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Today's Topics:

1. 2015 IEEE CEC Special Session and Competition on: Niching
Methods for Multimodal Optimization [CFP] (Michael G. Epitropakis)
2. metaheuristics for large-scale problems (stefka fidanova)
3. computational optimization (stefka fidanova)
4. Deadline extension | SOFTENG 2015 || April 19 - 23, 2015 -
Barcelona, Spain (Cristina Pascual)


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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 16:07:27 +0000
From: "Michael G. Epitropakis" <mge@cs.stir.ac.uk>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] 2015 IEEE CEC Special Session and Competition on:
Niching Methods for Multimodal Optimization [CFP]
Message-ID: <5468CBBF.5030207@cs.stir.ac.uk>
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** Apologies for multiple postings **
** Please kindly forward to those who may be interested. **

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Call for Papers
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2015 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation Special Session and
Competition on: "Niching Methods for Multimodal Optimization"

May 25 -- 28, 2015, Sendai, Japan.
URL: http://goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au/~xiaodong/cec15-niching/
URL: http://goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au/~xiaodong/cec15-niching/competition/

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Objectives
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Population based meta-heuristic algorithms such as Evolutionary
Algorithms (EAs) in their original forms are usually designed for
locating a single global solution. These algorithms typically converge
to a single solution because of the global selection scheme used.
Nevertheless, many real-world problems are "multimodal" by nature, i.e.,
multiple satisfactory solutions exist. It may be desirable to locate
many such satisfactory solutions so that a decision maker can choose one
that is most proper in his/her problem domain. Numerous techniques have
been developed in the past for locating multiple optima (global or
local). These techniques are commonly referred to as "niching" methods.
A niching method can be incorporated into a standard EA to promote and
maintain formation of multiple stable subpopulations within a single
population, with an aim to locate multiple globally optimal or
suboptimal solutions. Many niching methods have been developed in the
past, including crowding, fitness sharing, derating, restricted
tournament selection, clearing, speciation, etc. In more recent times,
niching methods have also been developed for other meta-heuristic
algorithms such as Particle Swarm Optimization and Differential Evolution.

Most of existing niching methods, however, have difficulties which need
to be overcome before they can be applied successfully to real-world
multimodal problems. Some identified issues include: difficulties to
pre-specify some niching parameters; difficulties in maintaining found
solutions in a run; extra computational overhead; poor scalability when
dimensionality is high. This special session aims to highlight the
latest developments in niching methods, bring together researchers from
academia and industries, and explore future research directions on this
topic. We invite authors to submit original and unpublished work on
niching methods. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

- Theoretical developments in multimodal optimization
- Niching methods that incurs lower computational costs
- Handling the issue of niching parameters in niching methods
- Handling the scalability issue in niching methods
- Handling problems characterized by massive multi-modality
- Adaptive or parameter-less niching methods
- Multiobjective approaches to niching
- Multimodal optimization in dynamic environments
- Niching methods applied to discrete multimodal optimization problems
- Niching methods applied to constrained multimodal optimization problems
- Niching methods using parallel or distributed computing techniques
- Benchmarking niching methods, including test problem design and
performance
metrics
- Comparative studies of various niching methods
- Niching methods applied to engineering and other real-world multimodal
optimization problems

Please note that we are NOT interested if the adopted task is to find
a single solution of a multimodal problem.

Furthermore, a companion competition on Niching Methods for Multimodal
Optimization will also be organized in conjunction with our special
session. See further information at:

http://goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au/~xiaodong/cec15-niching/competition/

The aim of the competition is to provide a common platform that
encourages fair and easy comparisons across different niching
algorithms. The competition allows participants to run their own
niching algorithms on 20 benchmark multimodal functions with different
characteristics and levels of difficulty. Researchers are welcome to
evaluate their niching algorithms using this benchmark suite, and
report the results by submitting a paper to the associated niching
special session (i.e., submitting via the online submission system of
CEC'2015). In case it is too late to submit the paper (i.e., passing
the CEC'2015 submission deadline), author may submit their results in a
report directly to the special session organizers, in order to be
counted in the competition.


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Important Dates
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- Paper Submission: 19 December 2014
- Notification of Acceptance: 20 February 2015
- Final Paper submission: 13 March 2015

Paper Submission:

Manuscripts should be prepared according to the standard format and
page limit specified in CEC 2015. For more submission instructions,
please see the CEC?2015 submission page at: http://sites.ieee.org/cec2015/
Please indicate during submission that your paper is submitted to this
special session.

