Genetic Algorithms Digest Monday, September 29, 1997 Volume 11 : Issue 34 - 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 [132.250.84.25] in /pub/galist. ****************************************************************************** Today's Topics: - Moderator's Note - EA97 Call for Participation - JoS Call for Papers - EvoRobot'98 Call for Papers - FLAIRS 98 FINAL CFP - Genetic Programming Book Announcement ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CALENDAR OF GA-RELATED ACTIVITIES: (with GA-List issue reference) EA97 Evolution Artificielle, Nimes, France (v11n10/34) Oct 21-24, 97 Evol Computation for Industrial Applications,New Zealand (v11n3)Nov 24-28, 97 EuroGen97 Short course GAs & ESs / Comp Sci & Eng (v11n5) Nov 28 - Dec 5, 97 AI97 Australian Joint Conference on AI, Perth, Australia (v11n30) Dec 1, 97 SAC98 GAs and Optimization Track, Atlanta, Georgia (v11n17) Feb 27- Mar 1, 98 EP98 7th Conf on Evolutionary Programming, San Diego (v11n18) Mar 25-27, 98 EUROGP98 1st European Workshop on GP, Paris (v11n33) Apr 14-15, 98 PAKDD98 Pacific-Asia Conf on Knowl Disc and Data Mining(v11n33) Apr 15-17, 98 EVOROBOT98 Euro Workshop on Evolutionary Robotics,Paris (v11n34)Apr 16-17, 98 ACDM98 Adaptive Comp in Design & Manufacture, Plymouth (v11n3) Apr 21-23, 98 ICEC98 Intl Conf on Evol Computation, Anchorage, Alaska (v11n22) May 4-9, 98 ISORA98 Learning Cyclic Control/Behavior in Robots,Alaska(v11n8)May 10-14, 98 FLAIRS98 Sanibel Island, Florida (v11n34) May 17-20, 98 ICGI98 Intl Colloq on Grammatical Inference, Ames, IA (v11n31) Jul 12-14, 98 TARK Conf on Theor Asp of Rationality & Knowl, Evanston (v11n33)Jul 22-24, 98 GP98 Genetic Programming Conference, Madison, WI (v11n23/25) Jul 22-25, 98 ECAI98 13th European Conference on AI, Brighton, UK (v11n31) Aug 23-28, 98 HIC98 Intl Conf on Hydroinformatics, Copenhagen, Denmark(v11n13)Aug 24-26, 98 FOGA98 Foundations of Genetic Algorithms, Amsterdam (v11n29) Sep 24-26, 98 ICES98 Intl Conf on Evolvable Systems, Lausanne, Switz (v11n11) Sep 24-26, 98 PPSN98 Parallel Problem Solving from Nature,Amsterdam(v11n16)Sep 27-Oct 1, 98 http://www.aic.nrl.navy.mil/galist/info/conferences/CONFERENCES.html has more information on the above conference activities. Send announcements of other activities to GA-List@aic.nrl.navy.mil. ------------------------------ From: Ted Belding (Moderator) Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 Subject: Moderator's Note As always, I'd appreciate any feedback on how GA-List is running. In particular I'd be interested to know how you feel about including conference calls for papers (CFPs) and similar items. Should they be included only if they *specifically* mention EC, or is that implicit in the fact that they sent an announcement to this list? Also, what is more important to you: receiving all relevant CFPs in their entirety (even if they're long), or not having to read CFPs that are excessively long and wordy? Also, I think I was a bit inconsistent last issue in deleting the pricing and ordering information from Fred Glover's book announcement in the last issue (v11n33), since I haven't been removing information about registration fees from CFPs. In the future I'll consider anything that's not a blatant advertisement to be okay -- that means I won't edit normal CFPs, book announcements, etc., that simply mention prices. These seem to me to be more of a service to the EC community than "advertisements per se". Let me know what you think. This is *your* GA-List, so I'd be interested in hearing your comments. Send all feedback to . Thanks! -Ted ------------------------------ From: Evelyne.Lutton@inria.fr Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 09:47:51 +0200 (MET DST) Subject: EA97 Call for Participation CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ARTIFICIAL EVOLUTION 97 - EA'97 October 22-24 1997 EMA-EERIE, Nimes, France EA'97 is the third conference on Evolutionary Computation organized in France. Following EA'94 in Toulouse, and EA'95 in Brest, the Conference will be held in Nimes, a 2000 years old Romain City of Art and History, 45km from the beautiful Mediterranean Sea. EA'97 will be hosted by LGI2P, common research laboratory in Computer Science and Production Engineering of the Ecole des Mines d'Ales (EMA) and Ecole pour les Etudes et la Recherche en Informatique et Electronique (EERIE). ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Jin-Kao Hao (EMA-EERIE Nimes) - Evelyne Lutton (INRIA Rocquencourt) Edmund Ronald (CMAP Palaiseau) - Marc Schoenauer (CMAP Palaiseau) Dominique Snyers (TELECOM Bretagne) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Jean-Marc Alliot (ENAC Toulouse) Thomas Baeck (Informatik Centrum Dortmund and Leiden University) Pierre Bessiere (LIFIA Grenoble) Paul Bourgine (CREA Palaiseau) Bertrand Braunschweig (IFP Rueil Malmaison) Philippe Collard (I3S Nice) Michel Cosnard (LIP Lyon) Marco Dorigo (ULB Bruxelles) Reinhardt Euler (UBO Brest) David Fogel (Natural Selection Inc. La Jolla) Jean Louchet (ENSTA Paris) Bernard Manderick (VUB Bruxelles) Zbigniew Michalewicz (UNCC Charlotte) Olivier Michel (I3S Nice EPFL Lausanne) Francesco Mondada (EPFL Lausanne) Nick Radcliffe (Quadstone Edinburgh) Michele Sebag (LMS Palaiseau and LRI Orsay) Gilles Venturini (Universite de Tours) Spyros Xanthakis (Logicom Toulouse) CONTACT: http://blanche.polytechnique.fr/www.ea/ea97.html Secretariat de Evolution Artificielle 97 LGI2P - EMA-EERIE - Parc Scientifique G. Besse 30000 NIMES - FRANCE Tel: +33 466 387 051 or +33 466 387 021 Fax: +33 466 387 074 Email: ea97@eerie.fr KHEPERA CONTEST: This contest intends to confront various controller systems driving the mobile robot Khepera and exhibiting adaptive behavior. A Khepera simulator sofware is provided to the competitors. The live confrontation will occur on both real robot and simulator during the conference. The first prize will be a Khepera robot (or an extension module for Khepera, if the winner already owns a Khepera). All the details are available on the WWW-server: http://wwwi3s.unice.fr/~om/khep-contest.html PRELIMINARY PROGRAM -------------------------------------------------------------- Mercredi 22 Octobre Wednesday, October 22 9h00 - 09h30 Inscriptions - Cafe d'accueil / Registrations - Welcome coffee 09h30 - 10h00 Session d'ouverture / Opening session 10h00 - 11h00 Conference invitee / Invited lecture Prof. F. Glover (University of Colorado) Prof. S. Zenios (Cyprus University) A joint talk on fundamentals and applications of Tabu Search and other modern optimization methods -- highlighting special links between Tabu Search and evolutionary methods, and recent applications in business. Session 1: Operateurs 1 / Operators 1 11h00 - 11h30 Representations, Fitness Functions and Genetic Operators for the Satisfiability Problem J. Gottlieb and N. Voss Technische Universit at Clausthal, GERMANY 11h30 - 12h00 Genetic algorithms at the edge of a dream C. Escazut and P. Collard Napier University, UK, I3S Nice, FRANCE 12h00 - 12h30 Mimetic Evolution M. Peyral, A. Ducoulombier, C. Ravis e, M. Schoenauer, and M. Sebag LMS - CMAP, Ecole Polytechnique, FRANCE 12h30 - 14h30 Dejeuner / Lunch Session 2: Agents / Agents 14h30 - 15h00 An Agent System for Learning Profiles in Broadcasting Applications on the Internet C. Cuenca and J.-C. Heudin International Institut of Multimedia, PULV, FRANCE 15h00 - 15h30 Evolution of the chromosomic architecture of genetic agents C. Lattaud LIA -- Universit e Ren e Descartes, FRANCE 15h30 - 16h00 Pause / Break Session 3: Applications 1 / Applications 1 16h00 - 16h30 Application of evolutionary algorithms to protein folding prediction A. Piccolboni and G. Mauri Universita di Milano, ITALY 16h30 - 17h00 Telephone Network Traffic Overloading Diagnosis and Evolutionary Computation Techniques I. Servet, L. Trave-Massuyes, and D. Stern LAAS/CNRS CNET, FRANCE 17h00 - 17h30 BioC++: a cellular-oriented programming language B. Rouland, S. Xanthakis, O. Macchioni, and R. Pajot Logicom, Toulouse, FRANCE 17h30 - 18h00 Genetic Algorithms for Genetic Mapping C. Gaspin and T. Schiex INRA, Castanet-Tolosan, FRANCE 18h30 - 20h00 Visite guidee offerte par la ville / Guided tour - by courtesy of the city 20h30 Banquet de la conference/ Conference Banquet -------------------------------------------------------------- Jeudi 23 octobre Thursday, October 23 9h00 - 9h30 Recuperation apres le banquet / After-banquet recovering Session 4: Theorie / Theory 9h30 - 10h00 Genetic Algorithms : Minimal Conditions for Convergence A. Agapie National Institute of Microtechnology, ROMANIA 10h00 - 10h30 An analysis of Punctuated Equilibria in Simple Genetic Algorithms S. Oh and H. Yoon KAIST, Daejon, KOREA 10h30 - 11h00 Pause / Break 11h00 - 11h30 GA Search Dynamics within an NP-Complete Class B. Naudts and A. Verschoren University of Antwerp, BELGIUM 11h30 - 12h00 Asymptotical Convergence Rates of Simple Evolutionary Algorithms under Factorizing Mutation Distributions G. Rudolph Universit at Dortmund, GERMANY 12h00 - 13h30 Dejeuner / Lunch Session 5: Atelier ``Materiel Evolutif'' / Evolvable Hardware Workshop 13h30 - 14h00 The Firefly Machine E. Sanchez EPFL, SWITZERLAND 14h00 - 14h30 Comparing real and simulated evolutionary robotics. Olivier Michel EPFL, SWITZERLAND 14h30 - 15h00 The Codi-1Bit CA neuron model F. Gers al. ATR Human Information Processing Research Laboratories, JAPAN 15h00 - 15h30 Million module neural systems evolution - The Next Step in ATR's Billion Neuron Artificial Brain ("CAM-Brain") Project H. De Garis, L. Kang, Q. He, Z. Pan, M. Ootani, and E. Ronald ATR Human Information Processing Research Laboratories, Toyohashi University of Technology, JAPAN, Wuhan University, CHINA, and CMAP, Ecole Polytechnique, FRANCE 15h30 - 16h00 Why do it the hard way? Table ronde avec les auteurs / Panel discussion with above authors E. Ronald , moderator. Session 6: Concours KHEPERA / KHEPERA Contest 16h00 - aube/dawn ... avec collation continue / ... including continuous coffee and cakes. 21h00 Reunion de l'association ``Evolution Artificielle'' / ``Evolution Artificielle'' society business meeting ------------------------------------------------------------------ Vendredi 24 octobre Friday, October 24 Session 7: Operateurs 2 / Operators 2 9h00 - 9h30 Adaptive penalties for evolutionary graph coloring A.E. Eiben and J.K. van der Hauw Leiden University, THE NETHERLANDS 9h30 - 10h00 An Efficient Hierarchical Clustering Technique for Speciation A. Petrowski INT, Evry, FRANCE 10h00 - 10h30 Pause / Break Session 8: Applications 2 / Applications 2 10h30 - 11h00 Evolving Turing Machines From Examples J. Tanomaru University of Tokushima, JAPAN 11h00 - 11h30 Inverse problems for finite automata: a solution based on Genetic Algorithms B. Leblanc, E. Lutton and J.-P. Allouche INRIA Rocquencourt et CNRS LRI Orsay, FRANCE 11h30 - 12h00 AGADE, a GBML System using two Fitness Functions : Theoretical, experimental, and comparative study S. Oussedik and V. Rialle Laboratoire TIMC-IMAG, FRANCE 12h00 - 13h30 Dejeuner / Lunch Session 9: Prospective / Outlooks 13h30 - 14h00 Wings were not designed to let animals fly E. Dedieu, O. Lebeltel, and P. Bessiere LEIBNIZ laboratory, IMAG, Grenoble, FRANCE 14h00 - 14h30 Genetic Programming Approach to CMAC Parameters Tuning G. P. Klebus and P. Wasiewicz Warsaw University of Technology, POLAND 14h30 - 15h00 Adaptation on the Evolutionary Time Scale : a Working Hypothesis and Basic Experiments R. Salomon and P. Eggenberger University of Zurich, SWITZERLAND 15h00 - 15h30 Pause / Break Session 10: Heuristiques / Heuristics 15h30 - 16h00 The Frequency Assignment Problem: A Look at the Performance of Evolutionary Search C. Crisan and H. Muhlenbein GMD, GERMANY 16h00 - 16h30 Fitness Landscape and the Behavior of Heuristics C. Fonlupt, D.Robilliard, and P. Preux LIL, Calais, FRANCE 16h30 - 17h00 A critical and empirical study of epistasis measures for predicting GA performances : a summary S. Rochet, G. Venturini, M. Slimane, and E.M. El Kharoubi Universite de Marseille I et Universite de Tours, FRANCE 17h00 - 17h30 A priori comparison of binary crossover operators : No universal statistical measure, but a set of hints L. Kallel and M. Schoenauer CMAP, Ecole Polytechnique, FRANCE 17h30 Cafe de fin de conference / End of conference coffee --------------------------------------------- CONFERENCE: ----------- The EA'97 Conference takes place at the Engineering Institut EERIE. EERIE is located at Parc Scientifique Georges Besse, 30000 Nimes, France. EERIE is outside town, 25 minutes walk (there are buses, though). CONFERENCE VENUE: ----------------- 1. By train: the railway station is 5 minutes walk from downtown and 15 minutes walk from the EERIE. There are regular high speed trains (TGV) linking Paris and Nimes (3h45 minutes). Coupons (for the French railway) are available upon request. 