********************************************************************** The 12th International Workshop on Nature Inspired Distributed Computing (NIDISC'09) http://www.lifl.fr/~talbi/nidisc held in conjunction with The 23th IEEE/ACM International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2009) 25-29 May 2009 Rome, Italy http://www.ipdps.org ********************************************************************** Workshop Theme : ============= 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, bioinformativs, 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 : ============== Enrique Alba, University of Málaga –Spain– ( eat@lcc.uma.es ) 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) : ===================================== Michael Affenzeller, Univ. of Hagenberg, Austria Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada Pascal Bouvry, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Juergen Branke, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Erick Cantú-Paz, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA Beniamino Di Martino, Univ. of Naples, Italia Tarek El-Ghazawi, George Washington University, USA Pilar Herrero, UPM, Spain Andrew Lewis, Griffith University, Australia Martin Middendorf, University of Leipzig, Germany Nordine Melab, University of Lille, France Michelle D. Moore, Texas A & M - Corpus Christi, USA Antonio J.Nebro, Univ. of Málaga, Spain Franciszek Seredynski, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland G. Spezzano, University of Calabria, Italy Marco Tomassini, University of Lausanne, Switzerland Papers should be submitted to: ============================== - Enrique Alba, University of Málaga –Spain– ( eat@lcc.uma.es ) - Franciszek Seredynski, Polish Academy of Sciences – Poland ( sered@ipipan.waw.pl ) - El-ghazali Talbi, University of Lille, INRIA –France– ( talbi@lifl.fr ) Important Dates: ================ - Submission Deadline - December 12, 2008 - Notification of Acceptance - January 20, 2009 - Final Copy Due - February 15, 2009 http://www.lifl.fr/~talbi/nidisc