2011 - Workshop on META-HEURISTICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Venue: Mumbai, India
Conference: December 11-14 , 2011
Paper Submission: August 15, 2011
Notification of acceptance: October 15, 2011
Camera-ready of accepted papers: October 31, 2011
Registration for accepted papers: not later than October 31, 2011
http://www.mirlabs.org/wict11/index.php-c=main&a=s...
Call for Papers
Solving complex problems arising from variety of industrial and scientific domains is almost unimaginable without use of meta-heuristics. A meta-heuristic is formally defined as an iterative method which supervises an underlying heuristic by combining intelligently different concepts for exploring and exploiting the search space. Meta-heuristics have been mostly applied to NP-Hard or NP-Complete problems. However, meta-heuristics also find their application to other combinatorial optimisation problems where a polynomial-time solution exists but is impractical. Simulated Annealing, Evolutionary algorithms, swarm intelligence algorithms are some examples of meta-heuristics.

There are a lot of research problems in the domain of information technology where meta-heuristics are better or sometimes only available tools. Mobile Telecommunication System, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Grid Computing and Cloud Computing, Image / Video Processing and Coding, information and network security are some areas where meta-heuristics should be explored more and more.

This special session aims to bring together new theories, methodologies and applications inspired by meta-heuristics and information technology related problems. The emphasis of the session is on bridgingmulti-disciplinary research areas such as swarm intelligence, evolutionary techniques and information technology.

Topics of interest:
The topics explored in this special session include, but are not limited to:

Algorithms:
? Swarm Intelligence
? Ant Colony Optimization
? Particle Swarm Optimization
? Bees Algorithm
? Evolutionary Algorithms
? Genetic Algorithm
? Genetic Programming
? Evolutionary Strategy
? Differential Evolution
? Neural Networks
? Fuzzy / Neuro-Fuzzy Systems
? Harmonic Search
? Simulated Annealing
? Artificial Immune Systems
? Tabu Search
? Memetic Search
? Multiobjective Optimization

Applications:
? Network Designand Network Optimization
? Routing Protocols and Congestion Control
? Self-Organizing Networks
? Next Generation Networks and Internet
? Mobile Telecommunication System
? Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
? Graph Mining
? Text, Video and Multimedia Data Mining
? Web Mining
? Grid Computing and Cloud Computing
? Image / Video Processing and Coding
? Medical Imaging and Image Analysis
? Multimedia Systems and Services
? Multimedia Communications and applications
? Watermarking and Encryption
? Trust and Security Systems
? Information and Network Security
? Authentication Protocols and Services

Special Session Organisers:
Dr. Pramod Kumar Singh
ABV-IIITM, Morena Link Road
Gwalior - 474010, MP
Tele: 0751-2449827 (O)
Mob: +91-9425773268
Fax: 0751-2449827
Email: pksingh-AT-iiitm.ac.in

Dr. Jagdish Chand Bansal
ABV-IIITM, Morena Link Road
Gwalior - 474010, MP
Tele: 0751-2449819 (O)
Mob: +91-9479876351
Fax: 0751-2449827
Email: jcbansal-AT-iiitm.ac.in