{{{ IWINIAC 2005 }}} FIRST INTERNATIONAL WORK-CONFERENCE on the INTERPLAY between NATURAL and ARTIFICIAL COMPUTATION Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands (Spain) June 15-18, 2005 http://iwann.dia.uned.es/ {{{ Session on Systems Self-Assembly }}} 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- list archives : //www.freelists.org/archives/rule110 change options : http://www.rule110.org/contact.html or sign off by mailing to list-request@xxxxxxxxxxx - subject: 'unsubscribe'