The first ``International Work-conference on the Interplay between Natural and Artificial Computation'' (IWINAC-2005) will take place in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands (Spain), June, 15-18, 2005.
This meeting, with focus on the interplay between Neuroscience and Computation, inherits the general purpose, the scope and the more biologically oriented topics of the last IWANNs (Lanzarote, Alicante, Granada and Menorca) and expands this scope to the broad and more comprehensive fields of Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Knowledge Engineering (KE), including the different paradigms: Symbolic, Connectionist, ``Situated'' or Hybrid.
All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings by Springer-Verlag in Lecture Notes on Computer Science series.
Under the basic idea that living beings and machines can be understood using the same conceptual and formal tools, the same experimental methodology and the same organizative and structural principles, the IWINAC-2005 organizers, propose a forum for the discussion and exchange of ideas on the interplay between Bio-sciences (natural computation) and the Sciences of Computation (artificial computation), trying to contribute to the answer of two basic questions:
To address these two questions, we will make use of the ``building of and for knowledge'' concepts that distinguish three levels of description in each calculus: The Physical Level (PL), where the hardware lives, the Symbol Level (SL) where the programs live and a third level, introduced by Newell and Marr, situated above the symbol level and named by Newell ``the Knowledge Level'' (KL) and by Marr the level of ``the theory of calculus''. We seek the interplay between the natural and the artificial at each one of these three levels (PL, SL, KL).
1 Interplay at the Physical Level
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From Artificial to Natural
1.1 Computational Neuroscience
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From Natural to Artificial
1.2 Bio-inspired Circuits and Mechanisms
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2 Interplay at the Symbol Level
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From Artificial to Natural
2.1 Neuro-informatics
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From Natural to Artificial
2.2 Bio-inspired Programming Strategies
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3 Interplay at the Knowledge Level
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From Artificial to Natural
3.1 Computational approach to Cognition
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From Natural to Artificial
3.2 Cognitive Inspiration in AI&KE
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The Program Committee is requesting proposals for pre-organized sessions in one of the above areas or related to the global scope presented above. Also, new sessions in the interdisciplinary spirit of the interplay between natural and artificial computation are welcome. Prospective organizers should contact organization staff at iwinac@dia.uned.es as soon as possible. Information about current pre-organized sessions and further details for prospective organizers can be found at web: http://www.iwinac.uned.es/. The organizers of effective pre-organized sessions (with at least 4 accepted papers) will benefit of a discount on registration fees.
The Program Committee request original papers on the above mentioned topics. Authors (no more than four for each paper) must submit the camera-ready final version of papers written in English (official language of the conference), of up to 10 pages (including figures, tables and references) in electronic format through either of the following two channels:
Authors must send their papers (LATEX sources plus camera ready in PDF/Postscript, see web page for details), before February 15th (23:59h. UTC), through the submission web form found in a link from the main web site: http://www.iwinac.uned.es/.
Please, do not send printed copies or email attachments (except when required by the organization staff). All authors must fill in (themselves or the contact author) the required data for the program database form as specified in the submission web form.
The proceedings will be published in the "Lecture Notes in Computer Science" series from Springer-Verlag.
All papers received will be refereed by the Program Committee. Accepted papers must be presented either orally (overhead, slide, data projectors and a PC with standard presentation software will be available) or as poster panels (size 90 cm. width x 150 cm. height), however all accepted contributions will be published at full length using directly the camera ready electronic file sent by the authors. At least one author registration is required for each accepted paper.
Also, authors must fill in and sign the copyright form required by Springer. It can be found through a link in the Author's instructions web page. After paper acceptance send it in through postal (snail) mail or fax (+34-91-398-8895).
