[alife] TCS and Natural Computing Joint Special Issue on Swarm Intelligence

Titus Brown titus at caltech.edu
Tue Mar 18 05:51:16 PDT 2008


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			   Special issue on

   SWARM INTELLIGENCE: THE STATE OF THE ART IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

		       A joint Call for Papers
	    Theoretical Computer Science (TCS) - Elsevier
		 Natural Computing (NACO) - Springer
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The journals Theoretical Computer Science (TCS) (Section C) and
Natural Computing (NACO) are focused on the study of computing using
resources occurring in nature as well as computing techniques that are
inspired by nature. In this joint call for papers, the aim is to
produce special issues of TCS and NACO that will reflect the state of
the art, along with exciting new developments, in, respectively,
theoretical issues and practical/empirical issues in swarm
intelligence.

The scope of these joint special issues is broad, covering the latest
theoretical and empirical research in the many established areas of
swarm intelligence (including ant systems, particle swarm
optimisation, foraging algorithms, stochastic diffusion search, and so
forth), while welcoming newer developments, novel frameworks and
synergies, and so on. The guest editors will welcome and quickly
respond to informal questions about the scope.

We envision that some of the accepted papers will be suitable for
either TCS or NACO, and the guest editors will therefore partition the
accepted papers between the two journals in a suitable way that
optimises coherence. However, if authors have a strong preference for
one or the other journal, we ask that you indicate this at the time of
initial submission.

Please send submissions in PDF format (leaving wide margins) to any
one of the guest editors via email. The guest editors will enlist the
services of reviewers from both journal boards, and from others, as
appropriate. Note that the final versions of accepted papers will be
handled by the relevant journal, and prepared according to the
instructions of that journal.

We will make every effort to provide notification of
acceptance/rejection within fifteen weeks of submission.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Submission deadline: 15th September 2008
Expected Publication date: mid to late 2009

GUEST EDITORS:

Eric Bonabeau, Icosystem Corporation, Cambridge, MA, USA
eric at icosystem.com

David Corne, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
dwcorne at macs.hw.ac.uk

Riccardo Poli, University of Essex, UK
rpoli at essex.ac.uk



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