News: [Artificial Intelligence Group] 2nd WORKSHOP on Parallel Architectures and Bioinspired Algorithms

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Early Registration stills open, Please find the information below.

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To be held in conjunction with the
Eighteenth International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques,
PACT 2009 Raleigh, North Carolina.
September 12-16, 2009.

This second workshop on Parallel Architectures and Bioinspired
Algorithms follows the success of the first workshop held in
conjunction with PACT 2008 in Toronto, and incorporates the biennial
Workshop on Parallel Bioinspired Algorithms, first edition held in
Oslo, 2005 (together with IEEE ICPP), and second edition in London
2007 (together with ACM GECCO 2007). The aim is to join a large
number of researchers interested in the synergies arising from
different but related fields: Parallel Computer Architectures,
Parallel and Distributed Computing, and Bioinspired Algorithms. On
one hand, parallel architecture designers, and in general, system
designers are starting to bear in mind Bioinspired Algorithms as
general optimization tools. These algorithms comprise a set of
heuristics that can help to optimize a wide range of tasks required
for Parallel and Distributed Architectures to work efficiently:
balancing computer load, fault‐tolerance and dependability,
thermal‐aware design, NoC design, and other related problems.
On the other hand, the application of Bioinspired Algorithm to solve
real‐world problems has shown that they need high computation
power. Parallel Architectures and Distributed Systems have offered an
interesting alternative to sequential counterparts since improvements
on parallel architectures are allowing running computing intensive
Bioinspired Algorithms for solving many difficult engineering
problems. Therefore, any effort for increasing the relationship
between both fields would be very welcome by the community. This
workshop will 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 the answer to two questions: What can Bioinspired
Algorithms do for Parallel Computer Architectures? And what can
Parallel Computer Architectures do for bioinspired Algorithms?. You
are invited to submit a paper with unpublished original work for this
workshop. The topics include, but are not limited to:

• Evolutionary Algorithms for Parallel Computer Architectures optimization.
• Computer Architecture optimizations using other biologically
inspired algorithms: Ant Colonies, Immune Systems, Artificial Life,
Cultural Algorithms, etc...

• Cluster and Grid Deployment of Bioinspired Algorithms.
• Desktop Grids infrastructures for supporting Bioinspired Algorithms.
• Large Scale Parallel Processing.
• Heterogeneous Computing Platforms for Bioinspired Algorithms.
• Improvement on scheduling techniques by means of Bioinspired Algorithms.
• Fault tolerant implementations of PEAs.
• Performance evaluation of PEAs.
• Improvement in system performance through optimization and tuning.
• Parallel Reconfigurable Architectures for Bioinspired Algorithms.
• Graphics processing units and Evolutionary Algorithms.
• Profiting from Cloud infrastructure when running Bioinspired Algorithms.

PAPER SUBMISSION:

Please submit original research results papers not published or
submitted for publication in other forums. All submitted papers will
be carefully evaluated based on originality and quality. The paper
submission site is available at http://bioinspired.dacya.ucm.es. For
more information please contact Ignacio Hidalgo at
hidalgo@dacya.ucm.es. Accepted papers will be published in a
separated proceedings handed out during the workshop and, selected
papers, in an extended version on a SPECIAL ISSUE of the PARALLEL
COMPUTING journal.

IMPORTANT DATES:

• Paper Submission Deadline: July 24th
• Decision Notification: August 12th
• Camera‐Ready Submission: August 17th
• Early Registration Deadline: August 19th
• Conference Dates: September 12‐16

Workshop Co-chairs

J. Ignacio Hidalgo - Complutense University, Spain
Francisco Fernández - Extremadura University, Spain
Juan Lanchares - Complutense University, Spain

Program Committee

David Atienza, Complutense University of Madrid (Spain), and EPFL (Switzerland)
Erick CantúPaz, Yahoo Inc. (USA)
Jose Manuel Colmenar ArTeCS Research Group (Spain)
Steven Dropsho, Google Inc. (Switzerland)
Gianluigi Folino, ICAR‐CNR (Italy)
Oscar Garnica, Complutense University of Madrid (Spain)
Simon Harding, Memorial University of Newfoundland (Canada)
Saurabh Mittal, Dunip Technologies (USA)
Sanaz Mostaghim, University of Karlsruhe (Germany)
Luis Piñuel, Complutense University of Madrid (Spain)
William Langdon, University College of London (UK)
Raffaelle Perego, ISTI‐CNR (Italy)
Beatrice OmbukiBerman, Brock University (Canada)
Giandomenico Spezzano, ICAR‐CNR (Italy)
José Luis Risco, Complutense University of Madrid (Spain)