CMC13 - The 13th International Conference on Membrane Computing

Post date: Jan 25, 2012 3:17:55 AM

August 28-31, 2012, Budapest, Hungary

The Theoretical Computer Science Research Group of MTA SZTAKI, theComputer and Automation Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences kindly invites you to take part at the 13th International Conference on Membrane Computing, in Budapest, Hungary August 28-31, 2012. The CMC series was initiated by Gheorghe Păun as the Workshop on Multiset Processing in 2000. The first Workshop on Membrane Computing was organized in Curtea de Argeş, Romania, in 2001. The last two conferences were held in Fontainebleau/Paris, France (2011) and Jena, Germany (2010). Nowadays a Steering Committee takes care of the continuation of the CMC series which is organized under the auspices of the European Molecular Computing Consortium (EMCC). In 2012, also a regional version of CMC, theAsian Conference on Membrane Computing, ACMC, is organized in Wuhan, China.

Aims and scope

The goal of CMC13 is to bring together researchers working in membrane computing and related fields, in a friendly atmosphere enhancing communication, cooperation and continuing the tradition of past meetings. Membrane computing is an area of computer science aiming to abstract computing ideas and models from the structure and the functioning of living cells, as well as from the way the cells are organized in tissues or higher order structures. It deals with membrane systems, also called P systems, which are distributed and parallel algebraic models processing multisets of objects in a localized manner (evolution rules and evolving objects are encapsulated into compartments delimited by membranes), with an essential role played by the communication among compartments and with the environment. Submissions of original papers on various topics of membrane computing are encouraged.

Special sessions

A special session will be devoted to formalisms as process calculi and Petri nets, and their relationships with membrane computing.

As part of the celebrations of the Turing Centenary, a special session will also be dedicated to the relationships between Turing computability and membrane computing as an unconventional computing paradigm.

More information at the CMC13 site: http://www.sztaki.hu/tcs/cmc13/