European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics
www.ercim.org
Number 64, January 2006
Special:
Emergent
Computing
Joint ERCIM Actions:
‘Beyond the Horizon’
Anticipating Future and
Emerging Information
Society Technologies
European Scene:
Routes to
Open Access
Publishing

2CONTENTS
Next issue: April 2006 — Special theme: Space ExplorationERCIM News No. 64, January 2006
JOINT ERCIM ACTIONS
4 Fourth ERCIM Soft Computing Workshop
by Petr Hajek, Institute of Computer Science, Academy of
Sciences / CRCIM, Czech Republic
4 Cor Baayen Award 2006
5 Second ERCIM Workshop ‘Rapid Integration of Software
Engineering Techniques’
by Nicolas Guelfi, University of Luxembourg
5 Grid@Asia: European-Asian Cooperation
in Grid Research and Technology
by Bruno Le Dantec , ERCIM Office
6 GFMICS 2005 — 10th International Workshop on Formal
Methods for Industrial Critical Systems
by Mieke Massink and Tiziana Margaria
Beyond-The-Horizon Project
7 Bits, Atoms and Genes Beyond the Horizon
by Dimitris Plexousakis, ICS-FORTH, Greece
8 Thematic Group 1:
Pervasive Computing and Communications
by Alois Ferscha, University of Linz, Austria
9 Thematic Group 2:
Nanoelectronics and Nanotechnologies
by Colin Lambert, University of Lancaster, UK
9 Thematic Group 3:
Security, Dependability and Trust
by Michel Riguidel, ENST-Paris, France
10 Thematic Group 4:
Bio-ICT Synergies
by Fernando Martin-Sanchez, Institute of Health Carlos III, Madrid
Spain
11 Thematic Group 5:
Intelligent and Cognitive Systems
by Rolf Pfeifer and Alois Knoll, University of Zurich, Switzerland
12 Thematic Group 6:
Software Intensive Systems
by Martin Wirsing, Universität Munchen, Germany
13 Quantum Information Processing and Communication
Preparation for FP7 in Future and Emerging Technologies
Unit, DG INFSO, European Commission
NEWS FROM W3C
14 The Web on the Move
14 W3C to Internationalize and Secure Voice Browsing
15 W3C Workshop: ‘Toward a More Secure Web’
15 W3C Seminar on Web Services and Semantics
15 Latest W3C Recommendations
15 W3C Continues ICANN Participation
THE EUROPEAN SCENE
The Routes to Open Access
16 Open Access: An Introduction
by Keith G Jeffery, Director IT, CCLRC and ERCIM president
18 Publish or Perish — Self-Archive to Flourish: The Green
Route to Open Access
by Stevan Harnad, University of Southampton, UK
19 The G lden Route to Open Access
by Jan Velterop
Director of Open Access, Springer
20 ERCIM Statement on Open Access
21 Managing Licenses in an Open Access Community
by Renato Iannella National ICT Australia
22 W3C at the Forefront of Open Access
by Rigo Wenning, W3C
23 Cream of Science
by Wout r Mettrop, CWI, The Netherlands
SPECIAL THEME:
EMERGENT COMPUTING
24 Introduction to the Special Theme
by Heather J. Ruskin and Ray Walshe, Dublin City University/IUA,
Ireland
Invited article:
26 Swarm-Based Space Exploration
by Michael G. Hinchey, Roy Sterritt, Christopher A. Rouff,
James L. Rash and Walt Truszkowski
Invited article:
27 Collective Intelligence and Evolution
by Akira Namatame, Akir Namatame, National Defense
Academy, Japan
Invited article:
28 Evolving Game-Playing Strategies
with Genetic Programming
by Moshe Sipper, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
30 Collaborative Online Development
of Modular Intelligent Agents
by Ciarán O’Leary, Dublin Institute of Technology, Mark Humphrys
and Ray Walshe, Dublin City University/IUA, Ireland
31 CE-Ants: Ant-Like Agents for Path Management in the Next-
Generation Internet
by Otto Wittner and Bjarne E. Helvik, NTNU, Norway
33 ISEE – A Framework for the Evolution
and Analysis of Recurrent Neural Networks
for Embodied Agents
by Martin Hülse, Steffen Wischmann, and Keyan Zahedi,
Fraunhofer Institute for Autonomous Intelligent Systems – AIS,
Fraunhofer ICT Group, Germany
34 Emergent Intelligence
in Competitive Multi-Agent Systems
by Sander M. Bohte, Han La Poutré, CWI, The Netherlands
35 Building a Computational Digital Economy through
Interdisciplinary Research
by Petros Kavassalis, University of Crete, Greece,
and Konstantin Popov, Konstantin Popov SICS, Sweden
37 Models of Multilateral Cooperative Behaviour
by Milan Mareš Institute of Information Theory and Automation,
Academy of Sciences / CRCIM, Czech Republic
38 Emergent Walking Behaviour in an Aibo Robot
by Cecilio Angulo, Ricardo A. Téllez and Diego E. Pardo,
Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) / SpaRCIM, Spain
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