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<div>Dear colleagues, </div>
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<div>You are cordially invited to submit a paper for the International
Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ICSI11), to take place in Cergy (Paris
area), France, in June 14-15, 2011. </div>
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<div>We will be honored by the presence of two eminent specialists, James Kennedy and Maurice Clerc, who will present tutorials.</div>
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<div>For more details about the conference and submission process, please visit the conference website at: <a href="http://icsi11.eisti.fr/" target="_blank">http://icsi11.eisti.fr/</a></div>
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<div><strong>Topics: </strong></div><strong>
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<ul><li>Theoretical advances of particle swarm optimization, ant colony optimization. </li><li>Optimization techniques in dynamic, multi-objective, constrained environments. </li><li>Grid and distributed computing, machine learning, data mining, data
clustering, graph partitioning, and decision making based on swarm
intelligence principles. </li><li>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, </li><li>Robot swarm,.. </li></ul>
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<div><strong>Important Dates</strong></div><strong>
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<div>Submission (deadline) March 10, 2011 </div>
<div>Notification of acceptance April 20, 2011 </div>
<div>Camera / CD ready May 10, 2011 </div>
<div>Registration for authors (deadline) May 20, 2011 </div>
<div>Conference June 14-15, 2011 </div>
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<div><strong>Special sessions: </strong></div><strong>
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<div>Proposals for special sessions are welcome. Last date: March 10th,
2011. If you are interested in organizing a special session in the
conference, please contact <a href="mailto:organization-icsi11@eisti.fr" target="_blank">organization-icsi11@eisti.fr</a></div>
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<div><strong>Panel proposals: </strong></div><strong>
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<div>The organizers encourage scientists and industry leaders to
organize dedicated panels dealing with controversial and challenging
topics and paradigms. Submissions of original and unpublished work
related to swarm intelligence are invited, including, theory,
development, and applications. Areas of focus include particle swarm
optimization, ant colony optimization, foraging techniques, and other
swarm intelligence related topics. Authors are invited to submit their
original and unpublished work without any limitation to the above
related subjects. For more information, <a href="mailto:organization-icsi11@eisti.fr" target="_blank">organization-icsi11@eisti.fr</a> </div>
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<div><strong>Workshop proposals: </strong></div><strong>
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<div>We welcome workshop proposals on complementary issues to the topics of this conference. Your requests should be forwarded to <a href="mailto:organization-icsi11@eisti.fr" target="_blank">organization-icsi11@eisti.fr</a></div>
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<div><strong>Paper acceptance: </strong></div><strong>
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<div>The papers will be evaluated by the International Program
Committee. All conference participants, excluding invited guests, must
pay the conference registration fees.</div>
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<div><strong>Events: </strong></div><strong>
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<div>Software publishers such as SAS-OR, MathWorks and IBM ILOG will be present at this conference and will demonstrate their tools.</div>
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<div>Selected papers will be proposed for submission in special issues
of selected International Journals: Computers & Operations Research,
Computers & Industrial Engineering, Algorithmic Operations
Research.</div>
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<div><strong>Scientific committee </strong></div>
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<ul><li>Ajith Abraham : Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway </li><li>Anne Auger : INRIA Saclay, Université Paris 11, Orsay, France </li><li>Rachid Chelouah, EISTI Cergy, France </li><li>Raymond Chiong, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia </li>
<li>Maurice Clerc, Independant Consultant, France </li><li>Carlos A. Coello Coello, CINVESTAV-IPN, Depto. de Computacion México </li><li>Luca Di Gaspero, University of Udine, Italy </li><li>Fred Glover, OptTek Systems, Inc, Boulder, Colorado, USA </li>
<li>Frederic Guinand, Université du Havre, France </li><li>Jin-Kao Hao, Université d'Angers, France</li><li>James Kennedy, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Washington, USA </li><li>Stephane le Menec, Research in Guidance, Navigation & Control at EADS / MBDA, France </li>
<li>Hongbo Liu,School of Computer Science, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian, China </li><li>Rui Mendes, Universidade do Minho, Portugal </li><li>Nicolas Monmarché, Université François Rabelais Tours, France </li><li>Felix Mora, Ecole Nationale d'Aviation Civile Toulouse, France </li>
<li>Ibrahim H. Osman, American University of Beirut, Lebanon </li><li>Bijaya Ketan Panigrahi, Indian Institute of Technology, India </li><li>Abraham P Punnen, Simon Fraser University, Canada </li><li>Said Salhi, Centre for Logistics & Heuristic Optimization, Kent Business School, UK </li>
<li>Andrea Schaerf, DIEGM, University of Udine, Italy </li><li>Patrick Siarry, Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne, France </li><li>Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam Suganthan, Science and Technology University, Singapore </li>
<li>Eric Taillard, University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland </li><li>El Ghazali Talbi, Polytech'Lille, Université de Lille 1, France </li><li>Antonios Tsourdos, Defence Academy of the United Kingtom, UK </li>
<li>Rolf Wanka, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg Am Weichselgarten 3, Germany </li></ul>
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<div><strong>Organization committee </strong></div>
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