Genetic Algorithms Digest Thursday, July 18, 1996 Volume 10 : Issue 30 - Do NOT send email or reply to gadistr@aic.nrl.navy.mil (GA List Moderator) - Send submissions (articles) to GA-List@AIC.NRL.NAVY.MIL - Send administrative (subscribe, unsubscribe, change of address, etc.,) requests to GA-List-Request@AIC.NRL.NAVY.MIL ****************************************************************************** - You can access back issues, GA code, conference announcements, etc., either through the WWW at URL http://www.aic.nrl.navy.mil/galist/ or through anonymous ftp at ftp.aic.nrl.navy.mil [192.26.18.68] in /pub/galist. ****************************************************************************** Today's Topics: - CFP - Special Issue of Image and Vision Computing - Second ICEO - REMINDER: WSC1 Special Session ... - online w/s - evolutionary electronics ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CALENDAR OF GA-RELATED ACTIVITIES: (with GA-List issue reference) GP96 Genetic Programming Conf, Stanford, CA (v9n9) Jul 28-31, 96 FOGA4 Foundations of Genetic Algorithms, San Diego, CA (v9n47) Aug 3-5, 96 AAAI96 Intl Wrkshp Intelligent Adaptive Agents, Portland (v10n4) Aug 4-8, 96 2NWGA 2nd Nordic Wrkshp on Genetic Algorithms, Finland (v9n56) Aug 19-25, 96 WSC1 Online Wrkshp on Soft Comp, special sessions (v10n24/29/30)Aug 19-30, 96 EUFIT96 Intelligent Techniques and Soft Computing, Germany (v9n60)Sep 2-5, 96 SAB96 From Animals to Animats, Cape Cod, Massachusetts (v9n31) Sep 9-13, 96 WCNN96 Session on Evolutionary Algorithms, San Diego (v9n62) Sep 15-20, 96 PPSN96 Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, Berlin (v9n17) Sep 22-27, 96 ICGI96 Colloquium on Grammatical Inference, Montpellier (v9n45) Sep 25-27, 96 ICES96 Conf on Evol Sys from Biology to Hardware, Tsukuba (v10n7) Oct 7-8, 96 SEAL96 Asia-Pacific Conf on Sim Evol And Learning, Korea (v10n13)Nov 9-12, 96 SAC97 Symp on Applied Comp (GAs track), San Jose,CA (v10n28) Feb 28-Mar 2, 97 ICCIN97 Comp Intelligence and Neuroscience, North Carolina (v10n16)Mar 2-5,97 FEA97 1st Intl Wrkshp on Frontiers in EAs, North Carolina (v10n21) Mar 2-5,97 ICANNGA97 Intl Conf on Artificial NNs and GAs, England (v10n16) Apr 1-4, 97 EP97 Conf on Evolutionary Programming, Indianapolis (v10n19) Apr 13-16, 97 ICEC97 Intl Conf Evolutionary Computation, Indianapolis (v10n27 Apr 13-16, 97 GP97 Genetic Programming Conference, Stanford, CA Jul 13-16, 97 ECAL97 4th European Conf on Artificial Life, England (v10n8) Jul 28-31, 97 (Send announcements of other activities to GA-List@aic.nrl.navy.mil) ------------------------------ From: suchi@pollux.cs.uga.edu (Suchi Bhandarkar) Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 09:38:02 -0400 Subject: CFP - Special Issue of Image and Vision Computing Special Issue of Image and Vision Computing Journal on Evolutionary Computation in Computer Vision Call for Papers Theme of the Special Issue : Evolutionary computation is a term used to encompass a variety of population-based problem solving techniques that mimic the natural process of Darwinian evolution. Current research in evolutionary computation has resulted in powerful, yet versatile problem solving mechanisms for searching, adaptation, learning and optimization in a variety of application domains. The main avenues for research in evolutionary computation are genetic algorithms, genetic programming, evolutionary strategies and evolutionary programming. Genetic algorithms stress chromosomal operators, genetic programming deals with operators on more general hierarchical structures, evolution strategies emphasize behavioral changes at the level of the individual whereas evolutionary programming stresses behavioral changes at the level of the species. The common factor underlying all the above approaches to evolutionary computation is the emphasis on an ensemble of solution structures, and the evaluation and evolution of these structures via specialized operators that mimic their biological counterparts, in response to an ever changing environment. Problems in computer vision and image understanding have always called for powerful problem solving techniques. This special issue will focus on problem solving techniques for computer vision and image understanding that are based on the paradigm of evolutionary computation. The topics of relevance to the special issue include but are not necessarily limited to: Low-level vision: Evolutionary optimization, adaptation and learning algorithms