Genetic Algorithms Digest Tuesday, August 29, 2000 Volume 14 : Issue 15 - 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 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: - Administrivia - Rare dissertations - Request for info on GAs in Cryptanalysis - Frequency domain as fitness function - Help request - PhD Studentship in Evolutionary Computation at Reading - Graduate Research Positions on Computation in Gene Expression - CFP: Pacific Asia Data Mining PAKDD-2001 - CFP for CEC2001 - EMO'01: Reminder - Evolutionary Algorithms in Molecular Design - UMUAI Special Issue on "User Modeling and Intelligent Agents - EuroGP2001 Conference and Workshops CFP - ICSB2000 Call for Posters - CFP: IWES'01 - 3rd International Workshop on Emergent Synthesis - CFP: IEEE TEC Special Issue on Artificial Immune Systems ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALENDAR OF GA-RELATED ACTIVITIES: (with GA-List issue reference) KES2000 4th Int Conf KB Intell Engr Sys & Allied Tech Aug 30-Sep 1, 00 (v14n4) WSC5 5th Online World Conf on Soft Comp in Indust Apps Sept 4-18, 00 (v14n7) HUMANOIDS2000 1st IEEE-RAS Conf Humanoid Robots, Boston Sep 7-8, 00 (v14n1) ANTS2000 2nd Int WS on Ant Algorithms, Brussels, Belgium Sep 8-9, 00 (v13n28) SAB2000 Int Conf on Sim Of Adaptive Behavior, Paris, FR Sep 11-15, 00 (v13n24) IWLCS2000 3rd Int WS on Learning Class Systems, Paris Sep 16, 00 (v13n26) PPSNVI Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, Paris, FR Sep 16-20, 00 (v13n24) ISMIS00 Int Sym Meth for Intell Sys, SS on EC, Charlotte Oct 11-14, 00 (v14n1) RSCTC2000 2nd Int Conf Rough Sets & Cur Trends in Comp Oct 16-19, 00 (v13n26) SEAL2000 3rd Asia-Pac Conf on Sim Evol and Learning Oct 25-27, 00 (v13n25) ADVIS2000 1st Biennial Int Conf on Adv in IS, Izmir, TR Oct 25-27, 00 (v14n5) IROS2000 Int Conf on Intell Robots and Systems, Japan Oct 30-Nov 5, 00 (v14n7) ANNIE2000 Artificial NN in Engineering, St. Louis, MO Nov 5-8, 00 (v14n4) ICSB2000 1st Int Conf on Systems Biology, Tokyo, Japan Nov 14-16, 00 (v14n15) SCCC2000 XX Int Conf Chilean CS Soc - WS Adv & Trends AI Nov 16-18, 00 (v14n12) SBRN2000 VI Braz Symp Neural Networks, Rio de Janeiro Nov 22-25, 00 (v14n12) ICARCV2000 6th Int Conf on Cont/Aut/Rob/Vis, Singapore Dec 6-8, 00 (v13n28) ISA2000 Int Congress on Intell Sys and Appl, Sydney, AU Dec 12-15, 00 (v14n5) KBCS2000 Int Conf on Knowl Based Comp Sys, Mumbai, India Dec 17-19, 00 (v14n9) EMO01 1st Int Con of Evol Multi-Criterion Opt, Zurich Mar 7-9, 01 (v14n4) SAC2001 16th ACM Symp on Applied Computing, Las Vegas Mar 11-14, 01 (v14n14) IWES01 3rd Int WS on Emergent Synthesis, Bled, Slovenia Mar 12-13, 01 (v14n15) CSMR2001 5th Eur Conf on Soft Maint and Reeng, Portugal Mar 14-16, 01 (v14n13) ISI2001 Int Congress on Info Science Innovations, Dubai Mar 20-23, 01 (v13n25) PAKDD01 Pacific-Asia Conf on KD and Data Min, Hong Kong Apr 16-18, 01 (v14n15) EUROGP2001 4th Euro Conf on GP, Milan, Italy Apr 18-20, 01 (v14n15) EVOIASP2001 3rd Eur WS Evol Comp Image Analys & Sig Proc Apr 20, 01 (v14n14) ICANNGA2001 5th Int Conf on Artif NN and GAs, Prague Apr 22-25, 01 (v14n11) CEC2001 Congress on EC, Seoul, Korea May 27-30, 01 (v14n15) Agents2001 5th Int Conf Autonomous Agents, Montreal May 28-Jun 1, 01 (v14n14) WSC5 5th Online World Conf on Soft Computing Sep 4-18, 01 (v14n14) IAT2001 2nd Asia Pac Conf on Intell Agent Tech, Japan Oct 23-26, 01 (v14n14) ICDM01 IEEE Int Conf on Data Mining, Silicon Valley, Nov 29-Dec 2, 01 (v14n14) Send announcements of other activities to GA-List@aic.nrl.navy.mil. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2000 From: GA Digest Moderators Subject: Administrivia This is just reminder that submissions to GA Digest must be in plain text. HTML formatted submissions and encoded attachments may or may not be included in the digest. Mitchell Potter and Annie Wu GA Digest Moderators ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 14:15:27 +0300 From: Yuval Davidor Subject: Rare dissertations Dear whomever, I have one original copy of few rare dissertations from the beginning of time. If any of you want the original manuscripts and see the aged ink, I will be happy to send them on a first-come-first-serve basis. * Daniel Cavicchio, Adaptive Search Using Simulated Evolution, August 1970 * Kenneth De Jong, An analysis of the behavior of a class of genetic adaptive systems, 1975 * Albert Bethke, Genetic algorithms as function optimizers, 1980 * Stephan Smith, A learning systems based on genetic adaptive algorithms, 1980 * David Goldberg, Computer-aided gas pipeline operation using genetic algorithms and rule learning, 1983 I have enjoyed them for a long time, yuval ~~~~~~~~ Dr. Yuval Davidor (Founder), President Schema Group yuval@schema.com www.schema.com tel office +972-(0)9-9567955 mobile +972-(0)52-443667 fax +972-(0)9-9567958 Kibbutz Glil-Yam, Herzlia 46905, Israel ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 23:56:08 +0700 From: "Efendi Suprayitno" Subject: Request for info on GAs in Cryptanalysis Hi... Could you send to me, paper or article or etc about using GA in Cryptanalysis ? Thanks a