PAST CONFERENCES

The First International Conference on UNCONVENTIONAL MODELS OF COMPUTATION , organized by the CDMTCS and the Santa Fe Institute, USA was held in Auckland, on 5-9 January 1998.

The Second International Conference on UNCONVENTIONAL MODELS OF COMPUTATION, organized by the CDMTCS and the Solvay Institutes was held in Brussels, Belgium, on December 13-16, 2000.

The Third International Conference on UNCONVENTIONAL MODELS OF COMPUTATION, organized by the CDMTCS and the Kansai Advanced Research Center of the CRL, Kansai, Japan was held in Kobe, Japan on October 15-19, 2002.

The Fourth International Conference on UNCONVENTIONAL COMPUTATION, organized by the CDMTCS and the University of Sevilla was held in Sevilla, Spain on 3-7 October 2005.

The Fifth International Conference on UNCONVENTIONAL COMPUTATION, organized by the CDMTCS and the University of York was held in York, UK on 4-8 September 2006.

SCOPE

The series of International Conferences UNCONVENTIONAL COMPUTATION (UC) is devoted to all aspects of unconventional computation, theory as well as experiments and applications. Typical, but not exclusive, topics are: natural computing including quantum, cellular, molecular, neural and evolutionary computing; chaos and dynamical systems based computing; and various proposals for computations that go beyond the Turing model.

HISTORY

The first venue of the Unconventional Computation Conference (formerly called Unconventional Models of Computation) was Auckland, New Zealand in 1998; subsequent sites of the conference were Brussels, Belgium in 2000, Kobe, Japan in 2002, and Seville, Spain in 2005.

STEERING COMMITTEE

T. Back (Leiden, The Netherlands), C.S. Calude (Auckland, NZ, co-chair), L.K. Grover (Murray Hill, NJ, USA), J. van Leeuwen (Utrecht, The Netherlands), S. Lloyd (Cambridge, MA, USA), Gh. Paun (Sevilla, Spain and Bucharest, Romania), T. Toffoli (Boston, MA, USA), C. Torras (Barcelona, Spain), G. Rozenberg (Leiden, The Netherlands and Boulder, Colorado, USA, co-chair), A. Salomaa (Turku, Finland).

PAST PROCEEDINGS

C.S. Calude, J. Casti, M.J. Dinneen (eds.). Unconventional Models of Computation, Springer-Verlag, Singapore, 1998, viii + 426 pp. ISBN: 981-3083-69-7.

I. Antoniou, C.S. Calude, M.J. Dinneen (eds.). Unconventional Models of Computation, UMC'2K, Springer-Verlag, London, December 2000, xi + 301. ISBN 1-85233-417-0.

C.S. Calude, M.J. Dinneen, F. Peper (eds.). Third International Conference, UMC 2002, Proceedings Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2509, Springer-Verlag, heidelberg, 2002, vii + 331 pp. ISBN: 3-540-44311-8.

C. S. Calude, M. J. Dinneen, M. J. Perez Jimenez, G. Paun, G. Rozenberg (eds.). Proc. 4th International Conference Unconventional Computation, Lecture Notes Comput. Sci. 3699, Springer, Heidelberg, 2005, 266 pp. ISBN: 3-540-29100-8.

C. S. Calude, M. J. Dinneen, G. Paun, G. Rozenberg, S. Stepney (eds.). Proc. 5th International Conference Unconventional Computation, Lecture Notes Comput. Sci. 4135, Springer, Heidelberg, 2006, 270 pp.

CALL FOR PAPERS FOR UC'07

The Sixth International Conference UC'07 will be held at Queen's University (Kingston), Canada, on 13-17 August 2007.