[alife] DEADLINE EXTENSION: STCAN 2010 -- Regular paper submission deadline now July 30, 2010

[Hiroki Sayama]

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**  Deadline Extension: July 30th, 2010 (for regular papers)   **
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                           CALL FOR PAPERS

                             STCAN 2010:
   Special Track on State-Topology Coevolution in Adaptive Networks

                          In BIONETICS 2010

            December 1-3, 2010, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

               http://www.bionetics.org/sp/stcan.shtml

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Aim and Scope

Complex network research has so far addressed mostly either "dynamics
on networks" (state transition on a network with a fixed topology) or
"dynamics of networks" (topological transformation of a network with
no dynamic state changes). In many real-world complex biological and
social networks, however, these two dynamics interact with each other
and coevolve over the same time scales. Modeling and predicting
state-topology coevolution is now recognized as one of the most
significant challenges in complex network science.

This Special Track solicits theoretical, computational, experimental
and/or application-oriented research on any aspects of the
state-topology coevolution of complex networks---either biological,
social, or engineered. Its goals are to promote the growth of a
research community on this emerging new field of network research, to
help develop a common conceptual "language" for modeling, analyzing
and discussing the state-topology coevolution of various real-world
complex adaptive networks, and thereby to galvanize interdisciplinary
discussion and collaboration across many different areas of
applications.

The relevant topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Theoretical foundations
* Mathematical/analytical approaches
* Statistical/machine learning approaches
* Computational modeling/simulation tools
* Real-world examples
* Applications to biological network modeling
* Applications to social network modeling
* Applications to engineered network design
* Historical review

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Keynote Speaker

Thilo Gross (Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, 
Germany)

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Program Committee Members

Alain Barrat (Centre de Physique Théorique, Marseille, France)
Kevin Bassler (University of Houston, USA)
René Doursat (ISC-PIF, France)
Gourab Ghoshal (Northeastern University, USA)
*Thilo Gross (Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, 
Germany)
Chrystopher Nehaniv (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
Jorge Pacheco (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
*Hiroki Sayama (Binghamton University, State University of New York, USA)
Reiji Suzuki (Nagoya University, Japan)
Leah Shaw (College of William and Mary, USA)
Kohji Tomita (AIST, Japan)

* Track Co-Chairs

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Paper Submission Instructions

Authors are invited to submit papers in the following categories:

  * Regular papers: Up to 15 pages
  * Short papers: Up to 2 pages
  * Work-in-progress papers: Up to 6 pages
  * Demo papers: Up to 4 pages

Submissions must be in the Springer LNCS format
(http://www.springeronline.com/lncs/). All papers will be handled
electronically. Please visit
http://www.bionetics.org/submissions.shtml for detailed submission
requirements and procedures.

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Important Dates

Regular paper submission due: July 30  ** EXTENDED DEADLINE **
Short, work-in-progress and demo paper submission due: September 19
Notification of acceptance for regular papers: September 12
Notification of acceptance for other papers: September 30
Camera ready due: October 10

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Publication

All accepted paper will be published by Springer. A selected number of
best papers will be considered for publication in leading journals
such as:

  * ACM Trans. on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems
  * Int'l Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems
  * Elsevier Nano Communication Networks Journal

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Contact

Hiroki Sayama, D.Sc.
Director, Collective Dynamics of Complex Systems Research Group
Assistant Professor, Departments of Bioengineering &
Systems Science and Industrial Engineering
Binghamton University, State University of New York
Affiliate, New England Complex Systems Institute
P.O. Box 6000, Binghamton, NY 13902-6000
Tel 1-607-777-4439, Fax 1-607-777-5780
Email: sayama at binghamton.edu
http://bingweb.binghamton.edu/~sayama/
http://coco.binghamton.edu/