[alife] 2d Call for book chapter: Handbook of Research on Nature Inspired Computing for Economy and Management

[Jean-Philippe Rennard]

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Due to the success of the first CFP, the publisher accepted to
transfer the book in a reference collection, greatly enlarging the
available space. High level proposals from researchers belonging to
some of the most famous universities have already been selected, and
we now have the confirmation of the participation of some world top
researchers.
Since the book will contain more than 50 contributions, we wish to
complete it with valuable original chapters.


Call for book chapters

Handbook of Research on Nature Inspired Computing for Economy and
Management
http://www.grenoble-em.com/rennardjp/nicbook/index.html

Introduction

Nobel Prize recipient Illya Prigogine wrote some years ago a book
entitled "The End of Certainty". Specialized in non-linear systems,
the great chemist emphasized in this text the importance of the
scientific revolution initiated a century ago by the French
mathematician Henri Poincaré: scientific certainty inherited from
Laplace is a mirage; non-linearity, complexity and chaos are the new
frontiers of science.
The advance of computer science and the remarkable growth of computing
power over the last thirty years have made the computer a fantastic
tool to cope with complexity. The emergence of nature inspired
computing is one of the most amazing achievements of these researches.
The universality of the computing techniques inherited from nature,
i.e. their applications as well in biology, physics, engineering as in
economy or management, clearly demonstrates their depth. These new
tools are used in two different ways, both highly promising for
economy and management: emergent (bottom-up) simulations and
optimization. Emergent simulations lead to a better understanding of
complex interactions and to original theoretical approaches. Nature
inspired algorithms for optimization lead to efficient, supple and
adaptable tools.

Objectives of the book

Specifically dedicated to economy and management, this book aims to
provide a state-of-the-art synthesis and future trends.
At the crossroads of computer science, economy and management, the
works that will be presented will contribute to a better knowledge and
a better control of complex economic dynamics. By showing the
diversity of the potential of nature inspired tools as well as their
conceptual unity, this book will be an original contribution to the
field. By presenting innovative computing tools and theoretical
interpretations, it will provide a significant contribution both to
practitioners and academics. It should bring the first a general
knowledge of the numerous applications of that new field, and
contribute to give the other a global vision of these researches.
The book will gather contributions of top researchers of economics,
management and computer sciences. With more than 50 chapters, it will
provide a comprehensive reference on the field.

Call for Papers

We are looking for high quality research papers for this book dealing
with nature inspired computing for economy and management. Since no
synthetic book exists on that topic, our objective is to propose a
reference for researchers, students and practitioners. This book will
bring together researchers in different fields associated to nature
inspired computing, economy and management. It will deal with both
theoretical and operational works, and will highlight significant
realizations as well as theoretical advances.

Recommended topics include (but are not limited to):

"      Management of technology
"      Enterprise integration
"      Negotiation processes
"      Stock market simulation
"      Project management
"      Pricing strategy
"      Market theory
"      Information systems
"      Operations management
"      Supply chain management
"      Sites location optimization
"      Design and manufacturing
"      Marketing strategy
"      Data Mining
"      Knowledge Management
"      Computational Economics
"      Evolutionary Economics
"      Artificial societies
"      Artificial creativity
"      Emergence and bottom-up simulations theory

Main tools include:

"      Evolutionary Algorithms
"      Multi Agents Systems
"      Swarm Intelligence
"      Cellular Automata
"      Genetic Programming
"      Ant Colony Optimization
"      Distributed Artificial Intelligence
"      Artificial Immune Systems
"      Neural Networks
"      Collective robots

We encourage potential contributors to consider also topics not
included in this list according to their specialties.

Submission Procedures

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit a 1-2 page
manuscript before March 31, 2005. The proposals should include
tentative title and clearly explain the concerns of the proposed
chapter. Authors will be notified of acceptance for proposed chapters
by April 15, 2005. They will be sent chapter organizational guidelines
and will have to submit full chapters by June 30, 2005. All submitted
chapters will be reviewed by 2-3 reviewers on a double-blind basis.
Final accepted revised chapters are due by October 1, 2005. The book
is scheduled to be published by Idea Group, Inc., publisher of the
Idea Group Publishing, Information Science Publishing, IRM Press,
CyberTech Publishing and Idea Group Reference imprints.

Inquiries and submissions should be sent (preferably electronically)
to:

Jean-Philippe Rennard
Grenoble Ecole de Management
12, rue Pierre Semard
BP 127
38003, Grenoble Cedex 01
France
jean-philippe.rennard at grenoble-em.com