ICCMSE 2010

Note: We also ask all participants of the Symposium to send an email to bayon@uniovi.es or juanjo@constru.uniovi.es confirming the registration at the ICCMSE conference, as soon as the registration is performed.
 

Organizers: Dr. Gerardo Gonzalez Aguilar, Senior Researcher, Optoelectronic Unit (UOSE), System Engineering and Computers Institute (INESC-Porto), Departamento de Fisica, Universidade do Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre 687, 4169-007, Porto, Portugal

Scope and Topics: In this symposium it is intended to show the advances in the design and modelling of sensor structures in the micro scale as nanostructures and selective membranes, including but not limited to sensor-analyte interactions, multilayer interactions and design in self assembled films. Other topic will be devoted to mathematical methods for analyzing multiple sensor responses (e-tongues and e-noses).
 

Symposium 7

Organizers: Prof. Dr. Takeshi Oka, Department of Chemistry and Department Astronomy and Astrophysics, the Enrico Fermi Institute, the University of Chicago. http://fermi.uchicago.edu

E-mail: Enquiries and contributions to tozz@uchicago.edu

URL of the Symposium: http://fermi.uchicago.edu/~smiles/

Scope and Topics:
 

Many important developments are currently being made on many fronts in the spectroscopy of molecular ions using new techniques and new observatories. This symposium is planned to be a unique one in which laboratory spectroscopists, observational astronomers, theorists, and physicists and chemists in related fields will be together with plenty of time for in-depth discussions to obtain up-to-date information and discuss future developments.

Symposium 8

Organizers: Prof. Dr. Bogdan Gabrys, Bournemouth University, Poole House, Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow, Poole, Dorset, BH12 5BB, UK, Prof. Dr. Krzysztof Juszczyszyn, Institute of Computer Science, Faculty of Computer Science and Management, Wroclaw University of Technology, 27, Wyb. Wyspianskiego Str. 50-370 Wroclaw, Poland and Prof. Dr. Katarzyna Musial, Bournemouth University, Poole House, Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow, Poole, Dorset, BH12 5BB, UK

One of the most challenging areas in Knowledge Engineering are Complex Networked Systems, ranging from the infrastructure networks that include virtual and physical networks to the natural networks including biological and social systems as well as food webs. The analysis of such complex systems and networks is at the very early stages and requires a lot of effort in both developing the tools and approaches to tackle them as well as understanding the nature and functioning of such networks.

Each complex networked system consists of thousands or millions highly interconnected dynamical units whose behaviour is time-dependent, i.e. time factor cannot be neglected during analysis. The structure of complex networks is irregular, complex and constantly evolving. The organization of these networks typically implies a skewed distribution of relations with many hubs, strong heterogeneity and high clustering as well as non-trivial temporal evolution. Complex networks are inherently difficult to understand, as the following list of possible complications illustrates: (i) Structural complexity: the wiring diagrams could be an intricate tangle, (ii) Network evolution: the wiring diagram could change over time, (iii) Connection diversity: the links between nodes could have different weights, directions and signs, (iv) Dynamical complexity: the nodes could be nonlinear dynamical systems, (v) Node diversity: there could be many different types of nodes, (vi) Meta-complication: the various complications can influence each other.

The identified above challenges result in four research areas on which the
symposium will focus:

The area of complex networked systems brings together researchers and practitioners from different fields and the main goal of this symposium is to providefor these people the opportunity to share their visions, research achievementsand solutions as well as to establish worldwide cooperative research and development. At the same time, we want to provide a platform for discussing researchtopics underlying the concepts of networked systems by inviting members ofdifferent communities that share this common interest of investigating complexnetworked structures.

As the area of complex networked systems is a highly cross-disciplinary one, we aim to foster and develop sustainable collaborations between Computer Science and Informatics, Engineering, Physics, Cognitive Science and Psychology, Geographic and Environmental Science, Biology, and Health and Social Sciences This will give the opportunity to push further the discussion upon the potential of real–world complex networked systems across these communities.

Topics of interest

Symposium 9

Organizers: Dr. Christos Markides, Lecturer and Research Councils UK-Foster Wheeler Fellow in Clean Energy Processes, Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ, U.K. Telephone: +44 (0)20 759 41601.

