<!DOCTYPE html> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"> <head> <title>TPNC 2020 & 2021: submission deadline extended to August 3</title>  <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> <style type="text/css"> #outlook a { padding:0; } .ReadMsgBody { width:100%; } .ExternalClass { width:100%; } .ExternalClass * { line-height:100%; } body { margin:0;padding:0;-webkit-text-size-adjust:100%;-ms-text-size-adjust:100%; } table, td { border-collapse:collapse;mso-table-lspace:0pt;mso-table-rspace:0pt; } img { border:0;height:auto;line-height:100%; outline:none;text-decoration:none;-ms-interpolation-mode:bicubic; } p { display:block;margin:13px 0; } </style>  <style type="text/css"> @media only screen and (max-width:480px) { @-ms-viewport { width:320px; } @viewport { width:320px; } } </style>    <style type="text/css"> @media only screen and (min-width:480px) { .mj-column-per-100 { width:100% !important; max-width: 100%; } } </style> <style type="text/css"> </style> </head> <body style="background-color:#ffffff;"> <div style="background-color:#ffffff;"> <table align="center" class="ed-section ed-section-header" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background:#ffffff;background-color:#ffffff;width:100%;"> <tbody> <tr> <td>  <div style="Margin:0px auto;max-width:700px;"> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width:100%;"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="direction:ltr;font-size:0px;padding:20px 0;padding-bottom:0px;padding-top:0px;text-align:center;vertical-align:top;">  </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div>  </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table align="center" class="ed-section ed-section-content" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background:#ffffff;background-color:#ffffff;width:100%;"> <tbody> <tr> <td>  <div style="Margin:0px auto;max-width:700px;"> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width:100%;"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="direction:ltr;font-size:0px;padding:20px 0;padding-bottom:0px;padding-top:0px;text-align:center;vertical-align:top;">  <div class="ed-block ed-block-5" style="Margin:0px auto;max-width:700px;"> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width:100%;"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="direction:ltr;font-size:0px;padding:20px 0;padding-bottom:20px;padding-top:20px;text-align:center;vertical-align:top;">  <div class="mj-column-per-100 outlook-group-fix" style="font-size:13px;text-align:left;direction:ltr;display:inline-block;vertical-align:top;width:100%;"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="vertical-align:top;" width="100%"> <tr> <td align="left" class="ed-text-container ed-column-number-0" style="color: #111111; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0px; padding: 0 10px; word-break: break-word;"> <div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;color:#111111;"> *To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ********************************************************************************* 9th-10th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF NATURAL COMPUTING TPNC 2020 & 2021 Tsukuba, Japan December 7-10, 2021 Co-organized by: University of Tsukuba Japanese Society for Artificial Life Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice - IRDTA Brussels / London https://irdta.eu/tpnc2020-2021/ ********************************************************************************* Submission deadline extended to August 3 ! ******************************************** 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 & 2021 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 & 2021 will take place in Tsukuba, located northeast of Tokyo and the seat of a science city bearing witness of a place oriented to scientific innovation. 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 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 & 2021 will consist of: - invited talks - peer-reviewed contributions - posters KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Yaochu Jin (University of Surrey), Morphogenetic Self-organization of Swarm Robots Mehdi Khamassi (Sorbonne 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) Claus Aranha (University of Tsukuba, JP) 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) Ernesto Damiani (University of Milan, IT) Yong Deng (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, CN) Matthias Ehrgott (Lancaster University, UK) Étienne Kerre (Ghent University, BE) Sam Kwong (City University of Hong Kong, HK) Chung-Sheng Li (PriceWaterhouseCoopers, US) Jing Liang (Zhengzhou University, CN) 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) Ngoc Thanh Nguyen (Wrocław University of Science and Technology, PL) Leandro Nunes de Castro (Mackenzie Presbyterian University, BR) Matjaž Perc (University of Maribor, SI) Brian M. Sadler (Army Research Laboratory, US) Patrick Siarry (Paris-Est Créteil University, FR) 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) Yi Zhang (Sichuan University, CN) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Claus Aranha (Tsukuba, co-chair) Yuri Lavinas (Tsukuba) Sara Morales (Brussels) Manuel Parra-Royón (Granada) 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). Upload submissions to: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tpnc20202021 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/tpnc2020-2021/registration/ DEADLINES (all at 23:59 CET): Paper submission: August 3, 2021 - EXTENDED Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: August 31, 2021 Final version of the paper for the LNCS proceedings: September 10, 2021 Early registration: September 10, 2021 Late registration: November 23, 2021 Submission to the journal special issue: March 10, 2022 QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: david (at) irdta.eu ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: University of Tsukuba Japanese Society for Artificial Life Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice - IRDTA, Brussels/London </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div>  </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div>  </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div>  </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table align="center" class="ed-section ed-section-footer" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background:#333333;background-color:#333333;width:100%;"> <tbody> <tr> <td>  <div style="Margin:0px auto;max-width:700px;"> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width:100%;"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="direction:ltr;font-size:0px;padding:20px 0;padding-bottom:0px;padding-top:0px;text-align:center;vertical-align:top;">  </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div>  </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> </body> </html>