Day 2 panel: Nano scale communications and computing

Day 3 panel: BIONETICS: a methodology or a source of inspiration?

Nano scale communications and computing

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Panel description:

The panel discusses an entirely new area of nano scale communications.

Specifically, the panel discusses, among other things:

1. how nano-scale biological entities (such as cells, bacteria) communicate in real biological world,
2. how the communication mechanisms that such entities use may apply to enable soft nano machines (i.e., nano machines that are made of biological materials) to communicate,
3. what mathematical models and tools are suitable to understand nano scale communication systems,
4. what a generic architecture may look for nano scale communication systems, and
5. what communication/computing models are suitable to describe nano scale communication systems.

The panel also discusses an emerging new idea of using molecules (such as DNAs and proteins) as a communication medium between soft nano machines, not the radio wave nor the light wave that are used in the current communication systems.

Communicating nano machines have huge potential to impact our daily lives in the medical, environmental, chemical and information technology areas, and this panel is the first of its kind trying to identify key research issues to enable nano scale communications.

Biography:

Martin Stetter is Principal Research Scientist and Program Manager for“Bioanalogue Technologies and Solutions” at Siemens Corporate Technology in Munich, Germany. He studied Biophysics in Regensburg, Germany, and received the Ph.D. degree in Physics in 1994. During the time from 1992-1996 he headed the computing group of the University of
Regensburg Eye Hospital. In 1996, he changed to the Technical University of Berlin, where in 2001 he received the habilitation (maximal academic degree in Germany) in computer science. In 2000, he joined the Neural Computation Department of Siemens CT Munich. He works on applications of statistical and neuronal learning approaches to genome and proteome research and on neuronal models of mammalian neurocognitive processing. Since 2002, Martin Stetter is also Associate Professor of the Technical University of Munich. He has authored or co-authored more than 40 peer-reviewed publications, two books, 9 review articles or book chapters, and has filed more than 30 patent applications.

Yuki Moritani received the B.E. degree in electronic engineering and the M.I. degree in communications and computer engineering from Kyoto University, Japan in 1998 and 2000, respectively. Since 2000, he has been with NTT DoCoMo Inc. He had been engaged in researching multicast technology for the next generation mobile network architecture. In the
middle of 2003, he proposed a concept of "molecular communication" that utilizes molecules (such as proteins and DNAs) as communication carriers hoping to create a new communication paradigm based on the biochemical reactions with small number of researchers. He has been mainly engaged in researching molecular communication interface.

Jian-Qin Liu received a B.S. degree in computer science and system science from Nankai University, Tianjin, China, 1986, an M.S. degree in automation theory and applications from Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 1992, a Ph.D. degree in industrial automation from Central South University of Technology, Changsha, China, 1997 and a Ph.D. degree in informatics from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, March 2006. He is currently an expert researcher at Kobe Advanced ICT Research Center, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Kobe, Japan. He worked as an assistant lecturer (1986-1991) and a lecturer (1992-1994) at Xi’an Jiaotong University, a Visiting Researcher (1994-1995) at Information and Communication R & D Center, Ricoh Co. Ltd., Yokohama, Japan, an associate professor (1995-2000) at Central South University of Technology where he became a professor in October 2000. He had been working at Advanced Telecommunication Research Institute International (ATR), Kyoto, Japan during 1999-March 2006 where he became a senior researcher in March 2003. His research interests include bio-molecular computing, bioinformatics, and nanotechnologies. He is the author of two books and more than 40 papers published in academic journals. He received Chen Xinmin Award from Central South University of Technology in 1998 and Research Award from Advanced Telecommunication Research Institute International in 2005.

Tadashi Nakano received his B.E., M.E., and Dr.E. degrees in information systems engineering from Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, in 1999, 2000, and 2002, respectively. Since 2002, he has been with the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, where he is a postdoctoral research scholar researching a biologically
inspired networking architecture. His research interests are in the areas of network applications and distributed computing systems with a strong emphasis on interdisciplinary approaches into those areas. His current research focuses on molecular communication.

BIONETICS: a methodology or a source of inspiration?

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The BIONETICS conference aims at bringing together researchers and scientists from several disciplines in computer science and engineering where bio-inspired methods are investigated. Panelists represent the most important fields of research where bio-inspired methods open newopportunities. Such a highly inter-disciplinary panel will discussquestions like,

1. how far the inspiration goes from biological reality,
2. what are the common biological structures used among disciplines.

The panel will also discuss possible synergies among the fields and the benefits of the inter-disciplinary approach taken by the conference.

