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            CALL FOR PAPERS AND WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

                       BIONETICS 2007 

                2nd International Conference on
Bio inspired Models of Network, Information and Computing Systems

                 http://www.bionetics.org/
           Budapest, Hungary, December 10-12, 2007
      
      Technically co-sponsored by IEEE COMSOC and IEEE CIS
          In co-operation with ACM (approval pending) 
         
            Jointly sponsored by CREATE-NET, ICST 

       *** Paper submission deadline: August 5, 2007 ***
       *** Workshop proposal due:       July 8, 2007 ***

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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 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 that are capable of operating 
under changing environments and noisy input, and yet exhibit the 
desired behavior 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.
The turn to nature has brought us many unforeseen great concepts. 
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 systems, 
which have similar high stability and efficiency often found in biological 
entities.
The BIONETICS conference aims at bringing together researchers and 
scientists from several disciplines in computer science and engineering 
where bio-inspired methods are investigated. 

*** PAPERS ***

We are soliciting high-quality original papers focusing on (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
	- Artificial immune and self-healing systems
	- Cellular signaling pathways

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

c) Bio-inspired information and communication systems (ICT):
	- Network algorithms and protocols
	- Autonomic communication systems
	- Evolution of network architectures and protocols
	- Adaptive and self-healing network architectures
	- Self-organizing network paradigms
	- In-network processing and autonomic networking
	- Adaptive sensor and actor networks
	- Topology control and network organization
	- Localization and synchronization
	- Mobility models
	- Multi-agent systems and robotics
	- Novel applications and services
	- Self-learning defense strategies
	- Adaptive and evolving protection mechanisms
	- Network and information security
	- Experimental studies
	- Nano-scale and molecular communication

Prospective authors should submit full papers with up to 8 pages 
using 10pt font. Only electronic submissions in PDF format 
are accepted. The proceedings will be a IEEE Publication and the 
papers will be listed on the IEEE Xplore and IEEE digital library. 

Submission instructions: http://cocus.create-net.it/cocus/welcome.do

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Important dates:
  Submission deadline:      August 5, 2007 
  Acceptance notification:  September 18, 2007
  Camera ready paper:       October 16, 2007
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*** WORKSHOP PROPOSALS ***

The 2nd International Conference on Bio-Inspired Models of
Network, Information, and Computing Systems (BIONETICS 2007)
is soliciting proposals for one day workshops. Potential
workshops are expected to focus on emerging research
directions, specific topics and interdisciplinary themes
in the field of bio-inspired network, information and
computing systems.

Workshop proposals should be submitted via email to the
workshops co-chairs (Jun Suzuki, jxs at cs.umb.edu, and
Stephan Steglich, stephan.steglich at tu-berlin.de) by
July 8. A workshop proposal should include:

* Name of the proposed workshop
* Tentative theme, scope and topic areas of interest
* Tentative list of workshop organizers and program
   committee members
* Preliminary plan for workshop organization, such as paper
   solicitation,  paper selection and time frame.

BIONETICS workshops will be co-located at the BIONETICS
conference. Workshop proceedings will be published in the
BIONETICS proceedings as an IEEE publication, and workshop
papers will be listed on the IEEE Xplore and IEEE digital library.

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Important Date:
  Workshop proposal due:               July 8
  Notification of proposal acceptance: July 18
  Workshop paper due:                  September 16 (approx.)
  Paper notification:                  September 30 (approx.)
  Camera ready paper due:              October 16
  Conference Date:                     December 10-12
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Committees:

General Chairs:
    Falko Dressler, Univ. of Erlangen

Steering Committee Chair:
    Imrich Chlamtac, CREATE-NET

Steering Committee Co-Chair:
	Iacopo Carreras, CREATE-NET

TPC Chair (advisory):
    Tatsuya Suda, UC Irvine

TPC Co-Chairs:  	 
	Ozgur Akan, Middle East Tech Univ.
	Taieb Znati, Univ. of Pittsburg
	Masayuki Murata, Osaka Univ.

Workshop Co-Chairs:
	Jun Suzuki, Univ. of Massachusetts
	Stephan Steglich, TU Berlin

Tutorial Co-Chairs:
	Yuki Moritani,NTT DoCoMo Inc.
	Andreas Deutsch, TU Dresden

Panel Chair:
	Vilmos Simon, Budapest Univ.

Publication Co-Chairs:
	Kenji Leibnitz, Osaka Univ.
	Levente Buttyan, Budapest Univ.

Publicity Co-Chairs:
	Naoki Wakamiya, Osaka Univ.
	Xiuzhen Cheng, George Washington Univ.
	Giusi Alfano, CREATE-NET

Web Chair: 	
    Isabel Dietrich, Univ. of Erlangen

Finance Chair: 	
	Karen Decker, ICST

Local Arrangements Chair:
	Kitti Kovacs, ICST


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