[alife] ACO-SI Track (GECCO'14): Call for Papers - Deadline 29th January

[Marco A. Montes de Oca]

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CALL FOR PAPERS
2014 GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE (GECCO-2014)
ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION AND SWARM INTELLIGENCE (ACO-SI) TRACK
July 12-16, 2014, Vancouver (BC), Canada
Organized by ACM SIGEVO
http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2014
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Track Description: 
 
Swarm Intelligence (SI) is the collective problem-solving behavior 
of  groups of animals or artificial agents that results from the local  
interactions of the individuals with each other and with their  
environment. SI systems rely on certain key principles such as  
decentralization, stigmergy, and self-organization. Since these  
principles are observed in the organization of social insect colonies  
and other animal aggregates, such as bird flocks or fish schools, 
SI  systems are typically inspired by these natural systems.  
 
The two main application areas of SI have been optimization and  
robotics. In the first category, Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) and  
Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) constitute two of the most popular  
SI optimization techniques with numerous applications in science 
and  engineering. Other prevailing approaches include Honey Bee  
Optimization, Bacterial Foraging, Firefly Optimization, as well 
as  approaches based on specialized behaviors of social insect  
communities. In the second category, SI has been successfully used 
to  control large numbers of robots in a decentralized way, which  
increases the flexibility, robustness, and fault-tolerance of the  
resulting systems. 
 
Scope: 
 
The ACO-SI Track welcomes submissions of original and unpublished 
work  in all experimental and theoretical aspects of SI, including (but
not  
limited to) the following areas: 
 
* Biological foundations 
* Modeling and analysis of new approaches 
* Hybrid schemes with other algorithms 
* Combinations with local search techniques 
* Constraint-handling and penalty function approaches 
* Benchmarking and new empirical results 
* Parallel/distributed implementations and applications 
* Large-scale applications 
* Applications in multi-objective, dynamic, and noisy problems 
* Applications in continuous and discrete search spaces 
* Multi-swarm and self-adaptive approaches 
* Software and high-performance implementations 
* Theoretical and experimental research in swarm robotics systems 
 
Each paper will be rigorously evaluated in a double-blind review 
process.  All accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital 
Library. 
 
Important Dates: 
 
* Abstract submission: January 15, 2014 
* Submission of full papers: January 29, 2014 (strict deadline - no
extension!) 
* Notification of paper acceptance: March 12, 2014 
* Camera ready submission: April 14, 2014 
* Conference: July 12-16, 2014 
 
Track Chairs: 
 
Dr. Marco A. Montes de Oca (University of Delaware, USA)  
http://www.math.udel.edu/~mmontes 

Dr. Konstantinos E. Parsopoulos (University of Ioannina, Greece)  
http://www.cs.uoi.gr/~kostasp