[alife] CFP: Swarm Intelligence Journal - Special Issue on SI for Telecommunications Networks

Gianni Di Caro gianni at idsia.ch
Fri Nov 21 03:13:51 PST 2008


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                        Call For Papers

                   SWARM INTELLIGENCE JOURNAL
   http://www.springer.com/computer/artificial/journal/11721
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Special Issue: SWARM INTELLIGENCE FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS

             Submission Deadline: DECEMBER 31, 2008
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Swarm Intelligence (SI) is a computational and behavioral
metaphor for distributed problem solving originally inspired by
the collective behavior of social insects and other animal
societies, such as ant colonies and flocking birds. More
generally, SI refers to the bottom-up design of distributed
systems that display forms of useful and/or interesting behaviors
at the global level as a result of the relatively simple actions
of a number of composing units interacting with one another and
with their environment at the local level. When properly
engineered, an SI system can conjugate easiness of design with
high performance in terms of robustness, scalability, and
adaptivity.


All these characteristics have made SI an attractive framework to
tackle the challenges of modern networked systems, which are made
of a large number of components, are highly heterogeneous in
terms of communication technologies, protocols, and services, and
are dynamic, due to continuous changes in topology, traffic
patterns, and number of active users and services.  These
challenges ask for the development of novel control and
management algorithms and protocols that are adaptive, robust,
scalable, and can let the network behave as an autonomous and
self-organizing system. Since these are the properties that can
almost naturally result when adopting a properly engineered SI
design approach, a considerable amount of work in the domain of
SI has successfully addressed a variety of problems in the area
of communication networks.

This special issue aims to bring together state-of-the-art
results in the application and evaluation of the SI paradigm to
problems arising in the context of analysis, design, control,
management, and protection of networked systems.

The Swarm Intelligence Journal is the principal peer-reviewed
publication dedicated to reporting on research and developments
in the multidisciplinary field of swarm intelligence. The journal
is published quarterly by Springer US.


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SELECTED TOPICS OF INTEREST:
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Particularly welcome are contributions focusing on SI solutions for:

+ Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

+ Mesh Networks

+ Sensor Networks

+ Robotic Networks

+ Internet

+ Delay Tolerant Networks

+ QoS Networks

+ Satellite Networks

+ Secure Networks

Topics of interest in relationship to the above networks include
but are not limited to:

- Network analysis and design 

- Distributed medium access control 

- Routing protocols

- Transport layer protocols 

- QoS provisioning

- Load balancing 

- Protection and security systems

- Self-configuration, self-optimization and self-adaptation

- Distributed inference and cooperative communication systems

- Online monitoring and performance evaluation

- Formal modeling of SI systems

- Comparisons between SI and other design frameworks

- Implementation of SI approaches in testbeds

- Evaluation of SI approaches in real-world settings


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GUEST EDITORS:
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Gianni A. Di Caro - IDSIA-SUPSI, Lugano, Switzerland
gianni AT idsia DOT ch

Frederick Ducatelle - IDSIA-SUPSI, Lugano, Switzerland
frederick AT idsia DOT ch 

Muddassar Farooq - NUCES, Islamabad, Pakistan
muddassar DOT farooq AT udo DOT edu


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SUBMISSION:
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All manuscripts must be prepared according to the publication
guidelines of the Swarm Intelligence Journal that can be found
at the journal website:
http://www.springer.com/computer/artificial/journal/11721

Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers using the
online submission system of the journal at
http://www.editorialmanager.com/swrm, selecting "Special Issue on
Swarm Intelligence for Telecommunications Network" (Special Issue
on Swarm Int. for Networks) as the article type.

When submitting a paper, please send at the same time also an
e-mail to Gianni Di Caro (gianni AT idsia DOT ch) with paper
title and author list to inform about the submission.


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IMPORTANT DATES:
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Manuscript due:         December 31, 2008
Notification:           March    15, 2009
Final manuscript due:   April    30, 2009


Submission:     December 31, 2008
Notification:   March    15, 2009
Final version:  April    30, 2009

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