[APDIO] TPNC 2012: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE

["A. Ismael F. Vaz" <aivaz@dps.uminho.pt>]

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3rd Call for Papers

1st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF NATURAL COMPUTING

TPNC 2012

Tarragona, Spain

October 1-5, 2012

http://grammars.grlmc.com/tpnc2012/

********************************************************************* AIMS:

TPNC is the first event in a series to cover the wide spectrum of

computational principles, models and techniques inspired by information

processing in nature. TPNC 2012 will reserve significant room for young

scholars at the beginning of their career. It aims at attracting

contributions about nature-inspired models of computation, synthesizing

nature by means of computation, nature-inspired materials, and information

processing in nature.

VENUE:

TPNC 2012 will take place in Tarragona, less than 100 kms. to the south of

Barcelona.

SCOPE:

Topics of either theoretical, experimental or applied interest include,

but are not limited to:

* Nature-inspired models of computation:

- amorphous computing

- cellular automata

- chaos and dynamical systems based computing

- evolutionary computing

- membrane computing

- neural computing

- optical computing

- swarm intelligence

* Synthesizing nature by means of computation:

- artificial chemistry

- artificial immune systems

- artificial life

* Nature-inspired materials:

- computing with DNA

- nanocomputing

- physarum computing

- quantum computing and quantum information

- reaction-diffusion computing

* Information processing in nature:

- developmental systems

- fractal geometry

- gene assembly in unicellular organisms

- rough/fuzzy computing in nature

- synthetic biology

- systems biology

* Applications of natural computing to: algorithms, bioinformatics,

control, cryptography, design, economy, graphics, hardware, learning,

logistics, optimization, pattern recognition, programming, robotics,

telecommunications etc.

A flexible "theory to/from practice" approach would be the perfect focus

for the expected contributions.

STRUCTURE:

TPNC 2012 will consist of:

‐ invited talks

‐ invited tutorials

‐ peer‐reviewed contributions

INVITED SPEAKERS:

Christian Blum (Barcelona), tutorial tba

Andrew Childs (Waterloo), tba

Max H. Garzon (Memphis), A Geometric Approach to DNA Codeword Design and

Applications

Faustino Gómez (IDSIA, Manno-Lugano), Scalable Neuroevolution for

Reinforcement Learning

Ponnuthurai N. Suganthan (Singapore), Differential Evolution: Recent

Advances Barbara M. Terhal (Aachen), tba

Peter Tiño (Birmingham), Computational Intelligence in Astronomy -

Win-Win Situation

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

Ajith Abraham (Auburn)

Selim G. Akl (Kingston CA)

Enrique Alba (Málaga)

Artiom Alhazov (Chişinău)

Peter J. Bentley (London)

Mauro Birattari (Brussels)

Christian Blum (Barcelona)

Óscar Castillo (Tijuana)

Weng-Long Chang (Kaohsiung)

Parimal Pal Chaudhuri (Calcutta)

Carlos A. Coello Coello (Mexico DF)

Kalyanmoy Deb (Kanpur)

Peter Dittrich (Jena)

Andries Petrus Engelbrecht (Pretoria)

Toshio Fukuda (Nagoya)

Enrique Herrera-Viedma (Granada)

César Hervás-Martínez (Córdoba)

Julia Kempe (Paris)

Elmar Wolfgang Lang (Regensburg)

Pier Luca Lanzi (Milan)

Vincenzo Manca (Verona)

Maurice Margenstern (Metz)

Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, chair)

Kaisa Miettinen (Jyväskylä)

Michael O'Neill (Dublin)

Ferdinand Peper (Kobe)

Ion Petre (Turku)

Carla Piazza (Udine)

A.C. Cem Say (Istanbul)

Jürgen Schmidhuber (Lugano)

Moshe Sipper (Beer-Sheva)

El-Ghazali Talbi (Lille)

Kay Chen Tan (Singapore)

Jirí Wiedermann (Prague)

Takashi Yokomori (Tokyo)

Ivan Zelinka (Ostrava)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona)

Peter Leupold (Tarragona)

Carlos Martín‐Vide (Tarragona, chair)

Bianca Truthe (Magdeburg)

Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona)

SUBMISSIONS:

Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished

research. Papers should not exceed 12 single‐spaced pages (including

eventual appendices) and should be formatted 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 at:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tpnc2012

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 extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the

conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation.

REGISTRATION:

The period for registration is open from February 25 to October 1, 2012.

The registration form can be found at the website of the conference:

http://grammars.grlmc.com/tpnc2012/

Early registration fees: 500 Euro

Early registration fees (PhD students): 400 Euro

Late registration fees: 540 Euro

Late registration fees (PhD students): 440 Euro

On‐site registration fees: 580 Euro

On‐site registration fees (PhD students): 480 Euro

At least one author per paper should register. Papers that do not have a

registered author who paid the fees by July 1, 2012 will be excluded from

the proceedings.

Fees comprise access to all sessions, one copy of the proceedings volume,

coffee breaks and lunches. PhD students will need to prove their status on

site.

PAYMENT:

Early (resp. late) registration fees must be paid by bank transfer before

July 1, 2012 (resp. September 21, 2012) to the conference bank account:

Uno-e Bank

bank’s address: Julian Camarillo 4 C, 28037 Madrid, Spain

IBAN: ES3902270001820201823142

SWIFT/BIC code: UNOEESM1

account holder: Carlos Martín-Vide GRLMC

account holder’s address: Av. Catalunya 35, 43002 Tarragona, Spain

Please mention TPNC 2012 and your name in the subject. A receipt will be

provided on site.

Remarks:

- Bank transfers should not involve any expense for the conference. -

People claiming early registration will be requested to prove that the

bank transfer order was carried out by the deadline.

People registering on site must pay in cash. For the sake of local

organization, however, it is much recommended to do it earlier.

Besides paying the registration fees, it is required to fill in the

registration form at the website of the conference.

IMPORTANT DEADLINES:

Paper submission: May 1, 2012 (23:59h, CET)

Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: June 18, 2012

Final version of the paper for the LNCS proceedings: June 25, 2012 Early

registration: July 1, 2012

Late registration: September 21, 2012

Starting of the conference: October 1, 2012

Submission to the post‐conference special issue: January 5, 2013

FURTHER INFORMATION:

florentinalilica.voicu@urv.cat

POSTAL ADDRESS:

TPNC 2012

Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)

Rovira i Virgili University

Av. Catalunya, 35

43002 Tarragona, Spain

Phone: +34‐977‐559543

Fax: +34‐977‐558386