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BADS 2010
2nd Workshop on Bio-Inspired Algorithms for Distributed Systems (with a special session on the "Self-* and Adaptive Mechanisms" topic of the ERCIM CoreGRID Working Group) http://bads.icar.cnr.it email: bads@icar.cnr.it Washington, DC, USA, June 2010 In association with ICAC 2010, the 7th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2010), Washington, DC, USA, June 15-19, 2010 **** IMPORTANT DATES **** February 7, 2010: Submission of Papers March 10, 2010: Notification of Acceptance/ Rejection April, 2010: Submission of Camera-Ready Copies June 07-11, 2010: Workshop Takes Place **** PUBLICATION **** The workshop proceedings will be published by ACM. **** JOURNAL **** Selected papers will be invited to the Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Elsevier. **** 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 algorithms for parallel and distributed computing * Bio-inspired algorithms for P2P, Grid and Cloud systems * Bio-inspired techniques for the construction and management of distributed systems * Parallel and distributed techniques of Swarm Intelligence: ant colonies, bird flocks, etc. * Parallel and distributed evolutionary algorithms * High performance tools for bio-inspired algorithms and systems * Application of bio-inspired algorithms to routing, resource discovery, scheduling in parallel and distributed systems * Bio-inspired algorithms for data mining, bioinformatics, etc. **** ERCIM session **** The workshop will include a session dedicated to the "Self-* and Adaptive Mechanisms" topic of the ERCIM CoreGRID Working Group. This ERCIM research topic is dedicated to adaptive computing principles of large-scale distributed computing platforms and Grid systems. Topics of interest include: * Adaptive service discovery and composition * Elastic management of the Grid infrastructure (virtualization) * Adaptive data management and distribution (P2P) * Adaptive execution methods (i.e. workflow management) * Desktop Grid availability and prediction algorithms Papers submitted to this session will be reviewed in a separate process. Depending on the overall number of accepted papers, the ERCIM session may be scheduled in a day aside, during ICAC. **** ORGANIZING COMMITTEE **** Gianluigi Folino, ICAR-CNR, Italy Paraskevi Fragopoulou, FORTH-ICS, Greece Carlo Mastroianni, ICAR-CNR, Italy Junichi Suzuki, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA **** INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE **** Artur Andrzejak, Zuse Institute Berlin ZIB, Germany Pruet Boonma, Chiang Mai University, Thailand Ivanoe De Falco, ICAR-CNR, Italy Giovanna Di Marzo, University of London, UK Marco Dorigo, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Francisco Fernandez de Vega, Universidad de Extremadura, Spain Agostino Forestiero, ICAR-CNR, Italy Niloy Ganguly, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India Derrick Kondo, INRIA, France Yaohang Li, North Carolina A&T State University, USA Elena Marchiori, Radboud University, Netherlands Nicolas Monmarche, Universite de Tours, France Ruben S. Montero, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain Antonio Nebro Urbaneja, Universidad de Malaga, Spain Muaz Niazi, Comsats Institute of IT, Islamabad, Pakistan Gauthier Picard, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France Ramesh Rajagopalan, University of St. Thomas, MN, USA Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK Rizos Sakellariou, University of Manchester, UK Ian Taylor, Cardiff University, UK Paolo Trunfio, Universita della Calabria, Italy 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 and to the members of the ERCIM Research Topic on "Self-* and Adaptive mechanisms". Original papers, no longer than 8 two-column pages, are invited. Papers must be submitted through the Web site http://conf.icar.cnr.it. Use the ACM format available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html and submit your paper in PDF format. 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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