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The 14th International Workshop on
Nature Inspired Distributed Computing
(NIDISC'11)
http://nidisc2011.gforge.uni.lu/


held in conjunction with
The 25th IEEE International
Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'2011)
16-20 May 2011

Anchorage (Alaska) USA
http://www.ipdps.org
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Workshop Theme :
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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, bioinformativs, 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.

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.

A selected group of papers from the workshop will be invited to
submit extended versions of their papers to a special issue of an
international scholarly journal. Further announcements will be made
during the workshop.

General Chair :
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- Albert Y. Zomaya The University of Sydney -Australia- 
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Program Co-chairs :
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- Pascal Bouvry, University of Luxembourg –Luxembourg– ( 
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- Franciszek Seredynski, Polish Academy of Sciences – Poland ( 
[log in to unmask] )
- El-ghazali Talbi, University of Lille, INRIA –France– ( [log in to unmask] )



Program Committee (to be completed) :
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M. Affenzeller, Univ. of Hagenberg, Austria
A. Al-Dubai, Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom
A. Al-Jumaily, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
L. Bononi, University of Bologna, Italy
A. Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada
P. Bouvry, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
J. Branke, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
E. Cantú-Paz, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
C. Coello, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico
T. Crainic, Univ. of Montreal, Canada
B. Di Martino, Univ. of Naples, Italia
T. El-Ghazawi, George Washington University, USA
P. Herrero, UPM, Spain
A. Lewis, Griffith University, Australia
M. Middendorf, University of Leipzig, Germany
N. Melab, University of Lille, France
M. D. Moore, Texas A & M - Corpus Christi, USA
S. Mostaghim, Univ. of Karlsruhe, Germany
A. J.Nebro, Univ. of Málaga, Spain
C. Ribeiro, Univ. of Fluminense, Brazil
H. Sarbazi-azad, Sharif University of Technology, Iran
G. Ch. Sirakoulis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
G. Spezzano, University of Calabria, Italy
Z. Tari, RMIT University, Australia
M. Tomassini, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
F. Xhafa, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

Papers should be submitted to:
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- P. Bouvry, University of Luxembourg –Luxembourg– ( [log in to unmask] )
- F. Seredynski, Polish Academy of Sciences – Poland ( [log in to unmask] )
- E-G. Talbi, University of Lille, INRIA –France– ( [log in to unmask] )

Important Dates:
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- Submission Deadline - December 4, 2010
- Notification of Acceptance - January 8, 2011
- Final Copy Due - February 1, 2010

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------------------New book --------------------
"Metaheuristics: from design to implementation"
E-G. Talbi
Wiley 2009 (624pp), http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470278587.html
ISBN: 978-0-470-27858-1
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Prof. El-Ghazali TALBI
University of Lille - INRIA - CNRS
http: www.lifl.fr/~talbi