Genetic Algorithms Digest Wednesday, June 9, 1999 Volume 13 : Issue 10 - 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: - Re: Application of GA on space layout definition (v13n9) - EHW Web Page - CEC99 Hotel Rooms Going Fast! - DS99 Call For Papers - GECCO'99: EC Visualization Workshop - Call for participation - Final CFP: NETWORKS'99 - CFP: Fourth European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning - IES'99 Call For Papers ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CALENDAR OF GA-RELATED ACTIVITIES: (with GA-List issue reference) SOCO99 Soft Computing, Genova, Italy Jun 1-4, 99 (v12n8) 1999 Complex Systems Summer School Jun 6-Jul 2, 99 (v13n2) ISAMA99 Int Soc for Arts, Math and Arch, Spain Jun 7-11, 99 (v12n21) MENDEL99 5th Int Mendel Conf on Soft Comp, Czech Rep Jun 9-12, 99 (v12n23) TAINN99 8th Turkish Symposium on AI and Neural Nets Jun 23-25, 99 (v12n17) CEF99 EC in Economics and Finance, Chestnut Hill, MA Jun 24-26, 99 (v12n21) ICML99 16th Int Conf on Mach Learning, Bled, Slovenia Jun 27-30, 99 (v12n21) Recent Advances in Soft Computing99, Leicester, UK Jul 1-2, 99 (v12n20) CEC99 Congress on Evol Computation, Washington, DC Jul 6-9, 99 (v12n9) ACAI99 Workshop on ML and Int Agents, Chania, Greece Jul 5-16, 99 (v13n3) Nostradamus Prediction Conference, Zlin, Czech Rep Jul 10-Aug 10,99 (v13n8) GECCO99 Genetic & Evol Computation Conf, Orlando, FL Jul 13-17, 99 (v12n8) AAAI99 16th National Conference on AI, Orlando, FL Jul 18-22, 99 (v12n21) EH99 1st NASA/DOD WS on Evol Hardware, Pasadena, CA Jul 19-21, 99 (v12n23) IJCAI99 16th Int Joint Conf on AI, Stockholm, Sweden Jul 31-Aug 6, 99 (v13n1) IPCAT99 3rd Int WS on Info Proc in Cells and Tissues Aug 23-26, 99 (v13n3) KES99 3rd Int Conf on KB Intel Inf Eng Sys, Australia Aug 31-Sep 1 99 (v13n7) ECAL99 5th Euro Conf on Artificial Life, Lausanne, Swi Sep 13-17, 99 (v12n20) EUFIT99 7th Euro Conf on Intell Tech and Soft Comp Sep 13-16, 99 (v13n3) SMC99 Int Conf on System, Man, and Cybernetics, Tokyo Oct 12-15, 99 (v13n4) IES99 Industrial Electronic Seminar, Surabaya, Indonesia Oct 27-28, 99 (v13n10) EWRL4 4th Euro WS on Reinf Learn, Lugano, Switzerland Oct 29-30, 99 (v13n10) EA99 Artificial Evolution, Dunkerque, France Nov 3-5, 99 (v13n5) ANNIE99 Artificial NN in Engineering, St. Louis, MO Nov 7-10, 99 (v13n5) RSFDGrC99 7th Int WS Rough Sets, Fuzzy Sets, Data Min Nov 9-11, 99 (v12n22) NIPS99 Neural Information Processing Systems, Denver, CO Dec 4, 99 (v13n8) DS99 2nd Int Conf on Discovery Science, Tokyo, JP Dec 6-8, 99 (v13n10) AWAPAP99 Appl of AI to Plant and Animal Prod, Sydney, AU Dec 7, 99 (v13n9) IAT99 Intelligent Agent Technology, Hong Kong Dec 15-17, 99 (v12n21) ACDM2000 Adaptive Comp in Design and Manuf, Plymouth, UK Apr 26-28, 00 (v13n9) APGA2000 2nd Asia Pac Conf on GAs and Applications, HK May 3-5, 00 (v13n8) WAC2000 8th Int Sym on Robotics with Apps, Maui, Hawaii Jun 11-16, 00 (v13n7) GP2000 Genetic Programming Conference, Las Vegas, NV Jul 8-12, 00 (v13n9) PATAT2000 3rd Int Conf Prac & Theor of Auto Timetabling Aug 16-18, 00 (v13n8) ISTA2000 Int Conf on Advances in Intel Sys, Canberra, AU Feb 2-4, 00 (v13n9) Send announcements of other activities to GA-List@aic.nrl.navy.mil. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 22:14:04 -0700 From: "Craig W. Reynolds" Subject: Re: Application of GA on space layout definition (v13n9) On 19 May 1999, Elena Valfre wrote: > ...I am trying to collect information on the use/application of > Genetic Algorithms in solving Space Layout definition problems. More > specifically I am interested in the use of GA in the definition of > wiring and piping routing in a 3-dimensional environment. I would > be very pleased to receive some information about this topic... There was a system called GARP from the University of Louisville (USA) which might be of interest to you. Search for "GARP" on these pages: http://www.spie.org/web/meetings/programs/pe98/confs/3517.html http://www.spie.org/web/abstracts/3500/3517.html At one time there was a page called "GARP: A Genetic Algorithm for a Three-Dimensional Non-Convex Bin Packing Problem" at: http://www.spd.louisville.edu/~itikon01/research/rese.html but that appears to be gone now. You might want to follow up with one of the authors, Professor William E. Biles: http://www.spd.louisville.edu/dept/industrial/facultyhtml/biles.html There are some other links related to the evolution of shape and spatial relationships on this page of mine: http://hmt.com/cwr/evolve.html#shape If you find others, please let me know. Craig Reynolds http://hmt.com/cwr/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Jun 99 21:43:00 JST From: higuchi@etl.go.jp (Tetsuya Higuchi) Subject: EHW Web Page We have renewed our home page on Evolvable Hardware (EHW): http://www.etl.go.jp/~ehw/ In contrast to conventional hardware, in which the structure is irreversibly fixed in the design process, EHW is designed to adapt, as the chameleon changes its color to blend in which environment, to changes in task requirements or in the environment, through its ability to reconfigure its own hardware structure dynamically and autonomously. In this HP, the research activities at Electrotechnical Laboratory are introduced: EMG(ElectroMyoGraph)-controlled prosthetic hand, an analog EHW chip for cellular phones, self-reconfigurable neural network chip, loss-less data compression LSI for electrophotographic printers, autonomous navigation robot, pattern recognition, EHW-based clock architecture towards Giga Hertz systems, etc. In addition, links to activities at major research institutes are also provided. I hope you enjoy visiting our site. