PPSN 2006 First Call for Papers |
First call for papers for PPSN IX THE NINTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on PARALLEL PROBLEM SOLVING FROM NATURE PPSN IX Reykjavik, Iceland, September 9 - 13, 2006. CALL FOR PAPERS The Ninth International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN IX) will be held in Reykjavik, Iceland on 9-13 September 2006. This meeting will bring together an international community from academia, government, and industry interested in algorithms suggested by the unifying theme of natural computing. Natural Computing is the study of computational systems that use ideas and get inspiration from natural systems, including biological, ecological, physical, chemical, and social systems. It is a fastgrowing interdisciplinary field in which a range of techniques and methods are studied for dealing with large, complex, and dynamic problems. PPSN IX will showcase a wide range of topics in Natural Computing including, but not restricted to: Evolutionary Computation, Quantum Computation, Molecular Computation, Neural Computation, Artificial Life, Swarm Intelligence, Artificial Ant Systems, Artificial Immune Systems, Membrane Computing, Self- Organising Systems, Emergent Behaviours, and Applications to Real-World Problems. The conference emphasises original theories and novel applications of natural computing. Researchers, practitioners and students from academia and industry are invited to submit their original papers to this conference. PAPER SUBMISSION Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original results in the field of natural computing by 27 March 2006. The format should follow Springer Verlag LNCS style, with no more than 10 pages. Only electronic submissions will be considered. Papers in postscript or PDF files can from January 2006 be submitted through the conference homepage: http://ppsn2006.raunvis.hi.is The conference program committee will welcome papers addressing fundamental issues (e.g. theoretical studies, algorithm design and implementation, representation and operators, ...) as well as papers dealing with real-world applications, providing these papers either exhibit outstanding performance in contrast to other techniques or address real problems of significant importance. Authors are also strongly encouraged to provide pointers to source code (especially for novel techniques and algorithms) and/or data sets. However, this is certainly not mandatory, especially when commercial considerations are involved. The whole review process relies heavily on electronic means: the organizers hence strongly enforce electronic submissions of Postscript or PDF files. All accepted papers will be published in a Springer volume LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, see also the LNCS Online Digital Library). PAPER PRESENTATION Following the now well-established tradition of PPSN conferences, all accepted papers will be presented during small poster sessions of about 15-20 papers. Each session will contain papers from a wide variety of topics, and will begin by a plenary quick overview of all papers in that session by a major researcher in the field. Past experiences have shown that such presentation format led to more interactions between participants and to a deeper understanding of the papers. All accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings. REVIEW PROCESS All papers will be reviewed by at least three independent reviewers, strongly emphasizing originality and reproducibility of results (if applicable). In an effort to enforce the quality of the review process, papers will be assigned to reviewers based on their choice among the abstracts of all papers of their area of interest. The final acceptance decisions will be made by the program chairs, after an electronic discussion with the reviewers in case they disagree on a particular paper. WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS For information on workshops (on Sept. 9.) and tutorials (on Sept. 10.), please contact the corresponding chair and see conference homepage. CONFERENCE COMMITTEE General Chair Thomas Philip Runarsson University of Iceland, Iceland. Program Co-Chairs Hans-Georg Beyer Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences, Austria. Edmund Burke, University of Nottingham, UK. and Darrell Whitley, Colorado State University, USA. Electronic Pgm Chair Juan Julian Merelo Guervos University of Granada, Spain. Proceedings Chair Xin Yao University of Birmingham, UK. Local Organization Co-Chairs Magnus Thor Jonsson, Sven Sigurdsson, Olafur Petur Palsson University of Iceland, Iceland. Publicity Co-Chairs Simon Lucas, University of Essex, UK. Runar Unnthorsson, University of Iceland Tutorial Chair Alastair Channon ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ), University of Birmingham, UK. Workshop Chair Jim Torresen ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ), University of Oslo, Norway. Honorary Chair Hans-Paul Schwefel, University of Dortmund, Germany. PPSN STEERING COMMITTEE Kenneth De Jong (USA), Agoston E. Eiben (The Netherlands), Marc Schoenauer (France), Juan Julian Merelo Guervos (Spain), Xin Yao (UK), David Corne (UK), Thomas Runarsson (Iceland). CONTACT S-mail: PPSN IX Conference Secretariat University of Iceland Dunhagi 5, IS-107 Reykjavik, Iceland. For up-to-date information see: Url: http://ppsn2006.raunvis.hi.is CALENDAR The schedule for submission of (full) papers is: Paper submission opens: January 1, 2006 Paper submission closes: March 27, 2006 Notification of acceptance: May 29, 2006 Submission of revised accepted papers: June 19, 2006 |