Biography:

Andreas Deutsch is currently heading the department "Innovative Methodsof Computing" that is devoted to modelling and simulation of biologicalsystems (at the Center for Information Services and High PerformanceComputing, Technische Universität Dresden). He studied mathematics andbiology at the University of Mainz, received his PhD in biology from theUniversity of Bremen, andhis habilitation in theoretical biology from the University of Bonn. Researchefforts of his lifely research group are directed towards biomathematics andtheoretical biology with an emphasis on modelling questions of developmental biology and tumour growth. Andreas Deutsch is author of a monograph oncellular automaton modelling of biological pattern formation (Birkhauser,Boston 2004). Another research field focuses on the exploitation of ideastaken from self-organizing biological systems (e.g. the immune system) forsolving problems (e.g. search for information) in dynamic technical networks.

Further activities include organization of research networks, and teaching.Andreas Deutsch is one of the initiators and coordinators ofthe communication and information network "Modelling and Theory inBiology" (MTBio, www.mtbio.de) and elected board member (treasurer) of theEuropean Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology (ESMTB).Furthermore, he was scientific coordinator of the European Conference forMathematical and Theoretical Biology (ECMTB05), July 18-22, 2005, Dresden,www.ecmtb05.org), that hosted more than 800 participants.

Stephan Steglich obtained his PhD degree in Computer Science from the Technical University Berlin in 2003. His fields of interest include, e.g., context-awareness, user-interaction, and adaptive systems. In 1998 and 1999 he has worked intensively in the research area of Intelligent Mobile Agents. Since 1999 he has started research activities in the area of user-centric communication. He has been involved in a number of projects, which were related to Human-Machine-Interaction, UMTS/VHE, personalisation and user profiling. Stephan is managing international and national level research activities and has been an organiser and a member of program committees of several international conferences. He has actively participated in standardisation activities in these research areas. He gives lectures in 'Mobile Telecommunication Systems', 'Advanced Communication Systems' at the Technical University Berlin.

Fabio Martinelli (M.S. 1994, Ph.D. 1999) is a senior researcher ofInstitute of Informatics and Telematics of the Italian National ResearchCouncil (IIT-CNR). He is co-author of more than 50 papers oninternational journals and conference/workshop proceedings. His mainresearch interests involve security in distributed, concurrent andmobile systems and foundations of security and trust. He usuallyteaches at (under-)graduate level courses in computer security. Heserves as PC-chair/organizer in several internationalconferences/workshops. In particular, He served as general co-chair ofthe 4th International Conference in Trust Management (iTrust2006); He isthe co-chair of the IEEE International workshop on Trust, Security andPrivacy for Ubiquitous Computing for 2006 and He is the co-initiator ofthe International Workshop series on Formal Aspects in Security andTrust (FAST). He is also serving as scientific co-director of theinternational research school on Foundations of Security Analysis andDesign (FOSAD) in the last three years. He chairs the WG on securityand trust management (STM) of the European Research Consortium inInformatics and Mathematics (ERCIM). He usually manages R&D projects oninformation and communication security and he is involved in thefollowing FP6 projects: ARTIST2, GRIDTrust, SENSORIA, S3MS, and BIONETS.

Kenji Leibnitz studied computer science and received his M.Sc.(Dipl.-Inform.) and Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) from the University ofWurzburg in Germany, where he also worked as a member of the researchstaff at the Department of Distributed Systems under Prof. PhuocTran-Gia. In May 2004 he joined the Multimedia Network Laboratory of theGraduate School of Information Science and Technology at OsakaUniversity, Japan, as a post-doc researcher. Since July 2006 he has is aSpecially Appointed Associate Professor at Osaka University in theresearch group of Prof. Masayuki Murata. His research is supported bythe 21st Century COE program entitled "New Information Technologies forBuilding a Symbiotic Environment?" and the "Special Coordination Fundsfor Promoting Science and Technology: Yuragi Project" by the Ministry ofEducation, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in Japan and dealswith the application of biologically inspired mechanisms intelecommunication networks.

Yuki Moritani received the B.E. degree in electronic engineering and the M.I. degree in communications and computer engineering from Kyoto University, Japan in 1998 and 2000, respectively. Since 2000, he has been with NTT DoCoMo Inc. He had been engaged in researching multicast technology for the next generation mobile network architecture. In the middle of 2003, he proposed a concept of "molecular communication" that utilizes molecules (such as proteins and DNAs) as communication carriers hoping to create a new communication paradigm based on the biochemical reactions with small number of researchers. He has been mainly engaged in researching molecular communication interface.