CALL for PAPERS

International Journal of Unconventional Computing

Special issue on

New Worlds of Computation

This is a sequel to the second worskop New Worlds of Computation (NWC '11) May 23-24, 2011, Orléans, France

Submission is fully open (i.e. NOT restricted to NWC participants)

Topics

The special issue aims at gathering papers from a wide beyond-Turing (and off-Turing) community in order to bring forth common problematics as well as divergent results.

The New Worlds of Computation workshop series concentrates on models of computation that fall out of the Turing context:

Analog computation
Continuous computation
Hybrid systems
computation on infinite structures (ordinal, linear orders...)
Hypercomputation
Infinite time computation
Non-Euclidean spaces
Non-standard approaches
Optical computation
Spatial computing
Abstract geometrical computation
Cellular automata
Collision based computing
Quantum computing
Fuzzy computation
Algebraic computation
DNA and membrane computation...

Classical Turing computability has been THE paradigm for computation for more than half a century. In less than two decades, various paradigms have been proposed (invented, discovered or reframed) and communities have emerged: computable analysis, algebraic models, quantum computing, DNA, cellular automaton... All of them venture outside the classical context because they manipulate objects that are just out of the classical scope (infinite objects or uncountably many values) or continuous or infinite time. Unfortunately, there is no miraculous generalized Church-Turing thesis (nor specialized analog nor...).

The audience aimed at is roughly the same as:

Deadlines

Submission	January 23th 2012
Notification	May 2nd 2012

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Guest editor

Jérôme Durand-Lose (jerome.durand-lose AT univ-orleans.fr)
LIFO (Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale d'Orléans), projet Graphes, Algorithmes et Modèles de Calcul
Université d'Orléans