Nature Imitation Methods - Theory and Practice (NIM 2006)

International Workshop Session at the ISDA 2006 - 6th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent System Design and Applications, Jinan, Shandong, China, October 16-18, 2006.

NIM'06 will focus on the following topics:

• Evolutionary computation
  
• Neural networks
  
• Artificial immune systems
  
• Ant colony optimizations
  
• Cellular Computing
  
• Artificial life
  
• DNA Computing
  
• Combination of all above (hybrid approaches)
  
• Real applications
  

Important Dates:

• Special Session Proposal: May 1, 2006
  
• Paper Submission: May 15, 2006
  
• Notification of Acceptance: June 15, 2006
  
• Final Paper Submission: June 30, 2006
  

See the workshop webpage for further details (declaration of interest: I am on the Program Committee).