** 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**
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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**
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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)**
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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**
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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-preparation/5636#c3324

NaBIC’21 Submission Link:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nabic2021

**Plenary Talks**
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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**
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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**
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Dr. Ajith Abraham
Email: ajith.abraham@ieee.org