Genetic Algorithms Digest Thurs, November 12, 1998 Volume 12 : Issue 20 - Do NOT send email or reply to gadistr@aic.nrl.navy.mil - Send submissions (articles) to GA-List@aic.nrl.navy.mil - Send administrative requests (subscribe, unsubscribe, change of address, etc.,) 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: - Moderators' note - submission formats - request for information on clustering - DAG - Request any information - genetic design of digital circuits - 2nd. Int. Conf. Evolvable Hardware (ICES98) Report, Hugo de Garis - Scan of JAWS II Cover? - New Academic & Research Positions - Phd Studentship from ICSC/British Aerospace - SEAL98 Call For Participation - WSC3 Book is now available... - Recent Advances in Soft Computing '99 - 2nd CFP EuroGP'99 submission deadline 15 Dec 1998 - ECAL99: CFP - Call for info on EC courses - CFP for CEC99 special session on time series prediction ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CALENDAR OF GA-RELATED ACTIVITIES: (with GA-List issue reference) SEAL98 2nd Asia-Pacif Conf on Sim Evo & Learn, Austral (v12n1) Nov 24-27, 98 ICTACEM Theoret, Appl, Comp, and Exper Mech, Kharagpur (v11n43) Dec 1-5, 98 LOFT3 Logic and Found of Theory of Games, Torino (v11n39) Dec 17-20, 98 Intl Conf on Evol Computation in Engin, Chennai, India (v12n1) Jan 6-9, 99 CF99 Computational Finance, New York, NY (v12n10) Jan 7-8, 99 CIMCA99 Comp Intell for Mod Cont and Aut, Vienna, Aust (v12n10) Feb 17-19, 99 SAC99 14th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (v12n7) Feb 28-Mar 2, 99 CIMAF99 Symposium on Artificial Intelligence (v12n5) Mar 22-26, 99 SPIE Applications and Sci of Comp Intell, Orlando, FL (v12n10) Apr 5-9, 99 AISB Symp. on Creative Evol. Systems, Edinburgh, UK (v12n19) Apr 6-9, 99 EuroGP99 2nd Euro Workshop on GP, Goteborg, Sweden (v12n20) May 26-27, 99 EvoIASP99 1st Euro WS on EC in Image Anal & Sig Proc (v12n18) May 28, 99 EuroEctel99 1st Euro Workshop on EC in Telecommunicati (v12n16) May 29, 99 SOCO99 Soft Computing, Genova, Italy (v12n8) Jun 1-4, 99 TAINN99 8th Turkish Symposium on AI and Neural Nets (v12n17) Jun 23-25, 99 CEC99 Congress on Evol Computation, Washington, DC (v12n9) Jul 6-9, 99 GECCO99 Genetic & Evol Computation Conf, Orlando, FL (v12n8) Jul 13-17, 99 ECAL99 5th Euro Conf on Artificial Life, Lausanne, Swi (v12n20) Sep 13-17, 99 Send announcements of other activities to GA-List@aic.nrl.navy.mil. ------------------------------ From: The moderators Date: Thurs, 12 Nov 1998 Subject: Moderators' note - submission formats We would appreciate it if everyone would make sure to send submissions to GA Digest in 80 column plain text format, and not in html, Latex, or other formats. Because of the large number of submissions that we receive, we have limited time to perform stylistic editing to the entries. Please take the time to format your messages clearly and concisely. Thank you very much. ------------------------------ From: "Kim Hwang-Soo" Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 10:35:27 +0900 Subject: request for information on clustering Hi, I'm working on applying GA in clustering/unsupervised learning. I'll appreciate if you can give me references/information on the topic. Thanks. H. S. Kim ------------------------------ From: Mohamed Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 18:13:53 +0200 Subject: DAG Hello everybody, I need a system to generate Directed Acyclic Graph with known optimum, because I want to test a system of scheduling tasks in mutliprocessor systems using GA. If anyone has one or know the place of any useful information,I'll be very thankful if he tells me. Sincerely Mohamed ------------------------------ From: "Andr\is Paolo Casta\qo V." Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 18:47:13 GMT Subject: Request any information At the moment I am working in my thesis of posgrado, the objective is the application of the genetics algorithms to find an optimal distribution of pieces in boards, by its knowledge in the area, I ask for its collaboration to obtain any information or direction on the matter. (a clear example of application of GA to use it as model for my work, would help) I appreciate your aid. Andres Paolo Castaqo V. Professor of the department of systems of the Faculty of Engineering University of Caldas Colombia ------------------------------ From: Al Globus Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 