The 12th International Conference on Bio-inspired Computing: Theories and Applications (BIC-TA 2017) will be held on December 1st-3rd, 2017, Harbin, China. The conference invites researchers to contribute high-quality original research papers in any aspect of bio-inspired computing. The main topics for the conference include, but are not limited to, the following:

• 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