ASCAT 2023: Second Asian Symposium on Cellular Automata Technology, 2023 Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur Howrah, India, March 2-4, 2023 |
Conference website | https://www.cellularautomata.in/ascat2023/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ascat2023 |
Submission deadline | October 21, 2022 |
This is the second edition of the Asian Symposium on Cellular Automata Technology (ASCAT) to be held during March 02-04, 2023. The first edition of ASCAT (ASCAT 2022) was held during March 03-05, 2022 in online mode. This time the event will be organised in hybrid mode. The symposium will officially be hosted by Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur (IIEST, Shibpur) in its campus at West Bengal, India. Target of the symposium is two-fold: to nurture the theories of cellular automata, and to explore the cellular automata as technology. The symposium is unique by its type -- it does not look cellular automata as only mathematical tool, but also as technology.
Since long, India has played a significant role in research on cellular automata (CAs): theory and applications. A number of workshops and seminars on CAs have also been organized in India. Not only India, other Asian countries like Japan, Turkey, Vietnam, Taiwan, etc. also contribute significantly in Cellular Automata research. In fact, to this date, an important part of research in cellular automata, both in terms of quality and quantity, comes from the Asian community of CAs researchers. Many of them work in the domain of Cellular Automata Technology. This symposium can be seen as a consequence of the contributions of these researchers.
In recent past, during the pandemic period, some of the Indian researchers have come forward in creating a virtual research group, Cellular Automata India where most of the cellular automata researchers and scientists from India as well as many renowned scientists from around the globe have joined. Two webinar series were already organized from this platform where eminent scientists delivered invited talks and shared their research with the audience. A lecture series in memory of John Horton Conway was also organised during April, 2021, and later an edited book (The Mathematical Artist: A Tribute to John Horton Conway) was published including the lectures and some invited articles. The recording of the events are available at Cellular Automata India YouTube channel. The ASCAT can be considered as an annual event of this virtual group.
Aims and Scope
Aim of the symposium is two-fold: to nurture the theories of cellular automata, and to explore the cellular automata as technology. So all the theoretical aspects of cellular automata and their applications in any domain are within the scope of this symposium. In particular, the topics of interest include (but not limited to) the following:
A. Algebraic and Theoretical aspects of CA
- Algorithmic and Complexity issues in Cellular Automata
- Formal Language Processing
- Cellular Automata and Logic
- Randomness
- Reversibility and Cycle structure
- Algebraic properties of Cellular Automata and Discrete Systems
- Characterization tools for Cellular Automata
- Conservation Laws and Cellular Automata
B. Cellular Automata Models and Computation
- Traffic models and Crowd dynamics
- Models for Distributed and Parallel Systems
- Lattice Gas and Lattice Boltzmann model
- Environmental, Social and Economical Modeling and Simulation
- Natural Computing
- Reversible and Quantum Computing
- Cellular Automata Architecture for Computation
- Cellular Automata for Computing-in-Memory Architecture
- Cellular Automata with Memory
- Integration of CA and Agent-based Modeling
- Sandpile Cellular Automata
C. Non-uniformity in Cellular Automata
- Non-uniform or Hybrid CA
- Asynchronous Cellular Automata
- Stochastic Cellular Automata
- Network Automata
D. Cellular Automata, Hardware Design and Security
- Circuit Design and Computer Architecture
- Quantum-dot Cellular Automata
- Memristor Design
- Security and Encryption
- Cryptography
- Secured Hardware Design
E. Quantum-dot Cellular Automata
- Logic Gates and Circuit Design
- Quiescent Quantum Cellular Automata
- Quantum Gate Cellular Automata
- Universal Quantum Cellular Automata
- Quantum computing
- Quantum lattice gases
- Quantum Reversible Automata
- Quantum Nano-Automata
F. Cellular Automata, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
- Artificial Life
- Pattern Recognition
- Machine Learning
- Bioinformatics
- Image and Video Processing
Committees
General co-chairs:
- Biplab K Sikdar (Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India)
- Kenichi Morita (Hiroshima University, Japan)
Programme co-chairs:
- Sukanta Das (Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India)
- Genaro Juarez Martinez (Computer Science Laboratory, IPN, Mexico)
Program Committee
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Organizing committee
- Biplab K. Sikdar (Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India)
- Abhik Mukherjee (Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India)
- Amit Roy Chowdhury (Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India)
- Chandan Giri (Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India)
- Surajit Roy (Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India)
- Ashish Kumar Layek (Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India)
- Kamalika Bhattacharjee (National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India)
- Souvik Roy (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur)
- Sukanta Das (Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India)
Contact
Sukanta Das
Department of Information Technology,
Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India.
Email: sukanta@it.iiests.ac.in
Biplab K Sikdar
Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India.
E-mail: biplab@cs.iiests.ac.in