** Apologies if you have received this CFP more than once **
** New extended submission deadline: June 1st, 2012
12th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature
(PPSN 2012)
September 1-5, 2012 Taormina, Italy
Workshop on Parallel Techniques in Search, Optimization, and Learning
http://neo.lcc.uma.es/workshops/PPSN2012/
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Modern research during these last twenty years has expanded to address very
interesting problems of large complexity (dimensionality, restrictions,
computing intensive...). In particular, those coming from real-world
scenarios
are getting both larger in size and harder in complexity.
Aiming at finding accurate (and robust) solutions in the shortest possible
computational time, these problems face researchers to new challenges of
difficult solution with traditional techniques and computers. One way to
achieve unseen numerical and efficient results is the use of parallel
algorithms, hardware, and specialized techniques.
With the evolution of parallel architectures (symmetric multiprocessors,
multi/many-cores, GPUs, etc.), many opportunities emerge for the design of
efficient algorithms.
This workshop seeks contributions on new theoretical advances and carefully
designed, well-analyzed proposals in the field of parallel search
algorithms.
It is also intended to gather researchers from several domains (operations
research, computer science, management science, communications and
networks, ...)
with an opportunity for presenting and discussing their more recent
developments
in theory and application of parallel search algorithms. An open
atmosphere for
discussion of future research lines will hopefully help in defining
where we
are and where are we going in this crossroad between parallelism and
(Nature)
problem solving.
Important dates
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Extended Abstract Submission: June 1st, 2012
Author Notification: June 15th, 2012
Conference: September 1-5, 2012
Submission details
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Researchers are invited to submit extended abstracts of no more than 4
pages
using the LNCS. The contributions should be submitted as PDF by email to
Francisco Luna ([log in to unmask]) and Enrique Alba ([log in to unmask]).
Workshop format
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In order to promote discussion among the participants, the workshop will
consist
of short oral presentations (no more than 10-15 minutes) plus a one-hour
final
discussion on several hot topics that will be gathered before and during
the
workshop celebration. Contributing authors will be asked to send their
proposals
that might be related or not to their extended abstract. Relevant research
topics that will surely arise during the workshops will be considered as
well.
Workshop organizers
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Enrique Alba, University of Malaga, Spain ([log in to unmask])
Francisco Luna, University of Malaga, Spain ([log in to unmask])
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