ACMC2019: The International Conference on Membrane Computing (Asian Branch) Xiamen, China, November 14-17, 2019 |
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The International Conference on Membrane Computing (Asian Branch) (ACMC 2019), 14-17 November, Xiamen, China
Website: www.easychair.org/cfp/acmc2019Call for papers
ACMC 2019, the International Conference on Membrane Computing (Asian Branch), is one of the flagship conferences on Membrane Computing, aiming to provide a high-level international forum for researchers working in membrane computing and related areas, especially for the ones from the Asian region. This conference is the eighth edition of ACMC with the seven editions having successfully taken place in Wuhan (China, 2012), Chengdu (China, 2013), Coimbatore (India, 2014), Anhui (China, 2015), Bangi (Malaysia, 2016), Chengdu (China, 2017), Auckland (New Zealand, 2018) and also a geographical expansion of ICMC (International Conference on Membrane Computing). The other branch, European Branch of ICMC (ECMC), which is held every year from the year of 2000 in different European Countries.
Like articial neural networks, evolutionary algorithms, swarm intelligence, cellular automata and DNA computing, membrane computing is also a branch of natural computing or nature-inspired computing and was initiated by Gheorghe Paun in 1998. It aims to abstract computing models, called membrane systems or P systems, from the structure and the functioning of the living cell as well as from the cooperation of cells in tissues, organs, and populations of cells. This research area has grown into a vigorous scientic discipline and has attracted a large number of researchers all over the world.
ACMC 2019 is planned as a friendly interactive conference with several introductory tutorials, several keynote lectures and some specialized sessions, which will cover a wide range of topics on membrane computing, including theory, applications, implementation and various aspects related to membrane computing. The registration fee will be of about 3500 RMB per person. This fee covers the participation, the special dinner, the tourist programme, as well as the lunches. The accommodation, to be paid by each participant, will be available at various prices. Various accommodation possibilities will be posted soon on the conference page.
Topics
The Eighth International Conference on Membrane Computing (Asian Branch) (ACMC2019) provides an open platform to bring together scholars worldwide to present their recent work on membrane computing. The topics of this conference are as follows (but not limited to):
(1) Theoretical aspects of membrane computing
- Various variants of computing models: cell-, tissue- and neural-like P systems.
- Computing power of membrane computing models.
- Computing efficiency of membrane computing models.
(2) Applications of membrane computing
- Robots controller design.
- Modeling using P systems for biological systems, ecological systems, etc.
- Membrane-inspired optimization algorithms for various problems.
- Fault diagnosis of various systems, such as robots, power systems, etc.
- Other applications.
(3) Implementation of membrane computing models
- Software implementation.
- Hardware implementation.
- Biological implementation.
- Other implementation.
(4) Related topics
- Bio-Inspired Optimization Techniques, such as optimization algorithms inspired by cells or DNA computing
- Other topics related to membrane computing or dealing with cellular computing, DNA computing, etc.
Awards
ACMC 2019 sets up two kinds of best papers awards, BEST PAPER AWARD and BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD, which aims to promote the academics, encourage young scientists to participate in academic activities, further to improve the paper quality and expand conference influence.
1. Best Paper Award Regulations:
(1) Eligibility
The considered papers must satisfy:
(i) The paper is accepted by the ACMC 2019;
(ii) One of the authors must register;
(iii) One of the authors must present the paper at the conference.
(2) Requirement
The paper should present a significant contribution with regard to theoretical results, applications or implementation of P systems, or comprehensive and high-level surveys on a specific topic, and should be written in a professional way.
2. Best Student Paper Award Regulations
(1) Eligibility
The considered papers must satisfy:
(i) The paper is accepted by the ACMC 2019;
(ii) The first author must be an undergraduate, master or PhD student.
(iii) The student must finish the registration process and present the paper at the conference.
(2) Requirement
The paper should present a significant contribution with regard to theoretical results, applications or implementation of P systems, or comprehensive and high-level surveys on a specific topic, and should be written in a professional way.
3. Procedure
The best paper and best student paper are selected by a Technical Committee through evaluating the reviewing reports, quality and presentation.
4. Award
The best papers elected by these regulations are awarded:
(1) A certificate of ACMC 2019 Best Paper Award" or \ACMC 2019 Best Student Paper Award". The certificate is signed by the conference chair;
(2) Prize or gifts.
