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First Call for Papers
10TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CELLULAR AUTOMATA FOR RESEARCH
AND INDUSTRY (ACRI 2012)
Santorini Island, Greece, September 24-27, 2012
http://acri2012.duth.gr
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Cellular automata (CA) present a very powerful approach to the study
of spatio-temporal
systems where complex phenomena build up out of many simple local
interactions. They
account often for real phenomena or solutions of problems, whose high
complexity could
unlikely be formalised in different contexts. Furthermore parallelism
and locality features
of CA allow a straightforward and extremely easy parallelisation,
therefore an immediate
implementation on parallel computing resources. These characteristics
of the CA research
resulted in the formation of interdisciplinary research teams. These
teams produce remarkable
research results and attract scientists from different fields. The
main goal of the 10th edition
of ACRI 2012 Conference (Cellular Automata for Research and Industry)
is to offer both
scientists and engineers in academies and industries an opportunity to
express and discuss
their views on current trends, challenges, and state-of-the art
solutions to various problems in
the fields of arts, biology, chemistry, communication, cultural
heritage, ecology, economy,
geology, engineering, medicine, physics, sociology, traffic control,
etc.

Topics of either theoretical or applied interest about CA and CA-based
models and systems
include but are not limited to:
-    Algebraic properties and generalization
-    Complex systems
-    Computational complexity
-    Dynamical systems
-    Hardware circuits, architectures, systems and applications
-    Modeling of biological systems
-    Modeling of physical or chemical systems
-    Modeling of ecological and environmental systems
-    Image Processing and pattern recognition
-    Natural Computing
-    Quantum Cellular Automata
-    Parallelism

SUBMISSIONS:
Authors are invited to submit papers presenting their original and
unpublished research. Papers
should not exceed 10 pages and should be formatted according to the
usual LNCS article style
(http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs). Details on the electronic
submission procedure will be
provided through the website of the conference (http://
acri2012.duth.gr/).

PUBLICATION:
A volume of proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the
Lecture Notes in Computer
Science series and will be available by the time of the conference.
After the conference,
refereed volumes of selected proceedings containing extended papers
will be organized as special
issues of ISI international journals like Journal of Cellular
Automata.

IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper submission: March 19, 2012
Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: April 15, 2012
Final version of the paper for the proceedings: May 14, 2012
Conference: September 24-27, 2012

CONFERENCE LOCATION:
ACRI2012 will be held at Petros M. Nomikos Conference Centre,
Santorini Island, Greece.
Santorini, in an ancient island that endured one of the largest
volcanic eruptions in history,
feels definetely like no other place on earth. In Santorini, 120 miles
southwest of mainland
Greece, everything is brighter: the whitewashed cube-shaped houses,
the lapis lazuli sea and the
sunsets that light up the caldera. Recently, was elected by BBC Travel
as the best island in the
world, while Travel & Leisure magazine ranked Santorini in the first
place in the list of World's
Top Islands for the year 2011. Santorini as such a very popular
touristic destination is served
by multiple connections via both air and sea.

URL: http://acri2012.duth.gr
Contact: acri2...@duth.gr

Chairs
Georgios Sirakoulis (Democritus University of Thrace - Greece)
Stefania Bandini (University of Milano-Bicocca - Italy)

Steering Committee
Stefania Bandini (University of Milano-Bicocca - Italy)
Bastien Chopard (University of Geneva - Switzerland)
Giancarlo Mauri (University of Milano-Bicocca - Italy)
Hiroshi Umeo (University of Osaka Electro-Communication - Japan)
Thomas Worsch (University of Karlsruhe - Germany)