(From Marian Gheorghe) CALL FOR PAPERS The 18th International Conference on Membrane Computing (CMC18) 24-28 July, 2017 - Bradford, UK http://computing.brad.ac.uk/cmc18/ AIMS AND SCOPE The goal of CMC18 is to bring together researchers working in membrane computing and related fields, in a friendly atmosphere enhancing communication, cooperation and continuing the tradition of the past meetings. Membrane computing (P systems theory) is an area of computer science aiming to abstract computing ideas and models from the structure and the functioning of living cells, as well as from the way the cells are organized in tissues or higher order structures. CMC18 is organized under the auspices of the International Membrane Computing Society (IMCS). HIGHLIGHTS - The submission deadline is 17 April 2017. - Springer will sponsor the Best Student Paper Award. - A pre-proceedings volume will be available at the conference in electronic format and also online. - A volume devoted to selected and additionally revised papers will be published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science after the event. PREVIOUS EDITIONS CMC18 is the next event, in a series of successful International Conferences on Membrane Computing (CMC), previous held as CMC17 (Milano, Italy, 2016), CMC16 (Valencia, Spain, 2015), CMC15 (Prague, Czech Republic, 2014), CMC14 (Chisinau, Republic of Moldova, 2013), CMC13 (Budapest, Hungary, 2012), CMC12 (Fontainebleau/Paris, France, 2011), CMC11 (Jena, Germany, 2010), WMC10 (Curtea de Arges, Romania, 2009), WMC9 (Edinburgh, UK, 2008), WMC8 (Thessaloniki, Greece, 2007), WMC7 (Leiden, The Netherlands, 2006), WMC6 (Wien, Austria, 2005), WMC5 (Milan, Italy, 2004), WMC 2003 (Tarragona, Spain), WMC 2002 (Curtea de Arges, Romania), WMC 2001 (Curtea de Arges, Romania), WMP 2000 (Curtea de Arges, Romania). IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for submissions: 17 April 2017 Notification of acceptance: 29 May 2017 Final version: 19 June 2017 Conference: 24 - 28 July 2017 SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original, unpublished research in PDF format. There are two tracks for submission: (1) full paper (of a reasonable length), (2) extended abstract for poster presentation (maximum four pages). Typical extended abstracts present significant work-in-progress, late-breaking results, or contributions from students new in the field or at the start of their research career. Only electronic submissions are accepted. Papers should be formatted according LNCS article style which can be downloaded from Springer's website. Please, include all source files as well as all additional files (figures etc.), and also attach a PDF version of the submission. Submissions have to be sent through the EasyChair web page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cmc18 STEERING COMMITTEE Henry Adorna (Quezon City, Philippines) Artiom Alhazov (Chisinau, Moldova) Bogdan Aman (Iasi, Romania) Matteo Cavaliere (Edinburgh, Scotland) Erzsébet Csuhaj-Varjú (Budapest, Hungary) Giuditta Franco (Verona, Italy) Rudolf Freund (Wien, Austria) Marian Gheorghe (Bradford, UK) ? Honorary member Thomas Hinze (Cottbus, Germany) Florentin Ipate (Bucharest, Romania) Shankara N. Krishna (Bombay, India) Alberto Leporati (Milan, Italy) Taishin Y. Nishida (Toyama, Japan) Linqiang Pan (Wuhan, China) Gheorghe P?un (Bucharest, Romania) ? Honorary member Mario J. Pérez-Jiménez (Sevilla, Spain) Agustín Riscos-Núñez (Sevilla, Spain) José M. Sempere (Valencia, Spain) Petr Sosík (Opava, Czech Republic) Kumbakonam Govindarajan Subramanian (Penang, Malaysia) György Vaszil (Debrecen, Hungary) Sergey Verlan (Paris, France) Claudio Zandron (Milan, Italy) Gexiang Zhang (Chengdu, China) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Henry Adorna (Quezon City, Philippines) Artiom Alhazov (Chisinau, Moldova) Bogdan Aman (Iasi, Romania) Lucie Ciencialová (Opava, Czech Republic) Erzsébet Csuhaj-Varjú (Budapest, Hungary) Giuditta Franco (Verona, Italy) Rudolf Freund (Wien, Austria) Thomas Hinze (Cottbus, Germany) Marian Gheorghe (Bradford, UK) Florentin Ipate (Bucharest, Romania) Shankara N. Krishna (Bombay, India) Alberto Leporati (Milan, Italy) Vincenzo Manca (Verona, Italy) Giancarlo Mauri (Milan, Italy) Radu Nicolescu (Auckland, New Zealand) Linqiang Pan (Wuhan, China) Gheorghe P?un (Bucharest, Romania) Mario J. Pérez Jiménez (Sevilla, Spain) Antonio E. Porreca (Milan, Italy) Agustín Riscos-Núñez (Sevilla, Spain) José M. Sempere (Valencia, Spain) Petr Sosík (Opava, Czech Republic) György Vaszil (Debrecen, Hungary) Sergey Verlan (Paris, France) Claudio Zandron (Milan, Italy) Gexiang Zhang (Chengdu, China) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Marian Gheorghe (Bradford, UK) - Co-chair Savas Konur (Bradford, UK) - Co-chair Raluca Lefticaru (Bradford, UK) - Communication Chair Daniel Neagu (Bradford, UK)