Program Committee | Important Dates |
1st International Workshop on Parallel Bioinspired Algorithms
Oslo, Norway, 14 June 2005
to be
held in conjunction with the International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP'2005)
Selected high-quality papers from the workshop will be considered for a Special Issue
of Parallel and Distributed Computing Journal (Elsevier).
Scope:
Bioinspired algorithms such as genetic and evolutionary algorithms, ant colonies, and immune systems are routinely applied to hard and large problems in a variety of areas. Over the years researchers have incorporated different forms of parallelism into these algorithms developing new algorithms and solving ever larger and harder problems. The application of Bioinspired Algorithm to solving difficult problems has shown that they can exploit high computation power and communications technology. Nevertheless any effort for increasing the performance of this kind of metaheuristics would be very welcome by the community. This workshop will gather scientists, engineers, and practitioners to share and exchange their experiences, discuss challenges, and report state-of-the-art and in-progress research on all aspects of Parallel and Distributed Bioinspired Algoritms.
The topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
Erick Cantu-Paz, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Henri Casanova, University of California in San Diego, USA
Bastien Chopard, University of Geneve, Switzerland
Carlos Coello, Cinvestav, México
Carlos Cotta, University of Malaga, Spain
Francisco Fernández de Vega, University of Extremadura, Spain
Steven M. Gustafson, University of Nottingham, UK.
Francisco Herrera, University of Granada, Spain.
Ignacio Hidalgo, University Complutense of Madrid, Spain.
Juan J. Merelo, University of Granada, Spain
Riccardo Poli, University of Essex, UK
Giandomenico Spezzano, Università della Calabria, Italy
Juan M. Sánchez, University of Extremadura, Spain
Authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting original unpublished research and recent developments in the topics related to the workshop. The length of the papers should not exceed 8 pages using the well known IEEE (double column) format, including figures and references on 8.5 by 11 inch paper using at least 11 point font. Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format (or postscript) by sending it as an e-mail attachment to one of the workshop co-chairs. All papers will be peer reviewed and the comments will be provided to the authors.
The authors of accepted papers will have to improve their paper on the basis of the reviewers' comments and will be asked to send a camera ready version of their manuscripts by April 15, 2005. The accepted papers will be published together with those of other ICPP '05 workshops by the IEEE Computer Society.
A special issue of the Journal Parallel and Distributed Computing Journal (Elsevier) will consider the inclusion of selected high-quality papers from the workshop.
Submission Deadline:
February 21, 2005
Author Notification:March
18, 2005
Final Manuscript Due:
April
3, 2005
Erick Cantú-Paz, LLNL, USA
Francisco Fernández de Vega, University of Extremadura, Spain