Important dates (all at 23:59 CET)

August 6, 2017	Paper submission
August 10, 2017	Paper submission - EXTENDED -
September 6, 2017	Notification of paper acceptance or rejection
September 11, 2017	Notification of paper acceptance or rejection
September 16, 2017	Final version of the paper for the LNCS proceedings
September 16, 2017	Early registration
September 20, 2017	Early registration
November 11, 2017	Poster submission
November 19, 2017	Poster notification
December 4, 2017	Late registration
March 20, 2018 April 3, 2018	Submission to the post-conference journal special issue

Publications

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

Time-limited free online access. Volume will be available until 20th January 2018 here. A special issue of BioSystems (Elsevier, 2015 JCR impact factor: 1.495) 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.

Acknowledgements

Akademie věd České republiky

Univerzita Karlova v Praze


La universitat pública de Tarragona

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Organized by

• Institute of Computer Science. Czech Academy of Sciences.
• Faculty of Mathematics and Physics. Charles 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 2017 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 2017 will take place in Prague, whose historic centre is UNESCO World Heritage Site and which is home to famous attractions like the Prague Castle, the Charles Bridge, etc. The venue will be:

Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Charles University
Malostranské náměstí 25
118 00 Praha 1

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 2017 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, graphics, 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://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tpnc2017

Registration

The registration form can be found here.