[alife] CALL FOR PAPERS: Workshop on Unconventional Computing

[Christof Teuscher]

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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
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Workshop on Unconventional Computing: From Cellular Automata to
Wetware

http://www.teuscher.ch/ecal2005_uc

Part of the 8th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL)
http://www.ecal2005.org
September 5 - 9, 2005
University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent (UK)

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IMPORTANT DATES:
Submission deadline:          May 20, 2005
Notification of acceptance:   June 15, 2005
Camera-ready copy due:        June 22, 2005

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WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:
For more than half a century, the von Neumann computer
architecture (i.e., the stored program concept) and the abstract
concept of the Turing machine have largely dominated computer
science in many variants and refinements. One might certainly
ask, how the future of these two major paradigms will look?
Whereas it is unlikely that they will disappear, there seems to
be a growing need for novel and unconventional computing
paradigms to face specific needs and challenges in new fields
and application domains. This quest is also motivated by the
observation that fundamental progress in several fields of
computer science sometimes seems to stagnate. For example, one
of the keys to machine intelligence is computers that learn,
and we are still just scratching the surface of this problem.
Another example is our inability to create and program complex
systems that is simply not keeping up with the desire to solve
complex problems.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together a multi-
disciplinary core of scientists who are working in the field of
unconventional computing, to provide a common ground for dialog
and interaction, to highlight the latest advances, and to
discuss the main directions for the future. We encourage
experimental, computational, and theoretical articles.

Topic of the workshop include, but are not limited to:
o chemical computing
o reaction-diffusion systems
o cellular computing
o bio- and molecular computing
o mechanical computing
o analog computation
o novel hardware architectures
o computational complexity of unconventional computers
o theory of amorphous computing
o logics of unconventional computing
o computing in nanomachines
o physical limits to mechanical computation

Papers in the field of artificial chemistries should be
submitted to the ECAL workshop on artificial chemistries.
For more info, please visit:
http://www.nis.atr.jp/~hsuzuki/confs/2005_ECAL-WS-ACA.html


PAPER SUBMISSION:
All workshop papers will be carefully reviewed by a minimum of
two independent reviewers. In addition to the official ECAL
CD-ROM proceedings, all accepted papers for this workshop will
be published in a special issue of the International Journal
of Unconventional Computing.

How to submit a paper:
o Prepare your manuscript according to the official ECAL
   submission guidelines.
o We welcome experimental, computational, and theoretical
   articles.
o Page limit: 12 pages
o Accepted file formats: pdf only
o Only complete submissions will be considered (no abstracts).
o Send your submission to: ecal2005_uc at teuscher.ch.
o A confirmation will be sent to you upon reception of your
   submission.


ORGANIZERS:
o Andy Adamatzky
   University of the West of England
   http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~aadamatz

o Christof Teuscher
   University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
   http://www.teuscher.ch/christof


CONTACT AND INQUIRIES:
Please send all inquiries to ecal2005_uc at teuscher.ch.


PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
o Andy Adamatzky, UWE, UK
o Tetsuya Asai, Hokkaido University, Japan
o Stefania Bandini, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
o Bastien Chopard, University of Geneva, Switzerland
o Peter Dittrich, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany
o Enrico Formenti, University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France
o Jerzy Gorecki, Polish Academy of Science and
   Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University, Poland
o Andrew Ilachinski, Center for Naval Analyses, USA
o Martin Kutrib, University of Giessen, Germany
o Norman Margolus, MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, USA
o Jacques Mazoyer, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France
o Julian F. Miller, University of York, UK
o Jonathan W. Mills, Indiana University, USA
o Kenichi Morita, Hiroshima University, Japan
o Nicholas G. Rambidi, Moscow State University, Russia
o Chris Salzberg, University of Tokyo, Japan
o Ken Steiglitz, Princeton University, USA
o Susan Stepney, University of York, UK
o Oliver Steinbock, Florida State University, USA
o Christof Teuscher, UC San Diego, USA
o Tommaso Toffoli, Boston University, USA
o Hiroshi Umeo, Osaka Electro-Communication University, Japan
o Burton Voorhees, Athabasca University, Canada
o Joerg R. Weimar, Technical University Braunschweig, Germany
o Thomas Worsch, Universitaet Karlsruhe, Germany
o Andrew Wuensche, DDLab and UWE, UK
o Klaus-Peter Zauner, University of Southampton, UK



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Christof Teuscher, PhD
University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
http://www.teuscher.ch/christof
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