Genetic Algorithms Digest Monday, Jan 25, 1999 Volume 13 : Issue 3 - 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: - Request information about bioinformatics and EC - Improve GA using virus mechanism - Postdoc position available at University of Limerick - Impact factors for AI and related journals - Sandpiles and counting - CFP: Agents, Adaptive Behavior, Alife track of GECCO 99 - CFP: GECCO-99 Workshop on Learning Classifier Systems - CFP: GECCO'99 EC Visualization Workshop - CFP: Evolvability Workshop at GECCO '99 - CFP: Workshop on Data Mining with EAs: Research Directions - CFP: EUROGEN99 Short Course on Evolutionary Algorithms - CFP: ACAI-99 Workshop on ML and Intelligent Agents - EUFIT99 Conference announcement and CFP - CFP: Information Processing in Cells and Tissues (IPCAT 99) - CFP: Soft Computing Applied to Software Engineering (reminder) - Best of CEC99 to Appear in Journal "Knowledge-Based Systems" - EuroGP'99 23 accepted papers - New Forum for Interdisciplinary Articles ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CALENDAR OF GA-RELATED ACTIVITIES: (with GA-List issue reference) 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 SCASE99 Soft Computing Applied to SW Engr, Ireland (v13n1) Apr 12-14, 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 EUROGEN99 Short Course on EAs, Jyvaskyla, Finland (v13n3) May 30-Jun3, 99 SOCO99 Soft Computing, Genova, Italy (v12n8) Jun 1-4, 99 1999 Complex Systems Summer School (v13n2) Jun 6-July 2, 99 ISAMA99 Int Soc for Arts, Math and Arch, Spain (v12n21) Jun 7-11, 99 MENDEL99 5th Int Mendel Conf on Soft Comp, Czech Rep (v12n23) Jun 9-12, 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 Recent Advances in Soft Computing99, Leicester, UK (v12n20) Jul 1-2, 99 CEC99 Congress on Evol Computation, Washington, DC (v12n9) Jul 6-9, 99 ACAI99 Workshop on ML and Int Agents, Chania, Greece (v13n3) Jul 5-16, 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 EH99 1st NASA/DOD WS on Evol Hardware, Pasadena, CA (v12n23) Jul 19-21, 99 IJCAI99 WS on Neur, Symb, & Reinfcmt Meth for Sequ Lear (v13n1) Aug 1, 99 IJCAI99 WS on Agents Learning About, From, and With Ot (v12n22) Aug 2, 99 IPCAT99 3rd Int WS on Info Proc in Cells and Tissues (v13n3) Aug 23-26, 99 ECAL99 5th Euro Conf on Artificial Life, Lausanne, Swi (v12n20) Sep 13-17, 99 EUFIT99 7th Euro Conf on Intell Tech and Soft Comp (v13n3) Sep 13-16, 99 RSFDGrC99 7th Int WS Rough Sets, Fuzzy Sets, Data Min (v12n22) Nov 9-11, 99 IAT99 Intelligent Agent Technology, Hong Kong (v12n21) Dec 15-17, 99 Send announcements of other activities to GA-List@aic.nrl.navy.mil. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 21:54:13 +0800 From: Wei Hu Subject: Request information about bioinformatics and EC Dear Sir/Madam, I am in the university of Hong Kong, and interested in Bioinformatics and evolutionary computation. Could you give me some background materials or bibliography on applications of genetic algorithms in chemistry? Thank you very much! Yours, hu wei research associate of the department of EEE and BioChemistry. The university of HongKong ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 11:47:24 +0800 (CST) From: Li Guo Subject: Improve GA using virus mechanism Hello everybody! My name is L Yang. I'm a instructor from University of Science&Technology of China. I'm proposing an improved GA in which the individual multiplicity could be well retained and we could get the global optimal solution more easily. In my opinion,the method to solve this problem may refer itself to the biologic mechanism of virus. I really want to communicate with anybody who is interested in this area and its concernings. I would thank any friends who could help me with obtaining references, remarks or advise. Please forward this message to any interested parties if possible. My email address is: sticker@263.net ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 10:35:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Conor Ryan Subject: Postdoc position available at University of Limerick The following position is available POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER Soft Computing And Re-Engineering Group (Scare) Dept. of Computer Science and Information Systems University of Limerick Ireland The successful applicant will assist with a government funded project involving the use of Soft Computing to Software Re-Engineering, in particular the automatic conversion of serial programs to parallel. The appointee is expected to contribute significantly to the project and to have knowledge in one or more (not necessarily all) of the following areas: - Evolutionary Algorithms - Parallel