[alife] Call for Book Chapters on Hybrid-Heuristics for Scheduling (Springer)

[Ajith Abraham]

**THIS IS A REMINDER**

* PROPOSAL: Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on
or before January 15, 2007 a 2-5 page manuscript proposal clearly
explaining the mission and concerns of the proposed chapter.


For your convenience, the original call for chapters appears below.

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Call for Book Chapters



http://www.softcomputing.net/mhs.html


Series in Studies in Computational Intelligence --SPRINGER


 Meta-heuristics for Scheduling

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 Emergent Computational Systems


INTRODUCTION

With the rapid development of Internet and other new technologies,
different kinds of network, distributed computing paradigms and
platforms are emerging as the new
wave in computing of the new millennium. Examples of such emergent
computational systems are Grid
and P2P systems, which are currently being used for solving many
complex problems from science
and engineering.  A broad range of issues are being addressed
nowadays, from theory to
practical development and fast advances are made and reported by
researchers from both
academia and industry.

One such important issue is the scheduling problem, that is, the
efficient allocations of jobs to geographically distributed resources,
which is indispensable for the
development of High Performance Distributed Applications. Despite of
the family of scheduling problems being one of the must
studied  by the optimization research community, the available
approaches do not apply in a
straightforward way to the Job Scheduling in Computational Grids and
P2P systems as it significantly
differs from conventional scheduling on LANs or parallel computers.
Indeed, scheduling in grid
systems adds new features not present in conventional scheduling due
to proper characteristics of
the large-scale distributed environments. Regarding the optimization
criteria, besides typical
optimization criteria such as minimization of makespan and flowtime,
other important criteria are to
be considered such as maximizing resource utilization, resource
owner's benefits, etc. Thus, the problem
is multi-objective in its general formulation. On the other hand,
scheduling must take into
account possible local policies on resources (e.g. access and cost),
the existence of local schedulers,
etc.



Current research efforts are addressing new techniques for dealing in
practice with the complexity of the problem, among them, we
distinguish the meta-heuristic
techniques--the de facto approach for hard combinatorial optimization problems.



THE OVERALL OBJECTIVE OF THE BOOK



To give a comprehensive view of most recent advances from theory and
practice of the job scheduling problem in large-scale distributed
systems. The book aims to provide
relevant theoretical frameworks and latest empirical research findings
in this regard. Readers can
benefit from this book in understanding the basics and current
techniques applied for solving the scheduling
problem in emergent computational systems, as well as its use in
developing large-scale distributed
applications.

RECOMMENDED TOPICS INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO THE FOLLOWING:



  * Single heuristic approaches (Local-search based techniques,
population-based techniques, swarm optimization and ACO techniques)

  * Hybrid heuristic approaches (Hybridization of different heuristics)

  * Parallel implementations of single/hybrid heuristic approaches

  * Ad hoc approaches used in combination with heuristic approaches

  * Economic based approaches used in combination with heuristic
approaches


SUBMISSION PROCEDURE & SCHEDULE



The book will be published in the Springer Verlag, Series -
'Studies in Computational Intelligence'.

Please prepare the manuscript using the author guidelines and format
given in the following link:

http://www.softcomputing.net/cec06/author-kit.zip



  * PROPOSAL: Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on
or before January 15, 2007 a 2-5 page manuscript proposal clearly
explaining the mission and
concerns of the proposed chapter.

    Authors will be notified about the suitability of the chapters
within 2 weeks of the submission date.


  * Full CHAPTER SUBMISSION: March 30, 2007. Chapters have to be no
more than 40 pages length and will be peer-reviewed by at least three referees.



  * NOTIFICATION: Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by
May 30, 2007, about the status of their proposals and sent chapter
organizational guidelines. Full
accepted chapters are expected to be submitted by 31 July, 2007.


The book is scheduled to be published by Springer-Verlag by end of
2007.  Inquiries and Submissions can be forwarded electronically (as a
PDF file) to one of the Volume editors:



Volume Editors:



Fatos Xhafa, Ph.D.

Department of Languages and Informatics Systems
Polytechnic University of Catalonia
Campus Nord, Ed. Omega, C/Jordi Girona 1-3,
08034 Barcelona, SPAIN

Email: fatos at lsi.upc.edu
Tel: +34 93-413-7880
Fax:+34 93-413-7833


Ajith Abraham, Ph.D.

School of Computer Science,
Yonsei University,
134 Shinchon-dong, Sudaemoon-ku,
Seoul 120-749, Republic of Korea

Email: ajith.abraham at ieee.org
WWW: http://www.softcomputing.net