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Special Session Organizers
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Xiaodong Li, RMIT University, Australia
Andries Engelbrecht, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Michael G. Epitropakis, University of Stirling, Scotland

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The University of Stirling has been ranked in the top 12 of UK universities for graduate employment*.
94% of our 2012 graduates were in work and/or further study within six months of graduation.
*The Telegraph
The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159.



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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 15:18:06 +0200
From: stefka fidanova <stefka.fidanova@gmail.com>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] metaheuristics for large-scale problems
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Dear Colleague,

On behalf of the Organizing Committee, we invite you to participate in
the special session (workshop) on "APPLICATIONS OF METAHEURISTICS TO
LARGE-SCALE PROBLEMS" at the 10th International Conference on Large
Scale Scientific Computation - LSSC'13, June 8 - 12, 2015, Sozopol,
Bulgaria, with arrival: June 7 and departure: noon June 12.

The session is organized by:
Assoc. Prof. Stefka Fidanova (stefka@parallel.bas.bg)
from the Institut of Information and Communication Technologies
(former Institute for Parallel Processing), Bulgarian Academy of
Sciences and
Gabriel Luque (gabriel@lcc.uma.es) from University of Malaga, Spain.

Topics

The list of topics includes, but is not limited to:

combinatorial optimization
global optimization
multiobjective optimization
optimization in dynamic and/or noisy environments
large scale optimization
parallel and distributed approaches in optimization
random search algorithms,
simulated annealing,
tabu search
other derivative free optimization methods
nature inspired optimization methods (evolutionary algorithms, ant
colony optimization, particle swarm optimization, immune artificial
systems etc)
hybrid optimization algorithms involving natural computing
techniques and other global and local optimization methods
optimization methods for learning processes and data mining
computational optimization methods in statistics, econometrics,
finance, physics, medicine, biology, engineering etc


Proceedings
We plan to continue publishing the proceedings of only refereed and
presented papers as a special volume of Springer Lecture Notes in
Computer Science (LNCS).

Important deadlines
Deadline for submission of abstracts
January 15, 2015
Notification of acceptance of the talks on the basis of the
submitted abstract
January 31, 2015
Deadline for submission of full papers
March 15, 2015
Notification of acceptance of full papers
April 30, 2015


Abstracts and contributed papers
The abstracts (up to 1 page stating clearly the originality of the
results) are to be written in standard LaTeX. The length of the
contributed papers is limited up to 8 pages. It is assumed that one
participant will present not more than one talk.

Send the abstracts and papers to special session organizers and
conference organizers, indicating the name of the special session.
After sending the abstract go to the conference web page and fill in
the registration form (personal data of the participants, minimum one
per paper, and the name of the special session).

Information about abstract and paper preparation, accommodation,
transportation, registration form and conference location you can find
at the conference web page
http://parallel.bas.bg/Conferences/SciCom15/


Special session organizers
Prof. Stefka Fidanova
Prof. Gabriel Luque

--
Assoc. Prof. Stefka Fidanova
IICT-BAS
Acad. G. Bonchev str. bl.25A
1113 Sofia Bulgaria
Ph. +359-2-9796642


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Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 15:22:14 +0200
From: stefka fidanova <stefka.fidanova@gmail.com>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] computational optimization
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[Please post - apologies for multiple copies.]

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Call for Papers

8th Workshop on Computational Optimization (WCO 2014
Warsaw, Poland, September 13 - 16, 2015

organized in the framework of FEDERATED CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER SCIENCE
AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS
FedCSIS - 2015

http://www.fedcsis.org/

====================

We invite original contributions related with both theoretical and
practical aspects of optimization methods.
The list of topics includes, but is not limited to:

* unconstrained and constrained optimization
* combinatorial optimization
* continues optimization
* global optimization
* multiobjective optimization
* optimization in dynamic and/or noisy environments
* large scale optimization
* parallel and distributed approaches in optimization
* random search algorithms, simulated annealing, tabu search and other
derivative free optimization methods
* nature inspired optimization methods (evolutionary algorithms, ant
colony optimization, particle swarm optimization, immune artificial
systems etc)
* hybrid optimization algorithms involving natural computing
techniques and other global and local optimization methods
*computational biology and optimization
* distance geometry and applications
* optimization methods for learning processes and data mining
* application of optimization methods on real life and industrial problems
* computational optimization methods in statistics, econometrics,
finance, physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, engineering etc.



