[alife] CFP: BIONETICS 2012, 10-12 December 2012, Lugano, Switzerland

Enrico Natalizio enatalizio at deis.unical.it
Sat Aug 11 08:00:11 PDT 2012


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CALL FOR PAPERS

BIONETICS 2012
The 7th International Conference on Bio-Inspired Models
of Network, Information, and Computing Systems


10-12 December 2012, Lugano, Switzerland
www.bionetics.org
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This event is endorsed by the European Alliance for Innovation, a  
leading community-based organisation devoted to the advancement of   
innovation in the field of ICT. All accepted papers will be published   
by Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library.  
Proceedings will be submitted for indexing by Google Scholar, ISI, EI   
Compendex, Scopus, etc. Journal special track publication in Swarm  
Intelligence, Natural Computing, and other journals will be made  
available to the best papers.


*Scope*

BIONETICS 2012 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 on those  
understandings to build bio-inspired systems for problem-solving and  
engineering applications, with a special focus on: networking,  
distributed systems, information processing, multi-agent systems,  
single and multi-robot systems, biomimetics, optimization,  
bioinformatics, and modeling of biological and bio-synthetic systems.


*Topics*

BIONETICS 2012 solicits contributions dealing with the modeling and  
application of ideas from natural processes and systems.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Signal/information processing and communication models in biological systems
- Coordination and cooperation models in biological systems
- Bio-inspired formal models and methods
- Bio-inspired algorithms and mechanisms
- Bio-inspired software and hardware systems
- Biomimetics, bioengineering, and synthetic biological systems
- Modeling and simulation of bio-inspired systems, biological systems  
and synthetic biological systems
- Self-properties in bio-inspired systems, biological systems and  
synthetic biological systems
- Design and performance issues in bio-inspired systems and synthetic  
biological systems
- Design of hybrid systems combining bio-inspired methods with methods  
from different domains
- Tools, testbeds, and deployment issues in bio-inspired and synthetic  
biological systems
- Real-world applications and standardization of bio-inspired systems  
and synthetic biological systems
- Socially-aware, game theoretic, and other metaphor-driven  
interdisciplinary approaches to bio-inspired systems and synthetic  
biological systems
- Change management, interoperability, and standards


*Special Tracks*

- Organic computing systems
- Bio-inspired cooperative networking
- Engineering emergence: techniques, applications, and practice
- Bio-inspired cooperation and coordination in swarm robotics and  
multi-robot systems
- Bio-inspired learning mechanisms in single and multi-agent/component systems
- Nano-scale communications and networking
- Design and engineering of swarm systems
- Bio-inspired intrusion detection in networks and multi-robot systems
- Bio-inspired processing of audio and visual information
- Modeling and application of gene regulatory networks
- Bioinformatics


*Important Dates*

Workshop proposals:                                  August 7, 2012
Notification of acceptance for workshops: August 12, 2012
Paper submission:                                      September 20, 2012
Notification of acceptance for papers:        October 30, 2012
Camera-ready version:                               November 10, 2012


*Paper Submission*

The deadline for paper submission is September 20, 2012. Please refer  
to the www.bionetics.org website for the submission procedure. The  
maximum length for a paper is 15 pages in LNCS format. Papers will be  
reviewed by at least three reviewers according to a single blind peer  
process.


*Publications*

Accepted papers will be published in Springer's LNICST series and will  
appear in the SpringerLink, one of the largest digital libraries  
online that covers a variety of scientific disciplines, as well as in  
the ICST's own EU Digital Library (EUDL). LNICST volumes are submitted  
for inclusion to leading indexing services, including DBLP, Google
Scholar, ACM Digital Library, ISI Proceedings, EI Engineering Index,  
CrossRef, Scopus. See  
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-1068921-0 for more  
information about indexing.


*Journal Fast Track Publication*

Authors of the best papers will be invited to submit an extended  
version of their work for fast track publication either on Swarm  
intelligence (SJR 2010 impact factor 3.4) or Natural Computing (SJR  
2010 impact factor 1.2), both published by Springer.


*Conference Organising Committee*

General Chair:
Gianni Di Caro, IDSIA, Lugano, Switzerland,

Program Co-Chair:
Guy Theraulaz, Universite' Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France

Workshops and Special Sessions Chair:
Luca Gambardella, IDSIA, Switzerland

Publicity Chair:
Enrico Natalizio, INRIA Lille, France

Publication Chair:
Eduardo Feo, IDSIA, Switzerland

Web Chair:
Jawad Nagi, IDSIA, Lugano, Switzerland


Steering Committee
Imrich Chlamtac (Commitee Chair), Create-Net and University of Trento, Italy
Iacopo Carreras, Create-Net, Italy
Falko Dressler, University of Erlangen, Germany
Tadashi Nakano, Osaka University, Japan
Tatsuya Suda, University of California, Irvine, USA
Jun Suzuki, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA


Technical Program Commitee:
(Incomplete list, under construction)
Ozgur B. Akan, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Andrew Adamatzky, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
Sasi Balasubramaniam, TSSG, Waterfors Institute of Technology, Ireland
Jacob Beal, BBN Technologies, Cambridge, USA
Paolo Bellavista, DEIS, University of Bologna, Italy
Christian Blum, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Pruet Boonma, Chiang Mai University, Thailand
Marco Dorigo  IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Fabio D'Andreagiovanni, Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum fur Informationstechnik, Germany
Falko Dressler, University of Erlangen, Germany
Martin Drozda, Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany
Sima Etaner Uyar, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
Niloy Ganguly, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
Simon Garnier, Princeton University, USA
Hani Hamdan, SUPELEC, École Supérieure d'Electricité, France
Tom Holvoet, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Daniel Howard, Howard Science Limited, UK
Mark Jelasity, University of Szegad, Hungary
Michal Kudelski, IDSIA, Lugano, Switzerland
Pietro Liò, University of Cambridge, UK
Jian-Qin Liu, Kobe Advanced ICT Research Center, Japan
Ivan Lukovic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Bernd Meyer, Monash University, Clayton, Australia
Martin Middendorf, University of Leipzig, Germany
Roberto Montemanni, IDSIA, Lugano, Switzerland
Andrzej Pacut, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Tahiry Razafindralambo, INRIA Lille, France
Jun Suzuki, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA
Vito Trianni, ISTC, Rome, Italy
Thanos Vasilakos, University of Western Macedonia, Greece
Nur Zincir-Heywood, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
Yuming Zhou, Nanjing University, China


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