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			CALL FOR PAPERS

			BIONETICS 2006
		1st International Conference on
Bio Inspired mOdels of NEtwork, Information and Computing Systems

		http://www.bionetics.org/
	Madonna di Campiglio, Italy, December 11-13, 2006

      		In co-operation with IEEE CIS, SMC
						
	*** Submission deadline: July 31, 2006 ***
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Technology is taking us to a world where myriads of heavily
networked devices interact with the physical world in
multiple ways, and at multiple scales, from the global
Internet scale down to micro- and nano-devices. Many of
these devices are highly mobile and autonomous, and must
adapt to the surrounding environment in a totally
unsupervised way.

A fundamental research challenge is the design of robust
decentralized computing systems capable of operating under
changing environments and noisy input, and yet exhibit the
desired behaviour and response time, under constraints such
as energy consumption, size, and processing power. These
systems should be able to adapt and learn how to react to
unforeseen scenarios as well as to display properties
comparable to social entities.

Biological systems are able to handle many of these
challenges with an elegance and efficiency still far beyond
current human artifacts. Based on this observation,
bio-inspired approaches have been proposed in the past years
as a strategy to handle the complexity of such systems. The
goal is to obtain methods on how to engineer technical
artifacts which have similar high stability and efficiency
as biological entities often have.

The BIONETICS conference aims at bringing together
researchers and scientists from several disciplines in
computer science and engineering where bio-inspired methods
are investigated. We are soliciting high-quality original
papers in the following five areas including but not limited
to the following topics:

a) Bio-inspired mathematical models, methods and tools
		- Mathematical models of biological processes
		- Qualitative assessment of evolutionary algorithms
		- Multiscale dynamics of emergent properties

b) Bio-inspired software
   	- Engineering methods and tools for bio-inspired systems
   	- Bio-inspired service evolution and optimization
   	- Pandemic service deployment strategies

c) Bio-inspired security mechanisms
   	- Artificial immune and self-healing systems
   	- Cell, body, population-level security mechanisms
   	- Adaptive and evolving protection mechanisms

d) Bio-inspired networks and communication systems
   	- Bio-inspired network algorithms and protocols
   	- Bio-inspired autonomic communication systems
   	- Evolution of network architectures and protocols

e) Bio-inspired and bio-based  nano-scale communication and information
systems
		- Molecular communication
		- Biological computing
		- Nano-scale biologically engineered systems

Prospective authors should submit full papers with up to 8 pages
using 10pt font. Only electronic submissions in PDF format
are accepted.
Submission instructions: http://cocus.create-net.it/cocus/welcome.do

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Important dates:
  Submission deadline:      July 31, 2006
  Acceptance notification:  September 18, 2006
  Camera ready paper:       October 23, 2006
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Committees:

General Chairs:
  Tatsuya Suda, Univ. of California, Irvine, USA
  Christian Tschudin, Univ. of Basel, Switzerland

Vice-Chairs:
  Iacopo Carreras, Create-Net Research Association, Italy
  Lidia Yamamoto, Univ. of Basel, Switzerland

Steering Committee Chair:
  Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net Research Association, Italy

TPC Chair:
  Masayuki Murata, Osaka Univ., Japan

TPC Vice-Chairs:
-- Bio-inspired mathematical models, methods and tools:
	Andreas Deutsch, Dresden University of Technology, Germany
-- Bio-inspired software:
	Stephan Steglich, TU Berlin, Germany
-- Bio-inspired security mechanisms:
	Fabio Martinelli, IIT-CNR, Italy
-- Bio-inspired networks and communication systems:
	Kenji Leibnitz, Osaka University, Japan,
-- Bio-based nano-scale communication and information systems:
	Yuki Moritani, NTT DoCoMo Inc., Japan (TBC)

Panel Chair:
	 Csaba Kiraly, Univ. of Trento, Italy
	
Publicity Chair:
  Europe: Falko Dressler, Univ. Erlangen, Germany
  US: Xiuzhen Cheng, George Washington University, US

Financial Chair:
	Karen Decker, ICST, USA

Local Arrangement Chair:
  Giuseppina Alfano, Create-Net Research Association, Italy

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TPC memebrs:
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Andrew Adamatzky, Univ. of the West of England
David Basanta, ZIH, TUD, Dresden
Kalyan Basu, University of Texas
Subhayu Basu, Princeton Univ.
Peter Bentley, University College London
Lutz Brusch, ZIH, TUD, Dresden
Geoffrey Canright, Telenor R & D
Xiuzhen Cheng, George Washington University
Romit Roy Choudhury, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Pierpaolo Degano, University of Pisa
Falko Dressler, Univ. Erlangen
Niloy Ganguly, Indian Institute of Technology
Arobinda Gupta, Indian Institute of Technology
Masami Hagiya, Univ. of Tokyo
Henry Hess, Univ. of Florida
Satoshi Hiyama, NTT DoCoMo
Yoshiteru Ishida, Toyohashi University of Technology
Mark Jelasity, University of Bologna,
Igor Kotenko, Russian Academy of Sciences
Pabitra Mitra,  Indian Institute of Technology
Alberto Montresor, University of Trento
Tadashi Nakano, Univ. of California, Irvine
Shin-ichiro M. Nomura, Tokyo Medical and Dental Univ.
Kazuhiro Oiwa, NICT
Oznur Ozkasap, Koc University
Kay Roemer, ETH Zurich
Yoshihiro Sasaki, NAIST
Biplab Sikdar, Bengal Engineering and Science University
Adrian Stoica, JPL, NASA
Akira Suyama, Univ. of Tokyo
Shoji Takeuchi, Univ. of Tokyo
Naoki Wakamiya, Osaka University
Matthew Williamson, HP Lab