lot. Peace, Martinus Efendi Suprayitno E-mail efendis@elang.stts.edu efendi_s@yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 18:11:13 +0900 From: Mineo Morohashi Subject: Frequency domain as fitness function Hello, does anybody know papers using frequency domain as a criteria of fitness function? Any information or pointers are greatly appreciated. Thank you and best regards, Mineo Morohashi ERATO Kitano Symbiotic Systems Project Systems Biology Group URL: http://www.symbio.jst.go.jp/~moro/ TEL: +81-3-5468-1661 FAX: +81-3-5468-1664 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 10:28:09 +0200 (CEST) From: Giovanni MORUZZI Subject: Help request Hi! I am a molecular spectroscopist working at the Department of Physics of the University of Pisa, Italy. One of the reasons for my interest in Genetic Algorithms is that I wonder if one might write a genetic algorithm for solving the problem described below. When one measures a molecular spectrum, one observes a (usually huge) set of absorption (or emission) lines. The frequency of each line corresponds to the difference between the energies of two energy levels of the molecule. Since several transitions are possible from each level, the set of observed molecular lines is much larger than the set of involved levels (and all the physical information is contained in the levels). Thus, I wonder if it could be possible to find out an algorithm which, given a set of measured lines, determines the smallest possible set of levels compatible with the given lines. In more mathematical terms: I have a set {x_i} of real numbers, and I am looking for the smallest possible set {y_j} such that each x_i=y_j - y_k (by _ I mean subscript, of course). Of course if a set {y_j} is a solution, an equivalent set is obtained by adding an arbitrary constant to each y_j, or by changing the sign of all the y_j, .... A more important difficulty is due to the fact that we are dealing with experimental values, so that the differences must match not exactly, but within the experimental accuracy. In the units I use (wavenumbers) the x_i usually range from a few tens to a few thousands, and the absolute experimental accuracy is usually of the order of 10^{-4}, or 1/10,000. I know that this problem is NP-complete, but I still hope that a heuristic algorithm may be found which might lead to a reasonable solution where, for instance, at least 50% or more of the output y_j values have a physical meaning. This could be a reasonable starting point for the subsequent work. I would be very grateful to anyone who can give me useful suggestions. Giovanni --- Giovanni Moruzzi Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Universita' di Pisa Via Filippo Buonarroti 2 I-56127 Pisa, Italy Tel. +39/050 844 559 Fax +39/050 844 333 E-mail: giovanni@moruzzi1.df.unipi.it or moruzzi@mail.df.unipi.it ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 13:28:56 +0100 (BST) From: David Wolfe Corne Subject: PhD Studentship in Evolutionary Computation at Reading A PhD studentship is available at Reading to work on emerging ideas in optimisation, especially things like hybridisation and symbiosis, involving things like evolutioary computation, particle-swarm systems, scatter search, and so on. This studentship is funded by BT, although it is for quite blue-skies research. You will join a team comprising another PhD student and a Research Fellow involved in this project, which is part of a larger group of researchers and students in evolutionary computation. Please contact me with a CV ASAP if you are interested. You must be an EC citizen. The stipend will be 7.2k or so. David Corne ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 23:32:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Hillol Kargupta Subject: Graduate Research Positions on Computation in Gene Expression I have openings for a few graduate research assistants to pursue PhD. in the area of computation in gene expression at the Computer Science Department, University of Maryland at Baltimore County. The objective of the research is to understand the representational transformations in gene expression from the perspective of quantitative search/machine learning and to develop new evolutionary algorithms that exploit the benefits of gene expression mechanisms. This research is supported by the United States National Science Foundation. The positions require strong mathematical background, analytical aptitude, and reasonable programming skills. Although the project involves implementations and experiments, its main focus is on quantitative understanding. If you are interested please send me your complete resume with a list of references. Hillol Kargupta hillol@eecs.wsu.edu http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/~hillol ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 21:02:22 +1000 (EST) From: Graham Williams Subject: CFP: Pacific Asia Data Mining PAKDD-2001 1st call for papers The Fifth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD-01) Hong Kong, April 16 - 18, 2001 http://www.csis.hku.hk/pakdd01 The