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Call for Book Chapters: Nature Inspired Computing for Economy and Management



2d Call for book chapter: Handbook of Research on Nature Inspired Computing
for Economy and Management

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Due to the success of the first CFP, the publisher accepted to transfer the
book in a reference collection, greatly enlarging the available space. High
level proposals from researchers belonging to some of the most famous
universities have already been selected, and we now have the confirmation
of the participation of some world top researchers.
Since the book will contain more than 50 contributions, we wish to complete
it with valuable original chapters.


Call for book chapters

Handbook of Research on Nature Inspired Computing for Economy and
Management
http://www.grenoble-em.com/rennardjp/nicbook/index.html

Introduction

Nobel Prize recipient Illya Prigogine wrote some years ago a book entitled
"The End of Certainty". Specialized in non-linear systems, the great
chemist emphasized in this text the importance of the scientific revolution
initiated a century ago by the French mathematician Henri Poincaré:
scientific certainty inherited from Laplace is a mirage; non-linearity,
complexity and chaos are the new frontiers of science.
The advance of computer science and the remarkable growth of computing
power over the last thirty years have made the computer a fantastic tool to
cope with complexity. The emergence of nature inspired computing is one of
the most amazing achievements of these researches. The universality of the
computing techniques inherited from nature, i.e. their applications as well
in biology, physics, engineering as in economy or management, clearly
demonstrates their depth. These new tools are used in two different ways,
both highly promising for economy and management: emergent (bottom-up)
simulations and optimization. Emergent simulations lead to a better
understanding of complex interactions and to original theoretical
approaches. Nature inspired algorithms for optimization lead to efficient,
supple and adaptable tools.

Objectives of the book

Specifically dedicated to economy and management, this book aims to provide
a state-of-the-art synthesis and future trends.
At the crossroads of computer science, economy and management, the works
that will be presented will contribute to a better knowledge and a better
control of complex economic dynamics. By showing the diversity of the
potential of nature inspired tools as well as their conceptual unity, this
book will be an original contribution to the field. By presenting
innovative computing tools and theoretical interpretations, it will provide
a significant contribution both to practitioners and academics. It should
bring the first a general knowledge of the numerous applications of that
new field, and contribute to give the other a global vision of these
researches.
The book will gather contributions of top researchers of economics,
management and computer sciences. With more than 50 chapters, it will
provide a comprehensive reference on the field.

Call for Papers

We are looking for high quality research papers for this book dealing with
nature inspired computing for economy and management. Since no synthetic
book exists on that topic, our objective is to propose a reference for
researchers, students and practitioners. This book will bring together
researchers in different fields associated to nature inspired computing,
economy and management. It will deal with both theoretical and operational
works, and will highlight significant realizations as well as theoretical
advances.

Recommended topics include (but are not limited to):

"     Management of technology
"     Enterprise integration
"     Negotiation processes
"     Stock market simulation
"     Project management
"     Pricing strategy
"     Market theory
"     Information systems
"     Operations management
"     Supply chain management
"     Sites location optimization
"     Design and manufacturing
"     Marketing strategy
"     Data Mining
"     Knowledge Management
"     Computational Economics
"     Evolutionary Economics
"     Artificial societies
"     Artificial creativity
"     Emergence and bottom-up simulations theory

Main tools include:

"     Evolutionary Algorithms
"     Multi Agents Systems
"     Swarm Intelligence
"     Cellular Automata
"     Genetic Programming
"     Ant Colony Optimization
"     Distributed Artificial Intelligence
"     Artificial Immune Systems
"     Neural Networks
"     Collective robots

We encourage potential contributors to consider also topics not included in
this list according to their specialties.

Submission Procedures

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit a 1-2 page manuscript
before March 31, 2005. The proposals should include tentative title and
clearly explain the concerns of the proposed chapter. Authors will be
notified of acceptance for proposed chapters by April 15, 2005. They will
be sent chapter organizational guidelines and will have to submit full
chapters by June 30, 2005. All submitted chapters will be reviewed by 2-3
reviewers on a double-blind basis. Final accepted revised chapters are due
by October 1, 2005. The book is scheduled to be published by Idea Group,
Inc., publisher of the Idea Group Publishing, Information Science
Publishing, IRM Press, CyberTech Publishing and Idea Group Reference
imprints.

Inquiries and submissions should be sent (preferably electronically) to:

Jean-Philippe Rennard
Grenoble Ecole de Management
12, rue Pierre Semard
BP 127
38003, Grenoble Cedex 01
France
jean-philippe.rennard@grenoble-em.com