The 2021 17th International Conference on Natural Computation, Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (ICNC-FSKD 2021) will be held from 24-26 July 2021 in Guiyang, China. Guiyang is the capital of Guizhou province in the southwest of China. Surrounded by mountains and forests, Guiyang is a popular summer resort destination with a mild climate. Guiyang is home to more than 30 minority ethnic groups, including Miao, Buyi, Dong and Hui, with unique folk culture and traditions. Qingyan Ancient Town retains the buildings of the Ming and Qing dynasties, with minority ethnic villages. Tianhe Lake Scenic Area boasts mountains, rivers, karst caves, waterfalls, natural stone bridges, valleys and places of historical interest. Jiaxiu Tower, also called the First Scholar's Tower, inspired a great number of writers and celebrities in the past. Huangguoshu is rated as "the most beautiful place in China" by China National Geographic. Fanjing Mountain in Guizhou is known as "Buddhist Holy Land" and "Fantian Pure Land".

As with the past ICNC-FSKD conferences, all papers in conference proceedings will be submitted to EI Compendex, Scopus, and ISTP (ISI Proceedings). Extended versions of selected best papers will appear in SCIE-indexed and Ei-indexed international journals. ICNC-FSKD 2021 proceedings will be published in the Springer Series "Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing" (pending).

ICNC-FSKD is a premier international forum for scientists and researchers to present the state of the art of data mining and intelligent methods inspired from nature, particularly biological, linguistic, and physical systems, with applications to computers, circuits, systems, control, communications, and more. This is an exciting and emerging interdisciplinary area in which a wide range of theory and methodologies are being investigated and developed to tackle complex and challenging problems. The registration fee includes proceedings, lunches, dinners, banquet, coffee breaks, and all technical sessions.

Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts written in English. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by experts in the field based on originality, significance, quality and clarity. Authors should use the Latex style files or MS-Word templates obtained from the conference site to format their papers. Authors should submit PDF files of their manuscripts via the online submission system. Submissions imply that the papers have not been submitted elsewhere and will not be submitted elsewhere for publications before the review decisions of this conference. Topics include:
Feedforward Neural Networks
Support Vector Machines and Statistical Neural Network Models
Principal and Independent Component Analysis
Self-Organizing Maps
Neurodynamics and Neuro-Biological Systems
Other Theoretical Topics in Neural Computation
Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms
Particle Swarm Optimization and Ant Colony Optimization
Multi-Objective Optimization
Artificial Life and Artificial Immune Systems
Nonlinear Phenomena, Chaos, Complex Networks and Systems
Intelligent Agents
Quantum Computing
Molecular and DNA Computing
Membrane Computing and Cultural Algorithms
Bio-Inspired Circuits and Systems, Silicon Cochlear, Retina and Neural Prosthetics
Other Topics in Natural Computation Theory and Algorithms
Natural Computation in Pattern Recognition and Diagnostics
Natural Computation in Robotics and Control
Natural Computation in Signal Processing and Multimedia
Other Natural Computation Applications
Fuzzy Theory and Models
Rough Set
Soft Computing and Granular Computation
Fuzzy Pattern Recognition and Diagnostics
Fuzzy Robotics and Control
Fuzzy Signal Processing and Multimedia
Fuzzy Optimization, Design, and Modeling
Uncertainty Management
Other Fuzzy Applications
Association Rules
Classification
Clustering
Privacy Preserving Data Mining
Statistical Methods for Data Mining
Parallel/Distributed Data Mining
Knowledge Management
Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
Other Topics in Knowledge Discovery Foundations
High-Dimensional Data Mining
Temporal Data Mining
Bioinformatics and Bio-Medical Informatics, Genomics, Proteomics
Big Data
Databases and Applications
Semi-Structured/Unstructured Data Mining
Multimedia Mining
Web and Text Data Mining
Graphic Model Discovery
Data Warehousing and OLAP
Pattern Recognition and Diagnostics
Knowledge Discovery in Other Domains
Data Engineering
Signal Processing and Multimedia
Communications and Networking
Software Engineering
Automation, Robotics, and Control
Distributed Systems and Computer Hardware
Computer Applications
Other Topics in Information Technology for Knowledge Discovery


Important Dates

Submission Deadline 10 May 2021
Review Decision Notification 10 June 2021
Author Registration and Final Paper Submission 30 June 2021


Paper Format

All papers must be written in English. Papers should be prepared using the Springer conference proceedings template, which is available in both LaTeX and Microsoft Word. Please download the instructions and sample file for the format.

There are no page limits for initial submissions. For accepted papers, one registration covers 8 pages and any additional pages will incur extra page charges.