Genetic Algorithms Digest Tuesday, December 19, 2000 Volume 14 : Issue 20 - 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: - Moderators' note - Call For Papers: 2001 International MultiConference - information for potential session proposers - 3D Packing Problem - A Request - EMO'01 Call for Participation - Re: Data Mining using Evolutionary Algorithms - PhD Programme in Evolutionary Computation - JOB: Evolvable hardware research at NASA Ames Research Center - JOB ADVERT: RA Post - GECCO-2001 Birds-of-a-feather Workshop on Coevolution - EXTENTED Deadline: 2000 ECCAI Dissertation Award - Machine Learning Journal Special Issue: Fusion of Knowledge with Data - jobs in natural computation - MAICS'2001 - job annoucement - Demise of Prof. C. S. Krishnamoorthy IIT Madras - CFP: FUZZ-IEEE01 - ISAS2001, Extended deadline - GECCO-2001 Workshop & GP/EH Journal Special Issue on Gene Expression ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALENDAR OF GA-RELATED ACTIVITIES: (with GA-List issue reference) 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) MAICS2001 Midwest AI & Cognitive Science Conf, Ohio Mar 31-Apr 1, 01 (v14n20) 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) ICCS2001 Int Conf on Computational Sci, San Francisco May 28-30, 01 (v14n19) 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) SOCO Soft Computing & Intell Sys for Industry, Scotland Jun 26-29, 01 (v14n18) 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) CIMCA2001 Int Conf on Comp Intelligence, Las Vegas Jul 4-6, 01 (v14n19) 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) ICES2001 4th Int Conf on Evolvable Systems, Tokyo Oct 3-5, 01 (v14n19) 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) FUZZ-IEEE01 10th IEEE Int Conf on Fuzzy Systems, Austr Dec 2- 5, 01 (v14n20) NF2002 1st Int ICSC Congress on Neuro-Fuzzy, Cuba Jan 15-18, 02 (v14n18) Send announcements of other activities to GA-List@aic.nrl.navy.mil. ------------------------------ Date: Tues, 19 Dec 2000 From: GA Digest Moderators Subject: Moderators' note We are currently in the process of moving the GA Digest to a new server at George Mason University. We plan to have the transition complete by the beginning of the new year and will be sending out information about using (submitting announcements, subscribing, and unsubscribing) the new system shortly. We appreciate your patience as we work out the details of the move. Best wishes for the holiday season. Mitch Potter and Annie Wu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 17:36:55 -0500 (EST) From: Hamid Arabnia Subject: Call For Papers: 2001 International MultiConference C A L L F O R P A P E R S PDPTA + CISST + IC-AI + IC + METMBS + ERSA + ISE + CIC Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA June 25-28, 2001 (Submission Deadline: March 1, 2001) Dear Colleagues: I would be most grateful if you would distribute this announcement for the 2001 International MultiConference to your colleagues who might be interested. This will be a major international gathering in year 2001. It is anticipated that this international event will attract about 1500 participants. This MultiConference is composed of eight (planned and more will likely be added) international conferences that will be held simultaneously (same dates and location). Attendees will have full access to all eight conferences. You are invited to submit a draft paper of about 5 pages and/or a proposal to organize a technical session. All accepted papers will be published in the respective conference proceedings. THE NAMES OF TECHNICAL SESSION CHAIRS WILL APPEAR AS ASSOCIATE EDITORS ON THE COVER OF THE CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS. (contact hra@cs.uga.edu if you would like to propose international workshops to be held simultaneously with the above conferences.) The eight conferences are: (a link to each conference's URL is or soon will be available from http://www.ashland.edu/~iajwa/conferences) 1. The 2001 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'2001: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; June 25-28, 2001) 2. The 2001 International Conference on Imaging Science, Systems, and Technology (CISST'2001: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; June 25-28, 2001) 3. The 2001 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IC-AI'2001: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; June 25-28, 2001) 4. International Conference on Internet Computing 2001 (IC'2001: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; June 25-28, 2001) 5. The 2001 International Conference on Mathematics and Engineering Techniques in Medicine and Biological Sciences (METMBS'2001: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; June 25-28, 2001) 6. The First International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms (ERSA'01: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; June 25-28, 2001) 7. The 2001 International Symposium on Information Systems and Engineering (ISE'2001: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; June 25-28, 2001) 8. The 2001 International Conference on Communications in Computing (CIC'2001: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; June 25-28, 2001) Please regard this announcement as General Guidelines. You are encouraged to refer to individual conference URLs for specifics (for example, some conference's deadlines, number of pages to be submitted, addresses to which the submissions should be sent, ..., might slightly be different from what is being stated in this announcement. In any case, if you are not sure where to send your submissions, send it to the MultiConference Contact whose address appears below.) MULTICONFERENCES CONTACT (all eight conferences): (who then may forward inquiries to respective chairs of conferences) Hamid R. Arabnia General Chair, 2001 International MultiConferences The University of Georgia Department of Computer Science 415 Graduate Studies Research Center Athens, Georgia 30602-7404, U.S.A. Tel: (706) 542-3480 Fax: (706) 542-2966 email: hra@cs.uga.edu SCOPE OF PDPTA'2001: (The 2001 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications) O Parallel/Distributed applications: Numerical computations/methods, neural networks and fuzzy logic, medicine, remote sensing, GIS, computer vision, computer graphics and virtual reality, parallel/distributed databases, banking, financial markets, ... O Parallel/Distributed architectures: Clusters and parallel systems of various topologies, supercomputers, shared memory, distributed memory, general- and special-purpose architectures, instructional level parallelism, ... O Building block processors: Applications of processors that can be used as basic building blocks for multicomputer systems. O Networks and Interconnection networks: Scalable networks, Reconfigurable networks, routing issues, general-purpose network performance for distributed applications, network protocols, ATM-based systems, internet technology, Optical interconnections and computing, ... O Reliability and fault-tolerance: Software and hardware fault-tolerance (system- and application-level), fault diagnosis, fault-tolerance measurement. O Performance analysis, evaluation, prediction, ... O Real-time and embedded systems: Small-scale parallel systems for high-performance control, data acquisition, and analysis; configuration, routing, scheduling, performance guarantees. O