2. By Air: there are flights linking Paris and Nimes (1h10). There is a shuttle going to the Bus Station (next to the railway station) 10 to 15 minutes after the landing of a flight. The shuttle costs 28FF. A taxi costs about 100-130 FF to downtown. 3. By car: take the highway No. A9, exit at "Nimes Centre", follow the direction "Parc Scientifique et Technique Georges Besse". EERIE is 1 km away from the exit (on the right side). HOTELS: (If you need our help to book your hotel, please let us know.) ------- A) Near the Conference venue (3 minutes walk) 1. Hotel CRILL CAMPANILLE 45, Run San Lucar, ZAC Mas de Carbonel, 30000 Nimes tel: +33 4 66 04 04 60 fax: +33 4 66 04 04 57 Price: 280 FF 2. L'Orangerie 755 Rue Tour de l'Eveque, 30000 Nimes tel: +33 4 66 84 50 57 fax: +33 4 66 29 44 55 Price: 330-530 FF B) Down town (bus or 20-30 minutes walk to the Conference venue) 1. AUDRAS TERMINUS (next to the Railway Station) 23 Av. Feucheres, 30000 Nimes Tel: +33 4 66 29 20 14 fax: +33 4 66 29 08 24 Price: 169-280FF 2. Hotel de Milan (next to the Railway Station) 17, Av. Feucheres, 30000 Nimes Tel: +33 4 66 29 29 90 fax: +33 4 66 29 05 31 Price: 180-290FF 3. Le France (next to Roman Arena, 5 minutes walk from the Railway Station) 4, bd. des Arenes, 30000 Nimes Tel: +33 4 66 67 23 05 Fax: +33 4 66 67 76 93 Price: 130-170FF 4. LISITA (next to Roman Arena, 5 minutes walk from the Railway Station) 2 bis, Db. des Arenes, 30000 Nimes Tel: +33 4 66 67 66 20 Fax: +33 4 66 76 22 30 Price: 180-300FF 5. Hotel de la MAIRIE 11, rue des Greffes, 30000 Nimes Tel: +33 4 66 67 23 05 Fax: non Price: 100-230FF 6. Hotel de la Maison Carree (next to Maison Carre and Carre d'Art) 14 Rue de la Maisin Carree, 30000 Nimes Tel: +33 4 66 67 32 89 Fax: +33 4 66 76 22 57 Price: 180-230FF 7. Majestic Hotel (near the railway station) 10, rue Pradier, 30000 Nimes Tel: +33 4 66 29 24 14 Fax: +33 4 66 29 77 33 Price: 200-250FF 8. NOVOTEL ATRIA 5, bd. Praque, 30000 Nimes Tel: +33 4 66 76 56 56 Fax: +33 4 66 76 26 36 Price: 520FF C) Outskirts on the Parc of Hotels and Shopping Center (Bus or 30 minutes walk to the Conference venue) (Parc Hotelier Ville Active, Centre Commercial en banlieu) All the hotels below are in the same area, the address is: Parc Hotelier Ville Active, 30900 Nimes) 1. MERCURE Tel: +33 66 84 14 55 Fax: +33 66 38 01 44 Price: 460FF 2. SOLOTEL (Mercure Chain) Tel: +33 66 62 04 04 Fax: +33 66 29 24 44 Price: 310FF 3. HOTEL BLEU Tel: +33 66 04 06 11 Fax: +33 66 04 03 63 Price: 190-280FF 4. IBIS Tel: +33 66 38 83 93 Fax: +33 66 29 19 56 Price: 220-315FF 5. NIMOTEL Tel: +33 66 38 13 84 Fax: +33 66 38 14 06 Price: 250-290FF 6. BALLADINS Tel: +33 66 38 24 00 Fax: +33 66 29 61 65 Price: 155-259FF --------------------------------------------- FORMULAIRE D'INSCRIPTION - REGISTRATION FORM Evolution Artificielle 97 - EA'97 October 22-24 1997 EMA-EERIE, Nimes, France Prof | Dr | Mr | Ms | Mrs Nom/Name ______________________________________________________ Prenom/First Nom/Last Affiliation/Business ______________________________________________________ Adresse/Address ______________________________________________________ Ville/City ______________________________________________________ Code postal/Zip ________________________ Pays/Country_____________________________________________ Tel. _______________________________ (Please include country and area code if outside France) Fax ____________________________________ E-mail __________________________________________________________ Frais d'inscription / Registration fees : 700FF Acces a la conference et aux ateliers, un exemplaire des proceedings, pauses-cafe, 