Genetic Algorithms Digest Tuesday, March 20, 2001 Volume 15 : Issue 10 - Send submissions (articles) to GA-List@gmu.edu. DO NOT send submissions to the listproc@gmu.edu address. - To subscribe send email to listproc@gmu.edu containing the following text in the body of the message: subscribe ga-list - To unsubscribe send email to listproc@gmu.edu containing the following text in the body of the message: unsubscribe ga-list - To change your email address, simply unsubscribe the old address and subscribe the new one. - Send other administrative requests to GA-List@gmu.edu. - 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 in /pub/galist. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Today's Topics: - Call for Papers - Protein search via GA - PATAT IV - EvoWorkshops2001 reduced-fee registration DEADLINE: MARCH 15th - Call for paper: - EA Book - New Symbolic Regression Tool ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALENDAR OF GA-RELATED ACTIVITIES: (with GA-List issue reference) 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) CSCS13 Int. Conf. on Control Sys. and CS, Bucharest May 31-June 3, 01 (v15n4) 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) CEF'2001 Sessions on EC in Econ. and Fin., New Haven, CN Jun 28-30, 01 (v15n4) 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) WOMAII Workshop on Memetic Algorithms, SF, CA Jul 7, 01 (v15n4) IWLCS-2001 4rth Int. Conf. on Classifier Sys., SF, CA Jul 7-8, 01 (v15n10) 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) CIMCA2001 Int. Conf. on Comp. Int.,..., Las Vegas, NV Jul 9-11, 01 (v15n4) IAWTIC2001 Int. Conf. on Int. Agents,..., Las Vegas, NV Jul 9-11, 01 (v15n4) WATT2001 Wrkshp of...Automated Timetabling, Rotterdam Jul 9-11, 01 (v15n8) NASAEH 3rd Wrkshp on Evolvable Hardware, Pasadena, CA Jul 12-14, 01 (v15n2) SCI2001 Evolvable Sys. and Gen. Prog., Orlando, FL USA Jul 22-25, 01 (v15n8) IJCAI-01 WS on Empirical MEthods in AI, Seattle, USA Aug 4, 01 (v15n5) IDAMAP2001 Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine & Phar Sep 4, 01 (v15n3) 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) MCCS 2001 6th Int. Conf on Msr & Ctrl in Compl. Sys, Ukr Oct. 8-12, 01 (v15n10) IAT2001 2nd Asia Pac Conf on Intell Agent Tech, Japan Oct 23-26, 01 (v14n14) EA01 ÉVOLUTION ARTIFICIELLE 2001, Le Creusot, France Oct 29-31, 01 (v15n5) ICDM01 IEEE Int Conf on Data Mining, Silicon Valley, Nov 29-Dec 2, 01 (v14n14) ANNIE 2001 Smart Eng. Systems Design Conf, StL, MO, USA Nov 4-7, 01 (v15n5) 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) PATAT 2002 4rth Int. Conf. ... Auto. Timetbl., Belgium Aug 21-23, 02 (v15n10) Send announcements of other activities to GA-List@gmu.edu -------------- Sender: Wolfgang.Stolzmann@daimlerchrysler.com Subject: Call for Papers Call for Papers (Deadline April 1, 2001) Fourth International Workshop on Learning Classifier Systems (IWLCS-2001) 7-8 July 2001 San Francisco, California USA http://www.psychologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/iwlcs-2001 to be held during the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2001) 7 - 11 July 2001, San Francisco, California USA http://gal4.ge.uiuc.edu:8080/GECCO-2001/ History: The First International Workshop on Learning Classifier Systems (IWLCS-92) was held at the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas October 6-9 1992. The Second International Workshop on Learning Classifier Systems (IWLCS-99) was held at Orlando, Florida, USA Tuesday, July 13, 1999 during GECCO-99. The main results of IWLCS-99 are published in the book P.L. Lanzi, W. Stolzmann, and S.W. Wilson (Eds.) Learning Classifier Systems: From Foundations to Applications, LNAI 1813, Berlin: Springer-Verlag. The Third International Workshop on Learning Classifier Systems (IWLCS-2000) was held in Paris, September 15-16, 2000 as a joint workshop of SAB2000 and PPSN VI. Selected papers of IWLCS-2000 will be published as post-workshop proceedings in the LNAI-series of the Springer-Verlag. Extended abstracts can be found at www.psychologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/iwlcs-2000/ Paper submission: Submissions are invited that discuss recent developments in learning classifier systems research and the expected trends of the field. There are two possibilities for paper submissions: Full paper submissions are full papers that will be peer reviewed by at least two members of the program committee. All accepted