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。奮って論文をご投稿 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１５年９月５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） 8><==================== CALL FOR PAPERS =========================== Bio-ADIT 2004 CALL FOR PAPERS The First International Workshop on Biologically Inspired Approaches to Advanced Information Technology January 29 - 30, 2004 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland Web site: http://lslwww.epfl.ch/bio-adit2004/ Sponsored by - Osaka University Forum - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL) - 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 a 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. SCOPE: The primary focus of the workshop is on new and original research results in the areas of information systems inspired by biology. We invite you to submit papers that present novel, challenging, and innovative results. The topics include all aspects of bio-inspired information technologies in networks, distributed/parallel systems, hardware (including robotics) and software. We also encourage you to submit papers dealing with: - Self-organizing, self-repairing, self-replicating and self-stabilizing systems - Evolving and adapting systems - Autonomous and evolutionary software and robotic systems - Scalable, robust and resilient systems - Complex biosystems - Gene, protein and metabolic networks - Symbiosis networks SUBMISSION OF PAPERS: Authors are invited to submit complete and original papers. Papers submitted should not have been previously published in any forum, nor be under review for any journal or other conference. All submitted papers will be refereed for quality, correctness, originality and relevance. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. It is also planned to publish accepted papers as a book. Manuscripts should include an abstract and be limited to 16 pages in single spaced and single column format. Submissions should include the title, author(s), author's affiliation, e-mail address, fax number and postal address. In the case of multiple authors, an indication of which author is responsible for correspondence and preparing the camera ready paper should also be included. Electronic submission is strongly encouraged. Preferred file formats are PDF (.pdf) or Postscript (.ps). Visit our Web site at http://lslwww.epfl.ch/bio-adit2004/ for more information. Please contact Dr. Murata if you have to submit hard copies. Manuscripts should be submitted by September 5, 2003 through the Bio-ADIT Web site. Please contact the technical program co-chairs for any questions: Professor Auke Jan Ijspeert School of Computer and Communication Sciences Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL) CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland Tel: +41-21-693-2658 Fax: +41-21-693-3705 E-mail: Auke.Ijspeert@epfl.ch Professor Masayuki Murata Cybermedia Center Osaka University 1-32 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan Tel: +81-6-6850-6860 Fax: +81-6-6850-6868 E-mail: murata@cmc.osaka-u.ac.jp STUDENT TRAVEL GRANTS A limited number of travel grants will be provided for students attending Bio-ADIT 2004. Details of how to apply for a student travel grant will be posted on the workshop Web site. IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission deadline : September 5, 2003 Notification of acceptance: November 3, 2003 Camera ready papers due : December 1, 2003 WEB SITE: An electronic paper submission system is up and ready from July 1, 2003 to accept on-line paper submissions for Bio-ADIT. Please visit our Web site at http://lslwww.epfl.ch/bio-adit2004/ for more up-to-date information. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: General Co-Chairs: Daniel Mange (EPFL, Switzerland) Shojiro Nishio (Osaka Univ., Japan) Technical Program Committee Co-Chairs: Auke Jan Ijspeert (EPFL, Switzerland) Masayuki Murata (Osaka Univ., Japan) Finance Chairs: Marlyse Taric (EPFL, Switzerland) Toshimitsu Masuzawa (Osaka Univ., Japan) Publicity Chairs: Christof Teuscher (EPFL, Switzerland) Takao Onoye (Osaka Univ., Japan) Publications Chair: Naoki Wakamiya (Osaka Univ., Japan) Local Arrangements Chair: Carlos Andres Pena-Reyes (EPFL, Switzerland) Internet Chair: Jonas Buchli (EPFL, Switzerland) TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Co-Chairs: Auke Jan Ijspeert (EPFL, Switzerland) Masayuki Murata (Osaka Univ., Japan) Members: Michael A. Arbib (Univ. of Southern California, USA) Aude Billard (EPFL, Switzerland) Takeshi Fukuda (IBM Tokyo Research Lab., Japan) Katsuro Inoue (Osaka Univ., Japan) Wolfgang Maass (Graz Univ. of Technology, Austria) Ian W. Marshall (BTexact Technologies, UK) Toshimitsu Masuzawa (Osaka Univ., Japan) Alberto Montresor (Univ. of Bologna, Italy) Stefano Nolfi (ISTC, CNR, Italy) Takao Onoye (Osaka Univ., Japan) Rolf Pfeifer (Univ. of Zurich, Switzerland) Eduardo Sanchez (EPFL, Switzerland) Hiroshi Shimizu (Osaka Univ., Japan) Moshe Sipper (Ben-Gurion Univ., Israel) Gregory Stephanopoulos (MIT, USA) Adrian Stoica (Jet Propulsion Lab., USA) Gianluca Tempesti (EPFL, Switzerland) Naoki Wakamiya (Osaka Univ., Japan) Hans V. Westerhoff (Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Xin Yao (Univ. of Birmingham, UK) 8><==================================