-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [OC-ML] Call for contributions: Special Session on Organic Computing at IEEE ISCAS Datum: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 10:01:39 +0200 (CEST) Von: Fabian Rochner rochner@sra.uni-hannover.de An: rochner@sra.uni-hannover.de

Dear subscribers of the Organic Computing Mailinglist,

below you can find the Call for contributions for the special session "Organic Computing" at IEEE ISCAS, taking place May 2007 in New Orleans. The deadline for proposals (abstracts) of tutorials or regular contributions is 5 September 2006.

Regards, Fabian Rochner

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Call for Contributions Special Session on Organic Computing, IEEE ISCAS, May 2007, New Orleans (USA)

Organic Computing investigates as a science how Life creates goal-oriented reactions to the dynamic environment through an evolving hierarchy of internal processes. In the current practice of Algorithmic Computing, reality is off-line modelled and analysed to conceive functions that will handle pre-determined (domains of) situations. Novel situations are difficult to handle adequately and may lead to abnormal or uncontrollable behaviour.

The basic ingredients of Organic Computing relate to the guided self-organization by which a typical Life system grows and is maintained in support of dealing with novel subjects. By employing a large number of simple components interacting with each other in an orchestrated way, information processing becomes robust, self-organising, adaptable, decentralized, asynchronous, fault-tolerant and evolvable. Time development is given by the reaction-diffusion principle, while ‘reaction’ represents local production/extinction of the state, and ‘diffusion’ means a transport process, tending to dampen any in-homogeneity of the neighbourhood.

Organic Computing is a rising topic in Embedded Real-Time Systems, where it boosts advances in the Intelligent Home, Office and Factory by sensory & regulating networks through wearable, swarming and autonomic applications. The road to reality will lead over low-power, low-cost and low-datarate networks and related nodes. Organic Computing can be facilitated by Cellular (Neural) Networks, but are not confined to that. The Special Session will focus on new developments in the hardware & software aspects of the Circuits that create organic behaviour and the evolving Systems.

Proposals for contributions to this special session (tutorial or regular) can be mailed before 5 September 2006 to the session organizers Lambert Spaanenburg (lspaanenburg@ieee.org) and Peter Szolgay (szolgay@sztaki.hu) and should contain at minimum the title, authors and abstract of the proposed paper. If the Special Session will be accepted for the ISCAS on 23 September, the 4-page contributions are expected before 3 November 2006. For more information on the ISCAS conference itself, see www.iscas2007.org.