3 repas de midi (22-24) et le banquet (le 22 au soir). Ne comprend pas l'hebergement (voir sur le serveur Web). Covers access to the conference and workshops, one copy of the proceedings, the coffee breaks, the 3 lunches (22-24) and the banquet (22. night). Does not cover the hotel room (see the Web pages). Methode de paiement / Method of payment ___ Sur site (liquide ou travellers) / On site (cash or traveller checks) ___ Cheque a l'ordre de / Check to Evolution Artificielle ____ Transfert bancaire a / Money transfer to Evolution Artificielle Banque/Bank: Societe Generale Agence/Address: 8 rue George LeBigot 94800 VILLEJUIF - FRANCE Code banque/Bank code: 30003 03861 Compte/Account: 00050087439 Cle/Key: 35 ____ Bon de commande de l'administration francaise / (sorry, only for French people). Merci de renvoyer ce bulletin, / Thank you to send this form, par courrier, fax ou E-mail, a / by mail, fax or E-mail, to Secretariat de Evolution Artificielle 97 LGI2P - EMA-EERIE - Parc Scientifique G. Besse 30000 NIMES - FRANCE Tel: +33 (0)466 387 051 or +33 (0)466 387 021 Fax: +33 (0)466 387 074 Email: ea97@eerie.fr WWW: http://www.cmap.polytechnique.fr/www.ea/ea97.html ------------------------------ From: D.W.Corne@reading.ac.uk (David Corne) Date: Fri, 19 Sep 97 19:40:15 BST Subject: JoS Call for Papers ================================== JOURNAL OF SCHEDULING Announcement and Call for Papers ================================== * Publishing from June 1998 * * In print and on-line * EDITORS EDMUND BURKE (Editor-in-Chief), University of Nottingham, UK e-mail ekb@cs.nott.ac.uk DAVID CORNE, University of Reading, UK e-mail D.W.Corne@reading.ac.uk MICHAEL PINEDO, New York University, USA e-mail mpinedo@stern.nyu.edu STEEF VAN DE VELDE, Erasmus University, The Netherlands e-mail S.Velde@fac.fbk.eur.nl The Editors invite you to submit high quality scheduling-related work for publication in this new international, peer reviewed journal. papers of both theoretical and applied nature will be considered and prompt reviewing and publication times will be maintained. AIMS AND SCOPE The Journal of Scheduling will provide a recognised global forum for the publication of all forms of sheduling-oriented research. Publishing from June 1998, JOS will cover advances in scheduling research, such as the latest techniques, applications, theoretical issues and novel approaches to problems. The journal will be directly relevant to the areas of Computer Science, Discrete Mathematics, Operational Research, Engineering, Management, Artificial Intelligence, Construction, Distribution, Manufacturing, Transport, Aerospace and Retail and Service Industries. These disciplines face complex scheduling needs and all stand to gain from advances in scheduling technology and understanding. KEY FEATURES * Incorporates theoretical, experimental and applied research * Covers recent computational and algorithmic advances in the field * Addresses the industrial need for scheduling * Includes surveys of techniques appropriate to particular subsets of problems: Real-time scheduling Sports scheduling Shop-floor scheduling Vehicle routing Employee timetabling Machine scheduling Educational timetabling Also covers applications relevant to areas such as: Constraint logic programming Artificial Intelligence Heuristic search Rule-based expert systems Automated Reasoning Evolutionary algorithms Mathematical programming EDITORIAL BOARD Ken BAKER, Dartmouth College, USA James BEAN, University of Michigan, USA Howard BECK, AIAI, Edinburgh, UK Jacek BLAEZEWICZ, Polytechnic Institute of Posnan, Poland Peter BRUCKER, University of Osnabruck, Germany Xiaoqiang CAI, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Michael CARTER, University of Toronto, Canada E.G. COFFMAN, Jr, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, NY, USA Yves CRAMA, Universite de Liege, Belgium David FOGEL, Natural Selection Inc., USA Mark FOX, University of Toronto, Canada Toshihide IBARAKI, Kyoto University, Japan Jeffrey KINGSTON, University of Sydney, Australia Claude LE PAPE, Bouygues, Direction Scientifique, France Jan Karel