Parallel/Distributed algorithms: Algorithms exploiting clusters and general-purpose distributed and parallel systems, new vector/pipeline issues, shared memory, distributed memory, virtual memory, ... O Mobile computation and communication. O Object Oriented Technology and related issues. O Multimedia Communications, Systems, and Applications: High-speed networking, multimedia architectures and protocols, multimedia applications, quality of service support, operating system and networking support, internet tools and applications, audio/video delivery over the internet, ... O Software tools and environments for parallel and distributed platforms: Operating systems, compilers, languages, debuggers, monitoring tools, software engineering on parallel/distributed systems, ... O High-performance computing in Computational Science: Intra-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary research programs and applications. O Information and data fusion. O Web-based simulation and computing. O Education: parallel and distributed processing in computer science curriculum (both graduate and undergraduate levels.) O Distributed Software Architectures O Network Management Applications O Recent history (1990-2000) of parallel/distributed processing and what to expect during the next decade (2000-2010) if history repeats itself; New horizons. O Other aspects and applications relating to high-performance computations. SCOPE OF CISST'2001: (The 2001 International Conference on Imaging Science, Systems, and Technology) O Image generation, acquisition, and processing O Image display techniques O Image data structures and databases O Convergence of imaging media (video and computer) O Virtual reality O Image compression, coding, and encryption O Tools for multimedia production and services O Digital imaging for film and television O Visualization O Scene and object modeling O Knowledge acquisition O Visual inspection O Document image understanding O Image algebra O Optical image processing systems O Mathematical morphology O Architecture of imaging and vision systems (including parallel architectures and algorithms) O Neural network techniques and fuzzy logic O Performance analysis and evaluation O Software tools and environments for imaging O Animation O Geometric modeling and Fractals O CAD/CAM systems O Rendering techniques O Applications including: medicine, robotic, GIS, remote sensing, industrial inspection (or machine vision), nondestructive evaluation (or NDE), ... O Multi-resolution and multi-spectral image processing O Image sequence processing O Information fusion O Other aspects and applications relating to imaging science SCOPE OF IC-AI'2001: (The 2001 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence) O. Intelligent Information Systems O. Intelligent Software Engineering O. Intelligent Agents O. Intelligent Networks O. Intelligent Databases O. Brain Models O. Evolutionary Algorithms O. Data mining O. Machine Learning O. Reasoning Strategies O. Automated Problem Solving O. Distributed AI Algorithms and Techniques O. Distributed AI Systems and Architectures O. Expert Systems O. Fuzzy Logic O. Genetic Algorithms O. Heuristic Searching O. Knowledge Acquisition O. Knowledge Discovery O. Knowledge Representation O. Knowledge-Intensive Problem Solving Techniques O. Languages and Programming Techniques for AI O. Software Tools for AI O. Natural Language Processing O. Neural Networks and Applications O. Multisource Information Fusion: Theory and Applications O. Multisource-Multisensor Data Fusion O. Learning and Adaptive Sensor Fusion O. Multisensor Data Fusion Using Neural and Fuzzy Techniques O. Integration of AI with other Technologies O. Evaluation of AI Tools O. Evolutionary Computation O. Social Impact of AI O. Applications - Computer Vision O. Applications - Signal Processing O. Applications - Military O. Applications - Surveillance O. Applications - Robotics O. Applications - Medicine O. Applications - Pattern Recognition O. Applications - Face Recognition O. Applications - Finger Print Recognition O. Applications - Finance and Marketing O. Applications - Stock Market O. Applications - Education O. Emerging Applications SCOPE OF IC'2001: (International Conference on Internet Computing 2001) O Web based computing O Network Management O Design and Analysis of Internet Protocols O Network Architectures O Performance Evaluation of the Internet O Network Computing O Network Operating Systems O Quality of Service O Resource Management and Location O Wide Area Consistency O Internet Security O Internet Applications and Appliances O Electronic Commerce O The WWW and Intranets O Metacomputing O Grid based Computing and Tools O Languages for Distributed Programming O Cooperative Applications O Tele-Medical and other applications O Internet Telephony O Mobile Computing O Educational Applications O Digital Libraries/Digital Image Collections O Web Interfaces to Databases O User-interface/Multimedia/Video/Audio/User Interaction O Markup Languages/HTML/XML/VRML O Java Applications on Internet O Social implications/Web history O Alternative Web lifestyles, role-playing, chat, ... O Caching Algorithms for Internet O Traffic Models & Statistics O Server Space/Web Server Performance O Web Monitoring O Web Documents Management O Web Site Design and Coordination O Advanced Software Tools and Techniques for Internet Applications O Architectures for Monitoring & Management of Internet Applications O Other aspects & applications relating to internet-based computing SCOPE OF METMBS'2001: (The 2001 International Conference on Mathematics and Engineering Techniques in Medicine and Biological Sciences) O. Bioinformatics: This includes informatics techniques in genomics gene sequencing, gene pattern discovery, gene pattern-function studies, and other genomics related studies. O. Data mining in medicine and biological sciences. O. Pattern recognition in medicine and biological sciences. O. Signal processing in medicine and biological sciences (e.g. biomedical signal processing, etc.) O. Image processing in medicine and biological sciences (e.g. biomedical image processing, biomedical imaging, etc.) O. Medical decision-making. O. Medical Physics. O. Biomedical Engineering. O. Biomedical Electronics. O. Biosignal interpretation. O. Any application of computers in Medicine and biological sciences (protein structure-function analysis, drug and protein design, molecular modeling and simulation, etc.) O. Application of information technology in biomedicine (e.g. medical database management, information retrieval and use of computers in hospitals) O. Application of Computational Intelligence (artificial neural networks, fuzzy logic, and evolutionary computing) in medicine and biological sciences. O. Medical and bio-computing. O. Computer-based medical systems (automation in medicine, etc.) O. Recent history (1990-2000) of Mathematics and engineering techniques in medicine and biological sciences, and what to expect during the next decade (2000-2009); New horizons. (Review articles.) O. Other aspects and applications relating to technological advancements in medicine and biological sciences. SCOPE OF ERSA'2001: (The First International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms) http://www.scism.sbu.ac.uk/ERA/ersa.html O. Theory, Mapping and Parallelization. Mapping algorithms into hardware, space-time mapping and synthesis