The 5th International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC’09) and
the 6th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge
Discovery (FSKD’09) will be held from 14 to 16 August 2009, in Tianjin,
China. We cordially invite you to submit a paper(s) and/or organize an
invited session. Due to numerous requests, the submission deadline is
extended to 10 March 2009.

Selected best papers will appear in SCI-indexed journal(s), such as
the Soft Computing journal. The rest of the accepted papers will appear
in conference proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society and
will be indexed by both EI and ISTP, as well as the IEEE Xplore.

Tianjin is one of the four municipalities in China. It is a financial
and commercial center in North China and is known for its numerous
travel resources and rich history, such as the Huangyaguan Great Wall,
Dule Temple, Panshan Mountain and Food Street.

ICNC’09-FSKD’09 aims to provide a high-level international forum for
scientists and researchers to present the state of the art of
intelligent methods inspired from nature, particularly biological and
physical systems, with applications to data mining, manufacturing,
design, 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.

Previously, the joint conferences in 2005 through 2008 each attracted
over 3000 submissions from more than 30 countries.

To promote international participation of researchers from outside the
country/region where the conference is held (i.e., China), foreign
experts are encouraged to propose invited sessions. The first author
of each paper in an invited session must not be affiliated with an
organization in China. All papers in the invited sessions will be
marked as „Invited Paper”. One organizer for each invited session with
at least 6 registered papers will enjoy an honorarium of USD 400.
Invited session organizers will solicit submissions, conduct reviews
and recommend accept/reject decisions on the submitted papers. Each
invited session proposal should include the following information:
(1) the name, bio, and contact information of each invited session
organizer; (2) the title and a short synopsis of the invited session.
Please send your proposal to Invited Session Chair byzhang@google.com

For more information, visit the conference web page:

http://www.icnc09-fskd09.tjut.edu.cn

If you have any questions after visiting the conference web page,
please email the secretariat at icnc2009@tjut.edu.cn

Join us at this major event in historic Tianjin !!!