Invited Speakers
1. Sergey Verlan
Title: Challenges for hardware implementations of P Systems
Abstract: A P system is a computational model that features a massive parallelism. In order to be able to use this feature in applications it is important to have a truly massively parallel implementation of P systems. At this moment, the only possibility to practically realize this is a digital circuit or FPGA (reconfigurable circuit) implementation. In this talk we explain the challenges raised by such an implementation. As example we discuss recent FPGA implementations of numerical P systems (NPS) that is a variant of P systems allowing to easily model physical processes based on differential equations. NPS allows many applications, the most prominent ones being in the area of robotic control. We will show how to obtain a hardware FPGA implementation of NPS allowing to achieve extreme speeds (~10^8 computational steps per second) and featuring massive parallelism (with more than 5000 parallel computational units). This opens new perspectives for the design of on-chip fast robotic controllers based on P systems. Another important consequence is the ability to use some variants of P systems as a programming language for algorithm description that can be efficiently translated in FPGA hardware by non-specialists.
Short Biography:
Dr. hab. Sergey Verlan is an associated professor at the University of Paris Est Creteil, France. He obtained his PhD in Computer Science in 2004 at the University of Metz, France and his habilitation in 2010 at the University of Paris Est. Dr Verlan's main research focus is the area of theoretical computer science and natural computing. He has expertise in the area of formal language theory, DNA computing, membrane computing, modeling of biological systems and hardware design.
His key results feature several small universality constructions in the area of splicing, insertion-deletion, maximally parallel multiset rewriting and Petri nets. In the area of membrane computing he introduced the formal framework for P systems allowing to compare models of P systems, multiset rewriting and Petri nets. Actually he is the leading specialist on the FPGA implementations of P systems.
2. Ferrane Neri
Title: Epistasis in Optimisation Problems
Abstract: In biological systems, epistasis is the correlation between pairs of genes. By loosely interpreting this concept, in optimisation epistasis refers to the correlation between the variables with respect to an objective function. A low epistatic problem can be decomposed in multiple simpler problems, each of them with being with a reduced dimensionality with respect to the original problem.
This talk presents the topic of correlation among variables and analyses the related topics of separability and rotation invariance. An overview of the literature on techniques to handle epistasis with reference to Differential Evolution is offered. Furthermore, this talk explores the relation between dimensionality and correlation among the variables and demonstrates that experimental conditions are an inherent part of the optimisation problem.
Short Biography:
Ferrante Neri received a Master's degree and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Bari, Italy, in 2002 and 2007 respectively. In 2007, he also received a PhD in Scientific Computing and Optimization from University of Jyväskylä, Finland. From the latter institution, he received the DSc degree (Habilitation) in Computational Intelligence in 2010. He was Research Fellow with Academy of Finland in the period 2009-2014. Dr Neri moved to De Montfort University, United Kingdom in 2012, where he was appointed Reader in Computational Intelligence and in 2013, promoted to Full Professor of Computational Intelligence Optimisation. Since 2019 Ferrante Neri moved to the School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom where he was appointed Associate Professor. Ferrante Neri’s teaching expertise lies in mathematics for computer science, especially linear and abstract algebra. He is HEA Senior Fellow and author of the recently published book “Linear Algebra for Computational Sciences and Engineering”. His research interests include algorithmics, hybrid heuristic-exact optimisation, scalability in optimisation and large scale problems. Dr Neri published over 150 publications in these topics. Dr Neri is an IEEE Senior Member and is Associate Editor and member of the Editorial Board of numerous journals including Information Sciences, Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, and Memetic Computing. He organised over twenty symposia, special sessions, and workshops in International Conferences. Dr Neri is on the panel of funding bodies in seven countries. He has been in the Programme Committee of over 100 conferences.
Important Dates
Submission deadline: Sunday September 15, 2019 Monday September 30, 2019
Acceptance notification: Sunday October 20, 2019
Camera-ready version and early registration: Sunday November 3, 2019
Submission Guidelines
Authors are invited to submit their original research contributions (including significant work in progress) on membrane computing, its applications and related subjects. Papers (of reasonable length) should be formatted according to Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) format (please refer to ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/llncs2e.zip).
All papers should be submitted as PDF files through EasyChair conference system website. The submission Web page for ACMC 2019 is https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmc20190.
If there is any difficulty or problem, please do not hesitate to contact the organizer by email: zhgxdylan@126.com.
