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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">-- 12th World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired
Computing (NaBIC 2020) --</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">December 14-16, 2020</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Indexed by: SCOPUS, Thomson ISI Web of Science, DBLP etc.</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">History of NaBIC series: <a href="http://www.mirlabs.net/nabic20/previous.php" style="color:blue">http://www.mirlabs.net/nabic20/previous.php</a></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">SoCPaR - NaBIC 2019 Proceedings: <a href="https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-49345-5" style="color:blue">https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-49345-5</a></p>

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& UGC Approved Proceedings</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">All accepted and registered papers will be published in AISC
Series of Springer, indexed in ISI Proceedings, EI-Compendex, DBLP, SCOPUS,
Google Scholar and Springerlink. 1.pdf)</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">** Important Dates *</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Paper submission due: October 15, 2020</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Notification of paper acceptance: November 15, 2020</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Conference: December 14-16, 2020</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">**About NaBIC'20**</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">After the success of the previous 11 events, we welcome your
participation and contribution to the 12th World Congress on Nature and
Biologically Inspired Computing (NaBIC 2020) to be held online during December
14-16, 2020. NaBIC 2020 is organized to provide a forum for researchers,
engineers, and students from all over the world, to discuss the
state-of-the-art in machine intelligence, and address various issues on
building up human friendly machines by learning from nature. The conference
theme is “Nurturing Intelligent Computing Towards Advancement of Machine
Intelligence”.</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">**Author guidelines*</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The papers should be organized so as to accommodate
abstract, introduction, state-of-the-art, objective, used methodology, obtained
results and references.</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Submitted papers should be original and contain
contributions of theoretical, experimental or application nature, or be unique
experience reports.</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Proceedings are expected to be published by:</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, which is now
indexed by ISI Proceedings, DBLP. Ulrich's, EI-Compendex, SCOPUS, Zentralblatt
Math, MetaPress, Springerlink</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Papers maximum length is 10 pages. </p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">- Papers must be formatted according to Springer format
(Latex/word) available at: <a href="http://www.springer.com/series/11156" style="color:blue">http://www.springer.com/series/11156</a></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">**Submission system**</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">NaBIC 2019: <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nabic2020" style="color:blue">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nabic2020</a></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">**NaBIC 2020 Organization**</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">General Chairs</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Ajith Abraham, Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR
Labs), USA</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Thomas Hanne, University of Applied Sciences and Arts
Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Oscar Castillo, Tijuana Institute Technology, Mexico </p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Tatiane Nogueira Rios, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Tzung-Pei Hong, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">**Technical Contact**</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Dr. Ajith Abraham</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Email: <a href="mailto:ajith.abraham@ieee.org">ajith.abraham@ieee.org</a></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Dr. Jyotshna Dongardive</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">University of Mumbai, India</p>

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