[IPCAT2003] - First Call for Papers

[Christof Teuscher]

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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
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** IPCAT2003 **
Fifth International Workshop on 
Information Processing in Cells and Tissues

September 8 - 11, 2003

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)
Lausanne, Switzerland
http://lslwww.epfl.ch/ipcat2003

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Description:
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The aim of the series of IPCAT workshops is to bring together 
a multidisciplinary core of scientists who are working in the 
general area of modeling information processing in biosystems. 
A general theme is the nature of biological information and the 
ways in which it is processed in biological and artificial cells 
and tissues. 

The key motivation is to provide a common ground for dialogue and
interaction, without emphasis on any particular research 
constituency, or way of modeling, or single issue in the 
relationship between biology and information.
IPCAT2003 will highlight recent research and seek to further the
dialogue, exchange of ideas, and development of interactive 
viewpoints between biologists, physicists, computer scientists, 
technologists and mathematicians that have been progressively 
expanded throughout the IPCAT series of meetings (since 1995).
The workshop will feature sessions of selected original research
papers grouped around emergent themes of common interest, and a 
number of discussions and talks focusing on wider themes. 
IPCAT2003 will give particular attention to morphogenetic and 
ontogenetic processes and systems.

IPCAT2003 encourages experimental, computational, and theoretical
articles that link biology and the information processing sciences 
and that encompass the fundamental nature of biological 
information processing, the computational modeling of complex 
biological systems, evolutionary models of computation, the 
application of biological principles to the design of novel 
computing systems, and the use of biomolecular materials to 
synthesize artificial systems that capture essential principles of 
natural biological information processing.


Topics of Interest:
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Topics to be covered will include, but not limited to, the 
following list:

o Self-organizing, self-repairing, and self-replicating systems
o Evolutionary algorithms
o Machine learning
o Evolving, adapting, and neural hardware
o Automata and cellular automata
o Information processing in neural and non-neural biosystems 
o Parallel distributed processing biosystem models 
o Information processing in bio-developmental systems
o Novel bio-information processing systems
o Autonomous and evolutionary robotics
o Bionics, neural implants, and bio-robotics
o Molecular evolution and theoretical biology
o Enzyme and gene networks 
o Modeling of metabolic pathways and responses
o Simulation of genetic and ecological systems
o Single neuron and sub-neuron information processing 
o Microelectronic simulation of bio-information systemics 
o Artificial bio-sensor and vision implementations
o Artificial tissue and organ implementations
o Applications of nanotechnology
o Quantum informational biology
o Quantum computation in cells and tissues
o DNA computing


Special Session:
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Morphomechanics of the Embryo and Genome + Artificial 
Life -> Embryonics

Artificial intelligence started with imitation of the adult 
brain, and artificial life has dealt mostly with the adult 
organism and its evolution, in that the span from genome to 
organism has been short or nonexistent. Embryonics is the 
attempt to grow artificial life in a way analogous to real
embryonic development. This session will include speakers 
grappling with both ends of the problem.

Papers for this special session should be submitted through 
the regular procedure.

Organizers: R. Gordon, Lev V. Beloussov


Paper Submission:
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Papers will be published in a special issue of the BioSystems 
journal (Elsevier Science). 
They should be no longer than 15 pages (including figures and 
bibliography). Papers will either (1) be accepted for 
presentation at the workshop and for publication in the 
special issue of BioSystems, or (2) rejected. 


Important Dates:
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Paper submission:            February 28, 2003 
Notification of acceptance:  May 28, 2003 
Camera-ready copy:           July 11, 2003 


For up-to-date information, consult the IPCAT2003 web-site:
http://lslwww.epfl.ch/ipcat2003

We are looking forward to seeing you in beautiful Lausanne!

Sincerely,
Christof Teuscher
IPCAT2003 Program Chair



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Christof Teuscher 
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)
christof at teuscher.ch
http://www.teuscher.ch/christof
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