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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:3.25in">Dear Colleague,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:3.25in"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;
tab-stops:3.25in">You are kindly invited to contribute with a paper to the Special
Issue “<b><span style="mso-bidi-font-style:italic">From Natural Computing to
Self-organizing Intelligent Complex Systems</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-style:
italic">”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:3.25in"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:3.25in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none">Please find also the call for contribution to the “<b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">International
Workshop on Next Generation Intelligent Medical Decision Support Systems</span></b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:3.25in">(the webpage it is not completely finished
sorry about it). </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:3.25in"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:3.25in"><span><a target="_blank" href="http://ncscs.upm.ro/">http://ncscs.upm.ro/</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:93.65pt 3.25in"><span style="mso-tab-count:
1"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:3.25in"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:3.25in">Kind regards,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:3.25in">Barna Iantovics</p>
<p class="HTMLBody" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;"><br></span></p><p class="HTMLBody" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;"><br></span></p><p class="HTMLBody" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">********************* CALL FOR PAPERS
*************************************************</span></p>
<p class="HTMLBody" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">SUBMISSION DUE DATE: </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">May 19, 2011</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"></span></p>
<p class="HTMLBody" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
color:red;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">SPECIAL ISSUE: <b><span style="color:red"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-style:italic">From
Natural Computing to Self-organizing Intelligent Complex Systems</span></b></span></p>
<h1 style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:
inter-ideograph"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:
Calibri;color:black">Journal of Information Technology Research (JITR)</span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri"><a href="http://www.igi-global.com/jitr">www.igi-global.com/jitr</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri">Guest
Editors: </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;
tab-stops:348.1pt"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black">Barna László Iantovics, </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
color:black">Petru Maior University</span><span style="font-size:
14.0pt;font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black">, </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
color:black">Romania</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
color:black"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
color:black">Marius Ştefan Măruşteri, </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
color:black">University</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black"> of </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
color:black">Medicine</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
color:black"> and </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black">Pharmacy</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
color:black">, </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black">Romania</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
color:black">Constantin-Bălă Zamfirescu, </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
color:black">Lucian Blaga University</span><span style="font-size:
14.0pt;font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black">, </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
color:black">Romania</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
color:black"></span></p>
<p class="HTMLBody" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri"> </span></p>
<p class="HTMLBody" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri"> </span></p>
<p class="HTMLBody" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">INTRODUCTION:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black">Recently a
large number of bio-inspired computational methods have been used (also called
methods of Natural Computing) to solve computationally hard problems in many
domains. These methods have proven to be successful for different types of
problems with unknown and uncertain data where the traditional approaches are
not so effective. It is estimated that the biological life that evolved during
millions of years will be a fruitful source of inspiration for the development
of new computational methods offer in the years to come and they will represent
an important research direction in the Artificial Intelligence mainstream.</span></p>
<p class="HTMLBody" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri"> </span></p>
<p class="HTMLBody" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri">OBJECTIVE
OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black">From a
practical perspective, an essential research direction is represented by the
development of highly complex systems (usually agent-based) that intelligently
solve problems of very high difficulty. We consider complex systems composed
from a large number of components (agents) capable to make specialized
computations in the problem space. Such</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black;mso-fareast-language:FR"> developments
are usually composed of a very large number of computational components, who
interact many times nonlinearly, forming as a whole a complex problem solving
system.</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
color:black"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:
Calibri;color:black;mso-fareast-language:FR">A subclass of complex systems
includes the hybrid systems composed from different type of artificial
components capable to make computations, and human specialists that could
interact in different points of decisions during the problems solving. </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black">Research
related to complex systems address analysis of many aspects such as complexity,
self-organization, emergence, intelligence, hybridization and so forth. </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black;mso-fareast-language:
FR">Many computational complex systems developments require interdisciplinary
approaches, which must include methods developed in different sciences, like
sub-domains of the Artificial Intelligence like Natural Computing and
Intelligent Agents. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black;mso-fareast-language:
FR">A particular subject by interest for this issue is represented by the
self-organizing complex systems that use methods of natural computing in
different tasks, like: problems solving, self-organization etc.</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black"> This
issue will centralize some state of the art results in the theme, which we
estimate that will remain an important research direction in the near future.</span></p>
<p class="HTMLBody" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"> </span></p>
<p class="HTMLBody" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">RECOMMENDED TOPICS:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri">Topics to be discussed
in this special issue include (but are not limited to) the following:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.45in;text-align:justify;text-justify:
inter-ideograph;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list .45in"><span style="font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:
Symbol;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"><span style="font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black">artificial intelligence</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.45in;text-align:justify;text-justify:
inter-ideograph;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list .45in"><span style="font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:
Symbol;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"><span style="font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black">large-scale and complex systems</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.45in;text-align:justify;text-justify:
inter-ideograph;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list .45in"><span style="font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:
Symbol;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"><span style="font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black">hybrid complex systems</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.45in;text-align:justify;text-justify:
inter-ideograph;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list .45in"><span style="font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:
Symbol;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"><span style="font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black">intelligent systems</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.45in;text-align:justify;text-justify:
inter-ideograph;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .45in"><span style="font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:
Symbol;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"><span style="font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black">natural computing</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.45in;text-align:justify;text-justify:
inter-ideograph;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .45in"><span class="yshortcuts"><span style="font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;
mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;color:black;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span></span><span dir="LTR"><span style="font-family:
Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black;mso-fareast-language:FR">evolutionary
systems</span></span><span class="yshortcuts"><span style="font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.45in;text-align:justify;text-justify:
inter-ideograph;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .45in"><span style="font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:
Symbol;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"><span class="yshortcuts"><span style="font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black">complex
systems’</span></span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:
Calibri;color:black"> modeling</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.45in;text-align:justify;text-justify:
inter-ideograph;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .45in"><span style="font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:
Symbol;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"><span style="font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black">agents and multi-agent systems</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.45in;text-align:justify;text-justify:
inter-ideograph;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .45in"><span style="font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:
Symbol;color:black;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"><span style="font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black">complex networks<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.45in;text-align:justify;text-justify:
inter-ideograph;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list .45in"><span style="font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:
Symbol;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"><span style="font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black">difficult problem for a human
specialist</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.45in;text-align:justify;text-justify:
inter-ideograph;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list .45in"><span style="font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:
Symbol;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"><span style="font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black">difficult problem for a computational
system</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.45in;text-align:justify;text-justify:
inter-ideograph;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list .45in"><span style="font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:
Symbol;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"><span style="font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black">complex systems specialized in
difficult problems solving</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.45in;text-align:justify;text-justify:
inter-ideograph;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list .45in"><span style="font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:
Symbol;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"><span style="font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black">decision support systems</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.45in;text-align:justify;text-justify:
inter-ideograph;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list .45in"><span style="font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:
Symbol;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"><span style="font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black">problem solving method used by a
complex system</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.45in;text-align:justify;text-justify:
inter-ideograph;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list .45in"><span style="font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:
Symbol;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"><span style="font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:black">problems that could be solved by a
complex system</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.45in;text-align:justify;text-justify:
inter-ideograph;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list .45in"><span style="font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:
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</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"><span style="font-family:Calibri;
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