NCA 2013

10th Workshop on Natural Computing and Applications

in the framework of

SYNASC 2013
International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing
Timisoara, Romania
September 23 – 26, 2013

Preliminary Program

Tuesday, 24 September (18:00-19:20)

  • Mihai Cimpoesu, Andrei Sucila and Henri Luchian. Resolution of the Probabilistic Vector Machine Problem via a Single Linear Program
  • David Roche, Jesús Giraldo and Debora Gil. Detecting loss of diversity for an efficient termination of EAs
  • Alex Ciobanu and Florentin Ipate. P System Testing with Parallel Simulators
  • Rodica Ioana Lung and Camelia Chira. A Simple Shifting Method for Community Detection in Social Networks

Aim

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 We invite authors to submit their original and unpublished work that communicates current research in all area of natural computing with a particular focus on methods designed to solve complex problems.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.

Workshop deadlines

+ Submission of papers (final deadline): July 31, 2013
+ Notification of acceptance: August 15, 2013
+ Final paper: September 8, 2013
+ Registration: September 1, 2013
+ Revised papers for post-proceedings / special issue: November 2013

Workshop Chairs

+ Siby Abraham, University of Mumbai, India
+ Dan Dumitrescu, Babes Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Program Committee

+ Punam Bedi, India
+ Mihaela Breaban, Romania
+ C Chantrapornchai, Thailand
+ Camelia Chira, Romania
+ Shaheen Fatima, UK
+ Alex James,  Kazhakstan
+ Rodica Ioana Lung, Romania
+ Kazumi Nakamatsu, Japan
+ Ferrante Neri, Finland
+ Gheorghe Paun, Spain
+ Andrei Petrovski, UK
+ Madalina Raschip, Romania
+ Gerald Schaefer, UK
+ Catalin Stoean, Romania
+ Ruxandra Stoean, Romania
+ Biju Issac,UK
+ Josef Tvrdik, Czech Republic

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, artificial bee colony,
+ 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.

Submission of papers

We invite submissions containing original research results in the form of:

+ full research papers
+ short papers (work in progress)

Papers of up to 8 pages (see http://synasc13.info.uvt.ro/submission),
must be submitted electronically through EasyChair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=synasc2013workshops).
Research papers must contain original research results not submitted and not published elsewhere.
Authors who want to present work in progress or discuss new aspects or a survey of their older research results at the workshop are welcome to submit an extended abstract (up to 4 pages).
Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit and relevance to the workshop topics.

Publication

Accepted research papers should be presented at the conference and the best papers will be selected for publication in the post proceedings published by Conference Publishing Services.

Extended versions of the papers accepted and presented at the workshop will be considered for publication as a special issue in the Mathematics and Computer Science Annals of the West University of Timisoara (http://users.math.uvt.ro/~anmath/) or in SCPE – Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience (http://www.scpe.org/).

Local Workshop organizers

Daniela Zaharie – West University of Timisoara, Romania, dzaharie at info.uvt.ro
Flavia Micota – West University of Timisoara, Romania, zflavia at info.uvt.ro