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PPSN 2010 - Second call for papers
11th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving From Nature

September 11-15, 2010
AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland
http://home.agh.edu.pl/ppsn
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The Eleventh International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from
Nature (PPSN XI) will be held in Krakow, Poland on 11-15 September 2010.
This biennial meeting aims to bring together researchers and practitioners
in the field of natural computing. Natural Computing is the study
of computational systems, which use ideas and get inspiration from natural
systems, including biological, ecological, physical, chemical, and social
systems. It is a fast-growing interdisciplinary field, in which a range
of techniques and methods are studied for dealing with large, complex,
and dynamic problems with various sources of potential uncertainties.

PPSN XI will be a showcase of a wide range of topics in Natural Computing
including, but not restricted to: Evolutionary Computation, Neural
Computation, Molecular Computation, Quantum Computation, Artificial Life,
Swarm Intelligence, Artificial Ant Systems, Artificial Immune Systems,
Self-Organizing Systems, Emergent Behaviors, and Applications to Real-World
Problems. PPSN XI will also feature workshops and tutorials covering
advanced and fundamental topics in the field of natural computation.

All accepted papers will be presented during poster sessions and will be
included in the proceedings. Following the tradition of PPSN, proceedings
will be published in  the Series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)
by  Springer. Prospective authors are invited to contribute their 
high-quality original results in the field of natural computation 
as papers of no more than 10 pages. 
The format should follow Springer Verlag LNCS style,
(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).

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GENERAL CHAIR
Robert Schaefer (AGH, Krakow, PL)

HONORARY CHAIR
Hans-Paul Schwefel (Tech. Universität Dortmund, DE)

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Carlos Cotta (University of Malaga, ES)
Joanna Kolodziej (University of Bielsko-Biala, PL)
Günter Rudolph (TU Dortmund, DE)

TUTORIALS CHAIR
Krzysztof Cetnarowicz (AGH, Krakow, PL)

WORKSHOP CHAIR
Aleksander Byrski (AGH, Krakow, PL)

E-PROCEEDINGS CHAIR
Juan Julian Merelo Guervos (University of Granada, Spain) 

E-PUBLICITY CHAIR
Bartlomiej Sniezynski (AGH, Krakow, PL) 

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Important dates
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Workshop Proposals Submission Deadline:           January 31, 2010
Notification of Acceptance of Workshop Proposals: February 19, 2010
Extended Paper Submission Deadline:               April 28, 2010
Author Notification:                              May 21, 2010
Papers Camera Ready Submission:                   June 11, 2010
Early Registration:                               June 11, 2010
Conference:                                       September, 11-15, 2010

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Keynote Speakers	
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Zbigniew Michalewicz
John Garibardi
Darrell Whitley

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Tutorials
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Xin Yao 
Theory of heuristic computations,

Frank Neumann, Tobias Friedrich
Foundations of Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization

Günther Raidl
Heuristic methods in Graph-based Problems

Tony Brabazon, Michael O'Neill
Natural Computing and Finance

Fatos Xhafa
Meta-heuristic approaches for Scheduling 
in Distributed Computing Environments

Tadeusz Burczynski, Michal Bereta, Waclaw Kus
Artificial immune systems in optimization and classification problems 
with engineering and biomedical applications

Piotr Faliszewski
The Complexity of Elections: new domain for heuristic computations

Simon M. Lucas
Learning to play games

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Contact Information
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E-mail: ppsn@agh.edu.pl
Bartlomiej Sniezynski +48 (0)12 617 3339
Jacek Dajda           +48 (0)12 617 4451

PPSN 2010, Department of Computer Science,
AGH University of Science and Technology,
Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Krakow, POLAND