<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace">================================================================<br>CALL FOR PAPERS<br><b>International Conference on Swarm Intelligence Based Optimization (ICSIBO)</b><br><br>Conference Dates: <b>June 13-14, 2016, Mulhouse, France</b><br>Conference URL: <b><a href="http://www.mage.fst.uha.fr/icsibo2016/" target="_blank">http://www.mage.fst.uha.fr/icsibo2016/</a></b><br><br><b>Post-proceedings published in a LNCS SPRINGER volume (indexed by EI, ISTP, DBLP, and ISI).</b><br>================================================================<br><br><br>DATES:<br>=========================<br>February 12, 2016: Submission of papers (see web site for instructions)<br>April 15, 2016: Notification of acceptance<br>May 15, 2016: Final papers and Registration<br>June 13-14, 2016: The International Conference on Swarm Intelligence Based Optimization (ICSIBO'2016)<br><br><br>SCOPE AND LIST OF TOPICS:<br>=========================<br>The
International Conference on Swarm Intelligence Based Optimization
(ICSIBO'2016) is a continuation of conferences OEP'2003 (Paris),
OEP'2007 (Paris), ICSI'2011 (Cergy-Pontoise) and ICSIBO'2014 (Mulhouse).<br><br><br>The
aim of ICSIBO'2016 conference is to highlight the theoretical progress
of swarm intelligence metaheuristics and their applications.<br><br><br>Swarm
Intelligence is a computational intelligence technique involving the
study of collective behavior in decentralized systems.<br>Such systems are made up of a population of simple individuals interacting locally with one another and with their environment.<br>Although
there is generally no centralized control on the behavior of
individuals, local interactions among individuals often cause a global
pattern to emerge.<br>Examples of such systems can be found in nature,
including ant colonies, animal herding, bacteria foraging, bee swarms,
and many more. However, swarm intelligence computation and algorithms
are not necessarily nature-inspired.<br><br><br>Topics of interest include but are not limited to:<br>- Theoretical advances of swarm intelligence metaheuristics<br>- Combinatorial, discrete, binary, constrained, multi-objective, multi-modal, dynamic, noisy, and large-scale optimization<br>- Artificial immune systems, particle swarms, ant colony, bacterial foraging, artificial bees, fireflies algorithm<br>- Hybridization of algorithms<br>-
Parallel/distributed computing, machine learning, data mining, data
clustering, decision making and multi-agent systems based on swarm
intelligence principles<br>- Adaptation and applications of swarm
intelligence principles to real world problems in various domains,
including medicine, biology, chemistry, finance, insurance, economics,
social sciences, transportation, tourism, education, defense,
telecommunications, energy, management, information retrieval, software
engineering, fraud detection, environment, remote-sensing, robots<br><br><br>SPECIAL SESSIONS:<br>=========================<br>Proposals
for Special Sessions are welcome. Last date: February 12, 2016. If you
are interested in organizing a special session in the conference, please
contact <a href="mailto:siarry@u-pec.fr" target="_blank">siarry@u-pec.fr</a>, <a href="mailto:lhassane.idoumghar@uha.fr" target="_blank">lhassane.idoumghar@uha.fr</a> and <a href="mailto:julien.lepagnot@uha.fr" target="_blank">julien.lepagnot@uha.fr</a>.<br><br><br>PANEL PROPOSALS:<br>=========================<br>The
organizers encourage scientists and industry leaders to organize
dedicated panels dealing with controversial and challenging topics and
paradigms.<br>Submissions of original and unpublished work related to
swarm intelligence are invited, including, theory, development, and
applications.<br>Areas of focus include particle swarm optimization, ant
colony optimization, foraging techniques, and other swarm intelligence
related topics.<br>Authors are invited to submit their original and unpublished work without any limitation to the above related subjects.<br>For more information, please contact <a href="mailto:siarry@u-pec.fr" target="_blank">siarry@u-pec.fr</a>, <a href="mailto:lhassane.idoumghar@uha.fr" target="_blank">lhassane.idoumghar@uha.fr</a> and <a href="mailto:julien.lepagnot@uha.fr" target="_blank">julien.lepagnot@uha.fr</a>.<br><br><br>WORKSHOP PROPOSALS:<br>=========================<br>We welcome workshop proposals on complementary issues to the topics of this conference.<br>Your requests should be forwarded to <a href="mailto:siarry@u-pec.fr" target="_blank">siarry@u-pec.fr</a>, <a href="mailto:lhassane.idoumghar@uha.fr" target="_blank">lhassane.idoumghar@uha.fr</a> and <a href="mailto:julien.lepagnot@uha.fr" target="_blank">julien.lepagnot@uha.fr</a>.<br><br><br>PUBLICATION IN JOURNAL:<br>=========================<br>Selected
papers will be published as a post-proceedings in Springer's Lecture
Notes in Computer Science (indexed by EI, ISTP, DBLP, and ISI).<br><br><br>The conference chairs:<br><br>Lhassane Idoumghar, Associate Professor, University of Haute-Alsace<br>Julien Lepagnot, Associate Professor, University of Haute-Alsace<br>Patrick Siarry, Professor, University of Paris-Est Créteil<br><br></span></div>