TPNC 2014 - 3rd International Conference on the Theory and Practice of Natural Computing, TPNC 2014

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.