DCM 2010 aims to provide a forum for ideas about new computing means and models, with a particular emphasis this year on computational and causal models related to physics and biology. We believe that bringing together different approaches - in a community with the strong foundational background characteristic of FLoC - will result in inspirational cross-boundary exchanges, and innovative further research.

Day two of this pre-FLoC 2010 workshop will be given over to physics and quantum related computation. The content of day one will be more typical of past DCM workshops - covering a full spectrum of topics related to the development of new computational models or new features for traditional computational models. DCM 2010 will foster interactions, and provide a forum for presenting new ideas and work in progress. We also aim to enable newcomers to learn about current activities in this area.

Submission:

Please submit an extended abstract of your talk (maximum 12 pages) via the EasyChair DCM 2010 submission page. Those papers accepted will be published in the EPTCS online pre-proceedings of DCM 2010.
All accepted authors will be eligible to submit a full version of their paper to a special issue of Mathematical Structures in Computer Science (MSCS).

Invited speakers:

• Gérard Berry (INRIA, Sophia Antipolis): Special Invited Evening Talk
  
  

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• Cristian Calude (joint with Alastair Abbott) (Auckland, New Zealand): Understanding the Quantum Computational Speed-up via De-quantisation
• Lucien Hardy (Perimeter Institute, Canada): Operational Computing with Quantum Stuff
• Russ Harmer (Paris/Harvard): Rule-based Modeling: Theory and Practice
• Gordon Plotkin (joint with Nicolas Oury) (Edinburgh): Hierarchical Petri Nets
• Vlatko Vedral (Oxford): Phase Estimation with Mixed States: Quantum Coherence versus Correlations

All DCM 2010 talks will be in Room G.07A of the Informatics Forum, in the Central Area campus of the University of Edinburgh

QUISCO Quantum Information Science Scotland (QUISCO) will be organising the second day of DCM 2010, with support from SUPA, SICSA and plenty of interested local physicists to help the organisation and also to promote the meeting to a wider base. The QUISCO day is chaired by Elham Kashefi.