NCA 2021

18th Workshop on Natural Computing and Applications

SYNASC 2021
23rd International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing

Timisoara, Romania
7-10 December, 2021

Workshop deadlines

  • 31 August 2021: Paper submission (extended deadline)
  • 30 September 2021: Notification of acceptance
  • 15 October 2021: Registration  
  • 15 October 2021: Revised papers according to the reviews
  • 7-10 December 2021: Workshop

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 We invite authors to submit their original and unpublished work that communicates current research in all area of natural computing with a particular focus on methods designed to solve complex, real world problems.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

Topics

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

+ evolutionary computing,
+ neural computing, Bayesian networks, learning algorithms,
+ deep learning,
+ membrane computing, DNA computing, molecular computing, information processing in cells and tissues, cellular automata
+ quantum computing,
+ immunocomputing,
+ swarm intelligence (particle swarm optimization, ant colony optimization, artificial bee colony etc.)
+ 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,
+ visualization techniques in natural computing
+ rule discovery via natural computing means
+ algorithm calibration via evolutionary optimization methods
+ 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.

Workshop Chairs

  • Siby Abraham, University of Mumbai, India
  • Catalin Stoean, University of Craiova, Romania

Program Committee

  • Moloud Abdar, Institute for Intelligent Systems Research and Innovation (IISRI), Deakin University, Australia
  • Miguel Atencia, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
  • Nebojša Bačanin Džakula, Singidunum University, Serbia 
  • Subodh Deolekar, University of Mumbai, India
  • Jyotshna Dongerdi, University of Mumbai, India
  • Tome Eftimov, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
  • David Iclanzan, Sapientia – Hungarian Science University of Transylvania, Romania
  • Daniel Lichtblau, Wolfram Research, Inc., USA
  • Wieslaw Paja, University of Rzeszow, Poland
  • Camelia Pintea, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, North University Center at Baia Mare,
    Romania
  • Mike Preuss, Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands
  • Mădălina Răschip, Al.I.Cuza University, Romania
  • Girish Tere, Thankur College, Mumbai, India
  • Ales Zamuda, University of Maribor, Slovenia
  • Ana-Sabina Uban, Universitat Politècnica de València; HLT, University of Bucharest
  • Sushil Kulkarni, University of Mumbai
  • Dr. Seema Purohit, KIRTI COLLEGE AND NMITD

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 prepared according to the CPS template must be submitted electronically using the submission system that will be later accessible through EasyChair.
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 proceedings published by Conference Publishing Services(CPS) (submitted in IEEE Xplore).

Local Workshop organizers

+ Flavia Micota – West University of Timisoara, Romania, flavia.micota at e-uvt.ro
+ Daniela Zaharie – West University of Timisoara, Romania, daniela.zaharie at e-uvt.ro