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[Apologies if you <span style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">have </span>receive<span style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">d</span> multiple copies of this CFP; please forward to appropriate communities]<br>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">CALL FOR PAPERS</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif";color:#333333">International Journal of Swarm Intelligence Research (IJSIR)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif";color:#333333">Editor-in-Chief: Yuhui Shi,
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China</span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif";color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<a href="http://www.igi-global.com/submission/submit-manuscript/?jid=1149"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">http://www.igi-global.com/submission/submit-manuscript/?jid=1149</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif";color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Invitation: </span>
</b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:white">The Editor-in-Chief of the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>International Journal of Swarm Intelligence Research (IJSIR)</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>would
like to invite you to consider submitting a manuscript for inclusion in this scholarly journal. The following describes the mission, the coverage and the guidelines for submission to IJSIR.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Mission:</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:white"> The mission of the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>International
Journal of Swarm Intelligence Research (IJSIR)</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>is to become a leading international and well-referred journal in swarm intelligence, nature-inspired optimization algorithms, and their applications. This journal
publishes original and previously unpublished articles including research papers, survey papers, and application papers, to serve as a platform for facilitating and enhancing the information shared among researchers in swarm intelligence research areas ranging
from algorithm developments to real-world applications.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Coverage:
</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:white">Topics to be discussed in this journal include (but are not limited to) the following:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">Ant colony optimization<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">Applications in bioengineering<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">Applications in bioinformatics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">Applications in business<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">Applications in control systems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">Applications in data mining and data clustering<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">Applications in decision making<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">Applications in distributed computing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">Applications in evolvable hardware<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">Applications in finance and economics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">Applications in games<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">Applications in graph partitioning<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">Applications in information security<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">Applications in machine learning<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">Applications in planning and operations in industrial systems, transportation systems, and other systems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">Applications in power system<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">Applications in supply-chain management<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">Applications in wireless sensor networks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">Artificial immune system<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">Constrained optimization<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">Culture algorithm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">Differential Evolution<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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