Genetic Algorithms Digest Tuesday, April 28, 1998 Volume 12 : Issue 2 - 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 - FEA and GA News - Book Announcement: Robot Shaping - Info Wanted: GAs and EC in Neural Nets - Software for Probabilistic Incremental Program Evolution - GA and Bin-Packing - New GA's page - New Journal Announcement - Redundant code - WSC2: Book announcement - WSC3: Update - Call for Tutorials PPSN V - Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization List (EMO-List) - EuroGP'98 Call for Participation and Registration ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CALENDAR OF GA-RELATED ACTIVITIES: (with GA-List issue reference) 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 IEA98AIE Ind and Engin App of AI and Expert Sys, Spain (v11n38) Jun 1-4, 98 AI98 Workshop on EC, Vancouver, Canada (v11n45) Jun 17, 98 AFSS98 Asian Fuzzy Systems Symposium, Kyungnam, S. Korea(v11n39)Jun 18-21, 98 WSC3 World Conference on Soft Computing, Internet (v11n37) Jun 21-30, 98 TAINN98 Turkish Symposium on AI and NN, Ankara (v11n36) Jun 24-26, 98 ALIFEVI Intl Conf on Artificial Life, Los Angeles, CA (v11n39) Jun 26-29, 98 Workshop on Recent Advances in Soft Computing,Leicester,UK(V11n44)Jul 2-3, 98 CRW98 Workshop on Collective Robotics, Paris (v11n45) Jul 3-8, 98 CISST98 Imaging Science, Systems, & Technology, Las Vegas(v11n41) Jul 6-9, 98 ECIS98 Special Session on EC in Imaging Science, Las Vegas(v11n44)Jul 6-9, 98 FUSION'98 Multisource-Multisensor Data Fusion, Las Vegas (v11n41) Jul 6-9, 98 ICGI98 Intl Colloq on Grammatical Inference, Ames, IA (v11n31) Jul 12-14, 98 PDPTA Parallel & Dist Proc Techniques & Apps, Las Vegas(v11n42) Jul 13-16, 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 SGA98 Symposium on Genetic Algorithms, Madison, WI (v11n36) Jul 22-25, 98 UAI98 Uncertainty in AI, Madison, WI (v11n39) Jul 24-26, 98 4NWGA Nordic Workshop on GAs and Their Apps, Trondheim (v11n40) Jul 27-31, 98 Bridges: Math Connect in Art, Music, & Sci, Winfield, KA(v11n40)Jul 28-30, 98 SAB98 Intl Conf of the Soc for Adaptive Behavior, Zurich(v11n35)Aug 17-21, 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 Computers and Industrial Engin, Uxbridge, UK (V11n45) Sep 9-11, 98 FLINS Fuzzy Logic & Intel Tech for Nucl Sci&Ind, Antwerp(v11n40)Sep 14-16, 98 NC98 Intl ICSC/IFAC Symposium on Neural Comp, Vienna (v11n35) Sep 23-25, 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 First Asia-Pacific Workshop on GAs and Applications,China(v12n1)Oct 18-20, 98 FEA98 Frontiers in EAs, Research Triangle Park, NC (v12n2) Oct 23-28, 98 SEAL98 2nd Asia-Pacif Conf on Sim Evol & Learning,Australia(v12n1)Nov24-27,98 ICTACEM Theoret, Appl, Comp, and Exper Mechanics,Kharagpur(v11n43)Dec 1-5, 98 LOFT3 Logic and Found of Theory of Games and Dec,Torino(v11n39) Dec 17-20, 98 Intl Conf on Evol Computation in Engineering,Chennai,India(v12n1) Jan 6-9, 99 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: Moderators Date: April 28, 1998 Subject: Moderator's Note We are still catching up on the backlog. We hope to get two issues out this week, and two next week, and then be fully up to date. In order to save time, we have done very little editing, and have not ordered the submissions. Thanks, The temporary moderators ------------------------------ From: janikow Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 16:54:42 -0500 (CDT) Subject: FEA and GA News CALL FOR PAPERS AND SESSIONS Second International Workshop on FRONTIERS IN EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS FEA'98 (http://www.cs.umsl.edu/Faculty/janikow/FEA) Chair: Cezary Z. Janikow organized as part of the ***Fourth Joint Conference on Information Sciences*** Honorary Chairs: Lotfi A. Zadeh and Azriel Rosenfeld General Chair: Paul P. Wang Oct 23 - Oct 28, 1998 Research Triangle Park, NC JCIS'98 PLENARY AND KEYNOTE SPEAKERS James Anderson Panos J. Antsaklis John Baillieul David Fogel Walter Freeman Stephen Grossberg Yu Chi Ho Thomas S. Huang George J. Klir Teuvo Kohonen John Koza Richard G. Palmer Zdzislaw Pawlak Azriel Rosenfeld Julius T. Tou I. Burhan Turksen Paul J. Werbos A.K.C. Wong Lotfi A. Zadeh Hans J. Zimmerman SPONSORS of JCIS'98 Information Science Journals Elsevier Science Publishing Inc., New York, N.Y. Machine Intelligence and Fuzzy Logic Laboratory, DUKE University FEA'98 SUBMISSIONS