18:37:17 -0800 Subject: genetic design of digital circuits I'm starting a project to use genetic algorithms or genetic programming to design digital circuits. I have seen papers on the design of analog circuits, but not digital. Can anyone point me at the relevant literature? Thanks. Al Globus globus@nas.nasa.gov www.nas.nasa.gov/~globus/home.html ------------------------------ From: Hugo de Garis Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 21:05:41 +0900 Subject: 2nd. Int. Conf. Evolvable Hardware (ICES98) Report, Hugo de Garis Dear GAers, If you are interested in the other half of the evolutionary algorithms field, namely "evolvable hardware" (E-Hard, EHW) (E-Hard vs. E-Soft) then have a look at a report I wrote on the 2nd. Int. Conf on Evolvable Systems, 1998 (ICES98, the E-Hard conference), Lausanne, Switzerland, 24-25 Sept, 1998. http://www.hip.atr.co.jp/~degaris/conf_trip/ICES98.html Cheers, Dr. Hugo de Garis, ATR, Kyoto, Japan. ------------------------------ From: Edmund Chattoe Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 12:45:56 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Scan of JAWS II Cover? Dear All, The next issue of JASSS (Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation) will contain a collective review of a number of books on Genetic Programming. We would like to include a scan of the cover for each book featured. Does anyone have a copy of: Koza, John R. (1994) Genetic Programming II: Automatic Discovery of Reusable Programs (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press/A Bradford Book). that they would be able to scan and send as a reasonably high resolution TIFF? ATB, Edmund Chattoe ------------------------------ From Andy.Keane@soton.ac.uk Fri Nov 6 04:04:47 1998 Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 09:06:34 +0000 Subject: New Academic & Research Positions We are currently seeking a number of new researchers to work in our evolutionary optimization group in collaboration with British Aerospace and Rolls-Royce. Please see the on-line web advert at http://www.soton.ac.uk/~ajk/utp/ad.html for further details. We are also currently recruiting academic staff in this and related areas, see http://www.jobs.ac.uk/jobfiles/AI285.html Andy Keane Prof. A.J. Keane, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Southampton University, Highfield, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, U.K. Tel +44-1703-592944 FAX +44-1703-593230 mail:Andy.Keane@soton.ac.uk http://www.soton.ac.uk/~ajk/welcome.html ------------------------------ From: "Robert E. Smith" Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 15:48:05 +0000 Subject: Phd Studentship from ICSC/British Aerospace Please see http://www.ics.uwe.ac.uk/~rsmith/AnnouncingBAePhD.htm for more information Robert Elliott Smith, Office 3P3 Intelligent Computing Systems Centre Computer Studies and Mathematics Faculty The University of West England Coldharbour Lane, Frenchay, Bristol BS16 1QY, United Kingdom Email: robert.smith@uwe.ac.uk Work Phone: 44 (0)117 976 6261 ext. 3179 Mobile Phone: 44 (0)777 185 2565 UK fax: 44 (0)870 161 7266 or 44 (0)117 9750416 US toll free fax: (888) 225-6211 Homepage: http://www.ics.uwe.ac.uk/~rsmith ------------------------------ From: Xin Yao Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 10:12:30 +1100 (EST) Subject: SEAL98 Call For Participation Dear Colleagues, Re: SEAL'98 in Canberra, 24-27 November 1998. The close-to-final programme is now available on the Web. Please take a few minutes to browse through and let us know if you have any questions. If you have not registered for the conference, please do so ASAP. SEAL'98 have a very good programme led by three prominent keynote speakers: Professors John Gero, Hans-Paul Schwefel, and Richard Sutton. SEAL'98 features four tutorials given by leading scientists in their fields. The topics covered are: Evolutionary Optimisation, Reinforcement Learning, Data Mining, and Genetic Programming. Please check the conference web pages for more information: URL: http://www.cs.adfa.edu.au/conference/seal98 Best regards, Jong-Hwan Kim Takeshi Furuhashi Xin Yao ------------------------------ From: "Dr. Rajkumar Roy" Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 15:54:22 +0000 Subject: WSC3 Book is now available... Dear all, I am very pleased to inform you that the WSC3 (3rd On-line World Conference