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LNCS 7505 is now available online. You can find information about it at http://www.springeronline.com/978-3-642-33859-5 or access the online version at http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-3-642-33859-5.

FEBRUARY 5, 2013, Journal version paper submission extended!

CALL FOR POSTERS

The 1st International Conference on the Theory and Practice of Natural Computing (TPNC 2012) invites authors to submit poster presentations. TPNC 2012 will be held in Tarragona (Spain) on 2-4 October, 2012. Poster presentations are intended to enhance informal interactions with the conference participants, at the same time permitting in-depth discussion.

TOPICS

We encourage authors to submit presentations that discuss novel work in progress on:

• nature-inspired models of computation
• synthesis of nature by means of computation
• nature-inspired materials
• information processing in nature
• applications of natural computing

Posters do not need to present final research results. Work that is being developed and may lead to new interesting ideas is welcome.

SUBMISSION

Please submit an abstract through: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tpnc2012.

The abstract should contain the title, author(s) and detailed affiliation, and should not exceed 500 words.

PRESENTATION

Posters will be allocated 10 minutes each in the programme for oral presentation. Moreover, they will remain hanging during the whole conference for discussion.

PUBLICATION

Posters will not be published in the LNCS proceedings volume of TPNC 2012. However, there will be a specific section in the LNCS proceedings volume of TPNC 2013 reserved for those accepted papers that derive from 2012 posters.

REGISTRATION

Authors of accepted posters have to register to the conference. Their registration fare, however, will be very reduced: 135 Euro (one third of the early fare for PhD students).

CALL FOR PAPERS

AIMS

TPNC is the first event in a series to cover the wide spectrum of computational principles, models and techniques inspired by information processing in nature. TPNC 2012 will reserve significant room for young scholars at the beginning of their career. It aims at attracting contributions about nature-inspired models of computation, synthesizing nature by means of computation, nature-inspired materials, and information processing in nature.

VENUE

TPNC 2012 will take place in Tarragona, less than 100 kms. to the south of Barcelona.

SCOPE

Topics of either theoretical, experimental or applied interest include, but are not limited to:

• Nature-inspired models of computation
  • amorphous computing
  • cellular automata
  • chaos and dynamical systems based computing
  • evolutionary computing
  • membrane computing
  • neural computing
  • optical computing
  • swarm intelligence
• Synthesizing nature by means of computation
  • artificial chemistry
  • artificial immune systems
  • artificial life
• Nature-inspired materials
  • computing with DNA
  • nanocomputing
  • physarum computing
  • quantum computing and quantum information
  • reaction-diffusion computing
• Information processing in nature
  • developmental systems 
  • fractal geometry
  • gene assembly in unicellular organisms
  • rough/fuzzy computing in nature
  • synthetic biology
  • systems biology
• Applications of natural computing to: algorithms, bioinformatics, control, cryptography, design, economy, graphics, hardware, learning, logistics, optimization, pattern recognition, programming, robotics, telecommunications etc.

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

SUBMISSIONS

Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (including eventual appendices) and should be formatted according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS series. Submissions have to be uploaded at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tpnc2012. Download the file llncs2e.zip. All the instructions for the layout of the paper are given within.

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 extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation.

REGISTRATION

The period for registration is open from February 25 to October 1, 2012. The registration form can be found here.

• Early registration fees: 500 Euro
• Early registration fees (PhD students): 400 Euro
• Late registration fees: 540 Euro
• Late registration fees (PhD students): 440 Euro
• On-site registration fees: 580 Euro
• On-site registration fees (PhD students): 480 Euro

At least one author per paper should register. Papers that do not have a registered author who paid the fees by July 1, 2012 will be excluded from the proceedings.

Fees comprise access to all sessions, one copy of the proceedings volume, coffee breaks and lunches. PhD students will need to prove their status on site.

PAYMENT

Early (resp. late) registration fees must be paid by bank transfer before July 1, 2012 (resp. September 21, 2012) to the
conference bank account:
Uno-e Bank
bank's address: Julian Camarillo 4 C, 28037 Madrid, Spain
IBAN: ES3902270001820201823142
SWIFT/BIC code: UNOEESM1
account holder: Carlos Martín-Vide GRLMC
account holder's address: Av. Catalunya 35, 43002 Tarragona, Spain.

Please mention TPNC 2012 and your name in the subject. A receipt will be provided on site.

Remarks:

• Bank transfers should not involve any expense for the conference.
• People claiming early registration will be requested to prove that the bank transfer order was carried out by the deadline.

People registering on site must pay in cash. For the sake of local organization, however, it is much recommended to do it earlier.

Besides paying the registration fees, it is required to fill in the registration form at the website of the conference.