Genetic Algorithms Digest Wednesday, November 15, 2000 Volume 14 : Issue 17 - 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: - EuroGP Final CFP - Graduate Assistantship - CEC2001 Second Call for Papers - GECCO-2001 Second, Updated Call for Papers - CfP: 7th Fuzzy Days, Dortmund, Germany, Oct 1-3, 01 - Grammars in Evolutionary Computation - CEC2001 - UK Post-Doc Position - EvoWorkshops2001: DEADLINE EXTENSION TO NOVEMBER 25 - PAKDD-2001 submission update - GECCO-2001 WORKSHOPS -- Call for Proposals -- until Nov. 30 - Vacancy for Research Fellow - CFP: OBUPM-2001 Workshop at GECCO-2001 - Paper on gene expression programming ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALENDAR OF GA-RELATED ACTIVITIES: (with GA-List issue reference) 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) Brain Machine Workshop, Ankara, Turkey Dec 20-22, 00 (v14n16) NNA2001 Neural Networks & Applications, Canary Is, Spain Feb 11-15, 01 (v14n16) FSFS2001 Fuzzy Sets & Fuzzy Systems, Canary Is, Spain Feb 11-15, 01 (v14n16) EC2001 Evolutionary Computation, Canary Is, Spain Feb 11-15, 01 (v14n16) 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) ISAS2001 Int Symp on Adaptive Systems, Havana, Cuba Mar 19-23, 01 (v14n16) 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) EvoWorkshops2001 at the Euro Conf on GP, Milan, Italy Apr 18, 01 (v14n16) 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) IC-AI2001 Int Conf on AI, Las Vegas, NV Jun 25-28, 01 (v14n16) ICML2001 18th Int Conf on Machine Learning, MA Jun 28-Jul 1, 01 (v14n16) AIME01 8th Euro Conf on AI in Medicine, Portugal Jul 1-4, 01 (v14n16) GECCO2001 Gen & Evolutionary Computation Conf, SF, CA Jul 7-11, 01 (v14n16) TARK VIII 8th Conf Theor Aspects of Ratnlty & Knowl, It Jul 8-10, 01 (v14n16) WSC5 5th Online World Conf on Soft Computing Sep 4-18, 01 (v14n14) FUZZY DAYS Int Conf on Comp Intell, Dortmund, Germany Oct 1-3, 01 (v14n17) 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: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 18:43:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Conor Ryan Subject: EuroGP Final CFP A reminder that there is just ten days left to the deadline for submissions to this years EuroGP conference (16 November). [ This submission has been shortened. For more information, see http://evonet.dcs.napier.ac.uk/eurogp2001/ -Moderator ] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 16:36:52 -0600 (CST) From: "Dipankar Dasgupta \(Faculty\)" Subject: Graduate Assistantship A number of Graduate assistantships are available to pursue Ph.D research in the emerging field of Immunological Computation and Immunogenetic Approaches. The objective of this research is to explore concepts and mechanisms (of the immune system) in order to develop intelligent problem solving techniques. The applicants should have computer science or related background and be flexible to work on different related projects. If you are interested to join our research group in January 2001, email your resume to the following address as soon as possible. Sincerely, Dipankar -- Dipankar Dasgupta, Ph.D The University of Memphis Division of Computer Science Dept. of Mathematical Sciences Tel: (901) 678-4147 Memphis, TN 38152-3240, USA. Fax: (901) 678-2480 dasgupta@msci.memphis.edu Home Page: http://www.msci.memphis.edu/~dasgupta ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 12:10:23 +1100 (EST) From: Congress on Evolutionary Computation Subject: CEC2001 Second Call for Papers The 2001 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC2001) May 27-30, 2001 COEX Center, Seoul, Korea Further details can be found on http://cec2001.kaist.ac.kr or http://scai.snu.ac.kr/cec2001. *** Regular papers submission deadline: December 1, 2000 *** The 2001 Congress on Evolutionary Computation 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 (EPS), and the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE). Building on its previous success in 1999 and 2000, CEC aims to be the most inclusive EC conference in the field. This is reflected in the considerable efforts put together by its organising committee, spanning groupings from around the globe. The Congress will include regular papers, special sessions papers, workshops, tutorials and competitions. Please visit the web sites for up-to-date information. Looking forward to your participation. CEC2001 Publicity Chairs Takeshi Furuhashi (Japan and Far East) Bob Mckay (Australia and Pacific Rim) Robert Reynolds (Americas) Ali Zalzala (Europe and Mediterranean) *** Enquiries regarding this email should be addressed as discussed in the message above. This email account is not monitored on a regular basis, so any replies directly to this message may not receive timely attention ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 09:30:33 -0500 From: GECCO-2001 Subject: GECCO-2001 Second, Updated Call for Papers SECOND, UPDATED CALL FOR PAPERS GECCO-2001 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (A recombination of the Sixth Annual Genetic Programming Conference (GP-2001) and the International Conference on Genetic Algorithms (ICGA-2001)) Co-Sponsored by AAAI (American Association for Artificial Intelligence) July 7-11, 2001 (Saturday - Wednesday) San Francisco, California USA Holiday Inn Golden Gateway Hotel ***(IN THE HEART of downtown San Francisco, a block from the cable car)*** One