<p><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">** Final Call for Papers - please circulate this CFP to your</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">colleagues and networks **</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">-- </span><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">15th World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing<br>(NaBIC 2023)</b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"> --</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">* Onsite and On the World Wide Web *</b><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><a href="https://thapar-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2oeusGtbILKh5tI88pDZ_63ko6zhrI2Q-uBycFsD_Uj7z9IRzigERWaSjpS_7P7J99xVh8g8hlTqdhN1jlsFilnXmgnSXcgz0yjy73r2-ubii6Lru2SanQwfzIMmcBjHTsbJwDRkPUOQXlwqe6QnDVY5eLjfs3lT4AUef9ioVj4PWX4K4Apfygm4" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">http://www.mirlabs.net/nabic23</a><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><a href="https://thapar-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2GnC8AV4k_zM09OY3MHoP41c9xr-xczKmmoqJwbyiEX729IRzigEy2Z33QDjuBTgsqscjlIK2Y1Em9_DIcx-fjS8d3zZlbsDxs9OSiZxvGkGc5dJHllg4kGZy8w2pmZI5VywU5-91m-lDiz1CmvoYNsKHi-UGL73GsAfZOqEzY9HPjSjCM_IfplA" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">http://www.mirlabs.org/nabic23</a><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">NaBIC 2023 Theme</b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">: Nature Inspired Approaches in Generative AI</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">==============================</span><wbr style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">======================</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">* Venue details and accommodation details are now published *</b><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Onsite Venues:</b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"> Olten, Switzerland; Porto, Portugal; Kaunas, Lithuania; Kochi, India</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Please visit:</b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"> </span><a href="https://thapar-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2Ihwun6RNA-VGdK0Xe4Lxxu8JMCB1XR1MwZmZyAheB9z59IRzigHqUDUeCXL-m-q-P_nS5yvybesEjNLQQY0TyTAScdEfsuc0vJJF6wWazCGwY8_4rkg_w8tS_4Namv8K7ag6Jz-ObIprHctZE22E-pJgv5JMQXxexYpgCmXbnvvMzx0kQ-BZ_TMHNax_cdN7" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">https://mirlabs.org/<wbr>nabic23/venue2.php</a><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">December 13-15,  2023</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Organized Special Sessions and Workshops Details:</b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"> </span><a href="https://thapar-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2SgVVV1LD_PCemDBVnczZl3tUQzEvzD2TpQc3x4EUnrH79IRzigFyccda6mDXniEXOHGIi-uqxjvYtTbs2CSpeevfNVxYGeWC5UB0gtQOLtvOS0y34ffHta4bBN9DHV5omuIPTcq1nPGvDq05q3-qPU1bwUOt1QOoG2MrHcz76aCIycnFSwdVUr05AI88gb4" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">https://mirlabs.org/<wbr>nabic23/cfss.php</a><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">NaBIC 2023 will be a hybrid conference that will run fully in-person</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">and fully virtually to take advantage of the best the two modalities offer. Besides regular paper presentations, the technical programme will include 8-10 plenary lectures and poster</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">sessions. NaBIC 2023 Organising Committee also recognizes the benefits</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">of virtual conferences allowing participation at a cheaper rate. This</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">allows a higher number of research scholars and students to attend.</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Selected authors can attend and present the papers</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">virtually or in one of the three venues in Europe and Asia.</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Proceedings of NaBIC'23 </b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">will be published with Springer Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems (LNNS) series. (</span><a href="https://thapar-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2o0XIiOO6F2N-cNKmeUWnditsiIr1aOZCEghZT2_qd9n99IRzigFq3LpX5GGxAobgyMNH4kxChN80RQz6Bnn1hulb7OZ05K7JihAqZQIHduEQs_Wnqu7EkrHm7Y7NECzrTljCQ2EiFjBej13VSt0s7Z5RzOzRtcB00mVCNteKm-zY1MWQiMWROcxg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">https://www.springer.com/<wbr>series/15179</a><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">)</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Proceedings of NaBIC'22: </span><a href="https://thapar-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2cgpqEePiehIwOCa_yJbqA8-vnUgxSlwC3PChtXzmmwP_9IRzigEXq6BziRor3x2bqJ985D_o_5ESatwftMi8cg9A4FITeY2FmiyTCGnyq7ikLiSbv41G9TkfmlXc47fVzu6GsXcqd83vWuhQFJ4jPa0Me_x3tJ-phXovrFL3x0jIqQk4yfrKH524ZCMcKtMPzk7rhQDi-MX4NtQvV3AaSLTJ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">https://link.<wbr>springer.com/book/10.1007/978-<wbr>3-030-96302-6</a><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"></p><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><b>Indexed by:</b> SCOPUS, INSPEC, WTI Frankfurt eG, zbMATH, SCImago, DBLP, EI Compendex, Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST), SpringerLink<br><br><b>History of NaBIC series:</b> <a href="https://thapar-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2fJ0XifmzvdIlG4PZ_Mcud7lcSWjR-wW2_CwdO_blGb8A9YRzigEceSze2nVF76bPv_prbDvDExxBMt99eJ80lrn59QJABiO_gs8LXtM14Dxfgc4e41r1O59Zj9yOQWLv_fAT-aoz1wKHSTYQmwaXRYWoW2mharW2b4otg02b0c-QSOTVBAKcN0kh9MBA0BPz_g" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://www.mirlabs.