COMING CONFERENCES

Dear All,

As you might also know, we have planned to organize this years' conference, ICMC 2021 in a hybrid way: online outside of China and face-to-face within China, but unfortunately we are forced to change our original plans. Due to the spread of the more contagious variant of the coronavirus, the face-to-face session must have been postponed to a later date.

On the other hand, we have decided to go ahead with the preparation of the proceedings, and with the organization of an online session of ICMC 2021 for the participants from outside of China.

The online session will be hosted by the University of Debrecen, Hungary, it will take place on*** August 25-26 (Wednesday-Thursday).

The two day long program will consist of the four invited talks and the twenty contributed talks by the participants from outside of China.

In order to prepare for the online session, we have set up a website at the University of Debrecen which can be found under

*** https://konferencia.unideb.hu/en/icmc-2021

The preliminary version of the online program is also available by clicking the appropriate menu item.

Registration is also open, it can be done through the website. There will be no registration fee, but I would like to ask all who wish to participate to register by filling out the online registration form.

With questions, remarks, suggestions, you can write me at  vaszil.gyorgy@inf.unideb.hu

Kind regards,

György, also on behalf of Claudio and Gexiang, PC co-chairs of ICMC 2021

György Vaszil

Claudio Zandron

Gexiang Zhang

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First Call for Papers

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International Conference on Membrane Computing 2021 (ICMC 2021) Chengdu, China and Debrecen, Hungary, August 24-28, 2021

The pdf version can be downloaded here.
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Due to the continuing of the pandemic caused by the Corona virus, the two main conferences organized annually by the Membrane Computing community through IMCS, the 10th Asian Conference on Membrane Computing (ACMC 2021) and the 22nd (European) Conference on Membrane Computing (CMC 2021) are united in one joint conference also in 2021.

The International Conference on Membrane Computing 2021 (ICMC 2021) will be organized by the Chengdu University of Information Technology, Chengdu, China and by the Faculty of Informatics of the University of Debrecen, Hungary as hybrid event with face-to-face participation in Chengdu for attendees from within China, and as an electronic conference with the possibility of online participation for attendees from the rest of the world outside of China.

Conference Information

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The European Branch of ICMC is held every year from the year of 2000 in different European Countries, while the Asian Branch of ICMC is held since 2012 in the Asian region. More information can be found at the International Membrane Computing Society Webpage http://imcs.org.cn/conferences.php. Due to the pandemic situation, the European and the Asian conferences were organized as one joint, online-only conference in 2020.

ICMC 2021 is intended to be a special event honoring the 10th anniversary of the Asian conference series ACMC, while also bringing together researchers from all over the world working in Membrane Computing and related areas by providing the possibility of online participation enhancing communication and cooperation in the virtual place of an electronic conference.

Conference Topics
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Like artificial 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 Păun 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 scientific discipline and has attracted a large number of researchers all over the world. For more information, please refer to the P systems Webpage http://ppage.psystems.eu/.
The International Conference on Membrane Computing (ICMC2021) is organized to honor the 10th anniversary of the Asian conference series ACMC while also providing an open platform to bring together scholars worldwide to present their recent work on membrane computing, on topics related to theory, application and implementation of membrane computing but not limited to as follows:

(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
Robot controller design.
Modeling using P systems for biosystems, biomedicine, ecological systems, etc.
Membrane-inspired optimization algorithms for various problems.
Fault diagnosis of various systems, such as robots, power systems, etc.
Information and communication technologies.
Information security and cryptography.
Other applications.

(3) Implementation of membrane computing models
Software implementation.
Hardware implementation.
Biological implementation.
Biochip 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.

Invited Speakers
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Mario J. Perez Jimenez

Full Professor, Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain.

Talk: Membrane systems breaking cryptosystems

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Jin Xu

Full professor, Department of Computer Science and Technology, School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, China.

Talk: Computer: Past-Present-Future

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Hong Peng

Full professor, School of Mathematics and Computer Science, Xihua University, China.

Talk: Some variants of spiking neural P systems and application in image fusion

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Xiyu Liu

Full professor,Department of information management, business school, Shandong normal university, China.

Talk: Complex topological membrane systems and application in medical image processing

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Bogdan Aman

Bogdan Aman graduated Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi (Faculty of Mathematics) in 2007 and completed his Ph.D.

Talk: Evolution strategies in membrane computing

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Petr Sosik

Professor,Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Philosophy and Science, Silesian University, Opava.

Talk: Simulations of Bacteria with Morphogenetic Systems

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Bosheng Song

Professor, Department of Computer Science, School of Information Science and Engineering, Hunan University, China.

Talk: Some variants of P systems and their computational properties

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Sergey Verlan

Full professor, Department of Computer Science, School of Science and Technology, University of Paris, France.

Talk: A formal look at spiking neural P systems

Detail

More details are to be announced soon.