************************************************************************* Technical Forum Group on Agent- and Multi-Agent Based Simulation (TFGSIM) Co-located with EUMAS 2010 15 December 2010, Paris, France Call for Participation & Position Statements ************************************************************************* http://www.irit.fr/TFGSIM Following the tradition of Agent Link Technical Forum Groups, we announce the first edition of a Simulation Technical Forum Group focussing discussions on methodological and technical aspects of agent- and multi-agent-based simulation. We will work on identification of and solution suggestions for challenges of agent- and multi-agent-based simulation. We also want to establish links between members of the agent-based simulation community which could lead to common research activities and projects. Topics of interest are (but are not limited to): * Can modelers creativity be supported by engineering? * What are the particular challenges in agent-based simulation engineering? * Suggestions for design, testing, calibration, verification and validation strategies, methods, tools? * Can we come up with a shared meta model of an agent-based simulation model? * Challenges and solutions for multi-scale modeling? * Can AOSE specification languages be used for simulations? * Is a simulation problem more than just a particular set of requirements? * What kind of AOSE models for supporting Agent-based simulation design? * How can we systematically involve human experts and stakeholders? * What kind of tools do we need for supporting agent-based simulation and modelling? * What are the particular properties that a modeller must be able to expect from a simulation platform/engine? ************************************************************************* Preliminary Program The meeting will be held on December 15th at University of Jussieu in Paris, France, near the location where EUMAS 2010 (http://lipade.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/eumas10/index.html) will be held directly after the Technical Forum - that will this year consist of a groups working on Self-Organisation and on Agent-based Software Engineering in addition to this group on agent- and multi-agent based simulation. The initial agenda for this meeting plans sessions with talks focussed on particular challenges followed by a general panel session. In the first part, a small number of focussed presentations will be given followed by discussions on the topics raised by the presentations. In the second one, a broad panel-like discussion on most relevant topics for participants will be held. The speakers for each panel are to be selected and will be announced through the Simulation TFG web page. Suggestions are welcome. Schedule, contributions (both in form of papers and presentation slides) and other working documents will also be published on this web page. ************************************************************************* Contributions Participants are strongly encouraged to submit position papers. The deadline for contributions related to talks to be held during the meeting is November 15th 2010. Papers should be sent to the working group chairs (see below). They will be made available for all participants well before the meeting in order to prepare discussions. We accept position papers, papers illustrating new researches in the area as well as any other scientific relevant contribution (also demonstration of prototypes) in the area the above listed topics or others suitable for discussing in the frame of the TFG. There will be no formal proceedings therefore already published papers are welcome too (provided that in this way no existing copyright is infringed). The format and length of position papers are open. ************************************************************************* Registration for TFGSIM is free. Unfortunately, there will be no funding for attendants in this edition. For any question or comment, do not hesitate to contact the TFGSIM chairs. See you in Paris, Franziska Klügl Modeling and Simulation Research Center, Örebro University, Sweden franziska.klugl@oru.se and Carole Bernon Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, University of Toulouse III, France bernon@irit.fr
Mittwoch, 27. Oktober 2010
Technical Forum Group on Agent- and Multi-Agent Based Simulation (TFGSIM)
Freitag, 24. September 2010
Special Issue on “State of the Art in Self-Adaptive Software Systems”
======================================================= Call for Papers Special Issue on “State of the Art in Self-Adaptive Software Systems” Journal of Systems and Software (JSS) ======================================================= Modern software systems have to operate under highly dynamic and unpredictable operating conditions. User needs may change dynamically, availability of resources may vary, subsystems may come and go at runtime, etc. To deal with such dynamics, systems must be self-adaptive, i.e. they must be able to adapt themselves at runtime to optimize performance, protect from intrusions, heal from failures, etc. During the last decade, multiple approaches have been proposed to engineer self-adaptive systems. From these efforts, we learned that the construction of self-adaptive systems is significantly more challenging than traditional systems. The aim of this special issue is to provide an overview of the state of the art in the field of self-adaptive software systems and outline the challenges for future research. We invite quality submissions focusing on all aspects of self-adaptation, with an emphasis on the engineering of self-adaptive software systems. Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to: - models and theories for self-adaptation - formal methods for self-adaptive systems - architectural styles and patterns for self-adaptive systems - control loops and reflective architectures for self-adaptation - quality of service concerns in self-adaptive systems - mechanisms that support monitoring, analysis, planning, and execution phases of self-adaptation - dealing with uncertainty in self-adaptive systems - self-adaptation versus self-organization - verification of self-adaptive systems, including runtime verification - methods for engineering self-adaptive systems - evolution of self-adaptive systems - case studies and empirical experiments involving self-adaptive systems - validation of self-adaptation - application of self-adaptation techniques in industrial and real world settings - self-adaptation in component-based system - self-adaptation in service-oriented systems - agent-based approaches to self-adaptation - aspect-oriented approaches to self-adaptation - self-adaptation in pervasive and mobile systems - application of principles from biology, sociology, and physics to engineer self-adaptive systems All articles should consider the practical application of the idea through case studies, experiments, empirical validation, or systematic comparisons with other approaches already in practice. Submissions ========== Papers are limited to 20 pages and have to be prepared according to the author instructions available at: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505732/authorinstructions All papers will be refereed by at least two reviewers knowledgeable in the domain of self-adaptive systems. Papers have to be submitted using the Elsevier manuscript system: http://ees.elsevier.com/jss/ Please select the article type “Special Issue: Self-Adaptive Systems” on the submission website. Key Dates ========= March 15, 2011 – Submission website open March 31, 2011 – Submission deadline July 31, 2011 – Final Decisions Publication – Tentatively December 2011 Info ==== Email: JSS-special-issue2010@cs.kuleuven.be Web site: www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505732/description#description Guest Editors ============= Danny Weyns, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Sam Malek, George Mason University, USA Jesper Andersson, Linnaeus University, Sweden Bradley Schmerl, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Pervasive Health 2011
Pervasive Health 2011 Conference 23rd-26th May, 2011 :: Dublin, Ireland http://www.pervasivehealth.org/ ---------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Submission deadline: February 4th, 2011 ---------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - It is with great pleasure that we announce the 5th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare. The overall goal of the conference remains tightly coupled with the original aims of the field, to address a set of related technologies and concepts that help integrate healthcare more seamlessly into everyday life, regardless of space and time. To achieve this, it is necessary to take a multidisciplinary approach to Pervasive Healthcare Technology research and development. The Pervasive Healthcare Community has a broad scope of research topics and concerns: - identifying and understanding problems from a technological, social, and medical perspective (with a particular emphasis on understanding and supporting patient needs); - design, implementation, and evaluation of supporting hardware and software infrastructures, algorithms, and applications; and - organisational strategies that facilitate integration of Pervasive Healthcare Technology into the healthcare enterprise. The 2011 Pervasive Healthcare conference aims to gather technology experts, practitioners, industry and international authorities contributing towards the assessment, development and deployment of pervasive medical based technologies, standards and procedures. The theme of this year’s conference is: Coping with the Challenges and Opportunities within Pervasive E-Healthcare (COPE), with a special focus on pervasive healthcare management and its ability to deliver timely, quality based information to medical practitioners in providing high levels of patient care. The challenges and opportunities within e-Healthcare are immense. A multidisciplinary and coordinated approach is needed from 1) user requirements, 2) technology development and 3) application integration, to help deliver a successful pervasive healthcare management system. Traditional healthcare environments are extremely complex and challenging to manage, as they are required to cope with an assortment of patient conditions under various circumstances with a number of resource constraints. Pervasive healthcare technologies seek to respond to a variety of these pressures by successfully integrating them within existing health care environments. Technologies, standards and procedures on their own provide little and or no meaningful service. It is essential that pervasive healthcare environments, through a combined approach of data collection, data correlation and data presentation, assist health care professionals in delivering high levels of patient care, and empower individuals and their families for self-care and health management. ---------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CONTRIBUTIONS ---------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - We welcome contributions from the following fields: - Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health Professions - Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) - Sensing Technologies and Distributed Computing - Hardware and Software Infrastructures We seek novel, innovative, and exciting work in areas including but not limited to: Pervasive Healthcare Management - Challenges surrounding data quality - Standards and interoperability in pervasive healthcare - Business cases and cost issues - Security and privacy issues - Training of healthcare professional for pervasive healthcare - Legal and regulatory issues - Insurance payments and cost aspects - Staffing and resource management Understanding Users - User requirements - Identifying and addressing stakeholder conflicts: patient needs, caregiver needs, health professional needs, organisational needs - Usability and acceptability - Barriers to adoption, and enablers - Social implications of pervasive health technology, and social inclusion - Coverage and delivery of pervasive healthcare services - Patient empowerment - Diversity: population and condition-specific requirements - Inclusive research and design: engaging underrepresented populations Knowledge Representation and Reasoning - Physiological models for interpreting medical sensor data - Activity recognition - Fall detection - User modelling and personalization - Modelling of Pervasive Healthcare environment Technology - Sensor-based decision support systems - Design and evaluation of patient and ambient-related sensors - Wearable and implantable sensor integration - Data fusion in pervasive healthcare environments - Data mining medical patient records - Software architectures e.g. Agent, SOA, distributed middleware - Electronic Health Records (EHR) Applications - Autonomous systems to support independent living - Clinical applications, validation and evaluation studies - Telemedicine - Chronic disease and health risk management applications - Health promotion and disease prevention - Home based health and wellness measurement and monitoring - Continuous vs event-driven monitoring of patients - Smart homes and hospitals - Using mobile devices in the storage, update, and transmission of patient data - Wellbeing and lifestyle support - Systems to support individuals with auditory, cognitive, or vision impairements - Systems to support caregivers ---------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ---------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Pervasive Health will accept submissions in the following categories: 1. Full papers (up to 8 pages submissions) - Full papers are submissions describing results and original research work not submitted or published elsewhere in one of the four main categories listed below. Full papers should properly place the work within the field, cite related work, and clearly indicate the innovative aspects of the work and its contribution to the field. 2. Posters (up to 4 pages submissions) - Authors are invited to submit work in progress whose preliminary results are already interesting to Pervasive Health audience. The poster track will give Pervasive Health attendees a way to learn about ongoing research initiatives and will provide presenters with an excellent opportunity to receive invaluable direct feedback from experts. 3. Demos (2 pages submissions) - The demos track will showcase the latest developments and prototypes related to the topics of interest of the conference. The expected demo submissions should describe the technical details of the demo alongside its contribution to the healthcare domain.. 4. Position Papers (2 pages submissions) - Position papers are envisioned to provide insight into the lessons learnt from current (industrial, practitioners, government, etc.) pervasive healthcare practice. The position papers track is envisioned to provide the view of practitioners to the pervasive health community in order to have a more clear understanding about the real needs of healthcare operators and in this way shorten the gap between technologists and the every-day needs of practitioners. 5. Workshops (2 pages submissions) Several workshops will be run in conjunction with the conference. The purpose of these workshops is to discuss work in progress and explore opportunities for new research related to pervasive healthcare. Proposals for workshops should be submitted directly to the workshops co-chairs, and proposals should indicate the preferred duration for the workshop (half/full-day). 6. Doctoral Consortium (4 pages) – We are please to announce the first Pervasive Healthcare Doctoral Consortium. This one day event will enable doctoral students to present and reflect on their work alongside other doctoral students and a panel of experts. Submissions should include a description of work done, intended future work, alongside a specific research question or challenge that you would like to be discussed at the consortium. ---------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - PUBLICATION ---------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - All accepted submissions will be published in IEEE Xplore Digital Library (to be confirmed). ---------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Workshops Proposals: November 19th , 2010 Paper submission deadline: February 4th, 2011 Notification of acceptance: April 11th, 2011 Camera-ready Manuscripts: April 25th , 2011 Conference Dates: May 23rd – 26th, 2011 WORKSHOPS AND DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM Please visit the Workshops and Doctoral Consortium pages for detailed submission requirements and procedures (upcoming). ---------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - SUBMITTING PAPERS ---------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Please visit the Submission page for detailed submission requirements and procedures. http://www.pervasivehealth.org ---------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Best Paper Award ---------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - IOS Press will provide a prize, in the form of a free 12 months subscription to the Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments, for the authors of the best Pervasive Health 2011 Conference Paper. ---------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ORGANIZING COMMITTEE CHAIRS ---------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - General Chairs John O'Donoghue, University College Cork, Ireland Gregory O'Hare, University College Dublin, Ireland Technical Program Chairs Juan Carlos Augusto, University of Ulster, UK Brian Caulfield, University College Dublin, Ireland Julie Maitland, National Research Council, Canada Local Arrangements Chairs Michael O'Grady, University College Dublin, Ireland Workshops Chairs Marilyn McGee-Lennon, University of Glasgow, UK Maurice Mulvenna, University of Ulster, UK Demos Chair John Barton, CLARITY/Tyndall, Ireland Publications Chair Paul McCullagh University of Ulster, UK North America Liason Patricia Brennan Project Health Design, USA Asia Liason Chi-Hung Chi Tsinghua University, China Australia Liason Gourab Sen Gupta Massey University, NZ Publicity Chair Paulo Novais University of Minho, Portugal Conference Coordinator Chair Gergely Nagy ICST Doctor Colloquium Chairs Tom O'Kane, University College Cork, Ireland Kelly Caine, Indiana University, USA ---------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CONTACTS ---------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - e-mail: ph2011@prevasivehealth.org Website: http://www.pervasivehealth.org/
Freitag, 17. September 2010
Australasian Ontology Workshop (AOW 2010)
6th Australasian Ontology Workshop (AOW 2010)
7 December 2010
Held in Conjunction with the
23rd Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI2010)
Adelaide, Australia
http://krr.meraka.org.za/~aow2010
AOW 2010 is the sixth in a series of workshops on ontologies held
in the Australasian region.
