[alife] Final CFP: 9th EvoCOMNET, Nature-inspired Techniques for Telecommunications Networks and other Parallel and Distributed Systems

Gianni Di Caro gianni at idsia.ch
Wed Nov 23 05:16:03 PST 2011


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Call For Papers
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***  9th EvoCOMNET, 2012 ***

Nature-inspired Techniques for Telecommunications  Networks and 
other Parallel and Distributed Systems


Track at EvoApplications, The European Conference on the 
Applications of Evolutionary Computation

-- Part of the EVO* 2012 events: http://www.evostar.org --

** Malaga, Spain, April 11-13, 2012 **


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Overview
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Many biological systems and processes are characterized by a
parallel and distributed architecture in which a large number of
autonomous and minimalist units synergistically generate
global-level behaviors through local interactions,
communications, and the adoption of relatively simple stochastic
action policies. The resulting global-level behaviors usually
show a number of properties essential for success in natural
environments such as: adaptivity to environmental variations,
robustness to internal changes and failures, and effectiveness
and scalability of performance.

Because of all these architectural and performance properties,
the observation and reverse-engineering of successful processes
in organic, inorganic, and animal systems in nature, has drawn in
recent years the attention of many researchers and engineers
working in the fields of parallel and distributed systems, and,
more in particular, in telecommunications networks. In these
domains, nature has provided basic inspiration for the definition
of a number of novel algorithms and computational frameworks able
to deal effectively with the challenges of current networked
systems, which show a growing structural and computational
complexity and are made of a large number of highly dynamic and
heterogeneous components.

The aim of the workshop is to provide a forum to present cutting
edge research on nature-inspired approaches to problems arising
in the design, control, protection, and management of network
systems, and to outline new trends in parallel nature-inspired
computation for the solution of complex problems.


EvoCOMNET is part of EVOSTAR (EVO*), Europe's premier co-located
events in the field of evolutionary and nature-inspired
computing. EVO* includes the EuroGP, EvoCOP and EvoBIO
conferences and the EvoApplications conference. EVO* 2012 is the
14th edition of the event, details and cfps can be found at:
http://www.evostar.org


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SELECTED TOPICS OF INTEREST
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EvoCOMNET 2011 solicits contributions dealing with the
application of ideas from natural processes and systems to the
definition, analysis, and development of novel parallel and
distributed algorithms, and to the solution of problems of
practical and theoretical interest in all domains related to
network systems. The scope of the workshop emphasizes the
contribution of nature-inspired approaches to the following
domains:

   + Network analysis and design

   + Routing protocols

   + Transport protocols

   + Network protection systems

   + Load balancing

   + Quality-of-service provisioning

   + Mobile ad hoc networks

   + Sensor networks

   + Communications in electric smart grids

   + Robot networks

   + Distributed search and computation in P2P networks

   + Parallel and distributed optimization algorithms

   + Grid computing

   + Distributed data mining

   + Tuning and application of hybrid approaches


Particularly welcome are papers reporting:

    * Applications of nature-inspired techniques to novel
      problems in the domain of telecommunications networks and
      parallel and distributed systems

    * Detailed comparative studies of nature-inspired solutions
      versus more classical/established techniques

    * Definition of innovative techniques and/or computational
      frameworks based on biological systems or processes that
      have not been considered so far in the literature of
      nature-inspired systems

    * Analytical studies of the behavior of the proposed systems

    * Performance evaluation and visualization of parallel and
      distributed systems inspired by nature

    * Real-world implementations

    * Studies based on real-world data sets

    * Live demonstrations of algorithm behavior



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PUBLICATION DETAILS AND AWARDS
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+ Conference Proceedings: 
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  Accepted papers will be published in a volume of the Springer
  Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) together with papers
  from other workshops of the EVO* conference.


+ Best Paper Award:
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  A Best Paper Award will be given to the author(s) of the paper
  presented at the workshop that will receive the best evaluation
  marks from the reviewers and the Session Chairs.



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SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
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Please refer to the http://www.evostar.org website for the
submission procedure. The maximum length for a paper is 10 PAGES
in LNCS format. Papers will be reviewed by at least three
reviewers according to a double blind peer process.



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WORKSHOP CHAIRS
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+ Gianni A. Di Caro
  IDSIA 
  Lugano, Switzerland
  gianni AT idsia DOT ch

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

+ Ernesto Tarantino
  ICAR-CNR
  Naples, Italy
  ernesto DOT tarantino AT na DOT icar DOT cnr DOT it



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IMPORTANT DATES
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 * Submission deadline (extended):  7 December 2011

 * Notification of acceptance:  14 January 2012

 * Camera ready papers:  5 February 2012

 * Events:  11-13 April 2012



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WORKSHOP PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Ozgur B. Akan (Middle East Technical University, Turkey) 
Qing Anyong (National University of Singapore, Singapore) 
Payman Arabshahi (University of Washington, USA) 
Mehmet E. Aydin (University of Bedfordshire, UK) 
Alexandre Caminada (University of Technology Belfort-Montbéliard, France)
Iacopo Carreras (CREATE-NET, Italy) 
Frederick Ducatelle (VADIS Consulting SA, Belgium)
Luca Gambardella (IDSIA, Switzerland) 
Farrukh A. Khan (National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Pakistan)
Kenji Leibnitz (Osaka University, Japan) 
Domenico Maisto (ICAR CNR, Italy) 
Roberto Montemanni (IDSIA, Switzerland) 
Enrico Natalizio (INRIA Lille, France)
Conor Ryan (University of Limerick, Ireland)
Jun Suzuki (University of Massachusetts - Boston, USA)
Muhammad Saleem (National University of Computer and Emerging Technologies, Pakistan)
Chien-Chung Shen (University of Delaware, USA) 
Tony White (Carleton University, Canada) 
Lidia Yamamoto (University of Basel, Switzerland) 
Nur Zincir-Heywood (Dalhousie University, Canada)
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