Conference: Many "Mini-Conferences": GECCO = GP + GA + ES + EP + EH + ER + DNA + CS + RWA + AAA + ACO + ... -- Erik Goodman, General Chair, GECCO-2001 (goodman@egr.msu.edu) Genetic Algorithms Research and Applications Group (GARAGe) Michigan State University [ This submission has been shortened. For more information, see www.isgec.org/GECCO-2001 -Moderator ] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 16:29:58 +0100 (MET) From: Stephan Lehmke Subject: CfP: 7th Fuzzy Days, Dortmund, Germany, Oct 1-3, 01 FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS 7. FUZZY DAYS in Dortmund, Germany International Conference on Computational Intelligence October 1-3, 2001 Organising Institution University of Dortmund, Computer Science I General Chairman B. Reusch Honorary Chairmen L. A. Zadeh Programme Chairmen B. Reusch R. Rojas H.-P. Schwefel Scope Authors are invited to contribute original papers on theoretical results or innovative applications. Major topics of interest include, but are not limited to Computational Intelligence and the Internet Computational Intelligence Optimisation Evolutionary Strategies Fuzzy Control Fuzzy Decision Making Fuzzy Logic Theory Fuzzy Mathematics Fuzzy Systems and Hardware Genetic Algorithms Inference Systems Intelligent Hybrid Systems Intelligent Image Processing Intelligent Information Retrieval Knowledge Discovery Machine Learning Neural Networks Rule Extraction Systems for Classification Web Mining Soft Computing Applications in: Bioinformatics / Biotechnology Finances Medicine Networking Robotics Telecommunications All submissions will be subject to peer review. In accordance with the tradition set by its predecessors it is intended to publish the conference proceedings by Springer. Important Dates Submission deadline February 9, 2001 Notification of acceptance April 17, 2001 Camera-ready manuscript May 31, 2001 Further Information http://ls1-www.cs.uni-dortmund.de/fd7 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 16:42:18 +1100 (EST) From: Congress on Evolutionary Computation Subject: Grammars in Evolutionary Computation - CEC2001 CALL FOR PAPERS CONGRESS ON EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION (CEC 2001) SPECIAL SESSION: Grammars in Evolutionary Computation SUBMISSION BY: 12th January, 2001 The session organisers invite you to a special session of the Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2001 (CEC 2001) . Papers are due 5pm 12th JANUARY 2001, New Zealand time (depending where you are, this is likely to be 11th January local time - note later time than advertised for CEC 2001 papers) with acceptance notification 12th February 2001. Please check the CEC 2001 web site (http://cec2001.kaist.ac.kr/) for details regarding paper format. After preparing your paper according to the guidelines, please insert page breaks between the title and authors, and after the authors, to facilitate blind reviewing. Prepare a pdf version of the paper and send it as an email attachment to all three of the organisers, by the due time. If you cannot prepare pdf, please contact the organisers in good time, to arrange an alternative submission mechanism. Session Title: Grammars in Evolutionary Computation Description: A significant number of authors have used grammars as a means to define the search space of evolutionary systems, or to determine the genotype/ phenotype mapping. Others have used evolutionary systems to learn grammars for particular applications. A few have combined both in ways which provide incremental learning capabilities. This special session aims to bring these researchers together to provide for cross-fertilisation of ideas and to present recent advances in this expanding field. Topic Areas Include: * Grammatical GP: target language syntax & semantics, attribute grammars,strong typing * Grammar induction with GA and GP: regular, context-free, stochastic grammars * Hybrid Grammatical Systems * L-systems * Applications All papers will be reviewed, and all accepted papers will appear in the CEC 2001 proceedings. We are currently negotiating arrangements for further publication. We expect to be able to offer selected papers further publication of extended versions of the work in journal/book series format. Important Dates: 12th January, 2001 Submission to the session organisers (see below) 12th February,2001 Reviews and notification of acceptance 15th March, 2001 Final camera-ready copies due to session organisers 27-30th May,2001 Congress on Evolutionary Computation Session Organisers: Bob McKay School of Computer Science Australian Defence Force Academy Northcott Drive, Campbell, ACT 2600 Australia tel: +61 2 6268 8169 fax: +61 2 6268 8581 email: rim@cs.adfa.edu.au Brian Ross Department of Computer Science Brock University St Catharines, Ontario L2S 3A1 Canada tel: +1 905 688 5550 ext 4284 fax: +1 905 688 3255 email: bross@cosc.brocku.ca Peter Whigham Department of Information Science University of Otago PO Box 56 Dunedin New Zealand tel: +64 3 479 7391 fax: +64 3 479 8311 email: PWhigham@infoscience.otago.ac.nz *** Enquiries regarding this email should be addressed as discussed in the message above. This email account is not monitored on a regular basis, so any replies directly to this message may not receive timely attention ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 13:59:39 +0000 From: Larry Bull Subject: UK