The 28th International Workshop on Cellular Automata and Discrete Complex Systems will take place on October 10-12 at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India

AUTOMATA 2022 is the twenty-eighth workshop in a series of events established in 1995.

These workshops aim to:

• Establish and maintain a permanent, international, multidisciplinary forum for the collaboration of researchers in the field of Cellular Automata (CA) and Discrete Complex Systems (DCS).
• Provide a platform for presenting and discussing new ideas and results.
• Support the development of theory and applications of CA and DCS (e.g. parallel computing, physics, biology, social sciences, and others) as long as fundamental aspects and their relations are concerned.
• Identify and study within an inter-and multidisciplinary context, the important fundamental aspects, concepts, notions and problems concerning CA and DCS.

The AUTOMATA series is the official annual event of IFIP WG 1.5, the Working Group 5 (on Cellular Automata and Discrete Complex Systems), of the Technical Committee 1 (on Foundations of Computer Science), of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP).

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

• Full papers Authors are invited to submit papers of no more than 12 pages
• Exploratory Papers Authors are invited to submit papers of no more than 8 pages

List of Topics

• Dynamic, topological, ergodic and algebraic aspects of Cellular Automata and Discrete Dynamical Systems
• Algorithmic complexity, information theory and other measures
• Emergent properties of dynamical systems
• Formal languages, grammars and automata
• Algorithmic Information Dynamics
• Symbolic dynamics and connections to continuous systems
• Tilings, rewriting and substitution systems
• Computability theory
• Models of parallelism and distributed systems
• Synchronous versus asynchronous models
• Applications of cellular automata and discrete complex systems
• Cellular automata in machine & deep learning
• Cellular Automata in image processing and computer vision

Committees

Program Committee

• Dipanwita Roy Chowdhury (Chair), IIT Kharagpur, India
• Abhijit Das, IIT Kharagpur, India ➢ Alberto Dennunzio, Università di Milano Bicocca, Italy
• Alonso Castillo-Ramirez, University of Guadalajara, Mexico
• Anahí Gajardo, University of Concepción, Chile
• Andreas Deutsch, TU Dresden, Germany
• Biplab K Sikdar, IIEST Shibpur, India
• Enrico Formenti, University Côte d'Azur, NIce France
• Georgios Ch. Sirakoulis Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
• Giancarlo Mauri, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
• Hector Zenil, The Alan Turing Institute, Cambridge University, and Oxford Immune Algorithmics, England
• Hiroshi Umeo, Osaka Electro-Communication University, Japan
• Indranil Sengupta, IIT Kharagpur, India
• Jan Baetens, University of Gent, Belgium
• Jarkko Kari, University of Turku, Finland
• Jaydeb Bhowmik, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
• Jimmy Jose, National Institute of Technology, Calicut, India
• Katsunobu Imai, Hiroshima University, Japan
• Kenichi Morita, Hiroshima University, Japan
• Kévin Perrot, Université d’Aix-Marseille, France
• Kolin Paul, IIT Delhi, India 
• Luca Manzoni, University of Trieste, Italy
• Luca Mariot, Radboud Universit, Netherlands
• Nazim Fatès, Loria Lab Inria Nancy, France
• Niloy Ganguly, IIT Kharagpur, India
• Paola Flocchini, University of Ottawa, Canada
• Pedro Balbi de Oliveira, Mackenzie Presbyterian University, Brazil
• Pierre Guillon, Université d’Aix-Marseille, France
• Raju Hazari, NIT Calicut, India
• Rolf Hoffmann, TU Darmstadt, Germany
• Siamak Taati, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
• Sukanta Das, IIEST Shibpur, India
• Swapan Maiti, JIS University, India
• Tomasz Gwizdałła, University of Lodz, Poland
• Ville Salo, University of Turku, Finland

Steering committee

• Nazim Fatès, Loria Lab Inria Nancy, France
• Alonso Castillo-Ramirez, Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico  
• Hector Zenil, The Alan Turing Institute, Cambridge University, and Oxford Immune Algorithmics, England
• Pedro Balbi de Oliveira, Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, Brazil
• Pierre Guillon, Université d’Aix-Marseille, France

Organizing committee

• Palash Dey, IIT Kharagpur, India
• Ayan Chaudhury, IIT Kharagpur, India
• Tapadyoti Banerjee, IIT Kharagpur, India
• Rahul Roy, Crypto Research Lab, IIT Kharagpur, India
• D Durga Prasad, Software Lab, IIT Kharagpur, India

Publication

Full papers are meant to report more complete and denser research, while exploratory papers are meant to be short reports of recent discoveries, work-in-progress or partial results. Submissions of full papers are refereed and selected by the program committee. Exploratory papers go through a less rigorous evaluation process. All accepted papers must be presented at the conference. Accepted full papers will be published (to be confirmed) in LNCS open-access. Exploratory papers will not be included in the LNCS, but in local proceedings that will be distributed at the workshop.

Important Dates

• Submission deadline full papers: July 15, 2022 (Closed)
• Notification of acceptance of full papers: August 10, 2022
• Final version of full papers: August 20, 2022
• Submission deadline exploratory papers: August 10, 2022
• Notification of acceptance of exploratory papers: August 16, 2022
• Final versions of exploratory papers: August 20, 2022
• Registration Starts: August 1, 2022
• Conference: October 10-12, 2022

Venue

The conference will be held on October 10-12 at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to automata22.drc@gmail.com