EvoComNet2004: Call for Papers

["Franz Rothlauf" <rothlauf@uni-mannheim.de>]

              Second  CALL   FOR   PAPERS

                    EvoComNet2004

    First European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in
         Communications, Networks, and Connected Systems

              Coimbra, Portugal, April 5-7, 2004

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      Key dates:
      Submission deadline:        14 November 2003
      Notification of acceptance: 19 December 2003
      Camera ready copy due:      16 January 2004
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EvoComNet2004 is the first European workshop on the application of
evolutionary computation techniques to problems in communication, networks,
and connected systems. New communication technologies, the creation of
interconnected communication and information networks like the Internet, new
types of inter-personal and inter-organisational communication, and the
integration and interconnection of production centres and industries are the
driving forces on our road towards a connected, networked, society.
Important problems in this application domain that are adressed by the
workshop are

- design of networks, communication systems, and connected systems
- network and graph problems
- network and computer security
- control of the flow of information and other network goods,
- design of inter-personal and inter-organizational systems
- supply chain design and logistics problems
- supply and disposal networks

All aspects of evolutionary computation methods, as well as other
nature-inspired and non-evolutionary design and optimization techniques, are
welcome.

EvoComNet2004 will be held at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, in
conjunction with EvoWorkshops2004. The workshop proceedings will be
published by Springer in the LNCS series and will be available at the
workshop.

For full details about submissions and updated news about the workshop
please visit the workshop web page:

http://evonet.dcs.napier.ac.uk/eurogp2004/evocomnet/

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      Submission procedure
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High quality papers are sought on topics related to the focus of the
workshop, ranging from theoretical work to innovative applications.
Submissions should be a maximum of ten A4 pages and they should be sent in
zipped postscript or pdf format to evocomnet2004@uni-mannheim.de. It is
recommended that the papers conform to the Springer Lecture Notes in
Computer Science format (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). It
is  important that the email accompanying submission should state ALL the
authors, including ALL their email addresses. A notification of receipt will
be emailed a few days after the submission.

The reviewing process is double blind. Authors should remove their names
from submitted papers, and should take reasonable care that their identity
is disguised. References to own work can be included in the paper, but
should be referred to in the third person.



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      Organising Chairs
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Franz Rothlauf
University of Mannheim
Germany
rothlauf@uni-mannheim.de

George D. Smith
University of East Anglia Norwich
United Kingdom
gds@sys.uea.ac.uk



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      Program Committee
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Stuart Allen,       Cardiff University (UK)
Dave Corne,         University of Reading (UK)
Bryant Julstrom,    St Cloud State University (USA)
Joshua Knowles,     Universite' Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)
Geoff McKeown,      UEA Norwich (UK)
Martin Oates,       University of Reading (UK)
Günther Raidl,      Vienna University of Technology (Austria)
Franz Rothlauf,     Mannheim (Germany)
George D. Smith,    UEA Norwich (UK)
Giovanni Squillero, Politecnico di Torino (Italy)
Andrew Tuson, City  University, London (UK)



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