[agents] CFP - NIDISC 2016: Deadline Extension

[Grégoire DANOY]

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                 The 19th International Workshop on 
                Nature Inspired Distributed Computing 
                                  (NIDISC'16)
		     http://nidisc2016.gforge.uni.lu/

                         held in conjunction with
                       The 30th IEEE International 
 Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium  (IPDPS'2016)
                              23-27 May 2016
                        
                             Chicago, Illinois, USA
                           http://www.ipdps.org
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SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO: January 22, 2016

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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, bioinformatics, 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.

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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- Pascal Bouvry, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg (pascal.bouvry at uni.lu)
- Franciszek Seredynski, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University, Poland (f.seredynski at uksw.edu.pl)
- El-Ghazali Talbi, University of Lille, INRIA, CNRS, France (talbi at lifl.fr)
- Grégoire Danoy, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg (gregoire.danoy at uni.lu)


Program Committee (to be completed):
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- A. Al-Dubai, Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom
- A. Al-Jumaily, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
- K. Bilal, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan
- A. Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada
- B. Dorronsoro, Universidad de Cádiz, Spain
- J. J. Durillo, University of Innsbruck, Austria
- H. González-Vélez, NCI Cloud Competency Centre, Ireland
- S. U. Khan, North Dakota State University, USA
- J. Kolodziej, Cracow University of Technology, Poland
- A. Lewis, Griffith University, Australia
- S. Malik, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan
- N. Melab, University of Lille, France
- M. Menai, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
- M. Middendorf, University of Leipzig
- A. J.Nebro, University of Málaga, Spain
- S. Nesmachnow, Universidad de la República, Uruguay
- S. Nikoletseas, University of Patras and CTI, Greece
- M. Seredynski, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg
- G. Ch. Sirakoulis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
- G. Spezzano, University of Calabria, Italy
- A. Tchernykh, CICESE Research Center, Mexico
- F. Xhafa, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain


Submission :
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Prospective authors of original, unpublished high quality research articles are invited to submit their contributions. NIDISC papers should not exceed 10 two-column pages including figures and references in the traditional IEEE format used in IPDPS. Authors can purchase up to two additional pages for camera-ready after acceptance.

Authors should submit a PDF or Word file through the EDAS system: http://edas.info/N21672.

Paper submission indicates the intention of the author to present the paper at the NIDISC 2016 workshop.

Proceedings of the workshops are distributed at the conference and are submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library after the conference.

Selected group of papers from the workshop will be invited to submit an extended version to a special issue of an international high-quality journal (to be defined).

In case of questions, please contact the NIDISC workshop organizers:  nidisc2016-chairs at edas.info


 
Important Dates:
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- Submission Deadline 		- January 22, 2016
- Notification of Acceptance 	- February 12, 2016
- Final Copy Due 			- February 28, 2016
- Workshop 				- May 23, 2016