Conference Info
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 and experimental developments and their critical evaluation.
Aims and Scope
Papers and poster presentations are sought in all areas that relate to unconventional computation and natural computation. Both theoretical and experimental papers are welcome.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Molecular computing
- Quantum computing
- Neural computation
- Evolutionary computation
- Robotics
- 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