********************************************************************** The 13th International Workshop on Nature Inspired Distributed Computing (NIDISC'10) http://www.lifl.fr/~talbi/nidisc10 held in conjunction with The 24th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'2010) 19-23 April 2010 Atlanta, USA 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) : ===================================== 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. Cantú-Paz, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA C. Coello, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico 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 Málaga, Spain C. Ribeiro, Univ. of Fluminense, Brazil H. Sarbazi-azad, Sharif University of Technology, Iran G. Spezzano, University of Calabria, Italy Z. Tari, RMIT University, Australia M. Tomassini, University of Lausanne, Switzerland F. Xhafa, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain Papers should be submitted to: ============================== - E. Alba, University of Málaga –Spain– ( eat@lcc.uma.es ) - F. Seredynski, Polish Academy of Sciences – Poland ( sered@ipipan.waw.pl ) - E-G. Talbi, University of Lille, INRIA –France– ( talbi@lifl.fr ) Important Dates: ================ - Submission Deadline - December 4, 2009 - Notification of Acceptance - January 8, 2010 - Final Copy Due - February 1, 2010 http://www.lifl.fr/~talbi/nidisc10 -- Prof. El-Ghazali TALBI University of Lille - INRIA - CNRS http: www.lifl.fr/~talbi ------------------New book -------------------- "Metaheuristics: from design to implementation" E-G. Talbi Wiley 2009 (624pp) ISBN: 978-0-470-27858-1 -----------------------------------------------