[alife] Call for Papers: BICT 2014 Special Track on Morphogenetic Collective Systems (December 1-3, 2014, Boston, MA)

[Hiroki Sayama]

Call for Papers: BICT 2014: Eighth International Conference on Bio-inspired 
Information and Communications Technologies (formerly called BIONETICS)
Special Track on Morphogenetic Collective Systems (MCS)

December 1 - December 3, 2014
Boston, MA, USA

http://bionetics.org/2014/show/workshop-mcs

Real-world biological collectives show various kinds of complex phenomena, 
such as multi-cellular organisms' morphogenesis and physiological control, 
colony building and maintenance by termites, and growth and 
self-organization of human social systems. These systems operate with 
emergent, yet highly sophisticated, internal regulation mechanisms that 
typically involve (1) heterogeneity of components, (2) dynamic 
differentiation/re-differentiation of components, and (3) local information 
sharing among components. These features are often omitted in traditional 
models of collective behaviors, yet the dynamics and capabilities of such 
morphogenetic collective systems have high relevance to scientific inquiries 
and great potential for applications in engineering, computer science and 
ICT.

This special track seeks high-quality, original contributions on a wide 
variety of topics relevant to morphogenetic collective systems. Topics of 
interest include (but are not limited to):
  * Theories and models of morphogenetic collective systems
  * Pattern formation, self-organization and self-repair
  * Biological examples of morphogenetic collective systems
  * Socio-economical examples of morphogenetic collective systems
  * Novel behaviors of morphogenetic swarms
  * Evolution of morphogenetic collective systems
  * Design and programming of morphogenetic collective systems
  * Algorithms based on or inspired by morphogenetic collective systems
  * Applications to computational problem solving
  * Applications to information and communication network design
  * Applications to robotics and engineering
  * Applications to biology/biomedicine

IMPORTANT DATES:
Regular paper submission due:     August 25 [extended from regular 
submission deadline]
Notification for regular papers:     September 15
Short, work-in-progress paper submission due:     September 22
Notification for short, work-in-progress papers:     October 6
Camera ready due:     October 13

PAPER SUBMISSION:
Authors are invited to submit regular papers (up to 8 pages each), short 
papers (up to 4 pages each) or poster/demo papers (up to 2 pages each) in 
ACM's paper template. Up to two extra pages are allowed for each paper with 
extra page charges. See http://bionetics.org/2014/show/initial-submission 
for more details.

PUBLICATION:
All accepted paper will be published through ACM Digital Library and 
submitted for indexing by SI, EI Compendex, Scopus, ACM Library, Google 
Scholar and many more. Selected papers will be considered for publication in 
leading journals including:
  * ACM/Springer Mobile Networks and Applications
  * Elsevier Information Sciences
  * Elsevier Nano Communication Networks Journal
  * Int'l Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering
  * Cloud-integrated Cyber-Physical Systems (Springer book)

TRACK CHAIR:
Hiroki Sayama
Binghamton University, State University of New York
Binghamton, NY, USA

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Jacob Beal (BBN Technologies, USA)
Sylvain Cussat-Blanc (University of Toulouse, France)
Rene Doursat (Drexel University, USA)
Sebastian von Mammen (University of Augsburg, Germany)
(More PC members TBA)


-- 
Hiroki Sayama, D.Sc.
Director, Collective Dynamics of Complex Systems Research Group
Associate Professor, Departments of Bioengineering & Systems Science and 
Industrial Engineering
Director, Advanced Graduate Certificate Program in Complex Systems Science 
and Engineering
Binghamton University, State University of New York
Affiliate, New England Complex Systems Institute
Visiting Research Associate Professor, Center for Complex Network Research, 
Northeastern University
sayama at binghamton.edu
http://bingweb.binghamton.edu/~sayama/
http://coco.binghamton.edu/