For regular sessions, submit a 4-page extended summary (3 copies). For contributory sessions, submit your proposed topic and the number of anticipated participants you wish to invite (about 3-5 per session). All accepted summaries will appear in the Proceedings. Long papers may also be submitted (at the conference) for review to Information Sciences, an International Journal (Elsevier) and/or special-edition books. Send submissions/proposals/inquiries to: Cezary Z. Janikow, FEA'98 Chair Department of Math/CS, CCB 319 UMSL St. Louis, MO 63121, USA email: janikow@umsl.edu Deadline for both paper summaries and proposals is June 1, 1998. Paper acceptance notifications will be sent by Aug. 1, 1998. Summaries should not exceed 4 pages of 10pt, double-column, single-spaced text, including tables/figures. There is a charge of $100/page for additional pages to be published in the Proceedings. All authors, from regular submissions as well as those invited by session organizers, will be required to deposit $160 by Aug. 23, 1998, to secure publication (credited toward registration). Final versions due Sept. 10, 1998. Information Sciences LaTeX style (http://www.cs.umsl.edu/Faculty/janikow/FEA/ins.sty) and guide(http://www.cs.umsl.edu/Faculty/janikow/FEA/insguide.tex) files are available. Consult http://www.cs.umsl.edu/Faculty/janikow/FEA or http://www.ee.duke.edu/JCIS98 for more info. FEA'98 PROGRAM COMMITTEE David Andre - Berkeley Thomas Baeck - ICD (Germany) and Leiden Univ. (NL) Catalin Buiu - Politech. Bucharest Anna Buczak - AlliedSingal, Inc. Hugh Cartwright - Oxford Univ. Dipankar Dasgupta - Univ. of Memphis Kenneth DeJong - GMU & NRL David Fogel - Natural Selection David Goldberg - Univ. of Illinois Thomas Haynes - Wichita Sate Christian Jacob - Univ. of Erlangen (Germany) Robert Keller - Dortmund Univ. John Koza - Stanford Bill Langdon - Univ. of Birmingham Michael Lee - INSEAD (France) and Berkeley Sushil Louis - UNR Zbigniew Michalewicz - UNCC Alan Schultz - NRL Daniel St. Clair - UMR Franciszek Seredynski - Polish Acad. Sci. Ron Shonkwiler - GATECH Astro Teller - CMU Michael Vose - UT OMMITTEE Sincerely, Cezary Z. Janikow Department of Math and CS, CCB319 tel (314) 516-6352 UMSL fax (314) 516-5400 St. Louis, MO 63121 mailto:janikow@arch.cs.umsl.edu http://www.cs.umsl.edu/Faculty/janikow ftp://radom.cs.umsl.edu ------------------------------ From: wolfskil@MIT.EDU (Jud Wolfskill) Date: Wed, 7 Jan 98 09:40:15 EST Subject: Book Announcement: Robot Shaping The following is a book which readers of this list might find of interest. For more information please visit http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/DORRHF97 Robot Shaping: An Experiment in Behavior Engineering Marco Dorigo and Marco Colombetti To program an autonomous robot to act reliably in a dynamic environment is a complex task. The dynamics of the environment are unpredictable, and the robots' sensors provide noisy input. A learning autonomous robot, one that can acquire knowledge through interaction with its environment and then adapt its behavior, greatly simplifies the designer's work. A learning robot need not be given all of the details of its environment, and its sensors and actuators need not be finely tuned. Robot Shaping is about designing and building learning autonomous robots. The term "shaping" comes from experimental psychology, where it describes the incremental training of animals. The authors propose a new engineering discipline, "behavior engineering," to provide the methodologies and tools for creating autonomous robots. Their techniques are based on classifier systems, a reinforcement learning architecture originated by John Holland, to which they have added several new ideas, such as "mutespec," classifier system "energy," and dynamic population size. In the book they present Behavior Analysis and Training (BAT) as an example of a behavior engineering methodology. Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents series A Bradford Book December 1997 300 pp. ISBN 0-262-04164-2 MIT Press * 5 Cambridge Center * Cambridge, MA 02142 * (617)625-8569 ------------------------------ From: Ap Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 11:48:51 +0530 Subject: Info Wanted: GAs and EC in Neural Nets dear sir, my name is pramodh b.n. I am a computer engineering student and my project is about "genetic algorithms and evolution computing in neural networks" at present there is no much improvement i need to start from the scratch so i will be looking forward for your help in this regard expecting a reply -pramodh ------------------------------ From: rafal@idsia.ch (Rafal Salustowicz) Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 19:47:32 +0100 (MET) Subject: Software for Probabilistic Incremental Program Evolution PIPE_v1.0 SOFTWARE PACKAGE Rafal Salustowicz IDSIA, Switzerland Probabilistic Incremental Program Evolution (PIPE) is a novel technique for automatic program synthesis. Details are described in R.P. Salustowicz and J. Schmidhuber, Probabilistic Incremental Program Evolution, Evolutionary Computation, 5(2):123-141, 1997. See ftp://ftp.idsia.ch/pub/rafal/PIPE.ps.gz The PIPE_v1.0 software package allows for applying and modifying the PIPE paradigm, and for benchmarking. URLs are: http://www.idsia.ch/~rafal/research.html ftp://ftp.idsia.ch/pub/rafal/PIPE_v1.0.tar.gz The software is written in C. It - is easy to install (comes with an automatic installation tool). - is easy to use: setting up PIPE_V1.0 for different problems requires a minimal amount of programming. User-written, application- independent program parts can easily be reused. - is efficient: PIPE_V1.0 has been tuned to speed up performance. - is portable: comes with source code (optimized for SunOS 5.5.1). - is extensively documented(!) and contains three example applications. - supports statistical evaluations: it facilitates running multiple experiments and collecting results in output files. - includes testing tool for testing generalization of evolved programs. - supports floating point and integer arithmetic. - has extensive output features. - For lil-gp users: Problems set up for lil-gp 1.0 can be easily ported to PIPE_v1.0. The testing tool can also be used to process programs evolved by lil-gp 1.0. PIPE_v1.0 is licensed free of charge for non-profit or internal use. ********************************************************************** * Rafal Salustowicz * * Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull'Intelligenza Artificiale (IDSIA)* * Corso Elvezia 36 e-mail: rafal@idsia.ch * * 6900 Lugano ============== * * Switzerland raf@cs.tu-berlin.de * * Tel (IDSIA) : +41 91 91198-38 raf@psych.stanford.edu * * Tel (office): +41 91 91198-32 * * Fax : +41 91 91198-39 WWW: http://www.idsia.ch/~rafal * ********************************************************************** ------------------------------ From: Roland Wilden Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 15:56:28 +0100 Subject: GA and Bin-Packing Hi people ! I'm a german student, writing my thesis in Sweden. It is about different parallel implementations of GA using MPI (Message Passing Interface) and a two-dimensional bin-packing problem. So I'm looking for an algorithm for the bin-packing problem, because I don't want to spend a lot of time solving the problem on my own - it is only a application to run on GA. Can anybody help me? Roland ************************************************* Roland Wilden Norrmalmsgatan 8 rum 252 852 34 Sundsvall Sweden Tel.: +46 (0)70 - 4464211 e-mail: rolwi97@nts.mh.se ************************************************* ------------------------------ From: gaioni@CS.UniBO.IT (Raffaele Gaioni) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 22:21:49 +0100 (MET) Subject: New GA's page ANNOUNCE: New Genetic Algorithms Web Page http://www.cs.unibo.it/~gaioni/HTML/GA/index.htm Dear Sirs, I'm proud to announce a new web page related to Genetic Algorithms. This page contains two main section: 1- the biggest collection of links to papers related to the evolutionary computation field: "The GA Technical Reports Home Page". 