[alife] Multi-Agent and Grid Systems Special Issue - Nature-Inspired Systems for Parallel, Asynchronous, and Decentralised Environments
Enda Ridge
eridge at cs.york.ac.uk
Thu Feb 2 05:28:48 PST 2006
Call for papers
Special Issue of Multi-Agent and Grid Systems - An International Journal
Nature-Inspired Systems for Parallel, Asynchronous and Decentralised
Environments
http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/aig/nispade-mags/
Guest Editors
Enda Ridge, Daniel Kudenko, and Dimitar Kazakov
Department of Computer Science,
The University of York, YO10 5DD, UK.
and
Edward Curry
Department of Information Technology,
National University of Ireland, Galway.
1. Introduction
Nature-inspired algorithms such as genetic algorithms, particle swarm
optimisation and ant colony algorithms are the solution technique of
choice for some problems. Furthermore, their population-based stochastic
search approach promises desirable algorithm features such as anytime
decentralised solution and robustness to problem change. However, the
efficient pursuit of more accurate solutions leads researchers to appeal
to centralised, highly tuned and sequential implementations that are
only loosely related to their successful natural counterparts. This
limits their usefulness of these implementations to industry’s direction
of increasing distribution, decentralisation and adaptability.
Emerging computing environments such as autonomic computing, ubiquitous
computing, Peer-to-Peer systems, the Grid and the Semantic Web demand
the interaction of large numbers of decentralised, parallel,
asynchronous, and distributed software entities in a standardised fashion.
If nature-inspired algorithms are to make an impact on these emerging
computing environments, disciplined scientific and engineering
investigations must be undertaken into the successful transfer of these
algorithms, their design techniques and necessary infrastructures into
such emerging computing environments.
2. Topics of interest
Methodologies
- Searching the vast parameter spaces of these systems.
- Empirical performance evaluation and benchmarking procedures for these
systems.
- Software engineering techniques, e.g., design patterns, component
frameworks and software architectures
Middleware
- Supporting nature-inspired algorithms in a decentralised, asynchronous
and parallel context (e.g. pheromone infrastructures).
- Integrating implementations within existing middleware technologies.
- Ontologies and protocols for nature-inspired system functionality
(e.g. pheromone deposition, aggregation and dispersion).
Applications:
- Applications of nature-inspired techniques in novel areas, such as
mobile, pervasive and grid computing
- Scalability and performance optimisation of applications
Experiences And Results
- New issues in the emerging computing environments context (e.g.
asynchronicity, self-organisation, hyperactivity, agent redundancy,
messaging costs).
- Efficiency, robustness, population diversity, adaptiveness and other
qualities.
3. Submissions and Important Dates:
All researchers are invited to submit their work for consideration. Full
formatting instruction for authors can be found at
http://www.iospress.nl/html/15741702_ita.html
- Paper submission: 6th May 2006
- First Notification: 16th June 2006
- Second Version due: 14th July 2006
- Second Notification: 11th August 2006
- Final Manuscript: 8th September 2006
Please e-mail your manuscript to:
Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Rainer Unland
e-mail: Rainer.Unland at icb.uni-due.de
And
Guest Editor
Enda Ridge
e-mail: ERidge at cs.york.ac.uk
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