3^rd International Conference on the
Theory and Practice of Natural Computing
TPNC 2014

Proceedings available online as volume LNCS 8890.
Information about it at http://www.springer.com/978-3-319-13748-3 or access the online version.

Organised by

• Soft Computing and Intelligent Information Systems (SCI²S) , University of Granada
• Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC), Rovira i Virgili University

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 2014 will reserve significant room for young scholars at the beginning of their career. It 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 2014 will take place in Granada, in the region of Andalucía, to the south of Spain. The city is the seat of a rich Islamic historical legacy, including the Moorish citadel and palace called Alhambra.

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, economics, 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.

Structure of the Conference

TPNC 2014 will consist of

• invited talks
• invited tutorials
• peer-reviewed contributions

Submission

Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research.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) and should be prepared according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS series. Submissions have to be uploaded to: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tpnc2014.

Registration

The registration form can be found here.

We kindly ask all the participants to register, including invited persons and members of the organising committee.