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Dear Colleagues, Due to numerous requests, we have extended the paper submission deadline to April 20, 2010. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- PPSN 2010 - Second call for papers 11th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving From Nature September 11-15, 2010 AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland http://home.agh.edu.pl/ppsn -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Eleventh International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN XI) will be held in Krakow, Poland on 11-15 September 2010. This biennial meeting aims to bring together researchers and practitioners in the field of natural computing. Natural Computing is the study of computational systems, which use ideas and get inspiration from natural systems, including biological, ecological, physical, chemical, and social systems. It is a fast-growing interdisciplinary field, in which a range of techniques and methods are studied for dealing with large, complex, and dynamic problems with various sources of potential uncertainties. PPSN XI will be a showcase of a wide range of topics in Natural Computing including, but not restricted to: Evolutionary Computation, Neural Computation, Molecular Computation, Quantum Computation, Artificial Life, Swarm Intelligence, Artificial Ant Systems, Artificial Immune Systems, Self-Organizing Systems, Emergent Behaviors, and Applications to Real-World Problems. PPSN XI will also feature workshops and tutorials covering advanced and fundamental topics in the field of natural computation. All accepted papers will be presented during poster sessions and will be included in the proceedings. Following the tradition of PPSN, proceedings will be published in the Series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) by Springer. Prospective authors are invited to contribute their high-quality original results in the field of natural computation as papers of no more than 10 pages. The format should follow Springer Verlag LNCS style, (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). -------------------------------------------------------------------------- GENERAL CHAIR Robert Schaefer (AGH, Krakow, PL) HONORARY CHAIR Hans-Paul Schwefel (Tech. Universität Dortmund, DE) PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Carlos Cotta (University of Malaga, ES) Joanna Kolodziej (University of Bielsko-Biala, PL) Günter Rudolph (TU Dortmund, DE) TUTORIALS CHAIR Krzysztof Cetnarowicz (AGH, Krakow, PL) WORKSHOP CHAIR Aleksander Byrski (AGH, Krakow, PL) E-PROCEEDINGS CHAIR Juan Julian Merelo Guervos (University of Granada, Spain) E-PUBLICITY CHAIR Bartlomiej Sniezynski (AGH, Krakow, PL) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important dates -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop Proposals Submission Deadline: January 31, 2010 Notification of Acceptance of Workshop Proposals: February 19, 2010 Extended Paper Submission Deadline: April 20, 2010 Author Notification: May 21, 2010 Papers Camera Ready Submission: June 11, 2010 Early Registration: June 11, 2010 Conference: September, 11-15, 2010 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Keynote Speakers -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Zbigniew Michalewicz John Garibardi -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tutorials -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Xin Yao Theory of heuristic computations, Frank Neumann, Tobias Friedrich Foundations of Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization Günther Raidl Heuristic methods in Graph-based Problems Tony Brabazon, Michael O'Neill Natural Computing and Finance Fatos Xhafa Meta-heuristic approaches for Scheduling in Distributed Computing Environments Tadeusz Burczynski, Michal Bereta, Waclaw Kus Artificial immune systems in optimization and classification problems with engineering and biomedical applications Piotr Faliszewski The Complexity of Elections: new domain for heuristic computations. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact Information -------------------------------------------------------------------------- E-mail: [log in to unmask] Bartlomiej Sniezynski +48 (0)12 617 3339 Jacek Dajda +48 (0)12 617 4451 PPSN 2010, Department of Computer Science, AGH University of Science and Technology, Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Krakow, POLAND -- Best regards, PPSN 2010 Conference Organizing Committee