[agents] ACA 2010 - Call for papers

[Giuseppe Vizzari]

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Call for Papers

ACA 2010

FIRST INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON ASYNCHRONOUS CELLULAR AUTOMATA
at 9th International Conference on Cellular Automata for Research and Industry (ACRI 2010)


Ascoli Piceno (Italy), September 21-24, 2010
http://www.acri2010.disco.unimib.it/workshops.html
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ORGANIZER

University of Milano - Bicocca

AIMS

Cellular Automata are a well-known formal model for complex systems that is used in many scientific fields and applications. Synchronicity is one of the main features of Cellular Automata evolutions. Indeed, all cells of common Cellular Automata are updated simultaneously at each discrete time step.

Recent trends consider the modelling of asynchronous systems based on local interactions. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers dealing with the theme of the asyncronicity inside Cellular Automata in order to foster their interaction and to provide a forum for presenting new ideas and works in progress on the subject.

Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to
the following aspects of Asynchronous Cellular Automata

- dynamics
- complexity issues
- computational issues
- emergent properties
- models of parallelism and distributed systems
- models of phenomena from biology, chemistry, physics, engineering and other fields


SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION

Authors are invited to submit papers according to two contribution categories -- full and short papers -- meant to provide a differentiation of the papers in terms of their length, depth and/or
maturity. Papers must comply with the Springer-Verlag format (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs) and the maximum length of 5 and 10 pages for short and full contributions, respectively. Details on the electronic submission procedure will be provided through the website of the ACRI conference (http://www.acri2010.disco.unimib.it/).

Accepted papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in a volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. This volume will be available by the time of the workshop.

It is also planned that selected papers will be considered for publication in a Special issue of Natural Computing. They will contain refereed extended versions of selected papers presented at ACA workshop.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Alberto Dennunzio (Universita' di Milano - Bicocca, Italy) co-chair
Enrico Formenti (Universite' de Nice - Sophia Antipolis, France) co-chair
Henryk Fuks (Brock University, CA)
Eric Goles (Universidad  Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile)
Giancarlo Mauri (Universita' di Milano - Bicocca, Italy)
Ferdinand Peper (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan)
Nicolas Schabanel (CNRS, Universite' Paris Diderot, France)
Marco Tomassini (Universite' de Lausanne, Switzerland) co-chair

IMPORTANT DATES:

Paper submission: March 19, 2010
Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: April 16, 2010
Final version of the paper for the proceedings: May 7, 2010
Conference: September 21-24, 2010

REGISTRATION:

Details about how to register will be provided through the website
of the ACRI conference.