17-18 April 2000 University of Hertfordshire, UK

An EPSRC Emergent Computing Workshop Supported by

Workshop chairpersons: Hamid Bolouri, University of Hertfordshire & Ray Paton, University of Liverpool

The workshop focussed on molecular and cellular interaction networks as computational systems. Invited speakers from around the world addressed topics such as:

• robustness in biochemical networks.
• computational and dynamical motifs in molecular biology.
• tools and algorithms for unravelling biochemical systems.
• computational properties of signalling pathways.
• evolution of biochemcial and genetic networks.
• deterministic computation from stochastic molecular interactions.
• cell differentiation and pattern formation.
• sponsored session on models of gene regulation and genetic regulatory networks.

The workshop is part of a series of networks funded by the EPSRC to establish communities and stimulate research in long term, speculative, emerging areas of computing that have the potential for high rewards. This workshop is organised jointly by the Emergent Behaviour Computation and Emerging CytoComputational Systems forums.

The programme aims to encourage the transfer of ideas and insights in these new, high-risk and high-reward research topics, both within the computing and IT communities and with other disciplines to bring together multidisciplinary communities and stimulate research to advance computing and IT beyond the foreseeable capabilities of existing technologies.

The Computation in Cells Workshop is being organised with the support of the Wellcome Trust, the British Computer Society and British Telecom

• All accepted contributions were published in a 94 page, loose-bound proceedings available at the workshop. View the table of contents of the proceedings. The full reference of the proceedings is:
  
  Computation in Cells: Proceedings of an EPSRC Emerging Computing Paradigms Workshop
  Bolouri, Hamid & Paton, Raymond C (Editors),
  Dept. of Computer Science Technical Report No. 345,
  University of Hertfordshire, UK,  April 2000
  

  To obtain a copy of the proceedings please contact

  • Dr. Alistair Rust
    Science & Technology Research Centre,
    University of Hertfordshire
    College Lane, Hatfield,
    Hertfordshire, AL10 9AB, UK
    

• Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended papers for inclusion in a special issue of the journal Complex Systems. The special journal issue will be published shortly after the workshop.

• We also plan to publish additional selected papers from this and the other Emergent Behaviour Computing Workshops, as a highlighted volume of Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.

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Venue

The workshop was held at the Hertford campus of the University of Hertfordshire. The campus, called Balls Park, is situated on the edge of the county town of Hertford (right). The venue for the workshop itself was the Balls Park Conference Centre. The workshop dinner was also be held on campus in the wood-pannelled dining room.

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