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 2020 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.
Previous events took place in Tarragona, Cáceres, Granada, Mieres, Sendai, Prague, Dublin and Kingston.
VENUE
TPNC 2020 will take place in Taoyuan, in northwestern Taiwan, neighboring Taipei and home to many industrial parks and tech company headquarters. The venue will be:
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STRUCTURE
TPNC 2020 will consist of:
- invited talks
- peer-reviewed contributions
- posters
SCOPE
Topics include, but are not limited to:
Theoretical contributions to:
- — affective computing
- — ambient intelligence
- — ant colony optimization
- — approximate reasoning
- — artificial immune systems
- — artificial life
- — cellular automata
- — cognitive computing
- — cognitive robotics
- — collective intelligence
- — combinatorial optimization
- — computational intelligence
- — computing with words
- — developmental systems
- — DNA computing
- — evolutionary algorithms
- — evolutionary computing
- — evolutionary game theory
- — fuzzy logic
- — fuzzy sets
- — fuzzy systems
- — genetic algorithms
- — genetic programming
- — global optimization
- — granular computing
- — heuristics
- — intelligent agents
- — intelligent control
- — intelligent manufacturing
- — intelligent systems
- — intelligent user interfaces
- — machine intelligence
- — membrane computing
- — metaheuristics
- — molecular programming
- — multiobjective optimization
- — neural networks
- — quantum communication
- — quantum computing
- — quantum information
- — quantum metrology
- — rough sets
- — soft computing
- — swarm intelligence
- — swarm robotics
- — unconventional computing
Applications of natural computing to:
- — algorithmics
- — bioinformatics
- — cryptography
- — design
- — economics
- — graphics
- — hardware
- — human-computer interaction
- — knowledge discovery
- — learning
- — logistics
- — medicine
- — natural language processing
- — pattern recognition
- — planning and scheduling
- — programming
- — telecommunications
- — web intelligence
A flexible "theory to/from practice" approach would be the perfect focus for the expected contributions.
QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION
david (at) irdta.eu
PUBLICATIONS
A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series will be available by the time of the conference.
<a href="href="https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-63000-3"">
Click here: Proceedings TPNC 2020 - 9th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Natural Computing.
Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word, for the preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. In addition, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the files have been sent to Springer, changes relating to the authorship of the papers cannot be made.
A special issue of Swarm and Evolutionary Computation (Elsevier, 2018 impact factor: 6.330) 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.
REGISTRATION
The registration form can be found at:
https://irdta.eu/tpnc2020/registration/