Developments in the Energy sector are now of central interest to Government, industry, the academic community and the wider public. This Symposium will provide an opportunity for scientists and engineers to present recent advances and to discuss current problems, future needs and prospects in the areas of energy generation, distribution, storage, conversion and utilisation, as well as thermal management. Emphasis is placed on the application of computational methods to the development, analysis and optimisation of relevant processes and systems; and the design, management and assessment of energy-related programmes and schemes for increased efficiency, reduced consumption and lower emissions. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Symposium 10

Organizers: Dr. Cleo Kontoravdi, Centre for Process Systems Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemical Technology, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom and Dr. Karen M. Polizzi, Centre for Synthetic Biology and Innovation, Division of Molecular Biosciences, Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom.

The wealth of experimental information generated by the application of high-throughput technologies to biological and medical systems has led to the formation of an interdisciplinary research base that focuses on integrative approaches to data analysis and the elucidation of the underlying phenomena. The application of this systems-oriented strategy ranges from the study of complex biological processes and the use of model-based tools in biotechnology, all the way to employing computational approaches to understanding disease states. More recently, there has been increased interest in using the advances in theoretical, computational and experimental biology to rationally (re-)design biological systems using engineering principles, a field termed Synthetic Biology.

In this symposium we wish to discuss the advances in model-based research within Systems and Synthetic Biology, Systems Biotechnology and Medicine. Topics of interest include (but are not restricted to):

Symposium 11

Title: From Small Clusters to Functional Building Blocks of Novel Nanomaterials.

Recent developments on the theoretical and experimental determination of the structures and properties of small, medium and large inorganic and metallic atomic and molecular clusters

Organizers: Prof. Dr. Claude. Pouchan, Groupe de Chimie Théorique et Réactivité, ECP, IPREM UMR 5254, Université de Pau et de Pays de l’Adour, Hélioparc Pau Pyrénées 2 avenue du Président Angot, 64053 PAU Cedex 09 – France, Dr. Demetrios Xenides, Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Peloponnese, Terma Karaiskaki, GR-22100 Tripolis, Greece, Dr. Panaghiotis Karamanis, Groupe de Chimie Théorique et Réactivité, ECP, IPREM UMR 5254, Université de Pau et de Pays de l’Adour, Hélioparc Pau Pyrénées 2 avenue du Président Angot, 64053 PAU Cedex 09 - France and Prof. Dr. George. Maroulis, Computational Quantum Chemistry Research Group Department of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Patras, GR-26500 Patras, Greece

Modern technologies not only require a vast diversity of new materials with well specified properties but also materials of small size which are able to combine more than one function in the same process. In order to fulfill this demand, complex systems with special properties owed to nanoscale morphological features or components have emerged as a very appealing solution. Their potential applications are outstandingly diverse and concern both genuinely new and existing technologies which range from microelectronics, and communication, to catalysis, optics and biomedicine. This diversity is one of the main reasons of the remarkable development of the field, widely known as “nanoscience” during the last two decades.

The scientific and technological area of cluster chemistry and physics offers the prosper ground and the unique chance for both theoretical and experimental disciplines to combine their efforts. On one hand experimentalists need to explore new ways of producing in large scale crystals of high quality in the size of one billionth of a meter characterized by narrow size disparity and high emissive quantum efficiency. On the other hand, theoreticians have to try out old and new ideas aiming at a better understating of those nano-sized systems. The combination of these two disciplines is extremely vital nowadays due to the remarkable breakthroughs in the synthesis and the control of the size disparity the shape and the morphology of nanocrystalline which offer new perspectives in the research for novel materials for a wide range of technological applications.

Proposed Topics

Symposium 12

Title: Advances in Hydrogen Bond Research

Recent developments on the theoretical and experimental determination of the structures and properties of small, medium and large inorganic and metallic atomic and molecular clusters

Organizer: Professor M.J. Wojcik, Faculty of Chemistry, Jagiellonian University, 30-060 Krakow, Ingardena 3, POLAND

E-mail: Enquiries and contributions to wojcik@chemia.uj.edu.pl

Hydrogen bond plays crucial role in many areas of physics, chemistry and biology. There is a vivid research going in this area of science. The aim of this symposium is to gather leading scientists working in spectroscopic and computational aspects of hydrogen-bonded systems to share their knowledge on the state-of-the-art in this important branch of science, to present their recent scientific work, to get acquainted, to discuss matters of common interest, and to make future collaboration possible.
 

