[alife] CFP NICSO 2013 - The VI International Workshop on Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization

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The VI International Workshop on Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies 
for Optimization - NICSO 2013
September 2nd - 4th, 2013
Canterbury, United Kingdom
http://modo.ugr.es/nicso2013
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CALL FOR PAPERS

* * * IMPORTANT DATES * * *
Full paper submission: April 15, 2013
Acceptance notification: May 15, 2013
Final camera ready: June 5, 2013
NICSO: September 2-4, 2013


NICSO 2013 will be the sixth edition of the International Workshop on 
Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization. This workshop 
aims at bringing together international researchers and practitioners 
from different disciplines in order to discuss recent advances and 
exchange ideas on the current state of the art of cooperative problem 
solving strategies.

All submitted papers will be blind reviewed by at least two reviewers 
from the Program Committee. 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 Latex 
template at Instructions for Authors page for the book series Studies in 
Computational Intelligence (http://www.springer.com/series/7092). 
Contributions are welcome to submission through the system available at 
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nicso2013

The accepted papers will be published in the book series on STUDIES IN 
COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE (Springer) 
(http://www.springer.com/series/7092) indexed by ISI Web of Science 
Conference Proceedings, DBLP, Ulrichs, SCOPUS, MathSciNet, Current 
Mathematical Publications, Mathematical Reviews, Zentralblatt Math: 
MetaPress and Springerlink.

The authors of a selection of the best accepted papers will be invited 
to revise and extend their contributions for publication in a special 
issue in the JOURNAL OF MEMETIC COMPUTING (Springer) 
(http://www.springer.com/engineering/computational+intelligence+and+complexity/journal/12293).


Target topics (but not limited to):

Adaptive Behaviour
Ants Colonies
Amorphous Computing
Artificial Life
Artificial Immune Systems
Bioinformatics
Bio-inspired architecture
Complex Systems
Distributed Computing
Evolutionary Algorithms
Evolutionary Robotics
Evolvable Systems
Games and Game Theory
Genetic Algorithms
Genetic Programming
Hyperheuristics
Membrane Computing
Memetic Algorithms
Quantum Computing
Software Self-Assembly
Systems Coevolution
Swarm Intelligence


* Programme Committee *

Belén Melian, University of La Laguna, Spain
Carlos Cruz Corona, University of Granada, Spain
Cecilio Angulo, Technical University of Catalunya, Spain
Christof Teuscher, Portland State University, US
Colin Johnson, University of Kent, UK
Dario Landa-Silva, University of Nottingham, UK
Enrique Onieva, University of Granada, Spain
Evelyne Lutton, INRIA, France
Francisco Herrera, University of Granada, Spain
Gabriela Ochoa, University of Stirling, UK
Gianluigi Folino, Istituto di Calcolo e Reti ad Alte Prestazioni, Italy
Giuseppe Scollo, University of Catania, Italy
J. Marcos Moreno, University of La Laguna, Spain
Jaume Bacardit, University of Nottingham, UK
Jean-Louis Giavitto, Université d'Evry, France
Jim Smith, University of the West of England, UK
Jon Timmis, University of York, UK
José A. Moreno, University of La Laguna, Spain
José Alejandro Castillo, Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones 
Nucleares, Mexico
José Luis Verdegay, University of Granada, Spain
Marco Dorigo, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
María Teresa Lamata, University of Granada, Spain
Mario Pavone, University of Catania, Italy
Natalio Krasnogor, University of Nottingham, UK
Oliver Korb, Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, UK
Paolo Arena, University of Catania, Italy
René Doursat, Complex Systems Institure, France
Roberto Battiti, University of Trento, Italy
Shengxiang Yang, University of Leicester, UK
Stefano Pizzuti, Energy, New Technologies & Envir. Agency, Italy
Steven Gustafson, General Electric Global Research Center, US
Vincenzo Cutello, University of Catania, Italy
Vitorino Ramos, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
Vittorio Maniezzo, University of Bologna, Italy

* Workshop Organizers *

Fernando Esteban Barril Otero
German Terrazas
Antonio D. Masegosa

* Steering Committee *

Natalio Krasnogor
David A. Pelta



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