[alife] 2nd CfP: 15th Unconventional Computation & Natural Computation Conference, Manchester UK, July 11-15

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The Fifteenth Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation Conference - UCNC 2016

July 11-15, 2016
Manchester, United Kingdom.

Submission deadline: March 15, 2016.

http://www.ucnc2016.org/

Second Call for Papers

The International Conference on Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation (UCNC) is a meeting where scientists from many different backgrounds are united in their interest in novel forms of computation, human-designed computation inspired by nature, and computational aspects of natural processes. UCNC provides a forum for such scientists to meet and discuss their work.

Invited Speakers (confirmed):

- Bob Coecke (University of Oxford, UK)
- Steve Furber (University of Manchester, UK)
- Fritz Simmel (Technical University of Munich, Germany)

Invited Tutorial Speakers (confirmed):

- Masami Hagiya (University of Tokyo, Japan)
- Rebecca Schulman (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
- Jon Timmis (University of York, UK)

Workshops (confirmed):

- Synthetic Biology (Organiser: Alfonso Rodriguez-Paton)
- P-systems (Organiser: Marian Gheorge)
- Physics and Computation (Organisers: Alastair Abbott and Dominic Horsman)

Topics of interest include (but are not restricted to):

- Molecular computing
- Quantum computing
- Optical computing
- Chaos computing
- Physarum computing
- Collision-based computing
- Super-Turing computation
- Cellular automata
- Neural computation
- Evolutionary computation
- Swarm intelligence
- Ant algorithms
- Artificial immune systems
- Artificial Life
- Membrane computing
- Amorphous computing
- Computational systems biology
- Computational neuroscience
- Synthetic biology
- Cellular (in-vivo) computing

The 15th UCNC will take place in Manchester, UK; birthplace of the industrial revolution, home to Alan Turing and the first ever stored-program computer, and the driving force behind graphene. Our status as a thriving centre for excellence in science and technology has been recognised by Manchester’s selection as the European City of Science for 2016, and UCNC is proud to play a role in this celebration.

Instructions for Authors, and Publication

Main conference track

Authors are invited to submit original research papers (of, at most, 12 pages in LNCS format, 11pt), or one-page poster abstracts, using the EasyChair link:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ucnc2016

Papers must be submitted in Portable Document Format (PDF); the revised version of manuscripts must be prepared in LaTeX, using the Springer LNCS style (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors).

Papers must not be under simultaneous consideration by any other conference with published proceedings. All accepted papers must be presented at the conference.

Papers will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, and the authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions for publication in a special issue of Natural Computing.

Workshops

Please contact individual workshop organizers for details of submission dates and publication arrangements.

Important Dates

Submission deadline: March 15, 2016.
Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2016.
Final version of papers due: April 29, 2016.

Questions should be directed to ucnc16 at easychair.org<mailto:ucnc16 at easychair.org>

Program Committee

Andy Adamatzky (University of the West of England, UK)
Martyn Amos (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK; Co-Chair)
Peter Banda (University of Luxembourg)
Kobi Benenson (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Cristian Calude (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Anne Condon (University of British Columbia, Canada; Co-Chair)
Mark Daley (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
Giuditta Franco (University of Verona, Italy)
Angel Goni-Moreno (National Centre for Biotechnology, Spain)
Natasha Jonoska (University of South Florida, USA)
Jarkko Kari (University of Turku, Finland)
Lila Kari (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
Viv Kendon (Durham University, UK)
Niall Murphy (University of Cambridge, UK)
Turlough Neary (University of Zurich/ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Pekka Orponen (Aalto University, Finland)
Jennifer Padilla (Boise State University, USA)
Matthew Patitz (University of Arkansas, USA)
Susan Stepney (University of York, UK)
​Scott Summers (University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, USA)

Organising Committee

Martyn Amos (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK; Co-Chair)
James Charnock (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
Matthew Crossley (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
Rene Doursat (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK; Co-Chair)
Emma Norling (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)

UCNC Steering Committee

Thomas Back (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
Cristian S. Calude (University of Auckland, New Zealand, Founding Chair)
Lov K. Grover (Bell Labs, USA)
Natasha Jonoska (University of South Florida, USA, Co-Chair)
Jarkko Kari (University of Turku, Finland, Co-Chair)
Lila Kari (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
Seth Lloyd (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
Giancarlo Mauri (Universita degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
Gheorghe Paun (Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy, Romania)
Grzegorz Rozenberg (Leiden University, The Netherlands, Emeritus Chair)
Arto Salomaa (University of Turku, Finland)
Tommaso Toffoli (Boston University, USA)
Carme Torras (Institute of Robotics and Industrial Informatics, Spain)
Jan van Leeuwen (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)


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