[alife] 2nd CFP - Journal Special Issue - Nature-Inspired Systems for Parallel, Asynchronous, and Decentralised Environments

Enda Ridge eridge at cs.york.ac.uk
Tue Mar 28 07:38:26 PST 2006


Multi-Agent and Grid Systems Special Issue - Nature-Inspired Systems for 
Parallel, Asynchronous, and Decentralised Environments
2nd 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
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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