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***************************************************************************<br><strong>5th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE</strong><br><strong>OF NATURAL COMPUTING</strong><br>
<br><strong>TPNC 2016</strong><br>
<br><strong>Sendai</strong><strong>, Japan</strong><br>
<br><strong>December 12-14, 2016</strong><br>
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Organized by:<br>
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Cyberscience Center<br>
Tohoku University<br>
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Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)<br>
Rovira i Virgili University<br>
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http://grammars.grlmc.com/TPNC2016/<br>
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<br><strong>AIMS:</strong><br>
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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.<br>
<br><strong>VENUE:</strong><br>
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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:<br>
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http://www.cc.tohoku.ac.jp/HTML/<br>
<br><strong>SCOPE:</strong><br>
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Topics include, but are not limited to:<br>
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- Theoretical contributions to:<br>
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amorphous computing<br>
ant colonies<br>
artificial chemistry<br>
artificial immune systems<br>
artificial life<br>
bacterial foraging<br>
cellular automata<br>
chaos computing<br>
collision-based computing<br>
complex adaptive systems<br>
computing with DNA<br>
computing with words and perceptions<br>
developmental systems<br>
evolutionary computing<br>
fractal geometry<br>
fuzzy logic<br>
gene assembly in ciliates<br>
granular computing<br>
intelligent systems<br>
in-vivo computing<br>
membrane computing<br>
nanocomputing<br>
neural computing<br>
optical computing<br>
physarum machines<br>
quantum computing<br>
quantum information<br>
reaction-diffusion systems<br>
rough sets<br>
self-organizing systems<br>
swarm intelligence<br>
synthetic biology<br>
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- Applications of natural computing to:<br>
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algorithmics<br>
bioinformatics<br>
control<br>
cryptography<br>
design<br>
economics<br>
graphics<br>
hardware<br>
human-computer interaction<br>
knowledge discovery<br>
learning<br>
logistics<br>
medicine<br>
natural language processing<br>
optimization<br>
pattern recognition<br>
planning and scheduling<br>
programming<br>
robotics<br>
telecommunications<br>
web intelligence<br>
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A flexible "theory to/from practice" approach would be the perfect focus for the expected contributions.<br>
<br><strong>STRUCTURE:</strong><br>
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TPNC 2016 will consist of:<br>
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- invited talks<br>
- invited tutorials<br>
- peer-reviewed contributions<br>
- posters<br>
<br><strong>INVITED SPEAKERS:</strong><br>
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tba<br>
<br><strong>PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:</strong><br>
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Andrew Adamatzky (University of the West of England, UK)<br>
Zixing Cai (Central South University, China)<br>
Óscar Castillo (Tijuana Institute of Technology, Mexico)<br>
Óscar Cordón (University of Granada, Spain)<br>
Gianni Di Caro (Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research, Switzerland)<br>
Marco Dorigo (Free University of Brussels – ULB, Belgium)<br>
Austin G. Fowler (Google, USA)<br>
Michel Gendreau (Montreal Polytechnic, Canada)<br>
Debasish Ghose (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India)<br>
Jin-Kao Hao (University of Angers, France)<br>
Inman Harvey (University of Sussex, UK)<br>
Wei-Chiang Hong (Nanjing Tech University, China)<br>
Amir Hussain (University of Stirling, UK)<br>
Robert John (University of Nottingham, UK)<br>
Joshua Knowles (University of Birmingham, UK)<br>
Kwong-Sak Leung (Chinese University of Hong Kong, China)<br>
Seth Lloyd (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)<br>
José A. Lozano (University of the Basque Country, Spain)<br>
Vittorio Maniezzo (University of Bologna, Italy)<br>
Carlos Martín-Vide (Rovira i Virgili University, Spain, chair)<br>
Philip K. McKinley (Michigan State University, USA)<br>
Jerry M. Mendel (University of Southern California, USA)<br>
Marjan Mernik (University of Maribor, Slovenia)<br>
Radko Mesiar (Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia)<br>
Chrystopher Nehaniv (University of Hertfordshire, UK)<br>
Vilém Novák (University of Ostrava, Czech Republic)<br>
Linqiang Pan (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China)<br>
Frederick E. Petry (Naval Research Laboratory, USA)<br>
Dan Ralescu (University of Cincinnati, USA)<br>
Francisco C. Santos (University of Lisbon, Portugal)<br>
Friedrich Simmel (Technical University of Munich, Germany)<br>
Andrzej Skowron (University of Warsaw, Poland)<br>
John A. Smolin (IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA)<br>
Ying Tan (Peking University, China)<br>
Guy Theraulaz (Paul Sabatier University, France)<br>
Tommaso Toffoli (Boston University, USA)<br>
Vicenç Torra (University of Skövde, Sweden)<br>
Edward Tsang (University of Essex, UK)<br>
Sergi Valverde (Pompeu Fabra University, Spain)<br>
José Luis Verdegay (University of Granada, Spain)<br>
Fernando J. Von Zuben (University of Campinas, Brazil)<br>
K. Birgitta Whaley (University of California, Berkeley, USA)<br>
Darrell Whitley (Colorado State University, USA)<br>
Xin‐She Yang (Middlesex University, UK)<br>
Hao Ying (Wayne State University, USA)<br>
Mengjie Zhang (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)<br>
Zhi-Hua Zhou (Nanjing University, China)<br>
<br><strong>ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:</strong><br>
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Masayuki Fukumitsu (Ebetsu)<br>
Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair)<br>
Takaaki Mizuki (Sendai, co-chair)<br>
Hideaki Sone (Sendai)<br>
Miguel A. Vega-Rodríguez (Cáceres)<br>
Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona)<br>
<br><strong>SUBMISSIONS:</strong><br>
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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 (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).<br>
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Submissions have to be uploaded to:<br>
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https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tpnc2016<br>
<br><strong>PUBLICATIONS:</strong><br>
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A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series will be available by the time of the conference.<br>
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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.<br>
<br><strong>REGISTRATION:</strong><br>
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The registration form can be found at:<br>
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http://grammars.grlmc.com/TPNC2016/Registration.php<br>
<br><strong>DEADLINES:</strong><br>
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Paper submission: July 26, 2016 (23:59h, CET)<br>
Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: September 2, 2016<br>
Final version of the paper for the LNCS proceedings: September 9, 2016<br>
Early registration: September 9, 2016<br>
Late registration: November 28, 2016<br>
Submission to the post-conference journal special issue: March 14, 2017<br>
<br><strong>QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:</strong><br>
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florentinalilica.voicu (at) urv.cat<br>
<br><strong>POSTAL ADDRESS:</strong><br>
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TPNC 2016<br>
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)<br>
Rovira i Virgili University<br>
Av. Catalunya, 35<br>
43002 Tarragona, Spain<br>
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Phone: +34 977 559 543<br>
Fax: +34 977 558 386<br>
<br><strong>ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:</strong><br>
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Tohoku University<br>
Universitat Rovira i Virgili</body></html>