on Soft Computing in Engineering Design and Manufacturing) book is now being published by Springer-Verlag. The details are: Advances in Soft Computing - Engineering Design and Manufacturing R. Roy, T. Furuhashi and P.K. Chawdhry (Eds.) Springer-Verlag London Limited, 1999 ISBN 1-85233-062-7 638 pages price: 80.00 pounds sterling If you are interested to buy the book, please contact Springer directly or through your nearest bookshop. Regards, -raj Dr. Rajkumar Roy Computer Integrated Manufacturing, School of Industrial and Manufacturing Science, Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedford, MK43 0AL, United Kingdom. Tel: +44 (0)1234 750111 Ext. 2423 Fax: +44 (0)1234 750852 Email: r.roy@cranfield.ac.uk or r.roy@ieee.org URL: http://www.zen.co.uk/cim.inst/people/roy.html ------------------------------ From: Bob John Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 11:56:36 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Recent Advances in Soft Computing '99 My apologies for any multiple copies you may receive. RECENT ADVANCES IN SOFT COMPUTING'99 FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT & CALL FOR PAPERS De Montfort University Leicester United Kingdom July 1st and 2nd 1999 This international two day workshop brings together researchers in the field of "soft computing" - neural networks, fuzzy logic and genetic algorithms. This event follows on from a successful event in 1998. The nature of soft computing is that there is a wide diversity of techniques and applications and it is hoped that this diversity will be exhibited in the papers accepted. Topics of interest include: - Fuzzy Logic - Hybrid Systems - Genetic Algorithms - Fuzzy Control - Neuro-Fuzzy Systems - Fuzzy Decision Making - Genetic Programming Application areas may include, but are not limited to: - Engineering - Financial Services - Design - Data Analysis - Signal Processing - Robotics - Manufacturing - Architecture - Databases - Medicine - Information Systems Submission of abstract 31st January 1999 Notification of acceptance 15th March 1999 Camera-Ready versions 23rd April 1999 Authors are invited to submit two copies of an extended abstract of 1500-2000 words to: Bob John Centre for Computational Intelligence Faculty of Computing Sciences and Engineering De Montfort University Leicester LE1 9BH, UK Email: rij@dmu.ac.uk On acceptance, authors will be sent full instructions for completion of a camera ready copy of a maximum of 6 pages in length. The proceedings will be published along the lines of the proceedings for 1998. Location The workshop will be held at De Montfort University in Leicester, England. Leicester is situated approximately 100 miles from London (approximately 1.5 hours by train). ------------------------------ From: Bill Langdon Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1998 18:08:29 +0100 Subject: 2nd CFP EuroGP'99 submission deadline 15 Dec 1998 CALL FOR PAPERS EuroGP'99 SECOND EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON GENETIC PROGRAMMING GOTEBORG, 26-27 May, 1999 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'99 is the biggest event entirely devoted to Genetic Programming to be held in Europe, the second of its kind after EuroGP'98 which took place this year in Paris. 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 at Chalmers University of Technology in Goteborg, Sweden. The workshop is sponsored by EvoNet, the Network of Excellence in Evolutionary Computing, and is one of the activities of EvoGP, the EvoNet working group on Genetic Programming. It will be held in conjunction with three other major European events: * EvoRobot'99, the second European workshop on evolutionary robotics, held on May 28-29 at the same site as and just after EuroGP'99. * EvoIASP'99, the first European workshop on evolutionary image analysis and signal processing, held on May 28 at the same site as EuroGP'99. * EuroECTel'99, the first European workshop on evolutionary telecommunications, held on May 29 at the same site as and just after EuroGP'99. