Submission Deadline June, 9th 2008 Notification of acceptance June, 16th 2008 Paper due for
June, 30th 2008 Conference July, 7th and 8th 2008
Conference Theme ================
"Spatial Computing" acknowledges the fact that future hardware, resulting from nano-technology research, will rely on a huge number of unreliable processing elements, heterogeneously distributed in a 2D or 3D space. In such a computing environment, communication costs increase as the distance between elements becomes larger. This strong locality constraint asks for the design of new programming languages and requires the development of new programming models.
Amorphous computing is a "bottom-up" approach to this problem: it proposes some new "spatial" algorithms based on an amorphous unreliable medium with no temporal nor spatial regularity. These algorithms allow the handling of space in an abstract way: computation
of coordinates in the space of each processing element, movement of particles following gradients, computation of Voronoï diagrams, wave propagation, quorum sensing...
After the conference, two special issues on amorphous and spatial computing in TSI (for papers written in French) or in the International Journal of Unconventional Computing (for papers in English) will host a revised and extended version of the best papers.