[alife] CFP 6th IWNC

yasuhiro suzuki hapticahaptico at gmail.com
Wed Feb 29 22:48:32 PST 2012


     C A L L   F O R   A B S T R A C T S
  6th International Workshop on Natural Computing
                  28- 30 March 2012
 Sanjo Conference Hall, The University of Tokyo, JAPAN
 URL:http://natural-computing.com/IWNC6

Organized by: SIGNAC, Japanese Society for Artificial
Intelligence (programming and organizing committees),
http://sci-lab.nsf.tc/pukiwiki/
                                   and
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas
"Synthetic biology for the comprehension of biomolecular
networks", of The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports,
Science, and Technology, Japan, http://www.syn-biol.com/

Computation is an intrinsic feature of natural and artificial
systems because almost all of them can transform information
in a predictable or programmable way. We witness experimental
prototypes of natural computers: plasmodium computers,
reaction-diffusion processors, amorphous computers, DNA computers,
and theoretical paradigms: cellular automata, artificial chemistry,
P-systems, evolutionary computing, neural networks. Fine mechanics
of computation may significantly differ from system to system and
even be somewhere ambiguous. And the most important related
scientific areas of the natural computing are the synthetic
biology and computational aesthetics.

This workshop aims to bring together computer scientists,
biologists, mathematicians, electronic engineers, physicists,
designer artists philosophers and aestheticians, to critically
assess present findings in the field, and to outline future
developments in natural computing.

We publish the post-ceedings from Springer Verlag.

::Special Session of "Science of Harness"
- Yasuhiro Suzuki (Nagoya Univ.) Introduction
- Kyoko Shinya (Kobe Univ.) "Possible? Modification of severe
influenza diseases by harness"

::Symposium of "Computational Aesthetics and Natural Computing"
- Fuminori Akiba (Nagoya Univ.) Introduction
- Miki Goan (ATR Labs) "Perceiving a picture is also understanding
a manufacture processes of painting"

Topics (alphabetic ordered):
Aesthetics/Art/Design:
Aesthetics, Music, Art and Design: Theory and Philosophical aspects of
art and design, Computational aesthetics, Media Art and other
related topics.

Biology and its theory:
Synthetic biology, Molecular biology, Life Science, Ecology,
Systems biology, Mathematical Biology, etc.

Bio-inspired computing:
Ant Algorithm, Bees Algorithm, Swarm intelligence, etc

Computational Model and theory:
Artificial Chemistry, Artificial Life, Cellular Automaton, DNA
computing, Evaluational Computation, Genetic Algorithm, Multi
Agent Systems, Optical computing, Reaction-Diffusion computing,
P systems, MP Systems, S Systems, L Systems, Chemical Automata,
Petri Net, Formal Language, Multiset computing, etc.

Computing with Natural media:
Slime-mold computing, Computing with chemical reaction,
Reaction-diffusion computing, and other unconventional computing
models, etc.

Other related topics:
for example, Robotics, Psychology, Science and Technology of Tactile
Sense, Human Agent Interaction, Philosophy, Cognitive Science,
Visualization, Educational Technology, Virtual Reality, Multi media,
etc...

Submission:
Please send following information to: iwnc6 at natural-computing.com

To:iwnc6 at natural-computing.com
Subject:IWNC6 submission
------------------------
Title:
Author(s):
Affiliation (of each author)
Abstract (300-500 wds length)

*All submissions are accepted for oral presentation.
**Abstracts which is suitable for the special session or symposium
would be selected for presentation in there.

Publishing:
All submitted abstracts are published in the workshop booklet
from Japanese Society of Artificial Intelligence (with ISBN code)
and we will publish the post-ceedings of the workshop from the
Springer Verlag. After the workshop, we will call for papers to the
volume, all submitted papers are reviewed and selected papers
are published.

Registration:
Important Date
20    March 2012 Deadline of Abstract Submission
28-30 March 2012 Workshop
1     May   2012 Dead line of submitting paper for post-ceedings
1     June  2012 Notification
1     July  2012 Deadline of the Camera Ready

Registration Fee:
No presentation: Free (workshop booklet can buy (3,500 JPN))
Presentation fee: 35,000 JPN (with abstract booklet)
*we accept on-site payment, only

Access:Sanjo Conference Hall, The University of Tokyo,
Hongo Campus
http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/access.html

Contact: iwnc6 at natural-computing.com,
(yasuhiro SUZUKI, Nagoya U.)



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