各位 生物界に学びながら先進的な情報技術を創出しようという動きが、世界的に新 たな潮流になっています。このような動きは、これまでの情報技術をライフサ イエンスに応用してきたのとは逆の流れであり、情報科学技術分野にブレーク スルーをもたらす可能性を有しているものとして期待されています。 このような潮流の一つとして、当方、文部科学省２１世紀ＣＯＥプログラムを 推進中です。その概要につきましては、次のＵＲＬを参照下さい。 http://www-nishio.ist.osaka-u.ac.jp/COE/ 来たる平成１６年１月２９日、３０日の両日、この「生物界に学ぶ情報技術の 創出」に関する国際ワークショップ The First International Workshop on Biologically Inspired Approaches to Advanced Information Technology を スイス連邦工科大学ローザンヌ校(EPFL)で開催致します。 是非ともご参加下さいますように心よりお願い申しあげます。締切日は、平成 １６年１月１５日です。 なお、会議録は、最終的には、Springerのレクチャノート・シリーズとして刊 行されることになっております。 西尾章治郎（大阪大学大学院情報科学研究科） ================================================================ We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this email. ================================================================ Bio-ADIT 2004 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The First International Workshop on Biologically Inspired Approaches to Advanced Information Technology January 29 - 30, 2004 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland Website: http://lslwww.epfl.ch/bio-adit2004/ Sponsored by - Osaka University Forum, - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, and - The 21st Century Center of Excellence Program of The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Japan, under the Program Title "Opening Up New Information Technologies for Building Networked Symbiosis Environment Biologically inspired approaches have already proved successful in achieving major breakthroughs in a wide variety of problems in information technology (IT). A more recent trend is to explore the applicability of bio-inspired approaches to the development of self-organizing, evolving, adaptive and autonomous information technologies, which will meet the requirements of next-generation information systems, such as diversity, scalability, robustness, and resilience. These new technologies will become a base on which to build a networked symbiotic environment for pleasant, symbiotic society of human beings in the 21st century. Bio-ADIT 2004 will be the first international workshop to present original research results in the field of bio-inspired approaches to advanced information technologies. It will also serve to foster the connection between biological paradigms and solutions to building the next-generation information systems. PROGRAM: The advance program for the conference can be viewed at: http://lslwww.epfl.ch/bio-adit2004/program.shtml The program includes 25 oral presentations and 15 poster presentations selected out of 85 submitted articles. It also includes two keynote addresses: "The Architecture of Complexity: From the Internet to Metabolic Networks", Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, University of Notre Dame, USA. "www.siliconcell.net: Bringing Bits and Chips to Life", Hans V. Westerhoff, Free University, Amsterdam REGISTRATION: Thanks to the generous support of our sponsors, the total registration fees (including lunch, conference dinner and pre-proceedings) are only 90 Swiss Francs (approx. 70 US dollars). Please register through the conference web site, at http://lslwww.epfl.ch/bio-adit2004/registration.shtml and follow the instructions for credit-card payment. We are looking forward seeing you in Lausanne. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: General Co-Chairs: - Daniel Mange (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland) - Shojiro Nishio (Osaka University, Japan) Technical Program Committee Co-Chairs: - Auke Jan Ijspeert (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland) - Masayuki Murata (Osaka University, Japan) Finance Chair: - Marlyse Taric (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland) - Toshimitsu Masuzawa (Osaka University, Japan) Publicity Chair: - Christof Teuscher (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland) - Takao Onoye (Osaka University, Japan) Publications Chair: - Naoki Wakamiya (Osaka University, Japan) Local Arrangements Chair: - Carlos Andres Pena-Reyes (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland) Internet Chair: - Jonas Buchli (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland) TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Co-Chairs: - Auke Jan Ijspeert (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland) - Masayuki Murata (Osaka University, Japan) Members: - Michael A. Arbib (University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA) - Aude Billard (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland) - Marco Dorigo (Universitネ Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) - Takeshi Fukuda (IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory, Japan) - Katsuo Inoue (Osaka University, Japan) - Wolfgang Maass (Graz University of Technology, Austria) - Ian W. Marshall (BTexact Technologies, UK) - Toshimitsu Masuzawa (Osaka University, Japan) - Alberto Montresor (University of Bologna, Italy) - Chrystopher L. Nehaniv (University of Hertfordshire, U.K.) - Stefano Nolfi (Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technology,CNR, Rome, Italy) - Takao Onoye (Osaka University, Japan) - Rolf Pfeifer (University of Zurich, Switzerland) - Eduardo Sanchez (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland) - Hiroshi Shimizu (Osaka University, Japan) - Moshe Sipper (Ben-Gurion University, Israel) - Gregory Stephanopoulos (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) - Adrian Stoica (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA) - Tim Taylor (University of Edinburgh, UK) - Gianluca Tempesti (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland) - Naoki Wakamiya (Osaka University, Japan) - Hans V. Westerhoff (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL) - Xin Yao (University of Birmingham, UK)