EURASIP JOURNAL ON APPLIED SIGNAL PROCESSING

Special Issue on:

  Genetic and Evolutionary Computation for
  Signal Processing and Image Analysis

Genetic and evolutionary computation has provided effective tools
(genetic algorithms, genetic programming, evolutionary strategies,
etc.) for the development of software or hardware solutions of
complex problems of high industrial and social relevance. Many
applications, ranging from design of low-level algorithms to design
of specific hardware for signal processing and image analysis have
been shown to benefit from evolutionary techniques.

The aim of this special issue is to bring together contributions
about the latest developments in evolutionary computation for signal
processing and image analysis, along with review papers and tutorials
on some of its aspects. The special issue will offer a broad overview
of the potential and the accomplishments of evolutionary computation
techniques in those fields.

The whole spectrum of signal processing/image analysis applications
will be addressed, from low-level 1-D signal processing to high-level
image or multi-dimensional signal analysis. Therefore, topics of
interest for the issue include (but are not limited to):

 - Reviews and tutorials on any aspects of signal processing and
  image analysis by means of evolutionary computation techniques
 - Applications of evolutionary computation to real-life problems
   involving signal analysis and processing
 - Evolvable image analysis and signal processing hardware
 - Evolutionary pattern recognition
 - Hybrid architectures for machine vision and signal processing
   including evolutionary components
 - Comparisons between different evolutionary techniques and between
   evolutionary and non-evolutionary techniques in image analysis
   and signal processing
 - Time series analysis by means of evolutionary computation techniques.

Authors should follow the EURASIP JASP manuscript format described at
the Journal site http://asp.hindawi.com/. Prospective authors should
submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the
EURASIP JASP web submission system at http://asp.hindawi.com/wss/,
according to the following timetable.

  Manuscript due:             June 30, 2002
  Acceptance notification:    December 31, 2002
  Final Manuscript due:       March 15, 2003
  Publication date:           2nd Quarter, 2003

GUEST EDITORS

Dr. Stefano Cagnoni, Department of  Computer Engineering, University
of Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 181a, 43100 Parma, Italy;
cagnoni@ce.unipr.it

Prof. Riccardo Poli, Department of Computer Science, University of
Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester CO4 3SQ, UK; rpoli@essex.ac.uk
 
EDITORIAL BOARD REPRESENTATIVE:

Dr. Sankar Basu, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA