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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/

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Submission deadline extended to August 3 !

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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
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