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us. -- Tetsuya Higuchi (higuchi@etl.go.jp) Electrotechnical Laboratory JAPAN ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 12:29:55 -0400 From: "Pete Angeline" Subject: CEC99 Hotel Rooms Going Fast! The CEC99 reserved rooms at the Mayflower Hotel are going fast. The last day to book a room at the conference rate is June 14, only 1 week away. I have modified the room reservations once and could again if need be, so please let me know if you have any problems booking your room. The Mayflower Hotel reservations can be contacted at US 202-347-3000 and additional information can be found at the cec99 accommodations website (http://garage.cps.msu.edu/cec99) or at the Mayflower Hotel web site (http://www.renaissancehotel.com/WASSH/). Be sure to ask for the CEC99 conference rate to ensure your discount. Again, if you have any problems booking your room at the conference rate, let me know and I will assist. I look forward to seeing everyone at what is shaping up to be a truly exceptional EC event! -pete Peter J. Angeline Ph.D. Natural Selection, Inc. 509 Colgate Street, Vestal, NY 13850 Voice: 607-798-6250 Fax: 607-729-8715 mailto:angeline@natural-selection.com http://www.natural-selection.com/people/pja ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 16:16:07 +0900 From: Koichi Furukawa Subject: DS99 Call For Papers Submission Dead Line Extended to June 15. Call for Papers Discovery Science 1999 The Second International Conference on Discovery Science Waseda University International Conference Center, Tokyo, Japan December 6-8, 1999 The second international conference on Discovery Science (DS'99) will be held at Waseda University International Conference Center, Tokyo, Japan, from December 6 to 8, 1999. The conference will be sponsored by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Area "Discovery Science", in cooperation with Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, and with SIG of Data Mining, Japan Society for Software Science and Technology. The conference will be colocated with the Tenth International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory (ALT'99). We are now encountered to a rapidly growing digital network society. Information available for each person is tremendously large and therefore is far beyond our capability for analyzing and understanding. A new generation of computational techniques and tools is required to support the extraction and the discovery of useful knowledge from the rapidly growing volumes of data. Raw data is rarely of direct benefit. Its true value is reflected by our ability to extract information useful for decision support or for exploration and understanding of the phenomena exhibited in the data source. The "Discovery Science" is a three year project from 1998 to 2000 that aims to (1) develop new methods for knowledge discovery, (2) install network environments for knowledge discovery, and (3) establish the Discovery Science as a new area of Computer Science. A systematic research is planned that ranges over philosophy, logic, reasoning, computational learning and system developments. We are now close to the end of the first year and quite a few new research results are being expected. The main objective of this conference is to provide an open forum for intensive discussions and interchange of new information among researchers working in the new area of Discovery Science. We believe that such forum will be of benefit to the participants of the conference as well as to the "Discovery Science" project. Topics of interest within the scope of this conference include, but not limited to, the following areas: Logic for/of knowledge discovery, knowledge discovery by inferences, knowledge discovery by learning algorithms, knowledge discovery by heuristic search, scientific discovery, knowledge discovery in databases, data mining, knowledge discovery in network environments, inductive logic programming, abductive reasoning, machine learning, constructive programming as discovery, intelligent network agents, knowledge discovery from unstructured and multimedia data, statistical methods for knowledge discovery, data and knowledge