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CALL FOR PAPERS
*** Deadline extended until June 9th ***
The International Student Workshop on Bioinspired Optimization Methods and their Applications (BIOMA 2014)
Ljubljana, Slovenia, 13 September 2014
http://bioma.ijs.si/conference/2014/
The sixth biennial BIOMA conference will be organized as a part of PPSN 2014 that will be held in Ljubljana, Slovenia. It will be organized as an International Student Workshop within the PPSN 2014. The purpose of the BIOMA is to provide a forum for presentation and discussion of the latest theoretical and applied results in bioinspired optimization methodology and its applications. Orzanized as a workshop, emerging issues to be discussed are also welcomed for submission.
Students are not required to be the sole authors of the paper, however they should be the main authors and they have to present the paper at the workshop.
WORKSHOP TOPICS
Papers addressing real-world applications are especially welcome. Areas of interest include
- genetic algorithms,
- evolution strategies,
- evolutionary programming,
- genetic programming,
- ant colony optimization,
- particle swarm optimization
- and related bioinspired methods,
and their applications in science, engineering and business.
IMPORTANT DATES
9 June 2014: Paper submission deadline
7 July 2014: Notification of acceptance
15 July 2014: Registration deadline, Final paper deadline
13 September 2014: Conference
PAPER SUBMISSION
Full papers in English not exceeding 12 pages are invited. Papers have to be formatted according to the BIOMA template, and submitted in PDF format through the conference submission webpage. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least two members of the international Program Committee. Each accepted paper has to be accompanied with the registration fee and presented at the conference by one of the authors.
Paper submission URL: http://bioma.ijs.si/conference/2014/?more=submit
PROCEEDINGS
All accepted papers with paid registration fee will be published in the separate BIOMA workshop proceedings that will be available at the workshop.
The Proceedings will be submitted for indexation to ISI, INSPEC, DBLP, and COMPENDEX databases.
JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
Revised and extended versions of selected papers from the workshop will be invited for submission to the Informatica - An International Journal of Computing and Informatics.
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