[BBC] CFP NIDISC'09

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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
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Workshop Theme :
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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 :
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- Albert Y. Zomaya The University of Sydney -Australia-
(zomaya at it.usyd.edu.au)


Program Co-chairs :
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Enrique Alba, University of Málaga –Spain– ( eat at lcc.uma.es )
Franciszek Seredynski, Polish Academy of Sciences – Poland ( 
sered at ipipan.waw.pl )
El-ghazali Talbi, University of Lille, INRIA –France– ( talbi at lifl.fr )



Program Committee (to be completed) :
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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:
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- Enrique Alba, University of Málaga –Spain– ( eat at lcc.uma.es )
- Franciszek Seredynski, Polish Academy of Sciences – Poland ( 
sered at ipipan.waw.pl )
- El-ghazali Talbi, University of Lille, INRIA –France– ( talbi at lifl.fr )

Important Dates:
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- Submission Deadline - December 12, 2008
- Notification of Acceptance - January 20, 2009
- Final Copy Due - February 15, 2009

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