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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">MCU 2026 - FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">11th Conference on Machines, Computations and Universality</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">Trier, Germany, July 27–29, 2026</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">Co-located with CiE 2026</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">We invite submissions to MCU 2026, the 11th edition of the
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International Conference on Machines, Computations and Universality. <br>
The MCU series focuses on fundamental aspects of computation and <br>
universality across a wide range of computational models.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">IMPORTANT DATES<br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">Submission deadline: May 10, 2026 (AoE, strict)<br>
Notification: June 15, 2026<br>
Final version: August 15, 2026<br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">SUBMISSION<br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mcu2026<br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">ABOUT MCU<br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">The MCU conference series, initiated in Paris in 1995, has a long tradition
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of exploring the nature of computation and universality. Previous editions <br>
were held in Metz (1998), Chișinău (2001), St. Petersburg (2004), <br>
Orléans (2007), Zurich (2013), Famagusta (2015), Fontainebleau (2018), <br>
Debrecen (2022), and Nice (2024).<br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">The 2026 edition will take place at Trier University, Germany.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%; background: #ffffff"><font color="#000000"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt">SCOPE<br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%; background: #ffffff"><font color="#000000"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt">MCU 2026 welcomes contributions on theoretical and interdisciplinary
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aspects of computation, including (but not limited to):<br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%; background: #ffffff"><font color="#000000"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt">Discrete models: Turing machines, automata, grammars, cellular
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automata, tile assembly systems, rewriting systems</font></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%; background: #ffffff"><font color="#000000"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt">Analog and hybrid models: BSS machines, real computation,<br>
infinite-time models, quantum computing</font></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%; background: #ffffff"><font color="#000000"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt">Natural and emerging computation: molecular computing,<br>
neural models, membrane systems, swarm intelligence</font></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%; background: #ffffff"><font color="#000000"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt">Foundations: computability, complexity, decidability,<br>
universality, and their limits</font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt">Special emphasis is placed on:</font></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%; background: #ffffff"><font color="#000000"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt">Boundaries between decidability and undecidability</font></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%; background: #ffffff"><font color="#000000"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt">Minimal and universal computational models</font></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%; background: #ffffff"><font color="#000000"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt">Predictability and complexity of computational processes</font></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%"><font color="#000000"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt">TOPICS OF INTEREST<br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">Topics of interest include, but are not limited to</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">Analog and continuous computation</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">Automata theory</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">Cellular automata</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">Computability theory and degree structures</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">Computable structures and models</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">Decidability of theories</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">DNA computing, self-assembly and tiling</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">Dynamical systems and computational models</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">Emerging and non-standard models of computation</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">Finite model theory</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">Generalized recursion theory</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">Higher type computability</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">Hyper-computational models</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">Infinite time Turing machines</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">Membrane computing</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">Molecular computation</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">Morphogenesis and developmental biology</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">Multi-agent systems models</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">Natural computation and hybrid systems</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">Neural nets and connectionist models</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">Physics and computability</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">Proof theory and computability</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">Quantum computing and information</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">Randomness and Kolmogorov complexity</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">Relativistic computation</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">Swarm intelligence and self-organisation</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">Theory of Petri nets</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">Turing, Counter, Register, Signal machines</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">Universality of systems</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">PROGRAM CHAIRS<br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">Henning Fernau (Trier University, Germany)</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%"><span lang="fr-FR">Serghei Verlan (University Paris-Est Créteil, France)</span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">INVITED SPEAKERS<br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">Martin Kutrib (University of Gießen, Germany)</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%"><span lang="fr-FR">Olivier Bournez (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France) - tutorial at CiE.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">Joint CiE special session “At the Borderline of Universality”:</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">Artiom Alhazov, State University of Moldova</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">Matthew Cook, University of Groningen</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%"><span lang="fr-FR">Gemma De les Coves, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona</span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">Victor Mitrana, University of Bucharest</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. We expect non-anonymous submissions up to 15 pages in LNCS format, including all content except for an optional
appendix (read at the discretion of the PC); alternatively, include a link to an arXiv version.
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">Accepted papers will appear in the Springer LNCS volume of MCU.
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">A selection of papers will further be invited to a Special Issue of a journal.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">Submission link:</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mcu2026</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%; background: #ffffff"><font color="#000000"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt">PROGRAM COMMITTEE</font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">Artiom Alhazov (State University of Moldova, Moldova)</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">Péter Battyányi (University of Debrecen, Hungary)</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">Song Bosheng (Hunan University, China)</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%"><span lang="fr-FR">Olivier Bournez (Ecole Polytechnique, France)</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">Erzsébet Csuhaj-Varjú (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary)</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">Jérôme Durand-Lose (University of Orléans, France)</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%"><span lang="fr-FR">Rudi Freund (TU Wien, Austria)</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">Daniela Genova (University of North Florida, USA)</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">Dora Giammarresi (Tor Vergata University of Rome, Italy)</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">Mika Hirvensalo (University of Turku, Finland)</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">Jarkko Kari (University of Turku, Finland)</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">Lila Kari (University of Waterloo, Canada)</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">Tomas Masopust (University of Olomouc, Czech Republic)</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">Benedek Nagy (Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta, North Cyprus)</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">Matthew Patitz (University of Arkansas, USA)</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">Simon Perdrix (INRIA, France)</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">Agustín Riscos-Núnez (University of Seville, Spain)</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">Shinnosuke Seki (University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan)</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">KG Subramanian (Liverpool Hope University, UK)</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">György Vaszil (University of Debrecen, Hungary)</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%">Tomoyuki Yamakami (University of Fukui, Japan)</p>
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