2- the widest selection of e-mail and www adresses of researcher involved in the study of GA's: "The GA Pratictioners Home Page" I need your help to "complete" this pages: I hope You'll send me the URL of your papers and Your address. Raffaele Gaioni gaioni@cs.unibo.it http://www.cs.unibo.it ------------------------------ From: evopt@pobox.com Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 19:29:34 +0900 (JST) Subject: New Journal Announcement Profuse apologies for cross-posting. Please forward to anyone who would be interested. Thankyou First announcement on the Internet and call for papers for a new journal E V O L U T I O N A R Y O P T I M I Z A T I O N An International Journal on the Internet Archives Published by Polish Academy of Science, Institute of Fundamental Technological Research High quality research and survey papers are solicited, covering the scope of the journal outlined below. Aims and Scope: The subject of Evolutionary Optimization has recently experienced a remarkable growth. New concepts, methods and applications are being continually proposed and exploited to provide efficient tools for solving a variety of optimization problems. The aim of this international journal is to collect and disseminate the progressive body of knowledge on evolutionary optimization techniques and their applications, via a single organized medium. These techniques include Genetic Algorithms, Genetic Programming, Evolutionary Programming and Evolution Strategies among others, all of which are inspired by restricted models of natural evolution. Applications of evolutionary optimization cover a wide range of engineering optimization problems, operations research and other related fields. The principal focus of the journal will be the implementation of Evolutionary Optimization techniques to practice. The journal will be primarily concerned with these applications which include those aspects of computing techniques that use the model of natural selection and other biologically oriented models to perform the process of optimization. Evolutionary Optimization will be publishing invited papers, original research and review papers and short letters. The journal will also have special issues devoted to relevant topics. Book reviews, forthcoming events and software sections of the journal will report the recent developments and advances in the field. A section of the journal will be devoted to short communications, letters, abstracts and notes. These short papers will be quickly reviewed and published. Mission Statement of the Journal (i) Fast Turnaround The journal will strive by all means to reduce the throughput for the submitted papers, by extensive use of the electronic media in communication and publishing. (ii) Fast Communication The journal will provide the forum for fast exchange of ideas by means of publishing short letters which will be devoted to results obtained immediately upon their discovery and reports from important events and activities. (iii) Collective responsibility The journal tries to make its contribution in the field by collective support of its editors, editorial board and its global network of correspondents. All board members are equally responsible to uphold the mission of the journal. (iv) Active Readers The journal expects to have active readers which will contribute to the future development of the journal. The journal is open to the readers and new ideas are warmly welcome. =========================================================== Editors and Editorial Board =========================================================== Honorary Editor: David E. Goldberg, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. Editors: Andrzej Osyczka, Cracow University of Technology, Poland Terence C. Fogarty, Napier University, Scotland, UK. Raphael T. Haftka, University of Florida, USA Associate Editor: Sourav Kundu, Kanazawa University, Japan Book Review Editor: Koetsu Yamazaki, Kanazawa University, Japan. Forthcoming Events Editor: Byoung-Tak Zhang, Seoul National University, Korea. Software Review Editor: Cezary Z. Janikow, UMSL, USA. =========================================================== Editorial Board: =========================================================== Hojjat Adeli, Ohio State University, USA. Jarmo Alander, University of Vaasa, Finland. Gengdong Cheng, Dalian University of Technology, China. Dipankar Dasgupta, University of Memphis, USA. Kalyanmoy Deb, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. Gusz Eiben, University of Leiden, Netherlands. Mitsuo Gen, Ashikaga Institute of Technology, Japan. John S. Gero, University of Sydney, Australia. Fred Glover, University of Colorado, USA. Don Grierson, University of Waterloo, Canada. Zafer Gurdal, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA. J.J. Merelo Guervos, University of Granada, Spain. Witold Gutkowski, IPPT-PAN, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland. Prabhat Hajela, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA. Phil Husbands, University of Sussex, UK. Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland. Andy Keane, Southamptom University, UK. Vlasis Koumousis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece. John R. Koza, Stanford University, USA. Sushil J. Louis, University of Nevada, USA. Bernard Manderick, Free University Brussels, Belgium. Juhachi Oda, Kanazawa University, Japan. Ian Parmee, University of Plymouth, UK. Lalit M. Patnaik, Indian Institute of Science, India. Gregory J. E. Rawlins, Indiana University. USA. Grant P. Steven, University of Sydney, Australia. Robert Elliot Smith, University of Alabama, USA. Takao Terano, The University of Tsukuba, Japan. George Thierauf, Essen University, Germany B.H.V.Topping, Herriot-Watt University, UK. Hans-Michael Voigt, Technical University of Berlin, Germany. Mike Xie, Victoria University of Technology, Australia. Weixuan Xu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. Lotfi A. Zadeh, University of California at Berkeley, USA. The EVOLUTIONARY OPTIMIZATION journal will be published quarterly starting from 1998. All correspondence should be sent to: Sourav Kundu (Phd) Department of Human and Mechanical Systems Engineering Faculty of Engineering, Kanazawa University 2-40-20 Kodatsumo, Kanazawa 920-8667 Japan Tel: +81-76-234-4758, Fax: +81-76-234-4668 Email: sourav@kenroku.ipc.kanazawa-u.ac.jp ------------------------------ From: Norberto Eiji Nawa Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 22:05:04 +0900 Subject: Redundant code Hello: I wonder if anyone could point me to works on evolutionary computation/artificial life using chromosomes with redundant coding methods. By *redundant coding method*, I mean chromosomes that in a given moment contain MORE information than the current fitness function demands. This "excess of information" could be useful when expressed under different environment conditions. I am interested in trying something like this for an on-line application, where robustness and rapid responses are critical. Any help or suggestions are welcome. Please, email me directly. I will post a summary of the answers that I *hopefully* will get from you :-) Eiji Norberto EIJI Nawa - MSc student - Uchikawa Laboratory Dept. of Information Engineering - Graduate School of Engineering Nagoya University - Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8603, JAPAN tel.: +81-52-789-2793 - fax.: +81-52-789-3166 WWW: http://www.bioele.nuee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~eiji ------------------------------ From: "Roy, Rajkumar" Date: Fri, 06 Feb 98 13:02:43 Subject: WSC2: Book announcement 2nd On-line World Conference on Soft Computing in Engineering Design and Manufacturing (WSC2) 23-27 June 1997 Hosted on the Internet WSC2 BOOK IS NOW AVAILABLE !! ******************************************************************* WSC2 conference proceedings have been published as a book. The book is now available from the publishers. The details are as follows: Soft Computing in Engineering Design and Manufacturing P.K. Chawdhry, R. Roy and R.K. Pant (eds) Springer-Verlag, 1998 ISBN 3-540-76214-0 Cover Price ?50 The Book outline is available at http://www.bath.ac.uk/Departments/Eng/wsc2/book_ preface.html The Table of Contents is available at http://www.bath.ac.uk/Departments/Eng/wsc2/ book_toc.html The authors are entitled to a 40% discount directly from the publisher. They should use the pink order form that were sent by Springer Verlag to all the lead authors. In case of any enquiries, please contact Springer at the following address to which all orders for the book should be sent directly: Springer-Verlag London Ltd Sweetapple House Catteshall Road Godalming Surrey GU7 3DJ UK Tel: (+44) 01483 418822 Fax: (+44) 01483 415151 ------------------------------ From: "Roy, Rajkumar" Date: Fri, 06 Feb 98 12:15:09 Subject: WSC3: Update 3rd On-line World Conference on Soft Computing in Engineering Design and Manufacturing (WSC3) 21-30 June 1998 On the Internet (World Wide Web) WSC3 Servers: http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/wsc3/ http://www.bath.ac.uk/Departments/Eng/wsc3/ http://www.bioele.nuee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/wsc3/ http://garage.cps.msu.edu/wsc3/index.htm http://www.uct.ac.za/conferences/wsc3/ http://www.iitb.ernet.in/wsc3/ http://www.bmstu.ru/wsc3/ Honorary Conference Chair: Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh, USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- UPDATE: 1. REGISTRATION to the conference is now on and it is FREE!! 2. Virtual Exhibition: You can still book your Virtual Exhibition Stall at the conference. Please contact the Virtual Exhibition Chair for booking. You can advertise your products, research activities to CAD/CAM, Soft Computing and Internet communities. Virtual Exhibition is FREE for academic/non-profit making organisations!! 3. SEEKING SPONSORSHIP: The conference is already co-sponsored by IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES) and British Telecommunications (BT), UK. We are still seeking more sponsors for the conference. For FURTHER INFORMATION and ENQUIRIES, registration, sponsorship, and advertisement please contact the Conference Chair: Rajkumar Roy WSC3 Virtual Conference Office (wsc3@cim.cranfield.ac.uk) The CIM Institute Cranfield University Cranfield, Bedford MK43 0AL United Kingdom Tel. +44 (0)1234 750111 Ext. 2860 or 754073 Fax. +44 (0)1234 750852 Email: rroy@cim.cranfield.ac.uk or r.roy@ieee.org ------------------------------ From: voigt@gfai.de (Hans-Michael Voigt) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 12:10:47 +0100 Subject: Call for Tutorials PPSN V Fifth International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN V) Amsterdam, 27-30 September 1998 (http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/CS/ALP/ppsn98.html) Call for Tutorials Tutorial proposals for PPSN V should be received by the PPSN Tutorial Chair by May 1, 1998. The notification of acceptance date is June 1, 1998. Tutorials will be given on Sunday, September 27, 1998. Although any PPSN technical topic is appropriate for a tutorial, preference will be given to thorough overviews and topics deemed of interest to PPSN attendees. Tutorials deemed to be expanded talks or extended overviews of an individual's research are discouraged. Each tutorial will be two and a half hours long including a break. Proposals should include the title of the tutorial, an abstract of the tutorial (500 words typically), a detailed outline of the tutorial's technical content, and a brief curriculum vitae of the presenter (should not be more than three pages). Each presenter is requested to send one camera-ready copy of the presentation materials to the PPSN Tutorial Chair by August 15, 1998. Copies will be made and distributed to the tutorial attendees. Tutorial presenters will be reimbursed by not paying the registration fee. Proposals for Tutorials should be sent to: Dr. Hans-Michael Voigt Head of the Research Group for Adaptive Modelling and Statistical Pattern Recognition Gesellschaft zur Foerderung angewandter Informatik (GFaI) Rudower Chaussee 5, Geb. 13.7 12484 Berlin Germany Phone: +49-30-6392 1616 Fax: +49-30-6392 1602 e-mail: voigt@gfai.de ------------------------------ From: Jane Shaw Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 15:17:54 GMT Subject: Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization List (EMO-List) EMO - Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization List This is to announce the creation of a new mailing-list dedicated to multiobjective optimization with evolutionary algorithms (EAs). This is an area of research of particular interest to EA practitioners, who are usually faced with real-world problems involving multiple, and often conflicting, objectives. Unprecedented interest in the field has warranted, for example, a dedicated session at ICGA-97 (East Lansing, Michigan) and another at GALESIA'97 (Glasgow, UK). In addition, multiobjective EAs offer new challenges in the theoretical front, but these have remained largely unaddressed. LIST CONTENT Discussion is invited on the following topics, in the context of evolutionary computation: - Handling multiple objectives and/or constraints - Cost assignment / decision making - Properties of cost assignment strategies - Representation / operators - Niche and speciation techniques - Structured populations - Parallel algorithms - Implementation issues - Visualization of results - Interaction - Other user issues - Applications - Performance characterization - Case-studies / benchmarks - Comparison of different methods (evolutionary and non-evolutionary) Topics not covered above may also be discussed, as long as they pertain to the general theme of Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization. SUBSCRIBING Subscription is automated, and open to all. To subscribe to the list, please send e-mail to majordomo@ualg.pt with the following text as the *BODY* of the message: subscribe emo-list end You will receive a message asking you to confirm that you indeed intend to subscribe, and giving you instructions on how to do so. Please note that commands in the "Subject:" line are NOT processed. LIST ADDRESS To contribute to the list, please send your message to emo-list@ualg.pt. It will be automatically forwarded to all list members, including yourself. The list is not moderated, but please stay on-topic in your contributions. ARCHIVES Messages sent to the list are archived, and made accessible on the WWW through the list's Home Page at http://w3.ualg.pt/lists/emo-list/. Eventually, additional resources on Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization will become available through this page. Carlos Fonseca , University of Algarve, Portugal Jane Shaw , University of Sheffield, U.K. ===================================================================== NEVER send administrative requests to the list. Please send e-mail to emo-list-request@ualg.pt for instructions on how to remove yourself from the list. ------------------------------ From: Riccardo Poli Date: Fri, 13 Feb 98 14:53:57 GMT Subject: EuroGP'98 Call for Participation and Registration [ *** Moderator's Note: The following message has been edited to fit in GA-List. The complete text, along with more information can be found on their conference web site at: http://www.cmap.polytechnique.fr/www.EvoGP/EuroGP98.html --ACS ***] CALL FOR PARTICIPATION AND REGISTRATION EUROGP'98 FIRST EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON GENETIC PROGRAMMING PARIS, 14-15 April, 1998 Genetic Programming (GP) is a new branch of Evolutionary Computation in which the structures in the population being evolved are computer programs. GP has been applied successfully to a large number of difficult problems like automatic design, pattern recognition, robotic control, synthesis of neural networks, symbolic regression, music and picture generation, etc. EUROGP'98 is the first event entirely devoted to Genetic Programming to be held in Europe. The aims are to give European and non-European researchers in the area of genetic programming as well as people from industry an opportunity to present their latest research and discuss current developments and applications. The event will be held, Tuesday and Wednesday in the week following Easter, in the center of Paris, Quartier Latin, a 5 minute walking distance from Notre-Dame. The workshop is sponsored by the EvoNet, the European Network of Excellence in Evolutionary Computation, and is one of the activities of EvoGP, the working group on Genetic Programming of EvoNet. It will be held in conjunction with EVOROBOT'98, the first European event on evolutionary robotics, organised by EvoRob, the EvoNet working group on Evolutionary Robotics. EVOROBOT'98 will be held on April 16-17 at the same site as EUROGP'98. Organising Committee: Wolfgang Banzhaf, University of Dortmund, Germany (Program co-chair) Riccardo Poli, The University of Birmingham, UK (Program co-chair) Terry Fogarty, Napier University, UK (Publication chair) Marc Schoenauer, Ecole Polytechnique, France (Local chair) Venue: Ministere de l'Education Nationale, de l'Enseignement Superieur et de la Recherche, 1 rue Descartes, Paris, France. Situated in the heart of the "Quartier Latin", the conference site can be easily reached by Metro from all airports and train stations. Precise directions can be found on the Web site of the workshops. Local arrangements: In case help is needed regarding venue and/or accommodation, please contact Nathalie Limonta Centre de Mathematiques Appliquees Ecole Polytechnique 91128 Palaiseau Cedex E-mail: limonta@cmapx.polytechnique.fr Workshop Web Site: http://www.cmap.polytechnique.fr/www.EvoGP/EuroGP98.html ------------------------------ End of Genetic Algorithms Digest ******************************