[alife] CFP: NICSO 2010 (The IV International Workshop on Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization)

[German Terrazas Angulo]

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The IV International Workshop on Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies 
for Optimization - NICSO 2010
May 12th - 14th
Granada, Spain
http://www.nicso2010.org
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CALL FOR PAPERS

Biological and natural processes have always been a source of 
inspiration for computer science and information technology. It is well 
known that biological entities, from single cell organisms -like 
bacteria- to humans, often engage in a rich repertoire of social 
interaction that could range from altruistic cooperation through open 
conflict. One specific kind of social interaction is cooperative problem 
solving (CPS), where a group of autonomous entities work together in 
order to achieve certain goal.

The NICSO 2010 aims at promoting cooperative problem solving strategies 
bringing together international researchers and practitioners from 
different disciplines in order to discuss the investigations and 
exchange ideas on the current state of the art of the topic. The 
conference seeks contributions that are inspired by Nature and that 
encompass a range of spatio-temporal scales, for visionary conceptions 
of information processing and computation as pertaining to cooperation 
mechanisms in the context of problem solving.

All submitted papers will be blind reviewed by at least two reviewers. 
Selection criteria will be based on relevance, originality, 
significance, impact, technical soundness and quality of the 
presentation. Contributions are expected to provide original results, 
insights and experimental innovations. Manuscripts must be in PDF, not 
exceeding 12 pages and conforming to the guidelines specified in the 
workshop's website. Contributions are welcome to submission through the 
system available at 
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nicso2010. The accepted 
papers will be published in the book series on Studies in Computational 
Intelligence (Springer). The authors of the best accepted papers will be 
invited to revise and extend their contributions for publication in a 
special issue in the Memetic Computing Journal.

Target topics (but not limited to):

Adaptive Behaviour
Ants Colonies
Amorphous Computing
Artificial Life
Artificial Immune
Systems Coevolution
Distributed Computing
Evolutionary Robotics
Evolvable Systems
Genetic Algorithms
Genetic Programming
Membrane Computing
Quantum Computing
Software Self-Assembly
Swarm Intelligence
Bio-inspired architecture


* * * IMPORTANT DATES * * *
Full paper submission: October 15, 2009
Acceptance notification: November 30, 2009
Final camera ready: December 15, 2009
NICSO: May 12 - 14, 2009



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