[alife] Optimization Metaheuristics in Nuclear Science and Engineering

[Titus Brown]

Call for Papers

for the Special Session on

Optimization Metaheuristics in Nuclear Science and Engineering

Organized by

Prof. Cl?udio M. N. A. Pereira

Instituto de Engenharia Nuclear (IEN/CNEN) and Federal University of Rio 
de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil
cmnap at ien.gov.br

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Due to the high performance of current computers a wide spectrum of 
robust optimization metaheuristics, which had been for decades 
considered highly time consuming, can be effectively applied to 
practical problems. The success in the application of such techniques 
have been motivating researchers in the nuclear area, and nowadays many 
complex nuclear engineering problems can be efficiently solved by them.
Motivated by this, I am pleased to organize a Special Session on 
Optimization Metaheuristics in Nuclear Science and Engineering as a part 
of the 7th International FLINS Conference on Applied Artificial 
Intelligence. This special session main topics include, but are not 
limited to, applications of:

- genetic algorithms - genetic programming - ant colony systems - swarm 
optimization - simulated annealing - tabu search - local search 
techniques - great deluge algorithm - parallel metaheuristics - hybrid 
metaheuristics - multiobjective optimization - new metaheuristic approaches

to nuclear science end engineering problems.

The FLINS conference is the most important international forum devoted 
to applications of Intelligent Soft Computing techniques in Nuclear 
Science and Engineering, including fuzzy logic, neural networks, 
optimization metaheuristics (evolutionary computation, ant colony 
systems, etc) and hybrid systems, among other subjects. More information 
about FLINS can be obtained at www.fuzzy.ugent.be/flins2006.

Paper submission:
Authors are invited to submit papers up to 8 pages by December 15, 2005, 
according to instructions found at the FLINS 2006 web site 
(www.fuzzy.ugent.be/flins2006), directly to me, at the e-mail address 
cmnap at ien.gov.br.

Important dates:
Papers submission: December 15, 2005
Acceptance letter: February 15, 2006
Final papers submissions: April 15, 2006