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[Joseph Lizier]

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 Second 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

 WORKSHOPS:
 This edition of the ACRI conference also hosts workshops on recent and 
 important research topics on theory and applications of Cellular 
 Automata like the following: Crowds and Cellular Automata (3rd edition), 
 Asynchronous Cellular Automata (2nd edition), Traffic and Cellular 
 Automata (2nd edition), and Cellular Automata Models of Cancer Growth 
 and Invasion (1st Edition). More information regarding the 
 aforementioned workshops, the corresponding important dates and special 
 issues can be found at http://acri2012.duth.gr/workshops.html

 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). Formatting style files and 
 further guidelines for formatting can be found at 
 http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html as well as at 
 http://acri2012.duth.gr/publication.html
 The submission system is now open and early submissions are welcome. 
 Please prepare your submission in accordance with the rules described 
 above and submit a pdf file via

 http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acri2012

 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)

 Committees and Workshop Chairs: http://acri2012.duth.gr/Committees.html