LENSTRA, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands Jiyin LIU, University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Bart McCARTHY, University of Nottingham, UK Eric De MEULEMEESTER, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Rolf MOHRING, Technische Universitat Berlin, Germany Chris POTTS, University of Southampton, UK V. J. RAYWARD-SMITH, University of East Anglia, UK Rhonda RIGHTER, Santa Clara University, USA David RYAN, University of Auckland, New Zealand Gunter SCHMIDT, University of Saarland, Saarbrucken, Germany David SHMOYS, Cornell University, USA Wolfgang SLANY, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Steve SMITH, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Joel WEIN, Polytechnic University, New York, USA Dominique De WERRA, Ecole Polytechnique Federal Lausanne, Switzerland Darrel WHITLEY, Colorado State University, USA Gerhard WOEGINGER, Technische Universitat Graz, Austria Tony WREN, University of Leeds, UK INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS 1) Six copies of the manuscript should be submitted to one of the Editors. Wherever possible, please also submit an electronic copy of the manuscript on disk. Manuscripts may also be e-mailed to the Editors. 2) Only original papers, not published elsewhere, will be accepted, and copyright in published papers will be vested in the publisher. Full instructions are available from the Publisher - please e-mail direland@wiley.co.uk for a copy. Journal of Scheduling ON-LINE A full text version of the journal will be available on-line from June 1998. ORDERING INFORMATION Journal of Scheduling is published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd., Baffins Lane, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 1UD, UK Please contact Sam Williams at the above address to order a sample copy. Alternatively, you can e-mail your request to gbjwsaw3@ibmmail.com Volume 1 (1998) 3 issues ISSN 1094-6136 Institutional Rate $125.00 Personal Rate $40.00 First issue June 1998 Subscription rates for the electronic version, or for both versions, are not yet available. Please contact the publisher for further information. (Volume 2 (1999) and subsequent volumes 6 issues) All prices include postage and air-speeded delivery You can also e-mail your requests - please complete and return the information below: =================================== REQUEST (JOURNAL OF SCHEDULING) [ ] Please send me a free sample copy of the first issue (June 1998) [ ] Please e-mail the full ordering information (including rates for the on-line version) [ ] Please e-mail the full Instructions to Authors [ ] Please send [ ] copies of the print version of the full Announcement and Call for Papers Name: Position: Address: email: Date: Return to: =================================== All information is subject to change. ------------------------------ From: meyer@biologie.ens.fr (Jean-Arcady MEYER) Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 14:44:23 +0200 (MET DST) Subject: EvoRobot'98 Call for Papers CALL FOR PAPERS EVOROBOT'98: FIRST EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON EVOLUTIONARY ROBOTICS April, 16-17, 1998 MINISTERE DE L'EDUCATION NATIONALE, DE L'ENSEIGNEMENT SUPERIEUR ET DE LA RECHERCHE 1 rue Descartes, Paris, France Evolutionary Robotics (ER) is a new field of research that is concerned with the use of evolutionary computing techniques for the automatic design of adaptive robots. The aims of this workshop, which will bring together active ER researchers and people from industry, are to assess the current state-of-the-art and to provide opportunities for fostering future developments and applications. The workshop is sponsored by the EvoNet, the European Network of Excellence in Evolutionary Computation, and is one of the activities of EvoRob, EvoNet's working group on Evolutionary Robotics. It will be held in conjunction with another workshop organised by EvoGP, EvoNet's working group on Genetic Programming (April 14-15, 1998). Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Genotype to Phenotype mappings Analysis of evolutionary processes and of evolved robots Adaptation to changing environments Co-evolution of control architectures and body plans Interactions of evolution, development and learning Evolvable Hardware in Robotics Fundamental methodological issues Simulation-reality transference Comparison of Evolutionary Robotics methodologies Scaling to complex behaviors Fitness formula analysis Role of Evolutionary Robotics in Cognitive Science Neuroethological uses of Evolutionary Robotics Papers are expected to deal with research involving real robots or with simulation experiments that explicitly deal with issues of relevance to real robots. Workshop Web page: http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/evorob/ Email: evorob@cogs.susx.ac.uk Submission Instructions Electronic submissions via ftp are strongly encouraged (see our web page for full submission instructions). For submissions in traditional paper format, send two hard-copies to each of the Program chairs, Philip Husbands and Jean-Arcady Meyer. All submissions must arrive no later than 1 December 1997. Notifications of acceptance or rejection will be sent by email on 10 January 1998 at the latest. Camera ready versions of the papers will be required by 31 January 1998. Paper format: LNCS format, 12 pages recommended, 15 pages maximum. Accepted papers will be published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series and made available at the conference's site. Demonstrations Computer, video, and robotic demonstrations are also invited for submission. Contact the Program Chair and indicate equipment requirements. Program Chair: Philip Husbands, School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences University of Sussex Brighton, BN1 9QH England e-mail: philh@cogs.susx.ac.uk Jean-Arcady Meyer AnimatLab Departement de Biologie Ecole Normale Superieure 46 rue d'Ulm 75230 Paris Cedex 05 France e-mail: meyer@wotan.ens.fr Local Chair: Alexis Drogoul, Universite Paris 6, France e-mail: alexis.drogoul@lip6.fr Marc Schoenauer, Ecole Polytechnique, France e-mail: marc@cmapx.polytechnique.fr Programme Committee: Wolfgang Banzhaf Marco Colombetti Luis Correia Jean-Yves Donnart Marco Dorigo Alexis Drogoul Dario Floreano Jelena Godjeva Frederic Gruau Inman Harvey Nick Jakobi Jerome Kodjabachian Henrik Lund Francesco Mondada Stefano Nolfi Dominico Parisi Rolf Pfeifer Marc Schoenauer Adrian Thompson Mike Wheeler Timetable: Submission deadline: 1 December 1997 Notification of acceptance: 10 January 1998 Camera ready papers for workshop: 31 January 1998 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Sep 97 20:37:18 CDT From: cook@centauri.uta.edu (Diane J. Cook) Subject: FLAIRS 98 FINAL CFP FLAIRS-98 The 11th International FLAIRS Conference Sundial Beach Resort Sanibel Island, Florida May 17-20, 1998 URL: http://www-cse.uta.edu/~cook/flairs98.html CALL FOR PAPERS The Eleventh International FLAIRS conference seeks high quality paper submissions in all areas of AI, including planning, learning, uncertainty reasoning, computer vision, expert systems, multiagent systems, logic, knowledge representation, and AI education. All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, and selected authors will be invited to submit a full paper to a special issue of the International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence. SUBMISSIONS Authors must submit 6 copies of an extended abstract of 1200 to 1600 words. The extended abstract should not identify the author(s) in any manner. Please include one separate cover page containing the author name(s), address, phone number, affiliation, paper title, and topic area. In cases of multiple authors all correspondence will be sent to the first author unless otherwise requested. Abstracts must be received by October 20, 1997. Abstracts received after this date will not be considered. Notification of acceptance will be mailed by December 15, 1996. Authors of accepted papers will be expected to submit the final camera-ready copy of their full papers by February 23, 1998. Final papers will consist of at most 5 galley pages (approximately 10 double spaced pages). For information