TPNC 2013 - 2nd International Conference on the Theory and Practice of Natural Computing

TPNC is a conference series intending to cover the wide spectrum of computational principles, models and techniques inspired by information processing in nature. TPNC 2013 will reserve significant room for young scholars at the beginning of their career. It aims at attracting contributions to nature-inspired models of computation, synthesizing nature by means of computation, nature-inspired materials, and information processing in nature.
Venue
TPNC 2013 will take place in Cáceres, in Western Spain, 300 kms. to the southwest of Madrid and 100 kms. to the Portuguese border. The old city is a UNESCO World Heritage site.
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 of the Conference
TPNC 2013 will consist of
invited talks
invited tutorials
peer-reviewed contributions
Submission
Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research.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. Submissions have to be uploaded to: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tpnc20....
Registration
The registration form can be found here.
We kindly ask all the participants to register, including invited persons and members of the organising committee.