Fifth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD-01) will be an international forum for the sharing of original and innovative research results and practical applications and experiences among researchers and application developers from the many constituent areas of KDD, including artificial intelligence, databases, e-commerce, Internet computing, machine learning, high performance computing, statistics and visualization. This conference builds on the success of PAKDD-97 (Singapore), PAKDD-98 (Australia), PAKDD-99 (China) and PAKDD-00 (Japan) by bringing together participants from universities, industry and government. With the growing number of successful applications and systems development in KDD in enterprise computing and e-commerce the conference encourages submissions on practical experiences in applying KDD techniques to real-world applications. SUBMISSION by 12 November 2000 Conference proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag (in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series). All submissions should follow the Springer-Verlag guidelines and be no more than 12 pages. (Formatting information is available from the conference web site at http://www.csis.hku.hk/pakdd01). Please include a cover page containing the title, authors (names, postal and email addresses), a 200-word abstract and up to 5 keywords. Authors are invited to submit their papers electronically (as PostScript or PDF attachments) following the instructions on the conference web page at http://www.csis.hku.hk/pakdd01 or send five copies to: David Cheung (PAKDD-01) E-Business Technology Institute The University of Hong Kong Pokfulam, Hong Kong AWARDS AND JOURNAL PUBLICATION The PAKDD Best Paper Award will be conferred on the authors of the best paper at the conference. Authors of selected papers will be invited to have their paper included in a special issue of an international journal. TOPICS We invite submissions in the areas of KDD research and application. Areas of interest include but are not limited to: Foundations and principles of data mining New application challenges and requirements Web based mining Data mining applications in e-commerce Resource discovery in the Internet Internet standards for data mining Data mining and data warehousing Data mining in multidimensional databases Data mining in heterogeneous databases Data mining support for data warehouse design Integration with data warehousing/OLAP Parallel and distributed mining Statistical methods in data mining Rule induction and decision trees Clustering and classification Exploratory data analysis Visual data mining and visualization Machine learning for data mining Knowledge representation and acquisition in KDD Performance and benchmarks of KDD systems Security and social impact of data mining TUTORIALS AND WORKSHOPS Tutorials and Workshops will form a key component of the conference. It is planned to hold them on Monday, 16 April 2001. Proposals for addressing issues in data mining, knowledge discovery and applications are invited. New applications such as temporal and spatial data mining, Asian language text mining, collaborative filtering, personalization, eCRM and e-marketplace data mining are of special interest. Tutorial and workshop proposals (preferably by email) should be submitted by 30 October 2000 to the respective Chair: Joshua Z Huang, Tutorial Chair E-Business Technology Institute The University of Hong Kong Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong jhuang@eti.hku.hk Michael K Ng, Workshop Chair Department of Mathematics The University of Hong Kong Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong mng@maths.hku.hk DEMONSTRATIONS Proposals for live demonstrations of research projects, prototypes, experimental systems, and/or potential commercial products are encouraged. Each proposal should include a title page containing the title, names of presenters and their postal/Email addresses, and a two-page description of the demo system. Proposals (preferably by email) should be submitted by 15 January 2001 to the Demonstration Chair at jiming@comp.hkbu.edu.hk. Jiming Liu, Demonstration Chair Department of Computer Science Hong Kong Baptist University Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong IMPORTANT DATES Tutorial proposals : 30 October 2000 Workshop proposals : 30 October 2000 Submissions due date : 12 November 2000 Notification date : 24 December 2000 Demonstration proposals: 15 January 2001 Camera ready date : 23 January 2001 Conference date : 16-18 April 2001 [ This submission has been shortened. For more information, see http://www.csis.hku.hk/pakdd01 -Moderator ] ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 02:19:54 +0900 From: "Byoung-Tak Zhang" Subject: CFP for CEC2001 The 2001 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC2001) May 27-30, 2001 COEX Center, Seoul, Korea Home page: http://cec2001.kaist.ac.kr/ Paper submission deadline: December 1, 2000 The 2001 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC2001) will bring together researchers to exchange ideas and The 2001 