[alife] NCA 2008 - Final Call for Papers

[Ajith Abraham]

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Final Call for Papers

5th International Workshop on Natural Computing and Applications - NCA 2008

to be held in the framework of

SYNASC 2008
10th Symposium of Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing
Timisoara, Romania, September 26-29, 2008

http://synasc08.info.uvt.ro
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Workshop description:

Natural Computing is a field of research that is concerned with the use of
nature-inspired paradigms for solving computational problems. The
world of natural
computing is diverse and fascinating. It tries to combine the computing
carried in computer science with the computing observed in nature.
It can be used both to better understand complex natural phenomena and
to design methods
to solve complex problems.

We invite authors to submit their original and unpublished work that
communicates current research in all area of natural computing with a
particular focus on methods designed to solve complex problems.
The contributions can address both theoretical and methodological aspects,
as well as various applications in science, engineering, business,
commerce etc.
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Topics:

Suggested topics for papers include, but are not limited to, the
following:

   -evolutionary computing,
   -neural computing, Bayesian networks, learning algorithms,
   -membrane computing,
   -DNA computing,
   - molecular computing,
   -information processing in cells and tissues,
   -quantum computing,
   -immunocomputing,
   -swarm intelligence, particle swarm optimization, ant colony optimization,
   -bacterial foraging
   -computation with words,
   -granular computation,
   -artificial life,
   -emergent computing and self-organizing systems
   -complex adaptive systems
   -hybridization of evolutionary, neural, molecular and quantum computing,
   -hybrid optimization algorithms involving natural computing
techniques and other
    global and local optimization methods,
   -integration of natural computing techniques in intelligent systems,
   -implementation issues of natural computing techniques,
   -natural computing approaches for multi-objective, multimodal and
dynamic optimization,
   -natural computing approaches in knowledge discovery, natural
language processing, image processing,
    planning and scheduling, information security, human-computer
interaction, Web Intelligence,
    Web-based support systems,
   -natural computing applications in science, business, finance,
engineering,  medicine, bioinformatics and other fields.
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Submission of papers:

Papers of up to 8 pages edited using the IEEE conference style must be
submitted electronically to nca08 at info.uvt.ro.

Submitted papers have to be original and should contain new and
interesting results.

All papers will be peer reviewed by at least THREE independent referees of
the program committee of NCA'08 and accepted on the basis of their
scientific merit
and relevance to the workshop topics. Papers accepted and presented at the
workshop will be published in the SYNASC'08 post-proceedings edited by
IEEE Computer Society.

Additional publication opportunities:

Several Special issues focused on some topics will be formulated soon
after the conference.
These special issues will be published by International journals
in the field.
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Workshop deadlines:

Submission of papers: July 7, 2008
Notification of acceptance:  August 10, 2008
Final paper:   September 1, 2008
Registration:   September 1, 2008
Revised paper for post-proceedings: October 25, 2008
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Workshop chairs:
Ajith Abraham - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
ajith.abraham at ieee.org

Dan Dumitrescu - Department of Computer Science, Babes Bolyai University,
Cluj-Napoca, Romania,
ddumitr at cs.ubbcluj.ro

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Program Committee:

Abo Al-Ola Atifi - CBA Kuwait University, Kuwait
Yuehui Chen - Jinan University, China
Camelia Chira - Babes Bolyai University, Cluj Napoca, Romania
Juan M. Corchado - University of Salamanca, Spain
Bernard De Baets -  University of Ghent, Belgium
Stefka Fidanova - Bulgarian Academy of Science, Bulgaria
Olivier Francois -  Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, France
Pierluigi Frisco - Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
Ranadhir Ghosh -  University of Ballarat, Australia
Anca Gog - Babes Bolyai University, Cluj Napoca, Romania
Crina Grosan -  Babes Bolyai University, Cluj Napoca, Romania
Hisao Ishibuchi - Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
Er Meng Joo -  Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Urszula Markowska Kaczmar - Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Janusz Kacprzyk - Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Arpad Kelemen - Niagara University, USA
Mario Koppen - Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
Jiri Kroc - University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic
Hongbo Liu -  Dalian University of Technology, China
Carlos Martin-Vide - Roveira I Virgili University, Spain and European
Research Council, Brussels
Sanaz Mostaghim - University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Nadia Nedjah - State University of Rio, Brazil
Mihai Oltean - Babes Bolyai University, Cluj Napoca, Romania
Vasile Palade - Oxford University, UK
Gheorghe Paun - Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy, Romania
Witold Pedrycz - University of Alberta, Canada
Ashraf Saad - School of Computing,Armstrong Atlantic State University USA
Khalid Saeed - Bialystok University of Technology, Poland
P. Saratchandran - Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Josef Tvrdik - University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Yanqing Zhang - Georgia State University, USA
Berend Jan van der Zwaag - University of Twente, Netherlands
Fabio Zambetta - Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia
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Local organizer:

Daniela Zaharie - West University of Timisoara, Romania,
dzaharie at info.uvt.ro