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SWARM INTELLIGENCE JOURNAL http://www.springer.com/computer/artificial/journal/11721 *****************************************************************

Special Issue: SWARM INTELLIGENCE FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS

Submission Deadline: DECEMBER 31, 2008 *****************************************************************

Swarm Intelligence (SI) is a computational and behavioral metaphor for distributed problem solving originally inspired by the collective behavior of social insects and other animal societies, such as ant colonies and flocking birds. More generally, SI refers to the bottom-up design of distributed systems that display forms of useful and/or interesting behaviors at the global level as a result of the relatively simple actions of a number of composing units interacting with one another and with their environment at the local level. When properly engineered, an SI system can conjugate easiness of design with high performance in terms of robustness, scalability, and adaptivity.

All these characteristics have made SI an attractive framework to tackle the challenges of modern networked systems, which are made of a large number of components, are highly heterogeneous in terms of communication technologies, protocols, and services, and are dynamic, due to continuous changes in topology, traffic patterns, and number of active users and services. These challenges ask for the development of novel control and management algorithms and protocols that are adaptive, robust, scalable, and can let the network behave as an autonomous and self-organizing system. Since these are the properties that can almost naturally result when adopting a properly engineered SI design approach, a considerable amount of work in the domain of SI has successfully addressed a variety of problems in the area of communication networks.

This special issue aims to bring together state-of-the-art results in the application and evaluation of the SI paradigm to problems arising in the context of analysis, design, control, management, and protection of networked systems.

The Swarm Intelligence Journal is the principal peer-reviewed publication dedicated to reporting on research and developments in the multidisciplinary field of swarm intelligence. The journal is published quarterly by Springer US.

**************************** SELECTED TOPICS OF INTEREST: ****************************

Particularly welcome are contributions focusing on SI solutions for:

+ Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

+ Mesh Networks

+ Sensor Networks

+ Robotic Networks

+ Internet

+ Delay Tolerant Networks

+ QoS Networks

+ Satellite Networks

+ Secure Networks

Topics of interest in relationship to the above networks include but are not limited to:

- Network analysis and design

- Distributed medium access control

- Routing protocols

- Transport layer protocols

- QoS provisioning

- Load balancing

- Protection and security systems

- Self-configuration, self-optimization and self-adaptation

- Distributed inference and cooperative communication systems

- Online monitoring and performance evaluation

- Formal modeling of SI systems

- Comparisons between SI and other design frameworks

- Implementation of SI approaches in testbeds

- Evaluation of SI approaches in real-world settings

************** GUEST EDITORS: **************

Gianni A. Di Caro - IDSIA-SUPSI, Lugano, Switzerland gianni AT idsia DOT ch

Frederick Ducatelle - IDSIA-SUPSI, Lugano, Switzerland frederick AT idsia DOT ch

Muddassar Farooq - NUCES, Islamabad, Pakistan muddassar DOT farooq AT udo DOT edu

*********** SUBMISSION: ***********

All manuscripts must be prepared according to the publication guidelines of the Swarm Intelligence Journal that can be found at the journal website: http://www.springer.com/computer/artificial/journal/11721

Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers using the online submission system of the journal at http://www.editorialmanager.com/swrm, selecting "Special Issue on Swarm Intelligence for Telecommunications Network" (Special Issue on Swarm Int. for Networks) as the article type.

When submitting a paper, please send at the same time also an e-mail to Gianni Di Caro (gianni AT idsia DOT ch) with paper title and author list to inform about the submission.

**************** IMPORTANT DATES: ****************

Manuscript due: December 31, 2008 Notification: March 15, 2009 Final manuscript due: April 30, 2009

Submission: December 31, 2008 Notification: March 15, 2009 Final version: April 30, 2009

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