TPNC 2020: 1st call for papers*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line*   **************************************************************************** 9th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF NATURAL COMPUTING   TPNC 2020   Taoyuan, Taiwan   December 7-9, 2020   Co-organized by:   Chung Yuan Christian University College of Science   Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice - IRDTA Brussels / London   https://irdta.eu/tpnc2020/ ****************************************************************************   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:   tba   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 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.   STRUCTURE:   TPNC 2020 will consist of:   - invited talks - peer-reviewed contributions - posters   KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:   tba   PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: (to be completed)   Erik Cambria (Nanyang Technological University, SG) Shyi-Ming Chen (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, TW) Leroy Cronin (University of Glasgow, UK) Yong Deng (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, CN) Étienne Kerre (Ghent University, BE) Gui Lu Long (Tsinghua University, CN) Jie Lu (University of Technology Sydney, AU) Robert Mann (University of Waterloo, CA) Carlos Martín-Vide (Rovira i Virgili University, ES, chair) Luis Martínez López (University of Jaén, ES) Seyedali Mirjalili (Torrens University Australia, AU) Saeid Nahavandi (Deakin University, AU) Matjaž Perc (University of Maribor, SI) Patrick Siarry (Paris-Est Créteil University, FR) Dan Simon (Cleveland State University, US) Andrzej Skowron (University of Warsaw, PL) Stephen Smith (University of York, UK) Ponnuthurai N. Suganthan (Nanyang Technological University, SG) Miin-Shen Yang (Chung Yuan Christian University, TW) Simon X. Yang (University of Guelph, CA) Yi Zhang (Sichuan University, CN)   ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:   Meng-Hui Li (Taoyuan, co-chair) Sara Morales (Brussels) Manuel Parra-Royón (Granada) David Silva (London, co-chair) Miguel A. Vega-Rodríguez (Cáceres) Miin-Shen Yang (Taoyuan, co-chair)   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).   Upload submissions to:   https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tpnc2020   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:   https://irdta.eu/tpnc2020/registration/   DEADLINES (all at 23:59 CET):   Paper submission: July 25, 2020 Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: August 29, 2020 Final version of the paper for the LNCS proceedings: September 5, 2020 Early registration: September 5, 2020 Late registration: November 23, 2020 Submission to the journal special issue: March 9, 2021   QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:   david (at) irdta.eu   ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:   Chung Yuan Christian University   IRDTA – Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice, Brussels/London