CFP: Swarm Intelligence and Patterns

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SWARM INTELLIGENCE AND PATTERNS (SIP'04) - Call for Papers
Web site: http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos/SIP.html
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Int. Workshop Session at ISDA'04 - 4th International
Conference on Intelligent Systems, Design and
Applications.

Conference dates: August 26-28, 2004.
Location: Budapest,Hungary.

Chairs:
Vitorino Ramos (CVRM-IST, Technical University of Lisbon, PORTUGAL),
Ajith Abraham (Bio-Inspired Grid Lab, Oklahoma State University,
USA).
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IMPORTANT DATES:

Paper submission Due (full paper) : April 1, 2004
Notification of acceptance: May 10, 2004
Camera ready papers and authors' registration : June 10, 2004
Conference - August 26-28, 2004. Budapest, Hungary.

SCOPE AND CALL FOR PAPERS:

Self-organizing intelligent complex systems typically are comprised of
a large number of frequently similar components or events. Through
their process, a pattern at the global-level of a system emerges
solely from numerous interactions among the lower-level components of
the system. Moreover, the rules specifying interactions among the
system's components are executed using only local information, without
reference to the global pattern, which, as in many real-world problems
is not easily accessible or possible to be found.
Stigmergy, a kind of indirect communication and learning by the
environment found in social insects is a well know example of
self-organization, providing not only vital clues in order to
understand how the components can interact to produce a complex
pattern and engineer applications, as can pinpoint simple biological
non-linear rules and means to achieve an improved design of artificial
intelligent systems.

SWARM INTELLIGENCE is precisely a relatively novel discipline devoted
to the study of self-organizing collective processes in Nature and
Human artefacts as well as on their applications. An example of
particularly successful research direction in swarm intelligence is
ant colony optimization (ACO), which focuses on discrete optimization
problems, and has been applied successfully to a large number of hard
discrete optimization problems including the travelling salesman, the
quadratic assignment, scheduling, vehicle routing, etc., as well
as to routing in telecommunication networks.

However, apart from the remarkable successful applications in
optimization as well as on their critical features as a bio-inspired
computational paradigm, a small number of works have still been
devoted to Data Classification and Retrieval Systems, Clustering,
Pattern Recognition, Distributed Data-Mining, Web Mining and GRIDS,
Collaborative Filtering, Image Analysis and Signal Processing, Pattern
Formation, Perception, Memory and Generalization.

At the present section we seek to explore the applicability of these
bio-inspired approaches to the development of self-organizing,
evolving, adaptive and autonomous information technologies, which will
meet the requirements of next-generation information systems, such as
diversity, scalability, robustness, and resilience.

TOPICS OF INTEREST:

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, applications and
theory dealing with any aspect of Swarm Intelligence, Pattern
Recognition, Data and Image Processing, as:

- Intelligent Systems Design.
- Advanced Signal and Image processing algorithms.
- Pattern Recognition and Emergent Behaviour.
- Data Categorization, Visualization. Data and Knowledge Extraction /
Representation.
- Feature Extraction and Selection. Unsupervised Learning.
- Information Systems.
- Collective Intelligence and Search. Exploring versus Exploiting.
- Artificial Habitats and Information.
- Exploratory Data Analysis. Data-Mining.
- Cognition, Interactivity, Signals and Communication.
- Bottom-up Strategies and Non-Hierarchical Systems.
- Adpative Systems and Self-Configuration.
- Mapping Concepts, Cognitive Maps and Self-Organizing Maps.
- Complex Adaptive Systems.
- Stigmergy, Self-Organization, Metamorphosis, Emergence and
Co-Evolution.
- Artificial Life as well as other Animal Societies bio-inspired
algorithms.
- Artificial Societies and Web-based Communities.
- Wireless Communication, Cellular Systems, Indirect Communication
through artefacts.
- Social Networks and New Media.
- Artificial Immune Systems and Self-Organization.
- Classification, Sorting, Data Retrieval, Clustering.
- Web Mining, Semantic Web, Collaborative Mining, GRIDS, Network
security.
- Auto-Catalysis, Positive and Negative Feedbacks, Cybernetics.
- Swarm and Cooperative Robotics.
- Distributed algorithms, self-regulation, self-repair and
self-maintenance ontologies.
- Biomedical, multimedia and e-commerce applications.
- Collective on-line Games. iDesign, Active aLif(v)e Art and
e-Artefacts.
- Generative and Computational Art.
- Hybridization with other methods (e.g. Evolutionary Computation and
Neural Networks).

PAPER SUBMISSION:

All accepted papers should follow IEEE format (check ISDA Call for
Papers).
Submitted papers have to be original, 6 pages long, containing new and
original results. Author's guidelines and format instructions can be
downloaded from the following links:

http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos/SIP.html and
http://www.cs.okstate.edu/~isda04/submission.html .
Please send the full paper as an email attachment to:

Vitorino Ramos vitorino.ramos@alfa.ist.utl.pt with a cc to
ajith.abraham@ieee.org .

CONTACTS:
Vitorino Ramos: vitorino.ramos@alfa.ist.utl.pt
[http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos]
Ajith Abraham: ajith.abraham@ieee.org
[http://ajith.softcomputing.net/]

RELATED EVENTS:

# ANTS'2004 - 4th Int. Wkshp on ACO and Swarm Intelligence,
Brussels, Belgium, Sep 5-8 2004
[http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~ants/ants2004/].
# ESOA'2004 - 2nd Int. Wkshp on Engineering Self-Organising
Applications,
New York, USA, July 19 or 20 2004
[http://esoa.unige.ch/esoa04/esoa04-cfp.html].
# WCLC'2004 -1st World Congress on Lateral Computing,
Bangalore, India, Dec. 17-19 2004
[http://www.lateral-computing.org/wclc/].