VENUE

TPNC 2012 will take place in Tarragona, less than 100 kms. to the south of Barcelona.

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

TPNC 2012 will consist of

• invited talks
• invited tutorials
• peer-reviewed contributions

INVITED SPEAKERS

• Christian Blum (Barcelona), tutorial, Hybrid Metaheuristics
• Andrew Childs (Waterloo), Universal Computation by Multi-particle Quantum Walk
• Max H. Garzon (Memphis), Theory and Applications of DNA Codeword Design
• Faustino Gómez (IDSIA, Manno-Lugano), Scalable Neuroevolution for Reinforcement Learning
• Ponnuthurai N. Suganthan (Singapore), Differential Evolution: Recent Advances
• Barbara M. Terhal (Aachen), Fragility of Quantum Information and Quantum Error Correction
• Peter Tiño (Birmingham), Computational Intelligence in Astronomy - Win-Win Situation