[alife] Call for chapter: Evolutionary Computation in Practice by Springer

[Ang Yang]

CALL FOR CHAPTERS
Proposal Submission Deadline: February 4, 2007
Full Chapter Due: April 30, 2007

EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION IN PRACTICE
Series in Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer Verlag

Editors:
  Ang Yang*, Yin Shan** and Lam Thu Bui*
*   The Artificial Life and Adaptive Robotics Laboratory
    School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering
    University of New South Wales, Australia
** Research School of Earth Sciences
    Australia National University, Australia

INTRODUCTION: Evolutionary Computation (EC) has been a rapid developing 
field of research with a wide range of techniques inspired by natural 
phenomena such as natural selection, swarm, or immunity. To date, applying 
techniques of evolutionary computation to real world problems has received 
considerable attention from both researcher and practitioner and has 
obtained significant success. This book aims at presenting the latest EC 
applications as well as some important theoretical progress to a wide range 
of audience.

THE OVERALL OBJECTIVE OF THE BOOK: A large volume of research work has been 
done in EC applications. However, most of works on EC applications are 
reported in various journals and conference proceedings which may focus on 
very narrow topics. This book will bring together the most important 
applications of EC techniques. It will consist of open-solicited and invited 
papers written by leading researchers in the field. All papers will go 
through a thorough peer review by at least two experts in the field and one 
of the editors.

THE TARGET AUDIENCE: The book will be organised in such a way that it is 
accessible to a wide range of audience. It is can be served as reference for 
both researchers and practitioners. It can also be used as supplementary 
teaching materials at both undergraduate and post-graduate levels.

TOPICS: This book focuses on significant EC applications, as well as 
important theoretic progress. Recommended topics include the applications 
of:
• genetic algorithms, genetic programming, evolution strategy, evolutionary 
programming
• probabilistic models: estimation of distribution algorithms, probabilistic 
search methods
• swam intelligence, ant colony optimisation
• artificial immune systems
• agent systems
There is no restriction on the field of applications, which may include, but 
not limit to, data mining, control, scheduling, gaming, forecasting, 
military and security applications, bioinformatics and robotics.

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on 
or before February 4, 2007, a 2-5 page manuscript proposal clearly 
explaining the mission and concerns of the proposed chapter. Authors of 
accepted proposals will be notified by February 15, 2007 about the status of 
their proposals and sent chapter organizational guidelines. Full chapters 
are expected to be submitted by April 30, 2007.

The chapter proposal should be submitted at: 
http://seal.tst.adfa.edu.au/~ayang/ECP/submission_start.php

MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION: The book will be part of the Series of Studies in 
Computational Intelligence by the Springer Verlag. For more information 
regarding the manuscript preparation, please refer to the following link at 
Springer:
http://www.springer.com/west/home/engineering?SGWID=4-175-69-173623546-0

IMPORTANT DATES

February 4, 2007: Chapter proposal due
February 15, 2007: Notifying authors of acceptance/rejection of the proposal
April 30, 2007: Full chapter due
June 30, 2007: Notifying authors of the review results
August 1, 2007: Revised full chapter due
August 15, 2007: Notifying authors of acceptance/rejection of the revised 
chapter

The book is scheduled to be published by Springer-Verlag by end of 2007. 
Inquiries can be forwarded to:

Ang Yang,
The Artificial Life and Adaptive Robotics Laboratory
School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering
ADFA Campus
University of New South Wales
NorthCott Drive, Canberra ACT 2600, AUSTRALIA
Tel.: (+61) (2) 62688189
Fax: (+61) (2) 62688581
E-mail: A.YANG at ADFA.EDU.AU