visualization, knowledge discovery and human interaction, and human factors in knowledge discovery. Submissions Authors are requested to email postscript files of their papers to ds99-pc@sfc.keio.ac.jp or send six copies of them to Koichi Furukawa Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University 5322 Endoh, Fujisawa-shi, Kanagawa 252 Japan. Electronic submission is highly preferred. Papers must be received by June 15, 1999. For the latest information, please visit http://www.i.kyushu-u.ac.jp/ds99. [ Moderators' note: For additional details, please see conference Web page at http://www.i.kyushu-u.ac.jp/ds99. ] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 12:12:43 +0000 From: T.D.Collins@open.ac.uk (Trevor Collins) Subject: GECCO'99: EC Visualization Workshop - Call for participation A Birds-of-a-feather Workshop at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO'99) Orlando, Florida, USA - July 13th, 1999 > Workshop Topic Evolutionary Computation Visualization > Workshop Overview Software visualization is an area of computer science devoted to supporting people's understanding and effective use of computer software. Within Evolutionary Computation ("EC") visualization is increasingly being used as a means for supporting peoples' understanding of their algorithm's behavior. This workshop offers a timely opportunity for people interested in the possibilities of visualization to see the current state of the art, discuss the contribution that this work makes, and influence the future work done in this area. > Workshop Presentations The workshop will consist of five presentations and an open-forum discussion. Mark Bedau from Reed College, Oregon, will present some of his work on visualizing the evolutionary activity of alleles. John James Collins of the University of Limerick, Ireland, will present work on the visualization of a GA's search behaviour using principal component analysis. Hartmut Pohlheim will present some of the EC visualizations he has been using at Daimler Chrysler in Berlin, Germany. William M. Spears from the Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC, will be presenting an overview of some multidimensional visualization techniques he has been using. Finally, Annie Wu, also from the Naval Research Laboratory, will present "VIS," a GA visualization tool that she developed for use on the Virtual Virus project. After these presentations there will be an open-forum discussion in which everyone attending the workshop will have the opportunity to participate. > Anticipated Audience As the aim of software visualization is to improve peoples' understanding and use of computer software, it is hoped that this workshop will be of interest to anyone exploring the development, application and/or dissemination of EC. > Further Information Further details regarding the workshop are available on the workshop's website: http://www-iet.open.ac.uk/pp/t.d.collins/workshops/gecco-99/ Or from the workshop organiser: Trevor D. Collins Institute of Educational Technology The Open University Milton Keynes, UK MK7 6AA email: T.D.Collins@open.ac.uk phone: +44 1908 655731 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 21:24:22 +0300 From: Pekka Ala-Siuru Subject: Final CFP: NETWORKS'99 IJCAI'99 Affiliate Event: NETWORKS'99 Espoo, Finland, August 9-10 http://www.mlab.uiah.fi/networks99/ FINAL CALL for papers and participation, EXTENTED SUBMISSION DEADLINE to JUNE 18! The largest AI conference, IJCAI, will be organized in Stockholm, Sweden between 31st of July and 6th of August, 1999. As one of the affiliated events, workshop Networks'99 will be organized in Helsinki area also emphasizing the Nordic character of the conference. This workshop is arranged on August 9-10, 1999 in Espoo. The organizers are Finnish Artificial Intelligence Society (FAIS), VTT Electronics, and University of Helsinki, Department of Computer Science. The topics of Networks'99 include applications of Bayesian networks, case-based reasoning, neural networks and the hybrid systems based on the various combinations of these, evolutionary systems and fuzzy logic. Call for Papers The Networks'99 special research issue of the FAIS newsletter Arpakannus will include contributions for the workshop. The selected papers will be included in the newsletter. Submission deadline extended to June 18 ! Please, send your paper to the editor of the special issue Heikki Hyotyniemi not later than June 18, 1999 in IJCAI format. Please use electronic submission; Email or give a ftp address where your submission is located. Write either a short paper (2 pages) or full paper (6 pages) (preferred). Contact information: Heikki.Hyotyniemi@hut.fi Important dates Submission of the paper: June 18, 1999 Notification: June 30, 1999. Registeration and payment: July 15, 1999. Workshop: August 9 and 10, 1999. Organizing committee Mr. Pekka Ala-Siuru, VTT Electronics Prof. Timo