[alife] Call For Papers Intern. Workshop on Natural Computing

[yasuhiro suzuki]

C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S

2nd International Workshop on Natural Computing

Dec.10-12, 2007  http://sci-lab.nsf.tc/IWNC

Noyori Conference Hall, Nagoya University, JAPAN

Sponsored by Special Interest Group on NAtural Computing, Japanese Society
for Artificial Intelligence

Co-sponsored by Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University

 

SCOPE and TOPICS 

Computation is an intrinsic feature of natural and artificial systems
because almost all of them can transform information in a predictable or
programmable way. We witness experimental prototypes of natural computers:
plasmodium computers, reaction-diffusion processors, amorphous computers,
DNA computers, and theoretical paradigms: cellular Automata, artificial
chemistries, P-systems, evolutionary 

computing, neural networks. Fine mechanics of computation may significantly
differ from system to system, and even be somewhere ambiguous. Present
workshop aims to bring together computer scientists, biologists,
mathematicians, electronic engineers, physicists and humanitarians, to
critically assess present findings in the field, and to outline future
developments in nature-inspired computing.

 

*Cellular Automata: structure formation, self-reproduction, evolutionary
games, image processing, cryptography, random number generation,
computational universality, traffic dynamics, alternative discrete-physics
models, tiling, population dynamics,

*Computation with pattern formation: reaction diffusion computations, Slime
mold computing, amorphous computations, Computing with belousov zhabotinsky
reaction, computing device inspired by biochemical reactions, 

*DNA / Molecular computation: biomolecular information processing,
biomolecular computers, theoretical models and analyses, implementation in
vitro and in vivo, self-assembled systems, 

*Molecular Communication: communication among biological nanomachines,
network of nanoscale structures, computation with liposome, 

*Unconventional Computation: artificial Chemistries, P systems, computation
that go beyond the Turing model, 

*Understanding nature as computation: (computational) Systems biology,
complex networks, artificial life, ecosystems, traffic dynamics (in a cell),


*Theoretical framework: ultradiscretization, computing with few bodies,
dynamical system theory for discrete systems, cristarization, Tropical, etc.

*Understanding Human / Social activities as computation: social networks,
computational cognitive science, multi-sensory design, computational
humanity research, (contributions that do not include "computational"
aspects would be out of scope of the workshop)

*All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and
selected papers will be published in International Journals.

 

Important Dates

26 August 2007: Paper submission deadline 

2 September 2007: Poster submission deadline 

15 September 2007: Notification of acceptance 

1 October 2007: Accepted papers submission. 

10 October 2007: Early registration deadline 

10-12 December 2007: Workshop

 

Chairs and Steering Committee 

Yasuhiro Suzuki, Nagoya University, Chair, Andrew Admatzky, University of
West England, Bristol, co-chair,  Masami Hagiya, Tokyo University, co-chair,
Hiroshi Umeo, Osaka Electro-Communication University, Co-Chair