Paper & Poster Submission

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


All accepted papers and posters must be presented at the conference.


Final, camera-ready versions of accepted papers must be submitted at the easychair.org hyperlink above in Portable Document Format (PDF) and prepared in LaTeX, using the Springer LNCS style. More details are found at the following URLs:

  • Instructions for proceedings authors (as a PDF file)

https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/19242230/data/v9

  • Web address of a ZIP file containing a LaTeX template:

https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/19238648/data/v6

  • Overleaf LaTeX template:

https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/springer-lecture-notes-in-computer-science/kzwwpvhwnvfj#.WuA4JS5uZpi


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.


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

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

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