• Call for posters: submission deadline November 9
• Program announced
• The proceedings of TPNC2016 are available at http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-49001-4

Organized by

• Cyberscience Center, Tohoku University
• 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 2016 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 2016 will take place in Sendai, in the northeast (Tohoku) region of Japan. The city was founded in 1600 and is nicknamed the "city of trees". It is the second largest city north of Tokyo. It takes about 100 minutes to reach Sendai from Tokyo by bullet train (Shinkansen). The venue will be the Cyberscience Center, Aobayama Campus, Tohoku University:

Scope

Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Theoretical contributions to
• amorphous computing
• ant colonies
• artificial chemistry
• artificial immune systems
• artificial life
• bacterial foraging
• cellular automata
• chaos computing
• collision-based computing
• complex adaptive systems
• computing with DNA
• computing with words and perceptions
• developmental systems
• evolutionary computing
• fractal geometry
• fuzzy logic
• gene assembly in ciliates
• granular computing
• intelligent systems
• in-vivo computing
• membrane computing
• nanocomputing
• neural computing
• optical computing
• physarum machines
• quantum computing
• quantum information
• reaction-diffusion systems
• rough sets
• self-organizing systems
• swarm intelligence
• synthetic biology
• Applications of natural computing to
• algorithmics
• 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 of the Conference

TPNC 2016 will consist of

• invited talks
• peer-reviewed contributions
• posters

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, references, proofs, etc.) and should be prepared according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS series.

Submissions have to be uploaded to:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tpnc2016

Registration

The registration form can be found here.