papers will be presented at the workshop and will be published in post-workshop proceedings. Papers should not be longer than twenty pages (Springer LNCS/LNAI style), including title page, figures, and bibliography. For submission of longer papers please contact the members of the organizing committee. Late breaking submissions are extended abstracts (3-5 pages, Springer LNCS/LNAI style), that will be peer reviewed. Accepted submissions will be presented at the workshop. After the workshop the authors will have to submit full papers which are reviewed again for the post-workshop proceedings. It is planned to publish the post-workshop proceedings in the Springer LNCS/LNAI series. Formatting instructions can be found at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Submission deadline for full papers is April 1, 2001 . Submission deadline for late braking papers is June 15, 2001. Electronic submission (compressed/zipped/gzipped standard PostScript or PDF) is strongly encouraged. A copy of the paper should be mailed to Wolfgang.Stolzmann@DaimlerChrysler.com with the subject "IWLCS-2001: PAPER SUBMISSION". This email must also contain a 300-words abstract (plain ascii text) containing title, author(s), email-address(es) and homepage(s) if available. Alternatively, authors may send five hardcopies to: Dr. Wolfgang Stolzmann DaimlerChrysler AG Research & Technology Cognition and Robotics (FT3/AI) Alt-Moabit 96A D-10559 Berlin Germany -------------- Sender: AzNStUd87@aol.com Subject: Protein search via GA My name is Daniel Tang. I am a junior at Stuyvesant High School in New York City. Currently, I am enrolled in a class that will eventually lead to writing a research paper for the Intel science competition. I am deeply interested in GA research. I had been looking into the idea of using genetic algorithms to search the genome of known strains to HIV in search of a pattern of mutation. It has been suggested to me by Dr. Greenwell from Hofstra University that I propose my idea on this forum. I have been trying to create GA in C++ and Visual Basic with little progress. If anyone is currently doing research in protein serach using GA, I would appreciate it if you could contact me. I thank you in advance. Sincerely, Daniel Tang (718) 803-9230 tangd@stuy.edu -------------- Sender: Edmund Burke Subject: PATAT IV ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS PATAT 2002 The 4th international conference on the Practice And Theory of Automated Timetabling Wednesday, 21st August - Friday, 23rd August 2002 KaHo St.-Lieven Gent Belgium This conference is the fourth in a series of conferences that serve as a forum for an international community of researchers, practitioners and vendors on all aspects of computer-aided timetable generation. For more information about the series of conferences see http://www.asap.cs.nott.ac.uk/ASAP/ttg/patat-index.html The themes of the conference include (but are not limited to): o Sports Timetabling o Educational Timetabling o Transport Timetabling o Employee Timetabling o Complexity Issues o Distributed Timetabling Systems o Experiences o Implementations o Commercial Packages o Interactive vs Batch Timetabling o Timetable Updating o Relationship with Other Scheduling Problems o Timetabling Research Areas, including: Constraint Based Methods Evolutionary Computation Artificial Intelligence Graph Colouring Expert Systems Heuristic Search Knowledge Based Systems Operational Research Simulated Annealing Local Search Mathematical Programming Soft Computing Tabu Search Submissions: All submissions should include a cover page which states clearly: (1) the names of the authors (2) the contact person and address (3) e-mail address (if you have one) (4) Keywords (5) The category of submission (full paper or abstract) The keywords should mention the relevant conference themes listed above (if this is possible). Authors are invited to submit presentations in one of two categories: (a) Full Papers Authors should submit papers describing significant, original and unpublished work. Four (hard) copies of the paper should be submitted by January 25th 2002 to Prof E.K.Burke at the address below. We expect the length of the final papers to be no more than 8000 words. These papers will be fully refereed by the programme committee and the accepted ones will appear in a conference proceedings (ISBN 90-806096-1-7). As in previous years, a selection of the papers will