UCNC 2026 - CALL FOR PAPERS



UNCONVENTIONAL COMPUTATION AND NATURAL COMPUTATION 2026



June 22-26, 2026

Trieste, Italy



Website: https://ucnc2026.units.it



* Regular and Short Papers

Submission deadline March 13, 2026

Notification of acceptance April 30, 2026

Final version for proceedings May 8, 2026



* Posters and Late-Breaking Abstracts

Submission deadline for poster May 8, 2026

Notification of acceptance May 29, 2026



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BACKGROUND

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The International Conference Series on Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation (UCNC) provides a forum bringing together scientists from many different backgrounds who are interested in novel forms of computation, human-designed computation inspired by nature, and computational aspects of natural processes.



The 23rd International Conference on Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation (UCNC 2026) will be held at the University of Trieste in Trieste, Italy, from June 22, 2026 to June 26, 2026. It will continue the tradition of focusing on current important theoretical, applied and experimental developments and their critical evaluation.





AUTHORS GUIDELINES

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Accepted papers will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series (LNCS) as post-proceedings.

Authors are invited to submit original research papers through the EasyChair submission system: https://ucnc2026.units.it/submissions.html .

Regular papers should not exceed 16 pages, while short papers should not exceed 8 pages.

Papers must be submitted in Portable Document Format (PDF) and must be formatted in the LNCS style: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines .



Papers must not be under simultaneous consideration by any other conference with published proceedings.

All accepted papers, late-breaking abstracts, and posters must be presented at the conference by at least one registered author.



Please note that these guidelines apply only to the main conference track; satellite workshops have their own submission procedures and publication arrangements.



Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions for publication in a special issue of "Natural Computing", an international journal by Springer-Verlag.



WORKSHOPS

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* Reaction Systems

* Quantum Computing

* Cellular Automata and Boolean Automata Networks



UCNC Topics of interest

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The topics of interests of UCNC 2026 include (but are not restricted to):

* Molecular computing

* Quantum computing

* Neural computation

* Evolutionary computation

* Optical computing

* Chaos computing

* Collision-based computing

* Self-assembling and self-organizing systems

* Super-Turing computation

* Cellular automata

* Boolean automata networks

* Discrete dynamical systems and symbolic dynamics

* Reaction systems

* Swarm intelligence

* Ant algorithms

* Artificial immune systems

* Artificial life

* Membrane computing

* Amorphous computing

* Physarium computing

* Computational systems biology

* Computational neuroscience

* Synthetic biology

* Cellular (in-vivo) computing