-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] [Final CFP] BIONETICS 2007 - deadline extended Weitersenden-Datum: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 14:45:28 +0900, Tue, 07 Aug 2007 14:13:53 +0900 Weitersenden-Von: Naoki Wakamiya wakamiya@ist.osaka-u.ac.jp, Naoki Wakamiya wakamiya@ist.osaka-u.ac.jp Datum: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 14:12:41 +0900 Von: Naoki Wakamiya wakamiya@ist.osaka-u.ac.jp An: tccc@lists.cs.columbia.edu

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CALL FOR PAPERS

BIONETICS 2007

2nd International Conference on Bio inspired Models of Network, Information and Computing Systems

http://www.bionetics.org/ Budapest, Hungary, December 10-12, 2007

Technically co-sponsored by IEEE COMSOC, IEEE CIS, and IEEE SMC In co-operation with ACM SIGCAS

Jointly sponsored by CREATE-NET, ICST

*** Submission deadline (extended): August 15, 2007 *** *****************************************************************

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 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 that are capable of operating under changing environments and noisy input, and yet exhibit the desired behavior 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. The turn to nature has brought us many unforeseen great concepts. 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 systems, which have similar high stability and efficiency often found in biological entities.

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 focusing on (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 - Artificial immune and self-healing systems - Cellular signaling pathways

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

c) Bio-inspired information and communication systems (ICT): - Network algorithms and protocols - Autonomic communication systems - Evolution of network architectures and protocols - Adaptive and self-healing network architectures - Self-organizing network paradigms - In-network processing and autonomic networking - Adaptive sensor and actor networks - Topology control and network organization - Localization and synchronization - Mobility models - Multi-agent systems and robotics - Novel applications and services - Self-learning defense strategies - Adaptive and evolving protection mechanisms - Network and information security - Experimental studies - Nano-scale and molecular communication

Authors are invited to submit full papers of up to 8 pages, or short papers of up to 3 pages, in ACM conference proceedings format through COCUS (http://cocus.create-net.it). The proceedings will be an ICST publication and the papers will be listed on the ACM DL and indexed by EI

-------------------------------------------------- Important dates: Submission deadline: August 15, 2007 Acceptance notification: September 18, 2007 Camera ready paper: October 16, 2007 --------------------------------------------------

Committees:

General Chairs: Falko Dressler, Univ. of Erlangen

Steering Committee Chair: Imrich Chlamtac, CREATE-NET

Steering Committee Co-Chair: Iacopo Carreras, CREATE-NET

TPC Chair (advisory): Tatsuya Suda, UC Irvine

TPC Co-Chairs: Ozgur Akan, Middle East Tech Univ. Taieb Znati, Univ. of Pittsburg Masayuki Murata, Osaka Univ.

Bioinformatics track Co-Chairs: Kay C. Wiese (advisory), Simon Fraser Univ. Scott F. Smith, Boise State Univ. Alioune Ngom, Univ. of Windsor

Industry track Co-Chairs: Pietro Lio' Univ. of Cambridge Paul Marrow, BT Mihaela Ulariu, Univ. of Brunswick

Workshop Co-Chairs: Jun Suzuki, Univ. of Massachusetts Stephan Steglich, TU Berlin

Tutorial Co-Chairs: Yuki Moritani,NTT DoCoMo Inc. Andreas Deutsch, TU Dresden

Panel Chair: Vilmos Simon, Budapest Univ.

Publication Co-Chairs: Kenji Leibnitz, Osaka Univ. Levente Buttyan, Budapest Univ.

Publicity Co-Chairs: Naoki Wakamiya, Osaka Univ. Xiuzhen Cheng, George Washington Univ. Giusi Alfano, CREATE-NET

Web Chair: Isabel Dietrich, Univ. of Erlangen

Financial Chair: Karen Decker, ICST

Conference Organization Chair: Kitti Kovacs, ICST _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc@lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc