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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Proposals Submission Deadline: </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">30 APRIL 2008</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Full Chapters Due: </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">15 JULY 2008</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">A volume edited by Raymond Chiong</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">To be published by Springer-Verlag in the series <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Studies in Computational Intelligence (SCI)</i></span></p>
<p><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Book Objectives & Mission:</span></b></p>
<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Nature has always been a source of inspiration. In recent years, new concepts, techniques and computational applications stimulated by nature are being continually proposed and exploited to solve a wide range of optimisation problems in diverse fields. Various kinds of nature-inspired algorithms have been designed and applied, and many of them are producing high quality solutions to a variety of real-world applications and optimisation problems, including scheduling, manufacturing, logistics, space allocation, stock cutting, anomaly detection, engineering design, software testing, bioinformatics and data mining, etc. The success of these algorithms has led to competitive advantages and cost savings not only to the industry but also the society at large.</span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">The use of nature-inspired algorithms stands out to be promising due to the fact that many real-world problems have become increasingly complex. The size and complexity of the optimisation problems nowadays require the development of methods and solutions whose efficiency is measured by their ability to find acceptable results within a reasonable amount of time. Despite there is no guarantee of finding the optimal solution, approaches based on the influence of biology and life sciences such as evolutionary algorithms, neural networks, ant systems, swarm intelligence, artificial immune systems, and many others have been shown to be highly practical and provided state-of-the-art solutions to various optimisation problems.</span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">The aim of this book is to provide a central source of reference by collecting and disseminating the progressive body of knowledge on nature-inspired algorithms and their applications. The main focus will be the implementation of nature-inspired solutions for optimisation based on empirical studies.</span></p>
<p><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:</span></b></p>
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<p><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Submission Procedure:</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"> </span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit <i>on or before </i></span><b><i><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">April 30, 2008</span></i></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"> an extended abstract to <a href="mailto:rchiong@swinburne.edu.my"><font color="#333366">rchiong@swinburne.edu.my</font></a> clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified in 2 weeks time about the status of their proposals. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by </span><b><i><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">July 15, 2008</span></i></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">. All submitted chapters will be reviewed by at least three reviewers.</span></p>
<p><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Important Dates:</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"> </span></p>
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<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Deadline for chapter proposals</span></p></td>
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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: right" align="right"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">April 30, 2008</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></span></p></td></tr>
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<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Publication of book: Nature-Inspired Algorithms for Optimisation</span></p></td>
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<p><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">About the series <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Studies in Computational Intelligence</i>:</span></b></p>
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