Bionetics International Conference 2012

You are cordially invited to participate to BIONETICS 2012, the 7th International ICST Conference on Bio-Inspired Models of Network, Information and Computing Systems, to be held in Lugano, Switzerland, from December 10th to 12th (Monday - Wednesday) 2012, at the Congress Center.

BIONETICS 2012 aims to provide a world-leading and unique opportunity for bringing together researchers and practitioners from diverse disciplines that seek the understanding of the fundamental principles and design strategies in biological systems, and leverage those understandings to build bio-inspired systems for problem-solving and engineering applications, with a special focus on: networking, distributed systems, information processing, multi-agent systems, single and multi-robot systems, biomimetics, optimization, bioinformatics, and modeling of biological and bio-synthetic systems.

Scope of the Conference
BIONETICS 2012 solicits contributions dealing with the modeling and application of ideas from natural processes and systems. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

• Signal/information processing and communication models in biological systems
• Coordination and cooperation models in biological systems
• Bio-inspired formal models and methods
• Bio-inspired algorithms and mechanisms
• Bio-inspired software and hardware systems
• Biomimetics, bioengineering, and synthetic biological systems
• Modeling and simulation of bio-inspired systems, biological systems, synthetic biological systems
• Self-* properties in bio-inspired systems, biological systems and synthetic biological systems
• Design and performance issues in bio-inspired systems and synthetic biological systems
• Design of hybrid systems combining bio-inspired methods with methods from other domains
• Tools, testbeds, and deployment issues in bio-inspired and synthetic biological systems
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