CFP: EvoCOMNET'09 -- Extended Deadline -- 6th European Workshop on Nature-inspired techniques for Telecommunications and other Parallel and Distributed Systems
Gianni Di Caro
Call For Papers
*** EvoCOMNET 2009 ***
6th European Workshop on Nature-inspired Techniques for
Telecommunications Networks and
other Parallel and Distributed Systems
* Tubingen, Germany, April 15-17, 2009 *
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Submission deadline (Extended): 12 November 2008
Notification of acceptance: 9 January 2009
Camera ready papers: 21 January 2009
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http://evostar.na.icar.cnr.it/EvoWorkshops/EvoCOMNET/EvoCOMNET.html
-- Part of the EVOSTAR 2009 events: http://www.evostar.org --
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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 a number
of workshops collectively entitled EvoWorkshops. EVO* 2009 is the 11th
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 2009 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
+ Network robotics and sensor-actor networks
+ Distributed inference and cooperative communication systems
+ 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.
+ Journal Special Issue:
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The authors of the best selected papers from the EvoCOMNET workshop
will be
invited to submit an extended version of their work to a special
issue of the
International Journal of Adaptive Communication Systems (IJAACS).
+ 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: 12 November 2008
* Notification of acceptance: 9 January 2009
* Camera ready papers: 21 January 2009
* Events: 15-17 April 2009
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WORKSHOP PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Uwe Aickelin, University of Nottingham, UK
Ozgur B. Akan, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Jarmo Alander, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Payman Arabshahi, Washington University, USA
Mehmet E. Aydin, University of Bedfordshire, UK
Peter J. Bentley, University College London, UK
Falko Dressler, University of Erlangen, Germany
Frederick Ducatelle, IDSIA, Switzerland
Jin-Kao Hao, University of Angers, France
Malcolm I. Heywood, Dalhousie University, Canada
Kenji Leibnitz, Osaka University, Japan
Manuel Lozano Marquez, University of Granada, Spain
Domenico Maisto, University of Modena-Reggio Emilia, Italy
Vittorio Maniezzo, University of Bologna, Italy
Roberto Montemanni, IDSIA, Switzerland
Umberto Scafuri, ICAR-CNR, Italy
Chien-Chung Shen, University of Delaware, USA
Kwang M. Sim, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Luigi Troiano, University of Sannio, Italy
Lidia Yamamoto, University of Basel, Switzerland
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