for edge detection, image segmentation, figure-ground separation, texture analysis, feature selection, shape-from-XYZ and surface reconstruction. High-level vision: Evolutionary computation for object recognition, scene analysis, indexing and search of model/image databases, and high-level learning of symbolic descriptions. Active vision: Evolutionary computation for autonomous vision-guided navigation, path planning, sensing strategies, sensor integration, visual servoing, vergence and gaze control, hand-eye coordination, active tracking and vision-guided task planning. Neural vision: Evolutionary computation for learning, adaptation and optimization of neural network structure and topology for computer vision problems. Guest Editor: Dr. Suchendra M. Bhandarkar Department of Computer Science 415 Boyd Graduate Studies Research Center The University of Georgia Athens, GA 30602-7404, U.S.A. Telephone: (706) 542-1082 FAX: (706) 542-2966 E-mail: suchi@cs.uga.edu Submission Procedure Five copies of manuscripts (not exceeding 35 double-spaced pages in 12 pt size font including figures and tables) describing previously unpublished and original research should be submitted to reach the guest editor on or before January 31, 1997. All submissions will be peer reviewed for originality, significance, technical content and relevance to the special issue. ------------------------------ From: Gregory Seront Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 13:03:54 +0200 (MET DST) Subject: Second ICEO The results of the first ICEO (International Competition on Evolutionary Optimisation), which took place during the Nagoya ICEC conference, are now available in the proceedings of the conference. The participants to the competition did not want the results to appear on the Web since they believed necessary for all people interested in the results to also have access to each participant paper describing the method used for getting such results. These results are quite impressive, sometimes surprising, both for the TSP/ATSP and the real function optimisation benchmark and worth some reading. All together, the competition day at Nagoya (a very hot day) and the results appear as an a posteriori justification for such an event. Indeed, all participants and organizers of ICEC have decided to repeat ICEO for the next year ICEC conference. Rules and benchmarks problems will be considerably modified and extended so as to take into consideration all criticisms that were addressed to this year competition. We hope a larger participation and will try to publish the new rules on Web as soon as possible. The ICEO organizing committee: H. Bersini, M. Dorigo, G. Seront, S. Langerman and L. Gambardella. ------------------------------ From: R Roy Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 13:15:01 BST Subject: REMINDER: WSC1 Special Session ... REMINDER REMINDER REMINDER REMINDER LAST DATE OF PAPER SUBMISSION: 5th Aug. '96 WWW Home Page: http://www.tech.plym.ac.uk/wsc/wsc1.htm For further queries please contact: wscplym@soc.plym.ac.uk ***************************************************************** 1st On-line Workshop on SOFT COMPUTING (WSC1) August 19 (Mon.) - 30 (Fri.), 1996 Special Session on ENGINEERING PROBLEM SOLVING USING SOFT COMPUTING Call for Papers and Invitation to take part in the Discussion On behalf of Engineering Design Centre and Neurodynamics Research Group, School of Computing, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK, we call for your papers for the special session on 'Engineering Problem Solving using Soft Computing'. The session is planned to integrate experience from different engineering applications of Soft Computing. The objective of the special session is to put forward a common forum where people from different engineering disciplines can talk to each other and share their experiences. The session is intended to discuss the following aspects of Soft Computing Applications in Engineering: 1. General issues in different fields of engineering and how Soft Computing can address those issues more effectively than conventional techniques. 2. Successful industrial applications. 3. Any 'Good Practice Guide' on the Soft Computing Applications. 4. Legal issues involved in protecting an application (that is copyright, patent issues, international law etc.). 