From - Tue Mar 11 22:34:35 1997 Path: Radon.Stanford.EDU!news.Stanford.EDU!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!uunet!in2.uu.net!202.232.2.100!np1.iij.ad.jp!wnoc-tyo-news!wnoc-sfc-news!wnoc-kyo-news!kuis-news!kuee-news!odins-suita!chiba-ns!sakunami!nh1!usenet From: Chrystopher Nehaniv Newsgroups: comp.specification,comp.theory,comp.realtime,comp.object,comp.org.acm,comp.org.ieee,comp.software.testing,specification.misc,comp.protocols.misc Subject: Call-for-Participation - - AE'97 : a: First International Conference on Semigroups & Algebraic Engineering - Japan Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 15:45:09 +0900 Organization: University of Aizu, Fukushima, Japan Lines: 241 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <3324FF75.4DAA423A@pross43.u-aizu.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: pross43.u-aizu.ac.jp Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------64880EEB773C24486F5992E1" X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.4 sun4m) Xref: Radon.Stanford.EDU comp.theory:11485 comp.realtime:16221 comp.object:52331 comp.org.acm:3694 comp.org.ieee:3812 comp.software.testing:15048 comp.protocols.misc:4602 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------64880EEB773C24486F5992E1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit http://www.u-aizu.ac.jp/AE97/PARTICP.html --------------64880EEB773C24486F5992E1 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii; name="PARTICP.html" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="PARTICP.html" Content-Base: "http://www.u-aizu.ac.jp/AE97/PARTICP.h tml" Call-for-Participation - - AE'97 : a: First International Conference on Semigroups & Algebraic Engineering - Japan

Call for Participation

First International Conference on

SEMIGROUPS &
ALGEBRAIC ENGINEERING

Aizu-Wakamatsu City, Japan
March 24-28, 1997

Applications of Semigroups, Automata and Complexity Theory to
Hierarchical Systems, Rigorous Metaphors for Understanding,
Natural / Evolutionary Dynamical Systems, and the Computational Sciences

Invited Plenary Speakers:

Joseph Goguen (San Diego), John L. Rhodes (Berkeley), Alexander A. Letichevsky (Kyiv),
J.A. Brzozowski (Waterloo), Masami Ito (Kyoto), Victor Varshavsky (Aizu),
Karsten Henckell (New College), G.P. Wagner (Yale), Jorge Almeida (Porto),
Mikhail Volkov (Ekaterinburg), Kosaburo Hashiguchi (Okayama), Zoltán Ésik (Szeged)

Semigroups & Algebraic Engineering

Algebraic Engineering seeks to bridge theoretical knowledge from the mathematics of semigroups, automata, and formal languages with applications in the natural and design sciences, including those of computation and control. Hierarchies --- whether obtain by system synthesis, decomposition algorithms, evolution, or used in understanding a system --- offer rich areas for scientific study and application. Of particular interest are connections between algebraic and computational approaches to biological and dynamical systems.

Physical and abstract dynamical systems may be regarded as transformation semigroup structures. This realization leads to Algebraic Engineering and toward powerful applications of automata theory and algebra to computer science, as well as to electrical engineering, metabolic and evolutionary biochemistry, finite-state physics, conservation laws, biological systems, cognitive science, epistemology, game theory, and coding theory. Algebraic Engineering approaches promote new insight for the understanding of complex, hierarchical structures including models of time, and models of understanding, rigorous treatments of metaphorical computing, as well as the partial automation of object-oriented design, applications to knowledge representation, software engineering, evolution, and the decomposition of systems. The algebraic theories of semigroups, automata and formal languages have grown considerably in the last decade, mutually benefitting from their interactions, and represent vast, still largely untapped, resources for engineers and scientists.

This international conference is designed to bring together people working on semigroup theory, automata and languages, with those working in areas of computer science where these tools may have great impact, as well as with researchers in the natural sciences and engineering making creative use of algebraic viewpoints.

We have solicited submissions of papers involving rigorous mathematical work related to Algebraic Engineering, and/or the application of algebra in all areas of science and engineering. There will be fourteen invited plenary and special lectures of one hour, tutorials, and limited space for accepted presentations of approximately 25 minutes. There will also be a small social program introducing participants to traditional Japanese history/culture of the Aizu area.

Scope of the conference includes (but is not limited to)

Conference Proceedings & Publications:

Refereed extended abstracts will be compiled and be available at the conference in a booklet published by the University of Aizu.

After the conference, a proceedings volume consisting of full papers will be published under an international review board with World Scientific Press.

Selected papers of appropriate content will appear in a special issue of the journal Theoretical Computer Science.

For further information, conference program and registration, please follow the URL at the bottom of this page or contact:

Prof. C. Nehaniv
Program Chair
Semigroups & Algebraic Engineering (AE'97)
University of Aizu
Aizu-Wakamatsu City, Fukushima Pref.
965-80 JAPAN

E-mail:AE97@u-aizu.ac.jp

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Last Update: March 11, 1996

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