questions:

Professor Auke Jan Ijspeert
School of Computer and Communication Sciences
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL)
CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland 
Tel:  +41-21-693-2658
Fax:  +41-21-693-3705
E-mail: Auke.Ijspeert at epfl.ch

Professor Masayuki Murata
Cybermedia Center
Osaka University
1-32 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan
Tel: +81-6-6850-6860
Fax: +81-6-6850-6868
E-mail: murata at cmc.osaka-u.ac.jp

STUDENT TRAVEL GRANTS 

A limited number of travel grants will be provided for students
attending Bio-ADIT 2004. Details of how to apply for a student travel
grant will be posted on the workshop Web site.

IMPORTANT DATES:  

Paper submission deadline : September 19, 2003 (NEW!)
Notification of acceptance: November 3, 2003
Camera ready papers due   : December 1, 2003

WEB SITE:

An electronic paper submission system is up and ready from July 1,
2003 to accept on-line paper submissions for Bio-ADIT. Please visit
our Web site at http://lslwww.epfl.ch/bio-adit2004/ for more
up-to-date information.

REGISTRATION:

Thanks to the generous support from the sponsors, we expect that 
the total registration fee for the conference (including 
pre-proceedings and lunches) will be fixed to only 55.- CHF 
(Swiss Francs). 


EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE:

General Co-Chairs:
   Daniel Mange  (EPFL, Switzerland)
   Shojiro Nishio (Osaka Univ., Japan)
Technical Program Committee Co-Chairs:
   Auke Jan Ijspeert (EPFL, Switzerland)
   Masayuki Murata (Osaka Univ., Japan)
Finance Chairs: 
   Marlyse Taric (EPFL, Switzerland)
   Toshimitsu Masuzawa (Osaka Univ., Japan)
Publicity Chairs: 
   Christof Teuscher (EPFL, Switzerland)
   Takao Onoye (Osaka Univ., Japan)
Publications Chair: 
   Naoki Wakamiya (Osaka Univ., Japan)
Local Arrangements Chair: 
   Carlos Andres Pena-Reyes (EPFL, Switzerland)
Internet Chair: 
   Jonas Buchli (EPFL, Switzerland)

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Co-Chairs:
   Auke Jan Ijspeert (EPFL, Switzerland)
   Masayuki Murata (Osaka Univ., Japan)

Members:
   Michael A. Arbib (Univ. of Southern California, USA)
   Aude Billard (EPFL, Switzerland)
   Takeshi Fukuda (IBM Tokyo Research Lab., Japan)
   Katsuro Inoue (Osaka Univ., Japan)
   Wolfgang Maass (Graz Univ. of Technology, Austria) 
   Ian W. Marshall (BTexact Technologies, UK)
   Toshimitsu Masuzawa (Osaka Univ., Japan) 
   Alberto Montresor (Univ. of Bologna, Italy)
   Stefano Nolfi (ISTC, CNR, Italy)
   Takao Onoye (Osaka Univ., Japan)
   Rolf Pfeifer (Univ. of Zurich, Switzerland)
   Eduardo Sanchez (EPFL, Switzerland)
   Hiroshi Shimizu (Osaka Univ., Japan)
   Moshe Sipper (Ben-Gurion Univ., Israel)
   Gregory Stephanopoulos (MIT, USA)
   Adrian Stoica (Jet Propulsion Lab., USA)
   Gianluca Tempesti (EPFL, Switzerland)
   Naoki Wakamiya (Osaka Univ., Japan)
   Hans V. Westerhoff (Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
   Xin Yao (Univ. of Birmingham, UK)