Newsgroups: comp.parallel
From: "Yuri P. Boglaev" <yuri@penage.cs.laurentian.ca>
Subject: CFP: Computational Dynamics in Natural and Artificial Systems (WCNA-96)
Organization: Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON, Canada
Date: 18 Dec 1995 19:31:07 GMT
Message-ID: <4b4fhr$ljd@onramp.arc.nasa.gov>



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!                            WCNA-96                                 !
!                                                                    !
!        The Second World Congress of Nonlinear Analysts             !
!               10-17 July 1996, Athens, Greece                      !
!____________________________________________________________________!

Session on

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*     COMPUTATIONAL DYNAMICS IN NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL SYSTEMS       *
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OBJECTIVES:

	This session is devoted to discussions of ideas, problems and 
        results relevant to computational dynamics encountered in the 
        natural sciences (physics, chemistry, biology, and related areas) 
        and computer science.  We hope that by bringing together computer 
        and natural scientists, the analysis of computational behaviour 
        in natural systems can be advanced by methods already developed 
        in the computer sciences and, on the other hand, computer scientists 
        may take advantage of methods employed in the natural sciences.

TOPICS:

	1. Methods and techniques of the natural sciences in modelling, 
           specifying, and controlling complex computing systems.  These 
           include chemical reaction kinetic formalisms, thermodynamic and 
           statistical mechanical approaches, and evolutionary computation.

	2. Applications of the methods and techniques in computer science in 
           the analysis of natural systems. These include algorithmic theory, 
           formal languages, and automata theory.

	3. Computational dynamics in natural systems.  These include emergent 
	   computational phenomena in nonlinear systems such as chemical 
           reactions, biological systems, molecular and quantum mechanical 
           computation.

	4. Analysis of complexity and structure in natural and artificial 
           systems. These include entropy and related measures in describing 
           and predicting the behaviour of systems.

For further information, contact either the following organizers of the 
session or browse through the web sites 

http://www.fit.edu/math/wcna96.html
http://bog.laurentian.ca/session.html

Organizers: Prof. Yuri Boglaev /* 1		Prof. Baltazar D. Aguda /* 2
	    yuri@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca	bdaguda@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca
	    Tel. (705) 675-1151 ext 5078	Tel. (705) 675-1151 ext 2106

		/* 1 Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
		/* 2 Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
		     Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada  P3E 2C6



