Connectionists: Announcement of a workshop on nonlinear dynamics and synchronization (INDS’08)

[Abdelhamid Bouchachia]

Dear Colleague,

Please kindly include the following CFP in the next mailing list 
announcement.

Many many thanks  & Best wishes for the new year.

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Dr. Abdelhamid Bouchachia
Dept. of Informatics-Systems
Group of Software Engineering & Soft Computing
Alps-Adriatic University of Klagenfurt

Universitaetsstrasse 65
A-9020 Klagenfurt, Austria

phone:  +43 (0)463-2700 3525
fax:    +43 (0)463-2700 3599
mailto: hamid at isys.uni-klu.ac.at
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First International Workshop on nonlinear dynamics and synchronization 
(INDS’08)
July18-19, 2008 (Klagenfurt, Austria)

The First International Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics and 
Synchronization (INDS’08) is a two-day international workshop bringing 
together international researchers, developers and practitioners from 
different horizons to discuss the latest advances in nonlinear dynamics 
and synchronization. INDS’08 will serve as a forum to present current 
and future works as well as to exchange research ideas pertaining to 
various aspects in this field of nonlinear dynamic systems and 
synchronization. INDS’08 will feature contributed as well as invited 
papers and will include poster and demo sessions.

Keynote Speakers:
G. Chen, City Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
L.O. Chua, University of California, USA
D. Helbing, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
J.  Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
W. Mathis, University of Hannover, Germany
D.  Ruan, Belgian Nuclear Research Centre, Belgium

The major focus of this inter-disciplinary workshop lies on the 
following areas:

    *       Theoretical fundamentals of synchronization
    *        Nonlinear systems and synchronization
    *        Experiments of nonlinear dynamics and synchronization
    *        Simulation of nonlinear dynamics and synchronization
    *        Applications of nonlinear dynamics and synchronization:

          o Self-organized traffic management systems
          o Self-organized intelligent supply chains and logistics systems
          o Cybernetics
          o Systems control
          o Robotics
          o Cooperative advanced driver assistance systems
          o Pattern recognition  
          o Computational intelligence models (soft computing and
            machine learning)  
          o Cellular neural networks and applications
          o Image processing (incl. scene analysis)
          o Signal processing (incl. speech processing and recognition)
          o Self-reconfigurable systems
          o Self-healing systems
          o Self-testing systems
          o Coupled oscillatory systems
          o Bio-computing, neuro-computing, biology, bio-chemistry
          o Chaos control
          o
            Communication (wired and wireless), networking and sensor
            networks
          o
            Cryptography and security
          o
            Social sciences, psychology, business and management*
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Important dates: 

    *
      Extended abstract submission: 28.02.2008
    *
      Acceptance notification: 15.04.2008
    * Full paper submission: 30.04.2008
    * Early registration deadline: 25.05.2008


Submission of papers:
Researchers are invited to submit an extended abstract (min. 3-4 pages) 
before 28.02.2008. After review and acceptance of the extended abstracts 
authors will be invited to submit a 6-8 page full paper version. For 
submission please follow the link: http://edas.info/6155.
Camera-ready full papers will be included in the workshop proceedings, 
which will be published by “Shaker Verlag” (Germany) and distributed to 
the participants at the workshop.

Post-workshop publications:
The best contributions, based upon the quality, novelty and relevancy, 
will be invited to submit a longer paper (10-14 pages). After undergoing 
a thorough review process selected papers will be published in two books 
(one with Springer and the second with World Scientific Publisher). 
Moreover two special issues of journals are also planned: one with “The 
Open Cybernetics and Systemics Journal” published by Bentham publishing, 
and the second with the “International Journal of Computational 
Intelligence Systems”, published by Atlantis Press. The first special 
issue will be on “Nonlinear Dynamics, Synchronization, and 
Applications”. The second special issue will select 7 papers related to 
soft computing issues/applications in the context of nonlinear dynamics 
and synchronization.


General Chair: K. Kyamakya (Austria)
Program Co-Chairs:
                            G. Chen (Hongkong)
                            W. Halang (Germany)
                              D. Ruan (Belgium)              
Organization Chairs:
                             A. Bouchachia (Austria)
                             J. C. Chedjou (Austria)
                             Z. Li (Germany) 

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Technical Program Committee (to be extended):

G. Auer (Germany)
A. Bagula (South Africa)
C. Bettstetter (Austria)
C. Bobda (Germany)
A. Bouchachia (Austria)
G. Casati (Italy)
J. C. Chedjou (Austria)
G. Chen (Hong Kong)
D. Cheng (China)
L.O. Chua (USA)
M. Ding (USA)
S. Elaydi (USA)
J. Gallas (Germany)
J.E. Garcia (Spain)
C. Gershenson (USA)
W. Halang (Germany)
M. Hofbaur (Austria)
Y. Hong (China)
M. Huemer (Austria)
H. Hwarng (Singapore)
J. Kacprzyk (Poland)
K. Kyamakya (Austria)
H. Leung (Canada)
W. Mathis (Germany)
P. McClintock (UK)
J. T. Mendon (Portugal)
V. Nguyen (Vietnam)
J. Pilz (Austria)
V.Romanovski (Slovenia)
D. Ruan (Belgium)
P. Siarry (France)
R. Stoop (Switzerland)
K. Takatsuka (Japan)
C. M. Takenga (Germany)
K.S. Tang (Hong Kong)
K. Umeno (Japan)