of regular arrays, IP based methods, dataflow and functional programming approaches, logical specification and verification, developing correct circuits, the impact of reconfigurable hardware architectures onto algorithm parallelization, biologically inspired methods, ... O. System Architectures, Aspects and Evaluation. Complex systems using reconfigurable processors, application- tailored reconfigurable Systems-on-Chip (SoC), architectures of SoCs, adaptive and evolvable systems, rapid system prototyping, ... O. CAD: Specification, Partitioning and Synthesis. Hardware compilation, hardware/software codesign, IP-based specification and mapping methods for reconfigurable systems, object oriented models and mapping methods, hardware description languages, design environments and interfaces, ... O. Reconfigurable Hardware Architectures. Dynamically reconfigurable hardware architectures, reconfigurable processor architectures, compiled accelerators, performance evaluation of reconfigurable SoCs, application-specific communication interfaces of reconfigurable SoCs, low power evaluation and optimization of reconfigurable systems, fault-tolerance using reconfigurable hardware, trade-offs measurements, ... O. Algorithms and Optimization. Newly developed algorithms for efficient implementation on reconfigurable systems, in hardware, in space and time, algorithms for design optimization, ... O. Applications. Possible applications areas of interest include, but are not limited to: Classical image and signal processing - digital filters, edge and line detection, morphological operators, motion and stereo estimation, discrete transformations, linear algebra, radar systems, object recognition, ... Multimedia and virtual reality - telecommunication, data compression, video imaging, image databases, computational geometry and computer graphics, software radio, digital libraries, genetic databases, ... Automotive industry - lane detection and obstacle detection, vehicle guidance, traffic systems, object recognition, navigation of robots, ... Security systems - object recognition and tracking, cryptology, Internet and security, ... SCOPE OF ISE'2001: (The 2001 International Symposium on Information Systems and Engineering) O. Information Systems Architectures Track: Hardware and software architectures for information systems; Component- and agent-based designs; Object-oriented designs; Information systems metrics, testing, reuse, and integration; Collaborative architectures; Decision support systems; Information discovery architectures; Autonomous information systems; Frameworks for information technologies; High performance networks/clusters for information infrastructures; mobile and wireless information systems; Middleware architectures and techniques (CORBA, JAVA/RMI, DCOM, etc); Architectures for interoperability; ... O. Information Systems Algorithms Track: Learning and intelligence algorithms for information systems; Knowledge representation and discovery algorithms; Multi-agent algorithms; Information coordination and collaboration algorithms; Algorithms for real-time, noisy and adversarial distributed information environments; Predictive techniques; Reasoning, search, warehousing, and mining; Data pre- and post-processing; Information exchange and fusion; Web query processing and optimization; Information network protocols, switching, and routing; Performance modeling, analysis, and evaluation of information systems; Reliability, fault tolerance, security and authentication; Information systems profiling and monitoring; Out-of-core computing; Interoperability of heterogeneous and geographic information systems; ... O. Information Systems Applications Track: Multimedia in information systems; Electronic and mobile commerce and business; Transaction management; Content delivery services; Telemetry services; Technologies for distributed applications; Web-based information systems and applications; Interoperability applications; Service level management; Integrated environments and applications; Quality of services; Integration of legacy applications with new technologies; Federated heterogeneous databases; ISE education; ... SCOPE OF CIC'2001: (The 2001 International Conference on Communications in Computing) O. High Performance Applications O. Distributed Systems and Advanced Applications O. Scalable and Interoperable Systems and Associated Standards O. Software Systems O. Architectures O. Interconnection networks O. ATM based networks O. Communications O. Visualization O. Photonics and Optical Computing O. Performance Issues O. Modeling and Simulation of High Performance Systems O. Advanced Compilation Techniques O. Programming Languages for Parallel and other High Performance Computing Environments O. Parallel/Distributed/Vector Algorithms O. Reliability and Fault Tolerance O. Embedded and Real Time Systems O. Digital Signal Processing O. Neural Computing, Genetic Algorithms and their applications O. Issues in High Performance Computing O. Internet technology, Web based processing, E-commerce, telecommunication network, cluster-based computing O. Computing grid technologies and applications IMPORTANT DATES: March 1, 2001 (Thursday): Draft papers (about 5 pages) due April 2, 2001 (Monday): Notification of acceptance May 1, 2001 (Tuesday): Camera-Ready papers & Prereg. due June 25 - 28, 2001: PDPTA'2001 + CISST'2001 + IC-AI'2001 + IC'2001 + METMBS'2001 + ERSA'2001 + ISE'2001 + CIC'2001 Conferences Proposals to organize technical sessions should be submitted as soon as possible. All accepted papers are expected to be presented at the conference. THE 2001 MULTICONFERENCE CONTACT: Hamid R. Arabnia The University of Georgia Department of Computer Science 415 Graduate Studies Research Center Athens, Georgia 30602-7404, U.S.A. Tel: (706) 542-3480 Fax: (706) 542-2966 E-mail: hra@cs.uga.edu (a link to each conferences' URL is or soon will be available from http://www.ashland.edu/~iajwa/conferences) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 17:39:47 -0500 (EST) From: Hamid Arabnia Subject: information for potential session proposers ... Researchers can propose to organize technical sessions for any of the following eight conferences. All eight conferences will be held simultaneously (same dates and location). (a link to each conference's URL is or soon will be available from http://www.ashland.edu/~iajwa/conferences) (You can also propose to organize a workshop - Your name would appear as the editor on the cover of the workshop's proceedings.) O. The 2001 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'2001: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; June 25-28, 2001) O. The 2001 International Conference on Imaging Science, Systems, and Technology (CISST'2001: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; June 25-28, 2001) O. The 2001 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IC-AI'2001: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; June 25-28, 2001) O. International Conference on Internet Computing 2001 (IC'2001: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; June 25-28, 2001) O. The 2001 International Conference on Mathematics and Engineering Techniques in Medicine and Biological Sciences (METMBS'2001: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; June 25-28, 2001) O. The First International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms (ERSA'01: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; June 25-28, 2001) O. The 2001 International Symposium on Information Systems and Engineering (ISE'2001: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; June 25-28, 2001) O. The 2001 International Conference on Communications in Computing (CIC'2001: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; June 25-28, 2001) All aspects of the fields in the above topics will be considered. The names of all session chairs will appear as Associate Editors of the relevant Conference Proceedings/books. Each session must have at least 6 papers (including a maximum of one from the session chair) and at most 40 papers (can have more papers than 40 but must get a prior approval.) Soon after the conference some sessions will be considered for publication in relevant journals as Special Issues - in such cases, the session chair will be considered as the Guest Editor of the journal for that issue. Proposals to organize technical sessions: Proposals to organize technical sessions should include the following information: name and address (+ E-mail) of proposer, title of session, a 100-word description of the topic of the session, and a short description on how the session will be advertised (in most cases, session proposers solicit papers from colleagues and researchers whose work is known to the session proposer). Mail your proposal to me; E-mail submissions are preferred. Proposals should be submitted as soon as possible. Deadlines and more information: The session chairs will be responsible for ALL ASPECTS of their sessions; including, soliciting papers, reviewing, selecting, ... IMPORTANT DATES: Each session chair is expected to email me a list containing information about the accepted papers in the following format (or similar): Paper 1: Title of Paper: Author(s): Contact Author's Name: Complete mailing address of Contact Author: E-mail address of Contact Author: Paper 2: Title of Paper: Author(s): Contact Author's Name: Complete mailing address of Contact Author: E-mail address of Contact Author: and so on. The above information must be received by April 2, 2001 (Monday). As soon as we receive this list, we will send the necessary information to Contact Authors (such as, typing instructions for the preparation of the Camera-Ready papers, copyright forms, hotel information, conference registration form, ...) Note that each session chair is requested to send us the above list ONLY - no more information is required (we do not need to have the reviewers' comments, referees names, copies of papers submitted, ...) Essentially all we need is the list of your accepted papers in the session together with addresses of the Contact Authors so that we can send them the necessary information. Hamid R. Arabnia The University of Georgia Department of Computer Science 415 Boyd Graduate Studies Research Center Athens, Georgia 30602-7404 USA Tel: (706) 542-3480 Fax: (706) 542-2966 email: hra@cs.uga.edu ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 12:02:55 -0500 (EST) From: efrainmunoz Subject: 3D Packing Problem I need to solve the 1D,2D and 3D Packing Problem using GA aproach. Where I can find papers, articles about that? Best Regards Efrain Munoz Ato Trujillo - Peru Telef(51)(44)(282481) ------------------------------ Date: 9 Dec 00 22:07:56 MST From: asef nazari Subject: A Request Dear folks! I want to find all peoples that are working on genetic algorithms and quadratic assignmnet problem. With respect you. Asef Nazari Ganjelu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 12:24:00 +0100 From: Eckart Zitzler Subject: EMO'01 Call for Participation CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 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/ We would like to invite you to participate in The First International Conference on Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization (EMO'01) to be held in Zurich, Switzerland, March 7-9, 2001. This first ever conference includes 24 oral paper presentations and 21 poster presentations covering all aspects of the intersection of evolutionary computation and classical MCDM. 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. The preliminary conference program can be found at: http://www.tik.ee.ethz.ch/emo/program.html The registration form can be found at: http://www.tik.ee.ethz.ch/emo/registration.html Hotel information are available at: http://www.tik.ee.ethz.ch/emo/hotel.html We are looking forward to meeting you at the conference. 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: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 14:47:16 -0200 From: Alex Alves Freitas Subject: Re: Data Mining using Evolutionary Algorithms Dear Ioannis, You can find several papers about data mining with evolutionary algorithms at the following bibliographical sources: * Proc. of the AAAI-99 & GECCO-99 Workshop on Data Mining with Evolutionary Algorithms: Research Directions. Published as AAAI Technical Report WS-99-06. AAAI Press. and Proc. of the GECCO-2000 Workshop on Data Mining with Evolutionary Algorithms. Published as part of the Proc. of the GECCO-2000 Workshop Program. You can get more information about both workshops from the web page: http://www.ppgia.pucpr.br/~dmea * The Proc. of GECCO-99, GECCO-2000, CEC-99 and CEC-2000 have several relevant papers. (Both CEC-99 and GECCO-2000 had a session dedicated specifically to data mining.) * Several papers on data mining with evolutionary algorithms published by my research group are available online at my web page: http://www.ppgia.pucpr.br/~alex Hope this helps. Best regards, Alex Alex A. Freitas, Ph.D. PUCPR (Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Parana) PPGIA - CCET Rua Imaculada Conceicao, 1155 Curitiba - PR, 80215-901 Brazil alex@ppgia.pucpr.br http://www.ppgia.pucpr.br/~alex > I'm a PhD student (first year) at the Heriot-Watt University, Scotland,UK. > I'm interesting in applying evolutionary algorithms (GA, GP, etc) in large > databases in order to perform some data mining tasks (classification, > clustering, outlier analysis, etc). Currently,I'm doing the literature > survey and I need to have a clear idea about what the other people have > done in this area. I will be graceful if someone could help me by giving me > some references of related work, URLs and generally every kind of source > from where I could derive information about how CAN WE APPLY > EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS IN DATA MINING TASKS. > >Thank you in advance > >IOANNIS SARAFIS ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 10:09:53 +1100 (EST) From: Grad study mail account Subject: PhD Programme in Evolutionary Computation The School of Computer Science, University College, University of New South Wales offers a strong PhD programme in the area of evolutionary computation. Our past graduates have established highly successful research careers in academia and industry. Information about the school's research in a wide range of areas of evolutionary computation may be found in the web page of the Machine Intelligence and Computation Group: http://www.cs.adfa.edu.au/research/CIG/ Information about the PhD programme, and about admission, fees, and sources of financial assistance may be found at http://www.cs.adfa.edu.au/cs_tea/research_degrees.html If you are interested to explore the possibility of PhD research in this area, please