[alife] CFP - ACRI 2012

[Joseph Lizier]

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First Call for Papers
10TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CELLULAR AUTOMATA FOR RESEARCH AND
INDUSTRY (ACRI 2012)
Santorini Island, Greece, September 24-27, 2012
http://acri2012.duth.gr
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Cellular automata (CA) present a very powerful approach to the study of
spatio-temporal systems where complex phenomena build up out of many
simple local interactions. They account often for real phenomena or
solutions of problems, whose high complexity could unlikely be
formalised in different contexts. Furthermore parallelism and locality
features of CA allow a straightforward and extremely easy
parallelisation, therefore an immediate implementation on parallel
computing resources. These characteristics of the CA research resulted
in the formation of interdisciplinary research teams. These teams
produce remarkable research results and attract scientists from
different fields. The main goal of the 10th edition of ACRI 2012
Conference (Cellular Automata for Research and Industry) is to offer
both scientists and engineers in academies and industries an opportunity
to express and discuss their views on current trends, challenges, and
state-of-the art solutions to various problems in the fields of arts,
biology, chemistry, communication, cultural heritage, ecology, economy,
geology, engineering, medicine, physics, sociology, traffic control,
etc.
Topics of either theoretical or applied interest about CA and CA-based
models and systems include but are not limited to:
-	Algebraic properties and generalization
-	Complex systems
-	Computational complexity
-	Dynamical systems
-	Hardware circuits, architectures, systems and applications
-	Modeling of biological systems
-	Modeling of physical or chemical systems
-	Modeling of ecological and environmental systems
-	Image Processing and pattern recognition
-	Natural Computing
-	Quantum Cellular Automata
-	Parallelism

SUBMISSIONS:
Authors are invited to submit papers presenting their original and
unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 10 pages and should be
formatted according to the usual LNCS article style
(http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs). Details on the electronic
submission procedure will be provided through the website of the
conference (http://acri2012.duth.gr/).

PUBLICATION:
A volume of proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the
Lecture Notes in Computer Science series and will be available by the
time of the conference. After the conference, refereed volumes of
selected proceedings containing extended papers will be organized as
special issues of ISI international journals like Journal of Cellular
Automata.

IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper submission: March 19, 2012
Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: April 15, 2012
Final version of the paper for the proceedings: May 14, 2012
Conference: September 24-27, 2012

CONFERENCE LOCATION:
ACRI2012 will be held at Petros M. Nomikos Conference Centre, Santorini
Island, Greece.
Santorini, in an ancient island that endured one of the largest
volcanic eruptions in history, feels definetely like no other place on
earth. In Santorini, 120 miles southwest of mainland Greece, everything
is brighter: the whitewashed cube-shaped houses, the lapis lazuli sea
and the sunsets that light up the caldera. Recently, was elected by BBC
Travel as the best island in the world, while Travel&  Leisure magazine
ranked Santorini in the first place in the list of World's Top Islands
for the year 2011. Santorini as such a very popular touristic
destination is served by multiple connections via both air and sea.

URL: http://acri2012.duth.gr
Contact: acri2012 at duth.gr

Chairs
Georgios Sirakoulis (Democritus University of Thrace - Greece)
Stefania Bandini (University of Milano-Bicocca - Italy)

Steering Committee
Stefania Bandini (University of Milano-Bicocca - Italy)
Bastien Chopard (University of Geneva - Switzerland)
Giancarlo Mauri (University of Milano-Bicocca - Italy)
Hiroshi Umeo (University of Osaka Electro-Communication - Japan)
Thomas Worsch (University of Karlsruhe - Germany)