Welcome to the 2014 Sixth World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing (NaBIC'14)
The Congress is organized to discuss the state-of-the-art as well as to address various issues with respect to building up of computers in man's image. The theme for NaBIC 2014 is "Nurturing Intelligent Computing Towards Advancement of Machine Intelligence". The congress will provide an excellent opportunity for scientists, academicians and engineers to present and discuss the latest scientific results and methods. The conference includes keynote address and contributed papers.
The papers were solicited in the following areas:
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
Industrial Applications of Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing
The aim is to bring together worldwide leading researchers, developers, practitioners and educators interested in advancing the state of the art in Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing for exchanging knowledge that encompasses a broad range of disciplines among various distinct communities. It is hoped that researchers will bring new prospect for collaboration across disciplines and gain idea facilitating novel breakthrough.
The conference will provide an exceptional platform to the researchers to meet and discuss the utmost solutions, scientific results and methods in solving intriguing problems with people that are actively involved in these evergreen fields.
NaBIC 2014 received contributions from more than 28 countries. Each paper was sent to at least 5 reviewers from our International Program Committee in a standard peer-review evaluation and based on the recommendations 52 papers were included in the proceedings. NaBIC 2014 is Technically sponsored by IEEE Computational Intelligence Society - Portugal Chapter, IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society - Spain Chapter and Technically Supported by the IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Soft Computing. Many people have collaborated and worked hard to make NaBIC 2014 a success. First and foremost, we would like to thank all the authors for submitting their papers to the conference, for their presentations and discussions during the conference. Our thanks to Program Committee members and reviewers, who carried out the most difficult work by carefully evaluating the submitted papers.
We wish all NaBIC 2014 delegates an exciting meeting and a pleasant stay in Porto. Enjoy the Congress!
General Chairs
Ana Maria Madureira, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
Ajith Abraham, Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), USA
Program Chairs
Emilio Corchado, University of Salamanca, Spain
Leonilde Varela, Leonilde Varela, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Workshops and Special Sessions Chairs
Amélia Loja , Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon, Portugal
Eduardo Solteiro Pires, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Portugal