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<div id="gmail-:2er" class="gmail-Ar gmail-Au gmail-Ao" style="display:block"><div id="gmail-:2hn" class="gmail-Am gmail-Al editable gmail-LW-avf gmail-tS-tW gmail-tS-tY" aria-label="Message Body" role="textbox" aria-multiline="true" style="direction:ltr;min-height:280px" tabindex="1">** Second Call for Papers - please circulate this CFP to your colleagues and networks **<br><br>-- 13th World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing (NaBIC 2021) --<br><br><a href="http://www.mirlabs.net/nabic21">http://www.mirlabs.net/nabic21</a><br><a href="http://www.mirlabs.org/nabic21">http://www.mirlabs.org/nabic21</a><br><br>On the World Wide Web<br><br>December 15-17,2021<br><br>Proceedings of NaBIC'21 will be published in Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, Springer (Indexed in SCOPUS, INSPEC, WTI Frankfurt eG, zbMATH, SCImago). <br><<a href="https://www.springer.com/series/15179">https://www.springer.com/series/15179</a>><br><br>NaBIC 2020 Proceedings: <a href="https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030736880">https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030736880</a> <br>History of NaBIC series: <a href="http://www.mirlabs.net/nabic21/previous.php">http://www.mirlabs.net/nabic21/previous.php</a><br><br>**Important Dates**<br>---------------------<br>Paper submission due: September 30, 2021<br>Notification of paper acceptance: October 31, 2021<br>Registration and Final manuscript due: November 15, 2021<br>Conference: December 15-17, 2020<br><br>**About NaBIC'21** <br>------------------<br>After the success of the previous 12 events, we welcome your participation and contribution to the 13th World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing (NaBIC 2021) to be held online during December 15-17, 2021. NaBIC 2021 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".<br><br>**Topics (not limited to)**<br>---------------------------<br>Industrial Applications of Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing<br>Computing<br>Information Retrieval<br>Robotics<br>Fault Diagnosis<br>Bioinformatics<br>Web Intelligence<br>Speech Processing<br>Business Information Systems<br>Knowledge Management<br>Evolvable Hardware<br>Image and Signal Processing<br>Pattern Recognition<br>Traffic and Transportation System<br>Decision Analysis<br>Data Mining<br>Computer Vision<br>Information and Communication Technology<br>Control System<br><br>Innovative approaches<br>Artificial Neural Networks<br>Biodegradability Prediction<br>Cellular Automata<br>Evolutionary Algorithms<br>Swarm Intelligence<br>Emergent Systems<br>Artificial Life<br>Lindenmayer Systems<br>Digital Organisms<br>Artificial Immune Systems<br>Membrane Computing<br>Simulated Annealing<br>Communication Networks and Protocols<br>Computing with Words<br>Common Sense Computing<br>Cognitive Modeling and Architecture<br>Connectionism<br>Metaheuristics<br>Hybrid Approaches<br>Quantum Computing<br>Nano Computing<br><br>**Submission Guidelines**<br>-------------------------<br>Submission of paper should be made through the submission page from the conference web page. <br>Please refer to the conference website for guidelines to prepare your manuscript.<br><br>Paper format templates:<br><a href="https://www.springer.com/de/authors-editors/book-authors-editors/manuscript-preparation/5636#c3324">https://www.springer.com/de/authors-editors/book-authors-editors/manuscript-preparation/5636#c3324</a><br><br>NaBIC’21 Submission Link:<br><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nabic2021">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nabic2021</a><br><br>**Plenary Talks**<br>-----------------------------<br>You are welcome to attend 8 Keynote Talks offerred by world-renowned professors and industry leaders. The detailed information is available on conference website.<br><br>Speaker 1: Antônio de Padua Braga, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil<br>Title: Large margin classification with graph-based models<br><br>Speaker 2: Juergen Branke, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom<br>Title: Learning to optimise – optimal learning<br><br>Speaker 3: Oscar Cordon, University of Granada, Spain<br>Title: Hybrid Intelligent Systems for Forensic Anthropology and Human Identification<br><br>Speaker 4: Kalyanmoy Deb, Michigan State University, USA<br>Title: TBA<br><br>Speaker 5: Frédéric GUINAND, Le Havre Normandy University, France<br>Title: Swarms of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles<br><br>Speaker 6: Cengiz Toklu, Beykent University, Istanbul, Turkey<br>Title: Hybrid Algorithms. Applications to Structural Mechanics<br><br>Speaker 7: Günther Raidl, Technische Universität Wien, Austria<br>Title: Combinatorial Optimization Meets (Reinforcement) Learning<br><br>**NaBIC 2021 Organization**<br>---------------------------<br>General Chairs<br>Ajith Abraham, Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), USA<br>Andries Engelbrecht, Stellenbosch University, South Africa<br>Fabio Scotti, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy<br><br>Program Chairs<br>Giancarlo Fortino, Università della Calabria, Italy<br>Virgilijus Sakalauskas, Vilnius University, Lithuania<br>Sabri Pllana, Linnaeus University, Sweden<br><br>**Technical Contact**<br>---------------------<br>Dr. Ajith Abraham<br>Email: <a href="mailto:ajith.abraham@ieee.org">ajith.abraham@ieee.org</a><br><br>
<div>Thanks and regards</div><div>Publicity Chair NaBIC 2021</div><div>Anu Bajaj</div><div>
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