Connectionists: Bio-ADIT 2006 | Call for Papers

[Christof Teuscher]

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Bio-ADIT 2006 | Second Call for Papers
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The Second International Workshop on Biologically Inspired
Approaches to Advanced Information Technology

January 26 - 27, 2006

Senri Life Science Center, Osaka, Japan

Web site: http://www.ist.osaka-u.ac.jp/bio-adit2006

Sponsored by
- The 21st Century Center of Excellence Program of
   The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and
- Technology (MEXT), Japan, under the Program Title "Opening
   Up New Information Technologies for Building a Networked
   Symbiosis Environment"


Biologically inspired approaches have already proved successful in
achieving major breakthroughs in a wide variety of problems in
information technology (IT). A more recent trend is to explore the
applicability of bio-inspired approaches to the development of
self-organizing, evolving, adaptive and autonomous information
technologies, which will meet the requirements of next-generation
information systems, such as diversity, scalability, robustness,
and resilience. These new technologies will become a base on which
to build a networked symbiotic environment for pleasant, symbiotic
society of human beings in the 21st century.

Bio-ADIT 2006 follows the success of the first workshop Bio-ADIT 2004
held at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL),
Switzerland in January 2004. The workshop is intended to provide an
effective forum for original research results in the field of bio-
inspired approaches to advanced information technologies. It will
also serve to foster the connection between biological paradigms
and solutions to building the next-generation information systems.

SCOPE: The primary focus of the workshop is on new and original
research results in the areas of information systems inspired by
biology. We invite you to submit papers that present novel,
challenging, and innovative results. The topics include all aspects
of bio-inspired information technologies in networks,
distributed/parallel systems, hardware (including robotics) and
software. We also encourage you to submit papers dealing with:
- Self-organizing, self-repairing, self-replicating and
   self-stabilizing systems
- Evolving and adapting systems
- Autonomous and evolutionary software and robotic systems
- Scalable, robust and resilient systems
- Complex biosystems
- Gene, protein and metabolic networks
- Symbiosis networks
- Synthetic biology for IT evolution

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:
Authors are invited to submit complete and original papers. Papers
submitted should not have been previously published in any forum, nor
be under review for any journal or other conference. All submitted
papers will be refereed for quality, correctness, originality and
relevance. All accepted papers will be published in official
proceedings with an ISBN number by a major international publisher,
and be available at the conference.

Manuscripts should include an abstract and be limited to 16 pages in
single spaced and single column format. Submissions should include
the title, author(s), author's affiliation, e-mail address, fax number
and postal address. In the case of multiple authors, an indication of
which author is responsible for correspondence and preparing the
camera ready paper should also be included. Electronic submission is
strongly encouraged. Preferred file formats are PDF (.pdf) or
Postscript (.ps).
Visit our Web site at http://www.ist.osaka-u.ac.jp/bio-adit2006 for
more information. Please contact Dr. Masuzawa if you have to submit
hard copies. Manuscripts should be submitted by July 31, 2005 through
the Bio-ADIT Web site. Please contact the technical program co-chairs
for any questions:

Professor Auke Jan Ijspeert
School of Computer and Communication Sciences
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL)
CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Tel: +41-21-693-2658
Fax: +41-21-693-3705
E-mail: Auke.Ijspeert at epfl.ch

Professor Toshimitsu Masuzawa
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology
Osaka University
1-3 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
Tel: +81-6-6850-6580
Fax: +81-6-6850-6582
E-mail: masuzawa at ist.osaka-u.ac.jp

IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper submission deadline  : July 31, 2005
Notification of acceptance : October 1, 2005
Camera ready papers due    : October 20, 2005

STUDENT TRAVEL GRANTS:
A limited number of travel grants will be provided for students
attending Bio-ADIT 2006. Details of how to apply for a student
travel grant will be posted on the workshop Web site.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE:
General Co-Chairs:
   - Daniel Mange  (EPFL, Switzerland)
   - Shojiro Nishio (Osaka University, Japan)
Technical Program Committee Co-Chairs:
   - Auke Jan Ijspeert (EPFL, Switzerland)
   - Toshimitsu Masuzawa (Osaka University, Japan)
Special Session Program Chair:
   - Hiroshi Shimizu (Osaka University, Japan)
Finance Chair:
   - Toru Fujiwara (Osaka University, Japan)
Publicity Co-chairs:
   - Christof Teuscher (UCSD, USA)
   - Yoshinori Takeuchi (Osaka University, Japan)
Internet Chair:
   - Hideki Tode (Osaka University, Japan)
Publications Chair
   - Shinji Kusumoto (Osaka University, Japan)
Local Arrangement Chair:
   - Tatsuhiro Tsuchiya (Osaka University, Japan)

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Co-Chairs:
   - Auke Jan Ijspeert (EPFL, Switzerland)
   - Toshimitsu Masuzawa (Osaka University, Japan)
Members (Tentative):
   - Luc Berthouze (AIST, Japan)
   - Marco Dorigo (Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
   - Raphael Holzer (EPFL, Switzerland)
   - Koh Hosoda (Osaka University, Japan)
   - Katsuo Inoue (Osaka University, Japan)
   - Laurent Itti (University of Southern California, USA)
   - Satoshi Kurihara (Osaka University, Japan)
   - Anders Lansner (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
   - Vincent Lepetit (EPFL, Switzerland)
   - James C. Liao (UCLA, USA)
   - Wolfgang Maass (Graz University of Technology, Austria)
   - Alberto Montresor (University of Bologna, Italy)
   - Masayuki Murata (Osaka University, Japan)
   - Mitsuyuki Nakao (Tohoku University, Japan)
   - Chrystopher L. Nehaniv (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
   - Masahiro Okamoto (Kyushu University, Japan)
   - Takao Onoye (Osaka University, Japan)
   - Ezequiel Di Paolo (University of Sussex, UK)
   - Rolf Pfeifer (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
   - Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
   - Hiroshi Shimizu (Osaka University, Japan)
   - Gregory Stephanopoulos (MIT, USA)
   - Tim Taylor (University of Edinburgh, UK)
   - Gianluca Tempesti (EPFL, Switzerland)
   - Daniel Thalmann (EPFL, Switzerland)
   - Tatsuhiro Tsuchiya (Osaka University, Japan)
   - Sethu Vijayakumar (University of Edinburgh, UK)
   - Koichi Wada (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan)
   - Naoki Wakamiya (Osaka University, Japan)
   - Hans V. Westerhoff (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
   - Masafumi Yamashita (Kyushu University, Japan)
   - Xin Yao (University of Birmingham, UK)
   - Tom Ziemke (University of Skovde, Sweden)

Bio-ADIT STEERING COMMITTEE:
Chair:
   - Hideo Miyahara (Osaka University, Japan)
Members:
   - Albert-Laszlo Barabasi (University of Notre Dame, USA)
   - Auke Jan Ijspeert (EPFL, Switzerland)
   - Daniel Mange  (EPFL, Switzerland)
   - Masayuki Murata (Osaka University, Japan)
   - Shojiro Nishio (Osaka University, Japan)
   - Hiroshi Shimizu (Osaka University, Japan)
   - Hans V. Westerhoff (Free University, The Netherlands)



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Christof Teuscher, PhD
University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
http://www.teuscher.ch