SIAAS-08   Swarm Intelligence Algorithms   and Applications Symposium

- SIAAS-08 - Swarm Intelligence Algorithms and Applications Symposium AISB 2008 Convention Aberdeen, Scotland, April 3-4, 2008 Description The increasing complexity of the current world can be observed each day. Sustainable development for example consists of economical and social systems management within natural environment. The understanding of the whole leads to what we call territorial intelligence. The way of modelling these complex systems is often based on interactive networks, dealing with the interconnection between all of the system components. Decision making on this complex world, need tools able to detect and manage emergent organizations through these networks. Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI) is the adapted conceptual trend which allows the proposal of some relevant solutions by relying on social and physical sciences models exhibited and observed in nature (e.g. ant colonies, molecular crystallisation, etc.). In this search and management of emerging organization, swarm intelligence algorithms proved to be popular and effective methods to use. On the technological front, the increasing number of robotic systems, advances in nano technology, and the sheer complexity of modern enterprise systems, especially those boosting high degree of autonomy, makes the development of swarm intelligence timely and needed. Topics of interest Submissions are invited on all aspects of swarm intelligence algorithms, their development, and applications. This includes, but not limited to: Bug algorithms, Potential fields, Ant colonies, Swarm optimization Social reactive agents Robotics, The use of Swarm Intelligence algorithms into: Computer vision, Scheduling, Problem solvers, Territorial intelligence And their wider end applications in developing complex systems for: Factories, Simulation of chemical processes, Special focus on embedded implementations and the use of swarms in complex systems will be given. Submissions and publications Submissions are to be made through the online system at: http://www.easychair.org/SIAAS-08/. All papers presented at this workshop will be published in the proceedings of the AISB Convention with an ISBN. Special issue in a journal and book chapters are in the planning to include best papers from this and our companion symposium at AISB08 "What is Computational Swarm Intelligence? Important Dates Submission deadline for Full Papers: 18 January 2008 Paper acceptance notification: 15 February 2008 Convention: 1-4 April 2008 Symposium Chair Aladdin Ayesh, De Montfort University, U.K. Programme Committee Habib Abdulrab, INSA Rouen University, France Eduard Babkin, Higher School of Economics, Russia Cyrille Bertelle, University of Le Havre, France Gérard H.E. Duchamp, University of Paris XIII, France Laszlo Gulyas, Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary Alaa Sheta, Al-Balqa Applied University, Jordan Best Student Paper Award and Scholarships The AISB gives an award of £ 250 for the best student paper and three student scholarships. More details can be found on the webpage of the convention.