Genetic Algorithms Digest Tues, December 1, 1998 Volume 12 : Issue 21 - 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: - Evolution in time-dependent fitness landscapes - Computational Biology Problems - Faculty Openings at NYU/Stern Information Systems - CFP: ISAMA'99 - KBCS'98: Call for Participation - IAT'99 -- 2nd CFP - CFP: AAAI'99 in the neural/evolutionary/fuzzy areas - CFP: CEC'99 special session on coevolution - Reminder: third special issue on Evolutionary Design in AIEDAM - CFP: CEF'99 Special Session on EC in Economics and Finance - Journal of Scheduling: Announcing Vol 2 No.1 - Final CFP: EvoIASP'99 - ICANNGA'99 - Computational Finance CF'99 Program and Registration - Call for info on EC courses -- deadline reminder - CFP: Applied Intelligence on Applied Metaheuristics - ICML'99 Call For Papers ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 KBCS98 Knowledge Based Computer Systems (v12n21) Dec 17-19, 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 6-8, 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 ICANNGA99 Int Conf on NNs and GAs, Portoroz, Slovenia (v12n21) 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 ISAMA'99 Int Soc for Arts, Math and Arch, Spain (v12n21) Jun 7-11, 99 TAINN99 8th Turkish Symposium on AI and Neural Nets (v12n17) Jun 23-25, 99 CEF99 EC in Economics and Finance, Chestnut Hill, MA (v12n21) Jun 24-26, 99 ICML99 16th Int Conf on Mach Learning, Bled, Slovenia (v12n21) Jun 27-30, 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 AAAI99 16th National Conference on AI, Orlando, FL (v12n21) Jul 18-22, 99 ECAL99 5th Euro Conf on Artificial Life, Lausanne, Swi (v12n20) Sep 13-17, 99 IAT99 Intelligent Agent Technology, Hong Kong (v12n21) Dec 15-17, 99 Send announcements of other activities to GA-List@aic.nrl.navy.mil. ------------------------------ From: Claus Wilke Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 17:54:54 +0100 (MET) Subject: Evolution in time-dependent fitness landscapes I have done some work on evolution in time-dependent fitness landscapes. I would be grateful for any comments or hints to related literature. Evolution in time-dependent fitness landscapes Claus O. Wilke (Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum) IR-INI 98-09 Abstract: Evolution in changing environments is an important, but little studied aspect of the theory of evolution. The idea of adaptive walks in fitness landscapes has triggered a vast amount of research and has led to many important insights about the progress of evolution. Nevertheless, the small step to time-dependent fitness landscapes has most of the time not been taken. In this work, some elements of a theory of adaptive walks on changing fitness landscapes are proposed, and are subsequently applied to and tested on a simple family of time-dependent fitness landscapes, the oscillating NK landscapes, also introduced here. For these landscapes, the parameter governing the evolutionary dynamics is the fraction of static fitness contributions f_S. For small f_S, local optima are virtually non-existent, and the adaptive walk constantly encounters new genotypes, whereas for large f_S, the evolutionary dynamics reduces to the one on static fitness landscapes. Evidence is presented that the transition between the two regimes is a 2nd order phase transition akin a percolation transition. For f_S close to the critical point, a rich dynamics can be observed. The adaptive walk gets trapped in noisy limit cycles, and transitions from one noisy limit cycle to another occur sporadically. The full paper can be obtained from: http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/physics/9811021 Claus Wilke Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum ------------------------------ From: Ariel Fligler Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 12:43:51 +0200 Subject: Computational Biology Problems Greetings, My name is Ariel Fligler and I am thinking about doing my MSc on solving computational biology problems with a GA. I was thinking about Phylogenetic Trees problems, though I could not find any references or previous work on the subject on behalf of the evolutionary computation community. I would thank any body who could help me with obtaining references, remarks or advise if this is known to be a GA-hard problem. TIA, Ariel Fligler. ------------------------------ From: Andreas S Weigend (IS Recruiting) Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 01:44:07 -0500 (EST) Subject: Faculty Openings at NYU/Stern Information Systems The Department of Information Systems at the Stern School of Business at New York University has several faculty openings: Faculty Positions Applications are solicited for tenure-track positions at all levels for the 1999-2000 academic year. Entry-level candidates must receive the Ph.D. by summer 1999. Candidates must