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(Apologies for multiples copies) ********************** CALL FOR PAPERS ********************** BADS 2009 International Workshop on Bio-Inspired Algorithms for Distributed Systems http://bads.icar.cnr.it email: [log in to unmask] Barcelona, Spain, June 19, 2009 In association with ICAC 2009 the 6th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing & Communications Barcelona, Spain, June 15-19, 2009 **** IMPORTANT DATES **** January 31, 2009: Submission of Papers March 15, 2009: Notification of Acceptance/ Rejection April 06, 2009: Submission of Camera-Ready Copies June 19, 2009: Workshop Takes Place **** PUBLICATION **** The workshop proceedings will be published by ACM along with the proceedings of the other ICAC workshops, and distributed at the conference. **** JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE **** Selected papers will be invited to a special issue of the journal Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier (approved). **** SCOPE **** Currently used computer systems are characterized by an ever growing complexity and a pronounced distributed nature. While the use of centralized or hierarchical architectures and algorithms has been dominant so far, they are now becoming impractical because they have poor scalability and fault-tolerance characteristics. Decentralized architectures and algorithms, for example P2P and Grid systems, are increasingly popular, but they need new types of algorithms to be efficiently managed. Bio-inspired algorithms are proving effective, since they can solve hard parallel and distributed computational problems through the interaction of multiple agents. The behaviour of agents is often inspired by a number of biological systems, including ant colonies, bird flocking, honey bees, bacteria, and many more. The solution of a problem can emerge from the activity of "intelligent" agents that perform complex functionalities or from the interaction of a large number of very simple agents, in the so called "swarm intelligence" systems. These kinds of techniques feature fault-tolerant and self-adaptive behaviours that help to boost the autonomic nature of distributed systems. Such techniques are sometimes "evolutionary", as they can exploit genetic rules for the selection and the recombination of candidate solutions. Bio-inspired algorithms and systems are routinely applied to hard and large problems in a variety of areas. Some examples are optimization problems solved with genetic algorithms, routing strategies inspired by honey bee behaviour, resource discovery and data mining computations in Grid and P2P frameworks achieved by ant-inspired algorithms, and so on. The workshop aims to gather scientists, engineers, and practitioners to share and exchange their experiences, discuss challenges, and report state-of-the-art and in-progress research on Bio-Inspired Algorithms and Systems. **** AREAS OF INTEREST **** In this workshop we are interested in the exploitation of bio-inspired algorithms and systems to support the effective design and efficient implementation of distributed systems. The topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Bio-inspired algorithms for parallel and distributed computing * Bio-inspired algorithms for P2P and Grid systems * Bio-inspired techniques for the construction and management of distributed systems * Parallel and distributed techniques of Swarm Intelligence: ant colonies, flock of birds, etc.. * Parallel and distributed evolutionary algorithms * High performance tools for bio-inspired algorithms and systems * Application of bio-inspired algorithms to routing, resource discovery, scheduling in parallel and distributed systems * Bio-inspired algorithms for data mining, bioinformatics, etc. **** ORGANIZING COMMITTEE **** Gianluigi Folino, ICAR-CNR, Italy, [log in to unmask] Natalio Krasnogor, University of Nottingham, UK, [log in to unmask] Carlo Mastroianni, ICAR-CNR, Italy, [log in to unmask] Franco Zambonelli, Universita' di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy, [log in to unmask] **** INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE **** Ivanoe De Falco, ICAR-CNR, Italy Marios Dikaiakos, University of Cyprus Giovanna Di Marzo, University of London, UK Marco Dorigo, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Agostino Forestiero, ICAR-CNR, Italy Paraskevi Fragopoulou, FORTH-ICS, Greece Niloy Ganguly, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India Yaohang Li, North Carolina A&T State University, USA Elena Marchiori, Radboud University, Netherlands Nicolas Monmarché, Université de Tours, France Antonio Nebro Urbaneja, Universidad de Málaga, Spain Muaz Niazi, Foundation University of Islamabad, Pakistan Giuseppe Nicosia, Università di Catania, Italy Gauthier Picard, École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de SaintÉtienne, France Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK Giandomenico Spezzano, ICAR-CNR, Italy Ian Taylor, Cardiff University, UK Marco Tomassini, University of Lausanne, Switzerland Paolo Trunfio, Università della Calabria, Italy Naoki Wakamiya, Osaka University, Japan **** WEB SITE AND CONTACT E-MAIL **** http://bads.icar.cnr.it email: [log in to unmask] **** SUBMISSION GUIDELINES **** Original papers, no longer than 8 two-column pages (including figures and references), are invited. Please use the ACM format available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. The call is open to all members of the Autonomic Computing and Distributed Systems communities. All manuscripts will be peer-reviewed and judged on merits including correctness, originality, technical strength, quality of presentation, and relevance to the conference themes. At least one author of each accepted submission must attend the workshop. Further submission instructions will be posted at the workshop web site.