[AISWorld] SPECIAL ISSUE ON Metaheuristics for Biomedical Applications

[Ahmad Taher Azar]

********************* CALL FOR PAPERS ********************* 
SUBMISSION DUE DATE: October 31, 2013 

SPECIAL ISSUE ON Metaheuristics for Biomedical Applications 

Memetic Computing Journal 

Guest Editors: 
Asst. Prof. Ahmad Taher Azar, Benha University, Egypt 
Prof. Aboul-Ella Hassanien, Cairo University, Egypt 

INTRODUCTION 

Metaheuristics search techniques have been successfully applied to solve many problems in intelligent systems, and have always been a central area of AI research. Many real-world situations lead to problems that have several conflicting objectives, which typically cannot be optimized with a unique solution. The applicability of metaheuristics as a preferred method over other optimization methods is primarily to find good heuristic solutions to complex optimization problems with many local optima and little inherent structure to guide the search. 

OBJECTIVE OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE 

As metaheuristics have permeated into many areas and have many diverse applications, it is impossible to cover all topics and algorithms in one special issue. 
So that this special issue aims at providing an opportunity for researchers interested in the advances and applications of metaheuristics for biomedical applications, to present the advances and latest developments in this area. The special issue will be oriented towards both theoretical and applications aspects of metaheuristics to Biomedical Applications. We are looking for original, high-quality submissions on innovative research and development in all aspects of Metaheuristics. 

RECOMMENDED TOPICS 

The editors seek submissions on the following topics in Metaheuristics, but are not limited to: 
•	Tabu search 
•	simulated annealing 
•	iterated local search 
•	variable neighborhood search 
•	evolutionary algorithms, 
•	memetic algorithms 
•	ant colony optimization 
•	variable neighborhood search 
•	particle swarm optimization, 
•	scatter search, 
•	path relinking 
•	Complexity 
•	Evolutionary Computation 
•	Applications to machine learning 
•	Artificial immune systems 
•	Hybrid methods 
•	Parallel metaheuristics 
•	multiobjective optimisation 
•	Medical Image Processing 
•	Medical diagnosis 
•	Robotics 
•	Recognition 
•	Bioinformatics 
•	Expert systems 
•	Health care engineering 

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE 
Researchers, Scientists and practitioners are invited to submit papers for this special issue on '' Metaheuristics for Biomedical Applications'' on or before September 30, 2013. All submissions must be original and may not be under review by another publication. INTERESTED AUTHORS SHOULD CONSULT THE JOURNAL’S GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at: 
http://www.springer.com/engineering/computational+intelligence+and+complexity/journal/12293 


IMPORTANT DATES 
Submission deadline: October 31, 2013 
First decision notification: December 15, 2013 
Submission of revised papers: January 31, 2014 
Final decision notification: February 25, 2014 
Publication: 2014 

All submissions should be directed to the attention of: 
Asst. Prof. Ahmad Taher Azar, 
Prof. Aboul Ella Hassanien 
E-mails: ahmad_t_azar at ieee.org,ahmad_t_azar at yahoo.com, aboitcairo at gmail.com 



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Best Regards 

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Ahmad Taher Azar, PhD, IEEE Member
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