present evidence of outstanding research and teaching performance in the application of information technology to the solution of business problems. We are especially interested in fields such as data driven learning and knowledge discovery, the economics of information, electronic commerce, organization design and change, and human-computer interaction. Visiting Faculty Applications are solicited for full-time visiting positions at all levels. Visiting faculty teach at the MBA or undergraduate level and are active in the research activities of the department. Candidates must present evidence of strong teaching and research performance. NYU encourages applications from women and members of minority groups. Please send your application material as soon as possible to: Professor Jon Turner Chair of the Recruiting Committee Department of Information Systems Leonard N. Stern School of Business New York University 44 West 4th Street, K-MEC 9-72 New York, NY 10012-1126, USA To speed up the process, you can also send the usual application material to isnyu99@stern.nyu.edu, or fax it to +1 212-995-4228. For general questions, please use the e-mail address set up for recruiting: isnyu99@stern.nyu.edu If you are specifically interested in areas such as computational finance, financial engineering, statistical artificial intelligence, machine learning, neural networks, Bayes networks, graphical models, computational intelligence, reasoning under uncertainty, data mining, knowledge discovery, forecasting, time series prediction, etc., you can also contact me directly through e-mail (aweigend@stern.nyu.edu). --Andreas Weigend Andreas S. Weigend Associate Professor Information Systems Department Stern School of Business, NYU 44 W 4th St., K-MEC 9-74 New York, NY 10012-1126, USA http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~aweigend aweigend@stern.nyu.edu ------------------------------ From: Reza Sarhangi Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 14:02:50 -0600 Subject: CFP: ISAMA'99 ISAMA 99 First Interdisciplinary Conference of The International Society for The Arts, Mathematics and Architecture 7-11 June 1999 San Sebastian, Spain INVITATION AND CALL FOR PAPERS Conference Web Site http://www.sc.ehu.es/mathema1/ISAMA99 Fields of Interest The main purpose of ISAMA 99 is to bring together persons interested in relating mathematics with the arts and architecture. This includes teachers, architects, artists, mathematicians, scientists and engineers. As in previous conferences, the objective is to share information and discuss common interests. Hopefully new ideas and partnerships will emerge which can enrich interdisciplinary education. In particular, we believe it is important to begin interdisciplinary education at an early age so one component of ISAMA 99 will be teacher workshops for K-12 in addition to college level courses. ISAMA will focus on the following fields related to mathematics: Architecture, Computer Design and Fabrication in The Arts and Architecture, Geometric Art and Origami, Music, Sculpture and Tessellations and Tilings. These fields include graphics interaction, CAD systems, algorithms, fractals and graphics within mathematical software (Maple, Derive, Mathematics, etc.) There will also be associated teacher workshops. Call for Papers Papers are invited on the topics outlined and other topics which fall within the general scope of the Conference. Abstracts should be submitted to the Conference secretariat by December 15, 1998. Abstracts should not be longer than 300 words, contain a list of keywords, and clearly state the methodology, purpose, results and conclusion of the final paper. All lectures will be in English. Participants may wish to give their presentation in the form of slides and/or video. The final paper should contain explanatory text and a selection of images. Reza Sarhangi, Ph.D. Chair, Mathematics Department Southwestern College 100 College Street Winfield, KS 67156 sarhangi@jinx.sckans.edu http://www.sckans.edu/~math/ ------------------------------ From: KBCS-98 Secretariat Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 15:51:58 -0500 (GMT) Subject: KBCS'98: Call for Participation K B C S-98 Call for Participation INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON KNOWLEDGE BASED COMPUTER SYSTEMS National Centre for Software Technology Mumbai, India December 17-19, 1998 The International Conference on Knowledge Based Computer Systems will be held in Mumbai, India during December 17-19, 1998. The conference is intended to act as a forum for promoting interaction among researchers in the field of Artificial Intelligence in India and abroad. There will be a two day conference during December 17-18, 1998 followed by a day of post-conference tutorial on December 19, 1998. Papers were submitted to the conference on the following