evocomnet 2012 - 9th European event on nature-inspired techniques for telecommunication networks and other parallel and distributed systems

Areas of Interest and Contributions
evocomnet 2012 solicits contributions dealing with the application of ideas from natural processes and systems to the definition, analysis and development of novel parallel and distributed algorithms, and to the solution of problems of practical and theoretical interest in all domains related to network systems. The scope of the event emphasizes contributions of novel Nature-inspired approaches to the following application domains:

Network analysis and design
Routing protocols
Transport protocols
Network protection systems
Load balancing
Quality-of-service provisioning
Mobile ad hoc networks
Sensor networks
Network robotics and sensor-actor networks
Distributed inference and cooperative communication systems
Distributed search and computing in peer-to-peer networks
Parallel and distributed optimization algorithms
Grid computing
Distributed data mining
Use and tuning of hybrid computational approaches
Particularly welcome are submissions contributing with:

Applications of nature-inspired techniques to novel problems in the domain of telecommunications networks and parallel and distributed systems
Definition of innovative techniques and/or computational frameworks based on biological systems or processes that have not been considered so far in the literature of nature-inspired systems
Detailed comparative studies of nature-inspired solutions versus more classical/established techniques
Analytical studies of the behavior and working of the proposed solutions
Performance evaluation and visualization of parallel and distributed systems based on a natural inspiration
Real-world implementations
Studies based on real-world data sets
Live demonstrations of algorithm behavior