[DMANET] UCNC 2014 Call for Papers

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Sujet: UCNC 2014 Call for Papers
Date : Wed, 02 Oct 2013 09:03:24 -0400
De : Lila Kari <lila.kari@uwo.ca>
Pour : natural3@uwo.ca

UCNC 2014 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


THE CONFERENCE

The International Conference on Unconventional Computation and Natural
Computation has been a forum 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, meet and
present their latest results. Continuing this tradition, the 13th
International Conference on Unconventional Computation and Natural
Computation will focus on the current experimental and theoretical
results with the greatest impact.


TOPICS

Papers and poster presentations are sought in all areas that relate to
unconventional computation and natural computation. Both theoretical and
experimental papers are welcome. 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.



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, must
be prepared in LATEX according to the LNCS format:

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. The proceedings will be available at the
conference venue.


IMPORTANT DATES

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


INVITED TUTORIALS

Anne Condon (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Ming Li (University of Waterloo, Canada)


INVITED SPEAKERS: TBA


WORKSHOPS

Computational Neuroscience - Organizer Mark Daley (University of Western
Ontario, Canada)

DNA Computing by Self-Assembly - Organizer Matthew Patitz (University
of Arkansas, USA)


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Andrew Adamatzky (University of the West of England, UK)
Selim G. Akl (Queen's University, Canada)
Eshel Ben-Jacob (University of Tel-Aviv, Israel)
Cristian S. Calude (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Jose Felix Costa (Technical 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, USA, Co-Chair)
Jarkko Kari (University of Turku, Finland)
Lila Kari (University of Western Ontario, Canada, Co-Chair)
Kamala Krithivasan (IIT Madras, India)
Viv Kendon (University of Leeds, UK)
Giancarlo Mauri (Universita degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
Yongli Mi (University of Hong Kong, 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)


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Mark Daley (University of Western Ontario)
Helmut Jurgensen (University of Western Ontario)
Lila Kari (University of Western Ontario, Chair)
Steffen Kopecki (University of Western Ontario)
Stephen Watt (University of Western Ontario)


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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