Connectionists: IPCAT2007 call for participation

[Nigel Crook]

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Seventh International Workshop on
          INFORMATION PROCESSING IN CELLS AND TISSUES
         
29, 30, 31 August, Jesus College, Oxford, United Kingdom

The conference is held in the historic and picturesque setting of
Jesus College, Oxford (http://www.jesus.ox.ac.uk/).  We are pleased
to be able to offer you college-style accommodation in single bedrooms
for the duration of IPCAT2007.  Meals are served in the college dining hall,
with its fine panelled walls and priceless antique paintings.

The provisional programme for the workshop is given below.

A discount is offered for early registration (the deadline for early
registration is 19th July 2007). 

Conference Website:
    http://cms.brookes.ac.uk/computing/IPCAT

Kindest regards,

Nigel Crook  (General Chair)
     ntcrook at brookes.ac.uk
Tjeerd olde Scheper (Programme Chair)
     tvolde-scheper at brookes.ac.uk

PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME

WEDNESDAY 29TH AUGUST 2007

08:30    Registration
09:15    Opening

SESSION 1: INFORMATION PROCESSING IN BIO-DEVELOPMENTAL SYSTEMS
09:30   M-ary Modulation Signalling for Intercellular Communication
        J. Dilhac (France)
10:00   Emulation of Synchronous Automata Networks with Dynamically
        Changing Topologies by Asynchronous Automata Networks
        C.L. Nehaniv, P. Quick (UK)
10:30   Information Processing Functionality of Spiking Neurons for Image
        Feature Extraction
        Q. Wu, M. McGinnity, L. Maguire, B. Glackin, A. Belatreche (UK)

11:00   Coffee or Tea Break

SESSION 2A: INFORMATION PROCESSING IN NEURAL AND NON-NEURAL BIOSYSTEMS
11:30   Sensitivity and stability: A signal propagation sweet spot in a 
sheet
        of recurrent centre crossing neurons
        C.L Buckley, S. Bullock (UK)
12:00   Towards Smart Biosensors: Hints From Deciphering the Enigma of
        Human Creativity
        F. Hong (USA)

12:30    Lunch

SESSION 2B: INFORMATION PROCESSING IN NEURAL AND NON-NEURAL BIOSYSTEMS
13:30   Event-driven simulation of cerebellar granule cells
        R. Carrillo, E. Ros, S. Tolu (Spain), T. Nieus, E. D'Angelo (Italy)
14:00   A cerebellum-like spiking neural network for robot control
        R.R. Carrillo, E. Ros (Spain), C. Boucheny, O. J-M D Coenen (France)
   
SESSION 3: EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS
14:30   Towards a parsimonious analysis of regeneration and self-repair in
        animal evolution
        G. Benenati, J.I. Montoya-Burgos,  B. Galliot (Switzerland)

15:00   Coffee or Tea Break

15:30   An effective Immunological Algorithm with self-avoiding, penalty 
and
        repair heuristics for Protein Structure Prediction in 3DCubic 
Lattice
        G. Morelli, G. Nicosia (Italy)
16:00   Colouring graphs using a GRN/cell-based system
        M. Buck, C. Nehaniv (UK)
16:30   Natural Computation Inspired by Protein Binding
        S. Smith, S. Murant, J. Timmis (UK)

THURSDAY 30TH AUGUST 2007

SESSION 4: AUTOMATA AND CELLULAR AUTOMATA
09:00   Hybrid Networks of Evolutionary Processors with Simple Splicing 
Rules
    A. Choudhary, K. Krithivasan (India)
09:30   A Cell Pattern Generation Model Based on an Extended Artificial
        Regulatory Network
        A. Chavoya (Mexico), Y. Duthen (France)
10:00   CrickBot: A mobile robot with a bio-mimetic control architecture
        M. Folgheraiter, G. Gini, A. Nava,  V. Lumare (Italy)

