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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">-- The 9th World
Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing (NaBIC'17) --<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Indexed by</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">: SCOPUS, Thomson ISI Web of
Science, DBLP etc.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">History of NaBIC series:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> <a href="http://www.mirlabs.net/nabic17/previous.php">http://www.mirlabs.net/nabic17/previous.php</a><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Cambria,serif">NaBIC 2017: <i>Scopus &<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="gmail-il">UGC</span><span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="gmail-il">Approved</span><span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span>Proceedings</i></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">All<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span><b>accepted
and registered<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span></b>papers will be
published in<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span><b>AISC Series of
Springer</b>, indexed in<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span><i>ISI
Proceedings, EI-Compendex, DBLP, SCOPUS, Google Scholar and Springerlink.<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span></i>(<b>Listed in<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="gmail-il">UGC</span><span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="gmail-il">approved</span><span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span>list,</b><span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span>please refer List 1- Page 32 - S.No. -
1375) (<a href="http://www.ugc.ac.in/pdfnews/8919877_Journals-1.pdf">http://www.ugc.ac.in/pdfnews/8919877_Journals-1.pdf</a>)<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"> **
Important Dates **<span></span></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(59,59,59)">Paper submission due: September 30,
2017<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(59,59,59)">Notification of paper acceptance:
October 31, 2017<span></span></span></p>
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due: November 15, 2017<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">About NaBIC'17:<span></span></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">NaBIC 2017 is organized to
provide a forum for researchers, engineers, and students from all over the
world, to discuss the state-of-the-art in 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. All accepted and registered
papers will be included in the conference proceedings to expected be
published by Springer.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Topics ( not
limited to )</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><br>
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** Computational methods and 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>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">** Industrial Applications of Nature and Biologically Inspired
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 Systems<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Submission
Guidelines:<span></span></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">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.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Paper format templates:<br>
</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.springer.com/series/11156" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">http://www.springer.com/series/11156</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><br>
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NaBIC’17 Submission:<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nabic2017"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nabic2017</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">* Organizing
Committee *<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">General Chairs:<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Ajith Abraham, Machine Intelligence Research Labs, USA<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Pranab Kr. Muhuri, South Asian University, Delhi<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Technical Committee (Please refer website):<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><a href="http://www.mirlabs.net/nabic17/committees.php">http://www.mirlabs.net/nabic17/committees.php</a><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">For technical
contact:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><br>
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Ajith Abraham<br>
Email: </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:ajith.abraham@ieee.org" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">ajith.abraham@ieee.org</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span> </span></span></p></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Best Regards,<br>Azah Muda</div>
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