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SUBMISSION DUE DATE: November 30, 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: November 30, 2013
First decision notification: January 31, 2013
Submission of revised papers: February 28, 2014
Final decision notification: March 15, 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@ieee.org,ahmad_t_azar@yahoo.com, aboitcairo@gmail.com


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