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JOURNAL OF MEMETIC COMPUTING

Special Issue on
Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization

http://www.springer.com/engineering/computational+intelligence+and+complexity/journal/12293
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* * * GUEST EDITORS * * *

     - Dr. Fernando Otero, University of Kent, UK ([log in to unmask])
     - Dr. Antonio D. Masegosa, University of Granada, Spain 
([log in to unmask])
     - Dr. German Terrazas, University of Nottingham, UK 
([log in to unmask])


* * * IMPORTANT DATES * * *

     - Manuscript Submission: 1st March 2014
     - Notification of Acceptance: 14th April 2014
     - Submission of Camera Ready Version: 31st May 2014


NICSO 2013 was the sixth edition of the International Workshop on Nature 
Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization. The NICSO workshop 
aims to foster a deeper investigation and a vigorous exchange of ideas 
about emerging research areas on problem solving strategies where nature 
plays a key role as source of inspiration. The aim of this special issue 
is to reflect the most recent advances in the field. Topics of interests 
include (but are not limited to):

     - Adaptive Behaviour
     - Ants Colonies
     - Amorphous Computing
     - Artificial Life
     - Artificial Immune Systems
     - Bioinformatics
     - Bio-inspired architecture
     - Biological and Chemical IT
     - Complex Systems
     - Distributed Computing
     - Evolutionary Robotics
     - Evolvable Systems
     - Games and Game Theory
     - Genetic Algorithms
     - Genetic Programming
     - Hyperheuristics
     - Membrane Computing
     - Memetic Algorithms
     - Quantum Computing
     - Software Self-Assembly
     - Systems Biology
     - Systems Co-evolution
     - Swarm Intelligence

All submissions will be peer reviewed subject to the standards of the 
journal. Authors of accepted papers to NICSO 2013 are also invited to 
submit their contribution for publication in this special issue. 
Manuscripts based on already published NICSO 2013 papers must be 
extended substantially.


* * * INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS * * *

Manuscripts should have approximately 20 pages and must comply with the 
author guidelines of the Memetic Computing journal. An online submission 
system is available at https://www.editorialmanager.com/meme. Please 
specify on the first page of your manuscript that the submission is 
intended for this thematic issue.




-- 
Antonio D. Masegosa Arredondo, Ph.D.
Models of Decision and Optimization (MODO) Research Group
Center for Research on ICT
University of Granada
http://decsai.ugr.es/~admase

Check:
http://www.nicso2013.org   NICSO 2013, 2-4 Sept Canterbury, UK
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