Call For Papers

The 20th International Conference on Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation, UCNC 2023, March 13-17, 2023, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL, USA


Online accommodation for presenters and attendees will be provided as needed.

Website: http://ucnc2023.domains.unf.edu

Contact: ucnc2023@unf.edu

Important Dates

Paper Submission: October 28, 2022 November 11, 2022

Paper Acceptance Notification: November 28, 2022 December 7, 2022

Poster Abstract Submission: December 9, 2022 December 19, 2022

Final Paper Version: December 16, 2022

Poster Acceptance Notification: December 22, 2022

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. The 20th International Conference on Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation (UCNC 2023) will be held at the University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL, USA on March 13-17, 2023 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), or one-page poster abstracts, through the conference EasyChair link:


Papers must be submitted in Portable Document Format (PDF); revised versions of manuscripts must be prepared in LaTeX, using the Springer LNCS style, which can be found at one of the following:

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.


All accepted papers and posters must be presented at the conference and at least one author must be registered.

Papers and poster presentations are sought in all areas that relate to unconventional computation and natural computation. Both theoretical and experimental papers are welcome.


Note that these guidelines apply only to the main conference track. Satellite workshops have their own submission procedures and publication arrangements.


Invited Speakers

Thomas Bäck (Leiden University, The Netherlands)

Eric Goles (University of Chile, Chile)

Christine E. Heitsch (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

Lila Kari (University of Waterloo, Canada)

Yukiko Yamauchi (Kyushu University, Japan)

Invited Tutorial Speaker

Ion Petre (University of Turku, Finland)

Satellite Workshops

Material Computing (Organizer: Susan Stepney, University of York, UK)

Reaction Systems (Organizer: Daniela Genova, University of North Florida, USA)

RNA Folding (Organizer: Shinnosuke Seki, University of Electro-Communications, Japan)

UCNC topics of interest include but are not restricted to:

  • Amorphous computing

  • Artificial immune systems

  • Artificial life

  • Cellular automata

  • Cellular (in-vivo) computing

  • Chaos computing

  • Collision-based computing

  • Computational and systems biology

  • Computation in hyperbolic spaces

  • Computational neuroscience

  • DNA computing

  • Evolutionary computation

  • Material computing

  • Membrane computing

  • Molecular computing

  • Nature inspired algorithms

  • Neural computation

  • Optical computing

  • Physarum computing

  • Programmable matter

  • Quantum computing

  • Reaction Systems

  • Self-assembling and self-organizing systems

  • Super-Turing computation

  • Swarm intelligence

  • Synthetic biology

Program Committee

Selim G. Akl (Queen's University, Canada)

Cristian S. Calude (University of Auckland, New Zealand)

Matteo Cavaliere (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)

Ho-Lin Chen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

Jérôme Durand-Lose (University of Orléans, France)

Enrico Formenti (Côte d'Azur University, France)

Giuditta Franco (University of Verona, Italy)

Daniela Genova (University of North Florida, USA) (Co-chair)

Yo-Sub Han (Yonsei University, South Korea)

Mika Hirvensalo (University of Turku, Finland)

Hendrik Jan Hoogeboom (Leiden University, The Netherlands)

Jarkko Kari (University of Turku, Finland) (Co-chair)

Jongmin Kim (Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea)

Jetty Kleijn (Leiden University, The Netherlands)

Kalpana Mahalingam (Indian Institute of Technology-Madras, India)

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 (University of Paderborn, Germany)

Shinnosuke Seki (University of Electro-Communications, Japan)

Susan Stepney (University of York, UK)

Gunnar Tufte (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)

Giovanni Viglietta (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)

Organizing Committee

Brendan Chamberlain (University of North Florida)

Ryan Farrell (University of North Florida)

Daniela Genova (University of North Florida) (Co-chair)

Furio Gerwitz (University of North Florida)

Troy Kidd (University of North Florida)

Zornitza Prodanoff (University of North Florida) (Co-chair)

Dylan Strickley (University of North Florida)

For more information contact: ucnc2023@unf.edu.