8th International Workshop on Natural Computing, IWNC

Post date: Feb 4, 2014 10:47:14 AM

8th IWNC

18-19, March 2014, Hiroshima YMCA, Hiroshima JAPAN

Organized by: SIG-NAC, Japanese Society of Artificial Intelligence

Co-organized by:Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas; No. 23119008 “Synthetic biology for the comprehension of Biomolecular networks” and No.24104002 “Molecular Robotics”

Important Date

Workshop: 18-19.March 2014

Deadline of Paper for Postceeding:

Registration: to be announced

Publication: Post-ceedings will be published from Springer Verlag, Tokyo

Computation is an intrinsic feature of natural and artificial systems because almost all of them can transform information in a predictable or programmable way. We witness experimental prototypes of natural computers: plasmodium computers, reaction-diffusion processors, amorphous computers, DNA computers, and theoretical paradigms: cellular automata, artificial chemistry, P-systems, evolutionary computing, neural networks. Fine mechanics of computation may significantly differ from system to system and even be somewhere ambiguous. This workshop aims to bring together computer scientists, biologists, physicists, mathematicians, electronic engineers, aestheticians and so on to critically assess present findings in the field, and to outline future developments in natural computing.

Topics (alphabetic ordered):

-Biology and its theory:

Synthetic biology, Molecular Robotics, Systems biology, Mathematical Biology, etc.

-Bio-inspired computing:

Ant Algorithm, Bees Algorithm, Swarm intelligence, Evolutional Computing, etc

-Computational Aesthetics:Theory of or/and Empirical Aesthetics, Design / Fine and Media Art / Music relating to computing or/and Nature, Scientific Visualization, etc.

-Computational Model and theory:

Artificial Life, Cellular Automaton, DNA computing, Artificial Chemistry, Multi Agent Systems, Optical computing, Reaction-Diffusion computing, P systems, S Systems, L Systems, Chemical Automata, Petri Net, Formal Language, Multiset computing, etc.

-Computing with Natural media:

Slime-mold computing, Computing with chemical reaction, Reaction-diffusion computing, and other unconventional computing models, etc.

-Philosophy of Natural Computing :

Philosophy of Computing, Philosophy of Science relating to Natural Computing, etc.

And we welcome submission from other related topics:

for example, Human Agent Interaction, Cognitive Science, Visualization, Educational Technology, Virtual Reality, Multi media, etc...

Official site: http://natural-computing.com/IWNC8/IWNC_8/IWNC_8.html