General Chair
Albert Y.
Zomaya
The University of Sydney –Australia– (
zomaya@it.usyd.edu.au )
Program Co-chairs
Enrique
Alba
University of Málaga –Spain– ( eat@lcc.uma.es )
Franciszek
Seredynski
Polish Academy of Sciences – Poland ( sered@ipipan.waw.pl )
El-ghazali
Talbi
University of Lille, INRIA –France– ( talbi@lifl.fr )
Program Committee
Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada
Martin Middendorf, University of Leipzig, Germany
Pascal Bouvry, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Michelle D. Moore, Texas A & M - Corpus Christi, USA
Juergen Branke, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
G. Spezzano, University of Calabria, Italy
Erick Cantú-Paz, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Marco Tomassini, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Tarek El-Ghazawi, George Washington University, USA
Nordine Melab, University of Lille, France
Workshop Theme
Techniques based on metaheuristics and nature-inspired paradigms can
provide efficient solutions to a wide variety of problems. Moreover,
parallel and distributed metaheuristics can be used to provide more
powerful problem solving environments in a variety of fields, ranging,
for example, from finance to bio- and health-informatics. This workshop
seeks to provide an opportunity for researchers to explore the
connection between metaheuristics and the development of solutions to
problems that arise in operations research, parallel computing,
telecommunications, and many others. Topics of interest include, but
are not limited to:
Nature-inspired methods (e.g. ant colonies, GAs, cellular
automata, DNA and molecular computing, local search, etc) for problem
solving environments.
Parallel and distributed metaheuristics techniques (algorithms, technologies and tools).
Applications combining traditional parallel and distributed
computing and optimization techniques as well as theoretical issues
(convergence, complexity, etc).
Other algorithms and applications relating the above mentioned research areas.
SUBMISSION
Prospective authors of high quality research contributions are invited to submit an electronic copy of their manuscript not exceeding 8 two-column pages including figures and references in the traditional IEEE format used in IPDPS. Please, use Postscript or PDF when possible.
In your email, please indicate paper title, author(s), and the corresponding author.
Selected papers will be invited to an international scholarly journal.
Papers should be submitted to:
Enrique Alba
Informática (3-2-12), 29071 Málaga, Spain
email: eat@lcc.uma.es
Franciszek Seredynski
Polish Academy of Sciences – Poland
email: sered@ipipan.waw.pl
El-Ghazali Talbi
Lab d'Informatique Fondam. de Lille, France
email: talbi@lifl.fr
Important Dates
Submission
Deadline
- December
12, 2008
Notification of
Acceptance
- January
20, 2009
Final Copy
Due
- February
15, 2009
Workshop
- May
25, 2009
Selected papers are to be published in an International Journal
Symposium
(IPDPS
2009)