NICSO 2014 - Special Issue on Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization

JOURNAL OF MEMETIC COMPUTING
Special Issue on
Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization
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* * * GUEST EDITORS * * *
- Dr. Fernando Otero, University of Kent, UK (F.E.B.Otero-AT-kent.ac.uk)
- Dr. Antonio D. Masegosa, University of Granada, Spain (admase-AT-decsai.ugr.es)
- Dr. German Terrazas, University of Nottingham, UK (German.Terrazas-AT-nottingham.ac.uk)
* * * IMPORTANT DATES * * *
- Manuscript Submission: 1st March 2014
- Notification of Acceptance: 14th April 2014
- Submission of Camera Ready Version: 31st May 2014
NICSO was the sixth edition of the International Workshop on Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization. The NICSO workshop aims to foster a deeper investigation and a vigorous exchange of ideas about emerging research areas on problem solving strategies where nature plays a key role as source of inspiration. The aim of this special issue is to reflect the most recent advances in the field. Topics of interests include (but are not limited to):
- Adaptive Behaviour
- Ants Colonies
- Amorphous Computing
- Artificial Life
- Artificial Immune Systems
- Bioinformatics
- Bio-inspired architecture
- Biological and Chemical IT
- Complex Systems
- Distributed Computing
- Evolutionary Robotics
- Evolvable Systems
- Games and Game Theory
- Genetic Algorithms
- Genetic Programming
- Hyperheuristics
- Membrane Computing
- Memetic Algorithms
- Quantum Computing
- Software Self-Assembly
- Systems Biology
- Systems Co-evolution
- Swarm Intelligence
All submissions will be peer reviewed subject to the standards of the journal. Authors of accepted papers to NICSO are also invited to submit their contribution for publication in this special issue. Manuscripts based on already published NICSO papers must be extended substantially.
* * * INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS * * *
Manuscripts should have approximately 20 pages and must comply with the author guidelines of the Memetic Computing journal. An online submission system is available at https://www.editorialmanager.com/meme. Please specify on the first page of your manuscript that the submission is intended for this thematic issue.