topics. o AI Applications o AI Architectures o Automatic Programming o Cognitive Modeling o Expert Systems o Foundations of AI o Genetic Algorithms o Information Retrieval o Intelligent Agents o Intelligent Tutoring Systems o Knowledge Acquisition o Knowledge Management o Knowledge Representation o Machine Learning o Machine Translation o Natural Language Processing o Neural Networks o Planning and Scheduling o Reasoning o Robotics o Search Techniques o Speech Processing o Theorem Proving o Uncertainty Handling o Vision About 30 papers will be presented during the conference. Post-Conference Tutorial The tutorial will be conducted on December 19, 1998 at NCST, Juhu, Mumbai. o An Introduction to Information Extraction - (11 AM to 6 PM) Amit Bagga, GE Corporate R & D Centre, USA Registration Last date for registration is 11th December 1998. On-site registration will be subject to availability of seats. All payments should be made by a crossed Mumbai cheque or a demand draft, payable to KBCS-98. For further information please refer to the KBCS-98 home page or write to the KBCS-98 Secretariat. Address KBCS-98 Secretariat National Centre for Software Technology Gulmohar Cross Rd No. 9 Juhu, Mumbai 400 049, India kbcs@konark.ncst.ernet.in http://konark.ncst.ernet.in/~kbcs/kbcs98/ ------------------------------ From: IAT99 Conference Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 01:31:19 +0800 (HKT) Subject: IAT'99 -- 2nd CFP Second Call for Papers: IAT'99 First Asia-Pacific Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology Hong Kong December 15-17, 1999 Home Page: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/IAT99 Papers Due: May 31, 1999 The Asia-Pacific Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT) is a high-quality, high-impact biannual agent conference series. As the first meeting in this new series, IAT'99 will primarily focus on (i) the state-of-the-art in the development of intelligent agents and (ii) the theoretical and computational foundations of intelligent agent technology. The aim of IAT'99 is to bring together researchers and practitioners from diverse fields, such as computer science, information technology, business, education, human factors, systems engineering, and robotics to (i) examine the design principles and performance characteristics of various approaches in intelligent agent technology, and (ii) increase the cross-fertilization of ideas on the development of autonomous agents and multiagent systems among different domains. By encouraging idea-sharing and discussions on the underlying logical, cognitive, physical, and biological foundations as well as the enabling technologies of intelligent agents, IAT'99 is expected to stimulate the future development of new models, new methodologies, and new tools for building a variety of embodiments of agent-based systems. TOPICS IAT'99 welcomes submissions of original papers. The technical issues to be addressed include, but not limited to: * Applications: - Data and knowledge intensive domains (e.g., large databases, Internet, digital libraries, financial engineering, business information systems, CSCW). - Interaction with software/interface agents (e.g., E-commerce, personal assistant, information filter, tutor). - Computational intelligence (e.g., pattern analysis and recognition, imaging, optimization, resource allocation, constraint satisfaction, planning). - Physically embodied systems (e.g., autonomous robots). - Very-large, complex, integrated intelligent systems. * Computational Architecture and Infrastructure: - Computational architectures. - Ontology models. - Agent-level and multiagent-level infrastructure. - Communication languages. - Multimodal systems and interfaces. - Protocols. - Tools and standards. - Heterogeneity and interoperability. - Scalability. * Learning and Adaptation: - Uncertainty management in multiagent systems. - Integrated exploration and exploitation. - Long-term reliability. - Neural networks. - Artificial life. - Behavioral selection. - Coordinating perception, thought, and action. - Behavioral self-organization. - Believable lifelike quality. - Classifier systems. - Evolution and learning in dynamic environments. - Adaptation and self-adaptation. - Emergent behavior. - Evolutionary computation. * Data and Knowledge Engineering/Communication: - Human-agent interaction. - Information filtering. - Data mining. - Heterogeneous data integration and management. - Knowledge discovery. - Knowledge sharing. - Knowledge aggregation. - Reasoning and planning. - Adaptation and evolution of knowledge networks. - Distributed knowledge systems. * Distributed Intelligence: - Dynamics of groups and populations. - Swarms. - Population evolution. - Coevolution. - Collective group behavior. - Coordination and cooperation. - Distributed intelligence. - Social integration. - Market-based