Bio-inspired computing focuses on abstracting computing ideas (data structures, operations with data, ways to control operations, computing models, etc.) from biological systems. The theories in this field have a deep relationship with theories in computer science and mathematics, while the biological implementation of bio-inspired computing models relies on the development of biological techniques heavily. The 9th International Conference on Bio- I nspired Computing: Theories and Applications (BIC-TA 2014) will be held from Octobe r 16–19, 2014, in Wuhan, China, http://2014.bicta.org/.

We invite authors to contribute original high quality research articles on bio-inspired computing, which report theoretical and experimental results on bio-inspired computing, or the application of bio-inspired computing in various fields. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

DNA and molecular computing
DNA nanotechnology
Membrane computing
Evolutionary computation
Neural networks
Artificial immune systems
Computational neuroscience
Swarm intelligence
Biological computing
Artificial life
Data fusion and knowledge discovery
Machine learning
Natural language processing
Complex systems
Bioinformatics and chemoinformatics