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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Dear Colleague<span style='color:#1F497D'>s</span>,<br><br>Due to several requests the deadline for submissions to MCU'15 is extended,<br>please find the final call for papers below.<br><br>************************************************************************<br>7th International conference Machines, Computations and Universality (MCU’15)<span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Famagusta, North-Cyprus, 9-11 September 2015<br><br>FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS - EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 26 March 2015<span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>The International conference MCU series traces its roots back to the<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>mid 90's, and has always been concerned with gaining a deeper<br>understanding of computation and universality through the study of<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>models of general purpose computation.<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>The MCU conference series was initiated in Paris in 1995. Following<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>editions were held in Metz in 1998, in Chisinau in 2001, in<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>St. Petersburg in 2004, in Orleans in 2007, and in Zurich in 2013.<span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>SCOPE<span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>The scope of the conference topics includes, but is not limited to,<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>computation in the setting of various discrete models (Turing<br>machines, register machines, cellular automata, tile assembly systems,<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>rewriting systems, molecular computing models, neural models...) and<br>analog and hybrid models (BSS machines, infinite time cellular<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>automata, real machines, quantum computing...) and the meaning and<br>implantation of universality in these contexts. Particular emphasis is<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>given towards search for frontiers between decidability and<br>undecidability in the various models, search for the simplest<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>universal models, computational complexity of predicting the evolution<br>of computations in the various models... Parallel computing models<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>and their connections to decidability, complexity and universality.<span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>TOPICS ADDRESSED<span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>MCU 2015 conference topics include, but not exclusively:<span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>* Analog computation<br>* Automata theory<br>* Cellular automata<br>* Classical computability and degree structures<br>* Computability theoretic aspects of programs<br>* Computable analysis and real computation<br>* Computable structures and models<br>* Continuous computing<br>* Decidability of theories<br>* DNA computing, self-assembly and tiling<br>* Dynamical systems and computational models<br>* Emerging and non-standard models of computation<br>* Finite model theory<br>* Generalized recursion theory<br>* Higher type computability<br>* Hypercomputational models<br>* Infinite time Turing machines<br>* Membrane computing<br>* Molecular computation<br>* Morphogenesis and developmental biology<br>* Multi-agent systems<br>* Natural computation and Hybrid systems<br>* Neural nets and connectionist models<br>* Physics and computability<br>* Proof theory and computability<br>* Randomness and Kolmogorov complexity<br>* Relativistic computation<br>* Swarm intelligence and self-organisation<br>* Theory of Petri nets<br>* Turing, Counter, Register, Signal machines<br>* Universality of systems<span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>We particularly welcome submissions in emergent areas, such as<br>parallel models of computing, bioinformatics and unconventional<br>computation...<span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>IMPORTANT DATES<span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Submission Deadline: 26 March 2015<br>Notification of authors: 27 May 2015<br>Deadline for final version: 20 June 2015<span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>SUBMISSIONS<span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work at the<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>conference. Submitted papers must describe work not previously<br>published, and they must neither be accepted nor under review at a<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>journal or at another conference with refereed proceedings.<br>Authors are required to submit their manuscripts electronically in PDF<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>using the LNCS style. Authors using LaTeX can download the needed macros<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>at Springer-Verlag site. Papers should not exceed 15 pages; full proofs<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>may appear in a clearly marked technical appendix which will be read at<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>the reviewers' discretion.<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>The submission process is managed by EasyChair.<span style='color:#1F497D'> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mcu2015">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mcu2015</a><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>The proceedings will be available at the conference venue. It will be an<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>LNCS volume by Springer Verlag.<br>There will be a best paper and a best student paper award.<span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>INVITED SPEAKERS<br><br>* Matthew Cook (University of Zürich and ETH Zürich, Switzerland)<br>* Jetty Kleijn (Leiden University, The Netherlands)<br>* Linqiang Pan (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China)<br>* Anne Siegel (IRISA/CNRS, Dyliss, France)<br>* Mike Stannett (University of Sheffield, UK)<br><br>PROGRAM COMMITTEE<br><br>* Andrew Adamatzky, University of the West of England, UK<br>* Rza Bashirov, Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta<br>* Laurent Bienvenu, CNRS, Université Paris Diderot<br>* Erzsébet Csuhaj-Varjú, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary<br>* Jérôme Durand-Lose, University of Orléans, France (co-chair)<br>* Henning Fernau, University of Trier, Germany<br>* Rudolf Freund, University of Vienna, Austria<br>* Gabriel Istrate, West University of Timisoara, Romania<br>* Jarkko Kari, University of Turku, Finland<br>* Martin Kutrib, Universität Gießen, Germany<br>* Peter Leupold, University of Leipzig, Germany<br>* Maurice Margenstern, University of Lorraine, France<br>* Kenichi Morita, Hiroshima University, Japan<br>* Benedek Nagy, Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta and<br> University of Debrecen, Hungary (co-chair)<br>* Turlough Neary, University of Zürich and ETH Zürich<br>* Matthew Patitz, University of Arkansas, USA<br>* Gheorghe Paun, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania<br>* Igor Potapov, University of Liverpool, UK<br>* Kumbakonam Govindarajan Subramanian, University of Science, Malaysia<br>* Klaus Sutner, University Carnegy-Mellon, USA<br>* György Vaszil, University of Debrecen, Hungary<br>* Sergey Verlan, University of Paris Est, France<br><br><br>Contact: Benedek Nagy - mcu2015 (at) emu.edu.tr<br> Jérôme Durand-Lose - jerome.durand-lose (at) univ-orleans.fr<br>Website: <a href="http://mcu2015.emu.edu.tr">http://mcu2015.emu.edu.tr</a><br>************************************************************************</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>