Chair

Shengxiang Yang, Brunel University, UK

Membership (Provisional)

Biliana Alexandrova-Kabadjova, University of Essex, UK
Gianni di Caro, IDSIA, Switzerland
Hui Cheng, University of Bedfordshire, UK
Muddassar Farooq, National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Pakistan
Andreas Fink, Helmut-Schmidt-University, Germany
Jorn Grahl, University of Mainz, Germany
Jin-Kao Hao, University of Angers, France
Graham Kendall, University of Nottingham, UK
Serafin Martinez-Jaramillo, University of Essex, UK
Christian Prins, Technical University of Troyes, France
Franz Rothlauf, University of Mainz, Germany
Kay Chen Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Chuan-Kang Ting, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan
Edward Tsang, University of Essex, UK
Shengxiang Yang, Brunel University, UK
Jun Zhang, SUN Yat-sen University, China

Target and Motivation

The impact of optimisation in network environments on the modern economy and society has been growing steadily over the last few decades. The worldwide division of labour, the connection of distributed centres, and the increased mobility of individuals and devices lead to an increased demand for efficient solutions to solve optimization problems in network systems. Along with the development of more powerful computer systems, design and optimization techniques like computational intelligence approaches have been developed that allow us to use computer systems for the systematic design, optimization, and improvement of different network systems.

The primary target of the task force is to promote research on the applications of computational intelligence, including evolutionary computation, nature-inspired computational models, metaheuristic techniques, and other intelligent methods, to the solution of problems in network systems, including the following and related domains:

• Communication network systems: telecommunications; mobile, satellite, optical, and voice communications; personal communication systems; switching and routing; transmission systems; communication systems simulation; station and antenna design; information and speech processing; intrusion detection; error control coding; compression and cryptography; propagation and channel modelling, protocol design, etc.
• Transportation and logistics network systems: transportation and supply networks; logistics; supply chain management; freight and passenger services; tracking and tracing; fleet and order management; modelling and traffic management; traffic simulation; individual and public transportation; inventory optimisation; routing and scheduling, etc.
• Information network systems: data mining; data distribution and sharing; distributed data systems; inter-organisational communication; dynamic data network; heterogeneous data analysis, etc.
• Social network systems: action policies; networking strategies; network and friendship management; identification of interests; advertisement of interests; hierarchical networks; distributed games; behavior analysis; inter-personal communication; group communication, etc.
• Financial and economic network systems: system modelling; forecasting market prices; price tracking; invest strategies; portfolio strategies, etc.
• General network problems: parallel and distributed systems; networks and graph problems; unconstrained and constrained network design problems; structural and computational complexity; adaptivity to environmental variations; robustness to network changes and failures; effectiveness and scalability of performance; location and link design; reliability and failure; corporate network design; location placement; network physical and software architecture; network hardware and software technologies; operations, maintenance, and management; signalling and control; active networks; network services and applications, etc.

Resources and Relevant Links

• Benchmark data sets for Dynamic Vehicle Routing Problems.

Symposium, Workshops, and Special Sessions (Ongoing or Planned)

• S. Yang, J. Zhang, F. Rothlauf, and B. Alexandrova-Kabadjova (co-chairs), Special Session on Evolutionary Computation for Intelligence Network Systems, part of the 2012 World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI 2012), Brisbane, Australia, 10-15 June, 2012.
• C.-K. Ting, J. Zhang, Z. Fan, and X.-M. Hu (co-chairs), Special Session on Computational Intelligence in Communications and Networking, part of the 2012 World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI 2012), Brisbane, Australia, 10-15 June, 2012.
• C.-K. Ting, J. Zhang, X.-M. Hu, and Z. Fan (co-chairs), Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Network Optimization, part of the 2011 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2011), New Orleans, USA, 5-8 June, 2011.
• G. Di Caro, M. Farooq, and E. Tarantino (co-chairs), the 8th European Event on the Application of Nature-inspired Techniques for Telecommunication Networks and other Parallel and Distributed Systems (EvoComnet2011), part of Evo* 2011, Torino, Italy, 27-29 April, 2011.
• C. Prins and J. Grahl (co-chairs), the 5th European Event on Evolutionary Computation in Transportation and Logistics (EvoTranslog2011), part of Evo* 2011, Torino, Italy, 27-29 April, 2011.

Books and Journal Special Issues

Several books and journal special issues are being planned.

Contact

Dr Shengxiang Yang
Department of Information Systems and Computing
Brunel University
Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3PH, United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)1895 266376
Fax: +44 (0)1895 251686
Email: shengxiang.yang@brunel.ac.uk
http://people.brunel.ac.uk/~csstssy/