appear in a post conference volume published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. The second round of refereeing for this volume will take place shortly after the conference. (b) Abstracts Authors can submit abstracts of up to 1000 words to Prof E.K.Burke. Four (hard) copies of the abstract should be submitted by January 25th 2002. Abstracts will be fully refereed. The accepted ones will appear in the conference proceedings (ISBN 90-806096-1-7). The actual abstracts will not go forward to the second round of refereeing for the post-conference volume. However, authors of accepted abstracts will have the opportunity to write a paper (based on their abstract) and submit it for the selected papers volume at a later date (shortly after the conference). People who wish to give a talk (e.g. practitioners, researchers with incomplete work) but do not want to write an academic paper can submit under this category. Deadlines: Paper/abstract submissions January 25th 2002 Notification April 26th 2002 (at the latest) Programme Committee Edmund Burke (co-chair) University of Nottingham, UK Patrick De Causmaecker (co-chair) KaHo St.-Lieven, Gent, Belgium [ ... modified by moderator for brevity ... ] The following websites provide more information about Ghent: http://www.gent.be http://www.travel.com/gent.htm More information about the conference centre is available on http://aivwww.rug.ac.be/Pand/ For more information, contact: Prof E.K.Burke Automated Scheduling, Optimisation and Planning Research Group. School of Computer Science and Information Technology University of Nottingham University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD United Kingdom e-mail: ekb@cs.nott.ac.uk or Prof P.De Causmaecker Information Technology KaHo St.-Lieven Gebr. Desmetstraat 1 9000 Gent Belgium e-mail: patdc@kahosl.be PATAT 2002 WEB SITE Full updated information is always available from http://project.kahosl.be/patat2002/ -------------- Sender: evoiasp@ce.unipr.it Subject: EvoWorkshops2001 reduced-fee registration DEADLINE: MARCH 15th CALL FOR PARTICIPATION EVOWORKSHOPS2001 EvoCop2001 - First European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization EvoFLIGHT2001 - Second European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Aerospace EvoIASP2001 - Third European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Image Analysis and Signal Processing EvoLEARN2001 - First European Workshop on Evolutionary Learning EvoSTIM2001 - Second European Workshop on Scheduling and Timetabling Como (Italy), April 18-19, 2001 All EvoWorkshops will take place on the first day of EuroGP2001 (http://evonet.dcs.napier.ac.uk/eurogp2001), the European Conference on Genetic Programming. EvoCOP will continue on April 19. The previous EvoWorkshops were held in Goteborg, Sweden, in May 1999 and in Edinburgh, UK, in April 2000. EvoWorkshops2001 will be held on Lake Como, close to Milan, Italy. The workshops are sponsored by EvoNet, the Network of Excellence in Evolutionary Computing. The workshop Proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS Series and will be available at the conference. Important Dates: Reduced-fee pre-registration deadline 15 March 2001 Workshops: 18/19 April 2001 For full details and updated news about the workshops please visit the following web pages: http://evonet.dcs.napier.ac.uk/eurogp2001/evoworkshops.html http://evonet.dcs.napier.ac.uk/eurogp2001/ For information about EvoWorkshops99 and EvoWorkshops2000 Proceedings: http://www.springer-ny.com/detail.tpl?ISBN=3540658378 http://www.springer-ny.com/detail.tpl?ISBN=3540673539 -------------- Sender: "serg" Subject: Call for paper: FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS: MCCS-2001 The Sixth International Conference "MEASUREMENT AND CONTROL IN COMPLEX SYSTEMS" Vinnitsa State Technical University, Vinnitsa, Ukraine October 8-12, 2001 http://www.vstu.vinnica.ua/mccs2001 Abstract Submission Deadline: April 10, 2001 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Organized by VINNITSA STATE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY in cooperation with - Institute of Electrical Engineering and Electronics (IEEE); - System Analysis Institute of the Ukraine Academia of Science and of Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine; - Lviv National Technical University "Lvivska Politechnica", Ukraine; - SPA "Systema", Lviv, Ukraine. ============================================================================ OBJECTIVES ========== The goal of this conference is the meeting of the specialists in the field of control and management of technical, ecological, managerial and economic, medical and biological and other complex systems in order to find common approaches, to exchange ideas, to discuss tendencies of development of this particular scientific sphere, to establish fruitful relations and to accustom talented young researches to scientific search. Special attention is going to be paid to the use of mathematical modeling, the optimization and other scientific approaches of technical sciences to the solving the problems of environment protection, sustainable use of natural resources, management, health etc. TOPICS ====== The technical issues to be addressed include, but not limited to: Mathematical modeling of complex systems: - information systems; - managerial and economic systems; - technological processes; - power systems; - environment; - medical and biological systems; - based on computational intelligence; Prospective technical tools of measurement and control: - meteorological providing of measuring; - primary measuring transducers; - communication tools; - information protection; - signal processing; - information display; - means of regulation; Control in - power engineering; - environment protection; - medical and biological systems; - managerial and economic systems; - technological processes; Complex systems optimization: - CAD of control systems; - optimization of non-linear complex systems; - adaptive complex systems; - multicriterial optimization. OFFICIAL LANGUAGES ===================== English, Ukrainian, Russian. PUBLICATIONS ============ Abstracts of the reports, accepted to be listened at the conference, will be issued as a separate booklet before the conference. High quality reports made and approved at the conference are going to be published as a special issue of the journal Herald of Vinnitsa Polytechnical Institute", which is recognized by Higher Attestation Commission of Ukraine as one of the journals which can publish materials of Ph.D. and Dr.Sc. dissertations. PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDE ====================== 1.The length of the abstract should be one full-page A4-size printed in one of the conference languages. The abstract should be submitted together with an application form. 2.The length of the report is 3-7 pages A4-size, printed in one of the conference languages. 3.Besides printed materials in order to speed up issuing of the conference materials you should send the materials (WinWord file) on the 3,5" diskette or by e-mail. 4.Materials should be printed by ink jet or laser printer in 2 copies. One of the copies is signed by the authors. Mark number of the pages on the back side of sheet in pencil. 5.Margins are: left - 33mm; right - 30mm; upper - 25 mm; lower - 30mm. Font - Times New Roman, size -14. 6.How the material should be placed: - print the title in capital letters (bold) at first line; - leave 1 free line and then print first names and surnames of the co-authors, country and town in brackets (bold); - leave 2 free lines and indented start printing main text; - formulas and pictures should be in the text. APPLICATION FORM ================ First name and surname _______________________________________ Title ________________________________________________________ Country, city, institution ___________________________________ Address ______________________________________________________ Phone ________________________________________________________ E-mail _______________________________________________________ Form of participation (reporter, co-author, participation in discussion, accompanying person)_____________ IMPORTANT DATES =============== April 10, 2001 Abstract and application form submission deadline May 1, 2001 Notification of paper acceptance September 10, 2001 Camera-ready copies of accepted papers due October 8, 2001 Beginning of the registration October 9-12, 2001 Conference technical sessions REGISTRATION FEES ================== Scientists - 30$; Students and post-graduates - 15$. Special registration fees for citizens of the Ukraine are available. Payment should be made in USD. No cheques are accepted. Bank account: BANKERS TRUST COMPANY 04094040 SWIFT: BKTRUS33 New York. 3901315003 Vinnitsa Ukrsotsbank Acc Vinnitsa State Technical University 