Call for Chapters: Nature Inspired Computing for Management and Economy

[Jean-Philippe.RENNARD@grenoble-em.com]

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Call for Chapters

Nature Inspired Computing: A New Set of Tools for Management
http://www.grenoble-em.com/rennardjp/nicbook/index.html

Introduction

Nobel Prize recipient Illya Prigogine wrote some years ago a book entitled
"The End of Certainty". Specialized in non-linear systems, the great
chemist
emphasized in this text the importance of the scientific revolution
initiated a century ago by the French mathematician Henri Poincaré:
scientific certainty inherited from Laplace is a mirage; non-linearity,
complexity and chaos are the new frontiers of science.
The advance of computer science and the remarkable growth of computing
power
over the last thirty years have made the computer a fantastic tool to cope
with complexity. The emergence of nature inspired computing is one of the
most amazing achievements of these researches. The universality of the
computing techniques inherited from nature, i.e. their applications as well
in biology, physics, engineering as in economy or management, clearly
demonstrates their depth. These new tools are used in two different ways,
both highly promising for management science and economy: emergent
(bottom-up) simulations and optimization. Emergent simulations lead to a
better understanding of complex interactions and to original theoretical
approaches. Nature inspired algorithms for optimization lead to efficient,
supple and adaptable tools.

Objectives of the book

Specifically dedicated to management and economy, this book aims to provide
a state-of-the-art synthesis and future trends. At the crossroads of
information science, management and economy, the works that will be
presented will contribute to a better knowledge and a better control of
complex economic dynamics. By showing the diversity of the potential of
nature inspired tools as well as their conceptual unity, this book will be
an original contribution to the field. By presenting innovative computing
tools and theoretical interpretations, it will provide a significant
contribution both to practitioners and academics. It should bring the first
a general knowledge of the numerous applications of that new field, and
contribute to give the other a global vision of these researches.

Call for Chapters

We are looking for high quality research papers for this book dealing with
nature inspired computing for management and economy. Since no synthetic
book exists on that topic, our objective is to propose a reference for
researchers, students and practitioners. This book will bring together
researchers in different fields associated to nature inspired computing,
management and economy. It will deal with both theoretical and operational
works, and will highlight significant realizations as well as theoretical
advances.

Recommended topics include (but are not limited to):

· Management of technology
· Enterprise integration
· Negotiation processes
· Stock market simulation
· Project management
· Pricing strategy
· Market theory
· Information systems
· Operations management
· Supply chain management
· Sites location optimization
· Design and manufacturing
· Marketing strategy
· Data Mining
· Knowledge Management
· Computational Economics
· Evolutionary Economics
· Artificial societies
· Artificial creativity
· Emergence and bottom-up simulations theory

Main tools include:

· Evolutionary Algorithms
· Multi Agents Systems
· Swarm Intelligence
· Genetic Programing
· Cellular Automata
· Ant Colony Optimization
· Distributed Artificial Intelligence
· Artificial Immune Systems
· Neural Networks
· Collective robots

We encourage potential contributors to consider also topics not included in
this list according to their specialties.

Submission Procedures

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit a 2-3 page manuscript
before October 31, 2004. The proposals should include tentative title and
clearly explain the concerns of the proposed chapter. Authors will be
notified of acceptance for proposed chapters by November 15, 2004. They
will
be sent chapter organizational guidelines and will have to submit full
chapters by February 15, 2005. All submitted chapters will be reviewed by
2-3 reviewers on a double-blind basis. Final accepted revised chapters are
due by June 1, 2005. The book is scheduled to be published by Idea Group,
Inc., publisher of the Idea Group Publishing, Information Science
Publishing, IRM Press, CyberTech Publishing and Idea Group Reference
imprints.

Inquiries and submissions should be sent (preferably electronically) to:

Pr. Jean-Philippe Rennard
Grenoble Ecole de Management
12, rue Pierre Semard
BP 127
38003, Grenoble Cedex 01
France
jean-philippe.rennard@grenoble-em.com