Post-Doc Position Intelligent Computer Systems Centre, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK Post-doctoral Research Position in Evolutionary Computing/Machine Learning: Adaptive Control for Road-Traffic Signal Systems A two-year post-doctorate position is available as part of an EPSRC funded project in collaboration with the Centre for Transport Studies, UCL. The project will examine the use of machine learning techniques, in particular evolutionary computing with reinforcement learning, for the development of rule-based controllers for road-traffic junction signal systems. New mechanisms will be developed for use on-line in this complex, temporal domain. Applications are sought from candidates with expertise in evolutionary computing and/or machine learning in general, at the doctoral level. The starting salary is £15,700 - £18,200 p.a. depending upon experience, with the project due to commence early 2001. The deadline for applications is Dec 1st 2000. Further details can be obtained from larry.bull@uwe.ac.uk and general information of the hosting Centre can be found at http://www.ics.uwe.ac.uk Application forms can be obtained from (please quote ref R/305): Personnel Services University of the West of England Coldharbour Lane Frenchay, Bristol BS16 1QY U.K. personnel@uwe.ac.uk ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 20:29:03 +0100 From: Stefano Cagnoni Subject: EvoWorkshops2001: DEADLINE EXTENSION TO NOVEMBER 25 ********** DEADLINE EXTENSION TO NOVEMBER 25 ************ We have extended the submission deadline for all 5 workshops to November 25. However, to make it easier for the Program Committee to meet the deadline for the notification of acceptance anyway, we kindly request contributors who are in the position to do so to submit their papers as in advance of the new submission deadline as possible. Thank you for your interest in EvoWorkshops. I look forward to meeting you on Lake Como. Stefano Cagnoni EvoWorkshops2001 Chair [ This submission has been shortened. For more information, see http://evonet.dcs.napier.ac.uk/eurogp2001/evoworkshops.html -Moderator ] ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 07:39:54 +1100 (EST) From: Graham Williams Subject: PAKDD-2001 submission update We have received quite a few requests for extension to the submission deadline. The program committee chairs have reviewed the schedule for processing the papers and have decided that we are able to accept submissions up to 19 November. But this must be a very hard deadline and papers received after that date can not be accepted. Visit the web page at http://www.csis.hku.hk/pakdd01/ for submission details. Your sincerely, Graham Williams On behalf of the PC Chairs ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 11:01:17 -0500 From: GECCO-2001 Subject: GECCO-2001 WORKSHOPS -- Call for Proposals -- until Nov. 30 GECCO-2001 Birds-of-a-feather Workshops Call for Proposals SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED UNTIL NOV 30th! San Francisco, CA, USA July 7-11, 2001 http://www.isgec.org/GECCO-2001 http://www.isgec.org/GECCO-2001/workshops/index.html http://www.isgec.org/GECCO-2001/workshops/workshops-cfp.html [ This submission has been shortened. For more information, see the Web pages listed above. -Moderator ] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 13:19:38 +0000 From: Terry Fogarty Subject: Vacancy for Research Fellow COMPUTING, INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND MATHEMATICS RESEARCH FELLOW EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTING GROUP Salary 20,411 GBP - 26,200 GBP per annum (fixed term for 3 years) We seek a Research Fellow to contribute to core research in the above field and in relation to other areas of research in the School. Applicants should have completed a PhD in computing or equivalent, have previous experience in Evolutionary Computing and/or multi agent systems as well as in web based publishing and programming for the Internet and have knowledge of object orientated design tools. For an informal discussion of the post, please contact Terry Fogarty on (+44 0)20 7815 7482) or email fogarttc@sbu.ac.uk or visit our web pages for more information on www.sbu.ac.uk/scism/research/ecg www.sbu.ac.uk/scism/research.html An application form and further details are available from the Human Resources Department, South Bank University, 103 Borough Road, London, SE1 OAA, or telephone: (+44 0)20 7815 6223 (24 hour answering service) or email: sharpeb@sbu.ac.uk Please quote reference number: X1387 Closing date for the request of applications: 24 November 2000 Closing date for the receipt of all applications: 4 December 2000 -- Prof. Terence C. Fogarty http://www.sbu.ac.uk/~fogarttc/ South Bank University tel: (+44 0)20 7815 7482 103 Borough Road fax: (+44 0)20 7815 7499 London SE1 0AA, UK mobile: (+44 0)77 2005 3513 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 10:26:38 -0600 From: Martin Pelikan Subject: CFP: OBUPM-2001 Workshop at GECCO-2001 1st Call for participation OBUPM-2001 OPTIMIZATION BY BUILDING AND USING PROBABILISTIC MODELS 2001 Bird-of-a-feather Workshop at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2001 ( GECCO-2001 ) San Francisco, California, July 7 - 11, 2001 (Saturday - Wednesday) A recombination of the Sixth Annual Genetic Programming Conference (GP-2001) and the International