Wednesday, September 7, 2011

[DMANET] CFP IJ Unconv. Comp. spc is. on New Worlds of Computation

CALL for PAPERS
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International Journal of Unconventional Computing

Special issue on

New Worlds of Computation

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http://www.univ-orleans.fr/lifo/Members/Jerome.Durand-Lose/Recherche/2012_IJUC_NWC_11
http://www.oldcitypublishing.com/IJUC/IJUC.html
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This special issue is a sequel to the
Worskop New Worlds of Computation (NWC '11)
May 23-24, 2011, Orléans, FRANCE
http://www.univ-orleans.fr/lifo/evenements/NWC11/

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Submission is open (i.e. NOT restricted to NWC participants)
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Topics

The special issue aims at gathering papers from a wide off-Turing
community in order to bring forth common problematics as well as
divergent results.

The New Worlds of Computation workshop series concentrates on models
of computation that fall out of the Turing context:

* Analog computation
* Continuous computation
* Hybrid systems
* Computation on infinite structures (Ordinals, linear orders...)
* Hypercomputation
* Infinite time computation
* Non-Euclidean spaces
* Non-standard approaches
* Optical collision
* Abstract geometrical computation
* Cellular automata
* Collision based, quantum, DNA, membrane...

The classical Turing computability has been THE paradigm for
computation for more than half a century. In less than two decades,
various paradigms have been proposed (invented, discovered or
reframed) and communities have emerged: computable analysis, algebraic
models, Quantum computing, DNA, Cellular automaton... All of them fall
outside the classical context because they manipulate objects that are
just out of the classical scope (infinite objects or uncountably many
values) or continuous or infinite time. Unfortunately, there is no
miraculous generalized Church-Turing thesis (nor specialized analog
nor...).

The audience aimed at is roughly the same as:

* Machines, Computations and Universality
* Unconventional Computation [and Natural Computation]
* Computability in Europe
* Hypercomputation Research Network

Deadlines

Submission January 16th 2012
Notification May 2nd 2012


Submission is handled with easychair:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ijucnwc11


Guest editor

Jérôme Durand-Lose contact: jerome.durand-lose@univ-orleans.fr
LIFO (Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale d'Orléans), projet Graphes
et Algorithmes
Université d'Orléans - logo Université d'Orléans, Département
d'Informatique de l'UFR Sciences.
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