organized in conjunction with
Symposium on
Swarm Intelligence & Differential Evolution
SIDE 2012
Swarm Intelligence (SI) is a computational intelligence technique which mimics and makes use of the collective behavior (e.g. fish, birds, bees, ants, bacteria etc.) for solving search and optimization problems. The resulting algorithms are thus population-based systems of simple individuals interacting with one another and with their environment. Differential Evolution (DE) is a special example of optimizer since it shares some features with SI, mainly in the interaction amongst particles and selection scheme, but can also be considered as an Evolutionary Algorithm (EA). This symposium gathers new theoretical and implementation results, applications, reviews, and comparative studies. A special emphasis will be given on those studies which attempt to explain the working principles of the algorithms.
Authors are invited to submit their original and unpublished work in the areas including, but not limited to, the following.
Algorithms:
Differential Evolution
Particle Swarm Optimization
- Ant Colony Optimization
- Bees Algorithms
- Bacteria Foraging Optimization
Artificial Immune System
DNA Computing
Organic Computing
Quantum Computing
Social Evolution
Stochastic Diffusion Search
Swarm Robotics
Memetic Computing
Hybridization DE/SI with other methods
Theoretical/Implementation Aspects:
Novel operators
Adaptation
Convergence
Randomization of components
Structured Population
Hybridization of global optimizers
Problem Scenarios:
Constrained Optimization
Multimodal Optimization
Multi-objective Optimization and Decision Making
Combinatorial Optimization
Discrete/Binary Optimization
Continuous Optimization
Noisy and Dynamic Fitness
Large Scale Problems
Computationally Expensive Fitness
Applications (of SI and DE):
Engineering and control systems
Bio-informatics
Business and Economics
Data Mining and Clustering
Scheduling and Time-tabling
Supply Chain Management
Games
Image Analysis
Signal Processing
Wireless Sensor Networks
The accepted papers will be published on the Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence.
The best papers presented at the symposium will be considered for publication, in an extended version, on the Elsevier Journal
Swarm and Evolutionary Computation
SYMPOSIUM CHAIRS
(in alphabethical order)
University of Maribor, Slovenia
Independent Consultant
University of Jyväskylä, Finland
PROGRAM CHAIRS
(in alphabetical order)
Goldsmiths College
Indian Statistical Institute, India
University of Tours, France
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
IMPORTANT DATES
Initial Submission: October 20, 2011
EXTENDED TO November 10, 2011!!!!
Notification of Acceptance:
December 1, 2011
Sumbission of camera-ready papers:
January 15, 2012
Conference Dates and Location:
29 April - 3 May 2012
Zakopane, Poland
REGISTRATION
A single registration will allow the partecipation of both the events
CONTACTS
For questions and clarifications contact:
- Ashish Anand, India
- Borko Boskovic, Slovenia
- Jagdish Chand Bansal, India
- Carlos Coello Coello, Mexico
- Iztok Fister, Slovenia
- Bogdan Filipic, Slovenia
- Sheldon Hui, Singapore
- Peter D. Justesen, Denmark
- Nicolas Labroche, France
- Jane Liang, China
- Hongbo Liu, China
- Efren Mezura Montes, Mexico
- A. Nakib, France
- Rammohan Mallipeddi, Korea
- Slawomir Nasuto, UK
- Jouni Lampinen, Finland
- Mirjam Sepesy Maucec, Slovenia
- Marjan Mernik, Slovenia
- Godfrey Onwubolu, Canada
- Jérôme Emeka Onwunalu, Canada
- Quanke Pan, China
- Gregor Papa, Slovenia
- Boyang Qu, China
- Shahryar Rahnamayan, Canada
- Jurij Silc, Slovenia
- Josef Tvrdik, Czech Republic
- M. N. Vrahatis, Greece
- Daniela Zaharie, Romania
- Ales Zamuda, Slovenia
- Qingfu Zhang, UK
- Shizheng Zhao, Singapore
Call for Papers
