Call for Papers
Recently, the multi-agent paradigm is emerging for the development of solutions to very hard
parallel and distributed computational problems. This paradigm is based either on the activity of
“intelligent” – possibly mobile - agents which perform complex functionalities or on the
exploitation of a large number of very simple agents that can produce an overall intelligent
behaviour (the so called “swarm intelligence”), leading to the solution of alleged almost intractable
problems. The multi-agent paradigm is often inspired by biologically systems. Bio-inspired
algorithms such as genetic and evolutionary algorithms, ant colonies, and immune systems are
routinely applied to hard and large problems in a variety of areas. Some examples are optimization
through genetic algorithms, new ideas for developing routing algorithms in wireless networks
inspired by honey bee behaviour, resource discovery and data mining computations in Grid and P2P
frameworks achieved by ant-inspired algorithms, and so on.
This session aims to gather scientists, engineers, and practitioners to share and exchange their
experiences, discuss challenges, and report state-of-the-art and in-progress research on all aspects of
Parallel and Distributed Multi Agent and Bio-Inspired Algorithms.Topics of interest include, but
are not restricted to:
- Multi-agent algorithms and applications in distributed systems
- Mobile agents algorithms and applications
- Parallel and distributed techniques of Swarm Intelligence: ant colonies, flock of birds
- Cellular automata
- Parallel and distributed evolutionary algorithms
- Cluster and Grid implementation of multi-agent and bio-inspired algorithms
- Performance evaluation of multi-agent and bio-inspired algorithms
- High performance tools for implementing bio-inspired algorithms
Co-Chairs
Gianluigi Folino
Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking,
National Research Council
Carlo Mastroianni
Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking,
National Research Council
Programme Committee
Ivanoe De Falco, ICAR-CNR, Italy
Antonio Della Cioppa, University of Salerno, Italy
Francisco Fernández de Vega, Universidad de Extremadura, Spain
Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria, Italy
Dominic Greenwood, Whitestein Technologies, Switzerland
Antonio Nebro Urbaneja, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK
Giandomenico Spezzano, ICAR-CNR, Italy
Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy
Ian Taylor, Cardiff University, UK
Guy Theraulaz,Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition Animale, France
Marco Tomassini, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Rainer Unland, University of Essen, Germany
Important Dates
Papers due July 10th (extended deadline), 2006
Author notification: September 29th, 2006
Camera-ready final papers due: October 27th, 2006
PDP'07 and PCES: February 7-9th, 2007
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