Unconventional Computation in Europe

Organizers: Martyn Amos, Susan Stepney

Invited Speakers

Computation and the Major Synthetic Transitions in Artificial Evolution

Ricard Solé

Unconventional Computation in Europe

The Workshop on Unconventional Computation in Europe is organized under the auspices of the TRUCE (Training and Research in Unconventional Computation in Europe) project.

TRUCE is a three-year project, funded by the European Commission FP7: Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) programme. Its remit is to help coordinate, nurture and develop activities within the unconventional computation (UCOMP) community in Europe and beyond, through activities such as roadmap development, community building, education and training, and outreach and advocacy. It also serves as an over-arching "umbrella" organization for seven funded research projects:

• BIOMICS- Biological and Mathematical Basis of Interaction Computing
• MICREAGENTS- Microscale Chemically Reactive Electronic Agents
• MOLARNET - Molecular Architectures for QCA-inspired Boolean Networks
• MULTI- MULTI-valued and parallel molecular logic
• NASCENCE - NAnoSCale Engineering for Novel Computation using Evolution
• PHYCHIP - Physarum Chip: Growing Computers from Slime Mould
• SYMONE - SYnaptic MOlecular NEtworks for Bio-inspired Information Processing

The formal workshop programme will consist of

• A plenary talk from the invited speaker (Ricard Sole)
• Contributed technical talks from the member projects listed above
• A break-out session dedicated to roadmap contributions and community consultation

A special issue of an international journal, dedicated to papers presented at the workshop, will be compiled after the completion of the meeting.

Participation is open to all, and is not restricted to members of UCOMP projects. We actively seek involvement from non-EU participants, in order to ensure wide dissemination of results and a broad cross-section of input to the roadmap.