concerning submissions or to submit an abstract contact: Diane J. Cook FLAIRS-98 Program Chair Box 19015 University of Texas at Arlington Arlington, TX 76019 Tel: (817) 272-3606 Fax: (817) 272-3784 cook@cse.uta.edu For general information concerning the conference contact: Kevin Bowyer or Lawrence O. Hall FLAIRS-98 General Chairs Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of South Florida 4202 E. Fowler Ave Tampa, FL 33620, USA Tel: (813) 974-3652 Fax: (813) 974-5456 kwb@csee.usf.edu hall@csee.usf.edu ------------------------------ Subject: Genetic Programming Book Announcement Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:58:06 PDT From: Wolfgang Banzhaf A N N O U N C E M E N T of a Genetic Programming Text Book Wolfgang Banzhaf Peter Nordin Robert E. Keller Frank D. Francone Genetic Programming --- An Introduction On the Automatic Evolution of Computer Programs and Its Applications With a Foreword by John R. Koza Publication date: November 1997 Joint publication by: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco dpunkt.verlag, Heidelberg approx. 480 pp., 130 figures appr. US $ 50,- ISBN: 1-55860-510-X 3-920993-58-6 CONTENTS Foreword Preface I Prerequisites of Genetic Programming 1 Genetic Programming as Machine Learning 2 Genetic Programming and Biology --- The Analogy 3 Computer Science and Mathematical Basics 4 Genetic Programming as Evolutionary Computation II Genetic Programming Fundamentals 5 Basic Concepts --- The Foundation 6 Crossover --- The Center of the Storm 7 Genetic Programming and Emergent Order 8 Analysis -- Improving Genetic Programming with Statistics III Advanced Topics in Genetic Programming 9 Different Varieties of Genetic Programming 10 Advanced Genetic Programming 11 Implementation --- Making Genetic Programming Work 12 Applications of Genetic Programming 13 Summary and Perspectives Bibliography Appendix A Printed and Recorded Resources B Information Available on the Internet C GP Software D Events Person Index Subject Index FROM THE FOREWORD BY J.R. KOZA Genetic programming addresses the problem of automatic programming, namely the problem of how to enable a computer to do useful things without instructing it, step by step, on how to do it. The rapid growth of the field of genetic programming reflects the growing recognition that, after half a century of research in the fields of artificial intelligence, machine learning, adaptive systems, automated logic, expert systems, and neural networks, we may finally have a way to achieve automatic programming. Genetic programming is fundamentally different from other approaches in terms of (i) its representation (namely, programs), (ii) the role of knowledge (none), (iii) the role of logic (none), and (iv) its mechanism (gleaned from nature) for getting to a solution within the space of possible solutions. FROM THE FIRST SECTION OF THE BOOK Automated programming will be one of the most important areas of computer science research over the next twenty years. Hardware speed and capability has leapt forward exponentially. Yet software consistently lags years behind the capabilities of the hardware. The gap appears to be ever increasing. Demand for computer code keeps growing but the process of writing code is still mired in the modern day equivalent of the medieval ``guild'' days. Like swords in the 15th century, muskets before the early 19th century and books before the printing press, each piece of computer code is, today, handmade by a craftsman for a particular purpose. The history of computer programming is a history of attempts to move away from the ``craftsman'' approach -- structured programming, object oriented programming, object libraries, rapid prototyping. But each of these advances leaves the code that does the real work firmly in the hands of a craftsman, the programmer. The ability to enable computers to learn to program themselves is of the utmost importance in freeing the computer industry and the computer user from code that is obsolete before it is released. .... ------------------------------ End of Genetic Algorithms Digest ******************************