International Journal of Natural Computing Research (IJNCR)

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The International Journal of Natural Computing Research (IJNCR) provides a forum for researchers to disseminate knowledge on natural computing and to serve as a reference source for state-of-the-art innovative findings. IJNCR provides a comprehensive view of all aspects of natural computing with emphasis on its main branches.

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Topics Covered

• Artificial chemistry
• Artificial immune systems
• Artificial life
• Artificial neural networks
• Cellular automata
• Fractal geometry
• Genetic and evolutionary algorithms
• Growth and developmental algorithms
• Molecular computing
• Quantum computing
• Swarm intelligence

Editor(s)-in-Chief Biography

Leandro Nunes de Castro received a BSc degree in electrical engineering from the Federal University of Goias (Brazil, 1996) and MSc and PhD degrees in computer engineering from the State University of Campinas (Unicamp) (São Paulo, Brazil) in 1998 and 2001, respectively. He received a MBA (2007) in strategic business management from the Catholic University of Santos. He was a research associate with the Computing Laboratory at UKC (Canterbury, UK) from 2001 to 2002, a visiting lecturer at Unicamp from 2002 to 2003, a senior research fellow at the Wernher von Braun Center for Advanced Research from May to December 2004, and a visiting lecturer at the Universiti Technologi Malaysia (Johor, MY) in September 2005. In May 2003, he joined the Catholic University of Santos (UniSantos) as an assistant professor in computer science and established collaborations with the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) and the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG).

Leandro is currently an associate professor at Mackenzie University. He has broad interest in all natural computing approaches with a particular emphasis on biologically inspired computing including artificial immune systems, artificial neural networks, evolutionary algorithms, swarm intelligence, fractal geometry, and artificial life. He is the main author of Artificial Immune Systems: A New Computational Intelligence Approach published by Springer-Verlag (UK, 2002), one of the editors of Recent Developments in Biologically Inspired Computing published by Idea Group Inc. (USA, 2004), and the author of Fundamentals of Natural Computing: Basic Concepts, Algorithms, and Applications published by CRC Press LLC (June 2006). He has published over seventy-five conference papers, twenty journal papers and six book chapters mostly covering natural computing approaches. He has been a member of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society since 1999, ICARIS (International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems) Steering Committee since 2003, the Brazilian Society for Automation (SBA) since 1998, and the Brazilian Computing Society (SBC) since 2006. In February 2007 he started a company on natural computing, named “NatComp – from Nature to Business”, which he is the Director of Research, Development, and Innovation (RDI).

Editorial Board

Editorial Review Board
Luis Correia, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Carlos Cotta, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
Nareli Cruz-Cortès, Center for Computing Research (CIC) of the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN), Mexico
Fabrício de França, Federal University of ABC, Brazil
Alex Freitas, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK
Rusins Freivalds, University of Latvia, Latvia
Pierluigi Frisco, Heriot-Watt University, UK
Henryk Fuks, Brock University, Canada
Roderich Gross, The University of Sheffield, UK
Pauline Haddow, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Emma Hart, Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland
Arturo Hernandez-Aguirre, Centre for Research in Mathematics, Mexico
Andy Hone, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK
Greg Hornby, University of California Santa Cruz, USA
Sanjeev Kumar, Perot Systems Corporation, USA
André Leier, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland
Efrén Mezura-Montes, LANIA A.C., Mexico
Julian Miller, University of York, UK
Melanie Mitchell, Portland State University, USA
Gina Maira Barbosa de Oliveira, Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil
Beatrice Palano, University of Milan, Italy
Nelisha Pillay, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Alfonso Rodriguez-Platón, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Juan Carlos Seck Tuoh Mora, Autonomous University of Hidalgo, Mexico
Michael L. Simpson, The University of Tennessee, USA
Pietro Speroni di Fenizio, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Gunnar Tufte, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway