** Second Call for Papers - please circulate this CFP to your colleagues and networks ** -- 13th World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing (NaBIC 2021) -- http://www.mirlabs.net/nabic21 http://www.mirlabs.org/nabic21 On the World Wide Web December 15-17,2021 Proceedings of NaBIC'21 will be published in Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, Springer (Indexed in SCOPUS, INSPEC, WTI Frankfurt eG, zbMATH, SCImago). <https://www.springer.com/series/15179> NaBIC 2020 Proceedings: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030736880 History of NaBIC series: http://www.mirlabs.net/nabic21/previous.php **Important Dates** --------------------- Paper submission due: September 30, 2021 Notification of paper acceptance: October 31, 2021 Registration and Final manuscript due: November 15, 2021 Conference: December 15-17, 2020 **About NaBIC'21** ------------------ 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". **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’21 Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nabic2021 **Plenary Talks** ----------------------------- You are welcome to attend 8 Keynote Talks offerred by world-renowned professors and industry leaders. The detailed information is available on conference website. Speaker 1: Antônio de Padua Braga, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil Title: Large margin classification with graph-based models Speaker 2: Juergen Branke, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom Title: Learning to optimise – optimal learning Speaker 3: Oscar Cordon, University of Granada, Spain Title: Hybrid Intelligent Systems for Forensic Anthropology and Human Identification Speaker 4: Kalyanmoy Deb, Michigan State University, USA Title: TBA Speaker 5: Frédéric GUINAND, Le Havre Normandy University, France Title: Swarms of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Speaker 6: Cengiz Toklu, Beykent University, Istanbul, Turkey Title: Hybrid Algorithms. Applications to Structural Mechanics Speaker 7: Günther Raidl, Technische Universität Wien, Austria Title: Combinatorial Optimization Meets (Reinforcement) Learning **NaBIC 2021 Organization** --------------------------- General Chairs Ajith Abraham, Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), USA Andries Engelbrecht, Stellenbosch University, South Africa Fabio Scotti, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Program Chairs Giancarlo Fortino, Università della Calabria, Italy Virgilijus Sakalauskas, Vilnius University, Lithuania Sabri Pllana, Linnaeus University, Sweden **Technical Contact** --------------------- Dr. Ajith Abraham Email: ajith.abraham(a)ieee.org Thanks and regards Publicity Chair NaBIC 2021 Anu Bajaj *Research Associate:* *Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs)* <https://www.mirlabs.org/> Scientific Network for Innovation and Research Excellence 11, 3rd Street NW P.O. Box 2259 Auburn, Washington 98071, USA