PPSN 2012 - 12th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving From Nature

PPSN XII will showcase a wide range of topics in Natural Computing including, but not restricted to: Evolutionary Computation, Quantum Computation, Molecular Computation, Neural Computation, Artificial Life, Swarm Intelligence, Artificial Ant Systems, Artificial Immune Systems, Self-Organizing Systems, Emergent Behaviors, and Applications to Real-World Problems.

TOPICS

Main Topics
Theory of evolutionary computing
Theory of evolutionary computing - general
Basic working principles
Evolution dynamics
Fitness landscape
Mathematical models
Performance analysis
Performance measures local/global
Philosophical aspects

Activities
Pattern recognition and classification/data mining
Time-tabling and scheduling
Process monitoring and control
Routing and layout
Design/synthesis
Prediction/forecasting
Mathematical modelling/curve fitting
System Identification
Data Mining
Search and optimization - general
Decision Making
Modelling behaviours and ecosystems
Image and Signal Processing
Games
Miscellaneous activities

Implementation
Parameter tuning
Heuristics
Hybridization
GUI-Visualisation
Software Tools
Hardware Realization
Parallel EAs
EA specification

Related
Neural Networks
Fuzzy Systems
Evolutionary Robotics
Artificial Life
Machine Learning
Evolvable Hardware
Multi-agent Systems
Ant Algorithms
Artificial immune systems
Scatter and tabu search
Quantum computing
Cellular automata
DNA computing
Memetic algorithms
Particle Swarms
Swarm Intelligence

Technique
Evolutionary computing - general
Fitness - Evaluation
Selection
Constraint Handling
Multi-objective
Adaptation - Self-adaptation
Co-evolution
Interactive evolution
Genetic algorithms - bitstring
Evolution strategies - floating-point
Evolutionary programming - automata/graphs
Genetic programming - general
Genetic programming - alternate representations
Classifier systems
Representations
Dynamic Environments/Optimisation
Estimation of Distribution Algorithms

Application
Agriculture/Farming
Art and architecture
Aerospace
Automobile
Business planning and operations research
Biology and chemistry
Chemical engineering
Civil engineering
Earth sciences and the environment
Education
Electronic and electrical engineering
Energy and utilities
Entertainment and media
Finance
Web services
Linguistics language and speech
Manufacturing
Mechanical engineering
Medicine
Physics
Psychology
Robotics
Social science
Telecommunications
Transportation
Architecture
Others
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PAPER PRESENTATION

Following the now well-established tradition of PPSN conferences, all accepted papers will be presented during small poster sessions of about 16 papers. Each session will contain papers from a wide variety of topics, and will begin by a plenary quick overview of all papers in that session by a major researcher in the field. Past experiences have shown that such presentation format led to more interactions between participants and to a deeper understanding of the papers. All accepted papers will be published in the LNCS Proceedings.