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        V International Workshop on
Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization
                (NICSO 2011)
        October 20-22, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
            www.nicso2011.org
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CALL FOR PAPERS

NICSO 2011 is the fifth edition of the International Workshop on
Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization and aims at
promoting deeper investigations on cooperative problem solving
strategies and bringing together international researchers and
practitioners from different disciplines to exchange ideas about
emerging new research areas. Biological and other natural processes
have always been a source of inspiration for computer science and
information technology. We seek contributions that are inspired by
Nature and that encompass a range of spatio-temporal scales, for
visionary conceptions of information processing and computation as
pertaining to cooperation mechanisms in the context of problem
solving.

Submitted papers will undergo a rigorous blind peer review process.
Selection criteria will be based on relevance, originality,
significance, impact, technical soundness and quality of the
presentation. Contributions are expected to provide original results,
insights and experimental innovations. Manuscripts must be in PDF, not
exceeding 12 pages and conforming to the Latex template at the
Springer's Instructions for Authors page. Contributions are welcome to
submission through the system available at
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nicso2011. As in previous
editions, the accepted papers will be published in the book series on
Studies in Computational Intelligence (Springer - under negotiations).
Authors of a selection of the best papers published in the book will
be invited to submit an extended and improved version of the work to a
special issue of the Memetic Computing Journal (Springer).

Topics of interest are (but not limited to):

Adaptive Behaviour        Ant Colonies
Amorphous Computing        Artificial Life
Artificial Immune Systems    Bioinformatics
Bio-inspired Architectures    Complex Systems
Distributed Computing        Evolutionary Robotics
Evolvable Systems        Games and Game Theory
Evolutionary Algorithms        Genetic Programming
Hyperheuristics            Membrane Computing
Memetic Algorithms        Quantum Computing
Software Self Assembly        Systems Coevolution
Swarm Intelligence

Programme Committee:

Cecilio  Angulo, Technical University of Catalunya, Spain
German Terrazas Angulo, University of Nottingham
Alejandro Castillo, Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Nucleares, Mexico
Dario Landa-Silva, University of Nottingham, UK
Ignacio  G. Del Amo, University of Granada, Spain
José Andrés Moreno Pérez, University of La Laguna, Spain
Oliver    Korb, Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, UK
Davide  Anguita, University of Genova, Italy
Jaume  Bacardit, University of Nottingham, UK
José M. Cadenas, University of Murcia, Spain
Gianluigi Folino, Istituto di Calcolo e Reti ad Alte Prestazioni, Italy
Carlos García-Martínez, University of Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain
Marian Gheorghe, University of Sheffield, UK
Steven  Gustafson, General Electric Global Research Center, US
Francisco Herrera, University of Granada, Spain
Juan J  Merelo, University of Granada, Spain
Mario Pavone, University of Catania, Italy
Jon Timmis, University of York, UK
Jim Smith, University of the West of England, UK
Catalin Stoean, University of Craiova, RO
Ruxandra Stoean, University of Craiova, RO
Jean-Louis Giavitto, CNRS & University of Evry Évry, France


IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for Submission: April, 20
Notification of Acceptance: May, 25
Deadline for Camera-ready: June, 25