computing. * Formal Theories of Agents: - Formal/computational modeling. - Chaotic and fractal dynamics. - Computational complexity. - Efficiency in distributed systems. - Taxonomy of agent environments. - Classification and characterization of complex behaviors. - Theories of perception, rationality, intention, emotion, coordination, action, and social behaviors. IMPORTANT DATES Four (4) copies of full papers due by: May 31, 1999 Notification of paper acceptance: July 31, 1999 Video/demo submission due by: Aug. 2, 1999 Notification of video/demo acceptance: Sept. 3, 1999 Camera-ready of accepted papers due by: Sept. 11, 1999 Conference: Dec. 15-17, 1999 [ MAP: For more information on submission see http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/IAT99 ] ------------------------------ From: Ron Sun Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 19:10:45 -0500 Subject: CFP: AAAI'99 in the neural/evolutionary/fuzzy areas Call for Papers Sixteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence Sponsored by the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). July 18-22, 1999, Orlando, Florida We would like to encourage the submission of high quality papers in the areas of neural/fuzzy/evolutionary computation to AAAI'99. The 1999 AAAI conference includes many program committee members in the neural/evolutionary/fuzzy areas. This year AAAI'99 expressly solicits top-quality submissions in the above-mentioned areas. Every consideration will be given to provide a fair review (albeit rigorous, in accordance with AAAI's long-standing high standard) to each paper. Your submission will be reviewed by experts in your area who understand and appreciate its contribution (or the lack of it) to the study of computational intelligence. To highlight and showcase the advance and contributions that neural/evolutionary/fuzzy communities are making in computational intelligence, in a broader context that goes beyond disciplinary and paradigmatic confines, we encourage you to submit your best work to this year's AAAI and share that work with others in the broader arena of artificial intelligence. Timetable for Submission January 19, 1999: electronic submission of abstracts January 20, 1999: submission of six (6) paper copies to AAAI office (see the AAAI web page describing all caveats, formats and details) March 12, 1999: notification of acceptance or rejection Please send papers to: AAAI-99 American Association for Artificial Intelligence 445 Burgess Drive Menlo Park, CA 94025-3442 For further details regarding submission, see http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/National/1999/aaai99-call.html Dr. C. Lee Giles NEC Research Institute 4 Independence Way Princeton, NJ 08540 Prof. Ron Sun Dept. CS University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, AL http://cs.ua.edu/~rsun rsun@cs.ua.edu ------------------------------ From: brian@daimi.au.dk (Brian Mayoh) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 13:59:02 +0100 Subject: CFP: CEC'99 special session on coevolution Coevolutionary Call for Papers Papers are solicited for the CEC99 (1999 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, July 6-9, 1999, Washington DC) special session on coevolutionary algorithms. Coevolutionary algorithms are becoming very popular as they have many advantages. Coevolutionary algorithms are evolutionary algorithms with more than one evolving population of individuals. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ISLAND CA) each population has the same kind of individual but the fitness function and the other evolutionary parameters may vary with the population PARTIAL CA) a phenotype is given by combining individuals from each population DATA-DRIVEN CA) some of the populations are data samples (e.g. counterexamples or constraints) MULTIAGENT CA) individuals from each population interact in some background environment. Robotic and "artificial life" applications are particularly welcome. Each contributed paper will be reviewed by two committee members of the special session and all papers accepted will appear in the conference proceedings. Interested authors should submit a DRAFT paper by December 15, 1998 to: Brian Mayoh, Aarhus University Computer Science Department, NyMunkegade Bldg.540,DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark email brian@daimi.aau.dk Fax +45 8942 3255 Electronic submissions are highly encouraged. The schedule for this special session is as follows. December 15, 1998: Deadline for DRAFT papers January 15, 1999: A list of session participants with their paper titles and abstracts February 1, 1999: Deadline for paper submission March 1, 1999: Notification of acceptance April 1, 1999: Camera-ready papers due July 6-9, 1999: CEC99 conference dates Up-to-date information on this special session is available from the web site http://www.daimi.au.dk/~brian/cec99.html. Brian Mayoh Aarhus University Computer Science Department ------------------------------ From: Peter Bentley Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 13:39:35 +0000 Subject: Reminder: third special issue on Evolutionary Design in AIEDAM I am having trouble reaching some of you who informed me that you wish to submit a paper for the third special issue on Evolutionary Design in AIEDAM journal. Just a reminder, the deadline for submissions is 1st January, 1999. The call for papers and latest details are on-line at: http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/P.Bentley/AIEDAM.html Do please confirm that you wish to submit a paper. Peter. ------------------------------ From: Suh-Heng Chen Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 13:37:17 +0800 Subject: CFP: CEF'99 Special Session on EC in Economics and Finance First Call for Papers and Participation CEF'99 Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Economics and Finance http://econo.nccu.edu.tw/ai/conference/CEF99.htm The Fifth International Conference of the Society for Computational Economics (CEF'99) http://fmwww.bc.edu/CEF99/ 24-26 June 1999 on the Boston College campus, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA Sponsored by the Department of Economics and the Wallace E. Carroll School of Management Call for Papers Over the last few years, evolutionary computation gradually has played an active increasingly role in computational economics and finance. Evolutionary computation tools such as genetic algorithms, genetic programming, evolutionary programming, and evolutionary artificial neural nets have been extensively applied to forecasting financial time series, estimating econometric parameters, pricing options, replicating laboratory results with human subjects, selecting equilibria, studying the emergence of the representative agent and rational expectations, simulating artificial stock markets and social processes, explaining the stylized facts observed in financial markets, designing public policy, and so on. In this special session, we would like to solicit the most recent advancement in this research area. Papers addressing novel applications of GAs, GP, EP, EANN,... to economics, game theory and finance are all welcome. Interested participants should send the title and abstract of the paper to Professor Shu-Heng Chen AI-ECON Research Group Department of Economics National Chengchi University Taipei, Taiwan 11623 chchen@nccu.edu.tw http://econo.nccu.edu.tw/ai/groupai.htm no later than Jan. 15. 1999. Papers presented at this special session will be referred for possible inclusion in a volume entitled ``Evolutionary Computation in Economics and Finance'' to be published by Springer-Verlag. ------------------------------ From: D.W.Corne@reading.ac.uk (David Corne) Date: Fri, 20 Nov 98 10:54:34 GMT Subject: Journal of Scheduling: Announcing Vol 2 No.1 JOURNAL OF SCHEDULING Announcing Volume 2 Issue 1 and other general information In print and on-line See http://www.interscience.wiley.com/jpages/1094-6136/ EDITORS EDMUND BURKE (Editor-in-Chief), University of Nottingham, UK ekb@cs.nott.ac.uk DAVID CORNE, University of Reading, UK D.W.Corne@reading.ac.uk MICHAEL PINEDO, New York University, USA mpinedo@stern.nyu.edu STEEF VAN DE VELDE, Erasmus University, The Netherlands 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 provides a recognised global forum for the publication of all forms of scheduling-oriented research. JoS covers advances in scheduling research, such as the latest techniques, applications, theoretical issues and novel approaches to scheduling problems. The journal is 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, for example: Real-time scheduling Sports scheduling Shop-floor scheduling Transport 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 ------------------------------ From: evoiasp@peggy.mt.unifi.it Date: Mon, 23 Nov 98 20:19:16 GMT Subject: Final CFP: EvoIASP'99 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS EvoIASP '99 FIRST EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION IN IMAGE ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING GOTEBORG, 28 May, 1999 Evolutionary algorithms have been shown to be tools which can be used effectively in the development of systems (software or hardware) for image analysis and signal processing in complex domains of high industrial and social relevance. EvoIASP '99 will be the first European event specifically dedicated to the applications of evolutionary computation (EC) to image analysis and signal processing (IASP) and will give European and non-European researchers in those fields, as well as people from industry, an opportunity to present their latest research, discuss current developments and applications, besides fostering closer future interaction between members of the three scientific communities. 