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BADS 2011 3rd Workshop on Bio-Inspired and Self-* Algorithms for Distributed Systems - - -Selected papers will be invited to the Natural Computing Journal, Springer (indexed by ISI) - - - http://bads.icar.cnr.it email: bads@icar.cnr.it Karlsruhe, Germany, June 14, 2011 In association with ICAC 2011, the 8th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2011), June 14-18, 2011 **** IMPORTANT DATES **** February 21, 2011: Submission of Papers (no extension will be given) March 2011: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection April 2011: Submission of Camera-Ready Copies June 14, 2011: Workshop Takes Place **** PUBLICATION **** The workshop proceedings will be published by ACM. **** JOURNAL **** Selected papers will be invited to the Natural Computing Journal, Springer (indexed by ISI). After the past two editions, extended versions of selected papers were included in special issues of Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier (vol. 26/6), and New Generation Computing, Springer (to appear in 2011). **** SCOPE **** Computer systems are characterized by an ever growing complexity and a pronounced distributed nature. Centralized or hierarchical architectures are becoming impractical because they have poor scalability and fault-tolerance characteristics. Decentralized architectures and algorithms, for example P2P and Grid systems, are increasingly popular, but they need new types of algorithms to be efficiently managed. Bio-inspired algorithms and techniques feature fault-tolerant and self-adaptive behaviours that help to boost the autonomic nature of distributed systems, and are proving effective for the solution of hard parallel and distributed problems. These techniques are sometimes "evolutionary", as they can exploit genetic rules for the selection and recombination of candidate solutions. In other cases, solutions rely on the operations of agents, whose behaviour is inspired by biological systems, including ant colonies, bird flocks, honey bees, bacteria, and many more. In such systems, "swarm intelligence" emerges from the interaction of a large number of very simple agents. Bio-inspired algorithms and systems are routinely applied to hard and large problems in a variety of areas. Some examples are optimization problems solved with genetic algorithms, routing strategies inspired by honey bee behaviour, resource discovery and data mining computations in Grid, Cloud and P2P frameworks, achieved by ant- inspired algorithms, and so on. This full day workshop aims to gather scientists, engineers, and practitioners to share and exchange their experiences, discuss challenges, and report state-of-the-art and in-progress research on bio-inspired algorithms and systems. **** AREAS OF INTEREST **** Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Bio-inspired and self-* algorithms for parallel and distributed computing * Bio-inspired and self-* algorithms for P2P, Grid and Cloud systems * Bio-inspired and self-* techniques for the construction and management of distributed systems * Bio-inspired and self-* algorithms for data distribution, discovery, service composition, etc. * Parallel and distributed techniques of Swarm Intelligence: ant colonies, bird flocks, etc. * Parallel and distributed evolutionary algorithms * High performance tools for bio-inspired and self-* algorithms and systems * Application of bio-inspired and self-* algorithms to routing, resource discovery, scheduling in parallel and distributed systems * Bio-inspired and self-* algorithms for data mining, bioinformatics, etc. * Bio-inspired and self-* algorithms for social networks * Bio-inspired and self-* algorithms for energy saving in distributed networks **** ORGANIZING COMMITTEE **** Sanaz Mostaghim, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany (Local Chair) Gianluigi Folino, ICAR-CNR, Italy Carlo Mastroianni, ICAR-CNR, Italy Junichi Suzuki, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA **** INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE **** Artur Andrzejak, Zuse Institute Berlin ZIB, Germany Sasi Balasubramaniam, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland Jacob Beal, BBN Technologies and MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA Pruet Boonma, Chiang Mai University, Thailand Ivanoe De Falco, ICAR-CNR, Italy Giovanna Di Marzo, Université de Genève, Switzerland Marco Dorigo, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Francisco Fernandez de Vega, Universidad de Extremadura, Spain Agostino Forestiero, ICAR-CNR, Italy Paraskevi Fragopoulou, FORTH-ICS, Greece Niloy Ganguly, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India Haibo He, University of Rhode Island, RI, USA Derrick Kondo, INRIA, France Chonho Lee, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Andrew Lewis, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia Elena Marchiori, Radboud University, Netherlands Nicolas Monmarche, Universite de Tours, France Antonio Nebro Urbaneja, Universidad de Málaga, Spain Muaz Niazi, Comsats Institute of IT, Islamabad, Pakistan Gauthier Picard, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK Rizos Sakellariou, University of Manchester, UK Ian Taylor, Cardiff University, UK Paolo Trunfio, Universita della Calabria, Italy Giuseppe Valetto, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA Hiroshi Wada, NICTA and University of New South Wales, Australia Naoki Wakamiya, Osaka Univeristy, Japan Franco Zambonelli, Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy **** WEB SITE AND CONTACT E-MAIL **** http://bads.icar.cnr.it email: bads@icar.cnr.it **** SUBMISSION GUIDELINES **** The call is open to all members of the Autonomic Computing and Distributed Systems communities. Original papers, no longer than 8 two-column pages, are invited. Papers must be submitted through Easychair, at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bads2011 Use the ACM format available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html and submit your paper in PDF. Papers will be peer-reviewed and judged on merits including correctness, originality, technical strength, presentation, and relevance to the workshop themes. At least one author of each accepted submission must attend the workshop. |
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