INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING - ICONIP 2004 Calcutta, India - November 23-25 SPECIAL SESSION ON ANT COLONY AND MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS http://www.isebis.eng.uerj.br/ACO-MAS2004.html

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

Proceedings published by Lecture Notes in Computer Science

 Special session organised by  Nadia Nedjah and Luiza de Macedo Mourelle

 

 

Instead of designing complex and centralized systems, nowadays researchers are rather preferring to work with many small and autonomous agents. The agents mimic the ant colony behaviour. Each one acting on the simplest of rules, these many agents can solve very complex problems known as hard problems. Generally, multi-agent systems are used as search and optimisation tools.

 

The focus of this special session of International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP 2004) is on Ant Colony and Multi-Agent Systems. Of special interest are contributions that describe new methods and/or experiences for multi-agent implementations of aspects of artificial life, ant colony and swarm intelligence. Both theoretical papers and application papers are welcome.  The conference proceedings  will be published by Lecture Notes in Computer Science. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Ant colony based system 
• Swarm intelligent systems
• New aspects of artificial life  
• Multi-agent systems
• Applications 

The length of the contribution is limited to 6 LNCS format pages. Papers may only be submitted electronically in PDF, PS or MS-WORD version. Please, do credit the chair of the special session with an e-mail at nadia@..., informing the title and author(s) name(s). The time schedule is as follows:

Paper submission: March 15th., 2004
Notification of acceptance: July 15th., 2004
Camera-ready: August 30th., 2004

 

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Nadia Nedjah                                 VISIT: http://www.isebis.eng.uerj.br
Department of Systems Engineering and Computation
Faculty of Engineering
State University of Rio de Janeiro
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           Rio de Janeiro, RJ
           Brazil

email:  nadia@...
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