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