Dear Colleague,
Please find below a call for papers. If you have a list of specialist that
will be interested, please send to them the call. Thank you if could you do it.
Jointly with Prof Roumen Kountchev from Technical University of Sofia i work on
the International Workshop on Next Generation Intelligent Medical Decision
Support Systems . Probably we will begin effectively to work on it around the
end of january 2010. (the latest scientific meeting that i have organized
http://uics.upm.ro/ )
Kind regards,
Barna Iantovics
********************* CALL FOR PAPERS *****************************************
SUBMISSION DUE DATE: March 19, 2011
SPECIAL ISSUE: From Natural Computing to Self-organizing Intelligent Complex
Systems
Journal of Information Technology Research (JITR)
www.igi-global.com/jitr
Guest Editors:
Barna László Iantovics, Petru MaiorUniversity, Romania
Marius Ştefan Măruşteri, Universityof Medicineand Pharmacy, Romania
Constantin-Bălă Zamfirescu, Lucian BlagaUniversity, Romania
INTRODUCTION:
Recently a large number of bio-inspired computational methods have been used
(also called methods of Natural Computing) to solve computationally hard
problems in many domains. These methods have proven to be successful for
different types of problems with unknown and uncertain data where the
traditional approaches are not so effective. It is estimated that the
biological
life that evolved during millions of years will be a fruitful source of
inspiration for the development of new computational methods offer in the years
to come and they will represent an important research direction in the
Artificial Intelligence mainstream.
OBJECTIVE OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE:
From a practical perspective, an essential research direction is represented by
the development of highly complex systems (usually agent-based) that
intelligently solve problems of very high difficulty. We consider complex
systems composed from a large number of components (agents) capable to make
specialized computations in the problem space. Such developments are usually
composed of a very large number of computational components, who interact many
times nonlinearly, forming as a whole a complex problem solving system. A
subclass of complex systems includes the hybrid systems composed from different
type of artificial components capable to make computations, and human
specialists that could interact in different points of decisions during the
problems solving. Research related to complex systems address analysis of many
aspects such as complexity, self-organization, emergence, intelligence,
hybridization and so forth. Many computational complex systems developments
require interdisciplinary approaches, which must include methods developed in
different sciences, like sub-domains of the Artificial Intelligence like
Natural
Computing and Intelligent Agents.
A particular subject by interest for this issue is represented by the
self-organizing complex systems that use methods of natural computing in
different tasks, like: problems solving, self-organization etc. This issue will
centralize some state of the art results in the theme, which we estimate that
will remain an important research direction in the near future.
RECOMMENDED TOPICS:
Topics to be discussed in this special issue include (but are not limited to)
the following:
· artificial intelligence
· large-scale and complex systems
· hybrid complex systems
· intelligent systems
· natural computing
· evolutionary systems
· complex systems’modeling
· agents and multi-agent systems
· complex networks
· difficult problem for a human specialist
· difficult problem for a computational system
· complex systems specialized in difficult problems solving
· decision support systems
· problem solving method used by a complex system
· problems that could be solved by a complex system
· large-scale cooperative agent-based systems
· self-organizing system
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit papers for this special
theme issue on From Natural Computing to Self-organizing Intelligent Complex
Systems on or before March 19, 2011. All submissions must be original and may
not be under review by another publication. Interested authors should consult
the journal’s guidelines for manuscript submissions at
http://www.igi-global.com/development/author_info/guidelines submission.pdf
. All submitted papers will be reviewed on a double-blind, peer review basis.
Papers must follow APA style for reference citations.
This journal is an official publication of the Information Resources Management
Association
www.igi-global.com/jitr
Editor-in-Chief:Mehdi Khosrow-Pour
Published: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form)
PUBLISHER:
The Journal of Information TechnologyResearch is published by IGI Global
(formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the “Information Science Reference”
(formerly Idea Group Reference), “Medical Information Science Reference”,
“Business Science Reference”, and “Engineering Science Reference” imprints. For
additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com
.
All submissions should be directed to the attention of:
Barna László Iantovics, Marius Ştefan Măruşteri, Constantin-Bălă Zamfirescu
Guest Editors
E-mail: las...@science.upm.ro
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