Update: Extension of the submission deadline to May 15, 2009.

Dr. Nikolaus Correll from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the MIT informed me today about the forthcoming deadline of a special issue on swarm intelligence and swarm robotics. This special issue will be published early 2010 in the journal Neural Computing & Applications. 

This special issue aims to bring together contributions from studies of computational and physical swarm systems which leverage similar swarm-intelligent mechanisms. They thereby intend to help outline a common methodological framework for the design and analysis of swarm-intelligent systems. They are soliciting contributions on (but not limited to) the following topics:

• Applications in swarm robotics (ad-hoc and sensor networks, coverage, actuator arrays, collective construction, etc.)
• Large-scale reconfigurable robot systems, multi-robot systems, self-assembling systems, smart materials
• Modeling natural or artificial swarms and mixed biological / artificial systems
• Swarm-intelligent optimization techniques including Particle Swarm Optimization
• Amorphous Computing, Spatial Computing, Organic Computing, Neural Computing
• Design methodologies for swarm-intelligent systems (global-to-local programming, evolution of swarming algorithms and hardware, etc.)
• Theoretical and empirical analysis and benchmarking (consensus, distributed optimization, flocking, shape changing, task allocation, etc.)

The important dates for this special issue are:

• May 1, 2009, Submission deadline May 15, 2009, Extended submission deadline
• August 1, 2009, Notification of acceptance
• October 1, 2009, Revised / Final manuscript

The call for papers and the information for submission can be found at http://people.csail.mit.edu/nikolaus/cfp/CFP-SI-Swarm.pdf.