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Important dates:

24.04.2015 (April 24, 2015) ? Full paper submission

01.06.2015 (June 01, 2015) - Position paper submission

15.06.2015 (June 15, 2015) ? Notification of acceptance

01.07.2015 (July 01, 2015) ? Camera-ready version of the accepted
paper and registration

====================

Submission and Publication


* Authors should submit draft papers as PDF.
* The total length of a paper should not exceed 8 pages (IEEE style).
IEEE style templates are available at http://www.fedcsis.org/.
* Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their
scientific merit and relevance to the workshop.
* Accepted and Presented paper will be published in the Conference
Proceedings and included in the IEEE Xplore database (pending) and
indexed in the DBLP.
* Extended versions of selected papers presented during the conference
will be published as Special Issue(s) of Springer Studies of
Computational Intelligence.
====================

If you have any question do not hesitate to send a mail to wco2014@fedcsis.org .

Organizing Committee

Stefka Fidanova, Bulgarian Academy of Science, Bulgaria
Daniela Zaharie, West University of Timisoara, Romania
Antonio Mucherino, IRISA, France

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Assoc. Prof. Stefka Fidanova
IICT-BAS
Acad. G. Bonchev str. bl.25A
1113 Sofia Bulgaria
Ph. +359-2-9796642



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Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 08:03:01 +0100
From: Cristina Pascual<cris.pascual.gonzalez@gmail.com>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] Deadline extension | SOFTENG 2015 || April 19 - 23,
2015 - Barcelona, Spain
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INVITATION:

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Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to SOFTENG 2015.
The submission deadline is December 8, 2014.
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org
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============== SOFTENG 2015 | Call for Papers ===============

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

SOFTENG 2015, The First International Conference on Advances and Trends in Software Engineering
April 19 - 23, 2015 - Barcelona, Spain

General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2015/SOFTENG15.html

Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2015/CfPSOFTENG15.html

Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2015/SubmitSOFTENG15.html


Contributions:
- regular papers [in the proceedings, digital library]
- short papers (work in progress) [in the proceedings, digital library]
- ideas: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
- extended abstracts: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
- posters: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
- posters: slide only [slide-deck posted at www.iaria.org]
- presentations: slide only [slide-deck posted at www.iaria.org]
- demos: two pages [posted at www.iaria.org]
- doctoral forum submissions: [in the proceedings, digital library]

Proposals for:
- mini-symposia: see http://www.iaria.org/symposium.html
- workshops: see http://www.iaria.org/workshop.html
- tutorials: [slide-deck posed on www.iaria.org]
- panels: [slide-deck posed on www.iaria.org]

Submission deadline: December 8, 2014

Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org
Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org
Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html
Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: http://www.thinkmind.org

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas. All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.

Before submission, please check and comply with the editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html

SOFTENG 2015 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)

Software requirements
Fundamentals on software engineering requirements; Informal and formal representation of software requirements; Languages, schemes, patterns, tools for gathering software requirements; Tracking implementation for specific requirements; Functional and non-functional requirements; Requirements for ambient systems software; Requirements for body networks software; Requirements for smart devices and applications; Requirements for wearable/implantable software; Requirements for embedded software; Requirements for adaptive software/systems; Uncertainty specification in software requirements; Requirements for software dedicated to Internet of Things; Special requirements for data centers and cloud applications; Requirements for mobile software; Tools for requirements gathering; Requirements tracking tools; Tools for requirements conflict detection

Software designing and production
Methodologies and tools for software design and deployment; Agile development; Model-driven software development and DSL design; Software design for interactive applications; Software design for web-driven services; Combining classical and Agile software development methods; Empirical software engineering methods; Specific methods for dedicated software; Formal models and methods; Parallel programming; Visual tools; Empirical distribution parameters; Package management systems; Crowdsourcing software development; Model checking specifications; Software product lines; Tools and platforms for software development and deployment; Code generation environments; Specification and implementation of patterns/antipatterns

Software reuse
Software reuse approaches; Pros and cons on software reuse; Software reuse failures and lessons learned; Automation and high level abstraction in software reuse; Reusable components; Third-party software and component reuse; Software reuse metrics; Reuse patterns; Software reuse candidates (specifications, designs, tests cases, data, prototypes, plans, documentation, frameworks, and templates); Online reuse aspects; Weak and strong reuse; Testing and validating reuse-based software; Duplication and reuse; Code clones; Detecting and measuring similarity in code clones; Open areas for research in software reuse

Software/hardware interfaces
General hardware/software modeling; Hardware/software interface codesign; Configurable and parametrized abstract interface architectures; Multi-processor system on chip interfaces; Interoperable hardware/software interfaces; Interface-based design methodology; Abstract models for concurrent hardware/software design; Interfaces for embedded software; Interfaces for ambient software; Interfaces for software in mobile/smart devices; Control flow; Parallel processing interfaces; Language translation modeling; Hardware/software partitioning

