IJCIA Special Issue Call For Papers
Topic: Nature Inspired Approaches to Networks and Telecommunications
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND APPLICATIONS
(IJCIA)
SPECIAL ISSUE ON
NATURE-INSPIRED APPROACHES TO NETWORKS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS
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SUBMISSION DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 15, 2004
Guest Editors:
Dr. Yong Xu, Dr. Sancho Salcedo-Sanz, and Prof. Xin Yao
Aim
The rapid growth of telecommunication networks and technologies, as
well as their applications, has led to a massive amount of design and
other problems, difficult to be solved by traditional methods. The
newly emergent computational heuristics inspired by nature are an
appealing option, as they have provided very good results for tackling
these problems. This Special Issue of the International Journal of
Computational Intelligence and Applications (IJCIA) will focus on the
application of nature-inspired approaches to
telecommunication/networking problems, and would be a forum for
scientists and engineers from academia and industry to present their
state-of-the-art research results on this topic. High-quality
contributions are solicited. Contributed papers must be the original
work of the authors and should not have been published or under
consideration by other journals.
Scopes
Contributed papers should be relevant to the applications of any kind
of nature-inspired approaches, e.g., evolutionary algorithm, ant
colony optimisation, particle swarms, tabu search, simulated
annealing, etc., to problems in telecommunication systems. Topics of
interest include, but are not be limited to:
- General Network Design Problems
o Physical Topology Design Problems
o Survivability and Reliability
o Quality of Service
o Protection and Restoration
o Network Management
o Congestion Control
o Simulation and Queuing Models
- Optical networks
o Routing and wavelength assignment
o Traffic grooming
o Placement of wavelength converters
o Placement of optical amplifiers
o Protection and Restoration on Optical Layer
- Fixed Networks Design Problems
- Cellular and Wireless Networks
- Satellite Communications Networks
- Other Topics
o Ad Hoc networks
o Bluetooth/Personal Area Networks
o IP/WDM
o GMPLS and MPLS
o Internet Applications
Submission of Papers:
The authors are advised to follow the guidelines on IJCIA's website
http://www.worldscinet.com/ijcia/mkt/guidelines.shtml
in preparing their papers. All the papers should be in PDF, PS or WORD
format and be submitted to either Dr. Y. Xu at y.xu@cs.bham.ac.uk or
Dr. S. Salcedo-Sanz at sss@cs.bham.ac.uk via email as an attachment.
Any inquiries please send to Dr. Y. Xu or Dr. S. Salcedo-Sanz.
Important dates
Paper submission deadline:
15 November 2004
First notification to the authors:
14 February 2005
Submission of revised papers:
14 March 2005
Expected publication date:
October 2005
The IJCIA Journal
The International Journal of Computational Intelligence and
Applications, IJCIA, is a refereed journal dedicated to the theory and
applications of computational intelligence (artificial neural
networks, fuzzy systems, evolutionary computation and hybrid systems).
The main goal of this journal is to provide the scientific community
and industry with a vehicle whereby ideas using two or more
conventional and computational intelligence based techniques could be
discussed. For more information about the journal, please visit the
journal's website at http://www.worldscinet.com/ijcia/ijcia.shtml.
Guest Editors' Address:
Dr. Yong Xu, Dr. Sancho Salcedo-Sanz, Prof. Xin Yao
The Centre of Excellence for Research
in Computational Intelligence and Applications (CERCIA),
School of Computer Science,
The University of Birmingham,
Birmingham, B15 2TT,
United Kingdom
E-mails: y.xu@cs.bham.ac.uk; sss@cs.bham.ac.uk; x.yao@cs.bham.ac.uk
Tel: +44 121 414 3734; Fax: +44 121 414 2799
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