[alife] Call for papers EvoPAR 2012, Spain 11-13 April 2012 - Submission deadline 30 Nov 2011

[W.Langdon at cs.ucl.ac.uk]

EvoPar 2012 Call for papers



- Part of Evo* 2012, the main European events on Evolutionary Computation:
 EuroGP, EvoCop, EvoBio, EvoMusArt and EvoApplications -

11-13 April 2012 - Malaga, Spain
http://www.evostar.org


EVOPAR:      Track on Parallel and Distributed Infrastructures


There is growing interest in running evolutionary computation on
parallel and distributed computing infrastructures. A number of
technologies are available: Grid and Cloud computing,
Internet computing (e.g. boinc), General Purpose Computation on
Graphics Processing Units (GPGPU), multi-core and many-core
architectures and supercomputers.  Although they are all routinely
used for running computing intensive applications, considerable skill
is required to get the best of their capabilities.  The user has to
consider scheduling, porting of applications, communication
topologies, new parallel models and architectures, cache and memory
management optimisation, preemptive multitasking and simultaneous
multi threading and even energy consumption.  Also, the experimenter
may need to change their evolutionary algorithm to fully exploit these
new tools.

EvoPar 2012 will gather scientists, engineers and practitioners to
share and exchange their experiences, discuss challenges and report
state-of-the-art and in-progress research on all aspects of the
application of evolutionary algorithms for improving parallel
architectures and distributed computing Infrastructures and
implementation of parallel and distributed evolutionary algorithms.

Submissions are invited on (but not limited to) the following topics:

- Optimization of parallel architectures by means of Evolutionary Algorithms.
- Hardware implementation of EAs, including Field Programmable Gate Arrays
 (FPGA), GPU, games consols, mobile devices.
- GPGPU optimisation (CUDA, AMD, ARM, OpenCL, etc., etc.).
- Improving scheduling techniques for peer-to-peer (P2P) and
 grid systems or for running distributed EAs and GAs.
- Improving fault tolerance techniques for distributed systems and
 distributed EAs capabilities for coping with failures.
- Analytical modelling and performance evaluation of parallel and
 distributed infrastructures when running EAs.
- Improvement in system performance through optimisation and tuning.
- Case studies showing the role of parallel and distributed
 infrastructures in conjunction with distributed EAs when solving
 hard real-life problems.
- Parallel and distributed implementation of genetic algorithms.


The proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in
Computer Science (LNCS) series.

EvoPar is part of EvoApplications 2012: European Conference on the
Applications of Evolutionary Computation.
http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/W.Langdon/evopar/


EVOPAR SUBMISSIONS

Submissions must be original and not submitted elsewhere. They will be
peer reviewed by three members of the program committee. The authors
of accepted papers may have to improve their paper on the basis of the
reviewers' comments and will be required to send a camera ready
version of their manuscript. At least one author of each accepted work
must register for EvoStar conference and present it to the EvoPAR 2012
track.

The reviewing process will be double-blind. Therefore you must omit
information about the authors in the submitted paper and anonymise
self references. Submit your manuscript (not exceeding ten pages) in
Springer LNCS format. The submission deadline is 30 November 2011.
Please follow the instructions and links bellow.


Electronic submissions via http://myreview.csregistry.org/evoapps12/



IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline:     30 November 2011
Notification of authors: 14 January  2012
Camera-ready deadline:    5 February 2012


Track Organisers

F. Fernandez de Vega, University of Extremadura, Spain
W. B. Langdon, University College London, UK


                                Bill

        Dr. W. B. Langdon,
        Department of Computer Science,
        University College London
        Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
        http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/W.Langdon/

EvoPAR 2012            http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/W.Langdon/evopar
EuroGP 2012            30 Nov 
RNAnet                 http://bioinformatics.essex.ac.uk/users/wlangdon/rnanet/
A Field Guide to Genetic Programming
                       http://www.gp-field-guide.org.uk/
GP EM                  http://www.springer.com/10710
GP Bibliography        http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~wbl/biblio/