The Conference on Membrane Computing (CMC) series started in 2000 as the Workshop on Multiset Processing. The first Workshop on Membrane Computing was organized in Curtea de Argeș, Romania, in 2001. In 2010, the series evolved into a full conference with CMC11.

In recent years, CMC has been hosted by several European institutions: CMC23 took place in Trieste (Italy) in 2022, the 2023 edition was held at the University of Debrecen (Hungary), and the 2025 conference was organized in Nice at Université Côte d’Azur (France).

The 2026 edition of CMC will be held in Seville (Spain), from September 1 to 3, 2026, at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería.

Nowadays, a Steering Committee oversees the continuity and development of the CMC series, which is organized under the auspices of the International Membrane Computing Society (IMCS).

Submission Guidelines

Original research contributions (including significant work-in-progress) on membrane computing, its applications and related subjects are sought. Contributions reporting in-vivo or in-silico experimental results are particularly encouraged.Submitted papers must describe work not previously published, and they must neither be accepted nor under review at a journal or at another conference with refereed proceedings. Authors are required to submit their manuscripts electronically in PDF using the LNCS style.

Authors using LaTeX can download the needed macros at Springer-Verlag site. The submission process is managed by EasyChair. The submission URL is: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cmc2024.

Topics

Membrane computing, like artificial neural networks, evolutionary algorithms, swarm intelligence, cellular automata and DNA computing, is also a branch of nature-inspired computing initiated by Gheorghe Păun in 1998. It aims to abstract computing models, called membrane systems or P systems, from the structure and the functioning of the living cell as well as from the cooperation of cells in tissues, organs, and populations of cells. This research area has grown into a vigorous scientific discipline and has attracted a large number of researchers all over the world. For more information, please refer to the P systems webpage and to the International Membrane Computing Society webpage.

ICMC26 is organised to provide an open platform to bring together scholars worldwide to present their recent work on membrane computing, on topics related to theory, application and implementation of membrane computing but not limited to as follows:

• Theoretical aspects of membrane computing
  • Various variants of computing models: cell-, tissue- and neural-like P systems.
  • Computing power of membrane computing models.
  • Computing efficiency of membrane computing models.
• Applications of membrane computing
  • Robot controller design.
  • Modeling using P systems for biosystems, biomedicine, ecological systems, etc.
  • Membrane-inspired optimisation algorithms for various problems.
  • Fault diagnosis of various systems, such as robots, power systems, etc.
  • Information and communication technologies.
  • Information security and cryptography.
  • Other applications.
• Implementation of membrane computing models
  • Software implementation.
  • Hardware implementation.
  • Biological implementation.
  • Biochip implementation.
  • Other implementation.
• Related topics
  • Bio-Inspired Optimisation Techniques, such as optimisation algorithms inspired by cells or DNA computing.
  • Other topics related to membrane computing or dealing with cellular computing, DNA computing, reaction systems, etc.

Publication

ICMC26 proceedings will be published i

in a booklet as local proceedings.

A selection of papers will be invited to submit to a special issue of Membrane Compting (Springer).

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to:

icmc2026@sombradoble.es