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 EvoIASP, the EvoNet working group on Evolutionary Computation in Image Analysis and Signal Processing. It will be held in conjunction with three other major European events: * EuroGP'99, the second European workshop on genetic programming, * EvoRobot'99, the second European workshop on evolutionary robotics, * EuroECTel'99, the first European workshop on evolutionary telecommunications, Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Applications of evolutionary computation to real-life IASP problems - Evolvable vision and signal processing hardware - Evolutionary pattern recognition - Hybrid architectures for machine vision and signal processing including evolutionary components - Theoretical developments - Comparisons between different evolutionary techniques and between evolutionary and non-evolutionary techniques in IASP applications - Financial time series analysis by means of EC techniques. The workshop will consist of: - An invited talk by Dana Ballard - Oral and poster sessions with periods for discussion - Software demos and industrial stands Registration to EvoIASP'99 will include free non-transferable registration to EvoRobot'99, EuroGP'99, and EuroECTel'99 (and vice versa). Timetable: Submission deadline: 15 December 1998 Notification of acceptance: 15 January 1999 Camera ready papers for workshop: 15 February 1999 Workshop: 28 May 1999 Workshop Web Site: http://www.ce.unipr.it/people/cagnoni/evoiasp99.html Contacts: Stefano Cagnoni Department of Computer Engineering University of Parma 43100 Parma ITALY email: cagnoni@ce.unipr.it Peter Nordin Institute of Physical Resource Theory Chalmers University of Technology S-412 96 Goteborg, SWEDEN email: nordin@fy.chalmers.se [ MAP: For more information on submission and registration see the workshop Web site ] ------------------------------ From: Colin Reeves Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 16:26:36 +0000 (GMT) Subject: ICANNGA'99 Reminder: 4th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms, to be held on 6th-9th April, 1999 at Portoroz, Slovenia, hosted by the University of Ljubljana. Plenary talks by Kevin Warwick, Hugo De Garis with Marco Tomassini and Michael Korkin, and Ingo Rechenberg. Tutorial sessions are planned on 6th April on approximations of multi-variable functions by neural networks (Vera Kurkova), Multi-objective optimisation using GAs (Kalyan Deb), Alternative viewpoints on GAs (Colin Reeves), Neural networks and Fuzzy Logic (Nigel Steele). Full programme of accepted talks plus a visit to the world-famous Postojna cave and Lipica stud...also an optional post-conference visit to Venice by sea. For latest details and registration information see http://cherry.fri.uni-lj.si/icannga99.html or send an email to icannga@fri.uni-lj.si ------------------------------ From: Andreas Weigend - Computational Finance 99 Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 01:40:23 -0500 (EST) Subject: Computational Finance CF'99 Program and Registration Computational Finance http://www.stern.nyu.edu/CF99 CF99 Leonard N. Stern School of Business January 6 - 8, 1999 New York University Please note that the deadline for early registration is December 1. The sixth international conference Computational Finance 99 will be held at NYU's Leonard N. Stern School of Business. CF99 is sponsored by the New York University Salomon Center, the Center for Research on Informa- tion Systems and the Department of Statistics and Operations Research. Computational Finance has emerged as a genuinely cross-disciplinary research meeting. CF99 is the sixth in a series of conferences that have been sponsored by the California Institute of Technology and the London Business School. In the past, this conference was called Neural Networks in the Capital Markets (NNCM). The expanding set of computational tools has moved this meeting from its original emphasis on neural network techniques to a broad spectrum of different methodologies. With several hundred attendees, this fully refereed conference has become an international forum where original research in advanced computational applications in finance is presented and discussed. CF99 brings together decision makers and strategists from the financial industries, with academics from finance, statistics, economics, information systems and other disciplines. >> The website of the conference is http://www.stern.nyu.edu/CF99 << The site should contain all the information you need to know about the conference. ------------------------------ From: Riccardo Poli Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 18:01:17 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Call for info on EC courses -- deadline reminder Dear