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CALL FOR PAPERS
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Soft Computing - A Fusion of Foundations, Methodologies and Applications

Springer - ISSN: 1432-7643 (print version)  ISSN: 1433-7479 (electronic version)

Special issue on Evolutionary Music

IMPORTANT DATES
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Full paper submission: December 15, 2011
Notification of Acceptance: February 10, 2011.
Completed Draft of Lead Article: March 10, 2012.
Final Manuscripts to Publishers: April 1, 2012.


Guest Editors:
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Francisco Fernández de Vega. Department of Computers and Communications
Technology.  Universidad de Extremadura, Spain, email: [log in to unmask]

Carlos Cotta. Department of Languages and Computer Science.
Universidad de Málaga, Spain, email: [log in to unmask]

Eduardo R. Miranda. Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research (ICCMR), University of Plymouth, UK. email: [log in to unmask]



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We are very pleased to invite you to submit your paper for
consideration for a special issue of the Soft Computing journal:
Evolutionary Music.

Computing technology is becoming increasingly ubiquitous in all aspects of music. Smart sound design and synthetic music pervades a wide range of creative practices, from avant-garde contemporary music to entertainment media for mass consumption. Computer technologies are having a profound impact on how music is studied, composed, performed, listened to, stored and distributed. For instance, software sound synthesis techniques offer musicians the possibility of creating bespoke digital musical instruments capable of producing an unprecedented range of novel sounds; and Computational Intelligence techniques allow for the design of sophisticated composition methods that would have been impossible to conceive otherwise. We are proposing a special issue that deals with all aspects of bio-inspired algorithms and their application to music-oriented tasks, e.g., automatic composition, classification, improvisation, harmonization, to name but a few. The interest in the topic has steadily grown during the last few years, and we believe this special issue on the topic will be welcome by the community.

Authors are invited to submit their original and unpublished work
in the conjunctions of both areas of Evolutionary Computation and Music.

Manuscripts must follow author guidelines for the journal specified in
(http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/500) and must be
submitted by email to [log in to unmask] indicating - Special Issue
ECMUSIC - by the closing date (December 15, 2011). All submitted papers
will be reviewed according to the standards of the Soft Computing Journal.
Selection criteria will be based on relevance, originality, significance,
impact, technical soundness and quality of the paper.
Contributions are expected to provide original results, insights and experimental innovations.

Please contact us if you need further information

With best wishes,

Yours sincerely,

Francisco Fernández de Vega,
Carlos Cotta,
Eduardo R. Miranda.

Guest Editors