International Workshop on Natural Computing 2009 Call for Paper

International Workshop on Natural Computing

    http://www.iwnc2009.org/

September 23-25, 2009
Himeji, Japan

CALL FOR PAPERS ( http://www.iwnc2009.org/CFP-IWNC2009.pdf ):

We cordially invite prospective authors to submit papers to the International Workshop  on Natural Computing to be held in the Himeji International Exchange Center, Japan.
This interdisciplinary workshop offers computer scientists, biologists, mathematicians, electronic engineers, physicists, and social scientists a platform to critically assess present findings in nature-inspired computing, and to outline future developments in the field.

The complex behavior of systems in nature is rooted in intricate mechanisms of interactions that not only have much in common with human made systems of computation, but actually supersede those in terms of reliability, power efficiency, and computational capacity. It is thus no surprise that natural systems have become the inspiration of novel algorithms that are based on non-standard computational mechanisms.

SPECIAL SESSION on Unconventional Models of Communication:

A fundamental research challenge is the design of robust decentralized communication systems capable of operating under changing environments and noisy input. In the special session on Unconventional Models of Communication, we invite authors to submit papers on models, protocols, and architectures for the management and control of information and
communication networks inspired by concepts from biology, physics, nanotechnology, or social sciences.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Paper submission deadline:      May 31, 2009
Notification of acceptance:     July 15, 2009
Camera ready version:           August 15, 2009
Early registration deadline:    August 15, 2009
Conference:                     September 23-25, 2009

The accepted and presented papers will appear in a proceedings published by Springer-Japan to be distributed after the conference.
At the time of the conference a pre-proceedings will be distributed, containing the accepted papers. Submitted papers should not exceed 8 pages, and should conform to the LNCS
article LATEX style. Submissions can be sent through the link on the web page ( http://www.iwnc2009.org/submission.html ).

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

    * Chair: Ferdinand Peper (NICT, Japan)
    * Co-Chair: Hiroshi Umeo (Osaka Electro-Communication University, Japan)
    * Co-Chair: Nobuyuki Matsui (University of Hyogo, Japan)
    * Conference Secretary: Teijiro Isokawa (University of Hyogo, Japan)

INTERNATIONAL STEERING COMMITTEE:

    * Andrew Adamatzky (University of West-England, UK)
    * Cristian Calude (The University of Auckland, New Zealand)
    * Masami Hagiya (Tokyo University, Japan)
    * Nobuyuki Matsui (University of Hyogo, Japan)
    * Kenichi Morita (Hiroshima University, Japan)
    * Ferdinand Peper (NICT, Japan)
    * Grzegorz Rozenberg (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
    * Yasuhiro Suzuki (Nagoya University, Japan)
    * Hiroshi Umeo (Osaka Electro-Communication University, Japan)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

    * Susumu Adachi (NICT, Japan)
    * Hiroyasu Andoh (Tokyo University, Japan)
    * Masanori Arita (Tokyo University, Japan)
    * Takaya Arita (Nagoya University, Japan)
    * Tetsuya Asai (Hokkaido University, Japan)
    * Daniela Besozzi (Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy)
    * Ed Blakey (Oxford University Computing Laboratory)
    * Peter Dittrich (Freidrich-Shirra University, Germany)
    * Nazim Fates (LORIA, France)
    * Giuditta Franco (University of Verona, Italy)
    * Katsunobu Imai (Hiroshima University, Japan)
    * Teijiro Isokawa (University of Hyogo, Japan)
    * Osamu Katai (Kyoto University, Japan)
    * Satoshi Kobayashi (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
    * Eisuke Kita (Nagoya University, Japan)
    * Jia Lee (Celartem, NICT, Japan)
    * Kenji Leibnitz (Osaka University, Japan)
    * Jian-Qin Liu (NICT, Japan)
    * Vincenzo Manca (University of Verona, Italy)
    * Nobuyuki Matsui (University of Hyogo, Japan)
    * Giancarlo Mauri (University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy)
    * Makoto Naruse (NICT & Tokyo University, Japan)
    * Haruhiko Nishimura (University of Hyogo, Japan)
    * Katsuhiro Nishinari (Tokyo University, Japan)
    * Yasumasa Nishiura (Hokkaido University, Japan)
    * Marion Oswald (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
    * Ferdinand Peper (NICT, Japan)
    * Hiroki Sayama (State University of New York, USA)
    * Tatsuya Suda (University of California Irvine, USA)
    * Yuki Sugiyama (Nagoya University, Japan)
    * Hideaki Suzuki (NICT, Japan)
    * Yasuhiro Suzuki (Nagoya University, Japan)
    * Junji Takabayashi (Kyoto University, Japan)
    * Christof Teuscher (Portland State University, USA)
    * Keiichiro Tokita (Osaka University, Japan)
    * Kazuto Tominaga (Tokyo University of Technology, Japan)
    * Kazunori Ueda (Waseda University, Japan)
    * Hiroshi Umeo (Osaka Electro-Communication University, Japan)
    * Naoki Wakamiya (Osaka University, Japan)
    * Masayuki Yamamura (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
    * Masafumi Yamashita (Kyushu University, Japan)
    * Kenichi Yoshikawa (Kyoto University, Japan)
    * Claudio Zandron (Universita degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Italy)
    * Klaus Peter Zauner (University of Southampton, UK)

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