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   Special Issue on

    PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION

      Swarm Intelligence Journal
    http://www.springer.com/11721
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  SUBMISSION DEADLINE: JUNE 1, 2008.
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GUEST EDITORS:
Riccardo Poli, University of Essex, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Jim Kennedy, US Bureau of Labor Statistics, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Andries Engelbrecht, University of Pretoria, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
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The Particle Swarm Optimizer (PSO), one of the pillars of Swarm
Intelligence, is a remarkable algorithm for at least two reasons: it
has a very simple formulation which makes it easy to implement, apply,
extend and hybridise, and it is a constant source of complex and
emergent phenomena, which are at the essence of swarm
intelligence. Many people around the world are exploring PSOs and
their applications.

This journal special issue solicits novel high-quality scientific
contributions on Particle Swarm Optimization. While papers on any
aspect of PSO are welcome, of special interest are submissions on:

  Empirical and theoretical analyses of the dynamics of PSO particles
  and populations and their modulation by different kinds of social
  networks

  Applications of PSO to high-impact areas and real-world problems

  Innovative studies and algorithms for setting PSO parameters
  (including adaptive and parameterless PSOs)

  Advanced bare-bones and distribution-based PSOs

  PSOs for stochastic, dynamic, multi-objective and combinatorial
  optimization problems

  Novel combinations of PSO algorithms with other AI, Computational
  Intelligence or OR techniques.


Authors are invited to submit original work on topics relevant for
this special issue.

The publication of the special issue is tentatively scheduled for
early Spring 2009.

Authors should submit their manuscripts to the Swarm Intelligence
Editorial Manager at http://www.editorialmanager.com/swrm. Please,
select "Special Issue on Particle Swarm Optimization" as the article
type. When submitting a paper, please send at the same time also an
email to Riccardo Poli ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) with paper title and author
list to inform about the submission.
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