CALL FOR PAPERS
AFCA '16
4th International Workshop on Applications and Fundamentals of Cellular Automata
http://is-candar.org/afca16

To be held in conjunction with The 4th International Symposium on Computing
and Networking (CANDAR'16), Hiroshima, Japan, November 22-25, 2016.

This workshop is launched in honor of Professor Morita's retirement from
Hiroshima university in March 2013. The main goal of this workshop is to
provide a timely forum for the discussion of new ideas in the field of
cellular automata and unconventional computing.


* Topics

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Applicational aspects of cellular automata and cellular automata based
systems, such as modeling of biological, physical or chemical systems,
traffic modeling, agent- based systems, implementations of cellular automata,
- Theoretical aspects of cellular automata, such as basic properties of
cellular automata, cellular automata based algorithms, models of unconventional
computing, natural computing, complex systems, artificial life.

* Invited Speaker

Rolf Hoffmann, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany

* Paper format and submission instruction

Regular paper 5-7 pages
Poster paper 3-4 pages

Submitted papers must be the PDF using IEEE standard two-column format.
Please see Workshop Paper Submission Instruction.
http://is-candar.org/workshop_submission

* Publication

The conference and workshop proceedings will be published by Conference
Publishing Service and submitted to IEEE Xplore and CSDL digital libraries.
Also they are submitted for indexing through INSPEC, EI (Compendex),
Thomson ISI, and other indexing services.

* Special Issue

We plan to publish extended versions of selected papers from CANDAR'15
main conference and workshops. Please see the following web page for
the details:
http://is-candar.org/special_issue

* Important dates

August 11, 2016: Abstract submission (extended)
August 15, 2016: Paper submission (extended)
September 10, 2016: Author notification
September 23, 2016: Final paper submission
November 22-25, 2016: Workshop

Please see the schedule page of CANDAR ’16 workshops for the detail:
http://is-candar.org/schedule.

Organization
Workshop chair and co-chairs:

Katsunobu Imai, Hiroshima University, Japan
Ferdinand Peper, NICT, Japan
Hiroshi Umeo, Osaka Electro-Communication University, Japan

Program committee (alphabetical order):

Artiom Alhazov, Academy of Sciences of Moldova, Moldova
Susumu Adachi, Japan
Katsunobu Imai, Hiroshima University, Japan
Shuichi Inokuchi, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan
Teijiro Isokawa, University of Hyogo, Japan
Chuzo Iwamoto, Hiroshima University, Japan
Akane Kawaharada, Kyoto University of Education, Japan
Eisuke Kita, Nagoya University, Japan
Toshihiko Komatsuzaki, Kanazawa University, Japan
Jia Lee, Chongqing University, China
Luca Manzoni, Università Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Genaro J. Martinez, University of the West of England, UK
Takao Namiki, Hokkaido University, Japan
Ferdinand Peper, NICT, Japan
Victor Poupet, Université de Montpellier, France
Toshihiko Shiraishi, Yokohama National University, Japan
Georgios Ch. Sirakoulis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
Akiyasu Tomoeda, Musashino University, Japan
Hiroshi Umeo, Osaka Electro-Communication University, Japan
Jean-Baptiste Yunès, Université Paris Diderot, France

Steering Committee:
Katsunobu Imai, Hiroshima University, Japan
Ferdinand Peper, NICT, Japan
Hiroshi Umeo, Osaka Electro-Communication University, Japan

Contact: afca16@ml.hiroshima-u.ac.jp
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