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Fourth International Workshop on
Asynchronous Cellular Automata and Asynchronous Discrete Models
12th International Conference on Cellular Automata for Research and Industry (ACRI 2016)
Fez (Morocco), September 8, 2016

CALL FOR PAPERS


Cellular Automata are a well-known formal tool for modeling complex systems; they are found in many scientific fields and industrial applications. Synchronicity is one of the main features of Cellular Automata evolutions. Indeed, in the most common Cellular Automata framework, all cells are updated simultaneously at each discrete time step. Recent trends consider the modeling of asynchronous systems based on local interactions. 

The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers dealing with the theme of the asyncronicity inside Cellular Automata and other Discrete Models such as discrete Multi-Agents Systems, Boolean Networks, and so on, in order to foster their interaction and to provide a forum for presenting new ideas and works in progress on the subject. 

Topics include, but are not limited to the following aspects of Asynchronous Cellular Automata and Asynchronous Discrete Models (such as Multi-Agents Systems, Boolean Networks and so on): 

  • Dynamics of asynchronous systems
  • Complexity issues
  • Computational issues
  • Emergent properties
  • Models of parallelism and distributed systems
  • Models of phenomena from biology, chemistry, physics, engineering and other fields
  • Applications of asynchronous automata (genetic regulation networks, network coding, load balancing, etc) 

Both theoretical and applicative contributions are most welcome.

View or download the call for papers

Submission and publication


Authors are invited to submit papers according to two contribution categories -- full and short papers -- meant to provide a differentiation of the papers in terms of their length, depth and/or maturity. Papers must comply with the Springer-Verlag format and the maximum length of 5 and 10 pages for short and full contributions, respectively. 

The electronic submission will be handled through the online web  submission system by clicking on the link.  
 
Accepted papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. 

It is also planned that selected papers will be considered for publication in Special Issues of an international journal (Natural Computing). They will contain refereed extended versions of selected papers presented at the ACA workshop. 

Chairs

Alberto Dennunzio,  University of Milano-Bicocca - ITALY 
Nazim Fates,  INRIA Nancy-Grand Est - FRANCE 
Enrico Formenti, Nice Sophia Antipolis University - FRANCE 


Program Committee

Luís Correia - Lisbon University, Portugal 
Alberto Dennunzio - Milano-Bicocca University, Italy 
Nazim Fates - INRIA Nancy-Grand Est, France
Enrico Formenti - Nice Sophia Antipolis University, France 
Henryk Fukś - Brock University, Canada 
Maximilien Gaudouleau - University of Durham, United Kingdom 
Eric Goles - Adolfo Ibanez University, Chile 
Adrien Richard - CNRS and Nice Sophia Antipolis University, France 
Thomas Worsch - University of Karlsruhe, Germany 

Important Dates


Paper submission: April 10th, 2016, extended to April  25th 
Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: May 24th, 2016 
Final version of the paper for the proceedings: June 16th, 2016 
Registration deadline: June 27th 2016
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