check the above web pages (some features of the Australian PhD system may not be obvious), and then feel free to contact me, rim@cs.adfa.edu.au If you do not have web access, some further information is available by emailing gradstud@cs.adfa.edu.au Best Wishes Bob McKay ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 17:08:33 -0800 From: Jason Lohn Subject: JOB: Evolvable hardware research at NASA Ames Research Center The Computational Sciences Division at NASA Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley has an opening for a researcher available in January 2001. The project we are hiring for involves using GA/GP to evolve hardware systems such as circuits and robotic controllers. We are interested in automatically producing engineering structures with potential long-term application to future space missions. Our research group has a dedicated Linux Beowulf supercomputer on which to run experiments. The ideal person would have a strong background in evolutionary computation and an MS and/or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related discipline. Programming skills in C/C++ under Unix are required. Knowledge in any of the following areas is a plus: neural networks, circuit design/simulation, VLSI layout, programmable gate arrays, robotic controllers. Postdocs and recently-graduated MS students are encouraged to apply. NASA Ames Research Center (http://www.arc.nasa.gov) is located in the heart of Silicon Valley, just a short drive from Stanford University and less than an hour from San Francisco. If interested, please email a cover letter and your resume to: jlohn@arc.nasa.gov Please make sure you include your email address, phone number, and information on your citizenship status. == Jason Lohn jlohn@arc.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center http://ic.arc.nasa.gov/people/jlohn Mail Stop 269-1 Phone: (650)604-5138 Mountain View, CA 94035-1000 Fax: (650)604-3594 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 10:33:51 -0000 From: "Hart, Emma" Subject: JOB ADVERT: RA Post Napier University School of Computing RESEARCH ASSISTANT Evolutionary Computing Research Group Fixed term for 3 years Salary 16,775 pounds -- 24,227 pounds (min post-doctoral 19,482 pounds), according to experience This is an excellent opportunity for a good researcher to join the Evolutionary Computing Research Group in the School of Computing, to work on an EPSRC-funded research project to investigate and develop heuristics that choose heuristics (hyper-heuristics). The aim is to develop novel methods of tackling important pseudo-optimisation problems, that perform well and are straightforward to deploy. The research is being done jointly with a team at the University of Nottingham. You should have, or be about to gain, a PhD in a relevant subject, you should be familiar with evolutionary computing ideas and should be a good programmer in C/C++. Apply by sending your CV together with the names of two referees to Prof. Peter Ross, School of Computing, Napier University, 219 Colinton Road, Edinburgh EH14 1DJ, peter@dcs.napier.ac.uk. For an informal discussion, please contact Peter Ross (peter@dcs.napier.ac.uk, 0131-455-4437) or Emma Hart (emmah@dcs.napier.ac.uk, 0131-455-4285). Further details about the post and about the School of Computing are available at http://ww.dcs.napier.ac.u/~peter/hyper.html Closing date: 8 January 2001 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 17:02:38 +0100 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Hugues_Juill=E9?= Subject: GECCO-2001 Birds-of-a-feather Workshop on Coevolution Dear Colleague, We are soliciting papers for the following Birds-of-a-feather workshop on Coevolution to be held at GECCO-2001. We are looking forward to your participation. 1st Call for Papers COEVOLUTION: TURNING ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS UPON THEMSELVES Birds-of-a-feather Workshop at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2001 ( GECCO-2001 ) San Francisco, California, July 7 - 11, 2001 (Saturday - Wednesday) organized by Richard K. Belew & Hugues Juillé http://www.eurobios.com/GECCO-2001/ WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION Coevolution has now been observed within natural populations for almost 50 years, and exploited in computer simulations for a decade. Applications of coevolutionary search (e.g., in optimization, evolutionary robotics and adaptive agents) make it seem that some of the same mechanisms which have allowed natural evolution to achieve the complex living systems we know today can be captured in an algorithmic framework. However, it seems that coevolution has never reached the level of promise that one would have expected following the initial encouraging experiments. Also, subsequent analysis makes it appears that the reasons for successes that have been achieved are not always clearly understood. The purpose of that workshop is twofold. First, we will compare researchers' views of coevolution and make explicit the important issues associated with the study of coevolution. Our goals are to adopt a shared system of technical definitions, and to then identify classes of problems for which a coevolutionary approach offers a definitive advantage for improving search over other approaches. Underlying this approach is the analysis of the heuristics embedded in coevolutionary frameworks that make them more effective. Second, we will consider coevolution in the context of open-ended (a.k.a. exogenous, emergent) adaptation. Coevolution has been proposed as the solution to problems like self-learning and the generation of solutions to progressively more difficult problems. But computational learning theory seems to imply intrinsic limits on the effectiveness of any learning algorithm presented with finite data. Should coevolution be considered just one more method for controlling search, or are there opportunities for breakthroughs based on the exploitation of coevolutionary frameworks? Given evidence of coevolutionary "arms-race" in natural environments, what might this say about distributions of "natural" vs. "artificial" training sets? PARTICIPATION AND SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Papers exploring computational aspects of coevolution from theoretic or empirical perspectives are solicited. All submissions will be reviewed by members of the international program committee, and accepted papers will be published as part of the workshop proceedings. The workshop event itself will include brief presentation by authors of accepted papers, but also allow ample time to explore coevolutionary topics of mutual interest. For more detailed submission guidelines and recent updates, see the workshop pages at: http://www.eurobios.com/GECCO-2001/ IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: February 25, 2001 Notification of acceptance: April 7, 2001 Submission of camera-ready papers: April 21, 2001 Workshop: July 7, 2001 ORGANIZERS Richard K. Belew Computer Science & Engr. Dept. (0114) University of California - San Diego La Jolla, CA 92093-0114 USA e-mail : rik@cs.ucsd.edu Hugues Juillé Eurobios Tour Ernst & Young 92037 La Défense cedex France e-mail : hugues.juille@eurobios.