Honkela, University of Art and Design Helsinki, chair Dr. Heikki Hyotyniemi, Helsinki University of Technology [ Moderators' note: For additional details, please see the conference Web page at http://www.mlab.uiah.fi/networks99/ ] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 15:28:50 +0200 From: Marco DORIGO Subject: CFP: Fourth European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning Call for Abstracts: EWRL-4, Fourth European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning Lugano, Switzerland, October 29-30, 1999 Reinforcement learning (RL) is a growing research area. To build a European RL community and give visibility to the current situation on the old continent, we are running a now biennal series of workshops. EWRL-1 took place in Brussels, Belgium (1994), EWRL-2 in Milano, Italy (1995), EWRL-3 in Rennes, France (1997). EWRL-4 will take place in Lugano, Switzerland (1999). The first morning will feature a plenary talk by Dario Floreano. The rest of the two-day workshop will be dedicated to presentations given by selected participants. Presentation length will be determined once we have some feedback on the number of participants. The number of participants will be limited. Access will be restricted to active RL researchers and their students. Please communicate as soon as possible, and in any case before end of July 1999, your intention to participate by means of the intention form attached below (e-mail preferred: ewrl@iridia.ulb.ac.be). Otherwise send intention forms to: Marco Dorigo IRIDIA, CP 194/6 Universite' Libre de Bruxelles Avenue Franklin Roosvelt 50 1050 Bruxelles Belgium TIMELINE: intention forms and one page abstracts should be emailed by the end of July to ewrl@iridia.ulb.ac.be Up-to-date information, including inscription fees, hotel information, etc., is maintained at: http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~ewrl/EWRL4/EWRL4.html The Organizing Committee Marco Dorigo and Hugues Bersini, IRIDIA, ULB, Brussels, Belgium, Luca M. Gambardella and Juergen Schmidhuber , IDSIA, Lugano, Switzerland, Marco Wiering, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 05:48:30 +0700 From: "Son Kuswadi" Subject: IES'99 Call For Papers CALL FOR PAPERS IES'99 INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONIC SEMINAR 1999 In concurrent with the 7th International Training Course on Electronic Engineering Education October 27-28, 1999 Graha ITS, Surabaya, Indonesia An Interdisciplinary Integrative Forum on Modeling, Simulation, Design and Implementation of Industrial Electronic Fields Objective The goal of IES'99 is to bring together researchers, designers, programmers and vendor involved in industrial electronics (devices, applications, system integration) to facilitate cross fertilization of ideas and exchange of information. Topics and Application Areas The seminar intends to provide an arena for analysis, discussions and decision on how to develop devices and system of industrial electronic, how to establish interfaces and cooperation strategies between educational institution and industry, and how to deploy simulation methods progressing towards efficient modeling of complete industrial electronic systems. Papers are invited on all aspects of innovative theory and use of industrial electronics, control system and instrumentation for industrial application. Topics include but are not limited to: practical control and signal processing, factory automation, fault detection and diagnosis, instrumentation, human factors, modeling and simulation, motion control, power electronic systems, robotic systems, sensor and actuators, measurement and testing, uses of neural nets, use of genetic algorithms, use of fuzzy logic, and artificial intelligence in industrial systems. Deadlines for Authors August 17, 1999: Initial Abstract Due. The two-page abstract should be submitted by August 17, 1999 to the Program Committee (by express mail, e-mail or FAX transmission). The abstract should be one page of text (maximum 500 words) using no smaller than 12-point type. A second page may contain a maximum four figures, artwork, or photographs (using halftones for photographs). Please ensure photographic material is legible on all copies. The abstract should explicitly highlight the new aspects of the work and conclusions that can be drawn; main results must be clearly indicated. Submission Address Son Kuswadi, Program Committee Electronic Engineering Polytechnic Institute of Surabaya - EEPIS Kampus ITS Keputih Sukolilo Surabaya 60111, Indonesia Tel: +62-31-5999325 Ext. 16; +62-31-5947280 Fax: +62-31-5946114 E-mail: sonk@eepis-its.ac-id.net http://www.eepis-its.ac-id.net [ Moderators' note: For additional details, please see conference Web page at http://www.eepis-its.ac-id.net. Note that their Web site is temporarily down. ] ------------------------------ End of Genetic Algorithms Digest ******************************