All, This is to remind you that the deadline to submit information on evolutionary computation courses is: FRIDAY THE 4TH OF DECEMBER 1998 The original call for course information is available at http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~rmp/eebic/ec_teaching Riccardo Dr. Riccardo Poli School of Computer Science The University of Birmingham Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK R.Poli@cs.bham.ac.uk http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~rmp/ ------------------------------ From: Dr Ibrahim H Osman Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 10:26:50 +0000 Subject: CFP: Applied Intelligence on Applied Metaheuristics CALL FOR PAPERS International Journal of Applied Intelligence Special Issue on Applied Metaheuristics In recent years, there have been significant advances in the theory and applications of meta-heuristics to the approximate solutions of complex optimization problems. The family of meta-heuristics includes, but not limited to, adaptive memory procedures (Adaptive memory procedures, ants systems, evolutionary methods (genetic algorithms, scatter search), greedy random adaptive search, neural networks, simulated annealing, tabu search, variable neighborhood search. Meta-heuristics provides decision makers with robust tools that obtains high-quality solutions, in reasonable time horizons, to important applications in business, engineering, economics and science. This special issue will provide the advantage of grouping high-quality papers with a special emphasis on the applications of metaheuristics in business, industry or public adminstration. Examples of metaheuristics papers include, but not limited to, * Actual or potential applications to the above mentioned areas. * Recent integration with other information technology tools & methodologies to aid decision makers. * Comparative case studies with alternative approaches to solve various practical problems. All manuscripts will be promptly and carefully refereed.when preparing their manuscripts, Authors should follow the Instructions to Authors available from (http://www.wkap.nl/journals/apin) the home address of the Applied Intelligence journal or by request from the guest editor. Four copies should be submitted, by no later than April 30, 1999, to the guest editor Ibrahim H. Osman. The address of the guest editor is: Dr. Ibrahim H. Osman, Visiting Professor, Department of Quantitative Methods & Information Systems, Faculty of Adminstrative Sciences, Kuwait University, P.O.Box 5486 Safat, Code No. 13055, KUWAIT. OsmanIH@kuc01.kuniv.edu.kw The aim is the get the volume published by early 2000. We look forward to receiving your papers for publications as soon as you can. Best regards Ibrahim H. Osman ------------------------------ From: 16th International Conference on Machine Learning Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 11:32:05 +0100 (MET) Subject: ICML'99 Call For Papers Call for Papers THE SIXTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MACHINE LEARNING June 27-30, 1999 Bled, Slovenia The Sixteenth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-99) will be held at the Convention Center Festival Hall, Bled, Slovenia, from June 27 to June 30, 1999. ICML-99 will be co-located with the Ninth International Workshop on Inductive Logic Programming (ILP-99). Submissions are expected that describe empirical, theoretical, and cognitive-modeling research in all areas of machine learning. Submissions that present algorithms for novel learning tasks, interdisciplinary research involving machine learning, or innovative applications of machine learning techniques to challenging, real-world problems are especially encouraged. For application papers, novelty and lessons for the machine learning community are of particular interest. All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least two members of the international programme committee. PAPER SUBMISSIONS: Submissions must arrive by *** February 1, 1999 *** Acceptance decisions will be mailed by *** March 27, 1999 *** Camera-ready copies will be due by *** April 19, 1999 *** WORKSHOP PROPOSALS: Workshop proposals should be submitted by *** January 10, 1999 *** Acceptance decisions will be mailed by *** February 1, 1999 *** Camera-ready proceedings are due *** June 1, 1999 *** TUTORIAL PROPOSALS: Tutorial proposals should be submitted by *** January 10, 1999 *** Acceptance decisions will be mailed by *** February 1, 1999 *** Camera-ready tutorial notes are due *** June 1, 1999 *** On-line version of this CFP: http://www-ai.ijs.si/SasoDzeroski/ICML99/cfp.html ICML-99 home page: http://www-ai.ijs.si/SasoDzeroski/ICML99/main.html [ MAP: For more information on submissions see the conference Web site ] ------------------------------ End of Genetic Algorithms Digest ******************************