Call for Papers or Posters
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Important dates
- Paper submission deadline: January 31 February 6, 2011,
- Notification to authors: March 4, 2011
- Final versions due: March 21, 2011
- Poster submission deadline: April 18, 2011
- UC 2011: June 6-10, 2011
Scope
Original papers and posters are solicited in all all areas of unconventional computation. Papers/posters dealing with theory as well as with experiments and applications are welcome. Typical, but not exclusive, topics are: natural computing including quantum, cellular, molecular, neural and membrane computing, as well as evolutionary paradigms; chaos and dynamical systems based computing; proposals for computations going beyond the Turing model.
Submission
Authors are invited to submit papers (at most 12 pages) or posters electronically, via EasyChair:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=uc2011All submissions are expected to be in the pdf format. Paper submissions should be prepared following the LNCS format of Springer. Poster submissions should contain either a graphical poster or an abstract with sufficient details for the reviewers. Simultaneous submissions to other conferences with published proceedings are not permitted. Each accepted paper/poster must be presented at the conference. The author of the poster is responsible for printing it. The proceedings (only for papers) will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science by Springer, and will be available at the conference.
Conference location
UC 2011 is organized by the FUNDIM laboratory of the mathematics department at the University of Turku, Finland, under the auspices of EATCS. The conference and the satellite workshops will take place in the Calonia and Arcanum buildings of the University of Turku.
Conference History
The first venue of the Unconventional Computation Conference (formerly called Unconventional Models of Computation) was Auckland, New Zealand, in 1998; subsequent sites of the conference were Brussels, Belgium, in 2000; Kobe, Japan, in 2002; Seville, Spain, in 2005; York, UK, in 2006; Kingston, Canada, in 2007; Vienna, Austria, in 2008; Ponta Delgada, Portugal, in 2009; and Tokyo, Japan, in 2010.
Invited speakers
- Samson Abramsky (University of Oxford, UK)
- Bastien Chopard (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
- David Corne (Heriot-Watt University, UK)
- Juhani Karhumäki (University of Turku, Finland)
- Gheorghe Păun (Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy, Romania)
- Grzegorz Rozenberg (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
Tutorials
- Quantum Information
- Mika Hirvensalo (University of Turku, Finland)
- Cellular Automata
- Nicolas Ollinger (Aix-Marseille University, France)
- Membrane Computing
- Mario de J. Pérez Jiménez (University of Sevilla, Spain)
Satellite workshops
- Physics and Computation
- org. Mike Stannet
- Hypercomputation
- org. Mike Stannet
- Language Theory in Biocomputing
- org. Tero Harju
- Summer Solstice 2011: Discrete Models of Complex Systems
- org. Danuta Makowiec, Anna Lawniczak, Bruno Di Stefano
Program committee
- Selim Akl (Queen's University, Kingston, Canada)
- Olivier Bournez (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France)
- Thomas Bäck (University of Leiden, The Netherlands)
- Adan Cabello (University of Sevilla, Spain)
- Barry Cooper (University of Leeds, UK)
- Josée Félix Costa (IST Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal)
- Nachum Dershowitz (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
- Eric Goles (Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile)
- Shan He (University of Birmingham, UK)
- Mika Hirvensalo (University of Turku, Finland)
- Natasha Jonoska (University of South Florida, Tampa FL, USA)
- Jarkko Kari,co-chair (University of Turku, Finland)
- Giancarlo Mauri (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
- Kenichi Morita (Hiroshima University, Japan)
- Ion Petre,co-chair (Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland)
- Kai Salomaa (Queen's University, Kingston, Canada})
- Hava Siegelmann (University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA, USA)
- Susan Stepney (University of York, UK)
- Fumiaki Tanaka (University of Tokyo, Japan)
- Jon Timmis (University of York, UK)
Organizing Committee
- Pierre Guillon
- Tero Harju
- Mika Hirvensalo
- Timo Jolivet
- Juhani Karhumäki
- Jarkko Kari (chair)
- Arto Lepistö
- Ion Petre
- Petri Salmela
- Charalampos Zinoviadis
Proceedings Committee
- Cris Calude
- Jarkko Kari
- Arto Lepistö
- Ion Petre
- Grzegorz Rozenberg
UC Steering Committee
- Thomas Bäck (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
- Cristian S. Calude, co-chair (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
- Lov K. Grover (Bell Labs, Murray Hill, New Jersey, USA)
- Jarkko Kari (University of Turku, Finland)
- Lila Kari (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
- Jan van Leeuwen (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
- Seth Lloyd (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
- Giancarlo Mauri (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
- Gheorghe Păun (Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy, Romania)
- Tommaso Toffoli (Boston University, USA)
- Carme Torras (Institute of Robotics and Industrial Informatics, Barcelona, Spain)
- Grzegorz Rozenberg, co-chair (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
- Arto Salomaa (University of Turku, Finland)