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THE NINTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on 
PARALLEL PROBLEM SOLVING FROM NATURE 
PPSN IX 
Reykjavik, Iceland, 
September 9 - 13, 2006.

CALL FOR PAPERS 
The Ninth International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving 
from Nature (PPSN IX) will be held in Reykjavik, Iceland on 
9-13 September 2006. This meeting will bring together an international 
community from academia, government, and industry interested in 
algorithms suggested by the unifying theme of natural computing. 
Natural Computing is the study of computational systems that use 
ideas and get inspiration from natural systems, including biological, 
ecological, physical, chemical, and social systems. It is a fastgrowing 
interdisciplinary field in which a range of techniques and methods 
are studied for dealing with large, complex, and dynamic problems. 

PPSN IX will showcase a wide range of topics in Natural Computing
including, 
but not restricted to: Evolutionary Computation, Quantum Computation, 
Molecular Computation, Neural Computation, Artificial Life, 
Swarm Intelligence, Artificial Ant Systems, Artificial Immune Systems, 
Membrane Computing, Self- Organising Systems, Emergent Behaviours, 
and Applications to Real-World Problems.

The conference emphasises original theories and novel applications of 
natural computing. Researchers, practitioners and students from 
academia and industry are invited to submit their original papers 
to this conference.

PAPER SUBMISSION 
Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original results in 
the field of natural computing by 27 March 2006. The format should 
follow Springer Verlag LNCS style, with no more than 10 pages. 
Only electronic submissions will be considered. Papers in postscript 
or PDF files can from January 2006 be submitted through the 
conference homepage: http://ppsn2006.raunvis.hi.is

The conference program committee will welcome papers addressing
fundamental 
issues (e.g. theoretical studies, algorithm design and implementation, 
representation and operators, ...) as well as papers dealing with
real-world 
applications, providing these papers either exhibit outstanding
performance 
in contrast to other techniques or address real problems of significant 
importance. Authors are also strongly encouraged to provide pointers to 
source code (especially for novel techniques and algorithms) and/or data
sets. 
However, this is certainly not mandatory, especially when commercial 
considerations are involved. 

The whole review process relies heavily on electronic means: the
organizers 
hence strongly enforce electronic submissions of Postscript or PDF
files. 
All accepted papers will be published in a Springer volume LNCS 
(Lecture Notes in Computer Science, see also the LNCS Online Digital
Library). 

PAPER PRESENTATION 
Following the now well-established tradition of PPSN conferences, all
accepted 
papers will be presented during small poster sessions of about 15-20
papers. 
Each session will contain papers from a wide variety of topics, and will
begin 
by a plenary quick overview of all papers in that session by a major
researcher 
in the field. Past experiences have shown that such presentation format
led 
to more interactions between participants and to a deeper understanding
of 
the papers. All accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings. 

REVIEW PROCESS 
All papers will be reviewed by at least three independent reviewers, 
strongly emphasizing originality and reproducibility of results 
(if applicable). In an effort to enforce the quality of the review
process, papers will be assigned 
to reviewers based on their choice among the abstracts of all papers of
their 
area of interest. The final acceptance decisions will be made by the
program 
chairs, after an electronic discussion with the reviewers in case they
disagree 
on a particular paper. 

WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS 
For information on workshops (on Sept. 9.) and tutorials (on Sept. 10.),
please 
contact the corresponding chair and see conference homepage.

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE 
General Chair Thomas Philip Runarsson University of Iceland, Iceland. 
Program Co-Chairs Hans-Georg Beyer Vorarlberg University of Applied
Sciences, Austria. 
Edmund Burke, University of Nottingham, UK. and 
Darrell Whitley, Colorado State University, USA. 
Electronic Pgm Chair Juan Julian Merelo Guervos University of Granada,
Spain. 
Proceedings Chair Xin Yao  University of Birmingham, UK. 
Local Organization Co-Chairs Magnus Thor Jonsson, Sven Sigurdsson,
Olafur Petur Palsson 
University of Iceland, Iceland.
Publicity Co-Chairs Simon Lucas, University of Essex, UK. Runar
Unnthorsson, University of Iceland 
Tutorial Chair Alastair Channon ([log in to unmask]), University
of Birmingham, UK. Workshop Chair Jim Torresen ([log in to unmask]),
University of Oslo, Norway. Honorary Chair Hans-Paul Schwefel,
University of Dortmund, Germany.

PPSN STEERING COMMITTEE 
Kenneth De Jong (USA), Agoston E. Eiben (The Netherlands), Marc
Schoenauer (France), 
Juan Julian Merelo Guervos (Spain), Xin Yao (UK), David Corne (UK),
Thomas Runarsson (Iceland).

CONTACT 
S-mail: PPSN IX Conference Secretariat
University of Iceland
Dunhagi 5, IS-107 Reykjavik, Iceland.

For up-to-date information see:
Url: http://ppsn2006.raunvis.hi.is

CALENDAR 
The schedule for submission of (full) papers is:
Paper submission opens:                January 1, 2006 
Paper submission closes:               March 27, 2006 
Notification of acceptance:            May 29, 2006 
Submission of revised accepted papers: June 19, 2006