Programming - Graph Drawing - Scheduling As the appointee will be using a Beowulf system, previous knowledge of MPI would be an advantage, although is not a requirement. Appointment will be initially for one year with the possibility of annual renewal, salary will be around IRP 25,000, which is around USD37,000. For further information contact : Dr. Conor Ryan CSIS Dept., University of Limerick Ireland +353 61 202755 Conor.Ryan@ul.ie http://scare.csis.ul.ie/staff/conor ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 12:12:06 -0500 (EST) From: Lee Giles Subject: Impact factors for AI and related journals Please find at: http://www.neci.nj.nec.com/homepages/giles/html/cites.html the recent 1997 impact and citation factors for AI and related journals which have been compiled by ISI. Best regards, Lee Giles -- C. Lee Giles Computer Science NEC Research Institute 4 Independence Way Princeton, NJ 08540, USA www.neci.nj.nec.com/homepages/giles ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 13:26:26 -0800 From: "Russell J. Abbott" Subject: Sandpiles and counting In "How Nature Works," [Copernicus (Springer-Verlag)], Bak describes his sandpile model of poised, self-organized criticality. Briefly, the model consists of a two dimensional array in which each cell hold an integer representing the number of grains of sand in that cell. Grains of sand are added to the sandpile by choosing a cell at random and incrementing it by 1. If the value at a cell exceeds a threshold (in Bak=B9s example 4), the cell overflows (and is emptied) and the 4 neighboring cells are incremented by one each. As a result of an overflow , a neighbor may also overflow, leading to what Bak calls avalances. Records are kept of the avalanche sizes, i.e., the number of cells affected by a single original increment. The important result is that the data follows a power law, the number of avalanches of a given size is inversely proportional to the size of the avalanche, i..e., avalanches of size 10 occur 1/10th as often as avalanches of size 1. (More generally, the number of occurrences of an event of value x is proportional to x raised to some negative exponent, -1 being the simplest case.) Consider two modifications to the model. 1. Let the array be 1 dimensional. 2. Let the array be directional, i.e., overflows are allowed only in a "downhill" direction. [The original model is not directional, overflows can occur in any direction. A neighbor can overflow back onto the cell that overflowed onto it.] My guess is that neither of these modifications will make any difference. One will still get a power law distribution of avalanche sizes. Bak's circle of pendulums seems to confirm this. Bak also points out that selecting the cell to be incremented at random is not important. The sand could always be added to the same cell, and the model would still produce a power law distribution of avalanche sizes. But the modified model (a one-dimensional directed array in which a single cell is repeatedly incremented) is a model for counting. The simplest case is that in which the threshold is 2. The array becomes a binary number where each cell represents a bit position. One repeatedly incerments the low order bit. Avalanches are carries to higher order bits. In such a model, the distribution of the number of cells affected by a single increment, i.e., the number of cells involved in a series of carry steps, follows a power law. Half of all increments will result in no carries. Of the other half, half of those will result in one carry. Of the remaining 25%, half of those will result in two carries, etc. A similar power law effect will hold for any base. [If one allows the most significant bit to "overflow" into the least significant, i.e., a torus, the statistics will be essentially the same for an array of non-trivial size. This becomes something like Bak's circle of pendulums.] What is the significance of this observation? Does it mean that counting is a poised self-organized, critical system? -- Russ Abbott ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 13:25:53 -0600 (CST) From: Vasant Honavar Subject: CFP: Agents, Adaptive Behavior, Alife track of GECCO 99 Hi. This is to remind you that the Deadline for RECEIPT of submissions for the "Agents, Adaptive Behavior and Artificial Life" Track of GECCO 99 is WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1999. Check http://www-illigal.ge.uiuc.edu/gecco/ for details. Vasant Honavar ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 01:12:10 +0100 (MET) From: Pier Luca Lanzi Subject: CFP: GECCO-99 Workshop on Learning Classifier Systems *** Call for Papers *** Second International