** Second Call for Papers - please circulate this CFP to your colleagues and networks **<br><br>-- 14th World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing (NaBIC 2022) --<br><br><a href="http://www.mirlabs.net/nabic22">http://www.mirlabs.net/nabic22</a><br><a href="http://www.mirlabs.org/nabic22">http://www.mirlabs.org/nabic22</a><br><br>On the World Wide Web<br><br>December 14-16,2022<br><br>Proceedings of NaBIC'22 will be published with Springer Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems (LNNS) series. (<a href="https://www.springer.com/series/15179">https://www.springer.com/series/15179</a>) (Approval Pending)<br><br>Proceedings of NaBIC'21: <a href="https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-96302-6">https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-96302-6</a><br>Indexed by: SCOPUS, INSPEC, WTI Frankfurt eG, zbMATH, SCImago, DBLP, EI Compendex, Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST), SpringerLink<br><br>History of NaBIC series: <a href="http://www.mirlabs.net/nabic22/previous.php">http://www.mirlabs.net/nabic22/previous.php</a><br><br>**Important Dates**<br>---------------------<br>Paper submission due: September 30, 2022<br>Notification of paper acceptance: October 31, 2022<br>Registration and Final manuscript due: November 15, 2022<br>Conference: December 14-16, 2022<br><br>**About NaBIC'22**<br>------------------<br><br>After the success of the previous 13 events, we welcome <br>your participation and contribution to the 14th World Congress <br>on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing (NaBIC 2022) <br>to be held online during December 14-16, 2022. NaBIC 2022 is <br>organized to provide a forum for researchers, engineers, and <br>students from all over the world, to discuss state-of-the-art <br>machine intelligence, and address various issues on building up <br>human-friendly machines by learning from nature. The conference <br>theme is "Nurturing Intelligent Computing Towards Advancement <br>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 <br>from the conference web page. Please refer to the conference website <br>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’22 Submission Link:<br><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nabic2022">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nabic2022</a><br><br>**Plenary Talks**<br>----------------------------------------<br>You are welcome to attend 11 Keynote Talks offered by world-renowned professors and industry leaders. The detailed information is available on conference website.<br><br><br>Speaker 1: Catarina Silva, University of Coimbra, Portugal<br>Title: Interpretability and Explainability in Intelligent Systems <br><br>Speaker 2: Chuan-Kang Ting, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan<br>Title: TBA<br><br>Speaker 3: Joanna Kolodziej, Cracow University of Technology, Poland<br>Title: TBA<br><br>Speaker 4: Kaisa Miettinen, Multiobjective Optimization Group, Faculty of Information Technology, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland<br>Title: Some Perspectives to Interactive Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization Methods.<br><br>Speaker 5: Kaspar Riesen, Institute of Computer Science, University of Bern, Switzerland<br>University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland<br>Title: Four Decades of Structural Pattern Recognition – An Overview of the Three Major Epochs<br><br>Speaker 6: Katherine MALAN, Department of Decision Sciences, University of South Africa<br>Title: Landscape analysis of optimisation and machine learning search spaces.<br><br>Speaker 7: Maki Sakamoto, The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan<br>Title: Computer Vision for Expressing Texture Using Sound-Symbolic Words<br><br>Speaker 8: Mário Antunes, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal<br>Title: Cybersecurity: the road ahead<br><br>Speaker 9: Patricia MELIN, Tijuana Institute of Technology, Tijuana, Mexico<br>Title: Hybrid Intelligent Systems based on Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic and Bioinspired Optimization Algorithms and their application to Pattern Recognition.<br><br>Speaker 10: René NATOWICZ, ESIEE-Paris - Université Gustave Eiffel, France<br>Title: Machine Learning in Graphs: Where Are We So Far?<br><br>Speaker 11: Yifei Pu, College of Computer Science, Sichuan University, China <br>Title : Analog Circuit Implementation of Fractional-Order Memristor: Arbitrary-Order Lattice Scaling Fracmemristor.<br><br><br>** NaBIC 2022 Organization**<br>---------------------------<br>General Chairs<br>Ajith Abraham, Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), USA<br>Patrick Siarry, Université Paris-Est Créteil, France<br>Thomas Hanne, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland<br><br>Program Chairs<br>Isabel Jesus, Institute of Engineering of Porto, Portugal<br>Nazar Zaki, United Arab Emirate University, UAE<br><br>Publication Chairs<br>Niketa Gandhi, Machine Intelligence Research Labs, USA<br>Kun Ma, University of Jinan, China<br><br>Special Session Chair<br>Gabriella Casalino, University of Bari, Italy<br><br>Publicity Chairs<br>Pooja Manghirmalani Mishra, Machine Intelligence Research Labs, India<br>Anu Bajaj, Machine Intelligence Research Labs, USA<br><br>If you would like to propose a special session, please email Dr. Gabriella Casalino <<a href="mailto:gabriella.casalino@uniba.it">gabriella.casalino@uniba.it</a>><br><br><br>**Technical Contact**<br>---------------------<br>Dr. Ajith Abraham<br>Email: <a href="mailto:ajith.abraham@ieee.org">ajith.abraham@ieee.org</a><br><div><br></div><div>Thanks & Regards<br>Anu Bajaj<br>Publicity Chair-MIR Labs Annual Conferences-2021, 2022</div>