Apologies for cross-postings. Please distribute. ====================================================================== WTNC 2010 4th International Workshop and Tutorials on Natural Computing Enschede, the Netherlands, October 2, 2010 http://combio.abo.fi/wtnc/ In conjunction with the 5th International Conference on Graph Transformations -------------------------------------------------------------------- === Deadline for submissions: May 31, 2010 === === Proceedings will be published in the EPTCS series === -------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Computing is a research area concerned with computing taking place in nature and with human-designed computing inspired by nature. It is a fast growing, genuinely interdisciplinary field involving, among others computer science, biology, and mathematics. The aim of the International Workshop and Tutorials on Natural Computing WTNC 2010 is to provide a high-level scientific forum for the researchers in various areas of Natural Computing as well as to provide a cooperation forum for the Natural Computing and on Graph Transformations research communities. This is the 4th event in this series of meetings, with previous editions held in Barcelona, Spain (with ICGT 2002), Rome, Italy (with ICGT 2004), and Leicester, UK (with ICGT 2008). SUBMISSIONS ----------- Papers and extended abstracts are sought in all areas that relate to Natural Computing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Membrane systems and natural processes - Petri nets in systems biology - Computational nature of biochemical reactions - Abstract state machines in systems biology - Visual languages in systems biology - Modeling with finite and hybrid automata - Unconventional solutions to graph theoretical problems - Hierarchies of models and their refinement - Modeling with evolutionary computation - Molecular computing - Quantum computing - Neural computing Authors are invited to submit extended abstracts or full papers of up to 15 pages formatted according to the EPTCS guidelines. Submissions can be uploaded at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wtnc2010. Simultaneous submission to other conferences or workshops with published proceedings is not allowed. The papers will be peer-reviewed and the workshop proceedings, published in the EPTCS series, will be available at the meeting. INVITED SPEAKERS ---------------- - Reiko Heckel (University of Leicester, UK) - Erik de Vink (Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands) - Sander Bohte (CWI, the Netherlands) IMPORTANT DATES --------------- - Submission: May 31, 2010 - Notification: June 30, 2010 - Final version: August 20, 2010 - Workshop: October 2, 2010 PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ------------------- - Elena Czeizler (Åbo Akademi University, Finland) - Mika Hirvensalo (University of Turku, Finland) - Lila Kari (University of Western Ontario, Canada) - Giancarlo Mauri (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy) - Gheorghe Paun (Institute of Mathematics, Academy of Romania; University of Seville, Spain) - Ion Petre (Åbo Akademi University, Finland, PC chair) - Grzegorz Rozenberg (University of Leiden, the Netherlands, PC co-chair) ORGANIZERS ---------- - Ion Petre, ipetre 'at' abo.fi - Grzegorz Rozenberg, rozenber 'at' liacs.nl - Bogdan Iancu, bogdan.iancu 'at' abo.fi - Andrzej Mizera, andrzej.mizera 'at' abo.fi Venue: University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands --- Prof. Ion Petre Department of IT, Åbo Akademi University Computational Biomodelling Laboratory Turku 20520, Finland http://www.users.abo.fi/ipetre/