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 19:25:05 +0100 From: Silvia Miksch Subject: EXTENTED Deadline: 2000 ECCAI Dissertation Award 2000 ECCAI ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DISSERTATION AWARD http://www.eccai.org/dissertation_award.html EXTENDED Deadline: January 31, 2001 Nominations are invited for the 2000 AI Dissertation Award sponsored by ECCAI, the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence. This Award includes a certificate signed by the ECCAI Chair and 1.500 Euros (which include the travel grant for the Award ceremony). Eligible doctoral dissertations are those defended after December 1, 1999 in the general area of Artificial Intelligence. The dissertation must have been defended at an European university and the author must be a personal member of an ECCAI member society. Multiple submissions of the same doctoral dissertation to other dissertation award activities of other societies are excluded. To be considered, a dissertation must be nominated by the thesis supervisor, who must submit the following items: * three copies of the dissertation or a link to a WWW version of the thesis, * five copies of an extended abstract (3 to 5 pages) in English, * if the thesis was not written in English the nomination must include an English paper describing the core ideas of the thesis that has been submitted for publication in an international journal. The nominee must be the first author of this paper. * nomination letters from two referees selected by the dissertation supervisor, supporting the submission and stating their assessment of why the thesis should win the award. Submissions and Requests should be sent to: Silvia Miksch Vienna University of Technology Institute of Software Technology Favoritenstraße 9-11/188 A-1040 Vienna, Austria, Europe Email: silvia@ifs.tuwien.ac.at Url: http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~silvia The EXTENDED deadline for receipt of submissions is January 31, 2001. The Award will be presented during ACAI 2001 in Prague (July 2-13, 2001). Silvia Miksch Vienna University of Technology Department of Computer Science Institute of Software Technology (IFS) Favoritenstrasse 9-11 / 188 A-1040 Vienna, Austria, Europe email: silvia@ifs.tuwien.ac.at url: http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~silvia phone: +43-1-58801-18824 phone-sec: +43-1-58801-18801 fax: +43-1-58801-18899 to find me "physically": 2. Stairway, 2. Floor, Green Area, Room HC0211 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 19:55:02 +0000 From: Richard Dybowski Subject: Machine Learning Journal Special Issue: Fusion of Knowledge with Data Machine Learning Journal Special Issue on Fusion of Domain Knowledge with Data for Decision Support >>> First Call for Papers <<< Statistics and machine learning are data-oriented tasks in which domain models are induced from data. The bulk of research in these fields concentrates on inducing models from data archived in computer databases. However, for many problem domains, human expertise forms an essential part of the corpus of knowledge needed to construct models of the domain. The discipline of knowledge engineering has focused on encoding the knowledge of experts in a form that can be encoded into computational models of a domain. At present, knowledge engineering and machine learning remain largely separate disciplines. Yet in many fields of endeavor, substantial human expertise exists alongside data archives. When both data and domain knowledge are available, how can these two resources effectively be combined to construct decision support systems? The aim of this special issue of the Machine Learning journal is to allow researchers to communicate their work on integrating domain knowledge with data (knowledge-data fusion; theory revision; theory refinement) to a general machine learning audience. Emphasis is on sound theoretical frameworks rather than ad hoc approaches. Of particular interest are papers that combine clear theoretical discussion with practical examples, and papers that compare different approaches. Possible frameworks for knowledge-data fusion include probabilistic (Bayesian/belief) networks, possibilistic logics and networks, hybrid neuro-fuzzy networks, and inductive logic programming. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Practical applications of knowledge-data fusion. What lessons have been learnt from attempts to apply knowledge-data fusion to real-world decision problems? * How are the various knowledge representation and inference frameworks that permit induction theoretically related to each other? * What frameworks enable an existing induced model, such as a neural network, to be incorporated into a proposed knowledge-based system? * How can knowledge-data fusion be applied to temporal data? Submitted papers must not exceed 30 pages and must conform to the Machine Learning journal style. Please see the associated Web site for further submission details: http://www.umds.ac.uk/microbio/richard/kdf/ This Call for Papers is *not* restricted to those who presented at the UAI 2000 Workshop on Knowledge-Data Fusion: it is open to everyone who has an interest in this topic. Please direct any enquiries to Richard Dybowski: rdybowski@btinternet.com Schedule Paper submission deadline: June 1, 2001 Authors' notification of decisions: September 1, 2001 Final revised papers due: December 15, 2001 Guest Editors Richard Dybowski (King's College London) Kathryn Blackmond Laskey (George Mason University) James Myers (Ballistic Missile Defense Organization) Simon Parsons (Liverpool University) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 13:21:35 +0000 (GMT) From: Xin Yao Subject: jobs in natural computation Dear Colleagues, We invite applications from outstanding candidates for three open-ended lectureships (equivalent to tenure-track assistant professorship in North America) in the School of Computer Science, the University of Birmingham, UK (see the advertisment appended). One of the three posts is particularly relevant to members of this list, i.e., for someone with a strong background in natural computation (including evolutionary, neural and other nature-inspired computations). However, all three lectureships are open to all outstanding candidates. The School of Computer Science has an active and strong research group in evolutionary and neural computations, the EEBIC group, consisting of four permanent academic staff (faculty) and two research fellows: Julian Miller (Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning) Riccardo Poli (Evolutionary Computation, GP, Computer Vision, NNs, AI) Jon Rowe (Evolutionary Computation, AI) Thorsten Schnier (Evolutionary Computation, Engineering Design) Xin Yao (Evolutionary Computation, NNs, Machine Learning) Jun He (Evolutionary Computation, from 1 Feb 2001) There are other staff members in the school who are in the areas of evolvable architectures of mind, medical imaging, robotics, and reinforcement learning. The School has a strong AI group. Our research has been supported by EPSRC, Marconi Communications, EU, BT, DERA, and the Royal Society. Further information about the new MSc mentioned in the following ad can be found at: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~xin/courses/mtp/ More information about the school and the posts can be obtained from our web site or by contacting the head of school (not me), although I'm happy to answer questions about research activities in natural computation in the school. Additional research posts in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence