Monday 4 July: Information in Physics and Chemistry. Data Banks and Data Mining.

• 8h30-9h15: Welcome - Registration
  
• 9h15-9h30: Introduction and Opening.
  
• 9h30-10h15: Hans Christian von Baeyer
  Information as Physical Reality: A new fundamental principle proposed by Anton Zeilinger
• 10h15-10h45: John Collier
  Generalizing Entropy and Information Concepts
• 10h45-11h15: Hans H. Diebner^* and Ichiro Tsuda
  Fundamental Interfaciology: Indistinguishability and Time's arrow
• 11h15-11h30: Pause
• 11h30-12h: Andrei Khrennikov
  From Classical Statistical Model to Quantum Model through Ignorance of Information
• 12h-12h30: György Darvas
  On the velocity of information transmission and physical actions
• 12h30-14h: Lunch
• 14h-14h45: Peter Willett
  Chemoinformatics Techniques For Data Mining in Files of Two-Dimensional and Three-Dimensional Chemical Molecules
• 14h45-15h15: Shu-Kun Lin
  What is Information? It is the Amount of Compressed Data
• 15h15-15h45: Enzo Tiezzi^*, Nadia Marchettini, and Elisa B. Tiezzi
  Information and Negentropy: A Basis for Ecoinformatics
• 15h45-16h: Pause
• 16h-16h45: Philippe Jauffret^* and Claude Laurenço
  Chemical Information in Organic Synthesis: from Data to Knowledge
• 16h45-17h15: Ana G. Maldonado^*, Bo Tao Fan, and Michel Petitjean
  Using XML for structuring the chemical information: Towards a chemical knowledge representation
  Lecture dedicated to the memory of Jacques-Emile Dubois
• 17h15-17h45: Francis Muguet
  Entropy in Water

Tuesday 5 July: Neural Information, Bioinformation and Bioinformatics, Biosemiotics, Information and the Codes of Life, Genomics, Biomedical Applications, Ecology.

• 9h00-9h45: Jean-Pierre Rospars
  Information from molecules: a pluridisciplinary approach to the sense of smell
• 9h45-10h15: Harry Erwin
  Wiederoriententierung in Bats and the Nature of Animal Consciousness
• 10h15-10h45: Jerry Chandler
  Existential Logic and the Origins of Chemical and Biological Information
• 10h45-11h: Pause
• 11h-11h45: Péter Érdi
  Neural information processing: normal and pathological
• 11h45-12h15: Andrei Igamberdiev
  The computation power of living systems is maintained by decoherence-free internal quantum states
• 12h15-12h45: Koichiro Matsuno
  Glue, Memory, and Quantum Biology
  Lecture dedicated to the memory of Ray Paton
• 12h45-14h: Lunch
• 14h-14h45: Bernd-Olaf Küppers
  Information and the Origin of Life
• 14h45-15h15: Toshiyuki Nakajima
  Internal entropy as a measure of the amount of disorder
• 15h15-15h45: Gabriella Salzano^* and Christian Bourret
  Identification and Composition of Metadata for Cooperative Information Systems.
• 15h45-16h: Pause
• 16h-16h45: Yukio-Pegio Gunji^*, Taichi Haruna and Igor Balaz
  Extended Pain as Margin to Paste up to Future
• 16h45-17h15: Christophe Menant
  Information and Meaning in Life, Humans and Robots
• 17h15-17h45: Pedro Marijuán
  Information and the biological creation of knowledge
  Lecture dedicated to the memory of Michael Conrad

Wednesday 6 July: Global Mathematical Aspects of Information: Information Theory and Its Applications, Networks, Symmetry, Agency, Semiotics.

• 9h00-9h45: Kevin G. Kirby
  State Translation and Geometries of Information and Belief
• 9h45-10h15: Rémi Léandre
  Stochastic Poisson-sigma model
  Random spheres as a 1+1 dimensional field theory
• 10h15-10h45: Federico Flückiger
  Mathematical Foundation of Information Theory. A Set Theoretical Approach
• 10h45-11h: Pause
• 11h-11h30: Julio Stern
  Cognitive Constructivism, Eigen-Solutions and Statistical Hypotheses
• 11h30-12h: Pavel O. Luksha
  Memory as Producer of Subjective Time and Space in Complex Systems
• 12h-12h30: Jürgen Van de Walle
  The inadequacy of the classical information measurement for linguistic meaning: a historical analysis
• 12h30-14h: Lunch
• 14h-14h30: Jim Cogswell
  Definite Article
• 14h30-16h: Round Table: Interdisciplinary Teaching and Information Science
• 16h-16h15: Pause
• 16h15h-17h45: Posters Session.

Thursday 7 July: Trends in Information and Communication Sciences. Open Access and the Information Society. Economic, Social and Philosophical Aspects.

• 9h00-9h45: Elizabeth Longworth
  The significance of Open Access for building knowledge societies
• 9h45-10h15: Marcin Jan Schroeder
  Philosophical Foundations for the Concept of Information: Selective and Structural Information
• 10h15-10h45: Miriam Vieira da Cunha
  Information Science: Interfaces and Limits
• 10h45-11h: Pause
• 11h-11h30: Antonio M. Ruiz Mariscal
  To Measure what Information is Measurable
• 11h30-12h: Yves F. Le Coadic
  Scientific principles in information science and technology
• 12h-12h30: Wolfgang Hofkirchner
  Beyond the third culture! science in the information age
  Lecture dedicated to the memory of Tom Stonier
• 12h30-14h: Lunch
• 14h-14h30: Dail Doucette
  Toward a New Science of Information
• 14h30-15h: Argyris Arnellos^*, Thomas Spyrou, and John Darzentas
  The emergence of Interactive Meaning Processes in Autonomous Systems
• 15h-15h30: Christian Fuchs
  Knowledge and Society from the Perspective of the Unified Theory of Information (UTI) Approach
• 15h30-16h: Soren Brier
  The Cybersemiotic model of communication: An evolutionary view on the threshold between semiosis and informational exchange
• 16h-16h15: Pause
• 16h15-16h45: Jesper Hoffmeyer
  Semiosis and relative being
• 16h45-17h15: Charbel El-hani^*, Claus Emmeche, Wolfgang Hofkirchner, and João Queiroz
  A Peircean Account of Oeinformation and its Critical Appraisal from the Perspective of Information Theory
• 17h15-17h45: Ted Goranson
  Introspective Abstraction: An Inalienable Foundation for Information Science
• 17h45-18h: Conclusion and Closure.
• Evening: gala party

Péter Érdi (Kalamazoo College, Michigan, USA; and KFKI RMKI, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest)
Yukio-Pegio Gunji (University of Kobe, Japan)
Philippe Jauffret (ENSCM, Montpellier, France)
Kevin Kirby (Northern Kentucky University, USA)
Bernd-Olaf Küppers (University of Jena, Germany)
Elizabeth Longworth (UNESCO)
Jean-Pierre Rospars (INRA, Versailles, France)
Hans Christian von Baeyer (William and Mary College, Virginia, USA)
Peter Willett (University of Sheffield, UK)

Friday 7 July - Sunday 10 July: Arts and Science in the Information Society