Workshop on Learning Classifier Systems (IWLCS-99) a workshop of The 1999 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-99) July 13, 1999 Orlando, Florida, USA The Second International Workshop on Learning Classifier Systems will be held during the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-99) on July 13, 1999 at the Omni Rose Hotel in Orlando, Florida. The aim of the workshop is to bring together people from this field for getting an overview of the latest results and most promising research directions. Although GECCO has a track on LCS, we believe that a workshop is the best setting to discuss the recent research results and the future research direction. The workshop is in fact an informal environment more suitable to promote discussion. Submissions are invited that discuss recent developments in learning classifier systems research and the expected trends of the field. Submissions deadline is *** March 24, 1999 *** Acceptances decisions will be mailed by *** May 15, 1999 *** Copies for the working notes are due by *** June 15, 1999 *** For additional information, see the workshop page http://www.psychologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/iwlcs-99 or send an electronic message to iwlcs-99@elet.polimi.it. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 09:37:39 +0000 From: T.D.Collins@open.ac.uk (Trevor Collins) Subject: CFP: 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 14-17, 1999 Workshop Topic: Evolutionary Computation Visualization 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 people's 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. 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. Anyone interested in presenting their work on EC visualization at this event is encouraged to submit a brief presentation proposal to the workshop organizers. Please note the closing date for presentation proposals is February 10th 1999, proposals received after February 10th will not be considered for this workshop. Further details regarding this workshop are available on the world wide web, see: http://www-iet.open.ac.uk/pp/t.d.collins/workshops/gecco-99/ Trevor Collins Institute of Educational Technology The Open University Milton Keynes MK7 6AA email: T.D.Collins@open.ac.uk phone: +44 1908 655731 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 15:11:57 -0000 From: Paul Marrow Subject: CFP: Evolvability Workshop at GECCO '99 EVOLVABILITY A Workshop to be held at the 1999 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO '99) Orlando, Florida, 13 July 1999. This workshop will take place before the 1999 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, and will bring together researchers interested in different aspects of evolvability - a central, if ill-defined, concept in evolutionary computation. Evolvability has been studied from several different perspectives including computing, biology and philosophy. The workshop will consist of invited and contributed presentations from workers addressing contrasting aspects of evolvability, together with general discussion. Short presentations dealing with aspects on evolvability in evolutionary algorithms are invited. Send extended abstracts together with contact details by e-mail to the address given below. For more information see the workshop web page: http://www.labs.bt.com/people/marrowp/docs/evolv_ws.htm Deadline for submissions: 1 March 1999 Paul Marrow BT Laboratories paul.marrow@bt.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 16:51:21 -0200 From: Alex Alves Freitas Subject: CFP: Workshop on Data Mining with EAs: Research Directions CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION The AAAI-99 & GECCO-99 Workshop on DATA MINING WITH EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS: RESEARCH DIRECTIONS. July 17 or 18, Orlando, Florida. There has been a growing interest in data mining in several AI-related areas, including evolutionary algorithms. Hence, it seems that it is the right time for the communities of data mining and evolutionary algorithms to meet and exchange ideas. The general goal of the workshop will be to discuss promising and necessary research directions in data mining with evolutionary algorithms. The workshop length will be either half day or full day, depending on the number of submitted papers. The workshop will consist of presentations by selected speakers, followed by discussions. Speakers will be selected via submission of short papers, reviewed by an international program committee. Submitted papers must address important research directions and open problems, rather than just discuss some particular algorithm developed