<wbr>net/nabic23/previous.php</a><br><br><b>**Important Dates**</b><br>---------------------<br>Paper submission due: September 30, 2023<br>Notification of paper acceptance: October 31, 2023<br>Registration and Final manuscript due: November 10, 2023<br>Conference: December 13-15, 2023<br><br><b>**About NaBIC'23**</b><br>-----------------------------<br><br>After the success of the previous 14 events, we welcome<br>your participation and contribution to the 15th World Congress<br>on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing (NaBIC 2023)<br>to be held in hybrid mode during December 13-15, 2023. NaBIC 2023 is<br>organized to provide a forum for researchers, engineers, and<br>students from all over the world, to discuss state-of-the-art<br>machine intelligence, and address various issues on building up<br>human-friendly machines by learning from nature. The conference<br>theme is "Nature Inspired Approaches in Generative AI".<br><br><b>**Topics (not limited to)**</b><br>---------------------------<br>Industrial Applications of Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing:-<br>Computing<br>Information Retrieval<br>Robotics<br>Fault Diagnosis<br>Bioinformatics<br>Web Intelligence<br>Speech Processing<br>Business Information Systems<br>Knowledge Management<br>Evolvable Hardware<br>Image and Signal Processing<br>Pattern Recognition<br>Traffic and Transportation System<br>Decision Analysis<br>Data Mining<br>Computer Vision<br>Information and Communication Technology<br>Control System<br><br>Innovative approaches:-<br>Artificial Neural Networks<br>Biodegradability Prediction<br>Cellular Automata<br>Evolutionary Algorithms<br>Swarm Intelligence<br>Emergent Systems<br>Artificial Life<br>Lindenmayer Systems<br>Digital Organisms<br>Artificial Immune Systems<br>Membrane Computing<br>Simulated Annealing<br>Communication Networks and Protocols<br>Computing with Words<br>Common Sense Computing<br>Cognitive Modeling and Architecture<br>Connectionism<br>Metaheuristics<br>Hybrid Approaches<br>Quantum Computing<br>Nano Computing<br><br><b>**Submission Guidelines**</b><br>-------------------------<br>Submission of paper should be made through the submission page<br>from the conference web page. Please refer to the conference website<br>for guidelines to prepare your manuscript.<br><br><b>Paper format templates:</b><br><a href="https://thapar-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2HA0bbL8zZdljfnYpSe2UPK-RFR33DoHK2CQynZ7y9o0C9YRzigE__5LnKAcEv5bDFxn2fMVrqUM4mN2nixogMJTzvutthnzi651JDdDHVs4PqXbX8-TVd9mtu5rqbYjHZaSnkGZw50BF8hqyuo9NI4yV_UaJdzmeC565qyDSB_4-h1vd_UPcpuLacKwMDf6CJtej7fttB4fbci_7hqLqQWHkigcV0HNbhaYZ33U9fnhu-Z_NF04" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">https://www.springer.com/de/<wbr>authors-editors/book-authors-<wbr>editors/manuscript-<wbr>preparation/5636#c3324</a><br><br><b>NaBIC’23 Submission Link</b>:<br><a href="https://thapar-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/24xAR68QCz8xsyEYQ7Zu6Q_Hx-3ujkFLd4EohhZ56JpIE9YRzigF7ENQBUP034PWuHqdRiqhf9Da8K_QMXNIgMr8leyEa-b1LQXSI6U_n_R0L30N-Mph4c1PZRPCfUhQrFZDxaxlrK4ZWETult_60NLC8mKHp8PNmF08dlIE5Q9jzizcDoKwf_LnffOhC2z9gNpZWlccH" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">https://cmt3.research.<wbr>microsoft.com/NABIC2023</a><br><br><br><b>**Plenary Talks**</b><br>------------------------------<wbr>----------<br>You are welcome to attend 12 Keynote Talks offered by world-renowned professors and industry leaders. The detailed information is available on conference website.<br><br>Speaker 1: Christine Zarges, Aberystwyth University, UK<br>Speaker 2: Theresa Schmiedel, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Basel, Switzerland<br>Speaker 3: Ke Feng, Singapore-ETH Centre, The National University of Singapore, Singapore<br>Speaker 4: Stefka Fidanova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria<br>Speaker 5: Diego Oliva, Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico<br>Speaker 6: Sebastian Ventura, University of Cordoba, Spain<br>Speaker 7: Ana Maria Madureira, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal<br>Speaker 8: Nuno Bettencourt , Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal<br>Speaker 9: Aboul Ella Hassanien, Cairo University, Egypt<br>Speaker 10: Milan Tuba, Singidunum University, Serbia<br>Speaker 11: Dalia Kriksciuniene, Vilnius University / Kaunas University of Applied Sciences, Lithuania<br>Speaker 12: Kusum Deep, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India<br><br><br><b>** NaBIC 2023 Organization**</b><br>---------------------------<div><br><b>General Chairs</b><br>Ajith Abraham, Machine Intelligence Research Labs, USA<br>Artūras Kaklauskas, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania<br><br><b>Program Chairs</b><br>Andries Engelbrecht, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa<br>Oscar Castillo, Tijuana Institute of Technology, Mexico<br><br><b>Publication Chair</b><br>Anu Bajaj, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, India<br><br><b>Web Services Chair</b><br>Kun Ma, University of Jinan, China<br><br><b>Publicity Chair</b><br>Pooja Manghirmalani Mishra, University of Mumbai, India<br><br><br><b>Note:</b> If you would like to propose a special session, please email Dr. Anu Bajaj <<a href="mailto:er.anubajaj@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">er.anubajaj@gmail.com</a>> with a CC to Ms. Mabrouka Salmi <<a href="mailto:salmimabrouka7@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">salmimabrouka7@gmail.com</a>><br><br><b>**Technical Contact**</b><br>---------------------<br>Dr. Ajith Abraham<br>Email: <a href="mailto:ajith.abraham@ieee.org" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">ajith.abraham@ieee.org</a></div></div>