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CALL FOR PAPERS

BIONETICS 2006

1st International Conference on Bio inspired Models of Network, Information and Computing Systems

http://www.bionetics.org/ Cavalese, Italy, December 11-13, 2006

Technically sponsored by IEEE CIS, IEEE SMC

Jointly sponsored by EU(IST-FET), CREATE-NET, ICST

*** Submission deadline extended: August 7, 2006 ***

** Papers will be listed on the IEEE Xplore and IEEE digital library **

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Technology is taking us to a world where myriads of heavily networked devices interact with the physical world in multiple ways, and at multiple scales, from the global Internet scale down to micro- and nano-devices. Many of these devices are highly mobile and autonomous, and must adapt to the surrounding environment in a totally unsupervised way.

A fundamental research challenge is the design of robust decentralized computing systems capable of operating under changing environments and noisy input, and yet exhibit the desired behaviour and response time, under constraints such as energy consumption, size, and processing power. These systems should be able to adapt and learn how to react to unforeseen scenarios as well as to display properties comparable to social entities.

Biological systems are able to handle many of these challenges with an elegance and efficiency still far beyond current human artifacts. Based on this observation, bio-inspired approaches have been proposed in the past years as a strategy to handle the complexity of such systems. The goal is to obtain methods on how to engineer technical artifacts which have similar high stability and efficiency as biological entities often have.

The BIONETICS conference aims at bringing together researchers and scientists from several disciplines in computer science and engineering where bio-inspired methods are investigated. We are soliciting high-quality original papers in the following five areas including but not limited to the following topics:

a) Bio-inspired mathematical models, methods and tools - Mathematical models of biological processes - Qualitative assessment of evolutionary algorithms - Multiscale dynamics of emergent properties

b) Bio-inspired software - Engineering methods and tools for bio-inspired systems - Bio-inspired service evolution and optimization - Pandemic service deployment strategies

c) Bio-inspired security mechanisms - Artificial immune and self-healing systems - Cell, body, population-level security mechanisms - Adaptive and evolving protection mechanisms

d) Bio-inspired networks and communication systems - Bio-inspired network algorithms and protocols - Bio-inspired autonomic communication systems - Evolution of network architectures and protocols

e) Bio-inspired and bio-based nano-scale communication and information systems - Molecular communication - Biological computing - Nano-scale biologically engineered systems

-------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS -------------------------------------------------- Prospective authors should submit full papers with up to 8 pages, or short papers with up to 1 page. Accepted full papers will be given a full oral presentation slot, and accepted short papers will be presented in a poster session. Only electronic submissions in PDF format are accepted. The proceedings will be a IEEE Publication and the papers will be listed on the IEEE Xplore and IEEE digital library.

Submission instructions: http://cocus.create-net.it/cocus/welcome.do

-------------------------------------------------- Important dates: Submission deadline: August 7, 2006 Acceptance notification: September 18, 2006 Camera ready paper: October 23, 2006 --------------------------------------------------

Committees:

General Chairs: Tatsuya Suda, University of California, Irvine, USA and NTT DoCoMo Inc., Japan Christian Tschudin, Univ. of Basel, Switzerland

Vice-Chairs: Iacopo Carreras, Create-Net Research Association, Italy Lidia Yamamoto, Univ. of Basel, Switzerland

Steering Committee Chair: Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net Research Association, Italy

TPC Chair: Masayuki Murata, Osaka Univ., Japan

TPC Vice-Chairs: -- Bio-inspired mathematical models, methods and tools: Andreas Deutsch, Dresden University of Technology, Germany -- Bio-inspired software: Stephan Steglich, TU Berlin, Germany -- Bio-inspired security mechanisms: Fabio Martinelli, IIT-CNR, Italy -- Bio-inspired networks and communication systems: Kenji Leibnitz, Osaka University, Japan, -- Bio-inspired and bio-based nano-scale communication and information systems: Yuki Moritani, NTT DoCoMo Inc., Japan

Panel Chair: Csaba Kiraly, Univ. of Trento, Italy

Publicity Chairs: Falko Dressler, Univ. Erlangen, Germany Xiuzhen Cheng, George Washington University, US

Financial Chair: Karen Decker, ICST, USA

Local Arrangement Chair: Giuseppina Alfano, Create-Net Research Association, Italy

--------------------------------- TPC memebrs: --------------------------------- Andrew Adamatzky, Univ. of the West of England David Basanta, ZIH, TUD, Dresden Kalyan Basu, University of Texas Subhayu Basu, Princeton Univ. Peter Bentley, University College London Lutz Brusch, ZIH, TUD, Dresden Geoffrey Canright, Telenor R & D Xiuzhen Cheng, George Washington University Romit Roy Choudhury, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Pierpaolo Degano, University of Pisa Peter Deussen, Fraunhofer FOKUS Falko Dressler, Univ. Erlangen David Evans, Univ. of Virginia Motohisa Funabashi, Hitachi SDL Niloy Ganguly, Indian Institute of Technology Arobinda Gupta, Indian Institute of Technology Verena V. Hafner, TU Berlin Masami Hagiya, Univ. of Tokyo Henry Hess, Univ. of Florida Satoshi Hiyama, NTT DoCoMo Yoshiteru Ishida, Toyohashi University of Technology Mark Jelasity, University of Bologna, Igor Kotenko, Russian Academy of Sciences Pabitra Mitra, Indian Institute of Technology Alberto Montresor, University of Trento Tadashi Nakano, Univ. of California, Irvine Shin-ichiro M. Nomura, Tokyo Medical and Dental Univ. Kazuhiro Oiwa, NICT Oznur Ozkasap, Koc University Ilja Radusch, TU Berlin Kay Roemer, ETH Zurich Shigetoshi Sameshima, Hitachi Ltd Yoshihiro Sasaki, NAIST Biplab Sikdar, Bengal Engineering and Science University Michael Smirnov, Fraunhofer Fokus Tran Cao Son, New Mexico State University Adrian Stoica, JPL, NASA Akira Suyama, Univ. of Tokyo Jun Suzuki, University of Massachusetts Shoji Takeuchi, Univ. of Tokyo JI Yan, Beijing Univ. Matthias Wagner, DoCoMo Europe Naoki Wakamiya, Osaka University Matthew Williamson, HP Lab