by the authors. The workshop will have a limited number of participants. If you cannot submit a paper or if your paper is not selected, you can still attend the workshop if you are invited by the Chairman. Invitees will be selected via submission of a short CV, describing their relevant expertise, main publications, etc. Paper and CV submission: papers must arrive by March 12 Acceptance/rejection Notification: March 26 Camera-ready paper: April 21 Workshop Chairman: Prof. Alex Alves Freitas PUC-PR (Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Parana) Programa de Pos-Graduacao em Informatica Aplicada Predio da Engenharia Eletrica e Computacao Rua Imaculada Conceicao, 1155. Prado Velho. Curitiba-PR, 80215-901 BRAZIL For more information see: http://www.ppgia.pucpr.br/~dmea/ e-mail: dmea@ppgia.pucpr.br ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 09 Dec 1998 18:18:26 +0200 From: "Marko M. M\dkel\d" Subject: CFP: EUROGEN99 Short Course on Evolutionary Algorithms FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS EUROGEN99 Short Course on EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS IN ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE Jyvaskyla, Finland, May 30 - June 3, 1999 http://www.mit.jyu.fi/eurogen99 "Evolutionary Computing is ready for real world applications" will be the dominant theme of this third short course in the EUROGEN series. The course will focus on numerical techniques of evolutionary and genetic algorithms, that are now having an increasing importance in engineering applications. OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE - To present a compendium of state of the art lectures about theoretical aspects, numerical implementation and practical results obtainable using Genetic Algorithms and Evolution Strategies for discrete, continuous and combinatorial optimization problems. - To present the existing connection between evolution algorithms and other techniques like Fuzzy Logic and Neural Networks. - To provide a bridge between Artificial Intelligence and Scientific Computing with an emphasis on distributed parallel computing at real life problems. - Among the targeted applications are * Fluid Dynamics * Structure Mechanics * Electromagnetics * Automation Control * Resource Optimization * Image Processing and Economics PROGRAM The program consists of * Tutorials * Invited speakers * Industrial (INGENET) sessions * Contributed sessions SUBMISSION OF CONTRIBUTED PAPERS Authors who wish to present a paper are invited to submit their abstracts (up to 150 words) by JANUARY 15, 1999 via e-mail. [Moderator: for more information see http://www.mit.jyu.fi/eurogen99] ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 12:45:50 +0200 From: Nick Zacharis Subject: CFP: ACAI-99 Workshop on ML and Intelligent Agents Call For Papers Workshop on Machine Learning and Intelligent Agents MACHINE LEARNING AND APPLICATIONS Advanced Course on Artificial Intelligence 1999 (ACAI'99) 5-16 July 1999, Chania, Greece (http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/skel/eetn/acai99) European Coordinating Committee on Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI) (http://www.eccai.org) & Hellenic Artificial Intelligence Society (EETN) (http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/skel/eetn) WORKSHOP BACKGROUND Machine Learning in single and multi-agent systems is a relatively new but significant and promising topic in Artificial Intelligence. Intelligent agents and agent-based computer systems represent an important, fundamentally new way of dealing with many important software application problems for which mainstream computer science techniques offer no obvious solution in recent dynamic and distributed nature of both data and applications. Topics to be covered during this workshop must be applications which concern the development of intelligent agent architectures which exhibit machine learning capabilities. These architectures must apply some learning strategy (learning from examples, from instruction, by discovery or analogy, etc.), some learning feedback method (supervised, reinforcement, unsupervised learning, etc.), and must be safely characterized as intelligent agent systems. Examples of topics: Single-agent or isolated Learning, multi-agent or interactive learning, Mutual learning, cooperative learning, collaborative learning, etc. WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners with an active interest in machine learning problems in environments inhabited by single intelligent agents and/or shared by multiple intelligent agents. Also, this workshop will provide a forum for discussing existing approaches and results and developing new ideas and perspectives. