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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/
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* Extended submission deadline: August 1st *
 
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:
 
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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
quantum metrology
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:
 
Yaochu Jin (University of Surrey), Morphogenetic Self-organization of Swarm Robots
 
Mehdi Khamassi (Pierre et Marie Curie University), Adaptive Coordination of Model-based and Model-free Reinforcement Learning in Brains and Robots
 
Mark Liao (Academia Sinica), YOLOv4: The Most Accurate and Speedy Object Detector in the World
 
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:
 
Andrew Adamatzky (University of the West of England, UK)
Shawkat Ali (Central Queensland University, AU)
Elisabeth André (University of Augsburg, DE)
Peter J. Bentley (University College London, UK)
Erik Cambria (Nanyang Technological University, SG)
Christer Carlsson (Åbo Akademi University, FI)
Shyi-Ming Chen (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, TW)
Claude Crépeau (McGill University, CA)
Leroy Cronin (University of Glasgow, UK)
Ernesto Damiani (University of Milan, IT)
Yong Deng (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, CN)
Matthias Ehrgott (Lancaster University, UK)
Deborah M. Gordon (Stanford University, US)
Étienne Kerre (Ghent University, BE)
Sam Kwong (City University of Hong Kong, HK)
Chung-Sheng Li (PriceWaterhouseCoopers, US)
Jing Liang (Zhengzhou University, CN)
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)
Serge Massar (Université Libre de Bruxelles, BE)
Marjan Mernik (University of Maribor, SI)
Seyedali Mirjalili (Torrens University Australia, AU)
Saeid Nahavandi (Deakin University, AU)
Ngoc Thanh Nguyen (Wrocław University of Science and Technology, PL)
Leandro Nunes de Castro (Mackenzie Presbyterian University, BR)
Arun Kumar Pati (Harish-Chandra Research Institute, IN)
Matjaž Perc (University of Maribor, SI)
Brian M. Sadler (Army Research Laboratory, US)
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)
Vicenç Torra (Umeå University, SE)
Rufin VanRullen (CNRS Toulouse, FR)
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 Swarm and Evolutionary Computation (Elsevier, 2018 impact factor: 6.330) 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: August 1st, 2020 – EXTENDED -
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