Topics include, but are not limited to:

Theoretical contributions to:

• affective computing
• ambient intelligence
• ant colony optimization
• approximate reasoning
• artificial immune systems
• artificial life
• cellular automata
• cognitive computing
• cognitive robotics
• collective intelligence
• combinatorial optimization
• computational intelligence
• computing with words
• developmental systems
• DNA computing
• evolutionary algorithms
• evolutionary computing
• evolutionary game theory
• fuzzy logic
• fuzzy sets
• fuzzy systems
• genetic algorithms
• genetic programming
• global optimization
• granular computing
• heuristics
• intelligent agents
• intelligent control
• intelligent manufacturing
• intelligent systems
• intelligent user interfaces
• machine intelligence
• membrane computing
• metaheuristics
• molecular programming
• multiobjective optimization
• neural networks
• quantum communication
• quantum computing
• quantum information
• rough sets
• soft computing
• swarm intelligence
• swarm robotics
• unconventional computing

Applications of natural computing to:

• algorithmics
• bioinformatics
• cryptography
• design
• economics
• graphics
• hardware
• human-computer interaction
• knowledge discovery
• learning
• logistics
• medicine
• natural language processing
• pattern recognition
• planning and scheduling
• programming
• telecommunications
• web intelligence