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BIONETICS 2010 - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - http://bionetics.org/

5th Int'l ICST Conference on Bio-Inspired Models of
Network, Information and Computing Systems

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

Sponsored by ICST
Technically co-sponsored by CREATE-NET
In cooperation with ACM SIGSIM
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BIONETICS 2010 aims to provide a world-leading and unique opportunity for
bringing together researchers and practitioners from diverse disciplines
that seek the understanding of the fundamental principles and design
strategies in biological systems and leverage those understandings to
build bio-inspired systems.

Registration is now available at http://bionetics.org/. Early registration
will end at November 1, 2010.


KEYNOTES:
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* Radhika Nagpal, Harvard University

* Cheng Li, Harvard School of Public Health and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

* Karl Lieberherr, Northeastern University

* Thilo Gross, Max Planck Institute, Germany

* Rezarta Islamaj, National Institutes of Health


FEATURED SPEAKERS AT CO-LOCATED WORKSHOPS:
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* Kenneth De Jong, George Mason University

* Amarda Shehu, George Mason University

* Marc Pomplun, University of Massachusetts, Boston


BEST PAPERS:
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* "Infrastructure Optimization of Flight-Formation Inspired
Self-organization for Address Configuration in Sensor Networks" by Rui
Teng, Bing Zhang, Jianqin Liu (National Institute of Information and
Communications Technology, Japan).

* "Enhancing Sampling of the Conformational Space Near the Protein Native
State" by Brian Olson et al. (George Mason University)

* "An Evolutionary Game Theoretic Framework for Adaptive, Cooperative and
Stable Network Applications" by Chonho Lee et al. (University of
Massachusetts, Boston)


SPECIAL TRACKS:
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* Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering
* Artificial Life and Bio-Inspired Robotics
* Bioinformatics
* Bio-Inspired Machine Vision
* Game Theory and its Applications
* Network-Based Computation
* State-Topology Coevolution in Adaptive Networks


CO-LOCATED WORKSHOPS:
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* Workshop on Bio-inspired Approaches to Advanced Computing and
Communications
* Workshop on Bio-inspired Models and Technologies for Ambient Information
Society
* Workshop on Evolutionary Computation and Machine Learning in Bioinformatics


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
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General Chair
Jun Suzuki, University of Massachusetts, Boston

TPC Chair
Tadashi Nakano, Osaka University, Japan

See http://bionetics.org/committees.shtml for the complete list of
organizing committee members.