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC2001) will bring together researchers to exchange ideas and report recent progress in evolutionary computation and its application to real-world problems. CEC2001 is jointly sponsored by the IEEE Neural Networks Council, the Evolutionary Programming Society, and the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE). Topics of Interest CEC2001 welcomes submissions on all aspects of evolutionary computation, including but no limited to: Evolutionary computation theory: selection, variation operators, fitness evaluation, convergence, exploration-exploitation tradeoff, population sizing, co-evolution, incremental evolution, search, optimization, learning, Markov chains, Bayesian statistics, statistical physics, information theory. Evolutionary computation methodology: evolution strategies, evolutionary programming, genetic algorithms, genetic programming, DNA computing, molecular evolutionary algorithms, simulated evolutions, evolvable hardware, cultural algorithms, ant algorithms, distribution estimation algorithms, evolutionary Markov chain Monte Carlo, Bayesian evolutionary algorithms, particle swarm, collective intelligence, classifier systems, hybrid algorithms, evolution neural networks, evolutionary fuzzy systems, evolutionary neuro-fuzzy systems, softcomputing, computational intelligence. Evolutionary computation applications: engineering design, scheduling, telecommunications, constraint satisfaction, control, aerospace, environmental engineering, signal processing, circuit design, financial engineering, time series prediction, pattern recognition, evolutionary robotics, molecular biology, bioinformatics, medical engineering, education, multiagent systems, intelligent agents, synthetic characters, entertainment, games, puzzles, artificial life, human-computer interaction, data mining and knowledge discovery, information retrieval, electronic commerce, Internet. Paper submission The submission deadline is December 1, 2000. Manuscripts are limited to 8 pages in two-column format, including figures and references, within a single 7.5"x10" printed region per page and using a 12 point Times Roman font. Electronic submissions are encouraged and facilities will be provided on the web site http://cec2001.kaist.ac.kr/ Important Dates December 1, 2000: Deadline for paper submissions February 1, 2001: Notification of acceptance March 15, 2001: Camera-read papers due May 27, 2001: Workshops and tutorials May 28-30, 2001: Technical sessions Conference Venue Seoul is both the capital and the heart of the Republic of Korea, home to 11 million of the nation's 45 million people. It offers easy accessibility to attendees from all countries and provides an excellent site for a major international conference with an oriental flavor in addition to the high technology environment. The Convention and Exhibition Center (COEX), the conference venue, will feature an ultra-modern convention and exhibition center, equipped with state-of-the-art communication, multimedia and lightin g systems, capable of hosting large-scale international conventions and exhibition events. The COEX Mall is an 85,800 square meter cornucopia of underground dining, shopping and family entertainment facilities and offers everything from international foods to the latest books and CDs in a stress-free and all-weather environment. Further details and up-to-date information concerning special sessions, tutorials, workshops, hotel reservations, student travel grants, and other matters can be found at http://cec2001.kaist.ac.kr/ CEC2001 Congress Committee General Chair: Jong-Hwan Kim, KAIST Technical Co-Chairs: Gary Fogel, Natural Selection, Inc. Ibrahim Kuscu, Univ. of Surrey Byong-Tak Zhang, Seoul National Univ. Special Sessions Chair: Garry Greenwood, Portland State Univ. Tutorial Chairs: Jong-Chen Chen, National YunLin Inst. of Tech. Paul Darwen, Univ of Queensland Workshops Chair: Phil Husbands, Univ. of Sussex Posters Chairs: Prahlad Vadakkepat, National Univ. of Singapore Zongben Xu, Xian Jiaotong Univ. Plenary Chairs: Nik Kasabov, Univ. of Otago Mitsuo Gen, Ashikawa Inst. of Tech. Competition Chairs: Simon Lucas. Univ. of Essex Bernhard Sendhoff, HONDA R&D Europe Publicity Chairs: Ali Zalzala, Heriot-Watt Univ. Takeshi Furuhashi, Nagoya Univ. Bob Mckay, Australian Defence Force Acaderr Robert Reynolds, Wayne State Univ. Local Arrangement Chair: Sung-Bae Cho, Yonsei Univ. Proceedings Chair: Byung-Ro Moon, Seoul National Univ. Student Grants Chair: Karen Haines, Univ. of New Mexico ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 16:46:37 +0200 From: Eckart Zitzler Subject: EMO'01: Reminder First International Conference on Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization (EMO'01) March 7-9, 2001 (Wednesday to Friday) ETH Zurich, Switzerland http://www.tik.ee.ethz.ch/emo/ This mail is to remind you regarding the First International Conference on Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization (EMO'01). The paper submission deadline is OCTOBER 16, 2000 (Monday). We are happy to inform you that so far we have received