[Fis] TRACK ON BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION / BIOSEMIOTICS

Dear FIS and philosophy colleagues,

Pedro and I have been invited to participate in a Swedish international
conference on Computing and philosophy with a TRACK ON BIOLOGICAL
INFORMATION/SEMIOTICS, ARTIFICIAL LIFE, AND BIOCOMPUTATION (see text below),
and we kindly invite you to join us. Sweden is beautiful in June at this
magnificent lake
not far from Stockholm! (see information at
http://www.idt.mdh.se/ECAP-2005/ and below.)
Send abstracts headline TRACK ON BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION, ARTIFICIAL LIFE,
AND BIOCOMPUTATION.

E-CAP2005
TRACK ON BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION,
ARTIFICIAL LIFE, AND BIOCOMPUTATION

COMPUTING AND PHILOSOPHY
E-CAP2005@MDH SWEDEN
M�lardalen University, V�ster�s, Sweden, June 2-4, 2005
Chair: Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic gordana.dodig-crnkovic@mdh.se

http://www.idt.mdh.se/ECAP-2005/
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IMPORTANT DATES
January 28, 2005 Submission of extended abstracts
March 1, 2005 Notification of acceptance
May 7, 2005 Early registration deadline
Jun 2-4, 2005 Conference
August 25, 2005 Camera-ready paper

GENERAL INFORMATION
 From Thursday 2 to Saturday 4 June 2005 the International European
Conference COMPUTING AND PHILOSOPHY will be held at the M�lardalen
University, V�ster�s (near Stockholm, Sweden).

PROGRAM
The conference will deal with all aspects of the "computational turn"
that is occurring through the interaction of disciplines of philosophy and
computing.

TRACK ON BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION/SEMIOTICS, ARTIFICIAL LIFE, AND
BIOCOMPUTATION
Track hosted by S�ren Brier (sbr.lpf@cbs.dk ) and Pedro C.Mariju�n
(marijuan@unizar.es)

Nowadays biology is undergoing one of the most fundamental scientific
revolutions ever seen. From a purely laboratory-based science it is
accelerating towards an information and even a semiotic based science. In
actuality, recent disciplines such as bioinformatics, computational biology,
bioinformation, biosemiotics, integrative biology, artificial life, etc.,
correspond to the new fields of knowledge emerged along this transformation
process. This conference track will focus on the basic theoretical and
scientific-philosophical issues implied in such overlap between computer
sciences and biology.

Possible topics include:

-- The need of inter- and transdisciplinary synthesis in biology. The
contemporary
avalanche of "omic" disciplines: genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics,
biosemiotics, metabolomics, signalomics, degradomics... are in
need of a new common foundation.

-- Biological information, codes and signs. Artificial life/Computer
modelling in biology. The informational or semiotic nature of life.
Recasting the historical question: What is Life?

-- The ongoing integration of biomolecular data: systems biology. The
emerging synthesis between reductionism and integrationism in biology.

-- The evolution of biological complexity. Cellular signalling. Cells,
tissues, and organs as "computational elements," endosemiotics and
organismic integration.

-- Life and the Art of Networks. Dynamic reorganization within gene
networks, protein networks, neural networks: are they related?

--- The role of embodiment in signification and communication. Similarities
and differences in artificial and biological systems cognition, cooperation
and communication.

--- Computation, intelligence, life, communication, meaning and mind: do we
have a productive transdisciplinary framework of understanding?

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Authors should submit an electronic version of an extended abstract
(total word count approximately 1000 words). The file should also
contain a 300 word abstract that will be used for the conference web
site/booklet. Final papers must not exceed a total word count of 3500
words and an abstract of not more than 500 words. The submissions
should be made electronically, either as PDF, rtf or Word format.
To submit papers visit http://www.idt.mdh.se/ECAP-2005/submit
The extended abstract submission deadline is Friday 28th January 2005.

WORK IN PROGRESS (WiP) SESSION
A special Work in Progress (WiP) session will be organized. This
session is mainly intended for presentation of on-going and recent
work. Accepted papers will not be included in the conference
proceedings, instead they will be published through the www. Submission
should be sent in the same format as extended abstracts. Please indicate on
your submission: WiP.

For information about paper submission and the program that is not
available on the web site, please contact the program chair.

REGISTRATION
Registration fee before/after 7 May 2005:
Standard: EURO 200/250 (all the activities of the Conference, Reception
Included) Phd Students: EURO 100/150
Students: Free

One day only: EURO 100,0
No refunds will be granted after May 12th, 2005

For registration please visit the conference web site:
http://www.idt.mdh.se/ECAP-2005/registration.htm

ACCOMMODATION
To book accommodation, please visit the conference web site:
http://www.idt.mdh.se/ECAP-2005/local_information.htm

ORGANIZATION
Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, M?lardalen University, Sweden (Program chair)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
G�ran Collste (LiU, Sweden)
Chris Dobbyn (Open University, UK)
Luciano Floridi (U-Bari, Italy and U-Oxford, UK) Lars-G�ran Johansson
(Uppsala-U, Sweden) Staffan Larsson (G�teborg-U, Sweden) Lorenzo
Magnani (U-Pavia, Italy) Colin Schmidt (Le Mans-U and Sorbonne-U,
France) Susan Stuart (Glasgow-U, United Kingdom) May Thorseth (NTNU,
Norway) Lena Trojer (BIT, Sweden) Tom Ziemke (U-Sk�vde, Sweden) Pedro
C. Marijuan (U-Zaragoza, Spain) S�ren Brier (CBS, Denmark)

LOCAL ORGANIZER
Ms Ylva Boivie, M�lardalen University, Sweden E-mail ylva.boivie@mdh.se
Tel +46 21-107093

VENUE
V�ster�s is Sweden's sixth largest city. Located on beautiful Lake >M�laren,
it offers all the amenities of a large city while maintaining >a small town
feel.>The journey between V�ster�s and Stockholm takes 50 minutes by trains
which run twice an hour from early morning to late at night.

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Authors should submit an electronic version of an extended abstract (total
word count aproximately 1000 words). The file should also contain a 300 word
abstract that will be used for the conference web site/booklet.

Final papers must not exceed a total word count of 3500 words and must be
accompanied by an abstract of not more than 500 words.

Papers must be written in a format appropriate for blind review as pdf, rtf
or Word.
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Received on Thu Nov 18 11:38:54 2004