BIONETICS Summary

The 4th annual Bionetics conference was held in the beautiful city of Avignon in December 2009. The conference provides a world-leading and unique opportunity for bringing together researchers and practioners from diverse disciplines that seek the understanding of the fundamental principles and design strategies in biological systems and leverage those understandings to build bio-inspired systems. Application domains covered included Bio-inspired networking; epidemic forwarding in Delay Tolerant Networks, software systems and self-organising systems. In addition, there were four keynote speeches:

• Prof. Wolfgang Banzhaf, Memorial University of Newfoundland : The Science and Engineering of Complex Systems
• Prof. George Kesidis, The Pennsylvania State University : Epidemiology of the spread of virus/worms in the Internet
• Prof. Vivek S. Borkar, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research: A variation of ant colony optimization for network problems
• Nicolas Champagnat, INRIA Sophia Antipolis : From individual-based stochastic processes to macroscopic models in adaptive evolution

PerAda sponsored a networking reception at the event which gave participants the opportunity to meet each other in a relaxed setting and exchange ideas regarding their own research. The PerAda team presented an overview of PerAda, highlighting some of the opportunities available for exchanges and collaborative working.

BIONETICS CFP DETAILS

4th International Conference on Bio-Inspired Models of Network, Information, and Computer Systems

WORKSHOP CALL DEADLINE: 15 September 2009

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Technology is taking us to a world where myriad 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 decentralised 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 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 artefacts. Based on this observation, bioinspired 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 these topics:

• Bio-Inspired mathematical models, methods and tools
• Bio-inspired algorithms and mechanism
• Bio-inspired technical systems
• Bio-inspired information and communication systems (ICT)

SUBMISSION

Besides full papers, BIONETICS 2009 features the following two publication tracks:

• WORK-IN-PROGRESS (WIP) papers report on promising early-stage research with initial results.
• DEMOS present technology, platforms, algorithms, and applications in an interactive fashion.

At least one author of each accepted proposal must register for the conference and present the work. Accepted demo and WIP papers will be published in the proceedings of BIONETICS 2009.

Authors are invited to submit papers of up to 6 pages in a PDF file for WIP and 4 pages for DEMOS. For further details visit

PUBLICATION

The Proceedings of BIONETICS 2009 will be published in Lecture Notes of ICST (LNICST), appear in SpringerLink and will be referenced in ICST digital library, the European Union Digital Library (EUDL). All submitted WIP and DEMOS will be rigorously reviewed by technical program committee members and the reviewers they invite. A selected number of be st papers will be considered for publication in a leading journal.

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission Due Date: 15 September 2009
Notification of Acceptance: 10 October 2009
Camera Ready Version Due: 30 October 2009
Conference Dates: 9-11/12/2009

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General Co-Chairs
Eitan Altman, INRIA, France
Yezekael Hayel University of Avignon, France

Technical Program Committee Co-Chairs
Iacopo Carreras, CREATE-NET, Italy
Emma Hart, Napier University, UK
Rachid El-Azouzi, University of Avignon, France

For further members of the Organizing Committee visit http://bionetics.org/committees.shtml

RELATED CONFERENCES

To find out about other conferences in the field of future information systems visit:
http://www.icst.org/sibs/future_isystems/