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Ass. Prof. T. Panayiotopoulos, University of Piraeus, Dept of Computer Science Email: themisp@unipi.gr Dr. N. Zacharis University of Piraeus, Dept of Computer Science E-mail: nzach@unipi.gr SUBMISSION FORMAT Interested authors are requested to submit a paper, of no more than 10 pages, before 23 February 1999 Authors of accepted papers will be asked to provide a camera-ready version of their paper before 1 April 1999. Submission should be sent by e-mail to: Assist. Prof. Themis Panayiotopoulos Themis, University of Piraeus, Department of Computer Science Karaoli & Dimitriou 80 Piraeus - 18534, Greece Tel : (+301) 4222193 Fax : (+301) 4221520 E-mail : themisp@unipi.gr IMPORTANT DATES 23 February, 1999 Deadline for paper submission 13 March, 1999 Notification of acceptance 1 April, 1999 Deadline for final camera ready papers 5-16 July, 1999 The exact date will be finalised soon ------------------------------ Date: 15 Jan 99 08:24:22 UT From: mn@mitgmbh.de Subject: EUFIT99 Conference announcement and CFP 7th European Conference on Intelligent Techniques and Soft Computing with Exhibition on Software, Hardware, and Books September 13 - 16, 1999 Aachen, Germany Conference Announcement Call for Papers and Participation ANNOUNCEMENT The ELITE Foundation (European Laboratory for Intelligent Techniques Engineering) is pleased to announce EUFIT '99 - The 7th European Congress on Intelligent Techniques and Soft Computing. EUFIT '99 aims to bring together scientists and practitioners from academic, governmental, and industrial institutions to discuss new developments and results in the field of intelligent technologies. The congress will take place in Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle), Germany, on September 13-16, 1999. In Aachen the charm of 1,200 years of history merges with the most advanced technological research. Charlemagne, once the Emperor of Europe, resided in the medieval Aachen in the 8th century and in our times the 'RWTH', one of the largest European Institutes of Technology, is located here. The conference offers tutorials, invited talks, plenary and semi-plenary presentations, refereed papers, interactive sessions, and workshops. Sessions will be composed of scientific and applied presentations in Fuzzy Technology, Neural Networks, and Genetic Algorithms. In interactive sessions speakers can communicate freely with the interested audience for up to 60 minutes. Their presentations will be announced and introduced in sessions related to the topic. Honorary Chairman L. A. Zadeh, USA General Chairman H.-J. Zimmermann, Germany Chairman of the Organisation Committee K. Lieven, Germany CALL FOR PAPERS Authors are invited to submit papers and industrial reports including clear concluding remarks. Industrial reports are intended for professionals who have little time to write a full paper, but who nevertheless, would like the opportunity to present the benefits of their application at the conference. After acceptance for presentation, the papers and industrial reports will be published in the proceedings on CD-Rom. Proposals for sessions are welcome. Persons interested in organizing a session should contact the organizer as soon as possible. DATES AND DEADLINES February 15, 1999 Deadline for submission of papers and industrial reports April 30, 1999 Notification of acceptance June 30, 1999 Deadline for early registration WORKSHOPS There will be working group meetings of the ERUDIT-Network of Excellence. If you would like to organise a workshop, or wish to see a particular topic covered, please contact us. The conference will be accompanied by an international software, hardware and book exhibiton. Leading suppliers will demonstrate software and hardware products and special applications based on intelligent systems. Book publishers will present their books and journals related to the conference topics. Interested exhibitors are invited to contact the organisers for further information. Information & Registration Form Telefax: +49 2408 94582 For any information, please contact Conference Secretariat: EUFIT '99, Promenade 9, 52076 Aachen, Germany Phone: +49 2408 6969 Fax: +49 2408 94582 Email: eufit@mitgmbh.de [Moderator: for more information see the conference Web page at http://www.mitgmbh.de/eufit ] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 09:43:07 -0000 From: rcp@csc.liv.ac.uk Subject: CFP: Information Processing in Cells and Tissues (IPCAT 99) FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS - IPCAT'99 THIRD INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON