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Call for Papers
MeCBIC 2014
7th Workshop on Membrane Computing
and Biologically Inspired Process Calculi
16th September 2014, Bucharest, Romania

http://profs.info.uaic.ro/~mecbic/mecbic2014/
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IMPORTANT DATES:

*** Abstract Submission: 22 June, 2014
*** Paper Submission: 29 June, 2014
*** Notification: 9 August, 2014
*** Meeting: 16 September, 2014

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The 7th Workshop on Membrane Computing and Biologically Inspired Process Calculi (MeCBIC 2014) will take place in Bucharest on 16th September 2014 as a related event of ICTAC 2014, the 11th International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing.

If your work is related to MeCBIC topics, it is now a good opportunity to submit a paper (of about 16 pages), using the web page http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mecbic2014.

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AIMS AND SCOPE

The modeling and the analysis of biological systems has attracted the interest of several research communities. The main aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers in concurrency theory, formal methods, and related fields that are interested to present recent results and to discuss new ideas concerning such formalisms, their properties and relationships. We welcome contributions that address both theoretical and applied contributions related to the relevance and potential of formal methods in biology. Topics of interest include (but not limited to):

- Biologically inspired models and calculi (rewrite systems, process calculi, Petri nets, etc.);
- Theoretical links and comparison of different biological inspired formal models;
- Qualitative biological modeling;
- Quantitative formal methods;
- Modelling, analysis and simulation tools for biologically inspired systems.

The workshop proceedings will be published in the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science. After the event, papers presented at the workshop will be invited to be furtherly extended and submitted to a special issue of a visible journal (indexed by DBLP, SCOPUS, Web of Science, etc)

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PAST EVENTS

The first edition of MeCBIC was held in Venice in 2006 (co-located with ICALP 2006). The second MeCBIC was held in Iasi in 2008, the third one took place in Bologna (as a satellite event of CONCUR 2009), the forth one in Jena, the fifth in Paris and the sixth in Newcastle. The previous proceedings of the MeCBIC workshops have been published as ENTCS volumes 171(2) and 227 (2006 and 2008), EPTCS volumes 11, 40 and 100 (2009, 2010 and 2012), in arXiv.org in 2011. A selection of revised papers from 2008, 2009 and 2009 appeared in Theoretical Computer Science volume 431 in 2012.

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Bogdan Aman (co-chair) - Romanian Academy, Iasi, RO
Roberto Barbuti - University of Pisa, Italy
Luca Cardelli - Microsoft, Cambridge, UK
jane Hillston - University of Edinburgh, UK
Florentin Ipate (co-chair) - University of Bucharest, RO
Jean-Louis Giavitto - IRCAM CNRS, Paris, France
Jetty Kleijn - Leiden University, NL
Jean Krivine - University Paris 7, France
Emanuela Merelli - University of Camerino, Italy
Gethin Norman - University of Glasgow, UK
Jun Pang - University of Luxembourg, LU
Anna Philippou - University of Cyprus, Cyprus
G. Michele Pinna - University of Cagliari, Italy
Franck Pommereau - University of Evry, France
Jason Steggles - Newcastle University, UK
György Vaszil - University of Debrecen, Hungary
Angelo Troina - University of Torino, Italy

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Additional information about the workshop can be found on the MeCBIC 2014 web page http://profs.info.uaic.ro/~mecbic/mecbic2014/.
For information regarding the workshop and other queries, you can use
the chairs email addresses: bogdan.aman@iit.academiaromana-is.ro or baman@iit.tuiasi.ro (Bogdan Aman) or florentin.ipate@ifsoft.ro (Florentin Ipate)
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