Connectionists: ANTS 2006 Call for Papers

[Marco DORIGO]

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			      ANTS 2006
		   Fifth International Workshop on
	    Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence

	       September 4-7, 2006. Brussels, Belgium


	     Call for papers prepared on October 31, 2005
			    Short version

ANTS 2006 solicits contributions dealing with any aspect of swarm
intelligence including ant colony optimization, particle swarm
optimization, and swarm robotics.

	      More details and up-to-date information at
		   http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/ants2006

Workshop proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS series.


Important Dates
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   Title and abstract deadline     Mar 12, 2006
   Submission deadline             Mar 19, 2006
   Notification of acceptance      May 21, 2006
   Camera ready copy               June 4, 2006


ANTS 2006 Workshop Committee
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   General Chairs
     Marco Dorigo, IRIDIA, ULB, Brussels, Belgium
     Luca M. Gambardella, IDSIA, USI-SUPSI, Manno, Switzerland

   Technical Program Chairs
     Alcherio Martinoli, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
     Riccardo Poli, University of Essex, UK
     Thomas Stuetzle, IRIDIA, ULB, Brussels, Belgium

   Publication Chair
     Mauro Birattari, IRIDIA, ULB, Brussels, Belgium


Sponsors
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   AntOptima                                        
     http://www.antoptima.com

   Comp2Sys, Marie Curie Early Stage Training Site
     http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/comp2sys

   French Community of Belgium (through the research project ANTS)
     http://www.cfwb.be

   IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (as a technical co-sponsor)
     http://www.ieee-cis.org

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