[Vki-list] Special Issue on Medical Applications of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation: Deadline extended to November 15

[Stefano Cagnoni]

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          Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines
                       Special Issue on
                     Medical Applications

            .....DEADLINE EXTENDED TO NOVEMBER 15.....

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Although the application of  evolutionary computation (EC) to medicine
is not  new, the reporting of  new work tends to  be distributed among
various technical  and clinical  publications in a  somewhat disparate
manner. A special issue  of Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines
satisfies  the  need for  a  much  needed  focus for  medical  related
applications of EC, not only providing a clear definition of the state
of the art, but also support to practitioners for whom EC might not be
their main area of expertise or experience.

Traditionally,   medical   applications   have  used   straightforward
implementations   of   evolutionary   algorithms,  such   as   genetic
algorithms, to optimize  traditional data analysis in a  wide range of
medical  applications including  signal and  image  processing, expert
systems,  data mining,  etc. More  recently, however,  exploitation of
advanced   evolutionary   computation   paradigms  such   as   genetic
programming and  artificial immune systems have  been applied directly
to challenging applications such as diagnosis and monitoring.

The aim of this Special Issue is to provide the reader with a snapshot
of the  current practice  and an indication  of future trends  in this
exciting and demanding application area.

Subjects will include (but are not limited to) applications of Genetic
and Evolutionary Computation to:

Medical imaging
Medical signal processing
Clinical diagnosis and therapy
Data mining of medical data and records
Clinical expert systems
Modeling and simulation of medical processes

The publication schedule is as follows:
   *  Submission deadline: November 15, 2006
   *  Notification of acceptance: February 28, 2007
   *  Final manuscript due: April 30, 2007

Submission procedure:

All electronic submissions must be sent to Steve Smith at:

sls5 at ohm.york.ac.uk

Manuscripts  should conform  to  the standard  format  of the  Genetic
Programming  and  Evolvable  Machine   journal  as  indicated  in  the
Information   for   Authors   available   at   the   Journal   website
(www.springer.com/10710).

All submissions will be peer  reviewed subject to the standards of the
journal. Manuscripts  based on previously  published conference papers
must be  extended substantially. Electronic  submissions in postscript
or PDF are  strongly preferred. Please send all  submissions to one of
the guest editors.

All enquiries on this special issue  should be sent to Steve Smith at:
sls5 at ohm.york.ac.uk

Prospective authors are  also invited to send an  email to Steve Smith
indicating  their interest  in  submitting a  paper  and the  specific
topics addressed.


Guest editors:

Stephen L Smith
The University of York, UK
Department of Electronics
Email: sls5 at ohm.york.ac.uk
WWW: http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~sls5/
Tel: +44 1904 432351
Fax: +44 1904 433224

Stefano Cagnoni
Universita' degli Studi di Parma, Italy
Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione
E-Mail: cagnoni at CE.UniPR.IT
WWW http://www.ce.unipr.it/people/cagnoni/
Tel: +39 (0521) 90 5731
Fax: +39 (0521) 90 5723

Journal Website:
www.springer.com/10710