INFORMATION PROCESSING IN CELLS AND TISSUES Monday August 23 - Thursday August 26 1999 INDIANAPOLIS, USA PURPOSE OF IPCAT WORKSHOPS The purpose of the IPCAT workshop series is to bring together multidisciplinary groups of scientists working in the general area of modelling cells and tissues. A central theme will be the nature of biological information and the ways it is processed in cells and tissues. The workshop is intended to provide a forum to report research, discuss emerging topics and gain new insights into information processing systems, enzyme and gene networks, second messenger systems and signal transduction, automata models, PDP models, cellular automata models, single neuron computation, information processing in developmental systems, information processing in neural and non neural systems and new insights into non linear aspects of physiological behaviour. A key motivation is to provide a common ground for dialogue and reporting research without emphasising one particular research constituency or way of modelling or singular issue in this area. IPCAT '99 will seek to further the meaningful dialogue and exchange of ideas started at IPCAT '95 and IPCAT '97 between biologists, physicists, computer scientists and mathematicians. SUBMISSION DETAILS Papers should be 1.5 spaced in 12 point Times font. Maximum length of papers should be 12 pages. [Note: shorter contributions are also welcome]. 4 copies of papers should be submitted to: Ray Paton Department of Computer Science The University of Liverpool Liverpool L69 3BX UK Email: rcp@csc.liv.ac.uk Video and computer demonstrations are also very welcome. PLEASE NOTE: The papers for the external proceedings will change according to publisher's style. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline ............................ March 20, 1999 Notification of acceptance ..................... May 1, 1999 Camera ready copies (internal proceedings) ..... June 1, 1999 Conference dates ............................... August 23-26, 1999 Camera ready copies (published proceedings) .... October 1, 1999 WORKING LANGUAGE The working language of the Conference will be English which will be used for all printed material, presentations and discussion. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 10:34:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Conor Ryan Subject: CFP: Soft Computing Applied to Software Engineering (reminder) CALL FOR PAPERS Soft Computing Applied to Software Engineering Limerick, Ireland, April 12 - 14, 1999 http://scare.csis.ul.ie/scase99 The challenges of Software Engineering are still with us, despite more than twenty years of research effort. Soft Computing in its various forms offers promising methods for a wide variety of areas, from classical optimisation to poorly defined design problems. This workshop aims to explore the application of Soft Computing techniques to difficult problems in Software Engineering. The workshop will include: invited talks from Forest H. Bennet III, Peter Eades, James Boyle and others panel sessions research papers position papers system demonstrations Topics include, but are not limited to, the application of Soft Computing methods such as: evolutionary algorithms fuzzy logic neural networks simulated annealing and to Software Engineering problems such as: metrics driven design re-modularisation parallelisation software visualisation and documentation software cost estimation characterisation of design patterns and architectures clone detection Intending participants are requested to submit either a research paper (up to 5000 words), a position paper (about 1000 words), or a brief description of a system demonstration (about 1000 words plus sample screenshots). Submissions should be made in postscript by email to scase99@ul.ie, by January 30, 1999. Authors will be notified of acceptance by February 28, 1999, and camera-ready papers for the proceedings are due by March 12, 1999. A small amount of support may be available for student participants. Attendance will be limited to at most 30 participants, in order to encourage the free flow of ideas. There is no registration fee, but early registration is recommended to ensure a place. The proceedings (including all contributions) will be published by the University of Limerick, and a special issue of a journal is planned. The workshop will be held at the University of Limerick. Organising committee: Jim Buckley, Tony Cahill, JJ Collins, Peter Eades, Patrick Healy, Laur Ivan, Conor Ryan, and Alan Sheahan. