IJCSA

   International Journal

of

Computer Science & Applications

Special Issue on “Natural Inspired Computation” 

CALL FOR PAPERS

Deadline for submission: April 20, 2007

Guest Editor: Hai-Bin DUAN, Beihang University, China. 

Email: hbduan@buaa.edu.cn

Natural Inspired Computation focuses on studying and understanding the underlying principles of natural computation, and how these principles can be adopted or modified to extend and enrich computer science and engineering. Algorithms, techniques and methods based on these principles have been successfully applied to a wide range of complex problems. From the perspective of science development, Natural Inspired Computation is an emerging interdisciplinary area between Natural Sciences (especially Life Sciences) and Computer Science. Its rapid growth is a natural product of the rapid development of interdisciplinary research today.

Natural Inspired Computation, including evolutionary computation, neural computation, ecological computation, quantum computation, complex self-adaptive system and other fields inspired by natural systems, has unique characteristics of self-adaptive, self-organizing and self-learning. Because of its ability to solve complex problems that are difficult for traditional computational methods, Natural Inspired Computation is widely used in many fields, such as machine learning, optimal design, optimal control, network security and creative design.

A special issue on “Natural Inspired Computation” will be published in “International Journal of Computer Science and Applications” (which is indexed as SCI & EI). This Special Issue aims at exhibiting the latest research achievement, findings and ideas in the areas of  “Natural Inspired Computation”. Papers that prove new theoretical results on “Natural Inspired Computation” and their successful applications to real-world problems are particularly welcome.

Topics include but are not limited to:

• Ant Colony Optimization

• Particle Swarm Optimization

• Artificial Immune Systems

• Artificial Neural Networks

• Genetic Algorithms

• Memetic Algorithms

• Reinforcement Learning

• Rough Sets and Fuzzy Sets

• Quantum Computation

• Collective Intelligence

• Evolvable Hardware and Software

• Hybrid Evolutionary Optimization Algorithms

• Computational Complexity of Evolutionary Algorithms

• Convergence and Convergence-Rate of Evolutionary Algorithms

Important Dates:

Submission of Manuscripts: April 20, 2007
Notification of Acceptance: June 30, 2007
Submission of Final Papers: July 30, 2007

All submission should include a title page containing the title of the paper, full names and affiliation, 

complete postal and electronic address, phone and fax numbers, an abstract and a list of keywords, 

followed by the main text, references, list of figures and tables, figures, and tables. 

The corresponding author should be clearly identified.

All manuscripts will undergo a normal review process. Only manuscripts with minor modification 

will be accepted for publication in the Special Section. Those manuscripts that need a major revision 

will be forwarded to the journal office for examining possible publication in regular issues. 

Original artwork and a signed copy of the copyright release form will be required for all accepted papers. 

Inquiries can be made to the guest editor at hbduan@buaa.edu.cn

All electronic submission must be in “MS word” format. Manuscript submissions must be emailed to:

Guest Editor:

Dr. Hai-Bin DUAN

School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, 

Beihang University

Beijing, 100083, P. R. China

Tel: +86-10-8231-7318

Email: hbduan@buaa.edu.cn

URL: http://hbduan.buaa.edu.cn/

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