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UCNC 2014 - 3RD CALL FOR PAPERS

The 13th International Conference on
Unconventional Computation & Natural Computation
University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
July 14-18, 2014

http://www.csd.uwo.ca/ucnc2014
http://www.facebook.com/UCNC2014
https://twitter.com/UCNC2014

Submission deadline: March 7, 2014

OVERVIEW

The International Conference on Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation has
been a meeting where scientists with different backgrounds, yet sharing a common interest
in novel forms of computation, human-designed computation inspired by nature, and the
computational aspects of processes taking place in nature, present their latest results. Papers
and poster presentations are sought in all areas, theoretical or experimental, that relate to
unconventional computation and natural computation. Typical, but not exclusive, topics are:

* Molecular (DNA) computing, Quantum computing, Optical computing, Hypercomputation -
relativistic computation, Chaos computing, Physarum computing, Computation in hyperbolic
spaces, Collision-based computing, Computations beyond the Turing model;

* Cellular automata, Neural computation, Evolutionary computation, Swarm intelligence,
Ant algorithms, Artificial immune systems, Artificial life, Membrane computing,
Amorphous computing;

* Computational Systems Biology, Genetic networks, Protein-protein networks, Transport
networks, Synthetic biology, Cellular (in vivo) computing.

INVITED PLENARY SPEAKERS

Yaakov Benenson (ETH Zurich) - "Molecular computing meets synthetic biology"
Charles Bennett (IBM Research) - "Thermodynamics of computation and self-organization"
Hod Lipson (Cornell University) - "The robotic scientist"
Nadrian Seeman (New York University) - "DNA: not merely the secret of life"

INVITED TUTORIAL SPEAKERS

Anne Condon (University of British Columbia) - "Programming with biomolecules"
Ming Li (University of Waterloo) - "Approximating semantics"
Tommaso Toffoli (Boston University) - "Do we compute to live, or live to compute?"

WORKSHOPS

Computational Neuroscience - Organizer: Mark Daley (University of Western Ontario)
DNA Computing by Self-Assembly - Organizer: Matthew Patitz (University of Arkansas)
Unconventional Computation in Europe - Organizers: Martyn Amos (Manchester Metropolitan University),
Susan Stepney (University of York)

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: March 7, 2014
Notification of acceptance: April 7, 2014
Final versions due: April 27, 2014
Conference: July 14-18, 2014

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS

Authors are invited to submit original papers (at most 12 pages in LNCS format) or one-page
poster abstracts using the link https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ucnc2014
Papers must be submitted in Portable Document Format (PDF). The revised version of the
manuscripts, to appear in a LNCS volume by Springer available at the conference venue,
must be prepared in LATEX, see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors
The papers must not have been submitted simultaneously to other conferences with published
proceedings. All accepted papers must be presented at the conference. Selected papers
will appear in a special issue of Natural Computing.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Andrew Adamatzky (University of the West of England, UK)
Selim G. Akl (Queen's University, Canada)
Eshel Ben-Jacob (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)
Cristian S. Calude (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Jose Felix Costa (IST University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Erzsebet Csuhaj-Varju (Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary)
Alberto Dennunzio (Universita degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
Marco Dorigo (Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
Jerome Durand-Lose (Universite d'Orleans, France)
Masami Hagiya (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Oscar H. Ibarra (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, Co-Chair)
Kazuo Iwama (Kyoto University, Japan)
Jarkko Kari (University of Turku, Finland)
Lila Kari (University of Western Ontario, Canada, Co-Chair)
Viv Kendon (University of Leeds, UK)
Kamala Krithivasan (IIT Madras, India)
Giancarlo Mauri (Universita degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
Yongli Mi (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China)
Mario J. Perez-Jimenez (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain)
Kai Salomaa (Queen's University, Canada)
Hava Siegelmann (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)
Susan Stepney (University of York, UK)
Damien Woods (California Institute of Technology, USA)
Byoung-Tak Zhang (Seoul National University, Korea)