evocomnet 2011 - 8th European Event on the Application of Nature-inspired Techniques for Telecommunication Networks and other Parallel and Distributed Systems

8th European Event on the Application of Nature-inspired Techniques for Telecommunication Networks and other Parallel and Distributed Systems
Many biological systems and processes are characterized by a parallel and distributed architecture in which a large number of autonomous and minimalist units synergistically generate global-level behaviors through local interactions, communications, and the adoption of relatively simple stochastic action policies. The resulting global-level behaviors usually show a number of properties essential for success in natural environments such as: adaptivity to environmental variations, robustness to internal changes and failures, and effectiveness and scalability of performance.

Because of all these architectural and performance properties, the observation and reverse-engineering of successful processes in nature’s organic, inorganic, and animal systems, have drawn in recent years the attention of many researchers and engineers working in the general field of parallel and distributed systems, and, in particular, in the specific field of telecommunications networks. In these domains, Nature has provided basic inspiration for the definition of a number of novel algorithms and computational frameworks able to deal effectively with the challenges of current networked systems, which show a growing structural and computational complexity and are made of a large number of highly dynamic and heterogeneous components.

The aim of the event is to provide a forum to present the cutting edge research on Nature-inspired approaches to problems arising in the design, control, protection, and management of network systems, and to outline new trends in parallel nature-inspired computation for the efficient solution of complex problems.

Areas of Interest and Contributions
evocomnet 2011 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
Publication Details
Accepted papers will appear in the proceedings of evo*, published in a volume of the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, which will be available at the Conference.

Submission Details
Submissions must be original and not published elsewhere. The submissions will be peer reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. The authors of accepted papers will have to improve their paper on the basis of the reviewers’ comments and will be asked to send a camera ready version of their manuscripts. At least one author of each accepted work has to register for the conference and attend the conference and present the work.

The reviewing process will be double-blind, please omit information about the authors in the submitted paper. Submit your manuscript in Springer LNCS format.

submission link: http://myreview.csregistry.org/evoapps11/
page limit: 10 pages

Important Dates
submission deadline: 22 november 2010
notification to authors: 7 january 2011
camera-ready deadline: 1 february 2011
evo* event: 27-29 april 2011

Programme Chairs
Gianni Di Caro
IDSIA
Switzerland
gianni(at)idsia.ch

Muddassar Farooq
Next Generation Intelligent Networks Research Center
FAST National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
Pakistan
muddassar.farooq(at)nu.edu.pk

Ernesto Tarantino
Institute for high performance computing and networking
Italy
ernesto.tarantino(at)na.icar.cnr.it