10:30   Coffee or Tea Break

SESSION 5: EVOLVING, ADAPTING, AND NEURAL HARDWARE
11:00   Learning to hear:The emergence of spectro-temporal response fields
        in a model of auditory cortex
        M. Coath, S. Denham, M. Denham (UK)
11:30   Unruly Motifs - No Convergent Evolution of Network Topologies
        J.F. Knabe, C.L. Nehaniv, M.J. Schilstra (UK)
12:00   Hormones for Extreme Temperatures
        D. Laketic,  P. Haddow (Norway)

12:30    Lunch

SESSION 6: MACHINE LEARNING
13:30   Novel embryonic arrays with neural network characteristics
        M. Samie (Iran),  G. Dragffy (UK)
14:00   Neural Assembly Formation with Complementary Roles of Classical
        and Temporal Coding
        T. Burwick (Germany)
14:30   Optimal connection strategies in one- and two-dimensional
        associative memory models
        L. Calcraft, R. Adams, N. Davey (UK)

15:00   Coffee or Tea Break

SESSION 7: NOVEL BIO-INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS
15:30   Confrontation between models and real data for DNA molecules
        space structure
        M. Essabbah, R. Gherbi, M. Mallem (France)
16:00   Pomitaxis: Computing with a Bacterial-Inspired Algorithm
        D. Nicolau,  P. Maini (UK)
16:30   Nonlinear transient computation in cortical columns
        N.T. Crook, W.J. Goh (UK)

19:30   Conference Dinner

FRIDAY 31ST AUGUST 2007

SESSION 8: ENZYME AND GENE NETWORKS
09:00   Positive circuits and two-dimensional spatial differentiation:
        Application to the formation of sense organs in Drosophila
        A. Crumiere (France)
09:30   Mathematical modeling and Sensitivity analysis of G1/S phase in the
        cell cycle including the DNA damage signal transduction pathway
        K. Iwamoto, Y. Tashima, H. Hamada, Y. Eguchi, M. Okamoto (Japan)
10:00   A network cell with molecular tokens that divides from centrosome
        signals
        H. Suzuki (Japan)

10:30   Coffee or Tea Break

SESSION 9: MODELLING OF METABOLIC PATHWAYS AND RESPONSES
11:00   Algebraic Properties of Automata Associated to Petri Nets and
        Applications to Computation in Intermediary Metabolism
        A. Egri-Nagy, C. Nehaniv (UK)
11:30   Krohn-Rhodes Analysis of Computation in BioChemical Reactions
        A. Egri-Nagy, C. Nehaniv, M. Schilstra (UK), J. Rhodes (USA)
12:00   Why Biological Systems Are Rarely Chaotic
        T. olde Scheper (UK)

12:30   Lunch

SESSION 10: SELF-ORGANISING, SELF-REPAIRING, AND SELF-REPLICATING SYSTEMS
13:30   Calcium signalling mechanisms as a biological rhythm: a theoretical
        study
        C. Santini, A. Tyrrell (UK)
14:00   Bio-inspired Self-organizing Cellular Systems
        A. Stauffer, D. Mange, J. Rossier, F. Vannel (Switzerland)
14:30   The Role of Body Wall Muscles in C. elegans Locomotion
        J. Boyle, N. Cohen (UK)

15:00   Coffee or Tea Break

SESSION 11: SIMULATION OF GENETIC AND ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS   
15:30   Modeling the fitness of plant morphologies across three levels of
        complexity
        J. Watson, J. Wiles (Australia)
16:00   Toward a formal expression of morphogenesis; a mechanical based
        integration of cell growth at tissue scale
        J. Chopard, C. Godin, J. Traas (France)
16:30   Dsweep: A lightweight tool for distributed parameter sweeps
       J. Watson, S. Maetschke, J. Wiles (Australia)


-- 
Dr Nigel Crook
Reader in Computing and Mathematical Sciences

        Department of Computing,
        School of Technology
        Oxford Brookes University
        Wheatley Campus,
        Wheatley,
        Oxford OX33 1HX
        UK

        Email: ntcrook at brookes.ac.uk
        Tel: +44 (0) 1865 484526
        Fax: +44 (0) 1865 484545