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Theoretical developments Experimental results on performance and behaviour of GP runs New algorithms, representations and operators Novel applications of GP to real-life problems Hybrid architectures including GP components Comparisons with other machine learning or program-induction techniques New libraries and implementations The workshop will consist of: A tutorial on GP by John Koza An invited talk by David B Fogel Oral and poster sessions with periods for discussion Software demos and industrial stands Fees: Registration fees are still being finalised and will be publicised shortly. Registration to EuroGP'99 will include free non-transferable registration to EvoRobot'99, EvoIASP'99 and EuroECTel'99 (and vice versa). A reduced registration rate will be available for students. Submissions: To submit, send your manuscript (max length: 10 A4 pages) to one of the co-chairs, Riccardo Poli and Peter Nordin, in PostScript (preferably compressed and uuencoded) BY EMAIL (see addresses below) not later than December 15, 1998. The papers will be peer reviewed by at least two members of the program committee. Authors will be notified via email on the results of the review by January 15, 1999. The authors of accepted papers will have four weeks to improve their paper on the basis of the reviewers' comments and will be asked to send a camera ready version of their manuscripts in LNCS format (12 pages recommended, 15 pages max) by February 15th, 1999. The papers accepted will appear in the workshop proceedings, published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, which will be available at the workshop. Organising Committee: * Riccardo Poli, The University of Birmingham, UK (Program co-chair) e-mail: R.Poli@cs.bham.ac.uk * Peter Nordin, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden (Program co-chair) e-mail: nordin@fy.chalmers.se * Terry Fogarty, Napier University, UK (Publication chair) e-mail: T.Fogarty@dcs.napier.ac.uk * William B. Langdon, The University of Birmingham, UK (Publicity chair) e-mail: W.B.Langdon@cs.bham.ac.uk * Mats Nordahl Chalmers University of Technology (Local chair) email: tfemn@fy.chalmers.se * Kristian Lindgren Chalmers University of Technology (Local chair) email: frtkl@fy.chalmers.se Programme Committee: * Lee Altenberg, University of Hawai`i at Manoa * Peter Angeline, Natural Selection, New York, USA * Wolfgang Banzhaf, University of Dortmund, Germany * Tobias Blickle, Saarbruecken, Germany * Marco Dorigo, Free University of Brussels, Belgium * Gusz Eiben, University of Leiden, The Netherlands * Terry Fogarty, Napier University, UK * James A. Foster * Frederic Gruau, Center Voor Wiskunde en Informatica, The Netherlands * Tom Haynes, * Hitoshi Iba, University of Tokyo, Japan * W. B. Langdon, The University of Birmingham, UK * Kristian Lindgren, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden * Nic McPhee * Jean-Arcady Meyer, Ecole Normale Superieure, France * Mats Nordahl, Chalmers University of Technology Sweden * Peter Nordin, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden * Una-May O'Reilly, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA * Riccardo Poli, The University of Birmingham, UK * Conor Ryan, University of Limerick, Ireland * Justinian Rosca, Siemens, USA * Marc Schoenauer, Ecole Polytechnique, France * Michele Sebag, Ecole Polytechnique, France * Terry Soule, St. Cloud State University, USA * Andrea Tettamanzi, Genetica, Italy * Marco Tomassini, Universite de Lausanne, Switzerland * Hans-Michael Voigt, Center for Applied Computer Science, Berlin, German * Byoung-Tak Zhang, Seoul National University, Korea Venue: Main Aula, Goteborg University, Vasaparken, Goteborg The the conference hall is marked with a red circle on this map, which also indicates the Chalmers area of Gvteborg. Local arrangements: In case help is needed regarding venue and/or accommodation, please contact Peter Nordin email: nordin@fy.chalmers.se Institute of Physical Resource Theory Chalmers University of Technology S-412 96 Goteborg, SWEDEN Timetable: Submission deadline: 15 December 1999 Notification of acceptance: 15 January 1999 Camera ready papers for workshop: 15 February 1999 Workshop: 26-27 May 1999 Workshop Web Site: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~rmp/eebic/eurogp99 Contacts: Riccardo Poli email: R.Poli@cs.bham.ac.uk post: Riccardo Poli School of Computer Science The University of Birmingham Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK Tel: +44-121-414-3739 FAX: +44-121-414-4281 Peter Nordin email: nordin@fy.chalmers.se Institute of Physical Resource Theory Chalmers University of Technology S-412 96 Goteborg, SWEDEN +46 31 607213, Fax +46 31 607201 