Host institutions
Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
Sponsors
International Membrane Computing Society (IMCS)
Committees
Steering Committee
- Henry Adorna (Quezon City, Philippines)
- Artiom Alhazov (Chisinau, Moldova)
- Bogdan Aman (Iasi, Romania)
- Matteo Cavaliere (Manchester, UK)
- Erzsebet Csuhaj-Varju (Budapest, Hungary)
- Giuditta Franco (Verona, Italy)
- Rudolf Freund (Wien, Austria)
- Marian Gheorghe (Bradford, UK) - Honorary member
- Thomas Hinze (Cottbus, Germany)
- Florentin Ipate (Bucharest, Romania)
- Shankara N. Krishna (Bombay, India)
- Alberto Leporati (Milan, Italy)
- Taishin Y. Nishida (Toyama, Japan)
- Linqiang Pan (Wuhan, China)--Co-Chair
- Gheorghe Paun (Bucharest, Romania) - Honorary member
- Mario J. Perez-Jimenez (Sevilla, Spain)
- Agustn Riscos-Nunez (Sevilla, Spain)
- Jose M. Sempere (Valencia, Spain)
- Petr Sosik (Opava, Czech Republic)
- Kumbakonam Govindarajan Subramanian (Chennan, India)
- Gyorgy Vaszil (Debrecen, Hungary)
- Sergey Verlan (Paris, France)
- Claudio Zandron (Milan, Italy) --Co-Chair
- Gexiang Zhang (Chengdu, China)
Program committee
- Henry Adorna (Quezon City, Philippines)
- Bogdan Aman (Iasi, Romania)
- Catalin Buiu (Bucharest, Romania)
- Francis George C. Cabarle (Quezon City, Philippines)
- Matteo Cavaliere (Manchester, UK)
- Erzsebet Csuhaj-Varju (Budapest, Hungary)
- Giuditta Franco (Verona, Italy)
- Xiaoju Dong (Shanghai, China)
- Marian Gheorghe (Bradford, UK)
- Ping Guo (Chongqi, China)
- Juanjuan He (Wuhan, China)
- Thomas Hinze (Cottbus, Germany)
- Florentin Ipate (Bucharest, Romania)
- Tseren-Onolt Ishdorj (Mongolia)
- Savas Konur (Bradford, UK)
- Alberto Leporati (Milan, Italy)
- Jia Li (Chongqing, China)
- Xiangrong Liu (Xiamen, China)
- Xiyu Liu (Jinan, China)
- Ravie Chandren Muniyandi (Bangi, Malaysia)
- Radu Nicolescu (Auckland, Australian)
- Taishin Nishida (Toyama, Japan)
- Yunyun Niu (Beijing, China)
- Linqiang Pan (Wuhan, China)--Chair
- Gheorghe Paun (Bucharest, Romania)
- Hong Peng (Chengdu, China)
- Mario J. Perez-Jimenez (Sevilla, Spain)
- Agustin Riscos-Nunez (Sevilla, Spain)
- Haina Rong (Chengdu, China)
- Jose M. Sempere (Valencia, Spain)
- Bosheng Song (Changsha, China)
- Tao Song (Qingdao, China)
- Petr Sosik (Opava, Czech Republic)
- Kumbakonam Govindarajan Subramanian (Chennan, India)
- D.G. Thomas (Chennai, India)
- Gyorgy Vaszil (Debrecen, Hungary)
- Sergey Verlan (Paris, France)
- Jun Wang (Chengdu, China)
- Tingfang Wu (Suzhou, China)
- Jianhua Xiao (Tianjing, China)
- Jie Xue (Jinan, China)
- Hsu-Chun Yen (Taiwai, China)
- Jianying Yuan (Chengdu, China)
- Claudio Zandron (Milan, Italy)
- Xiangxiang Zeng (Xiamen University)
- Gexiang Zhang (Chengdu, China)--Co-Chair
- Xingyi Zhang (Anhui, China)
- Xue Zhang (Boston, USA)
- Xuncai Zhang (Zhengzhou, China)
- Ming Zhu (Chengdu, China)
Organizing committee
- Xiangrong Liu (Xiamen University, China)--Chair
- Xiangxiang Zeng (Xiamen University, China)
- Minli Tang (Xiamen University, China)
- Lianmin Zhao (Xiamen University, China)
Contact
Minli Tang
Department of Computer Science
School of Information Science and Technology
Xiamen University
Xiamen 361005
China
E-mail: tangml@stu.xmu.edu.cn
Prof. Xiangrong Liu
Department of Computer Science
School of Information Science and Technology
Xiamen University
Xiamen 361005
China
E-mail: xrliu@xmu.edu.cn