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4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF NATURAL COMPUTING

TPNC 2015

Mieres, Spain

December 15-17, 2015

Organized by:

European Centre for Soft Computing

Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University

http://grammars.grlmc.com/TPNC2015/

AIMS:

TPNC is a conference series intending to cover the wide spectrum of computational principles, models and techniques inspired by information processing in nature. TPNC 2015 will reserve significant room for young scholars at the beginning of their career and particular focus will be put on methodology. The conference aims at attracting contributions to nature-inspired models of computation, synthesizing nature by means of computation, nature-inspired materials, and information processing in nature.

VENUE:

TPNC 2015 will take place in Mieres, in the north of Spain. The city is the heart of the coal mining industry in the country, today declining. The venue will be the European Centre for Soft Computing:

http://www.softcomputing.es/

SCOPE:

Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Theoretical contributions to:

amorphous computing bacterial foraging cellular automata chaos and dynamical systems based computing evolutionary computing membrane computing neural computing optical computing swarm intelligence

artificial chemistry artificial immune systems artificial life complex adaptive systems self-organizing systems

computing with DNA nanocomputing physarum computing quantum computing and quantum information reaction-diffusion computing

computing with words developmental systems fractal geometry gene assembly in unicellular organisms granular computation intelligent systems rough/fuzzy computing in nature synthetic biology

• Applications of natural computing to:

algorithms bioinformatics control cryptography design economics graphics hardware human-computer interaction knowledge discovery learning logistics medicine natural language processing optimization pattern recognition planning and scheduling programming robotics telecommunications web intelligence

A flexible "theory to/from practice" approach would be the perfect focus for the expected contributions.

STRUCTURE:

TPNC 2015 will consist of:

• invited talks
• invited tutorials
• peer-reviewed contributions

INVITED SPEAKERS:

(to be completed)

John A. Smolin (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights), tba

Guy Theraulaz (Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse), Stigmergic Interactions and 3D Nest Construction in Ant Colonies

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

Hussein Abbass (University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia) Andrew Adamatzky (University of the West of England, Bristol, UK) Humberto Bustince (Public University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain) Pei-Chann Chang (Yuan Ze University, Taoyuan, Taiwan) Shyi-Ming Chen (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan) Óscar Cordón (University of Granada, Spain) Swagatam Das (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India) Gianni Di Caro (Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Lugano, Switzerland) Tharam Dillon (La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia) Agoston E. Eiben (VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands) János Fodor (Óbuda University, Budapest, Hungary) Fernando Gomide (University of Campinas, Brazil) Maoguo Gong (Xidian University, Xi'an, China) Salvatore Greco (Universiy of Catania, Italy) Jin-Kao Hao (University of Angers, France) Francisco Herrera (University of Granada, Spain) Robert John (University of Nottingham, UK) Fakhri Karray (University of Waterloo, Canada) László T. Kóczy (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary) Rudolf Kruse (University of Magdeburg, Germany) José A. Lozano (University of the Basque Country, Donostia, Spain) Jianquan Lu (Southeast University, Nanjing, China) Vittorio Maniezzo (University of Bologna, Italy) Carlos Martín-Vide (Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain, chair) Ujjwal Maulik (Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India) Marjan Mernik (University of Maribor, Slovenia) Radko Mesiar (Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovakia) Risto Miikkulainen (University of Texas, Austin, USA) Tal Mor (Technion, Haifa, Israel) Vilém Novák (University of Ostrava, Czech Republic) Sankar K. Pal (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India) Günther Palm (Ulm University, Germany) Linqiang Pan (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China) Lech Polkowski (Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology, Warsaw, Poland) Dan Ralescu (University of Cincinnati, USA) Friedrich Simmel (Technical University of Munich, Germany) Guy Theraulaz (Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France) Vicenç Torra (University of Skövde, Sweden) José Luis Verdegay (University of Granada, Spain) David Wolpert (Santa Fe Institute, USA) Ronald R. Yager (Iona College, New Rochelle, USA) Shengxiang Yang (De Montfort University, Leicester, UK) Xin-She Yang (Middlesex University, London, UK) Hao Ying (Wayne State University, Detroit, USA) Mingsheng Ying (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia) Mengjie Zhang (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) Qingfu Zhang (City University of Hong Kong, China) William Zhu (Minnan Normal University, Zhangzhou, China) Marek Żukowski (University of Gdansk, Poland)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Luis Magdalena (Mieres, co-chair) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona)

SUBMISSIONS:

Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (including eventual appendices, references, proofs, etc.) and should be prepared according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).

Submissions have to be uploaded to:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tpnc2015

PUBLICATIONS:

A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series will be available by the time of the conference.

A special issue of a major journal will be later published containing peer-reviewed substantially extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation.

REGISTRATION:

The registration form can be found at:

http://grammars.grlmc.com/TPNC2015/Registration.php

DEADLINES:

Paper submission: July 27, 2015 (23:59h, CET) - EXTENDED - Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: August 28, 2015 Final version of the paper for the LNCS proceedings: September 4, 2015 Early registration: September 4, 2015 Late registration: December 1, 2015 Submission to the post-conference journal special issue: March 17, 2016

QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:

florentinalilica.voicu(a)urv.cat

POSTAL ADDRESS:

TPNC 2015 Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain

Phone: +34 977 559 543 Fax: +34 977 558 386

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

European Centre for Soft Computing Universitat Rovira i Virgili