W. B. Langdon @cwi.nl 2 November 1998 ------------------------------ From: Dario Floreano Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 15:38:15 +0200 Subject: ECAL99: CFP [We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message] Conference Announcement and Call for Papers 5th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL LIFE ECAL99 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) September 13-17 1999 Artificial Life is an interdisciplinary research enterprise aimed at understanding life-as-it-is and life-as-it-could-be, and at synthetizing life-like phenomena in chemical, electronic, software, and other artificial media. Artificial Life redefines the concepts of artificial and natural, blurring the borders between traditional disciplines and providing new insights into the origin and principles of life. In addition to all traditional topics, ECAL99 will encourage contributions that address the role of embodiment and physical constraints for the self-organization of life-like systems in chemical, electronic, mechanical, and other artificial media. The conference will be single-track and will feature selected oral presentations, spotlight presentations (short talk + poster), and posters. All accepted contributions will be published in the proceedings by Springer Verlag. ECAL99 will also host invited talks, thematic debates, and public demonstrations. One day of tutorials before the conference will provide the necessary background to better enjoy the contributions from different disciplines; participation is strongly recommended. IMPORTANT DATES 28 February 1999: Submission deadline 30 April 1999: Notification to authors 31 May 1999: Camera-ready version due 13-17 September 1999: Conference dates Official Language: English Publisher: Springer-Verlag WWW: http://www.epfl.ch/ecal99 E-mail: ecal99@epfl.ch SUBMISSIONS Papers should not be longer than 10 pages (including figures) in the Springer-Verlag llncs style (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) with an abstract of 100-150 words. All submissions will be reviewed by at least two referees. Authors should make all possible efforts to state the relevance of their contribution to the field of Artificial Life and explain the implications of their results. Novelty, clarity of presentation, and scientific content will be the main criteria used by referees. Both electronic and traditional submissions will be accepted (in the latter case, please send 6 hard-copies). Demonstrations, videos, and proposals for thematic debates are also welcome. EXAMPLES OF BROAD AREAS TO BE ADDRESSED (but not limited to): Self-organization. Chemical origins of life. Autocatalytic systems. Prebiotic evolution. RNA systems. Evolutionary chemistry. Fitness landscapes. Natural selection. Artificial evolution. Ecosystem evolution. Multicellular development. Natural and artificial morphogenesis. Learning and development. Bio-morphic and neuro-morphic engineering. Artificial worlds. Simulation tools. Artificial organisms. Synthetic actors. Artificial (virtual and robotic) humanoids. Intelligent autonomous robots. Evolutionary Robotics. Applications of Alife technologies. Life detectors. Self-repairing hardware. Evolvable hardware. Emergent collective behaviors. Swarm intelligence. Evolution of social behaviors. Evolution of communication. Epistemology. Artificial Life and Art. VENUE The conference will take place on the EPFL campus located by lake Leman, 10 minutes away by metro from the historic centre of Lausanne. The Alps can be quickly reached by public transportation. Geneva international airport is 40 minutes by train (more info on ECAL99 web page). REGISTRATION ECAL99 will encourage debate, contacts, and interdisciplinary exchanges in an open-minded and informal atmosphere. Several student fellowships will be available. Registration fees (starting at 400 CHF) will include almost everything for both regular and student participants. Special offers on accomodation. Considerable savings on early registration (before 15 June 1999). Check out ECAL99 web page frequently http://www.epfl.ch/ecal99 ORGANIZERS: Dario Floreano, Jean-Daniel Nicoud, Francesco Mondada LOCAL ORGANIZATION: Monique Dubois and Joseba Urzelai CONTACT: ECAL99 Secretariat, LAMI-DI-EPFL, CH-1015 Lausanne ADVISORY BOARD: Inman Harvey (UK) Hiroaki Kitano (JP) Daniel Mange (CH) Jean-Arcady Meyer (F) Stefano