Symposium 13

Title: Molecular Switches: When Theory Meets Experiment

Organizers: Dr. Frédéric CASTET, University of Bordeaux, France and Dr. Benoît CHAMPAGNE, University of Namur, Belgium

E-mail: Enquiries and contributions to f.castet@ism.u-bordeaux1.fr and benoit.champagne@fundp.ac.be

Molecular switches are compounds, of which the properties change upon commutation between different forms as a reaction to external stimuli (change in temperature, pH, ion concentrations, pressure, light and particle irradiation). Often, this refers to photochromism, thermochromism, or acidochromism but recent investigations have also shown that the nonlinear optical properties can be tuned upon commutation. The design of such systems, and in particular organic photochromic compounds, has been motivated since several decades by their potential applications in sensing devices or in optoelectronic devices for optical information transport and storage. In this symposium, we will tackle the design of such systems by adopting a multidiciplinary approach combining preparation, experimental characterization, and theoretical modeling. Some specific details on this symposium can be find at the address http://blake.ism.u-bordeaux1.fr/~castet/iccmse2010/index.html.

Symposium 14

Title: Non-Linear Optical Properties of Matter: From Molecules to Condensed Phases

Organizers: Dr. A. Avramopoulos, Dr. M. G. Papadopoulos

E-mail: Enquiries and contributions to aavram@eie.gr and mpapad@eie.gr

One of the goals of the materials science is the development of new materials with large non-linear optical response. These materials have many applications for example, they can be used to construct devises for all optical switching, optical communications, data storage, signal processing and optical limiting. The scope of the proposed Symposium is to review the recent advances in the theoretical and computational methods related with the calculation of the linear and nonlinear optical properties (L&NLO) of derivatives, including both organic and inorganic compounds. Among the many topics of interest we note:

Symposium 15

Title: 7th Symposium on Industrial and Environmental Case Studies

Organizer: Prof. Fragiskos Batzias, Department of Industrial Management & Technology, University of Piraeus, Greece; Head of the Laboratory of Simulation of Industrial Processes and the Research Group of Systems Analysis, Karaoli & Dimitriou 80, 18534, Piraeus, Greece, Tel.: +30 210 4142369; +30 2104142368, Fax.: +30 210 4142392

E-mail: Enquiries and contributions to fbatzi@unipi.gr and csiontor@unipi.gr

This Symposium appeared for the first time within ICCMSE 2004 and continued within ICCMSE 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 with considerable success. All kinds of case studies on industrial and environmental issues are welcomed, provided that they are not solely theoretical but include or refer to some kind of computational methodology and possibly an implementation or short case examples based on real or simulated data. Practical applications are also accepted for consideration, provided that they are adequately connected with the corresponding field of Science or Engineering or Technology or Applied Informatics.

Symposium 16

Title: 2010 International Symposium on Computational Electronics

Organizers: Professor Yiming Li, Department of Electrical Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan; Dr. Shao-Ming Yu, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan

E-mail: Enquiries and contributions to ymli@ymlabcad02.eic.nctu.edu.tw (Y. Li) and smyu@mail.ymlab.org (S.-M. Yu)

This symposium is an open forum for discussion on the current trends and future directions of physical modeling, mathematical theory, and numerical algorithm in electronics. The goal is for computational scientists and engineers, computer scientists, applied mathematicians, physicists, and researchers to present their recent advances, ideas, and results, and to exchange experience in the areas of modeling, simulation, optimization and other support for problems in electronics. We welcome contributions from researchers of academia and industry. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Symposium 17

Title: 2010 International Symposium on Computational Management and Social Science

Organizers: Professor Yiming Li, Department of Electrical Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan; Assistant Professor Shih-Ching Lo, Department of Transportation Technology and Logistics Management, Chung Hua University, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan

E-mail: Enquiries and contributions to ymli@ymlabcad02.eic.nctu.edu.tw (Y. Li) and sclo@chu.edu.tw (S.-C. Lo)

