A Special Session on Cellular Automata and its Applications in AI will be held during the 3^rd Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI-07). Cellular automata has dominated computing technology for doing computation more efficiently – in terms of speed, cost, power dissipation, information storage, and solution quality. It has been proposed to study the general phenomenological aspects, including communication, computation, construction, growth, reproduction, and evolution. It also provides an excellent tool for modeling physical phenomena.

The topics covered by this session will include but will not be limited to the following areas:

• Cellular automata: theory and applications
• New algorithms based on cellular automata
• Cellular automata in pattern recognition, image processing, bioinformatics, etc.
• Artificial intelligence and cellular automata
• Cellular automata in simulation and modeling
• Parallel cellular computing

Paper Submission and Publication:
Authors are encouraged to submit the papers for this session as an email attachment to the Session Chair given below. The papers should be in MSWORD, PDF, or PS format and should be formatted according to the Springer Lecture Notes instructions. The length of a paper should not exceed 20 pages. Shorter papers or papers on the work currently in progress are also welcome. The first page of the paper should contain the title, name(s) of the authors, affiliations, the postal and email addresses, and at least 3 keywords appropriate to the content of the paper. Further information regarding the paper submission can be obtained from the conference website too.

Each paper will be peer reviewed by at least two experts in the topical area. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under the title of the session.

Note: Few selected papers will be considered (subject to referees' recommendations) for inclusion in the special issue of the Journal of Cellular Automata.

You may contact the General Chair of the conference for any additional information.

Deadlines:
April 15th 2007: Paper manuscripts due.
May 18th 2007: Notification of acceptance.
June 25th 2007: Camera-ready papers and Pre-registration due.
December 17-19, 2007: Special Session and the IICAI-07 Conference.

Scientific Committee Members:
Andrew Adamatzky
Department of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom

Bastien Chopard
Scientific and Parallel Computing Group, CUI, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Biplab K. Sikdar
Department of Computer Science and Technology, Bengal Engineering and Science University, Howrah, India

Hiroshi Umeo
Osaka Electro-Communication University, Japan

Martin Kutrib
University of Giessen, Germany

Niloy Ganguly
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India

Paola Flocchini
School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Parimal Pal Chaudhuri
Cellular Automata Research Lab, Mega City – Rajarhat, Kolkata, India

Pradipta Maji
Machine Intelligence Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India

Stefania Bandini
Artificial Intelligence Lab, Department of Computer Science, Systems and Communication, University of Milano – Bicocca, Milan, Italy

Session Chair:
Pradipta Maji
Machine Intelligence Unit
Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
203 B. T. Road, West Bengal, 700108
India
E-mail:     pmaji@isical.ac.in
Phone:     +91-33-2575-2044
Fax:        +91-33-2578-8699
Web:       http://www.isical.ac.in/~pmaji