25304399660 Please indicate MCCS-2001 and your name on the remittance. CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS ===================== General Chair - Academic Boris Mokin - rector of Vinnitsa State Technical University, Ukraine. Local Organizing Chair - Dr. Vitaliy Hrabko - the first vice-rector of Vinnitsa State Technical University, Ukraine. [ ... modified by moderator for brevity ... ] FURTHER INFORMATION =================== Please send the all messages regarding MCCS-2001 to: Dr.Sc., Prof., Vladimir Dubovoy, Head of Computer Control Systems Department, Vinnitsa State Technical University, Khmelnitskoe Shosse, 95, 21021, Vinnitsa, Ukraine dub@faksu.vstu.vinnica.ua Best regards, Dr. Serhiy Shtovba, Vi nnitsa State Technical University, Vinnitsa, Ukraine www.vinnitsa.com/shtovba -------------- Sender: William Spears Subject: EA Book I just wanted to let folks know that my book is now available. Constructive comments are always welcome. Evolutionary Algorithms: The Role of Mutation and Recombination (William M. Spears, ISBN 3-540-66950-7, $39.95) Publisher: Springer-Verlag (Natural Computing Series) Written for: Computer scientists and mathematicians specializing in evolutionary algorithms, evolutionary biologists and population geneticists, and practitioners interested in evaluating and comparing different search and optimization algorithms Description: Despite decades of work in evolutionary algorithms (EAs), there remains a lot of uncertainty as to when it is beneficial or detrimental to use recombination or mutation. This book provides a characterization of the roles that mutation and recombination play in EAs. It integrates prior theoretical work and introduces new theoretical techniques for studying EAs. A focus on discrete rather than real-valued representations allows the book to bridge multiple communities, including evolutionary biologists and population geneticists. The book provides more than theory. For example, a practical method for comparing search and optimization algorithms, using test-problem generators, is introduced. In addition, a simple and efficient speciation algorithm is given for creating and maintaining multiple subpopulations in an EA. Finally, an aggregation algorithm for Markov chains is introduced which is useful for studying not only EAs specifically, but also complex systems in general. Concepts in the book are carefully explained. Most of the theory is understandable to anyone with an undergraduate course in probability. Some knowledge of Markov chains, linear algebra, and differential equations is helpful, although not necessary. The book can be obtained from Springer-Verlag directly from orders@springer-ny.com, or through other outlets such as Amazon.com, Borders.com, and BarnesandNoble.com. Cheers, Bill [PS. Please direct all correspondence to spears999@aic.nrl.navy.mil (remove the 9's - I'm trying to reduce spam).] -------------- Sender: "Candida Ferreira" Subject: New Symbolic Regression Tool Dear colleagues, I am proud to announce the release of the Automatic Problem Solver! WHAT IS APS? APS is a symbolic regression tool that generates Visual Basic, C++ and Karva code from the analysis of any kind of numerical data. APS is based on Gene Expression Programming, the fastest and most powerful AI algorithm available. APS is very easy to use: as soon as you learn how to load your experimental values and adjust a few settings you will be able to put the algorithm to work and generate a function that you can paste into your IDE or code files. For a detailed description of APS go to http://www.gepsoft.com/gepsoft/products.asp DEMOS With the demo you can load your own data and evaluate the fitness and R-square of the evolved solutions but you cannot access or save the evolved solutions. You can also view the charts (training and validation) and the output training and validation tables of the evolved formula. A few examples are also installed with the demo. Download the Demo at http://www.gepsoft.com/gepsoft/demos/ AVAILABILITY AND PRICE APS is available for purchase through our site at: http://www.gepsoft.com/gepsoft/resellers.asp Price: US$150 REQUIREMENTS - Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT 4.0 SP 6.0 or Windows 2000 - PII 350 Mhz with 128 MB RAM Minimum Regards, Candida Ferreira Gepsoft.com http://www.gepsoft.com/ sales@gepsoft.com -------------- End of Genetic Algorithms Digest ******************************