This symposium provides a forum for scientists and researchers from academia and industry to exchange knowledge, ideas and results in computational aspects of social and management science. This symposium will cover theory and practice of computational methods, models and empirical analysis for decision making and forecasting in economics, finance, management, transportation, and related aspects of information and system engineering. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Symposium 18

Title: Computational Methods in Variational, Geometric and Propagation Problems

Organizer: Prof. Asher Yahalom, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Ariel University Center of Samaria, P.O.B. 3, Ariel 40700, ISRAEL

E-mail: Enquiries and contributions to asya@ariel.ac.il

Variational principles are ubiquitous in mathematical physics. It is well known that most conservative physical systems can be described by a variational principle, examples include:

mechanical systems, fluid systems, electromagnetic fields, gravitational fields and of course the combination of the above physical systems.

In most physical systems for which true variational principles are given they are used to derive the systems equations of motion and boundary & initial conditions. Those equations are then solved using analytical methods in simple cases and numerical methods in most cases. Other applications of variational principles include the derivation of constants of motion using Noether theorem or the calculations of quantum wave functions using the path integral approach.

It was shown recently that one does not need to derive the equations of motion from the fluid dynamical variational principle and solve the equations, but rather one can obtain the required flow directly from the variational principle by searching numerically for the Action extrema.

The symposium will cover computational methods which are based on the variational functional from which the equations of a physical system are derived instead of the partial differential equations of the system themselves.

Applications include all classical fields such as fluid dynamics, electromagnetic theory, magnetohydrodynamics and gravitation.

In addition we will discuss computational methods which are based on presentation of physical problems as geomtrical problems. A well known example of such an approach is general relativity in which the gravitational field is represented as a curvature of space. Recently geometrization was found to be significant in analyzing the chaotic motion of a wide ragne of physical systems. Moreover connections were found between the geometric approach and variational analysis.

Symposium 19

Title: Symposium on Computational Biology and Medicine: Networks – the Language of Life

Organizer: Prof. Dr. Danail Bonchev, Center for the Study of Biological Complexity, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284, USA

E-mail: Enquiries and contributions to dgbonchev@vcu.edu

The symposium focuses on the latest developments in systems cell biology, a rapidly developing field of computational biology and medicine. The networks of genes, proteins, RNAs, and metabolites are the most natural means for studying the functioning living cell. Contributions to network theory, network- related software, and particularly to applications of intracellular network analysis in biology and medicine are welcome.

Symposium 20

Title: Molecular Engineering and Modelling of Functional and Functionalizable Nanostructures

Organizer: Prof. Dr. Aristides D. Zdetsis, Division of Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, Department of Physics, University of Patras, GR-26500 Patras, Greece, tel.: (+30) 2610 997458, fax: (+30) 2610 997458. URL: http://moleng.physics.upatras.gr/personnel/ADZdetsis.html

E-mail: Enquiries and contributions to zdetsis@upatras.gr, zdetsis@physics.upatras.gr

Functional and/or functionalizable nanostructures, such as fullerenes and nanotubes of all kinds or nanocrystalline and nanocomposite materials, are very important for applications in (materials) science, (nano)technology, and (nano)medicine, among many others.

For all these applications, understanding at a fundamental level is very important, since nanocomposite and nanocrystalline materials exhibit a variety of unique physical and chemical properties resulting from the interplay of quantum confinement and electronic correlation. In order to design functional nanomaterials with desired properties and fabricate nanodevices with predictable behavior, it is critical to understand their structural and electronic properties on a fundamental quantum mechanical level. This could further allow for tunable manipulation of the resulting nanosystems.

Nanostructures such as core and core/shell nanocrystals, fullerenes and nanotubes of all kinds, nanowires, nanolines, nanorods, as well as synthetic, nanocomposite, porous, metal-organic framework, and semiconductor-organic framework materials, will be considered among others, and the latest developments will be discussed and analyzed in this workshop. In addition theoretical and computational techniques appropriate for large systems (such as multiscale approaches and atomistic calculations and simulations) as well as theoretical, computational, or even experimental works related (directly or indirectly) with these topics are welcome.