BIONETICS

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

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 rocessing 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, or short papers with up to 1 page. Accepted full papers will be given a full oral presentation slot, and accepted short papers will be presented in a poster session. 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