in this School can be found at: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/school/jobvacancies Best regards, Xin SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM England Three Lecturership Posts Applications are invited for three lectureship posts in Computer Science, starting as soon as possible (September 2001 latest). Postholders will be expected to contribute strongly to research, teaching and administration within the School. As an exception, consideration will be given for one of the posts to applicants whose strength is mainly in teaching in an area of special benefit to the School, for example systems analysis, software design, information systems, human-computer interaction or natural computation (taken to include evolutionary, neurally-inspired, and other nature-based computational styles). We intend one of the positions to be filled by someone able to contribute to teaching in our new EPSRC-funded MSc in Natural Computation. Applicants may be in any area of research in computational science. Generally, applicants should have, or soon expect to have, a PhD in computer science or an appropriate, closely related field, together with research experience as evidenced by publications in leading international journals or conference proceedings. However, teaching-orientated applicants may be acceptable if they have an appropriate, strong educational or industrial background and have a good university degree in an appropriate field. For further information please see http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/jobs/lect01/ For the formal application procedure please see that webpage. CLOSING DATE: 31 January 2001. (Late applications may be considered.) Interviews are tentatively planned for late February / early March. It may be possible to negotiate part-time work in special cases. Informal enquiries may be made to Prof. John Barnden (Head of School) Tel: (+44) (0)121 414-3711 Email: J.A.Barnden@cs.bham.ac.uk ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 16:32:27 -0500 From: "Frank W. Moore" Subject: MAICS'2001 Hello, all. I am chair of the Twelfth Midwest Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science conference. On behalf of the MAICS'2001 Program Committee, I would like to invite each of you to submit one or more papers describing significant results or interesting on-going research in any area of AI (including genetic and evolutionary computation) or cognitive science. Graduate students, academicians, and researchers from government and industry are equally encouraged to participate. Proposals for special sessions are also welcomed. MAICS'2001 seeks to build upon the legacy of an outstanding regional conference. This year's conference will be held at Miami University, widely regarded as one of the most beautiful campuses in the United States. For a detailed description, please review the attached Call For Papers and visit the MAICS'2001 conference web site at http://unixgen1.mcs.muohio.edu/~maics2001/ We look forward to your participation. Please feel free to contact me for additional information. Sincerely, Frank Moore moorefw@muohio.edu Assistant Professor Systems Analysis Department Miami University 230L Kreger Hall Oxford, OH 45056 Work: (513) 529-5929 Home: (513) 524-2330 moorefw@muohio.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 15:48:00 -0800 From: Ricardo Salem Zebulum Subject: job annoucement JOB Annoucement: Job Title: Postdoctoral Fellow on Evolvable Hardware Organisation: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology Location: Pasadena, CA, USA Salary: $48,000 / year Closing Date: N/A Project Info: http://cism.jpl.nasa.gov/ehw/darpa Contact: adrian.stoica@jpl.nasa.gov Description: We are seeking a Postodoctoral Fellow to join the Evolvable Hardware (EHW) group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. JPL's EHW focus is on designing evolvable electronic devices. Our preference would be for somebody with a background in electrical engineering who has experience in analog circuit design, as well as experience with search/optimization methods. However, other backgrounds may be considered. JPL Postdoctoral Fellow salary is around $48k/yr. One of our projects funded by DARPA is on the web at http://cism.jpl.nasa.gov/ehw/darpa. If you are interested please send a resume to adrian.stoica@jpl.nasa.gov ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 16:20:02 +0530 (IST) From: Kalyanmoy Deb Subject: Demise of Prof. C. S. Krishnamoorthy IIT Madras For those of you, who knew Prof. C. S. Krishnamoorthy from IIT Madras, India, I am extremely sorry in informing you that on Sunday (10th December 2000), Prof. C. S. Krishnamoorthy died in a road accident. It is a sudden shock to all of us who work in EC in India. Prof. CSK (as we used to call him) was a senior and active researcher and had been a real promoter of the field of genetic and evolutionary computation. Besides guiding a few PhD students in the area, he was actively engaged in applying GEC techniques in various industries in India. At Indian Institute of Technology Madras, he served as a Dean of Research and Development and as a Head of Civil Engineering Department for many years. Recently, he single-handedly instituted an industry-sponsored new Masters degree program on computational aspects at IIT Madras. Primarily a FEM specialist, he had the vision to realize the need of evolutionary optimization in engineering design techniques. Besides his many international collaborations and associations with leading researchers across the World, he completed a Indo-US research project with Prof. David E. Goldberg some years ago. In India, he was like a father-figure in GEC research. His absence would be felt in all activities of the GEC community here. May the God keep his soul at rest in his heavenly home and wish the God give his family members courage and strength to recover from this terrible shock. Kalyan Kalyanmoy Deb E-mail: deb@iitk.ac.in Professor Phone : +91 512 597205 (O) Department of Mechanical Engineering +91 512 598310 (H) Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur Fax : +91 512 597408, 590007 Kanpur, Pin 208 016, INDIA http://www.iitk.ac.in/kangal/deb.htm ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 19:40:43 +1100 (EST) From: fuzz-ieee01 Subject: CFP: FUZZ-IEEE01 Call for Papers The 10th IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE 2001) December 2-5, 2001, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia Sponsored by IEEE Neural Networks Council "Meeting the grand challenge: machines that serve people" Website: http://www.csse.melbourne.edu/FUZZ-IEEE2001 Students: Partial travel scholarships are available from the IEEE Neural Network Council. Please check http://www.arc.unm.edu/~karen/IEEE_NNC/Student_Travel_Grants/ Important dates: Paper submission Friday, 2 March 2001 Notification of acceptance Friday, 1 June 2001 Final manuscripts Friday, 3 August 2001 General enquiry please contact the secretariat of FUZZ-IEEE 2001: fuzz-ieee2001@csse.melbourne.edu The FUZZ-IEEE 2001 conference will be held in Melbourne, Australia, one of the most beautiful and exciting cities in the Southern Hemisphere. Melbourne is also one of the safest, healthiest, and cleanest cities in the world, and is Australia's pre-eminent centre for arts and culture, education, fine food and dining and exciting shopping