5. Social issues involved in effective implementation of the technology. The session also welcomes survey and tutorial style papers. The application areas of interest include but are not limited to : a. Biotechnology b. Chemical Engineering c. Computer Aided Design, Control and Manufacturing d. Engineering Economics and Management e. Systems Engineering f. Vision and Pattern Recognition g. Electronics and Telecommunications h. Medicine and Medical Engineering i. Military Applications j. Food Technology k. Industrial Applications l. Internet Tool Development The contributions can be in the form of : a) 6 page (max) Original paper, to be published in the workshop proceedings. In the case of survey or tutorial style papers authors are encouraged to submit the paper in several parts (such as part I and part II with the same title). b) 6 page (max) paper on your already published work c) YOUR PARTICIPATION in the discussion during the workshop PLEASE NOTE: CONTRIBUTIONS FOR THE SESSION SHOULD BE DIRECTLY SENT TO WSC1 ORGANISERS IN JAPAN. PLEASE MENTION THE NAME OF THE SESSION ON TOP OF YOUR COVER LETTER. ALSO PLEASE NOTIFY US ABOUT YOUR SUBMISSION. Please refer to the ORIGINAL CALL FOR PAPERS below for the submission and further details. For any queries about the special session please send email to: wscplym@soc.plym.ac.uk The Joint Session Organisers from School of Computing, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, PL4 8AA, UK: RAJKUMAR ROY Engineering Design Centre RAJU BAPI Neurodynamics Research Group IAN PARMEE Engineering Design Centre ============================================================== ORIGINAL CALL FOR PAPERS =============================================================== [ WMS: See v10n24 for the original CFP ] Rajkumar Roy Plymouth Engineering Design Centre Charles Cross Centre University of Plymouth Plymouth PL4 8AA UK Email : r.roy@ieee.org, rroy@plymouth.ac.uk Tel. : 01752 233508 ------------------------------ From: "A.J.Hirst (Tony Hirst)" Date: 11 Jul 1996 14:10:35 +0000 Subject: online w/s - evolutionary electronics 1st On-line Workshop on SOFT COMPUTING (WSC1) August 19 (Mon.) - 30 (Fri.), 1996 Special Session on EVOLUTIONARY ELECTRONICS Call for Papers and Invitation to take part in the Discussion As part of the 1st on-line workshop on soft computing, we call for papers for the special session on 'Evolutionary Electronics'. The session is intended as a forum for discussing the use of evolutionary computing techniques in electronics design and manufacturing, and the application of reconfigurable logic as the medium for the rapid prototyping of (evolved) digital logic designs. The session welcomes survey and tutorial style papers. The areas of interest include but are not limited to : a. Evolving anlogue circuits b. Intrinsic/extrinsic evolvable hardware c. VLSI placement, routing and testing using evolutionary algorithms d. Hardware implementations of evolutionary algorithms e. Evolutionary co-design f. Embryonics g. Implicit fault tolerance afforded by evolutionary design h. Field programmable gate arrays (i. Hardware implemented neural networks) The contributions can be in the form of : a) 6 page (max) Original paper, to be published in the workshop proceedings. In the case of survey or tutorial style papers authors are encouraged to submit the paper in several parts (such as part I and part II with the same title). b) 6 page (max) paper on your already published work c) YOUR PARTICIPATION in the discussion during the workshop PLEASE NOTE: The DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION of abstracts and main text is Aug. 5, 1996 WSC1 will accept both ORIGINAL and ALREADY PUBLISHED papers (in electronic form). It is intended that original papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Please refer to the ORIGINAL CALL FOR PAPERS below for the submission and further details. To submit a paper for the special session, use the same submission procedure as for the WSC1 workshop, but, please, CLEARLY INDICATE THAT YOUR PAPER IS FOR THE SPECIAL SESSION ON EVOLUTIONARY ELECTRONICS. For any queries about the special session (only) please send email to: a.j.hirst@open.ac.uk http://kmi.open.ac.uk/~monty/evolelec.html To contact the WSC1 organisers: http://www.bioele.nuee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/wsc1/ ============================================================== ORIGINAL CALL FOR PAPERS =============================================================== [ WMS: See v10n24 for the original CFP ] ------------------------------ End of Genetic Algorithms Digest ******************************