The primary aim of the workshop is to bring together active researchers in
the broad area of ontologies. Topics of interest include, but are not
limited to:
- Ontology models and theories
- Ontologies and the Semantic Web
- Interoperability in ontologies
- Ontologies and Multi-agent systems
- Description logics for ontologies
- Reasoning with ontologies
- Ontology harvesting on the web
- Ontology of agents and actions
- Ontology visualisation
- Ontology engineering and management
- Ontology-based information extraction and retrieval
- Ontology merging, alignment and integration
- Web ontology languages
- Formal concept analysis and ontologies
- Ontologies for e-research
- Linking open data
- Significant ontology applications
The proceedings of all previous Australasian Ontology
Workshops were published in the CRPIT Series and this
will also be the case for AOW 2010.
Authors of the best papers will be invited to submit
extended versions of their AOW 2010 papers as chapters in
a forthcoming Springer book.
For the second year running, AOW 2010 will have a best paper
award, with a prize of $250(AUD) being awarded to the
author(s) of the best paper.
Important Dates:
Paper submission deadline: 24 September 2010
Notification of acceptance/rejection: 22 October 2010
Camera-ready copies due: 12 November 2010
AOW 2010: 7 December 2010
Papers must be submitted via the EasyChair system at
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aow2010
Workshop Chairs:
Thomas Meyer
Meraka Institute, South Africa
tommie.meyer@meraka.org.za
Mehmet Orgun
Macquarie University
mehmet.orgun@mq.edu.au
Kerry Taylor
CSIRO ICT Centre
Kerry.Taylor@csiro.au
Program Committee :
Franz Baader (TU Dresden, Germany)
Arina Britz (Meraka Institute, South Africa)
Werner Ceusters (SUNY Buffalo, USA)
Michael Compton (CSIRO, Australia)
Oscar Corcho (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain)
R. Cenk Erdur (Ege University, Turkey)
Aurona Gerber (Meraka Institute, South Africa)
Dennis Hooijmaijers (University of South Australia, Australia)
Bo Hu (SAP Research, UK)
Renato Iannella (NICTA, Australia)
Ken Kaneiwa (NICT, Japan)
Marijke Keet (Free University of Bolzano, Italy)
Kevin Lee (NICTA and UNSW, Australia)
Laurent Lefort (CSIRO, Australia)
Costas Mantratzis (University of Westminster, UK)
Lars Moench (University of Hagen, Germany)
Maurice Pagnucco (UNSW, Australia)
Debbie Richards (Macquarie University, Australia)
Rolf Schwitter (Macquarie University, Australia)
Murat Sensoy (Bogazici University, Turkey)
Markus Stumptner (University of South Australia, Australia)
Boontawee (Meng) Suntisrivaraporn (Thammasat University, Thailand)
Sergio Tessaris (Free University of Bolzano, Italy)
Nwe Ni Tun (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Ivan Varzinczak (Meraka Institute, South Africa)
Kewen Wang (Griffith University, Australia)
Event Recognition
======================================= Special Issue on Event Recognition Applied Artificial Intelligence Journal ======================================= Users and organisations collect data in various structured and unstructured digital formats, but they cannot fully utilise these data to support content and resource management. It is evident that the analysis and interpretation of the available data needs to be automated, in order for large data volumes to be transformed into operational knowledge. Events are particularly important pieces of knowledge, as they represent activities of special significance both for users and organisations. Therefore, the recognition of events is of utmost importance. Consider, for example, the recognition of trends given user contributions in social Web 2.0 applications, the recognition of attacks on nodes of a computer network given the exchanged TCP/IP messages, the recognition of suspicious trader behaviour given the transactions in a financial market, and the recognition of various types of cardiac arrhythmia given electrocardiograms. We invite quality submissions focusing on various aspects of event recognition, including analysis of video, audio, text and other sensor data, as well as recognition on fused