[alife] CFP: Special Session on Wireless AdHoc Networking at the 5th IEEE Symposium on Swarm Intelligence

[Di Caro Gianni]

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Special Session at the 5th IEEE Swarm Intelligence 
Symposium:
SWARM INTELLIGENCE FOR WIRELESS AD HOC NETWORKS

St. Louis, Missouri, USA, September 21-23, 2008

http://www.computelligence.org/sis/2008/?q=node/5


IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper submission:   May  15, 2008
Notification:       June 15, 2008
Camera-Ready:       July 15, 2008
Conference:         Sept 22-23, 2008


SCOPE
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Wireless ad hoc networks are communication networks that 
consist entirely of
wireless nodes, placed together in an ad hoc manner, i.e. 
with minimal
planning. Nodes can enter or leave the network at any 
time, and may be mobile,
so that the network topology continuously experiences 
alterations during
deployment. Examples include:

Wireless ad hoc networks pose substantially different 
challenges compared to
more traditional communication networks: they are highly 
dynamic, have limited
resources (in terms of bandwidth, computation power, 
battery, etc.), have a
highly decentralized organization, rely on often 
unreliable wireless
communication channels, etc. As a consequence, new 
algorithms and protocols are
needed for all aspects of the organization of these 
networks. Swarm
Intelligence methods seem particularly interesting in this 
context. This is
because their ability to solve difficult tasks in a 
distributed and robust way
using locally interacting simple agents fits closely to 
the typical environment
created by an ad hoc network.

In this special session, we solicit novel and interesting 
contributions in this
area, with special reference to applications of Swarm 
Intelligence in the
domain of:

  - Mobile ad hoc networks
  - Sensor networks
  - Networks of mobile robots

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

- Distributed medium access control using Swarm 
Intelligence

- Swarm Intelligence routing protocols in ad hoc networks

- Swarm Intelligence transport layer protocols in ad hoc 
networks

- Swarm Intelligence for QoS provisioning

- Self-configuration, self-optimization and 
self-adaptation through swarm
   intelligence

- Off-line optimization for ad hoc networks through swarm 
intelligence

- Comparisons between Swarm Intelligence and other 
algorithms for ad hoc
   networks

- Implementation of Swarm Intelligence approaches in 
testbeds

- Evaluation of Swarm Intelligence approaches in 
real-world settings


SUBMISSION
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Prospective authors are invited to submit papers of no 
more than eight (8)
pages including results, figures and references. Authors 
should submit their
papers as PDF through the online submission system, which 
is available at:
http://www.computelligence.org/SIS/2008/Sub/

The paper format is the IEEE Computer Society Press 
proceedings and can be found at:
http://www.computelligence.org/sis/2008/paperform.html

A Microsoft Word version of the paper format can be found 
at:
http://www.computelligence.org/sis/2008/paperform.doc


ORGANIZERS
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Anna Forster (University of Lugano, Switzerland), 
anna.egorova.foerster at lu.unisi.ch
Frederick Ducatelle (IDSIA-SUPSI, Switzerland), 
frederick at idsia.ch
Gianni Di Caro (IDSIA-SUPSI, Switzerland), gianni at idsia.ch
Ganesh Venayagamoorthy, (Missouri U. of Science and 
Technology, USA), ganeshv at mst.edu

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