Call For Papers
The 21th International Conference on Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation 2024
UCNC 2024, June 17-21, 2024, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, Republic of Korea
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/ucnc-2024/
Contact: ucnc2024@gmail.com
Full paper
Submission deadline February 28, 2024 → March 11, 2024,
Notification of acceptance March 28, 2024 → April 15, 2024,
Final version for proceedings April 10, 2024 → April 24, 2024.
Submissions for full paper
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ucnc2024
Poster
Submission deadline for poster May 1, 2024 → May 8, 2024.
Notification of acceptance May 15, 2024 → May 21, 2024.
Submissions for poster
The one-page abstract will be submitted via email : ucnc2024@gmail.com.
All paper submissions should be in PDF format.
Background
The International Conference on Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation (UCNC) series is a forum bringing together scientists from many different backgrounds who are united in their interest in novel forms of computation, human-designed computation inspired by nature, and computational aspects of natural processes. UCNC provides a forum for such scientists to meet and discuss their work. The 21st International Conference on Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation (UCNC 2024) will be held at the Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, Republic of Korea on June 17-21, 2024 and will continue the tradition of focusing on current important theoretical and experimental results and their critical evaluation.
Author Guidelines
Authors are invited to submit original research papers (of, at most, 15 pages in LNCS format) through the conference EasyChair link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ucnc2024
Papers must be submitted in Portable Document Format (PDF).
Accepted papers will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series, and authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions for publication in a special issue of Natural Computing.
Papers must not be under simultaneous consideration by any other conference with published proceedings. All accepted papers must be presented at the conference.
Please note that these guidelines apply only to the main conference track; satellite workshops have their own submission procedures and publication arrangements.
Invited Speakers
* Paola Flocchini (University of Ottawa, Canada)
* Nikola Kasabov (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand)
* Sung Ha Park (Sungkyunkwan University, Republic of Korea)
* Friedrich Simmel (Technical University Munich, Germany)
* Susan Stepney (University of York, United Kingdom), Winner of Rozenberg Natural Computing Award
Workshops
* Cellular Automata (Organizers: Enrico Formenti, Jarkko Kari and Katsunobu Imai)
* Theoretical and Experimental Material Computing (Organizer: Susan Stepney, University of York, UK)
UCNC topics of interest include (but are not restricted to):
Molecular computing
Quantum computing
Optical computing
Chaos computing
Physarum computing
Collision-based computing
Self-assembling and self-organizing systems
Super-Turing computation
Cellular automata
Neural computation
Evolutionary computation
Swarm intelligence
Ant algorithms
Artificial immune systems
Artificial life
Membrane computing
Amorphous computing
Computational systems biology
Computational neuroscience
Synthetic biology
Cellular (in-vivo) computing
Program Committee (UCNC)
* Thomas Bäck (Leiden University, Netherlands)
* Daniela Besozzi (University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy)
* Cristian S. Calude (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
* Matteo Cavaliere (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
* Ho-Lin Chen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
* Da-Jung Cho (Ajou University, Republic of Korea, Co-chair)
* Benjamin Doerr (École Polytechnique, France)
* David Doty (University of California Davis, USA)
* Jérôme Durand-Lose (Université d'Orléans, France)
* Matthias Fugger (ENS Paris-Saclay, France)
* Cody Geary (Aarhus University, Denmark)
* Daniela Genova (University of North Florida, USA)
* Masami Hagiya (University of Tokyo, Japan)
* Yo-Sub Han (Yonsei University, Republic of Korea)
* Jarkko Kari (University of Turku, Finland)
* Lila Kari (University of Waterloo, Canada)
* Jongmin Kim (POSTECH, Republic of Korea, Co-chair)
* Andreas Malcher (University of Giessen, Germany)
* Luca Mariot (University of Twente, Netherlands)
* Ian McQuillan (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
* Pekka Orponen (Aalto University, Finland)
* Matthew Patitz (University of Arkansas, USA)
* Zornitza Prodanoff (University of North Florida, USA)
* Christian Scheideler (Paderborn University, Germany)
* Susan Stepney (University of York, UK)
* Damien Woods (Maynooth University, Ireland)
* Abuzer Yakaryilmaz (University of Latvia, Latvia)
Organizing Committee
* Da-Jung Cho (Ajou University, Republic of Korea)
* Yunjeong Choi (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea)
* Seongho Hong (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea)
* Jongmin Kim (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea)
* Shinnosuke Seki (University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
Further Information (UCNC)
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Jongmin Kim (Co-chair)
Department of Life Sciences
Pohang University of Science and Technology
Pohang, Republic of Korea
Email: ucnc2024@gmail.com
Da-Jung Cho (Co-chair)
Department of Software and Computer Engineering
Ajou University, Suwon, Republic of Korea
Email: ucnc2024@gmail.com
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