data sources. While we place emphasis on theoretical contributions, we also welcome papers describing interesting applications. Broad topics include: ===================== - Representation languages for event recognition - Algorithms for real-time event recognition - Probabilistic reasoning for event recognition - Machine learning for event recognition - Event recognition architectures - Benchmarks, performance evaluations, and testbeds - Domain-specific deployments of event recognition systems - Multimedia and social media analysis for event recognition - Clustering, concept recognition and multi-modal/fusion techniques - User interaction and interfaces for event navigation, browsing and management Key Dates ========= December 1, 2010 - Submissions July 10, 2011 - Final Decisions Publication - November 2011 Info ==== Email: events2010@iti.gr Journal web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/08839514.asp Guest Editors ============= Thomas Winkler, Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany Alexander Artikis, NCSR Demokritos Yiannis Kompatsiaris, CERTH-ITI, Greece Phivos Mylonas, NTUA, Greece
Context-awareness in Retrieval and Recommendation
CALL FOR PAPERS
CaRR2011 :: IUI2011 Workshop on Context-awareness in Retrieval and Recommendation
Location: Palo Alto, California, USA
Date: February 13, 2011
Website: http://www.dai-labor.de/carr2011/
General Information:
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Context-aware information is widely available in various ways such as interaction patterns, location, devices, annotations, query suggestions and user profiles and is becoming more and more important for enhancing retrieval performance and recommendation results. At the moment, the main issue to cope with is not only recommending or retrieving the most relevant items and content, but defining them ad hoc. Further relevant issues are personalizing and adapting the information and the way it is displayed to the user's current situation (device, location) and interests.
In this workshop we focus on the integration of context for retrieval and recommendation.
We recognize a general content context and a user-centric content context.
A general content context is a common case defined by time, weather, location and many similar other aspects. A user-centric content context is given by the content of user profiles such as language, interests, devices used for interaction, etc.
Call for Papers:
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The aim of the CaRR Workshop is to invite the community to a discussion in which we will try to find new creative ways to handle context-awareness. Furthermore, the workshop aims at improving the exchange of ideas between different communities involved in research concerning, among other machine learning, information retrieval and recommendation.
The workshop is especially intended for researchers working on multidisciplinary tasks who want to discuss problems and synergies. We are interested in ideas about creative and collaborative approaches for context-aware retrieval and recommendation.
The participants are encouraged to address the following questions:
* Why is context-awareness in retrieval and recommendation necessary?
* Which benefits come from context-aware retrieval and recommendation systems?
* How do user interfaces handle context?
* In what ways can context improve HCI?
* How can we combine general- and user-centric context-aware technologies?
* How should context affect the way information is presented?
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following aspects:
* Context-aware information retrieval
* Context-aware profiling, clustering and collaborative filtering
* Machine learning for context-aware information retrieval and ontology learning
* Ubiquitous and context-aware computing
* Use of context-aware technologies in UI/HCI
* Context-aware advertising
* Recommendations for mobile users
* Context-awareness in portable devices
Paper submissions and reviews will be handled electronically through the CaRR page in EasyChair (which will be made available at a later point in time).
Important dates:
* Paper submission: November 1, 2010
* Notification: December 12, 2010
* Camera-ready submission: December 19, 2010
* Workshop: February 13, 2010
Organizers and Committees:
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* Ernesto William De Luca, DAI Lab/Technische Universität Berlin
* Alan Said, DAI Lab/Technische Universität Berlin
* Matthias Böhmer, Münster University of Applied Sciences
* Florian Michahelles, ETH Zurich
Industrial Chair
* Sahin Albayrak, DAI Lab/Technische Universität Berlin
Program Committee
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* Sarabjot Singh Anand, University of Warwick, UK
* Gernot Bauer, Münster University of Applied Sciences, Germany
* Shlomo Berkovsky, CSIRO, Australia
* Toine Bogers, Royal School of Library Information Science, Denmark
* Gregor Broll, LMU/Docomo, Germany
* Li Chen, Hong Kong Baptist University, China
* Ed Chi, PARC, USA
* Marco Degemmis, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Italy
* Aldo Gangemi, Italian National Research Council, Italy
* Ido Guy, IBM, Israel
* Olaf Hartig, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
* Dietmar Jannach, TU-Dortmund, Germany
* Carsten Kessler, University of Münster, Germany
* Thomas Kirste, Universität Rostock, Germany
* Antonio Krüger, DFKI, Saarbrücken, Germany
* Michael Kruppa, DFKI, Berlin, Germany
* Neal Lathia, University College London, UK
* Ulf Leser, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
* Johannes Leveling, Dublin City University, Ireland
* Pasquale Lops, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Italy
* Bernd Ludwig, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
* Stefan Mandl, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
* Thomas Mandl, University of Hildesheim, Germany
* Marco Pennacchiotti, Yahoo!, USA
* Till Plumbaum, DAI Lab/Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
* Francesco Ricci, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
* Christoph Schlieder, Universität Bamberg, Germany
* Edmund Schuster, MIT, USA
* Bracha Shapira, Ben Gurion University, Israel
* Armando Stellato, University of Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
* Jesse Vig, Universtity of Minnesota, USA
* Robert Wetzker, TU-Berlin, Germany
* Qiang Yang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
Best,
Ernesto William De Luca
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Dr.-Ing. Ernesto William De Luca
Director of the Competence Center Information Retrieval & Machine Learning
Technische Universität Berlin - DAI-Laboratory Sekr. TEL 14
Ernst-Reuter-Platz 7
10587 Berlin / Germany
Phone: +49 30 314 74074
Fax: +49 30 314 74003
E-mail: ernesto.deluca@dai-labor.de
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Nature Inspired Distributed Computing
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The 14th International Workshop on
Nature Inspired Distributed Computing
(NIDISC'11)
http://nidisc2011.gforge.uni.lu/
held in conjunction with
The 25th IEEE International
Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'2010)
16-20 May 2011
Anchorage (Alaska) 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 8
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.
A selected group of papers from the workshop will be invited to
submit extended versions of their papers to a special issue of an
international scholarly journal. Further announcements will be made
during the workshop.
General Chair :
============
- Albert Y. Zomaya, The University of Sydney -Australia- (zomaya@it.usyd.edu.au)
Program Co-chairs :
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- Pascal Bouvry, University of Luxembourg -Luxembourg- ( pascal.bouvry@uni.lu )
- Franciszek Seredynski, Polish Academy of Sciences -Poland- ( sered@ipipan.waw.pl )
- El-Ghazali Talbi, University of Lille, INRIA -France- ( talbi@lifl.fr )
Program Committee (to be completed) :
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E. Alba, University of Màlaga, Spain
M. Affenzeller, Univ. of Hagenberg, Austria
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
P. Bouvry, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
J. Branke, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
E. Cantù-Paz, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
C. Coello, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico
T. Crainic, Univ. of Montreal, Canada
B. Di Martino, Univ. of Naples, Italia
T. El-Ghazawi, George Washington University, USA
P. Herrero, UPM, Spain
A. Lewis, Griffith University, Australia
M. Middendorf, University of Leipzig, Germany
N. Melab, University of Lille, France
M. D. Moore, Texas A & M - Corpus Christi, USA
S. Mostaghim, Univ. of Karlsruhe, Germany
A. J.Nebro, Univ. of Malaga, Spain
C. Ribeiro, Univ. 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
M. Tomassini, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
F. Xhafa, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Publicity Chair:
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- Grégoire Danoy, University of Luxembourg -Luxembourg- (gregoire.danoy@uni.lu)
Papers should be submitted to:
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- P. Bouvry, University of Luxembourg -Luxembourg- ( pascal.bouvry@uni.lu )
- F. Seredynski, Polish Academy of Sciences -Poland- ( sered@ipipan.waw.pl )
- E-G. Talbi, University of Lille, INRIA -France- ( talbi@lifl.fr )
Important Dates:
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- Submission Deadline - December 4, 2010
- Notification of Acceptance - January 8, 2011
- Final Copy Due - February 1, 2010
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Gregoire Danoy, PhD
Scientific Collaborator
University of Luxembourg
FSTC - CSC - ILIAS
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