[alife] Swarm Intelligence and Data Mining - Call for Book Chapters

[Ajith Abraham]

**  Call for Book Chapters **

-- Swarm Intelligence and Data Mining --

Swarm Intelligence (SI) indicates a recent computational and
behavioral metaphor for solving distributed problems that originally
took its inspiration from the biological examples provided by social
insects (ants, termites, bees, wasps) and by swarming, flocking,
herding behaviors in vertebrates.

We seek to explore the applicability of these bio-inspired approaches
to the development of self-organizing, evolving, adaptive and
autonomous information technologies, which will meet the requirements
of next-generation information systems, such as diversity,
scalability, robustness, and resilience. This edited volume is
targeted to present the latest state-of-the-art methodologies
in data clustering using SI techniques. Both theoretical papers
(preferably including
simulations) and application papers related to different data mining
methodologies are welcome.

Topic includes but is not limited to:

- New SI techniques for clustering, data analyzing, Classification,
Sorting, Data Retrieval
- Particle Swarm / Cultural Algorithms.
- Complex Adaptive Systems
- Artificial Life as well as other Animal Societies bio-inspired algorithms.
- Flocks, Herds and Schools
- Swarms and Cooperative Robotics.
- Distributed algorithms, self-regulation, self-repair and
self-maintenance ontologies.
- Biomedical, multimedia and e-commerce applications. 
- Hybridization with other methods (e.g. Evolutionary Computation and
Neural Networks)

The book is intended to be published in the Spinger Verlag series
'Studies in Computational Intelligence'
http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-40521-69-49211831-0,00.html

Please prepare the manuscript using TeX format and following the
author guidelines given in the above link. For initial reviews, please
submit the PDF and source files of the manuscript to
<ajith.abraham at ieee.org> with a copy to
<cgrosan at cs.ubbcluj.ro>. Please restrict the technical contents of the
manuscript not to exceed 40 pages.

The time schedule for this publication is as follows: 

Author's intentions to contribute a book chapter: July 15, 2005
Manuscript submission: August 01, 2005 
Authors Notification:  October 03, 2005 
Camera-ready submission: November 01, 2005
Publication: March 2006

We look forward to receiving your contribution. If you need any
further information, please feel free to discuss with one of the
editors.

Editors:

Ajith Abraham
Chung-Ang Univerity, Seoul, Korea
<ajith.abraham at ieee.org>


Crina Grosan
Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
<crina.grosan at ieee.org>