Agile software organization
Agile software organization structure; Agile teams and roles; Generalizing agile specialists; System integration in agile structures; Agile analysis and design; Scalable agile frameworks; Performance management in agile organizations; Metrics for agile software organization; Business models and agile origination; Strategy and guidance for agile software organization; Tools and guidance for agile-oriented business control

Software sustainability
Long lasting software; Environmental impact and economic balance; Modeling software product sustainability; Factors affecting software sustainability; Techniques for measuring sustainability; Formal and informal methods for software sustainability; Software sustainability and non-functional requirements; Software sustainability maturity model; Sustainable open source; Sustainability and reliability, (self-)adaptability, maintainability, context-awareness, agility; Software sustainability for green IT; Energy consumption and e-waste from computers during software upgrades; Governance models; Software sustainability and sustainable human behaviors; Operational risks, health and safety

Software testing and validation
Program analysis and software verification; Model-based testing; Testing system composition/orchestration; Data flow testing; Debugging and validation; Discovering vulnerabilities; Defects localization; Defects and failures in software libraries; Testing and run-time analysis based on verification technology; Testing evolving software; Testing embedded applications; Testing citizen-oriented software; Testing game software; Testing apps and on-line software; Testing web-based software; Testing mobile software; Testing software for smart devices; Testing software for wearable services/devices; Testing APIs; Testing software-intensive systems; Malpractice process models; Tools and methodologies for testing real-time software; Testing software performance; Testing for malware presence; Automatic testing methodologies; Software testing certification; Code validation; Metrics for software quality prediction

Maintenance and life-cycle management
Software rejuvenation; Software termination; Software duplication, redundancy; Software versions and configuration control; Software evolution; Conformance and traceability; Automated refactoring validation; Verification techniques; Software certification; Managing software versions; Maintenance over cross-platforms; Maintaining evolutionary code; Validation of software configuration changes; Software patching metrics; Software evolution quality metrics; Removing unintentional implementations/features; Software visualization tools; Tasks-oriented maintenance; Updates dependency control; Maintenance for processing chains; Maintenance of clouds-based platforms; Maintenance of embedded software; Maintenance of automated tests; Maintenance of open-sources; Maintenance for legacy systems; Maintenance based on empirical evidence; Feature-to-code tracking and maintaining; Maintenance of functional and non-functional features; Maintaining user-priority features; Costs of maintenan!
ce efforts

Software reliability, robustness, safety
Metrics and measurements, estimation, prediction of quality/reliability; Software reliability modeling; Automatic repair; Safety critical systems; Software defect prediction models; Software reliability testing; Reliability, availability, and safety of software systems; Risk-based testing; Validation and verification; Vulnerability analysis; Software dependability; Fault tolerance, survivability, and resilience of software systems; Bug fixing; Systems (hardware + software) reliability engineering; Services reliability engineering; Open source software reliability engineering; Safety-critical systems; Collision analysis to prevent hazards; Safety, assurance, certification; Supporting tools and automation; Industry use cases and best practices; Empirical studies and benchmarks

Software security
Security anomaly detection; Detecting software sabotage; Runtime dependability; Threats for software libraries; Data analytics for security verification; Internet threats and countermeasures; Open systems dependability; Trusted component reuse; Security and safety; Trusted software; Detecting code clones in malware; Authentication schemes and software; Trustworthiness in Cloud environments; Communication integrity in critical embedded systems; Latent security vulnerabilities

Challenges for dedicated software, platforms, and tools
Enterprise application integration; Platforms and tools for agile software; Platforms an tools for special software; Lessons learned on domain-oriented software; eHealth software; Mobile applications; Software for smart devices; Software for mobile devices; Assistive software; Remote sensing software; Touch-user interfaces; Middleware software; Social networks software; Video-game software; Emerging interfaces; User-intensive web applications; Avionic software; Real-time software; Embedded software; Simulation software; Automotive software

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Advisory Committee
Alain Abran, University of Qu�bec, Canada
Mira Kajko-Mattsson, Stockholm University & Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Paolo Maresca, Amadeus IT Group, France
Patricia McQuaid, California Polytechnic State University, USA

Research Liaison Committee
Veena Mendiratta, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
Michael Perscheid, SAP Innovation Center Potsdam, Germany
Doo-Hwan Bae, Software Process Improvement Center - KAIST, South Korea
Fergal Mc Caffery, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland

Program Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2015/ComSOFTENG15.html
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