a number of interests from researchers within evolutionary computation field and from classical MCDM community. During the three-day conference, we have arranged two keynote speeches, one to be delivered by Prof. Ralph Steuer on current state-of-the-art methodology of MCDM and the other to be delivered by Dr. Ian Parmee on real-world applications of evolutionary MCDM techniques. Furthermore, there will be two extended tutorials, one on classical MCDM methodologies to be delivered by Dr. Kaisa Miettinen and another one on evolutionary MCDM approaches by Dr. Carlos A. Coello Coello. The conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS series. If you have any questions, send email to emo+help@tik.ee.ethz.ch. Hope to see you at EMO'01 in Zurich! Kalyanmoy Deb (deb@iitk.ac.in) Department of Mechanical Engineering IIT Kanpur, India Lothar Thiele (thiele@tik.ee.ethz.ch) Department of Electrical Engineering ETH Zurich, Switzerland Eckart Zitzler (zitzler@ee.ethz.ch) Department of Electrical Engineering ETH Zurich, Switzerland ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 14:36:17 +0100 From: David Clark Subject: Evolutionary Algorithms in Molecular Design Hi As the editor, I am pleased to announce the publication of "Evolutionary Algorithms in Molecular Design" by Wiley-VCH. The book comprises 12 chapters from experts in the application of EAs to molecular design problems 1 Introduction to Evolutionary Algorithms - Dr. Abby L. Parrill 2 Small-molecule Geometry Optimization and Conformational Search - Dr. Ron Wehrens 3 Protein-Ligand Docking - Dr. Garrett M. Morris, Prof. Arthur J. Olson and Dr. David S. Goodsell 4 De Novo Molecular Design - Dr. Valerie J. Gillet 5 Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationships - Dr. Sung-Sau So 6 Chemometrics - Dr. Ron Wehrens and Prof. Lutgarde M. C. Buydens 7 Chemical Structure Handling - Prof. Peter Willett 8 Molecular Diversity Analysis and Combinatorial Library Design - Dr. Lutz Weber 9 Evolutionary Algorithms in Crystallographic Applications - Prof. Kenneth D.M. Harris 10 Structure Determination by NMR Spectroscopy - Dr. Bryan C. Sanctuary 11 Protein Folding - Dr. Jan T. Pedersen 12 New Techniques and Future Directions - Dr. Andrew Tuson and Dr. David E. Clark The relevant details are: Series: Methods and Principles in Medicinal Chemistry 1. Edition 268.- DM / 137.03 EUR / 238.- SFR 2000. XII, 276 pages. Hardcover ISBN 3-527-30155-0 Wiley-VCH, Weinheim or visit the Wiley-VCH web site: http://www.wiley-vch.de/books/tis/eng/3-527-30155-0.html Best wishes David David E. Clark, PhD ChemMedICa Pharmaceuticals Ltd. Rainham Road South Dagenham Essex RM10 7XS Tel. +44-(0)20-8919-3353/3820 Fax. +44-(0)20-8919-3859 Registered in England No. 3671653 Registered Office: Rolls House, 7 Rolls Building, Fetter Lane, London EC4A 1NH ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 22:07:10 +0200 From: Elisabeth Andre Subject: UMUAI Special Issue on "User Modeling and Intelligent Agents CALL FOR PAPERS USER MODELING AND USER-ADAPTED INTERACTION (An International Journal published by Kluwer) Special Issue on USER MODELING AND INTELLIGENT AGENTS Deadline: October 15th 2000 BACKGROUND Recent work on Intelligent Agents has shown a strong paradigm change in Human-computer Interaction: "direct manipulation" was challenged by "delegation". Such paradigm change has given rise to several metaphors for human/computer interaction in particular the personal assistant metaphor, the intelligent companion, the receptionist, etc. However, to perform tasks on behalf of the user, an agent has to be familiar with his or her habits and preferences and adapt its behavior accordingly. Furthermore, building embodied life-like characters animated with a set of rich behaviors is an area of research that has grown significantly for the last few years. The impact of these characters is strengthened by the fact that people in general tend to anthropormophize computers (Nass & Reeves) as well as by the richer communication styles that such characters can convey. The agent metaphor poses a major challenge to research on user modeling since it drastically changes the way humans perceive and interact with a computer. For instance, how to build up a relationship of understanding and trust with the user? How to avoid wrong expectations concerning the competence of human-like agents? And how to design agents that care about the user's experience with a system and are sensitive to his or her needs? To handle these problems, we have to continuously monitor the user's behavior and to use this knowledge to adjust. In organizing this Special Issue, we wish to collect substantiated work in which user modeling is used as a means of achieving more effective Human-Agent interaction. OBJECTIVE OF THIS SPECIAL ISSUE Papers presenting original contributions pertinent to the mentioned subject area are sought for this special issue. The following is a (non exhaustive) list of the topics of potential interest: * User modeling techniques for agent-based interfaces * User modeling techniques for collaborative environments