The ICTCC Conference is a place for highly original ideas about how the nature is going to shape computing systems of the future. Hence, it focuses on rigorous approaches and cutting-edge solutions, which encompass three classes of major methods:

- Those that take inspiration from nature for the development of novel problem solving techniques;
- Those that are based on the use of computers or networks to synthesize natural phenomena; and
- Those that employ natural materials (e.g., molecules,) to compute or communicate.

Its purpose is to make a formal basis more accessible to researchers, scientists, professionals and students as well as developers and practitioners in ICT by providing them with state-of-the-art research results, applications, opportunities and future trends.

We hope that the conference will receive many papers and the participation of a large number of students, researchers, and professionals from all over the world.
Original papers are solicited for the ICTCC 2016. In particular, theoretical contributions should be formally stated and justified, and practical applications should be based on their firm formal basis. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
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SCOPE OF TOPICS:
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Autonomic computing/communicating
Amorphous computing
Biologically-inspired computing/communicating
Cellular automata
Cellular computing
Collective intelligence in computing/communicating
Collision-based computing
Computation/communication based on chaos and dynamical systems
Computation based on physical principles such as relativistic, optical, spatial, collision-based computing
Context-aware computing/communicating
DNA computing
Evolutionary computing
Fuzzy computing
Hypercomputation
Massive parallel computing
Membrane computing
Molecular computing
Neural computing
Optical computing
Physarum computing
Quantum computing
Relativistic computing
Spatial computing
Swam intelligence in computing/communicating
Wetware computing
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HIGHLIGHTS
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The event is endorsed by the European Alliance for Innovation, a leading community-based organization devoted to the advancement of innovation in the field of ICT

All accepted papers will be published by Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library, one of the world's largest scientific libraries
Proceedings will be submitted for indexing by Google Scholar, ISI, EI Compendex, Scopus and many more.
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IMPORTANT DATES
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Workshop proposals due: 01 April 2015
Tutorial/Industry track proposal deadline: 1 August 2015
Demo/Poster proposal deadline: 1 August 2015
Submission deadline: 28 October 2015 (Extended)
Notification of acceptance: 1 December 2015
Camera-ready deadline: 15 January 2016
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PUBLICATION
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Official conference proceedings of ICTCC 2014 will appear in the Lecture Notes of ICST (LNICST) series jointly published by ICST and Springer and indexed in DBLP, Google Scholar, ISI Proceedings, EI.

All papers, but particularly those nominated for the Best Paper competition, will be automatically considered for publication in an expanded form in the special issues of ELSEVIER Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS) Journal (indexed in SCIE), ACM/Springer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) journal (indexed in SCIE) and EAI endorsed Transactions on Context-Aware Systems and Applications