1st Symposium on Nature Inspired Computing and Applications (NICA) @ AISB/IACAP World Congress 2012
This symposium, focussing on the theory and application of nature-inspired computing techniques will take place as part of the AISB/IACAP World Congress 2012 in honour of Alan Turing from July 2nd-6th 2012 at the University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
The congress is organised by the Society of the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) and the International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP)
The congress website can be found here: http://www.aisb.org.uk/convention/aisb12/
Symposium Description
This symposium is designed to provide a forum for UK researchers in the field of Nature Inspired Computation (broadly considered) to discuss and promote their work and will run consecutively with the Natural Computing & its Philosophical Significance symposium. The symposium will comprise high-quality technical sessions followed by a joint panel session with the Natural Computing and its Philosophical Significance session. The event promises to be one of the first to explore the applied, theoretical and philosophical significance of natural and nature-inspired computing in one setting.
Call for Papers
Authors are invited to submit their original work in the areas including, but not limited to:
- Evolutionary algorithms
- Swarm intelligence algorithms (e.g ACO, PSO, Bee Hive algorithms)
- Neural networks (e.g. ANNs, SOMs, RBF Networks)
- Decision Trees, Bayesian and Statistical Machine Learning
- Cellular Automata & Artificial Life
- Hybrid Nature-Inspired Algorithms
- Parallel and GPGPU Implementations of Nature-Inspired Computing
This work should describe a new or modified nature-inspired method, or a novel application to a problem domain. Domains of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Cognitive Science
- Machine Creativity (e.g. music & art)
- Operations Research
- Bioinformatics
- Engineering Design
- Classification and Prediction in Large-Scale Datasets
- Logic & Computability & Natural Language Processing
Submission Formats
Regular paper : 10 pages
Short paper : 4 pages
Please submit full papers in Microsoft Word format using this: NICA Word Template.
Please submit through the Easychair website: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nica2012
Important Dates - Submission Deadline Extended
Submission deadline: 2nd March 2012 Sunday 8th April
Author Notification: 2nd April 2012 Monday 30 April
Camera Ready Copy: 4th May 2012 Friday 1st June
Congress Information
The Congress serves both as the year's AISB Convention and the year's IACAP conference. The Congress has been inspired by a desire to honour Alan Turing, and by the broad and deep significance of Turing's work to AI, to the philosophical ramifications of computing and to philosophy and computing more generally. The Congress is one of the events forming the Alan Turing Year ( http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/ ).
The intent of the Congress is to stimulate a particularly rich interchange between AI and Philosophy on any areas of mutual interest, whether directly addressing Turing's own research output or not.
The Congress will consist mainly of a number of collocated Symposia on specific research areas, interspersed with Congress-wide refreshment breaks, social events and invited Plenary Talks. All papers other than the invited Plenaries will be given within Symposia.
Proceedings
There will be a separate proceedings for each symposium, produced before the Congress. Each delegate at the Conference will receive, on arrival, a memory stick containing the proceedings of all symposia.
Contact
Symposium Chair
Dr Ed Keedwell, Harrison Building, North Park Road Exeter Devon EX4 4QF
Tel: 01392 264014
Email: E.C.Keedwell@ex.ac.uk
Programme Committee
Dr Jacqueline Christmas
Prof. Richard Everson
Dr Jonathan Fieldsend
Dr Antony Galton
Dr Yiming Ying
Dr Colin Johnson
Kent McClymont
