The International Conference on Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation (UCNC) series is a forum bringing together scientists from many different backgrounds who are united in their interest in novel forms of computation, human-designed computation inspired by nature, and computational aspects of natural processes. UCNC provides a forum for such scientists to meet and discuss their work. The 22nd International Conference on Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation (UCNC 2025) will be held at the Université Côte d'Azur, Valrose Campus, Nice, France on September 1-5, 2025and will continue the tradition of focusing on current important theoretical and experimental results and their critical evaluation.

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference.

The are three submission categories: regular paper, short paper, late-breaking abstract and posters. Regular papers should not exceed 15 pages and are intended for the communication of results of substantial research. Short papers should not exceed 6 pages and are intended to communicate research in progress. Late-breaking abstracts are intended for quite new research and/or research direction proposals. They should not exceed 3 pages. Posters should be one page in A0 format (plus 1 page abstract).

List of Topics

• Molecular computing, Quantum computing, Optical computing, Chaos computing, Physarum computing, Collision-based computing, Self-assembling and self-organizing systems, Super-Turing computation, Cellular automata, Neural computation, Evolutionary computation, Swarm intelligence, Ant algorithms, Artificial immune systems, Artificial life, Membrane computing, Amorphous computing, Computational systems biology, Computational neuroscience, Synthetic biology, Cellular (in-vivo) computing

Committees

Program Committee

• Cristian S. Calude, University of Auckland, New Zealand

• Ho-Lin Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

• Da-Jung Cho, Ajou University, Republic of Korea

• Moreno Falaschi, University of Siena, Italy — LBA & posters chair

• Paola Flocchini, University of Ottawa, Canada

• Enrico Formenti, Université Côte d'Azur, France — co-chair

• Giuditta Franco, University of Verona, Italy

• Daniela Genova, University of North Florida, USA

• Masami Hagiya, University of Tokyo, Japan

• Mika Hirvensalo, University of Turku, Finland

• Natasha Jonoska, University of South Florida, USA

• Jarkko Kari, University of Turku, Finland

• Jongmin Kim, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea

• Ian McQuillan, University of Saskatchewan, Canada

• Luca Manzoni, University of Trieste, Italy — co-chair

• Bruno Martin, Université Côte d'Azur, France

• Ion Petre, University of Turku, Finland

• Zornitza Prodanoff, University of North Florida, USA

• Friedrich Simmel, Technical University of Munich, Germany

• Susan Stepney, University of York, UK

• Yukiko Yamauchi, Kyushu University, Japan

Organizing committee

• Kenza Benjelloun, University of Trieste, Italy

• Christophe Crespelle, Université Côte d'Azur, France

• Enrico Formenti, Université Côte d'Azur, France — chair

• Sandrine Julia, Université Côte d'Azur, France

• Amélia Kunze, Université Côte d'Azur, France

• Davide La Torre, SKEMA Business School, France

• Bruno Martin, Université Côte d'Azur, France

Publication

UCNC2025 proceedings will be published as post-proceedings by Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Venue

The conference will be held in Nice at Valrose Campus. More information on the conference website.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to enrico.formenti@univ-cotedazur.fr