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                                CALL FOR PAPERS
       2015 GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE (GECCO-2015)
         ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION AND SWARM INTELLIGENCE (ACO-SI) TRACK
                        July 11-15, 2015, Madrid, Spain
                            Organized by ACM SIGEVO
         http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2015/organizers-tracks.html#acosi
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Swarm Intelligence (SI) is the collective problem-solving behavior of groups of
animals or artificial agents that results from the local interactions of the
individuals with each other and with their environment. SI systems rely on
certain key principles such as decentralization, stigmergy, and
self-organization. Since these principles are observed in the organization of
social insect colonies and other animal aggregates, such as bird flocks or fish
schools, SI systems are typically inspired by these natural systems.

The two main application areas of SI have been optimization and robotics. In
the first category, Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) and Particle Swarm
Optimization (PSO) constitute two of the most popular SI optimization
techniques with numerous applications in science and engineering. In the second
category, SI has been successfully used to control large numbers of robots in a
decentralized way, which increases the flexibility, robustness, and
fault-tolerance of the resulting systems.
 
Scope:
 
The ACO-SI Track welcomes submissions of original and unpublished work in all
experimental and theoretical aspects of SI, including (but not limited to) the
following areas:

 * Biological foundations
 * Modeling and analysis of new approaches
 * Hybrid schemes with other algorithms
 * Multi-swarm and self-adaptive approaches
 * Constraint-handling and penalty function approaches
 * Combinations with local search techniques
 * Benchmarking and new empirical results
 * Parallel/distributed implementations and applications
 * Large-scale applications
 * Applications to multi-objective, many-objective, dynamic, and noisy problems
 * Applications to continuous and discrete search spaces
 * Software and high-performance implementations
 * Theoretical and experimental research in swarm robotics

Each paper will be rigorously evaluated in a double-blind review process. 
All accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library.
 
IMPORTANT DATES

January 21, 2015    Abstract submission
February 4, 2015    Full paper submission (hard deadline)
March 20, 2015      Notification of paper acceptance
April 14, 2015      Camera ready submission
July 11-15, 2015    GECCO 2015 Conference in Madrid, Spain

 
Track Chairs:
 
Dr. Manuel López-Ibáñez (IRIDIA, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)  
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~manuel

Prof. Sanaz Mostaghim (Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg, Germany)  
http://www.is.ovgu.de