Fourth International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ICSI¡¯2013)
                                   June 12-15, 2013, Harbin, China 
                               http://www.ic-si.org/

Sponsors and Co-sponsors: Harbin Engineering University, Peking University, Xi¡¯an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Natural Science Foundation of China.
Technical Co-sponsors: IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, World Federation on Soft Computing, International Neural Network Society, Springer, etc.
General Co-chairs
Russell C. Eberhart, Indiana, USA
Guihua Xia, Harbin Eng U., China
Ying Tan, PKU, China
Program Committee Chair
Yuhui Shi, XJTLU, China
Organizing Committee Chair
Hongwei Mo, Harbin Eng U., China
Advisory Committee Chairs
Gary G. Yen, Okstate Uni, USA
Xingui He, PKU, China
Member of Advisory Committee
Benjamin W. Wah, CUHK, HK
Deyi Li, ICESE, China
Hojjat Adeli, OSU, USA
Kunihiko Fukushima, TUT, Japan
Lei Guo, CAS, China
Jong-Hwan Kim, KAIST, S.Korea
Nikola Kasabov, AUT,New Zealand
Walter J. Freeman, UCB, USA
Wlodzislaw Duch, NCU, Poland
Qidi Wu, Tongji Univ, China
Yanda Li, Tsinghua Univ, China
Zhongben Xu, Xi¡¯an JiaoT U, China
Technical Committee Chairs
Xiaodong Li, RMIT Univ, Australia
Ram Akella, UCalifornia, USA
M.Middendorf, ULeipzig, Germany
Lin Zhao, Harbin Eng Univ, China
Special Session Chairs
Fernando Buarque, UP, Brazil
Benlian Xu, Changsu Inst Tech, CN
Publication Chair
Radu-Emil Precup, UPT, Romania
Publicity Chairs
Andries Engelbrecht, UP, S.Africa
Jose Alfredo F. Costa, FU, Brazil
Kejun Wang,Harbin Eng Uni, China
Local Arrangement Chair
Lifang Xu, Harbin Eng Univ, China
Mo Tang, Harbin Eng Univ, China

CALL FOR PAPERS
The Fourth International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ICSI¡¯2013) will be held in Harbin, China from June 12 to 15, 2013. Located in the center of Northeast Asia, Harbin is called the bright pearl on the Bridge of Eurasia Land, and it is also an important hub of Eurasia Land Bridge and air corridor. The special historical course and geographical position has contributed to Harbin, the beautiful city with an exotic tone, which not only brings together the historical culture of northern ethnic minorities, but also combines western and eastern culture. It is a famous historical and tourist city in China, with many beautiful names such as ¡°the City of Culture¡±, ¡°the City of Music¡±, ¡°Ice City¡±, ¡°A Pearl under the Neck of the Swan¡±, ¡°Eastern Moscow¡± and ¡°Eastern Little Paris¡±.
 ICSI¡¯2013 serves as a forum for scientists, engineers, educators, and practitioners to exchange the latest advantages in theories, technologies, and applications of swarm intelligence and related areas. Prospective authors are invited to contribute high-quality papers (6-10 pages) to ICSI¡¯2013 through Online Submission System. Submitting to ICSI¡¯2013 is a blind submission and the reviewing is double blind again at this year. Papers presented at ICSI¡¯2013 will be published in Springer¡¯s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (indexed by EI, ISTP, DBLP, and ISI) and some high-quality papers will be selected for special issues in SCI-indexed International Journals.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Theories
Swarm-based techniques              Swarm computing models                  Particle swarm optimization  
Ant colony optimization                     Fish school search                              Stochastic diffusion search (SDS)
Swarm robotics                                 Artificial life                                              Bioinformatics
Cognitive science                             Social evolution                                      Optimization theory and methods
Immune system theory                    Evolutionary computation                   Grammatical Evolution
Natural computing                            Simulation and emulation of nature  Multi-agent based complex systems
Collective intelligence                      Social intelligence                                 Social computing

Algorithms
PSO algorithms                                        ACO algorithms                                     FSS algorithms
Bees algorithm                                        Artificial Bee Colony Algorithms          Fireworks algorithms
Brain Strom Optimization algorithm    Cultural algorithms                                Genetic algorithms
Co-evolution algorithms                        Memetic algorithms                               Bio-inspired algorithms
Evolutionary programming                   Evolutionary strategy                            Hybridization method
Evolutionary learning systems            Parallelizing algorithms                        Molecular Computing
DNA computing                                     Quantum computing                              Granularity computing

Models
Computational swarm models                 Artificial immune system                Multi-objective optimization
Evolutionary intelligent agents                  Constrained environment               Information System
Analytic models of emergent behaviors  Classifier system                             Evolving fuzzy system
Evolving neural networks                            Models for social insets                Bio-inspired computing models
Socio-inspired computing models          Hybridizations of algorithms           Parallelization of swarm-based algorithms
Parallelization of evolutionary computing   others

Applications
Pattern recognition                            Intelligent control                Intelligent Energy Systems and Networks
Financial prediction                           Information security           Web intelligence
Data mining                                        Knowledge discovery        Neural system
2D or 3D virtual swarms                  Virtual reality                        Audio or Image processing
Telecommunications systems      Evolutionary robotics          Automatic control
Routing                                               Socio-technical systems    Scheduling
Cybernetics and self-organization Intelligent traffics                Simulations
Electronics systems                        Defense security                 Video surveillance

Important Dates:
Special session proposals deadline: December 20, 2012
Paper submission deadline: January 01, 2013
Notification of acceptance: March 01, 2013
Camera-ready copy and author registration: March 31, 2013

Information and Enquiry: Email: icsi2013@ic-si.org Tel.:+86-18911952459