frequented by human and artificial agents * Modeling social and psychological aspects of the user, such as personality and social relationships * Personalized life-like characters that adapt to the user * Exploitation of user modeling techniques to overcome typical problems of agent-based interaction, such as loss of control and missing trust * Empirical studies investigating the potential benefits of user modeling techniques for the interaction between agents and users * Applications relying on the agent metaphor and user modeling techniques, such as information retrieval, mail management, training and electronic commerce HOW TO SUBMIT: Potential authors are encouraged to contact the guest editors (Elisabeth Andre, email: Elisabeth.Andre@dfki.de) and Ana Paiva, email: Ana.Paiva@inesc.pt) to communicate their intent to submit an article and to discuss suitability of their topics to the special issue. If possible, they should submit a tentative title and short abstract (which can be altered for the actual submission) to enable formation of a panel of appropriate reviewers. Submissions to the special issue should follow the UMUAI submission instructions, which are obtainable from the Web site: http://umuai.informatik.uni-essen.de/ Electronic submissions are encouraged, although hard-copy submissions are acceptable. Each submission should note that it is intended for the special issue on Intelligent Agents. UMUAI is an archival journal that publishes mature and substantiated research results on the (dynamic) adaptation of computer systems to their human users, and the role that a model of the system about the user plays in this context. Many articles in UMUAI are quite comprehensive and describe the results of several years of work. Consequently, UMUAI gives "unlimited" space to authors (as long as what they write is important). REVIEW PROCESS: Papers submitted to the special issue are subject to the normal reviewing process of the journal; they will be reviewed by the guest editor and by two established researchers selected from a panel of reviewers formed for the special issue. Barring unforeseen problems, authors can expect to be notified regarding the review results within two months of submission. IMPORTANT DATES: Notification of Intent to Submit: as soon as possible Deadline Date for Submissions: September 30th, 2000 Notification of Acceptance: November 30th, 2000 Please address any questions to the guest editors: Elisabeth André - Elisabeth.Andre@dfki.de Ana Paiva - Ana.Paiva@inesc.pt This Call, with updates on the status of the special issue, is also available at: http://gaiva.inesc.pt/~umuai-agents or http://www.dfki.de/imedia/calls/umuai-agents.html ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 17:14:11 +0100 From: Bill LANGDON Subject: EuroGP2001 Conference and Workshops CFP EuroGP 2001 18-20 April 2001 Lake Como (Milan), Italy EuroGP2001 -- 4th European Conference on Genetic Programming Workshop proposal deadline 14 September 2000 Paper submission deadline 16 November 2000 Genetic programming:(noun) 1. a means of automatically generating computer programs to perform certain tasks, in which the principles of Darwinian natural selection are used to drive adaptation and learning. 2. a robust and flexible automated procedure ideally suited for design, pattern recognition and control problems. EuroGP2001:(noun) 1. the largest European event entirely devoted to Genetic Programming. 2. an annual conference frequented by a lively and diverse population of researchers and practitioners. 3. a forum for intellectual exchange - a breeding ground, where ideas recombine and mutate, and where new developments are presented. 4. the next iteration of the GP meta-algorithm. GP applications areas:(phrase) 1. those areas of human activity in which theoretical research into genetic programming has been successfully applied, as for example: financial data mining, robotic and engineering control, signal and image processing, electronic circuit synthesis, bio-informatics, engineering design, music and art. 2. areas that broadly mirror the range of current scientific endeavour - from gene sequencing to satellite imaging and the design of control systems for humanoid robots. human competitive results:(phrase) 1. in the case of genetic programming, results that offer the best available solution, or are equivalent or superior to results produced by humans. 2. for genetic programming an informal benchmark used to establish the effectiveness and utility of the technique. topics of interest:(phrase) 1. fundamental issues within the field of genetic programming, as for example: scalability, code bloat, performance measures, automatic modularisation and code reuse. 2. new theoretical findings. 3. novel applications. previous events:(phrase) 1. EuroGP98 in Paris. 2. EuroGP99 in Goteburg. 