Nolfi (I) Charles Taylor (USA) Daniel Thalmann (CH) SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE (under formation): Agnessa Babloyantz (B) Wolfgang Banzhaf (D) Randall Beer (USA) Hugues Bersini (B) Eric Bonabeau (USA) Paul Bourgine (F) Rodney Brooks(USA) Heinrich Buelthoff (D) Raffaele Calabretta (I) Pablo Chacon (E) Dave Cliff (UK) Jean-Louis Deneubourg (B) Marco Dorigo (B) Rodney Douglas (CH) Claus Emmeche (DK) Boi Faltings (CH) Toshio Fukuda (JP) Takashi Gomi (CA) Stephen Grand (UK) Howard Gutowitz (F) Tetsuya Higuchi (JP) Phil Husbands (UK) Takashi Ikegami (JP) George Kampis (H) Kunihiko Kaneko (JP) Laurent Keller (CH) Yasuo Kuniyoshi (JP) Chris Langton (USA) Kristian Lindgren (SE) Pier Luisi (CH) Henrik Lund (DK) Hanspeter Mallot (D) John McCaskill (D) Barry McMullin (IE) Olivier Michel (CH) Orazio Miglino (I) Melanie Mitchell (USA) Federico Moran (E) Alvaro Moreno (E) Domenico Parisi (I) Rolf Pfeifer (CH) Tom Ray (USA) Eduardo Sanchez (CH) Chris Sander (UK) Peter Schuster (A) Katsunori Shimohara (JP) Karl Sims (USA) Moshe Sipper (CH) Tim Smithers (E) Ricardo Sole (E) Emmet Spier (UK) Luc Steels (F) Jun Tani (JP) Adrian Thompson (UK) Peter Todd (D) Marco Tomassini (CH) Gunter Wagner (USA) Barbara Webb (UK) Michael Wheeler (UK) Norm White (CA) Tom Ziemke (SE) Stephane Zrehen (USA) ------------------------------ From: Riccardo Poli Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 09:13:49 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Call for info on EC courses CALL FOR INFORMATION ON COURSES IN EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION Teaching and learning play a crucial role in disseminating and transferring new knowledge and know-how to students and new comers to a field. This is more so for a relatively young field like evolutionary computation. It has been nearly four years since John Koza [1] compiled a valuable list of university courses on genetic algorithms. At the time, around 30 courses were available. The field of evolutionary computation has grown rapidly since 1995. More universities are offering courses on evolutionary computation. There is an urgent need to look at various teaching issues in evolutionary computation again, e.g., how we can help students to best learn the subject effectively, what kind of topics we should cover in a one-semester course, how much practical lab work should be involved, what a suitable textbook should be, etc. For these reasons we would like to collect information on university courses in evolutionary computation in a common format, make it available to the community and start discussions on teaching issues. If you would like to contribute and share information with others, please complete the form attached and email it to: ec-teaching@cs.bham.ac.uk THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION IS: FRIDAY THE 4TH OF DECEMBER 1998. We will compile the first draft of the course information provided and make it available on-line early next year. [1] J. R. Koza, University Courses on Genetic Algorithms 1995, (a.k.a. "The GA 30"), Stanford Bookstore, Stanford University, CA 94305-3079, 1995. Xin Yao and Riccardo Poli ====================================================================== SURVEY ON EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION COURSES COURSE TITLE: LECTURER(S): INSTITUTION AND DEPARTMENT: TARGET STUDENTS: (e.g. UG, MSc, PhD) STUDENT BACKGROUND: (e.g. CS, EE, Economics) PREREQUISITES: (e.g. programming, basic math, advanced math) AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: TEACHING METHOD: (e.g. lectures, tutorials, labs, reading) TOPICS COVERED AND TIME SPENT ON EACH TOPIC: TEXTBOOKS, HANDOUTS AND READING MATERIAL USED: ASSESSMENT METHOD: (e.g. assignments, project(s), exam, presentations) DETAILED SYLLABUS: NUMBER OF TIMES THE COURSE HAS BEEN OFFERED: AVERAGE NUMBER OF STUDENTS: COURSE URL (IF ANY): COMMENTS/SUGGESTIONS: PLEASE RETURN THE COMPLETED FORM TO ec-teaching@cs.bham.ac.uk BY FRIDAY THE 4TH OF DECEMBER 1998 ------------------------------ From: "Byoung-Tak Zhang" Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 22:52:30 +0900 Subject: CFP for CEC99 special session on time series prediction Call for Papers Papers are solicited for the CEC99 (1999 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, July 6-9, 1999, Washington DC) special session on time series prediction. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: a.. Evolutionary analysis of time series b.. Evolutionary modeling of time serie c.. Evolutionary learning of temporal patterns d.. Temporal data mining e.. Detecting chaotic signals in noise f.. Evolving neural nets for times series prediction g.. Medical, financial, environmental, and engineering h.. Novel applications The session will consist of invited papers and contributed papers. Each contributed paper will be reviewed by two or more committee members of the special session and all papers accepted will appear in the conference proceedings. Interested authors should submit the title and brief abstract of the paper by December 1, 1998 to: Byoung-Tak Zhang Artificial Intelligence Lab (SCAI) Dept. of Computer Engineering Seoul National University Seoul 151-742, Korea E-mail: btzhang@scai.snu.ac.kr Web: http://scai.snu.ac.kr/~btzhang/ Electronic submissions are highly encouraged. The schedule and the organizing committee for this special session are as follows. Important Dates a.. December 1, 1998: Deadline for paper titles and brief abstracts b.. January 11, 1999: A list of session participants with their paper titles and abstracts c.. February 1, 1999: Deadline for paper submission d.. March 1, 1999: Notification of acceptance e.. April 1, 1999: Camera-ready papers due f.. July 6-9, 1999: CEC99 conference dates Organizing Committee a.. Byoung-Tak Zhang (coordinator), Seoul National University, E-mail: btzhang@scai.snu.ac.kr b.. David B. Fogel, Natural Selection, Inc., E-mail: dfogel@natural-selection.com c.. Hitoshi Iba, University of Tokyo, E-mail: iba@miv.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp d.. E. Howard N. Oakley, EHN & DIJ Oakley, E-mail: howard@quercus.demon.co.uk Up-to-date information on this special session is available from the web site http://scai.snu.ac.kr/~btzhang/committee/cec99-ts.html. For your information, a list of publications on evolutionary methods for times series analysis and prediction is provided below. References a.. Fogel DB and Fogel LJ, Preliminary experiments on discriminating between chaotic signals and noise using evolutionary programming, In Koza J et al. (eds.) Genetic Programming 1996, Morgan Kaufmann, pp. 512-520, 1996. b.. Iba H, deGaris H, and Sato T, Recombination guidance for numerical genetic programming, In Proc. Second IEEE Int. Conf. on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Press, 1995. c.. McDonnell JR and Waagen D, Evolving recurrent perceptrons for time-series modeling, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 5(1):24-38, 1994. d.. Mulloy BS, Riolo RL, and Savit RS, Dynamics of genetic programming and chaotic time series prediction, In Koza J et al. (eds.) Genetic Programming 1996, Morgan Kaufmann, pp. 166-174, 1996. e.. Numata M, Sugawara K, Yoshihara I, and Abe K, Time series prediction by genetic programming, In Genetic Programming 1998: Late-Breaking Papers, pp. 176-179, 1998. f.. Oakley EHN, Two scientific applications of genetic programming: stack filters and non-linear equation fitting to chaotic data, In. Kinnear Jr KE (ed.), Advances in Genetic Programming, MIT Press, pp. 369-389, 1994. g.. Oakley EHN, Genetic programming as a means of assessing and reflecting chaos, In Genetic Programming: AAAI-95 Fall Symposium Series, AAAI Press, pp. 68-72, 1995. h.. Oakley EHN, Genetic programming, the reflection of chaos, and the bootstrap: Towards a useful test for chaos, In Koza J et al. (eds.) Genetic Programming 1996, Morgan Kaufmann, pp. 175-181, 1996. i.. Sathyanarayan SR and Chellapilla K, Evolving reduced parameter bilinear models for time series prediction using fast evolutionary programming, In Koza J et al. (eds.) Genetic Programming 1996, Morgan Kaufmann, pp. 528-535, 1996. j.. Zhang BT, Ohm P, and Muehlenbein H, Evolutionary neural trees for modeling and predicting complex systems, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, vol. 10, no. 5, pp. 473-483, 1997. k.. Zhang BT and Joung JG, Evolving neural trees for hart rate prediction, In Soft Computing in Engineering Design and Manufacturing, Springer-Verlag, pp. 93-102, 1997. l.. Zhang BT, Ohm P, and Muehlenbein H, Water pollution prediction with evolutionary neural trees, In Proc. IJCAI-95 Workshop on AI and the Environment, Montreal, 1995. ------------------------------ End of Genetic Algorithms Digest ******************************