APPLIED SOFT COMPUTING
The Official Journal of the World Federation on Soft Computing (WFSC)
Impact Factor in 2008: 1.909
CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Issue "Soft Computing Approaches in the design of energy-efficient
wireless systems"
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In the last decade, the demand for radio spectrum resources in
telecommunications systems has grown dramatically. Both the increasing
number of users and the diverse variety of demanded services, have
motivated the research community (both academic and industrial) to focus
their research efforts on different techniques allowing for a more
efficient use of the available resources in each particular scenario:
mobile phone communications, densely-deployed sensor networks, etc. In the
past, many of the studies in this trend have concentrated on
simplicity-based solutions. Following this research area, the recently
coined "green technology" concept aims at optimizing the energy
consumption of communication devices by attempting to provide enhanced
battery autonomy at a minimum cost, not only to the operators themselves,
but also to the end users. Unfortunately, most of the proposed advances to
date are far from practicality.
To overcome this lack of implementable communication schemes, huge
research efforts are currently devoted to balance the trade-off between
performance and energy efficiency, from dynamic allocation of available
resources as a function of the network conditions/status to the design of
efficient network topologies, encoding, modulation, detection techniques
or, in general, any other complexity-aware data processing approaches
attaining near-optimal performance. Particularly, soft computing
approaches, such as bio-inspired algorithms, fuzzy systems or neural
computing, have emerged in the communications realm as powerful tools to
efficiently solve theoretically-intractable optimization issues in
communications. Such algorithmic methods become even more interesting by
virtue of their adaptability to highly-dynamic constraints as those shown
by mobile wireless networks.
This special issue tries to be a forum for scientists and engineers from
academia and industry to present their state-of-the-art research results
on this topic. High-quality contributions are solicited. Contributed
papers must be the original work of the authors and should not have been
published or under consideration by other journals. The Special Issue is
focused on Soft computing techniques (Evolutionary computation techniques,
Heuristics and Meta-heuristics algorithms, Fuzzy Systems, Neural networks,
Support Vector Machines, Hybrid algorithms etc.) in the design of
energy-efficient wireless networks.
Possible application topics considered are (but not limited to):
o Multiple user detection.
o Synchronization methods.
o Recent advances in joint sampling and compression algorithms (e.g.
Compressed Sensing).
o Channel estimation.
o Energy-efficient network topologies.
o (Dynamic) resource allocation.
o Data fusion techniques.
o Cross-layer synergies among physical and upper (e.g. network) layers.
o Implementation issues.
o Survivability and reliability.
o Protection and restoration.
o Quality of service.
o Network management.
o Congestion control.
o Simulation and queuing models.
o Other applications focussed on energy efficiency in telecommunication
networks.
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Guest Editors:
Dr. Sergio Gil-Lopez
Associate researcher, TECNALIA-TELECOM
Address: P. Tecnológico, Ed. 202, 48170 Zamudio (Bizkaia, Spain).
Phone: +34 94 600 22 66
e-mail: sgil@robotiker.es
Prof. Dr. Sancho Salcedo-Sanz
Associate professor, Universidad de Alcalá
Address: Escuela Politécnica Superior, 28871 Alcala de Henares (Madrid,
Spain).
Phone: +34 91 885 67 31
e-mail: sancho.salcedo@uah.es
Dr. Javier (Javi) Del Ser
Associate researcher, TECNALIA-TELECOM
Address: P. Tecnológico, Ed. 202, 48170 Zamudio (Bizkaia, Spain).
Phone: +34 94 600 22 66
e-mail: jdelser@robotiker.es
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Paper submission and review process:
o All the papers must be electronically submitted to the journal via the
Online Submission System (EES) http://ees.elsevier.com/asoc, selecting the
appropriate tag in the window "choose type article".
o All the submitted papers will be strictly peer reviewed by at least two
anonymous reviewers.
o Based on the reports by the reviewers, the final decision on papers
submitted to this Special Issue will be taken by Editor in Chief of ASOC,
Professor Rajkumar Roy.
o We encourage the authors to support their works with extra material,
such as data files, source codes etc. Please note that the ScienceDirect
has the capability to support inline video, which can be streamed within
the context of the HTML version of the article.
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Important Dates:
Deadline for papers submission: 1st October 2010.
(though early submission is strongly suggested. Please note that the
papers will be managed as soon as they are received in the EES system).
Papers' review: 1st December 2010.
Final version: January 2011.
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About the journal:
Applied Soft Computing (ASOC) is the journal of the World Federation on
Soft Computing (WFSC), published by Elsevier. Its first issue was
published in 2001, and it is nowadays one of the tops journals in the
field, with a significant Impact Factor in 2008: 1.909. The journal is
devoted to promote Soft-computing techniques, among others:
• Fuzzy Computing
• Neuro Computing
• Evolutionary Computing
• Probabilistic Computing
• Immunological Computing
• Hybrid Methods
• Rough Sets
• Chaos Theory
• Particle Swarm
• Ant Colony
• Wavelet
• Morphic Computing
in real applications of almost all fields in Science and Engineering.
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