CALL FOR PAPERS
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1st International Workshop on Biological, Chemical and Physical Computations (BCPC'15)

Lodz, Poland, September 13-16, 2015

WWW: http://fedcsis.org/bcpc
E-mail: bcpc2015@fedcsis.org

We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper to BCPC 2015 - held as a part of the Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS 2015).

FedCSIS is an annual international multi-conference organized by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI) in technical cooperation with the IEEE Region 8, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Poland Section Computer Society Chapter, IEEE Poland (Gdansk) Section Computer Society Chapter, IEEE-CIS Poland Section Chapter, ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, ACM Lodz Chapter, European Alliance for Innovation, Committee of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish Operational and Systems Research Society, Eastern Cluster ICT Poland, and Mazovia Cluster ICT.

The First International Workshop on Biological, Chemical and Physical Computations (BCPC’15) is a unique interdisciplinary workshop which brings together computer scientists and engineers with biologists, chemists, and physicists to initiate development of novel paradigms, architectures and implementations of computing devices adopting principles of information processing in physical, chemical and biological systems.

TOPICS
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The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Physics of computation,
- Slime mould computing,
- Social insects computing,
- Chemical computing,
- Bio-molecular computing,
- Cellular automata as models of massively parallel computing,
- Logics of unconventional computing,
- Reaction-diffusion computing,
- Molecular machines incorporating information processing,
- Memristors,
- Organic electronics,
- Noise-based computing,
- Novel hardware systems,
- Mechanical computing,
- Physical limits to mechanical computation.

PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
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Papers should be submitted by April 24, 2015. Preprints will be published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants. Only papers presented during the conference will be submitted to the IEEE for inclusion in the Xplore Digital Library. Furthermore, proceedings, published in a volume with ISBN and ISSN numbers will posted at the conference WWW site. Moreover, most Events' organizers arrange quality journals, edited volumes, etc. and may invite selected extended and revised papers for post-conference publications (information can be found at the websites of individual events).

IMPORTANT DATES
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- Paper submission: April 24, 2015
- Position paper submission: June 1, 2015
- Acceptance decision: June 15, 2015
- Final version of paper submission: July 1, 2015
- Final deadline for discounted fee: July 1, 2015
- Conference dates: September 13-16, 2015

EVENT CHAIRS
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- Adamatzky, Andrew, Professor, UWE, Bristol, UK, United Kingdom
- Pancerz, Krzysztof, University of Management and Administration in Zamość, Poland
- Schumann, Andrew, University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszow, Poland

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (confirmed so far)
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- Akl, Selim, Queen's School of Computing, Canada
- Armstrong, Rachel, Architecture, Planning and Landscape, University of Newcastle, United Kingdom
- Asai, Tetsuya, Laboratory of Advanced LSI Engineering, Hokkaido University, Japan
- Costa, Jose-Felix, Department of Mathematics, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
- Costello, Ben De Lacy, Centre for Research in Analytical, Material and Sensor Sciences, University of the West of England, United Kingdom
- Di Ventra, Max, Department of Physics, University of California, United States
- Dittrich, Peter, Bio Systems Analysis Group, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany
- Erokhin, Victor, Departament of Phisics, University of Parma, Italy
- Gorecki, Jerzy, Institute of Physical Chemistry, PAN, Poland
- Hanczyc, Martin, Institute of Physics Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
- Miranda, Eduardo, University of Plymouth, United Kingdom
- Petre, Ion, Computer Science Programme at Åbo Akademi University, Finland
- Shirakawa, Tomohiro, National Defense Academy of Japan, Japan
- Sirakoulis, Georgios, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
- Stannett, Mike, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
- Stepney, Susan, University of York, United Kingdom
- Tsuda, Soichiro, School of Chemisty, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
- Tucker, John, Department of Computer Science, Swansea University, United Kingdom
- Zauner, Klaus-Peter, Faculty of Physical Sciences and Engineering, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
- Zelinka, Ivan, Department of Computer Science, VSB Technical University in Ostrava, Czech Republic

CHAIRS OF FedCSIS CONFERENCE SERIES

Maria Ganzha, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Marcin Paprzycki


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