The 12th International Conference on Bio-inspired Computing: Theories and Applications(BIC-TA 2017) will be held in Harbin, China from Dec. 1 to 3,2017. Located in the center of Northeast Asia, Harbin is called the bright pearl on the Bridge of Eurasia Land, and it is also an important hub of EurasiaL and Bridge and air corridor. The special historical course and geographical position has contributed to Harbin, the beautiful city with an exotic tone,which not only brings together the historical culture of northern ethnic minorities, but also combines western and eastern culture. It is a famous historical and tourist city in China, with many beautiful names such as “The City of Culture”, “The City of Music”, “Ice City”,“A Pearl under the Neck of the Swan”,“Eastern Moscow”and“Eastern Little Paris”.

BIC-TA 2017 serves as a forum for scientists, engineers, educators, and practitioners to exchange the latest advantages in theories, technologies, and applications of bio-inspired computing theories and related areas. Prospective authors are invited to contribute high-quality papers (10-15 pages) to BIC-TA 2017 through Online Submission System. Papers presented at BIC-TA 2017 will be published in Springer’s Communications in Computer and Information Science (indexed by EI, DBLP, ISI, Google Scholar,Scopus, SCImago)and some high-quality papers will be selected for special issues in SCI-indexed International Journals. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Theories:
·Swarmrobotics
·Artificiallife
·Bioinformatics
·Cognitivescience
·Computationla neuroscience
·Socialevolution
·Optimizationtheory and methods
·Immunesystem theory
·Evolutionarycomputation
·GrammaticalEvolution
·Naturalcomputing
·Simulationand emulation of nature
·Multi-agentbased complex systems
·Collectiveintelligence
·Socialintelligence
·Socialcomputing
·Swarm-based techniques
·Swarm computing models
·Particle swarm optimization
·Ant colony optimization
·Fish school search

Algorithms:
·Molecularcomputing
·DNAcomputing
·Quantumcomputing
·Granularitycomputing
·Optical computing
·Chaos computing
·Self-assembling and self-organizing systems
·Super-Turing computation
·Cellular automata
·Neural computing
·Membrane computing
·PSO algorithms
·ACO algorithms
·FSS algorithms
·Bees algorithm
·Artificial Bee Colony Algorithms
·Fireworks algorithms
·Brain Strom Optimizationalgorithm
·Cultural algorithms
·Genetic algorithms
·Co-evolution algorithms
·Memetic algorithms
·Evolutionary programming

Models:
·Computationalswarm models
·Multi-objectiveoptimization
·Evolutionaryintelligent agents
·Constrainedenvironment
·InformationSystem
·Analyticmodels of emergent behaviors
·Classifiersystem
·Evolvingfuzzy system
·Evolvingneural networks
·Modelsfor social insets
·Artificial immune system
·Socio-inspiredcomputingmodels
·Hybridizationsof algorithms
·Parallelization of swarm-based algorithms
·Parallelization of evolutionarycomputing
·Computing systems biology

Applications:
·Patternrecognition
·Deeplearningand machinelearning
·Intelligentcontrol
·Intelligent Energy Systems and Networks
·Financialprediction
·Informationsecurity
·Webintelligence
·Datamining
·Knowledge discovery
·Neural system
·2Dor 3D virtual swarms
·Virtualreality
·Audioor Image processing
·Telecommunicationssystems
·Evolutionaryrobotics
·Automaticcontrol
·Routing
·Scheduling
·Cyberneticsand self-organization
·Intelligenttraffics
·Simulations
·Electronicssystems
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Important Dates:

*Specialsession proposals deadline: June 15,2017
*Papersubmission deadline: July 15, 2017
*Notificationof acceptance: August 15, 2017
*Camera-readycopy and author registration: September15, 2017
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Information and Enquiry:

*Tel.:+86-18686862018
*Email:BICTA2017@126.com
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*Steering Committees:
Guangzhao Cui, Zhengzhou University of Light Industry, China
Kalyanmoy Deb, Michigan State University, USA
Miki Hirabayashi, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan
Joshua Knowles, University of Manchester, UK
Thom LaBean, North Carolina State University, USA
Jiuyong Li, University of South Australia, Australia
Kenli Li, University of Hunan, China
Giancarlo Mauri, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Yongli Mi, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Atulya K. Nagar, Liverpool Hope University, UK
Linqiang Pan, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Gheorghe Paun, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania
Mario J. Perez-Jimenez, University of Sevilla, Spain
K.G. Subramanian, Liverpool Hope University, UK

*Program Committee Chairs:
Hongwei Mo, Harbin Engineering University, China
Linqiang Pan, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

*Organizing Chair:
Lifang Xu, Harbin Engineering University, China

*Registration Chair:
Yu Lei, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
Yue Wu, Xidian University, China

*Publication Chair:
Tao Song, China University of Petroleum, China

*Publicity Chairs:
Chaomin Luo, University of Detroit Mercy, USA
Maozu Guo, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture
Ke Tang, University of Science and Technology, China
Maoguo Gong, Xidian University, China
Xingquan Zuo, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunication
Qirong Tang, Tongji University, China