José Mira Mira
Dpto. Inteligencia Artificial, UNED
Juan del Rosal, 16
E-28040 Madrid, (Spain)
Phone: +34-91-398-7155
Fax: +34-91-398-8895
Email: jmira@dia.uned.es
José Ramón Álvarez Sánchez, UNED (Sp)
Félix de la Paz López, UNED (Sp)
Roberto Moreno-Díaz, jr., Univ. Las Palmas de G. C. (Sp)
Alexis Quesada, Univ. Las Palmas de G.C. (Sp)
José Carlos Rodriguez, Univ. Las Palmas de G.C. (Sp)
Cristobal García Blairsy, UNED (Sp)
Ajith Abraham, Oklahoma State Univ. (USA)
Amparo Alonso, Univ. A Coruña (Sp)
Igor Aleksander, Imperial College (UK)
Etelvina Andreu, Univ. Miguel Hernández (Sp)
Michael A. Arbib, Univ. of Southern California (USA)
Antonio Bahamonde, Univ. de Oviedo en Gijón (Sp)
Emilia Barakova, RIKEN (Jp)
Álvaro Barreiro, Univ. A Coruña (Sp)
Senén Barro, Univ. de Santiago (Sp)
Carlos Cotta, Univ. de Málaga (Sp)
Paul Cull, Oregon State Univ. (U)
Angel P. del Pobil, Univ. Jaume I. de Castellón (Sp)
Ana E. Delgado, UNED (Sp)
José Dorronsoro, Univ. Autónoma de Madrid (Sp)
Richard Duro, Univ. A Coruña (Sp)
Reinhard Eckhorn, Philipps-Univ. (Ge)
Juan Pedro Febles, Univ. Habana (Cu)
Javier de Felipe, Instituto Cajal (Sp)
José M. Ferrández, Univ. Politécnica de Cartagena (Sp)
Tamás D. Gedeon, Murdoch Univ. (Au)
Karl Goser, Univ. Dortmund (Ge)
Manuel Graña, Univ. Pais Vasco (Sp)
Oscar Herreras, Hospital Ramón y Cajal (Sp)
Francisco Ibarra, Univ. Alicante (Sp)
Shahla Keyvan, Univ, Missouri-Columbia (USA)
Kostadin Koroutchev, Univ. Autónoma Madrid (Sp)
Elka Korutcheva, UNED (Sp)
Dario Maravall, Univ. Politécnica Madrid (Sp)
Eve Marder, Brandeis Univ. (USA)
Roque Marín, Univ. de Murcia (Sp)
Victor Mitrana, Univ. Rovira i Vigili (Sp)
Roberto Moreno-Díaz, Univ. de Las Palmas de G. C. (Sp)
Federico Morán, Univ. Complutense de Madrid (Sp)
Nadia Nedjah, State Univ. of Rio do Janeiro (Bz)
Lucas Paletta, Joanneum Research (At)
Mario de J. Pérez, Univ. de Sevilla (Sp)
Franz Pichler, Johannes Kepler Univ. Linz (At)
Carlos G. Puntonet, Univ. Granada (Sp)
Luigi M. Ricciardi, Univ. di Napoli Federico II (It)
Eduardo Sánchez, Univ. de Santiago (Sp)
Juan V. Sánchez-Andrés, Univ. de La Laguna (Sp)
José Santos, Univ. A Coruña (Sp)
Stefan Schaal, Univ. of Southern California (USA)
Erik De Schutter, Univ. of Antwerp (Be)
Igor A. Shevelev, Russian Academy of Science (Ru)
Wolf Singer, Max Planck Inst. for Brain Research (Ge)
Juan A. Sigüenza, Univ. Autónoma de Madrid (Sp)
Jordi Solé i Casals, Univ. de Vic (Sp)
Mª Jesús Taboada, Univ. de Santiago de C. (Sp)
Cloe Taddei-Ferretti, Istituto di Cibernetica, CNR (It)
Enric Trillas, Univ. Politécnica de Madrid (Sp)
Alfonso Valencia Herrera, Centro Nac. Biotecnología (Sp)
Ramiro Varela, Univ. de Oviedo (Sp)
Marley Vellasco, Univ. College London (UK)
Changjiu Zhou, Singapore Polytechnic (Sg)
ESOC, s.l.
Poeta Vila y Blanco, 8 - 1º
E-03003 Alicante (Spain)
Phone: +34-965-22-99-40
Fax: +34-965-92-23-46
Email: info@esoc.es
http://www.esoc.es/
The registration fee includes attending to the sessions, coffee breaks, lunches, social events, gala dinner and the Proceedings of the Work-Conference.
Type | Before April 30 | After April 30 |
Standard | € 450 | € 500 |
Session Organizer | € 350 | € 400 |
Accompanying person (*) | € 250 | € 290 |
(*) Accompanying person registration fee only includes lunches, social events and gala dinner.
Registration fees of at least one author for each accepted paper should be paid in full before submission to press (April 30, 2005).
HOTEL MELIÁ LAS PALMAS
Calle Gomera, 6
E-35006 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain)
http://www.melialaspalmas.solmelia.com/
Final Date for Submission | February 15, 2005 |
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Acceptance notification and start of registration | April 1, 2005 |
End of reduction fee for early registration | April 30, 2005 |
Congress date | June 15-18, 2005 |