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CALL FOR PAPERS

Design, Programming and Learning of Complex Systems
special session
2013 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation - CEC 2013
June 20-23, Cancun, México
http://www.dmi.unict.it/omlcs-cec2013/


Many problems in all the traditional research areas, such as science, engineering, physics, biology, and medicine are often hard to solve, mainly due to the difficulty in understanding their indirect causes and effects, which are not related in an obvious way. Therefore, studying how a system interacts with the environment, or how simple components give rise to the global collective behavior of the system, or even how parts of a system interact with each other, is nowadays one of the most challenging and interesting research areas in every discipline because of its utmost relevance.

In the field of complex systems there currently exist several sophisticated tools that can help us to study the systems in an in-depth manner, through analytical models, and from a computational point of view, describing their model and the way it is simulated.

The special session aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working in the field of complex systems, particularly in regards to the development of new analytical models and novel applications, as well as on the design of new nature-inspired optimization algorithms.

Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished papers on any topics related to complex systems.


* IMPORTANT DATES:
paper submission: February 15, 2013
Notification of Acceptance: April 08, 2013
Final Paper Submission: April 26, 2013


* PAPER SUBMISSION:
Manuscripts should be prepared according to the standard format and page limit of regular papers specified in CEC 2013 webpage, and submitted via the official submission system of CEC 2013.

For submission information please visit: http://www.cec2013.org/?q=papersubmi

All accepted papers will be published in the CEC electronic proceedings and included in the IEEE Xplore digital library, and indexed by EI Compendex.


* ORGANIZERS:
Giuseppe Nicosia, University of Catania, Italy - nicosia [at] dmi.unict.it
Mario Pavone, University of Catania, Italy - mpavone [at] dmi.unict.it