ASCAT 2022

 First Asian Symposium on Cellular Automata Technology, 2022

(ASCAT 2022) 

March 3-5, 2022, Kolkata (India) 

www.cellularautomata.in/ascat2022

Call for Papers

Important Dates: 

               
                            Paper Submission deadline:                         Friday, October 22, 2021 

                            Notification of acceptance:                          Friday, December 17, 2021                 

                            Deadline for camera-ready papers:              Tuesday, January 04, 2022

Aims and Scope of the Conference:

Cellular automata (CAs), one of the most important models of natural computing, are a paradigm of fine-grained parallel computation which have been explored to understand complex systems by developing their model at the microscopic level. Since their inception in the 1950s, CAs have attracted the attention of several researchers over various backgrounds and fields for modeling different physical, natural as well as real-life phenomena. In the last 30 years, the world has seen their immense potential in developing the cutting edge technologies.

Technology refers to the collection of techniques, methods or processes used to provide some services or solutions to problems, or in the accomplishment of an objective, such as scientific invigilation. The CAs have been historically used as a method for simulating biological and physical systems, and utilized to theoretically study such systems. Since late 1980s, the CAs have been increasingly receiving their popularity as technology in the present era of VLSI, due to their simplicity, modularity and cascadability. For the path-breaking developments of technology, however, proper theoretical foundation is mandatory.

In this backdrop, this conference aims to promote fundamental research on cellular automata theory, as well as cellular automata based unconventional design approaches in state-of-the art technological solutions for different emergent areas and challenges. It also focuses on international collaboration between Computer Scientists, Mathematicians and Technologists of Asia and the other parts of the world. It can popularize research on unconventional computing among the academicians, scientists and engineers of Asian countries

The scope of the conference includes all the topics related to theory and applications of cellular automata. In particular, the topics of interest include (but is 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

• Integration of CA and Agent-based modeling

C. Non-uniformity in Cellular Automata 

• Non-uniform or Hybrid CA 

• Asynchronous 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. Cellular Automata, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

• Artificial Life

• Pattern Recognition

• Machine Learning

• Bioinformatics

• Image and Video Processing

Submissions:

Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research papers of article type written in English that are not more than 12 pages (single column including figures, tables and references) via the EasyChair system at

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ascat2022

Submissions must be formatted in LaTeX and submitted in Portable Document Format (PDF). For each accepted paper, at least one author has to complete full registration and present the paper.

 

Proceedings:

Accepted papers of the conference will appear in the proceedings published by Springer Nature in the book series AISC (​​Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing).

Special Issue: 

Extended versions of a selected number of papers presented at the conference is planned to be published in a special issue of the Journal of Cellular Automata.

Tentative Registration fees (Online):

             Early Registration:                   30 USD (General), Rs. 500/- (Indian)

             Student Registration:               20 USD (General), Rs. 400/- (Indian)

             Late Registration:                    40 USD (General), Rs. 600/- (Indian)

Patron: 

• Dipanwita Roy Chowdhury (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India)

General co-chairs: 

• Biplab K Sikdar (Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India)

• Jarkko Kari (University of Turku, Finland)

Programme co-chairs: 

• Sukanta Das (Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India)

• Genaro Juarez Martinez (National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico City, Mexico)

Program committee: 

• Dipanwita Roy Chowdhury (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
• Biplab K Sikdar (Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India) 
• Kenichi Morita (Hiroshima University, Japan) 
• Jarkko Kari (University of Turku, Finland) 
• Mihir K Chakraborty (School of Cognitive Science, Jadavpur University, India)
• B R Shankar (National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, India)
• N P Gopalan (National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli, India)
• R Ramanujam (The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, India)
• Andrew Adamatzky (University of the West of England, UK) 
• Ebrahim Patel (London Interdisciplinary School, UK)
• Eric Goles (Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile) 
• Salvatore Di Gregorio (University of Calabria, Italy)
• Andreas Malcher (Universität Gießen, Germany)

• Georgios Sirakoulis (Democritus University of Thrace, Greece)

• Pabitra Pal Chaudhuri (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India)
• K. Ramachandra Rao (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India) 
• Debashish Chowdhury (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India) 
• Teijiro Isokawa (University of Hyogo, Japan) 
• Chih-Hung Chang (National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan)
• Sudhakar Sahoo (Institute of Mathematics and Applications, Bhubaneswar, India) 
• Mamata Dalui (National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, India) 
• Nazma Naskar (Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology University, India) 
• Biswanath Sethi (Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology, Odisha, India)
• Raju Hazari (National Institute of Technology, Calicut, India)
• Jimmy Jose (National Institute of Technology, Calicut, India)
• Kamalika Bhattacharjee (National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India) 
• Hiroshi Umeo (University of Osaka Electro-Communication, Japan)
• Hiep Xuan Huynh (College of Information and Communication Technology - Can Tho University, Vietnam)
• Samira El Yacoubi (University of Perpignan, France)
• Nazim Fatès (Inria-Loria, France)
• Anna Lawniczak (Guelph University, Canada) 
• Stefano Nichele (Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway
• Niloy Ganguly (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India) 
• Pradipta Maji (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India) 
• Genaro Juarez Martinez (National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico City, Mexico)
• Sukanta Das (Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India)
  

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 Layek (Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India)

• Kamalika Bhattacharjee (National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India) 

• Souvik Roy (Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India) 

• Sumit Adak (Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India)

• 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