CALL FOR CHAPTERS Proposal Submission Deadline: February 4, 2007 Full Chapter Due: April 30, 2007 EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION IN PRACTICE Series in Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer Verlag Editors: Ang Yang*, Yin Shan** and Lam Thu Bui* * The Artificial Life and Adaptive Robotics Laboratory School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering University of New South Wales, Australia ** Research School of Earth Sciences Australia National University, Australia INTRODUCTION: Evolutionary Computation (EC) has been a rapid developing field of research with a wide range of techniques inspired by natural phenomena such as natural selection, swarm, or immunity. To date, applying techniques of evolutionary computation to real world problems has received considerable attention from both researcher and practitioner and has obtained significant success. This book aims at presenting the latest EC applications as well as some important theoretical progress to a wide range of audience. THE OVERALL OBJECTIVE OF THE BOOK: A large volume of research work has been done in EC applications. However, most of works on EC applications are reported in various journals and conference proceedings which may focus on very narrow topics. This book will bring together the most important applications of EC techniques. It will consist of open-solicited and invited papers written by leading researchers in the field. All papers will go through a thorough peer review by at least two experts in the field and one of the editors. THE TARGET AUDIENCE: The book will be organised in such a way that it is accessible to a wide range of audience. It is can be served as reference for both researchers and practitioners. It can also be used as supplementary teaching materials at both undergraduate and post-graduate levels. TOPICS: This book focuses on significant EC applications, as well as important theoretic progress. Recommended topics include the applications of: . genetic algorithms, genetic programming, evolution strategy, evolutionary programming . probabilistic models: estimation of distribution algorithms, probabilistic search methods . swam intelligence, ant colony optimisation . artificial immune systems . agent systems There is no restriction on the field of applications, which may include, but not limit to, data mining, control, scheduling, gaming, forecasting, military and security applications, bioinformatics and robotics. SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before February 4, 2007, a 2-5 page manuscript proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of the proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by February 15, 2007 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter organizational guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by April 30, 2007. The chapter proposal should be submitted at: http://seal.tst.adfa.edu.au/~ayang/ECP/submission_start.php MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION: The book will be part of the Series of Studies in Computational Intelligence by the Springer Verlag. For more information regarding the manuscript preparation, please refer to the following link at Springer: http://www.springer.com/west/home/engineering?SGWID=4-175-69-173623546-0 IMPORTANT DATES February 4, 2007: Chapter proposal due February 15, 2007: Notifying authors of acceptance/rejection of the proposal April 30, 2007: Full chapter due June 30, 2007: Notifying authors of the review results August 1, 2007: Revised full chapter due August 15, 2007: Notifying authors of acceptance/rejection of the revised chapter The book is scheduled to be published by Springer-Verlag by end of 2007. Inquiries can be forwarded to: Ang Yang, The Artificial Life and Adaptive Robotics Laboratory School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering ADFA Campus University of New South Wales NorthCott Drive, Canberra ACT 2600, AUSTRALIA Tel.: (+61) (2) 62688189 Fax: (+61) (2) 62688581 E-mail: [log in to unmask]