Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Theoretical contributions to
  • amorphous computing
  • ant colonies
  • artificial chemistry
  • artificial immune systems
  • artificial life
  • bacterial foraging
  • cellular automata
  • chaos computing
  • collision-based computing
  • complex adaptive systems
  • computing with DNA
  • computing with words and perceptions
  • developmental systems
  • evolutionary computing
  • fractal geometry
  • fuzzy logic
  • gene assembly in ciliates
  • granular computing
  • intelligent systems
  • in-vivo computing
  • membrane computing
  • nanocomputing
  • neural computing
  • optical computing
  • physarum machines
  • quantum computing
  • quantum information
  • reaction-diffusion systems
  • rough sets
  • self-organizing systems
  • swarm intelligence
  • synthetic biology
• Applications of natural computing to
  • algorithmics
  • bioinformatics
  • control
  • cryptography
  • design
  • economics
  • graphics
  • hardware
  • human-computer interaction
  • knowledge discovery
  • learning
  • logistics
  • medicine
  • natural language processing
  • optimization
  • pattern recognition
  • planning and scheduling
  • programming
  • robotics
  • telecommunications
  • web intelligence