3-4 April 2008
Aberdeen, Scotland
Call for Papers SIAAS-08 - Swarm Intelligence Algorithms and Applications Symposium AISB 2008 Convention, Aberdeen, Scotland April 3-4, 2008 http://www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~aayesh/SIAAS-08 Description The increasing complexity of the current world can be observed each day. Sustainable development for example consists of economical and social systems management within natural environment. The understanding of the whole leads to what we call territorial intelligence. The way of modelling these complex systems is often based on interactive networks, dealing with the interconnection between all of the system components. Decision making on this complex world, need tools able to detect and manage emergent organizations through these networks. Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI) is the adapted conceptual trend which allows the proposal of some relevant solutions by relying on social and physical sciences models exhibited and observed in nature (e.g. ant colonies, molecular crystallisation, etc.). In this search and management of emerging organization, swarm intelligence algorithms proved to be popular and effective methods to use. On the technological front, the increasing number of robotic systems, advances in nano technology, and the sheer complexity of modern enterprise systems, especially those boosting high degree of autonomy, makes the development of swarm intelligence timely and needed. Topics of interest Submissions are invited on all aspects of swarm intelligence algorithms, their development, and applications. This includes, but not limited to: Bug algorithms, Computer vision, Factories, Potential fields, Scheduling, Simulation of chemical processes, Ant colonies, Problem solvers, Swarm optimization Territorial intelligence Social reactive agents Robotics, Special focus on embedded implementations and the use of swarms in complex systems will be given. Submissions and publications Submissions are to be made through the online system at: http://www.easychair.org/SIAAS-08/. Please see the symposium web page for more details: http://www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~aayesh/SIAAS-08 Important Dates ? Submission deadline for Full Papers: 18th January 2008 ? Paper acceptance notification: 15 February 2008 ? Convention: 1-4 April 2008 -- Dr. Aladdin Ayesh; MSc, MA, PhD, CEng, CSci, MBCS/CITP Co-ordinator of Intelligent Mobile Robotics and Creative Computing Group (IMRCC-Group) - Centre for Computational Intelligence (CCI) De Montfort University School of Computing, Computer Engineering Division The Gateway Leicester LE1 9BH email:aayesh@dmu.ac.uk Mobile. +44 (0) 771 744 9413 Tel. +44 (0) 116 250 6295 Fax. +44 (0) 116 207 8159 URL: http://www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~aayesh