[agents] CFP - ACRI 2012

[Giuseppe Vizzari]

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First Call for Papers
10TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CELLULAR AUTOMATA FOR RESEARCH AND INDUSTRY (ACRI 2012)
Santorini Island, Greece, September 24-27, 2012
http://acri2012.duth.gr
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Cellular automata (CA) present a very powerful approach to the study of spatio-temporal systems where complex phenomena build up out of many simple local interactions. They account often for real phenomena or solutions of problems, whose high complexity could unlikely be formalised in different contexts. Furthermore parallelism and locality features of CA allow a straightforward and extremely easy parallelisation, therefore an immediate implementation on parallel computing resources. These characteristics of the CA research resulted in the formation of interdisciplinary research teams. These teams produce remarkable research results and attract scientists from different fields. The main goal of the 10th edition of ACRI 2012 Conference (Cellular Automata for Research and Industry) is to offer both scientists and engineers in academies and industries an opportunity to express and discuss their views on current trends, challenges, and state-of-the art solutions to various problems in the fields of arts, biology, chemistry, communication, cultural heritage, ecology, economy, geology, engineering, medicine, physics, sociology, traffic control, etc.
Topics of either theoretical or applied interest about CA and CA-based models and systems include but are not limited to:
-	Algebraic properties and generalization
-	Complex systems
-	Computational complexity
-	Dynamical systems
-	Hardware circuits, architectures, systems and applications
-	Modeling of biological systems
-	Modeling of physical or chemical systems
-	Modeling of ecological and environmental systems
-	Image Processing and pattern recognition
-	Natural Computing
-	Quantum Cellular Automata
-	Parallelism

SUBMISSIONS:
Authors are invited to submit papers presenting their original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 10 pages and should be formatted according to the usual LNCS article style (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs). Details on the electronic submission procedure will be provided through the website of the conference (http://acri2012.duth.gr/).

PUBLICATION:
A volume of proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series and will be available by the time of the conference. After the conference, refereed volumes of selected proceedings containing extended papers will be organized as special issues of ISI international journals like Journal of Cellular Automata.

IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper submission: March 19, 2012
Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: April 15, 2012
Final version of the paper for the proceedings: May 14, 2012
Conference: September 24-27, 2012

CONFERENCE LOCATION:
ACRI2012 will be held at Petros M. Nomikos Conference Centre, Santorini Island, Greece.
Santorini, in an ancient island that endured one of the largest volcanic eruptions in history, feels definetely like no other place on earth. In Santorini, 120 miles southwest of mainland Greece, everything is brighter: the whitewashed cube-shaped houses, the lapis lazuli sea and the sunsets that light up the caldera. Recently, was elected by BBC Travel as the best island in the world, while Travel & Leisure magazine ranked Santorini in the first place in the list of World's Top Islands for the year 2011. Santorini as such a very popular touristic destination is served by multiple connections via both air and sea.

URL: http://acri2012.duth.gr
Contact: acri2012 at duth.gr

Chairs
Georgios Sirakoulis (Democritus University of Thrace - Greece)
Stefania Bandini (University of Milano-Bicocca - Italy)

Steering Committee
Stefania Bandini (University of Milano-Bicocca - Italy)
Bastien Chopard (University of Geneva - Switzerland)
Giancarlo Mauri (University of Milano-Bicocca - Italy)
Hiroshi Umeo (University of Osaka Electro-Communication - Japan)
Thomas Worsch (University of Karlsruhe - Germany)