Important dates (all at 23:59 CET)

July 29, 2018	Paper submission
August 5	Paper submission - EXTENDED -
September 7, 2018	Notification of paper acceptance or rejection
September 14, 2018	Final version of the paper for the LNCS proceedings
September 14, 2018	Early registration
November 28, 2018	Late registration
March 14, 2019	Submission to the journal special issue
March 29, 2019	EXTENDED Submission to the journal special issue

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 Soft Computing (Springer, 2016 JCR impact factor: 2.472) 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.

https://link.springer.com/journal/500

Acknowledgments

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Co-organized by

• Natural Computing Research & Applications Group, School of Business, University College Dublin
• Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice, Brussels/London

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 2018 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 2018 will take place in Dublin, a major historical and contemporary centre for education, arts, administration, economy and industry. The venue will be:

Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School
University College Dublin
Carysfort Avenue
Blackrock
Co. Dublin
Website: http://www.smurfitschool.ie/

Scope

Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Theoretical contributions to
• artificial chemistry
• artificial immune systems
• artificial life
• cellular automata
• cognitive computing
• cognitive engineering
• cognitive robotics
• collective behaviour
• complex systems
• computational intelligence
• computational social science
• computing with words
• developmental systems
• DNA computing
• DNA nanotechnology
• evolutionary algorithms
• evolutionary computing
• evolutionary game theory
• fractal geometry
• fuzzy control
• fuzzy logic
• fuzzy sets
• fuzzy systems
• genetic algorithms
• genetic programming
• granular computing
• heuristics
• intelligent agents
• intelligent systems
• machine intelligence
• metaheuristics
• molecular programming
• multiobjective optimization
• neural computing
• neural networks
• quantum communication
• quantum computing
• rough sets
• self-assembly
• self-organization
• social computing
• social simulation
• soft computing
• 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 2018 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 (all included) 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=tpnc2018

Registration

The registration form can be found here.