** Apologies for multiple postings ** ***************************************************************************** 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 ***************************************************************************** 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 Scope: The ACO-SI Track welcomes submissions of original and unpublished work in all experimental and theoretical aspects of SI, including (but not limited to) the following areas: * Biological foundations * Modeling and analysis of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 _______________________________________________ uai mailing list [email protected] https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
