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                       CALL FOR PAPERS

                       BIONETICS 2008

                3rd International Conference on
Bio inspired Models of Network, Information and Computing Systems

                 http://www.bionetics.org/
        Awaji Yumebutai International Conference Center       
         Awaji Island, Hyogo, Japan, Nov 25-28, 2008

	Technically co-sponsored by ACM SIGEVO, SIGSIM and SIGCAS
	and IEEE Communications Society Japan Council Chapter
         
            Jointly sponsored by CREATE-NET, ICST 

        *** Extended submission deadline: July 15, 2008 ***
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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.

The 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 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.

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 solutions 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 areas including but not limited to the these topics:

a) Bio-inspired mathematical models, methods and tools:
	- Mathematical models of biological processes
	- Cellular signaling pathways
	- Multiscale dynamics of emergent properties
	- Nano-scale and molecular communication
	
b) Bio-inspired algorithms and mechanisms
	- Qualitative assessment of evolutionary algorithms
	- Artificial immune and self-healing systems
	- Self-organizing network paradigms	
	- Adaptive and evolving protection mechanisms
		
c) Bio-inspired technical systems:
	- Engineering methods and tools for bio-inspired systems
	- Bio-inspired service evolution and optimization
	- Pandemic service deployment strategies
	- Self-learning defense strategies
		
d) 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
	- 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
	- Network and information security
	- Experimental studies

Authors are invited to submit full papers of up to 8 pages or short papers of up to 4 pages in ACM conference proceedings format. The proceedings will be an ICST publication and the papers will be listed on the ACM DL and indexed by EI. Please follow the instructions on the website (http://www.bionetics.org) for formatting and submitting your paper or visit the link: http://www.easychair.org/conferences?conf=bionetics2008.

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Important dates
 
Submission deadline: July 15, 2008 (extended)
Acceptance notification: September 1, 2008 
Camera Ready Paper: September 20, 2008
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BIONETICS 2008 Committees

General Co-Chairs:	
	Masayuki Murata, Osaka University
	Ozgur Akan, Middle East Technical University

TPC Co-Chairs:		
	Kenji Leibnitz, Osaka University
	Stephan Steglich, TU Berlin/Fraunhofer FOKUS  

Steering Committee Co-Chairs:	
	Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net
	Iacopo Carreras, Create-Net
	Tatsuya Suda, University of Irvine, California
	Falko Dressler, University of Erlangen

Panel Co-Chairs:		
	Lidia Yamamoto, University of Basel
	Fabio Martinelli, IIT-CNR

Publicity Co-Chairs: 	
	Naoki Wakamiya, Osaka University
	Xiuzhen Cheng, Georgia Washington University
	Jian-Qin Liu, NICT  

Publication Co-Chairs:	
	Suyong Eum, Osaka University
	Giusi Alfano, CREATE-NET

Financial Chair:		
	Karen Decker, ICST  

Conference Coordination Chair: 
	Dorothy Bany, ICST  

Local Arrangement & Web Chair: 
	Shin'ichi Arakawa, Osaka University  

Bioinformatics Track Chair: 
	Pietro Lio, University of Cambridge  

Industry Track Co-Chairs: 
	Atsuhiro Tanaka, NEC 

Workshop Chair:		
	Yuki Moritani, NTT Docomo