Fifth European Workshop on the Application of Nature-inspired Techniques to Telecommunication Networks and other Connected Systems EvoCOMNET detailed programme.
The rapid advances in computing and transmission technologies are giving impetus to the large-scale deployment of interconnected systems for communication and transport of data, voice, video and resources. The global Internet, and cellular, satellite, and Wi-Fi networks, as well as power and logistic networks, just to mention a few remarkable examples, are at the same time ubiquitous and at the very heart of the functioning and success of modern societies. On the other hand, all these networks are increasingly heterogeneous, complex, and dynamic, such as they present a number of challenging issues concerning their analysis and design, management and control, robustness and security.
Biological systems show a number of properties, such as self-organization, adaptivity, scalability, robustness, autonomy, locality of interactions, distribution, which are highly desirable to deal with the growing complexity of current and future networks. Therefore, in recent years a growing number of effective solutions for problems related to networked systems have been proposed by taking inspiration from the observation of natural systems and processes such as natural selection, insect societies, immune systems, cultural systems, collective behaviors of groups of animals/cells, etc.
The aim of the workshop is to provide a forum to present the cutting edge research on Nature-inspired approaches to network-related problems. The workshop sought to provide a deep insight into the effective potentialities of Nature-inspired design to tackle the numerous problems arising in networked systems, and, in particular, in modern telecommunication networks.
Areas of Interests and Contributions
EvoCOMNET 2008 solicits contributions dealing with the application of ideas from natural processes and systems to the solution of problems of practical and/or theoretical interests in all domains related to the analysis, design, control, management, protection, and testing of network systems. All systems based on a physical network structure and/or on an abstract network model are of interest for the workshop. The scope of the workshop emphasizes the following domains:
- Communication systems: telecommunications; mobile, satellite, optical, and voice communications; personal communication systems; switching and routing; transmission systems; access systems; communication systems simulation; station and antenna design; information and speech processing; intrusion detection; error control coding; compression and cryptography; propagation and channel modelling; protocol design; etc.
- Networks: networks and graph problems; unconstrained and constrained network design problems; network flows; network and computer security; Internet problems; electrical, power, and data networks; computer networks; location and link design; reliability and failure; corporate network design; location placement; network physical and software architecture; network hardware and software technologies; operations, maintenance, and management; signalling and control; active networks; network services and applications; etc.
- Wireless networks: mesh networks; mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs); peer to peer mobile networks; sensor area networks; GSM/GPRS networks; energy efficient and techniques and QoS for MANETs and sensor area networks; real world implementations; network services and applications in wireless mobile networks; security in wireless networks; hybrid networks; intelligent mobile agents for network control and management; RFID based systems; robotic networks; etc.
- Connected systems: network problems in non-technical environments; manufacturing, distribution and logistics networks; supply and disposal networks; inter-personal communication; communication analysis; inter-organisational communication; supply chains; information networks; etc.
- Formal methods and techniques: formal techniques and methods to model the behavior and working of above-mentioned systems.
Particularly welcome are submissions contributing with:
- Applications of Nature-inspired techniques (e.g. Evolutionary Computation, Ant Algorithms, Swarm Intelligence, Artificial Immune Systems, Cultural Algorithms, etc.) to novel network-related problems
- Definition of novel Nature-inspired techniques and/or general frameworks specifically addressing network challenges
- Detailed comparative studies of Nature-inspired solutions versus more classical/established techniques
- Analytical studies of the behavior and working of the proposed solutions
- Real-world implementations
- Studies based on real-world data sets
- Live demonstrations of algorithm behavior
EvoCOMNET chairsMuddassar Farooq - muddassar.farooq AT udo.edu Gianni A. Di Caro - gianni AT idsia.ch
EvoCOMNET Programme CommitteeMehmet E. ADYIN - University of Bedfordshire (UK) Uwe AICKELIN - University of Nottingham (UK) Ozgur B. AKAN - Middle East Technical University (Turkey) Payman ARABSHAHI - Washington University (USA) Peter J. BENTLEY - University College London (UK) Marco DORIGO - Université Libre de Bruxelles, (Belgium) Falko DRESSLER - University of Erlangen (Germany) Frederick DUCATELLE - IDSIA (Switzerland) Erol GELENBE - Imperial College London (UK) Silvia GIORDANO - SUPSI (Switzerland) Malcolm I HEYWOOD - Dalhousie University (Canada) Nur Zincir HEYWOOD - Dalhousie University (Canada) Jin-Kao HAO - University of Angers (France) Steve HURLEY - Cardiff University (UK) Byrant JULSTROM - St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud (USA) Kenji LEIBNITZ - Osaka University (Japan) Vittorio MANIEZZO - University of Bologna (Italy) Alcherio MARTINOLI - EPFL, Lausanne (Switzerland) Roberto MONTEMANNI - IDSIA (Switzerland) Franz ROTHLAUF - Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Germany) Chien-Chung SHEN - University of Delaware (USA) Kwang M. SIM - Hong Kong Baptist University (Hong Kong) Rogar WHITAKER - Cardiff University (UK) Lidia YAMAMTOTO - University of Basel (Switzerland) Franco ZAMBONELLI - University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy) Jie ZHANG - University of Bedfordshire (UK)
EvoWorkshops coordinatorMario Giacobini, University of Torino, Italy - Mario.Giacobini(at)unito.it
Local Organising CommitteeIvanoe De Falco, ICAR-CNR, Italy - evostar(at)na.icar.cnr.it
Antonio Della Cioppa, University of Salerno, Italy
Ernesto Tarantino, ICAR-CNR, Italy
Giuseppe Trautteur, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Evo* Coordinator and Administrative Contact Jennifer Willies, School of Computing, Napier University, Scotland, UK. - j.willies(at)napier.ac.uk
Evo* Publicity ChairAnna I Esparcia, Instituto Tecnologico de Informatica, Spain. - aesparcia(at)iti.upv.es
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