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 17:16:03 -0500 From: "Pete Angeline" Subject: Best of CEC99 to Appear in Journal "Knowledge-Based Systems" 1999 Congress on Evolutionary Computation July 6-9, 1999 The Mayflower Hotel Washington D.C. USA The conference committee of CEC99 is happy to announce an agreement with the Elsevier journal "Knowledge-Based Systems" to publish the best articles of the conference as a special issue in the Spring of 2000. The 8 to 10 papers to be included in the special issue will be selected from *all* papers published in the conference proceedings. The General Chair and four Technical Chairs of CEC99 will serve as Guest Editors for the issue. Authors of the selected papers will be encouraged to update and revise their conference paper into a form more suitable for a journal publication. Selection of the papers is expected to be completed by May 1, 1999 with final versions of the articles due November 1, 1999 at Elsevier. The submission deadline for CEC99 is January 29, 1999. Additional information about the special issue can be found at the CEC99 conference web pages at http://garage.cps.msu.edu/cec99 which also includes information about reduced airfare and special opportunities for students attending the conference. The 1999 Congress on Evolutionary Computation is joint meeting of the IEEE International Conference on Evolutionary Computation (ICEC), the Conference on Evolutionary Programming (EP), and the IEE Genetic Algorithms in Engineering Systems: Innovations and Applications (GALESIA) conference. Questions and comments can be addressed to the conference email at cec99@natural-selection.com or to me personally at angeline@natural-selection.com. Pete Angeline CEC99 General Chair -- Peter J. Angeline, Ph.D. Natural Selection, Inc. 509 Colgate Street, Vestal NY 13850 Voice: 607-798-6250 Fax: 607-729-8715 WWW: http://www.natural-selection.com/people/pja ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 13:28:47 +0100 From: Bill Langdon Subject: EuroGP'99 23 accepted papers A list of papers 23 papers accepted for presentation at the second European Workshop on Genetic Programming may be found via the EuroGP'99 www home page http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~rmp/eebic/eurogp99/ or directly at http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~rmp/eebic/eurogp99/accepted.html EuroGP will take place 26-27 May, 1999, in Goteborg in Sweeden. BTW: EuroGP'99 is collocated with 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 workshop on evolutionary image analysis and signal processing, held on May 28 at the same site as EuroGP'99. http://www.ce.unipr.it/people/cagnoni/evoiasp99.html EuroECTel'99, the first European workshop on evolutionary telecommunications, held on May 29 at the same site as and just after EuroGP'99. http://www.cs.reading.ac.uk/cs/research/ectelnet/euroect1.html Thank you Bill -- W. B. Langdon Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica Kruislaan 413, NL-1098 SJ Amsterdam http://www.cwi.nl/~bill/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 19:02:38 +0100 From: Liane Gabora Subject: New Forum for Interdisciplinary Articles Announcing a new forum for interdisciplinary articles: F O U N D A T I O N S O F S C I E N C E 'Foundations of Science' (FOS) is a Kluwer Academic journal that investigates fundamental concepts, principles, assumptions, and unsolved problems that characterise both the traditional scientific disciplines and the newly emerging interdisciplinary domains. The new editorial board of FOS would like to announce some original, new changes in structure, and elicit a call for papers that adhere to this new structure. 1. FOS wishes to reach as interdisciplinary an audience as possible while maintaining an advanced level of discussion. Therefore, authors have the option of submitting papers in a format that consist of two parts: A nontechnical expository section accessible to scientists of all disciplines, and a specialised or technical section for experts in the field. 2. FOS issues will ocassionally also contain Special Issue sections. Scientists are invited to send proposals for special issues sections to the editor. If their proposal is accepted, they will act as guest editor for this section. 3. A new section of FOS titled the *Third Millennium Archive* will consist of invited papers from prominent scientists with synthetic or speculative ideas about the state of science and the state of the world on the verge of the third millennium. For details, please refer to http://www.vub.ac.be/CLEA/FOS/ Diederik Aerts, Jan Broekaert and Liane Gabora, Editor-in-Chief Assistent Editors diraerts@vub.ac.be ------------------------------ End of Genetic Algorithms Digest ******************************