The 4 ^th International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC'08) and the 5 ^th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD'08) will be jointly held in Jinan , China . Jinan is the capital of Shandong Province , which is known for the home of Confucius, the Taishan Mountain , and the Baotu Spring. ICNC'08-FSKD'08 aims to provide an 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, 2006 and 2007 each attracted over 3000 submissions from more than 30 countries.

All accepted papers will appear in conference proceedings published by the IEEE and will be indexed by both EI (Compendex) and ISTP. Furthermore, extended versions of selected papers will be published in a special issue of Soft Computing: An International Journal (SCI indexed).

Deadlines	Paper Submission	25 March 2008 10 April 2008
	Invited Session Proposal	25 March 2008 10 April 2008
	Decision Notification	25 April 2008 30 April 2008
	Author Registration & Final Paper	15 May 2008 30 May 2008

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Shandong University is one of the oldest and prestigious universities in China . Shandong University was founded in 1901 and is the second national university established soon after Jingshi University (the Metropolitan University ) in the country. Recently, the Ministry of Education approved the university as a ???national key comprehensive university.???§?è In 2001, it was listed among the 21 national key construction first-class universities by the Ministry of Education.