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NCTA is sponsored by INSTICC – Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication

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Neural computation and artificial neural networks, especially in relation to deep learning, have seen an explosion of interest over the recent decades, and are being successfully applied across an extraordinary range of problem domains, in areas as diverse as finance, medicine, engineering, geology and physics, in problems of complex dynamics and complex behavior prediction, classification or control. Several architectures, learning strategies and algorithms have been introduced in this highly dynamic field in the last couple of decades. Nowadays, having reached notable scientific and applicative maturity, neural computation and related techniques are considered as major basis toward the completion of intelligent artificial systems. This conference intends to be a major forum for scientists, engineers and practitioners interested in the study, analysis, design, modeling and implementation of neural computing systems, both theoretically and in a broad range of application fields.

CONFERENCE TOPICS


  • Adaptive Architectures and Mechanisms
  • Applications: Image Processing and Artificial Vision, Pattern Recognition, Decision Making, Industrial and Real World Applications, Financial Applications, Neural Prostheses and Medical Applications, Neural Based Data Mining and Complex Information Process
  • Complex Artificial Neural Network Based Systems and Dynamics
  • Computational Neuroscience
  • Convolutional Neural Networks
  • Deep Learning
  • Higher Level Artificial Neural Network Based Intelligent Systems
  • Learning Paradigms and Algorithms
  • Neural Approaches and Neural Architectures
  • Recurrent Neural Networks
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Bio-inspired models and solutions
  • Stability and Instability in Artificial Neural Networks
  • Stochastic Learning and Statistical Algorithms
  • Support Vector Machines and Kernel Methods
  • Neural based Implementation, Applications and Solutions

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

NCTA 2026 will have several invited keynote speakers, who are internationally recognized experts in their areas. Their names are not yet confirmed.

PAPER SUBMISSION

Authors can submit their work in the form of a complete paper or an abstract, but please note that accepted abstracts are presented but not published in the proceedings of the conference. Complete papers can be submitted as a Regular Paper, representing completed and validated research, or as a Position Paper, portraying a short report of work in progress or an arguable opinion about an issue discussing ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research focused on one of the conference topic areas.

Authors should submit a paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, addressing one or several of the conference areas or topics. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable. To facilitate the double-blind paper evaluation method, authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors, including the authors’ personal details, the acknowledgments section of the paper and any other reference that may disclose the authors’ identity.

When submitting a complete paper please note that only original papers should be submitted. Authors are advised to read INSTICC's ethical norms regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism thoroughly before submitting and must make sure that their submissions do not substantially overlap work which has been published elsewhere or simultaneously submitted to a journal or another conference with proceedings. Papers that contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews. Authors should also avoid using an excessive number of self-citations and an excessive number of co-authors.

All papers must be submitted through the online submission platform PRIMORIS and should follow the instructions and templates that can be found under Guidelines and Templates. After the paper submission has been successfully completed, authors will receive an automatic confirmation e-mail.

PUBLICATIONS

All accepted complete papers will be published by Springer in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference.
The proceedings will be abstracted/indexed in DBLP, Google Scholar, EI-Compendex, INSPEC, Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST), Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals and Series, Mathematical Reviews, SCImago, Scopus and zbMATH. CCIS volumes are also submitted for the inclusion in ISI Proceedings.

IMPORTANT DATES

Conference Date: 28 - 30 October, 2026

Paper Submission: May 19, 2026
Authors Notification: July 17, 2026
Camera Ready and Registration: July 31, 2026

Paper Submission: June 26, 2026
Authors Notification: July 31, 2026
Camera Ready and Registration: September 8, 2026

Workshops
Workshop Proposal: May 27, 2026

Doctoral Consortium
Paper Submission: July 31, 2026
Authors Notification: September 9, 2026
Camera Ready and Registration: September 18, 2026

Special Sessions
Special Session Proposal: May 27, 2026

Tutorials
Tutorial Proposal: September 14, 2026

Demos
Demo Proposal: September 14, 2026

Panels
Panel Proposal: September 14, 2026

SECRETARIAT

NCTA Secretariat
Address: Avenida de S. Francisco Xavier, Lote 7 Cv. C
             2900-616 Setúbal - Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 520 184
Fax: +351 265 520 186
e-mail: ncta.secretariat@insticc.org
Web: https://ncta.scitevents.org

VENUE

Available soon.

CONFERENCE CHAIR

Available soon.

PROGRAM CHAIR

Kurosh Madani, University of Paris-EST Créteil (UPEC), France

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Salwa K. Abd-El-hafiz, Cairo University, Egypt
Mojtaba Ahmadieh Khanesar, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
Miltos Alamaniotis, University of Texas at San Antonio, United States
Rui Araujo, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Monica Bianchini, University of Siena, Italy
Anselmo Cardoso de Paiva, Federal University of Maranhão, Brazil
Jose de Jesus Rubio, Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico
Artur Jorge Ferreira, Instituto Superior de Eng. de Lisboa and Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal
Abbas Fotouhi, Cranfield University, United Kingdom
Rodrigo Capobianco Guido, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Brazil
Petr Hajek, University of Pardubice, Czechia
Jim Harkin, Ulster University, United Kingdom
Sarangapani Jagannathan, Missouri University of Science and Technology, United States
Khairul Azhar Kasmiran, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
Garrett T. Kenyon, Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States
Tarek Mohamed Khadir, University of Badji Mokhtar Annaba, Algeria
Wei-Min Liu, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan, Republic of China
Vincenzo Piuri, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Antonello Rizzi, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy
Pratik Shah, IIIT, Vadodara, India
Andrzej Skowron, Institute of Mathematics UW, Poland
Philippe Thomas, Université de Lorraine, France
Constantin Volosencu, Politehnica University Timisoara, Romania
Cleber Zanchettin, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil

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