TPNC 2019: 2nd call for papers*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line*   **************************************************************************** 8th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF NATURAL COMPUTING   TPNC 2019   Kingston, Canada   December 9-11, 2019   Co-organized by:   Royal Military College of Canada   Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice Brussels / London   http://tpnc2019.irdta.eu/ ****************************************************************************   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 2019 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 2019 will take place in Kingston, a city midway between Toronto and Montréal with an important military history. The venue will be:   Royal Military College of Canada Kingston, Ontario Canada K7K 7B4   https://www.rmc-cmr.ca/en   SCOPE:   Topics include, but are not limited to:   - Theoretical contributions to:   ant colony optimization artificial immune systems artificial life cellular automata cognitive computing collective behaviour collective intelligence computational intelligence computing with words developmental systems DNA computing DNA nanotechnology evolutionary algorithms evolutionary computing 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 networks quantum communication quantum computing quantum information rough sets self-organization soft computing swarm intelligence unconventional computing   - 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 2019 will consist of:   - invited talks - peer-reviewed contributions - posters   INVITED SPEAKERS:   tba   PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:   Mohammad Amin (D-Wave Systems, CA) Plamen P. Angelov (Lancaster University, UK) Thomas Bäck (Leiden University, NL) Peter Bentley (University College London, UK) Mauro Birattari (Université Libre de Bruxelles, BE) Christian Blum (Higher Scientific Research Council, ES) Shyi-Ming Chen (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, TW) Carlos A. Coello Coello (CINVESTAV – National Polytechnic Institute, MX) Claude Crépeau (McGill University, CA) Marco Dorigo (Université Libre de Bruxelles, BE) Matthias Ehrgott (Lancaster University, UK) Andries Engelbrecht (Stellenbosch University, ZA) Juan José García-Ripoll (Higher Scientific Research Council, ES) Deborah M. Gordon (Stanford University, US) Jin-Kao Hao (University of Angers, FR) Wei-Chiang Samuelson Hong (Jiangsu Normal University, CN) Thomas R. Ioerger (Texas A&M University, US) Etienne E. Kerre (Ghent University, BE) Chung-Sheng Li (Accenture, IE) Gui Lu Long (Tsinghua University, CN) Chao-Yang Lu (University of Science and Technology of China, CN) Pabitra Kumar Maji (Bidhan Chandra College, IN) Vittorio Maniezzo (University of Bologna, IT) Carlos Martín-Vide (Rovira i Virgili University, ES, chair) Luis Martínez López (University of Jaén, ES) Serge Massar (Université Libre de Bruxelles, BE) Marjan Mernik (University of Maribor, SI) Hossein Nezamabadi-Pour (Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, IR) Norman Packard (Daptics, US) Sidhartha Panda (Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology, IN) Elpiniki Papageorgiou (University of Applied Sciences of Thessaly, GR) Geoffrey Pond (Royal Military College of Canada, CA) Kai (Alex) Qin (Swinburne University of Technology, AU) Celso C. Ribeiro (Fluminense Federal University, BR) José Santos-Victor (Instituto Superior Técnico, PT) Shahab Shamshirband (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NO) Narasimhan Sundararajan (Nanyang Technological University, SG) José Luis Verdegay (University of Granada, ES) Fernando J. Von Zuben (University of Campinas, BR) Xin-She Yang (Middlesex University, UK) Bo Yuan (Rochester Institute of Technology, US) Yi Zhang (Sichuan University, CN) Xudong Zhao (Bohai University, CN)   ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:   Sara Morales (Brussels) Manuel Parra-Royón (Granada) Geoffrey Pond (Kingston, co-chair) David Silva (London, co-chair) 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 (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=tpnc2019   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://tpnc2019.irdta.eu/Registration.php   DEADLINES (all at 23:59 CET):   Paper submission: July 27, 2019 Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: August 31, 2019 Final version of the paper for the LNCS proceedings: September 7, 2019 Early registration: September 7, 2019 Late registration: November 25, 2019 Submission to the journal special issue: March 11, 2020   QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:   david@irdta.eu   ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:   Royal Military College of Canada / Collège militaire royal du Canada   IRDTA – Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice, Brussels/London