Conference on Genetic Algorithms (ICGA-2001) organized by Martin Pelikan and Kumara Sastry to be held on Saturday, July 7, 2001 WORKSHOP SUMMARY Algorithms that replace two-parent recombination of genetic algorithms by building and simulating a probabilistic model of promising solutions have received much attention over the past years. The proposed methods resolve many problems of other evolutionary algorithms and are increasingly used to solve various problem of practical and theoretical importance. Theory was designed to understand the dynamics of the algorithms as well as their limits. The purpose of this workshop is to - review and describe the basic principles of discussed methods, - present recent developments in the covered area of research, - discuss current problems and future directions of research in this area, and - encourage communication among active researchers in the area and other participants. The length of the workshop is 4 hours. The workshop will start by an introduction to the field by Martin Pelikan. This will be followed by about 5-7 presentations. The workshop will finish with a panel discussion. PARTICIPATION Presentations will be selected according to the submitted 10-page papers which will be reviewed by at least two members of the international program committee. Accepted papers will be available in electronic form before the workshop. Abbreviated versions of the papers will be later published in the workshop proceedings. The length of each paper will be determined by the number of accepted papers. For more detailed submission guidelines and recent updates, see the workshop pages at http://www-illigal.ge.uiuc.edu/obupm2001/index.html IMPORTANT DATES (subject to change) Paper submission deadline: February 15, 2001 Decisions will be mailed by: April 1, 2001 Submissions of camera-ready papers: April 20, 2001 WORKSHOP CHAIRS Martin Pelikan Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory 117 Transportation Building 104 S. Mathews Ave. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL 61801 pelikan@illigal.ge.uiuc.edu Tel/Fax: (217) 333-2346, (217) 244-5705 Kumara Sastry Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory 117 Transportation Building 104 S. Mathews Ave. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL 61801 kumara@illigal.ge.uiuc.edu Tel/Fax: (217) 333-2346, (217) 244-5705 ATTENDANCE Attendance to the workshop is open to all GECCO attendees. Further information will be posted on the workshop web pages (www-illigal.ge.uiuc.edu/obupm2001/index.html) as it becomes available. We are looking forward to your participation at the second workshop OBUPM-2001 which is a great opportunity to meet and discuss the covered topics for researchers in this area of research as well as the ones who would like to learn more about using probabilistic models for a more powerful recombination. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 21:04:47 -0100 From: "Candida Ferreira" Subject: Paper on gene expression programming Hi all, My paper on gene expression programming is now available as a pdf for download at my site: http://www.gene-expression-programming.com Be advised that different versions of this paper were submitted and rejected by Nature and Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines. One of the reasons one anonymous reviewer from GPEM gave was that The performance of the GEP algorithm compared to GP seems too good to be true to me. As I really want to see other scientists using GEP in other applications, I decided to publish my paper on the web in order to make this powerful algorithm available to all. Remember, though, that there is a patent pending and GEP can not be used commercially. Best regards, Candida Ferreira TITLE: Gene Expression Programming: a New Adaptive Algorithm for Solving Problems AUTHOR: Candida Ferreira ABSTRACT: Gene expression programming, a genome/phenome genetic algorithm (linear and non-linear), is presented here for the first time as a new technique for creation of computer programs. Gene expression programming uses character linear chromosomes composed of genes structurally organised in a head and a tail. The chromosomes function as a genome and are subjected to modification by means of mutation, transposition, root transposition, gene transposition, gene recombination, 1-point and 2-point recombination. The chromosomes encode expression trees which are the object of selection. The creation of these separate entities (genome and expression tree) with distinct functions allows the algorithm to perform with high efficiency: in the symbolic regression, sequence induction and block stacking problems it surpasses genetic programming in more than two orders of magnitude, whereas in the density-classification problem it surpasses genetic programming in more than four orders of magnitude. The suite of problems chosen to illustrate the power and versatility of gene expression programming includes, besides the above mentioned problems, two problems of Boolean concept learning: the 11-multiplexer and the GP rule problem. -- Candida Ferreira, PhD Assistant Professor of Biochemistry Department of Agricultural Sciences The Azores University Email: candidaf@gene-expression-programming.com http://www.gene-expression-programming.com ------------------------------ End of Genetic Algorithms Digest ******************************