We apologise for multiple copies. ***************************************************************************** AUTOMATA 2017 - Call for Exploratory papers 23rd International Workshop on Cellular Automata and Discrete Complex Systems June 7 - 9, 2017 University of Milano-Bicocca Milan, Italy http://automata2017.disco.unimib.it ***************************************************************************** SCOPE Papers presenting original and unpublished research on all fundamental aspects of cellular automata, affine/correlated models of automata (such as automata networks, finite automata over finite/infinite words, picture languages), and related discrete complex systems are sought. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - dynamics, topological, ergodic and algebraic aspects - algorithmic and complexity issues - emergent properties - formal languages - symbolic dynamics - tilings - models of parallelism and distributed systems - synchronous versus asynchronous models - phenomenological descriptions and scientific modelling - practical applications IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline for exploratory papers: May 3, 2017 Notification of acceptance for exploratory papers: May 10, 2017 AUTOMATA 2017: June 7-9, 2017 EXPLORATORY PAPERS Exploratory papers are meant to allow quick reporting of recent discoveries, work-in-progress and/or partial results. While submissions in the full paper category have refereed and selected by the program committee, papers in the exploratory category go through a less rigorous evaluation process. All accepted papers must be presented at the conference. INVITED SPEAKERS Eric Goles (Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile) Adrien Richard (Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, France) Ville Salo (University of Turku, Finland) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Elena Barcucci (Italy) Alberto Dennunzio (Italy), co-chair Pedro de Oliveira (Brazil) Bruno Durand (France) Nazim Fatès (France) Paola Flocchini (Canada) Enrico Formenti (France), co-chair Anahi Gajardo (Chile) Dora Giammarresi (Italy) Eric Goles (Chile) Katsunobu Imai (Japan) Jarkko Kari (Finland) Petr Kurka (Czech Republik) Martin Kutrib (Germany) Andreas Malcher (Germany) Carlos Martín-Vide (Spain) Giancarlo Mauri (Italy) Kenichi Morita (Japan) Ronnie Pavlov (USA) Karl Petersen (USA) Ion Petre (Finland) Renzo Pinzani (Italy) Siamak Taati (Netherlands) Edgardo Ugalde (Mexico) Hiroshi Umeo (Japan) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Alberto Dennunzio (co-chair) Enrico Formenti (co-chair) Luca Manzoni Luca Mariot Antonio E. Porreca SUBMISSION Authors are invited to submit exploratory papers of no more than 8 pages via the EasyChair system at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=automata2017 Submissions should contain original research that has not previously been published. Concurrent submissions to other conferences/journals are not allowed. Supplementary material that exceeds the above mentioned page limits may be included as an appendix and will be considered at the committee's discretion. Submission must be formatted in LaTeX using the LNCS format (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors) and submitted in Portable Document Format (PDF). Papers authored or co-authored by PC members are also welcome and will follow a specific evaluation process. Exploratory papers will not be included in the LNCS proceedings. At least one author per accepted paper has to register. JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE The extended version of some selected papers will be considered for publication in special issues of Information and Computation, published by Elsevier (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-and-computation/).