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BADS 2009

International Workshop on Bio-Inspired Algorithms for Distributed Systems

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Barcelona, Spain, June 19, 2009



In association with ICAC 2009

the 6th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing & Communications

Barcelona, Spain, June 15-19, 2009



**** IMPORTANT DATES ****

January 31, 2009: Submission of Papers

March 15, 2009: Notification of Acceptance/ Rejection

April 06, 2009: Submission of Camera-Ready Copies

June 19, 2009: Workshop Takes Place



**** PUBLICATION ****

The workshop proceedings will be published by ACM

along with the proceedings of the other ICAC workshops,

and distributed at the conference.



**** JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE ****

Selected papers will be invited to a special issue of the journal

Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier (approved).



**** SCOPE ****

Currently used computer systems are characterized by an ever

growing complexity and a pronounced distributed nature. While

the use of centralized or hierarchical architectures and algorithms

has been dominant so far, they are now becoming impractical

because they have poor scalability and fault-tolerance

characteristics. Decentralized architectures and algorithms, for

example P2P and Grid systems, are increasingly popular, but they

need new types of algorithms to be efficiently managed.



Bio-inspired algorithms are proving effective, since they can solve

hard parallel and distributed computational problems through the

interaction of multiple agents. The behaviour of agents is often

inspired by a number of biological systems, including ant

colonies, bird flocking, honey bees, bacteria, and many more. The

solution of a problem can emerge from the activity of "intelligent"

agents that perform complex functionalities or from the interaction

of a large number of very simple agents, in the so called "swarm

intelligence" systems. These kinds of techniques feature fault-tolerant

and self-adaptive behaviours that help to boost the

autonomic nature of distributed systems. Such techniques are

sometimes "evolutionary", as they can exploit genetic rules for the

selection and the recombination of candidate solutions.

Bio-inspired algorithms and systems are routinely applied to hard

and large problems in a variety of areas. Some examples are

optimization problems solved with genetic algorithms, routing

strategies inspired by honey bee behaviour, resource discovery

and data mining computations in Grid and P2P frameworks

achieved by ant-inspired algorithms, and so on.



The workshop aims to gather scientists, engineers, and

practitioners to share and exchange their experiences, discuss

challenges, and report state-of-the-art and in-progress research on

Bio-Inspired Algorithms and Systems.



**** AREAS OF INTEREST ****

In this workshop we are interested in the exploitation of bio-inspired

algorithms and systems to support the effective design and efficient

implementation of distributed systems.

The topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

* Bio-inspired algorithms for parallel and distributed computing

* Bio-inspired algorithms for P2P and Grid systems

* Bio-inspired techniques for the construction and management

of distributed systems

* Parallel and distributed techniques of Swarm Intelligence:

ant colonies, flock of birds, etc..

* Parallel and distributed evolutionary algorithms

* High performance tools for bio-inspired algorithms and systems

* Application of bio-inspired algorithms to routing, resource discovery,

scheduling in parallel and distributed systems

* Bio-inspired algorithms for data mining, bioinformatics, etc.



**** ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ****

Gianluigi Folino, ICAR-CNR, Italy, folino-AT-icar.cnr.it

Natalio Krasnogor, University of Nottingham, UK, nxk-AT-cs.nott.ac.uk

Carlo Mastroianni, ICAR-CNR, Italy, mastroianni-AT-icar.cnr.it

Franco Zambonelli, Universita' di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy, franco.zambonelli-AT-unimore.it



**** INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE ****

Ivanoe De Falco, ICAR-CNR, Italy

Marios Dikaiakos, University of Cyprus

Giovanna Di Marzo, University of London, UK

Marco Dorigo, Universit? Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

Agostino Forestiero, ICAR-CNR, Italy

Paraskevi Fragopoulou, FORTH-ICS, Greece

Niloy Ganguly, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India

Yaohang Li, North Carolina A&T State University, USA

Elena Marchiori, Radboud University, Netherlands

Nicolas Monmarch?, Universit? de Tours, France

Antonio Nebro Urbaneja, Universidad de M?laga, Spain

Muaz Niazi, Foundation University of Islamabad, Pakistan

Giuseppe Nicosia, Universit? di Catania, Italy

Gauthier Picard, ?cole Nationale Sup?rieure des Mines de Saint?tienne, France

Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK

Giandomenico Spezzano, ICAR-CNR, Italy

Ian Taylor, Cardiff University, UK

Marco Tomassini, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Paolo Trunfio, Universit? della Calabria, Italy

Naoki Wakamiya, Osaka University, Japan



**** WEB SITE AND CONTACT E-MAIL ****

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**** SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ****

Original papers, no longer than 8 two-column pages (including figures

and references), are invited. Please use the ACM format available at

http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html.

The call is open to all members of the Autonomic Computing and

Distributed Systems communities. All manuscripts will be peer-reviewed

and judged on merits including correctness, originality, technical strength,

quality of presentation, and relevance to the conference themes.

At least one author of each accepted submission must attend the workshop.

Further submission instructions will be posted at the workshop web site.





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Masoud Sadjadi, PhD

Assistant Professor

School of Computing and Information Sciences

Florida International University

University Park, ECS 212C

11200 SW 8th St., Miami, FL 33199



Email: sadjadi-AT-cs.fiu.edu

Web: www.cs.fiu.edu/~sadjadi

Tel: 305-348-1835

Fax: 305-348-2336