experiences. The conference will cover a broad range of research topics related to fuzzy logic and soft computing, including but not limited to: T1: Pattern recognition and image processing: supervised and unsupervised learning, classifier design and integration, signal/image processing and analysis, computer vision, multimedia applications. T2: Electronic and robotic systems: fuzzy logic in robotics, automation, and other industrial applications, fuzzy hardware design and implementation. T3: Soft computing and hybrid systems: intelligent information systems, database systems, data mining, intelligent agents, neuro-fuzzy systems, Internet computing. T4: Control systems: fuzzy control theory and applications. T5: Mathematics: foundations of fuzzy logic, approximate reasoning, evolutionary computation. Authors are invited to submit 6 copies of full papers for review. Papers should be written in English, not exceeding 7 single-sided pages on A4 or letter-size paper, in one-column format with 1-inch margin on all four sides, in Times or a similar font of 10 points or larger. Faxed or e-mailed papers will not be accepted. The first page of each paper must include the following information: - title of the paper, - names(s) and affiliation(s) of the author(s), - abstract of the paper, - maximum 5 keywords, - technical area of the paper (T1, T2, T3, T4 or T5, choose one only), - name, postal address, phone and fax numbers and e-mail address of the contact author. Please send papers to: Secretariat of FUZZ-IEEE 2001 Conference Management The University of Melbourne Victoria 3010, Australia E-mail: fuzz-ieee2001@csse.melbourne.edu ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 12:35:38 -0600 From: Roberto Santana Subject: ISAS2001, Extended deadline ISAS 2001 - International Symposium on Adaptive Systems "Evolutionary Computation and Probabilistic Graphical Models" Hotel Palco and Havana Convention Center, Cuba March 19-23, 2001 1- Special one day session on Adaptation and Bioinformatics. 2- Call for tutorials and/or large key talks (1 - 1.5 hours) 3- Extension of the deadline until January 15. 1- Extension of deadline. The Organizing Committee of ISAS 2001 has decided to extend the deadline for presentation of papers until January 15. Please visit our web page for details. (http://isas2001.tripod.com/symp) 2- One day Special Session on Adaptation and Bioinformatics. The ISAS 2001 conference will explore recent issues on the convergence of Adaptive Systems and Bioinformatics.The aim of the session is the discussion of works in this new field of research and applications. Contributions will be welcomed that address the cross-fertilization between the fields of Artificial Adaptive Systems, and the research on molecular biology, genetics, neural systems, population dynamics and in general nature inspired research. The works will be published in the ISAS2001 conference's proceedings. We also call for presentation of tutorials or large key talks in this field. At this moment we already have the following tutorials: 1- Prospect and problems in Bioinformatics Selfish is not enough a model of organism is missing. Dr. Heinz Muehlenbein. (Germany). 2- Spiking Neural Models (to be confirmed). Dr. Hans Bothe (Denmark) 3- Call for Tutorials and/or large talks. The organizing committee of ISAS2001 call for the presentation of tutorials and/or large talks (1 - 1.5 hours) in anyone of the topics of the conference (see isas2001.tripod.com/symp). We already have the following talks: 1-Future Trends of Evolutionary Computing Dr. Heinz Muehlenbein. National Research Center for Information Technology (Germany) 2- Numerical Tight Bounds for Continuous Functions Over Polyhedron Domains: A Tutorial Dr. Hossein Arsham, University of Baltimore (USA) 3- Evolutionary Design of Hybrid Systems - Reviews and Prospects for Industrial Applications. Dr. Ajith Abraham. Monash University. (Australia) 4- Optimization and Machine Learning with Estimation Distribution Algorithnms Dr. Pedro Larrannaga. University of the Basque Country. (Spain) The deadline for presentation of tutorials is January 10. Speakers can present a written version of their talks for publication in the proceedings. (although it is not mandatory). They should use the same format of regular papers, but a maximum of 15 pages is allowed. For further information please contact: ISAS 2001 URL: http://isas2001.tripod.com/symp http://www.members.tripod.com/~isas2001/symp/ Dr. Alberto Ochoa Rodríguez Institute of Cybernetics, Mathematics and Physics (ICIMAF). Center of Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. Calle 15 No. 551 e/ C y D. CP. 10400. La Habana. Cuba. Fax: 537-333373 Phone: 537-327764 aa8ar@yahoo.com ochoa@cidet.icmf.inf.cu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 01:40:12 -0800 (PST) From: Hillol Kargupta Subject: GECCO-2001 Workshop and GP/EH Journal Special Issue on Gene Expression Workshop and Journal Special Issue on Computation in Gene Expression GECCO-2001 Workshop, Date: Saturday, July 7, 2001 San Francisco, California, USA Holiday Inn Golden Gateway Hotel And Special Issue of Genetic Programming and Evolvable Hardware Journal Chair: Hillol Kargupta University of Maryland Baltimore County Overall Description: The gene expression process in nature extracts the information coded in the DNA in order to generate the phenotype of a living organism. This process includes the production of proteins from the DNA through the construction of mRNA and the subsequent expression during the different developmental stages. It is a very important biological process. It also appears to be very important from the perspective of genetic search. The Gene expression manipulates of the genetic representation. Representation plays an important role in problem-solving which is widely acknowledged in many fields such as physics, mathematics, engineering, machine learning, optimization and many others. Representation transformations are often used in these fields for solving problems efficiently. Therefore representation transformations and manipulations in gene expression allude intriguing possibilities. This workshop will focus on the expression of the genome and its role in evolutionary computation. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 1) Theoretical and experimental analysis of representation transformations offered by the natural gene expression process. 2) Relation of gene expression and efficient, scalable evolutionary computation. 3) Design, implementations, and experiments of evolutionary algorithms such as genetic algorithms, genetic programming, evolutionary strategy and other algorithms that are directly motivated by the gene expression process. 4) Applications of gene expression-based algorithms. 5) Representational issues in evolutionary algorithms. 6) Linkage learning, redundancy in evolutionary representation. Authors of selected papers from the workshop will be invited to contribute in a special issue of the Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines Journal, Kluwer. Deadlines for the Workshop Paper submission: February 25, 2001 Acceptance/Rejection notification: March 24, 2001 Camera-ready copy submission: April 20, 2001 For more details see: http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/~hillol/GECCO2001/gexp.html ------------------------------ End of Genetic Algorithms Digest ******************************