3. EuroGP2000 in Edinburgh. www site http://evonet.dcs.napier.ac.uk/eurogp2001/ Important dates: Workshop proposals 14 September 2000 Submission of papers 16 November 2000 Notification of acceptance 20 December 2000 Final copy due 25 January 2001 Conference+workshops 18-20 April 2001 Contacts: Programme co-chairs Julian Miller J.F.Miller@cs.bham.ac.uk Marco Tomassini mtomassi@iissun4.unil.ch Local co-chairs Pier Luca Lanzi lanzi@elet.polimi.it Andrea Tettamanzi tettaman@dsi.unimi.it Submissions Papers should be no longer than ten A4 pages and should be sent by email in compressed Postscript (gzip or winzip) format. Since the refereeing process is double blind, it is ESSENTIAL that all occurrences of authors' names should be removed from the text of the paper, including the reference section, and replaced by question marks. The email accompanying the submission should state ALL authors and include their email addresses. Send papers by email to either of the programme co-chairs: Julian Miller School of Computer Science University of Birmingham Birmingham B15 2TT UK Tel: +44 (0)121 414 3710 Fax: +44 (0)121 414 4281 Email: j.miller@cs.bham.ac.uk Marco Tomassini University of Lausanne Science Faculty, Computer Science Institute Lausanne 1015 Switzerland Tel: +41 (0)21 693 2658 Fax: +41 (0)21 693 3705 mtomassi@iissun4.unil.ch The papers will be peer reviewed by at least two members of the program committee in a double-blind process. Authors will be notified via e-mail on the results of the review by 20 December 2000. Authors will be given the opportunity to comment on the standard and length of their reviews. The material in papers must represent substantially new work that has not been previously published by conferences, journals, or edited books etc. in the field of evolutionary computation. By submitting a camera-ready final paper to the conference, the authors agree that substantially the same material will not be published by another conference in the field (however, material may conceivably be later revised and submitted to an EC journal or material may be submitted to a non-EC conference, such as an applications conference). As with previous years (1998, 1999, 2000) the proceedings will be published both in book form and electronically. Therefore accepted camera ready papers must be accompanied by electronic (machine readable) source documents. Formatting instructions, templates etc can be found at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html By submitting a camera-ready paper, the author(s) agree that at least one author will attend and present each accepted paper at the conference. Thank you Bill W. B. Langdon, Phone +44 20 7679 4436 Computer Science, Fax +44 20 7387 1397 University College, London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/W.Langdon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 10:43:03 +0900 From: Mineo Morohashi Subject: ICSB2000 Call for Posters Call for Posters The following is the Call For Posters for the First International Conference on Systems Biology. For detailed information, please check our website: http://www.systems-biology.org You can also register to this conference from this website; participation fee is FREE!! We are looking forward to receiving your submission and participation. The First International Conference on Systems Biology (The 9th JST International Symposium) 14-16 November, 2000 Royal Park Hotel @ TCAT Tokyo, Japan Organizer: Japan Science and Technology Corporation (a government organization under Science and Technology Agency) Supported by: Japanese Society for Bioinformatics The First International Conference on Systems Biology aims at bringing together researchers working in the field of Systems Biology and related field to present the current status of their research and to discuss future directions of the field. The importance of the system-level understanding of biological systems is receiving increasing recognition recently. Nevertheless, the efforts are still sporadic and there is no conference specifically focused on this topic. While there are conferences on bioinformatics, the threads of these conferences are the use of computers in various aspects of biology, and not necessarily viewed from the system-level perspectives. Thus, these conferences cover broadly from sequence database, protein structures to gene networks, and less emphasis on the system-level understanding. Therefore, the goal of the conference is to create a forum of discussion for those who are interested in system-level understanding from various approaches for various biological systems, so that such efforts can form a coherent landscape. Systems Biology that focuses on system level understanding can be a major thrust in biology in the 21st century. The conference will be organized for one day of tutorials and specialized work shops, and two-days of conference based on invited talks and peer-reviewed selected papers from submitted papers. Poster sessions will run in parallel. All accepted papers and invited papers are published as a book after the conference. (Currently negotiating with major publishers, such as The MIT Press, Springer.) Topics includes (but not limited to): * Methodologies for systems-level understanding of life * Tools and technologies for systems biology (software, high-throughput assay, high precision, quantitative