ASCAT 2024: Third Asian Symposium on Cellular Automata Technology National Institute of Technology Durgapur Durgapur, India, February 29-March 2, 2024

Conference website	https://nitdgp.ac.in/ascat2024/
Submission link	https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ascat2024
Submission deadline	October 16, 2023

This is the third edition of the Asian Symposium on Cellular Automata Technology (ASCAT) to be held during February 29 - March 02, 2024. The first edition of ASCAT (ASCAT 2022) was held during March 03-05, 2022 in online mode. The second edition of ASCAT (ASCAT 2023) was held during March 02-04, 2023 in hybrid mode. This time also the event will be organised in hybrid mode. The symposium will officially be hosted by National Institute of Technology, Durgapur (NIT Durgapur) in its campus at West Bengal, India. Target of the symposium is two-fold: to nurture the theories of cellular automata, and to explore the cellular automata as technology. The symposium is unique by its type -- it does not look cellular automata as only mathematical tool, but also as technology.

Since long, India has played a significant role in research on cellular automata (CAs): theory and applications. A number of workshops and seminars on CAs have also been organized in India. Not only India, other Asian countries like Japan, Turkey, Vietnam, Taiwan, etc. also contribute significantly in Cellular Automata research. In fact, to this date, an important part of research in cellular automata, both in terms of quality and quantity, comes from the Asian community of CAs researchers. Many of them work in the domain of Cellular Automata Technology. This symposium can be seen as a consequence of the contributions of these researchers.

In recent past, during the pandemic period, some of the Indian researchers have come forward in creating a virtual research group, Cellular Automata India where most of the cellular automata researchers and scientists from India as well as many renowned scientists from around the globe have joined. Two webinar series were already organized from this platform where eminent scientists delivered invited talks and shared their research with the audience. A lecture series in memory of John Horton Conway was also organised during April, 2021, and later an edited book (The Mathematical Artist: A Tribute to John Horton Conway) was published including the lectures and some invited articles. The recording of the events are available at Cellular Automata India YouTube channel. The ASCAT can be considered as an annual event of this virtual group. 

Aims and Scope

Aim of the symposium is two-fold: to nurture the theories of cellular automata, and to explore the cellular automata as technology. So all the theoretical aspects of cellular automata and their applications in any domain are within the scope of this symposium. In particular, the topics of interest include (but not limited to) the following:

 

A. Algebraic and Theoretical aspects of CA

• • Algorithmic and Complexity issues in Cellular Automata
  • Formal Language Processing
  • Cellular Automata and Logic
  • Randomness
  • Reversibility and Cycle structure
  • Algebraic properties of Cellular Automata and Discrete Systems
  • Characterization tools for Cellular Automata
  • Conservation Laws and Cellular Automata 

B. Cellular Automata Models and Computation

• • Traffic models and Crowd dynamics
  • Models for Distributed and Parallel Systems
  • Lattice Gas and Lattice Boltzmann model
  • Environmental, Social and Economical Modeling and Simulation
  • Natural Computing
  • Reversible and Quantum Computing
  • Cellular Automata Architecture for Computation
  • Cellular Automata for Computing-in-Memory Architecture
  • Cellular Automata with Memory
  • Integration of CA and Agent-based Modeling
  • Sandpile Cellular Automata 

C. Non-uniformity in Cellular Automata

• • Non-uniform or Hybrid CA
  • Asynchronous Cellular Automata
  • Stochastic Cellular Automata
  • Network Automata

D. Cellular Automata, Hardware Design and Security

• • Circuit Design and Computer Architecture
  • Memristor Design
  • Security and Encryption
  • Cryptography
  • Secured Hardware Design

E. Quantum-dot Cellular Automata

• • Logic Gates and Circuit Design
  • Quiescent Quantum Cellular Automata
  • Quantum Gate Cellular Automata
  • Universal Quantum Cellular Automata
  • Quantum computing
  • Quantum lattice gases
  • Quantum Reversible Automata
  • Quantum Nano-Automata

F. Cellular Automata, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

• • Artificial Life
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Machine Learning
  • Bioinformatics
  • Image and Video Processing

G. Emerging Applications of Cellular Automata

• • Ecological issues
  • Urban development
  • Graph Colouring
  • Sensor network applications

Committees

General co-chairs

• Prof.  Suchismita Roy (National Institute of Technology Durgapur, India)
• Prof. Biplab K Sikdar (Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India)
• Prof. Kenichi Morita (Hiroshima University, Japan)

Program co-chairs

• Dr. Mamata Dalui (National Institute of Technology Durgapur, India)
• Dr. Sukanta Das (Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India) 
• Enrico Formenti (Université Côte d'Azur, France)

Organizing co-chairs

• Bibhash Sen (National Institute of Technology Durgapur, India)
• Ankush Acharyya (National Institute of Technology Durgapur, India)
• Suvadip Batabyal (National Institute of Technology Durgapur, India)

Program Committee

• Kenichi Morita (Hiroshima University, Japan)
• Biplab K Sikdar (Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India)
• Pabitra Pal Chaudhuri (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India)
• Andrew Wuensche (University of Sussex)
• Andrew Adamatzky (University of the West of England, UK)
• Enrico Formenti (University Côte d'Azur, France)
• Kolin Paul (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India)
• Huynh XuanHiep (Can Tho University, Vietnam)
• Anna Lawniczak (Guelph University, Canada)
• Stefano Nichele (Oslo Metropolitan University - OsloMet, Norway)
• TeijiroIsokawa (University of Hyogo, Japan)
• Hiroshi Umeo (University of Osaka Electro-Communication, Japan)
• Rezki Chemlal (University of Bejaia, Algeria)
• Pedro Paulo Balbi de Oliveira (UniversidadePresbiteriana Mackenzie, Brazil)
• Sudhakar Sahoo (Institute of Mathematics and Applications, Bhubaneswar, India)
• Nazma Naskar (Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology University, India)
• Jimmy Jose (National Institute of Technology, Calicut, India)
• Raju Hazari (National Institute of Technology, Calicut, India)
• Kamalika Bhattacharjee (National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India)
• Souvik Roy (Bennett University, India)
• Supreeti Kamilya (Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, India)
• Sukanya Mukherjee (Institute of Engineering and Management, Kolkata, India)
• Sumit Adak (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)
• Genaro Juarez Martinez (National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico City, Mexico)
• Sukanta Das (Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India)
• Suchismita Roy (National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, India)
• Bibhash Sen (National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, India)
• Mamata Dalui (National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, India)

Venue

The conference will be held at National Institute of Technology Durgapur, Mahatma Gandhi Avenue, Durgapur, West Bengal, India - 713209.

Contact

• Bibhash Sen

         Department of Computer Science and Engineering,

         National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, India.

         E-mail: bsen.cse@nitdgp.ac.in

 

• Mamata Dalui

        Department of Computer Science and Engineering,

        National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, India.

        E-mail: mdalui.cse@nitdgp.ac.in