Fwd: [IPCAT2003] - First Call for Papers

Dear Colleagues:

The attached call for papers may be of interest to FIS participants.
FIS'ers are invited to contribute.

I have attended earlier workshops of IPCAT and enjoyed the
presentations and atmosphere.

Cheers

Jerry LR Chandler
Research Professor
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA

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>FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
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>** IPCAT2003 **
>Fifth International Workshop on
>Information Processing in Cells and Tissues
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>September 8 - 11, 2003
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>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.
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>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.
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>Topics of Interest:
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>Topics to be covered will include, but not limited to, the
>following list:
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>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
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>Special Session:
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>Morphomechanics of the Embryo and Genome + Artificial
>Life -> Embryonics
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>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.
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>Papers for this special session should be submitted through
>the regular procedure.
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>Organizers: R. Gordon, Lev V. Beloussov
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>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.
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>Important Dates:
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>Paper submission: February 28, 2003
>Notification of acceptance: May 28, 2003
>Camera-ready copy: July 11, 2003
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>For up-to-date information, consult the IPCAT2003 web-site:
>http://lslwww.epfl.ch/ipcat2003
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>We are looking forward to seeing you in beautiful Lausanne!
>
>Sincerely,
>Christof Teuscher
>IPCAT2003 Program Chair
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