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November 22-25 Science City, Calcutta, India |
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SPECIAL SESSION ON ANT COLONY AND MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS |
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November 22-25 Science City, Calcutta, India |
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SPECIAL SESSION ON ANT COLONY AND MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS |
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Proceedings published by Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Special session organised by Nadia Nedjah and Luiza de Macedo Mourelle
Instead of designing complex and centralized systems, nowadays researchers are rather preferring to work with many small and autonomous agents. The agents mimic the ant colony behaviour. Each one acting on the simplest of rules, these many agents can solve very complex problems known as hard problems. Generally, multi-agent systems are used as search and optimisation tools.
The
focus of this special session of International Conference
on Neural Information Processing is on Ant Colony and Multi-Agent
Systems. Of special interest are contributions
that describe new methods and/or experiences for multi-agent implementations of
aspects of artificial life, ant colony and swarm intelligence. Both theoretical papers and
application papers are welcome. The conference
proceedings will be published by Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
The
length of the contribution is limited to 6 LNCS
format pages. Papers may only be submitted electronically in PDF, PS or
MS-WORD version to the chair of the special session via e-mail at nadia@eng.uerj.br. All accepted papers will considered for
publication in a planned special
issue of Informatica (see Call for Papers). The time schedule is as follows:
Paper submission: May 7th.,
2004
Notification of acceptance: July 15th., 2004
Camera-ready: August 25th., 2004
(accepted papers, technical
program)
