IJEOE 2013 - Special Issue on Swarm Optimization and Engineering Applications

Special Issue on Swarm Optimization and Engineering Applications
International Journal of Energy Optimization and Engineering (IJEOE)
Guest Editors: Xinchao Zhao, Yong Wang, and Xingmei Li
Introduction:
A swarm has been defined as a set of (mobile) agents which are liable to communicate directly or indirectly (by acting on their local environment) with each other, and which collectively carry out a distributed problem solving. The collective and individual intelligence arises within the swarm.
In recent years, intelligent algorithms and swarm optimization applications have gained great interests from the world-wide scholars of many related research fields. On the other view, complexity of the real world problems and limitation of existing derivative-based computational approaches have shifted researchers and engineers all over the world to utilize the metaheuristic algorithms founded on simulations of swarm intelligence for solving computationally intractable engineering optimization problems.
Nature, especial swarm intelligence, is the best and greatest teacher who teaches us how to solve the questions. The key is how well we will learn from him. This special issue will be an interesting journey to learn the most recent success stories of mimicking the nature and culture and their engineering applications.
Objective of the Special Issue:
This special issue intends to collect in one volume high quality papers on all aspects of the emergent fields of swarm intelligence and engineering applications inspired from metaheuristics. These papers will represent recent developments and outline leading research in the field to design new swarm optimization algorithms, to explore new application areas. It will face to solve specific hard optimization problems and finally creating awareness on metaheuristics to a wider audience of practitioners.
Recommended Topics:
Topics to be discussed in this special issue include (but are not limited to) the following:
? Ant colony optimization
? Applications in energy, telecommunication and management engineering
? Artificial bee colony optimization
? Bacterial foraging optimization
? Chemical-reaction-inspired optimization
? Differential evolution
? Evolutionary computation and optimization
? Immune optimization
? Multiple objective and constrained optimization
? Optimization algorithm and heuristic knowledge
? Particle swarm optimization
Submission Procedure:
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit papers for this special theme issue on Swarm Optimization and Engineering Applications on or before December 31, 2012. All submissions must be original and may not be under review by another publication. INTERESTED AUTHORS SHOULD CONSULT THE JOURNAL’S GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at http://www.igi-global.com/Files/AuthorEditor/guide.... All submitted papers will be reviewed on a double-blind, peer review basis. Papers must follow APA style for reference citations.
Important Dates:
Submission Due Date: December 31, 2012
Acceptance Notification: April 30, 2013
Camera Ready Papers: May 31, 2013
About International Journal of Energy Optimization and Engineering (IJEOE):
The International Journal of Energy Optimization and Engineering (IJEOE) publishes global research in the areas of energy optimization and engineering. The journal provides relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings in the areas of electrical power engineering, control systems, and hybrid intelligent optimization. This interdisciplinary journal examines and encourages research within energy optimization and engineering fields, including fuzzy logic, neural networks, evolutionary algorithms, genetic with line or pattern search, particle swam optimization, ant colony optimization, and hybrid system optimization in a variety of engineering, science, business, and hybrid energy resource applications.
This journal is an official publication of the Information Resources Management Association
www.igi-global.com/IJEOE
Editor-in-Chief: P. Vasant
Published: Quarterly
Publisher:
The International Journal of Energy Optimization and Engineering (IJEOE) is published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the “Information Science Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference), “Medical Information Science Reference”, “Business Science Reference”, and “Engineering Science Reference” imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com.
All submissions should be directed to the attention of Guest Editors:
Xinchao Zhao
Department of Mathematics, School of Science,
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China
E-mail: xcmmrc-AT-gmail.com
Yong Wang
School of Information Science and Engineering,
Central South University, Changsha 410083, China
E-mail: ywang-AT-mail.csu.edu.cn
Xingmei Li
Business Administration School,
North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, China
E-mail: xingmeil-AT-163.com