** Second Call for Papers - please circulate this CFP to your colleagues and networks **

-- 14th World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing (NaBIC 2022) --

http://www.mirlabs.net/nabic22 http://www.mirlabs.org/nabic22

On the World Wide Web

December 14-16,2022

Proceedings of NaBIC'22 will be published with Springer Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems (LNNS) series. ( https://www.springer.com/series/15179) (Approval Pending)

Proceedings of NaBIC'21: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-96302-6 Indexed by: SCOPUS, INSPEC, WTI Frankfurt eG, zbMATH, SCImago, DBLP, EI Compendex, Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST), SpringerLink

History of NaBIC series: http://www.mirlabs.net/nabic22/previous.php

**Important Dates** --------------------- Paper submission due: September 30, 2022 Notification of paper acceptance: October 31, 2022 Registration and Final manuscript due: November 15, 2022 Conference: December 14-16, 2022

**About NaBIC'22** ------------------

After the success of the previous 13 events, we welcome your participation and contribution to the 14th World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing (NaBIC 2022) to be held online during December 14-16, 2022. NaBIC 2022 is organized to provide a forum for researchers, engineers, and students from all over the world, to discuss state-of-the-art machine intelligence, and address various issues on building up human-friendly machines by learning from nature. The conference theme is "Nurturing Intelligent Computing Towards Advancement of Machine Intelligence".

**Topics (not limited to)** --------------------------- Industrial Applications of Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing Computing Information Retrieval Robotics Fault Diagnosis Bioinformatics Web Intelligence Speech Processing Business Information Systems Knowledge Management Evolvable Hardware Image and Signal Processing Pattern Recognition Traffic and Transportation System Decision Analysis Data Mining Computer Vision Information and Communication Technology Control System

Innovative approaches Artificial Neural Networks Biodegradability Prediction Cellular Automata Evolutionary Algorithms Swarm Intelligence Emergent Systems Artificial Life Lindenmayer Systems Digital Organisms Artificial Immune Systems Membrane Computing Simulated Annealing Communication Networks and Protocols Computing with Words Common Sense Computing Cognitive Modeling and Architecture Connectionism Metaheuristics Hybrid Approaches Quantum Computing Nano Computing

**Submission Guidelines** ------------------------- Submission of paper should be made through the submission page from the conference web page. Please refer to the conference website for guidelines to prepare your manuscript.

Paper format templates: https://www.springer.com/de/authors-editors/book-authors-editors/manuscript-...

NaBIC’22 Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nabic2022

**Plenary Talks** ---------------------------------------- You are welcome to attend 11 Keynote Talks offered by world-renowned professors and industry leaders. The detailed information is available on conference website.

Speaker 1: Catarina Silva, University of Coimbra, Portugal Title: Interpretability and Explainability in Intelligent Systems

Speaker 2: Chuan-Kang Ting, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Title: TBA

Speaker 3: Joanna Kolodziej, Cracow University of Technology, Poland Title: TBA

Speaker 4: Kaisa Miettinen, Multiobjective Optimization Group, Faculty of Information Technology, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland Title: Some Perspectives to Interactive Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization Methods.

Speaker 5: Kaspar Riesen, Institute of Computer Science, University of Bern, Switzerland University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland Title: Four Decades of Structural Pattern Recognition – An Overview of the Three Major Epochs

Speaker 6: Katherine MALAN, Department of Decision Sciences, University of South Africa Title: Landscape analysis of optimisation and machine learning search spaces.

Speaker 7: Maki Sakamoto, The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan Title: Computer Vision for Expressing Texture Using Sound-Symbolic Words

Speaker 8: Mário Antunes, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal Title: Cybersecurity: the road ahead

Speaker 9: Patricia MELIN, Tijuana Institute of Technology, Tijuana, Mexico Title: Hybrid Intelligent Systems based on Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic and Bioinspired Optimization Algorithms and their application to Pattern Recognition.

Speaker 10: René NATOWICZ, ESIEE-Paris - Université Gustave Eiffel, France Title: Machine Learning in Graphs: Where Are We So Far?

Speaker 11: Yifei Pu, College of Computer Science, Sichuan University, China Title : Analog Circuit Implementation of Fractional-Order Memristor: Arbitrary-Order Lattice Scaling Fracmemristor.

** NaBIC 2022 Organization** --------------------------- General Chairs Ajith Abraham, Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), USA Patrick Siarry, Université Paris-Est Créteil, France Thomas Hanne, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland

Program Chairs Isabel Jesus, Institute of Engineering of Porto, Portugal Nazar Zaki, United Arab Emirate University, UAE

Publication Chairs Niketa Gandhi, Machine Intelligence Research Labs, USA Kun Ma, University of Jinan, China

Special Session Chair Gabriella Casalino, University of Bari, Italy

Publicity Chairs Pooja Manghirmalani Mishra, Machine Intelligence Research Labs, India Anu Bajaj, Machine Intelligence Research Labs, USA

If you would like to propose a special session, please email Dr. Gabriella Casalino g****************o@uniba.it

**Technical Contact** --------------------- Dr. Ajith Abraham Email: a***********m@ieee.org

Thanks & Regards Anu Bajaj Publicity Chair-MIR Labs Annual Conferences-2021, 2022 [image: beacon]