[Push] 2nd Workshop on Parallel Bioinspired Algorithms

[Daniel lombrana Gonzalez]

(Apologies for multiple messages)

Dear Colleagues,

After the successful 1st Workshop on Parallel Bioinspired Algorithms,
that was held in Oslo, 2005, are organizing the 2nd Workshop on
Parallel Bioinspired Algorithms at GECCO 2007 in London, England. The
paper submission for GECCO 2007
is now open at http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2007/ and we sincerely
invite your high quality submissions.

CALL FOR PAPERS  (20 days left to deadline)

Special Session on Parallel Bioinspired Algorithms (PBA 2007)
      URL: http://boinc.unex.es/pba will be held at

2007 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference
      July 7-11, 2007, London, England

******NEWS********

1.- 20 days left to the deadline.
2.- Best Papers will be considered for a Special Issue (The Journal
will be announced soon).
3.- Submission Procedure:  Send your paper directly to session organizers:

fcofdez at unex.es

******NEWS********

OVERVIEW & SCOPE
The application of Bioinspired Algorithm to solving difficult problems
has shown that they need high computation power and
communications technology. During the last few years researchers have
tried to embody parallelism into this kind of
algorithms, so that a very interesting research area has emerged and
matured. The combination of Bioinspired algorithms and Parallel
systems has allowed researchers to develop new algorithms, and also
solve hard problems.

Nevertheless any effort for increasing the performances in this kind
of meta heuristics would be very welcome by the community. Grid and
P2P technologies could thus be of great interest for improving
performances obtained when using Bioinspired Algorithms.

This workshop will gather scientists, engineers, and practitioners to
share and exchange their experiences, discuss
challenges, and report state-of-the-art and in-progress research on
all aspects of Parallel and Distributed Bioinspired
Algorithms.

This second workshop follows the success of the 1st Workshop on PBA
that was held jointly with ICPP 2005, in Oslo. Selected
papers were published in a Special Issue of the Journal of Parallel
and Distributed Computing (August 2006). The workshop will continue
being biannually held alternatively on conferences related to parallel
and distributed computing, as well as Bioinspired algorithms.

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

   * Parallel Evolutionary Algorithms (PEAs), including but not
limited to Genetic Algorithms, Genetic Programming, Evolutionary
Programming, and Evolution Strategies.
   * Other biologically inspired parallel algorithms: Ant Colonies,
Immune Systems, Artificial Life, Cultural Algorithms.
   * P2P and Grid implementation of PEAs.
   * Fault tolerant implementations of PEAs.
   * Analytical modeling of PEAs.
   * Performance evaluation of PEAs.
   * Improvement in system performance through optimization and tuning.
   * Case studies showing the role of PEAs when solving hard
real-life problems.

The workshop will encourage the submission of high quality papers on
the topics described above. Peer-reviewed selected papers will be
presented to all attendees on a session including short-paper
presentations.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Manuscripts should be prepared according to the standard format of
regular papers specified in GECCO 2007 and be restricted to a maximum of 8
pages.

Send papers directly to organizers:

fcofdez at unex.es

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission: March 23, 2007
Decision Notification: March 30, 2007
Camera-Ready Submission: April 11, 2007
Conference Registration deadline: April 11, 2007

SESSION ORGANIZERS
Francisco Fernández de Vega, University of Extremadura, Spain.
Erick Cantú-Paz, Yahoo!, USA.