[alife] Call for Contributions: Special Issue on Self-Adaptive Systems: Models & Algorithms

[Hamid Bouchachia]

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Special Issue of the ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems on
/Self-Adaptive Systems: Models & Algorithms /
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Scope
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The present special issue is concerned with concepts and techniques 
which can rely on metaphors of nature and which are inspired from 
biological and cognitive plausibility. Being the basis for many modeling 
approaches and computational techniques, this two-fold plausibility 
offers a very promising foundation for investigating the adaptivity of 
intelligent systems that evolve in dynamically changing environments. 
The modeling approaches involve a large spectrum of theories ranging 
from learning theory to nature inspired optimization meta-heuristics.

Of particular importance are those approaches that allow for incremental 
update of the systems over time. Such approaches are often referred to 
as sequential or constructive. Despite the existing literature on 
adaptivity, the notion of "incrementally" as a property of 
self-adaptation, self-organization, self-monitoring and self-growing has 
not yet been well studied. This special issue aims at presenting the 
latest advances of self-adaptivity with focus on modeling approaches and 
computational methods that suit dynamically changing environments. The 
special issue is intended for a wide audience including neural network 
scientists, mathematicians, physicists, engineers, computer scientists, 
biologists, economists and social scientists. The special issue will 
cover various topics of self-adaptivity, self-organization, 
self-monitoring and self-growing concepts. It also aims at presenting a 
coherent view of these issues and a thorough discussion about the future 
research avenues. A sample of the targeted topics, which is suggestive 
rather than exhaustive, includes:

/Theories and Algorithms/
- Self growing systems
- Adaptation in changing environments
- Online adaptive and life-long learning
- Plasticity and stability of systems
- Incremental adaptive neuro-fuzzy systems
- Incremental and single-pass data mining
- Incremental classification systems
- Incremental clustering
- Concept drift in incremental systems
- Self-monitoring in incremental systems
- Incremental diagnostics
- Novelty detection in incremental learning
- Incremental feature selection and reduction
- Adaptive decision systems
- Principles of self-organization
- Methodologies of self-organization
- Dynamic optimization
- Accommodating adaptation in:
    * Neural networks
    * Evolutionary computation
    * Swarm intelligence
    * Fuzzy systems
/Applications: Adaptivity and learning in /
- Smart systems
- Ambient / ubiquitous environments
- Distributed intelligence
- Intelligent agent technology
- Robotics
- Industrial applications
- Internet applications
- E-commerce, etc

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Schedule
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Submission due date: December 15th, 2009
Notification Acceptance: May 15th, 2010
Submission of camera ready version: July 15th., 2010
Publication: Early 2011

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Submission
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Manuscripts should be submitted to the Special Issue of TAAS on 
"Self-Adaptive Systems: Models & Algorithms" following the formatting 
guidelines of the journal available at: http://taas.acm.org/ and must be 
sent to one of the guest editors. The editors will check whether the 
submissions are within the scope of the special issue before they go 
through the review process.

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Guest Editors
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Hamid Bouchachia, University of Klagenfurt, Austria, 
hamid at isys.uni-klu.ac.at
Nadia Nedjah, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, nadia at eng.uerj.br