special issue on Memetic Computing submission deadline: July 8, 2011

1. Journal
of
Memetic
Computing
Call
for
Papers
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OPTIMIZATION
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COMPLEX
SYSTEMS
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Manuscript
submission:
July
8,
2011.
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Notification
of
acceptance/revisions/rejection:
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8,
2011.
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Revised
manuscript
submission:
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November
8,
2011.
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Notification
final
decision:
December
8,
2011.
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Final
manuscript
submission:
January
8,
2012.
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AIMS
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SCOPE:
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Many
problems
in
all
the
traditional
research
areas,
such
as
science,
engineering,
physics,
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biology,
and
medicine
are
often
hard
to
solve,
mainly
due
to
the
difficulty
in
understanding
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their
indirect
causes
and
effects,
which
are
not
related
in
an
obvious
way.
Therefore,
studying
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how
a
system
interacts
with
the
environment,
or
how
simple
components
give
rise
to
the
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global
collective
behavior
of
the
system,
or
even
how
parts
of
a
system
interact
with
each
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other,
is
nowadays
one
of
the
most
challenging
and
interesting
research
areas
in
every
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discipline
because
of
its
utmost
relevance.
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In
the
field
of
complex
systems
there
currently
exist
several
sophisticated
tools
that
can
help
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us
to
study
the
systems
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in
an
in-­‐depth
manner,
through
analytical
models,
and
from
a
computational
point
of
view,
describing
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model
and
the
way
it
is
simulated.
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This
special
issue
aims
to
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bring
together
researchers
and
practitioners
working
in
the
field
o
complex
systems,
particularly
in
regards
to
the
development
of
new
analytical
models
and
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novel
applications,
as
well
as
on
the
design
of
new
nature-­‐inspired
optimization
algorithms.
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Authors
are
invited
to
submit
original
and
unpublished
papers
on
any
topics
related
to
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complex
systems.
All
submissions
will
undergo
a
blind
peer-­‐review
process.
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GUEST
EDITORS:
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Mario
Pavone,
University
of
Catania,
Italy
Carlos
A.
Coello
Coello,
CINVESTAV-­‐IPN,
Mexico

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