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*************************************************************************** 6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF NATURAL COMPUTING TPNC 2017 Prague, Czech Republic December 18-20, 2017 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 http://grammars.grlmc.com/TPNC2017/ *************************************************************************** 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 Ke Karlovu 3 121 16 Praha 2 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: TPNC 2017 will consist of: - invited talks - peer-reviewed contributions - posters INVITED SPEAKERS: tba PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: (to be completed) Ajith Abraham (Machine Intelligence Research Labs, US) Gilles Brassard (University of Montréal, CA) Carlos Coello Coello (CINVESTAV-IPN, MX) Kalyanmoy Deb (Michigan State University, US) Marco Dorigo (Université Libre de Bruxelles, BE) Michel Gendreau (Polytechnique Montréal, CA) Enrique Herrera-Viedma (University of Granada, ES) Licheng Jiao (Xidian University, CN) Andrew Kusiak (University of Iowa, US) Carlos Martín-Vide (Rovira i Virgili University, ES, chair) Henri Prade (Paul Sabatier University, FR) Thomas Stützle (Université Libre de Bruxelles, BE) Ponnuthurai N. Suganthan (Nanyang Technological University, SG) Johan Suykens (KU Leuven, BE) Xin‐She Yang (Middlesex University, UK) Yiyu Yao (University of Regina, CA) Lotfi A. Zadeh (University of California, Berkeley, US) Anton Zeilinger (University of Vienna, AT) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair) Roman Neruda (Prague, co-chair) Manuel Jesús Parra Royón (Granada) David Silva (London) Miguel A. Vega-Rodríguez (Cáceres) SUBMISSIONS: 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 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 a major journal 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: http://grammars.grlmc.com/TPNC2017/Registration.php DEADLINES (all at 23:59 CET): Paper submission: August 6, 2017 Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: September 6, 2017 Final version of the paper for the LNCS proceedings: September 16, 2017 Early registration: September 16, 2017 Late registration: December 4, 2017 Submission to the post-conference journal special issue: March 20, 2018 QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com POSTAL ADDRESS: TPNC 2017 Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: Akademie věd České republiky Univerzita Karlova v Praze Universitat Rovira i Virgili
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