[alife] CFP - NIDISC 2013: 16th International Workshop on Nature Inspired Distributed Computing

[Grégoire DANOY]

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                       The 16th International Workshop on 
                    Nature Inspired Distributed Computing 
                                  (NIDISC'13)
			 http://nidisc2013.gforge.uni.lu/


                           held in conjunction with
                     The 27th IEEE International 
   Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium  (IPDPS'2013)
                            20-24 May 2013
                        
                            Boston, Massachusetts, USA
                          http://www.ipdps.org
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Workshop Theme :
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Techniques based on metaheuristics and nature-inspired paradigms can
provide efficient solutions to a wide variety of problems. Moreover,
parallel and distributed metaheuristics can be used to provide more
powerful problem solving environments in a variety of fields, ranging,
for example, from finance to bio- and health-informatics. 

This workshop seeks to provide an opportunity for researchers to explore
the connection between metaheuristics and the development of solutions
to problems that arise in operations research, parallel computing,
telecommunications, bioinformatics, and many others. 

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Nature-inspired methods (e.g. ant colonies, GAs, cellular automata,
DNA and molecular computing, local search, etc) for problem solving environments.

* Parallel and distributed metaheuristics techniques (algorithms, technologies and tools).

* Applications combining traditional parallel and distributed computing and 
optimization techniques as well as theoretical issues (convergence, complexity, etc).

* Other algorithms and applications relating the above mentioned research areas.

Prospective authors of high quality research contributions are invited 
to submit an electronic copy of their manuscript not exceeding 10 two-column pages 
including figures and references in the traditional IEEE format used in IPDPS. 
Please, use Postscript or PDF when possible. In your email, please indicate paper title,
 author(s), and the corresponding author. 

General Chair :
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- Albert Y. Zomaya The University of Sydney -Australia- (zomaya at it.usyd.edu.au)


Program Co-chairs :
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- Pascal Bouvry, University of Luxembourg -Luxembourg- (pascal.bouvry at uni.lu)
- Franciszek Seredynski, Polish Academy of Sciences -Poland- (sered at ipipan.waw.pl)
- El-Ghazali Talbi, University of Lille, INRIA -France- (talbi at lifl.fr)
 

Publicity Chair:
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- Grégoire Danoy, University of Luxembourg -Luxembourg- (gregoire.danoy at uni.lu)


Program Committee (to be completed) :
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- M. Affenzeller, University of Hagenberg, Austria
- E. Alba, University of Málaga, Spain
- A. Al-Dubai, Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom
- A. Al-Jumaily, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
- L. Bononi, University of Bologna, Italy
- A. Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada
- J. Branke, University of Warwick, UK
- E. Cantú-Paz, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
- C. Coello, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico
- T. Crainic, CIRRELT Montréal, Canada
- H. González-Vélez, NCI Cloud Competency Centre, Ireland
- B. Di Martino, University of Naples, Italia
- T. El-Ghazawi, George Washington University, USA
- P. Herrero, Technical University of Madrid, Spain
- S. U. Khan, North Dakota State University, USA
- J. Kolodziej, Cracow University of Technology, Poland
- A. Lewis, Griffith University, Australia
- M. Middendorf, University of Leipzig, Germany
- N. Melab, University of Lille, France
- S. Mostaghim, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
- A. J.Nebro, University of Málaga, Spain
- C. Ribeiro, University of Fluminense, Brazil
- H. Sarbazi-azad, Sharif University of Technology, Iran
- G. Ch. Sirakoulis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
- G. Spezzano, University of Calabria, Italy
- Z. Tari, RMIT University, Australia
- F. Xhafa, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain


Papers should be submitted to:
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- P. Bouvry, University of Luxembourg -Luxembourg- (pascal.bouvry at uni.lu)
- F. Seredynski, Polish Academy of Sciences  -Poland- (sered at ipipan.waw.pl)
- E-G. Talbi, University of Lille, INRIA -France- (talbi at lifl.fr)

 
Important Dates:
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- Submission Deadline 		- January 6, 2013
- Notification of Acceptance 	- January  27, 2013
- Final Copy Due 				- February 21, 2013
- Workshop 					- May 20-24, 2013