measurements, etc) * Systems-level analysis of biological systems (such as control theory analysis, bifurcation analysis, etc) * Reverse engineering of gene regulatory and metabolism networks from data Prediction of genes and metabolic pathways based on system-level analysis * Large scale database for systems biology * Control of cells and biological systems * Preemptive Molecular medicine Poster Submission Deadline: Sep 10, 2000 Notice of Acceptance: Sep 15, 2000 PS or PDF formatted poster paper up to 2,000 words, approximately 6 pages, shall be sent by e-mail to ICSB-2000 Secretariat: icsb2000@systems-biology.org If you should have any questions about this information, please e-mail to: icsb2000@systems-biology.org [ This submission has been shortened. For more information, see http://www.systems-biology.org -Moderator ] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 11:37:07 +0200 From: Bogdan Filipic Subject: CFP: IWES'01 - 3rd International Workshop on Emergent Synthesis First announcement & Call for papers 3rd International Workshop on Emergent Synthesis IWES'01 March 12-13, 2001 Bled, Slovenia Jointly organized by: Department of Control and Manufacturing Systems University of Ljubljana, Slovenia and Graduate School of Science and Technology Kobe University, Japan Topics: - Concepts for emergence toward engineering synthesis - Emergent synthesis methods for the designing systems of artifacts - Emergent synthesis methods for the manufacturing systems of artifacts - Emergent computation for utilizing artifactual systems - Synthesis of relational emergence in artifactual environment - Modeling and simulation of emergent systems - Applications to technical and economical systems Important dates: October 15, 2000 - Abstract due date November 15, 2000 - Notification of acceptance December 15, 2000 - Final program announcement January 31, 2001 - Papers due date Further information: http://www.fs.uni-lj.si/lakos/events/iwes01/ Contact: lakos@fs.uni-lj.si ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 10:23:56 -0500 (CDT) From: "Dipankar Dasgupta \(Faculty\)" Subject: CFP: IEEE TEC Special Issue on Artificial Immune Systems Call for Papers on Artificial Immune Systems for a Special Issue of the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation This special issue will be devoted to exploring different immunological mechanisms and their relation to information processing and problem solving. The natural immune system is an adaptive learning system which is highly distributive in nature. It employs several alternative and complementary mechanisms for defense against foreign pathogens. The natural immune system is a subject of great research interest because of its powerful information processing capabilities. The main purpose of the immune system is to recognize all cells (or molecules) within the body and categorize those cells as self or non-self. The non-self cells are further categorized in order to induce an appropriate type of defensive mechanism. The immune system learns through evolution to distinguish between foreign antigens (e.g., bacteria, viruses) and the body's own cells or molecules. From an information-processing perspective, the immune system is a remarkable parallel and distributed adaptive system. It uses learning, memory, and associative retrieval to solve recognition and classification tasks. In particular, it learns to recognize relevant patterns, remember patterns that have been seen previously, and use combinatorics to construct pattern detectors efficiently. Also, the overall behavior of the system is an emergent property of many local interactions. These remarkable information-processing abilities of the immune system provide several important aspects in the field of computation. Artificial Immune Systems are used in pattern recognition, fault detection, computer security, and a variety of other applications researchers are exploring in the field of science and engineering. The main objective of this special issue is to assemble a collection of high-quality contributions that reflect the latest advances in this emerging field -- the artificial immune systems. Original contributions are encouraged in, but are not limited to, the following areas: * Computational algorithms based on immunological principles * Immunogenetic approaches * Immunity-based optimization and learning * Autonomous Decentralized/Self-Organizing Systems * Immunity-based Design and Scheduling * Immunological approaches to computer & network security * Artificial Immune systems and their applications The deadline for submitting a full paper is December 15, 2000. Electronic submission is preferred. Send all submissions to the guest editor either through email or by post. Information on this special issue is available at the webpage http://www.msci.memphis.edu/~dasgupta/IEEE-TEC-AIS.html Guest Editor: Dipankar Dasgupta Division of Computer Science The University of Memphis Memphis, TN 38138, USA Email: ddasgupt@memphis.edu ------------------------------ End of Genetic Algorithms Digest ******************************