PPSN XI will showcase a wide range of topics in Natural Computing including, but not restricted to: Evolutionary Computation, Quantum Computation, Molecular Computation, Neural Computation, Artificial Life, Swarm Intelligence, Artificial Ant Systems, Artificial Immune Systems, Self-Organizing Systems, Emergent Behaviors, and Applications to Real-World Problems.

List of topics include:

Theory of evolutionary computing Theory of evolutionary computing - general Basic working principles Evolution dynamics Fitness landscape Mathematical models Performance analysis Performance measures local/global Philosophical aspects Activities Pattern recognition and classification/datamining Time-tabling and scheduling Process monitoring and control Routing and layout Design/synthesis Prediction/forecasting Mathematical modelling/curve fitting System Identification Data Mining Search and optimization - general Decision Making Modelling behaviours and ecosystems Image and Signal Processing Games Miscellaneous activities Implementation Parameter tuning Heuristics Hybridization GUI-Visualisation Software Tools Hardware Realization Parallel EAs EA specification Related Neural Networks Fuzzy Systems Evolutionary Robotics Artificial Life Machine Learning Evolvable Hardware Multi-agent Systems Ant Algorithms Artificial immune systems Scatter and tabu search Quantum computing Cellular automata DNA computing Memetic algorithms Particle Swarms Swarm Intelligence

Technique Evolutionary computing - general Fitness - Evaluation Selection Constraint Handling Multi-objective Adaptation - Self-adaptation Co-evolution Interactive evolution Genetic algorithms - bitstring Evolution strategies - floating-point Evolutionary programming - automata/graphs Genetic programming - general Genetic programming - alternate representations Classifier systems Representations Dynamic Environments/Optimisation Estimation of Distribution Algorithms Application Agriculture/Farming Art and architecture Aerospace Automobile Business planning and operations research Biology and chemistry Chemical engineering Civil engineering Earth sciences and the environment Education Electronic and electrical engineering Energy and utilities Entertainment and media Finance Web services Linguistics language and speech Manufacturing Mechanical engineering Medicine Physics Psychology Robotics Social science Telecommunications Transportation Architecture Others

Following the now well-established tradition of PPSN conferences, all accepted papers will be presented during small poster sessions of about 16 papers. Each session will contain papers from a wide variety of topics, and will begin by a plenary quick overview of all papers in that session by a major researcher in the field. Past experiences have shown that such presentation format led to more interactions between participants and to a deeper understanding of the papers. All accepted papers will be published in the LNCS Proceedings.

Researchers are invited to submit original work in the field of natural computing as papers of not more than 10 pages. Authors are encouraged to submit their papers in LaTeX. Papers must be submitted in Springer Verlag's LNCS style through the conference homepage, here

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