Subject: [Mip6] CFP: BIONETICS 2008 - 3rd International Conference on, Bio inspired Models of Network, Information and Computing Systems

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Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:33:37 -0400

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                      CALL FOR PAPERS

                      BIONETICS 2008

               3rd International Conference on
Bio inspired Models of Network, Information and Computing Systems

                http://www.bionetics.org/
       Awaji Yumebutai International Conference Center               
Awaji Island, Hyogo, Japan, Nov 25-28, 2008

*** Technically co-sponsored by IEEE COMSOC, IEEE CIS, and IEEE SMC 
(planned)
***              In co-operation with ACM SIGCAS (planned)
                   Jointly sponsored by CREATE-NET, ICST
       *** Submission deadline: July 1, 2008 ***
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Technology is taking us to a world where myriads of heavily networked 
devices interact with the physical world in multiple ways, and at 
multiple scales, from the global Internet scale down to micro- and 
nano-devices. Many of these devices are highly mobile and autonomous, 
and must adapt to the surrounding environment in a totally unsupervised 
way.

A fundamental research challenge is the design of robust decentralized 
computing systems capable of operating under changing environments and 
noisy input, and yet exhibit the desired behaviour and response time, 
under constraints such as energy consumption, size, and processing 
power. These systems should be able to adapt and learn how to react to 
unforeseen scenarios as well as to display properties comparable to 
social entities.

Biological systems are able to handle many of these challenges with an 
elegance and efficiency still far beyond current human artifacts. Based 
on this observation, bio-inspired approaches have been proposed in the 
past years as a strategy to handle the complexity of such systems. The 
goal is to obtain methods on how to engineer technical solutions which 
have similar high stability and efficiency as biological entities often 
have.

The BIONETICS conference aims at bringing together researchers and 
scientists from several disciplines in computer science and engineering 
where bio-inspired methods are investigated. We are soliciting 
high-quality original papers in the following five areas including but 
not limited to the following topics:

a) Bio-inspired mathematical models, methods and tools:
    - Mathematical models of biological processes
    - Qualitative assessment of evolutionary algorithms
    - Multiscale dynamics of emergent properties
    - Artificial immune and self-healing systems
    - Cellular signaling pathways

b) Bio-inspired technical systems:
    - Engineering methods and tools for bio-inspired systems
    - Bio-inspired service evolution and optimization
    - Pandemic service deployment strategies

c) Bio-inspired information and communication systems (ICT):
    - Network algorithms and protocols
    - Autonomic communication systems
    - Evolution of network architectures and protocols
    - Adaptive and self-healing network architectures
    - Self-organizing network paradigms
    - In-network processing and autonomic networking
    - Adaptive sensor and actor networks
    - Topology control and network organization
    - Localization and synchronization
    - Mobility models
    - Multi-agent systems and robotics
    - Novel applications and services
    - Self-learning defense strategies
    - Adaptive and evolving protection mechanisms
    - Network and information security
    - Experimental studies
    - Nano-scale and molecular communication

Authors are invited to submit full papers of up to 8 pages, or short papers
of up to 3 pages, in ACM conference proceedings format through COCUS
(http://cocus.create-net.it). The proceedings will be an ICST 
publication and
the papers will be listed on the ACM DL and indexed by EI.

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Important dates

Submission deadline: July 1, 2008
Acceptance notification: September 1, 2008 Camera Ready Paper: October 
1, 2008
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BIONETICS 2008 Committees

General Co-Chairs:   
    Masayuki Murata, Osaka University
    Ozgur Akan, Middle East Technical University

TPC Co-Chairs:       
    Kenji Leibnitz, Osaka University
    Stephan Steglich, TU Dresden 
Steering Committee Co-Chairs:   
    Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net
    Iacopo Carreras, Create-Net
    Tatsuya Suda, University of Irvine, California
    Falko Dressler, University of Erlangen

Panel Co-Chairs:       
    Lidia Yamamoto, University of Basel
    Fabio Martinelli, IIT-CNR

Publicity Co-Chairs:    
    Naoki Wakamiya, Osaka University
    Xiuzhen Cheng, Georgia Washington University
    Jian-Qin Liu, NICT 
Publication Co-Chairs:   
    Suyong Eum, Osaka University
    Giusi Alfano, CREATE-NET

Financial Chair:       
    Karen Decker, ICST 
Conference Coordination Chair:     Kitti Kovacs, ICST 
Local Arrangement & Web Chair:     Shin?chi Arakawa, Osaka University 
Bioinformatics Track Chair:     Pietro Lio, University of Cambridge 
Industry Track Co-Chairs:     Pietro Lio, University of Cambridge
    Atsuhiro Tanaka, NEC
Workshop Chair:       
    Yuki Moritani, NTT Docomo

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