This workshop will take place within the 25th International Conference on Applications and Theory of Petri Nets (ICATPN'04)
Concurrency in inherently related to distributed control. The abstract models of many concurrent systems consist of graphs that represent the underlying structure and tokens that mimic the dynamic behaviour. Petri nets, Kahn process networks, Boolean dataflow networks, cellular automata, etc, are some popular examples. The current technological trends have also had a tangible impact in the computational models and real-life applications: global computing, mobile computing, globally-asynchronous locally-synchronous systems, nano and quantum computing. This workshop is an attempt to gather researchers from different areas of Computer Science and Engineering that use Token Based Computing models in their systems.
This workshop will include one invited talk:
Dr. Ferdinand Peper, Senior researcher at Nanotechnology group of Communications Research Laboratory (CRL), Kobe, and Visiting professor at Himeji Institute of Technology, Himeji | |
Abstract: | While the ongoing development of nanotechnology is expected to lead to extremely powerful computers, it is likely to require new computer designs. This talk focusses on designs employing signals in the form of tokens that are passed around asynchronously. Not needing a central clock, such designs promise decreased heat dissipation, which is especially advantageous at high integration densities. Examples given include cascades of interacting elements, which behave like rows of domino stones toppling each other, and asynchronous cellular automata implementing such cascades. Cellular automata have attracted increasing attention for implementations by nanotechnology because of their regularity, which facilitates assembly by chemical synthesis in a self-organized way. |
e-mail : tobaco04@lsi.upc.es
Important Dates: |
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Paper Submission:
Notification: Final Version: Workshop: |
March 14, 2004
April 19, 2004 May 17, 2004 June 22, 2004 |
Further information:
Announcements of Events on the Petri Net WWW pages:
http://www.daimi.au.dk/PetriNets/annce
Petri Nets'04 web pages:
http://www.cs.unibo.it/atpn2004/
Workshop (this) web page:
http://www.lsi.upc.es/~jordicf/tobaco04