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Special Session on Systems Self-Assembly at AT THE FIRST INTERNATIONALWORK-CONFERENCE on the INTERPLAY between NATURAL and ARTIFICIAL COMPUTATION



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CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE SPECIAL SESSION ON SYSTEMS SELF-ASSEMBLY

AT THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL WORK-CONFERENCE on the INTERPLAY between
NATURAL and ARTIFICIAL COMPUTATION

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands (Spain)
June 15-18, 2005

ORGANISERS:
Natalio Krasnogor,  Marian Gheorghe,  Jean-Louis Giavitto,  David A. Pelta


SCOPE:
Self-assembly is a process that creates complex hierarchical structures
(from a given set of components) through the statistical exploration of
alternative configurations. These processes occur without external
intervention. In general, components are autonomous, have no
pre-programmed assembly plan, and can only interact with their local
environment, thus they are not pre-assigned to a specific function or
arrangement within the final assembled structure.

Besides the modelling and the simulation in natural systems,
self-assembly can be used in artificial systems as a powerful
engineering principle to achieve a desired collective effect or to form
potentially autonomic structures exhibiting a hierarchy of emergent
system properties.

Systems where self-assembly takes place (or which are created by a
self-assembling processes) are remarkably varied, and some common
principles for self-assembly are starting to be discerned.

In this context, this special session will be a showcase of systems
self-assembly across the computational, biological, chemical, physical
and engineering disciplines. It will seek to uncover unifying principles
for the study and implementation of systems self-assembly. It hopes to
bring together researchers in various communities to present their
results, to foster fertilization between theory and practice across
multi-disciplines, as well as to favour the dissemination and growth of
new tools and applications.


PAPER SUBMISSION:

The session organizers request original papers on self-assembly and
self-organization theory and practice. Authors should submit the
camera-ready version of their paper written in English (official
language of the conference), of up to 10 pages (including figures,
tables and references), in electronic format to:

Dr. Natalio Krasnogor
E-mail:  Natalio.Krasnogor@Nottingham.ac.uk
Subject: Contribution to Systems Self-Assembly Special Session

Authors must send their papers (LATEX sources plus camera ready in
PDF/Postscript), before February 15th, 2005.

Please, check the conference website
http://iwann.dia.uned.es/iwinac2005-cfp.html for formatting instructions.

The accepted papers will appear in the proceedings that will be
published in the "Lecture Notes in Computer Science" series from
Springer-Verlag.

The Program Committee will referee all papers received. Accepted papers
must be presented during the conference. At least one authors
registration is required for each accepted paper.

A *selected few* of the accepted papers will be invited to be extended
and submitted to appear in the book Systems Self-Assembly:
Multidisciplinary Snapshots to be published by Elsevier in its series
Studies in Multidisciplinarity.


IMPORTANT DATES:

Final date for submission: February 15, 2005
Acceptance notification and start of registration: April 1, 2005
End of reduction fee for early registration: April 30, 2005
Congress date: June 15-18, 2005


SESION ORGANISERS DETAILS:

Natalio Krasnogor (point of contact)
Automated Scheduling, Optimisation and Planning Research Group
School of Computer Science and IT, University of Nottingham, Nottingham,
United Kingdom
TELEPHONE: +44 115 8467592
FAX: +44 115 8467591
E-MAIL: Natalio.Krasnogor@Nottingham.ac.uk

Marian Gheorghe
Verification and Testing Research Group
Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield
United Kingdom

Jean-Louis Giavitto
National Centre of Scientific Research  (CNRS)
France

David A. Pelta
Depto. de Ciencias de la Computacin e Inteligencia Artificial
E.T.S. de Ingeniera Informtica,  Universidad de Granada,
                                                  Granada, E-18071, Spain





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