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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 Banzhaf Subject: GPEM volume 2, issue 1 (2001) ANNOUNCEMENT ------------ I am very pleased to announce that volume 2, issue 1 (2001) of the Kluwer journal GENETIC PROGRAMMING AND EVOLVABLE MACHINES has appeared. For your reference I include the table of contents of issue 1 (2001). Abstracts of all papers can be checked under http://www.wkap.nl/issuetoc.htm/1389-2576+2+1+2001 Enjoy reading, Wolfgang Banzhaf Editor-in-Chief Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines Department of Computer Science University of Dortmund 44221 Dortmund, GERMANY ===== GENETIC PROGRAMMING AND EVOLVABLE MACHINES, Volume 2, Issue 1, March 2001 Table of Contents Volume 2, Issue 1, March 2001 Editorial Introduction W. Banzhaf pp. 5-5 Effective Fitness as an Alternative Paradigm for Evolutionary Computation II: Examples and Applications C. R. Stephens, J. Mora Vargas pp. 7-32 A High-Performance, Pipelined, FPGA-Based Genetic Algorithm Machine Barry Shackleford, Greg Snider, Richard J. Carter, Etsuko Okushi, Mitsuhiro Yasuda, Katsuhiko Seo, Hiroto Yasuura pp. 33-60 Selection Based on the Pareto Nondomination Criterion for Controlling Code Growth in Genetic Programming Anikó Ekárt, S. Z. Németh pp. 61-73 Book Review: Bio-Inspired Computing Machines: Towards Novel Computational Architectures Garrison W. Greenwood pp. 75-78 Book Review: Evolutionary Design by Computers Peter A. Whigham pp. 79-84 ===== GENETIC PROGRAMMING AND EVOLVABLE MACHINES The journal is available both in paper and in electronic form. Sample copies can be ordered from Kluwer. http://www.wkap.nl/journalhome.htm/1389-2576 Subscription Information: 2001, Volume 2 (4 issues), ISSN 1389-2576 Subscription rate: EUR 299.50 / USD 300.00 Individuals may subscribe at the reduced rate of: EUR 55.00 / USD 55.00 Special rate for ISGEC members: USD 45.00 Subscription Rate refers to either the Paper version or the Online version. To receive the Combined Paper & Online Version please add 20%. The private rate, if applicable, is available for the paper version only. ------------------------------ Sender: Thomas Stuetzle Subject: PhD and postdoc positions for metaheuristics research Within the Metaheuristics Network, a research network funded by the European Commission, there are still a few positions available (at Universite' Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium and at Darmstadt University of Technology in Germany). More information concerning the positions in Brussels can be found at: http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~mdorigo/ACO/positions.html More information concerning the positions in Darmstadt can be found at: http://www.intellektik.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/~tom/TUD-Openings.html PLEASE NOTE: There are a number of restrictions for a researcher to be eligible. These are listed in the following: Conditions for EU grants The researcher must be 35 years old or less at the time of his appointment (allowances are possible for special cases like child care and military service). The researcher must be a holder of a doctoral degree or of a degree in an appropriate subject in Science or Engineering. The appointment will be for a fixed-term. The applicant must be a national of a Member State of the European Community or of an Associated State (a list of Associate States can be found at: http://www.cordis.lu/fp5/src/3rdcountries.htm) or have resided in the European Community for at least five years prior to his appointment. The applicant must choose a Centre located in a state different from his national state and he must not have carried out his activities in that state for more than 12 of the 24 months prior to his appointment. We explicitly encourage female researchers to apply for the offered positions. We guarantee that the selection process, based solely on the research records, will give equal opportunities to female and male researchers. ------------------------------ Sender: "Suresh R.K." Subject: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Sender: R.K.Suresh (rk_suresh@amrita.edu) CALL FOR PARTICIPATION First National Conference on Computer Integrated Design and Manufacturing Sponsored By ALL INDIA COUNCIL FOR TECHNICAL EDUCATION (AICTE) and DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, NEW DELHI. 14-15, MAY 2001 Organised by Amrita Institute of Technology and Science, Coimbatore, India. TOPICS TO BE DISCUSSED ================= CAD/CAM/CAE Rapid Prototyping and Tooling Concurrent Engineering Product Data Management Computer-Aided Process Planning Modelling and Simulation of Manufacturing Systems Scheduling of Manufacturing Systems JIT Manufacturing Systems Cellular Manufacturing Systems Flexible Manufacturing Systems Application of Neural Networks, Fuzzy Systems, Simulated Annealing, Ant Systems and Genetic Algorithms in Manufacturing High Speed Machining AI/ES and Robotics Automated Material-Handling and Storage Systems Automated Inspection Systems Robotics and Factory Automation OFFICIAL LANGUAGE =============== English Important Informations ============== Delegates from 56 organisations all over India have already sent their registration forms for participation. Arond 96 technical papers are to be presented by researchers from academics and Industry. An exclusive session will be arranged for younsters to select topics for research and also to identify the ongoing level of research in various field. Teachers working in Engineering colleges, professionals from R&D establishments, etc. can register for the conference as a participant. Registration form is available and can be downloaded from www.amrita.edu/cidm. Please send all the messages regarding CIDM-2001 to: R. K. Suresh Department of Production Engineering Amrita Institute of Technology Coimbatore- 641 105 INDIA. Ph: +91 422 856422 Fax: +91 422 856274 Email: rk_suresh@amrita.edu www.amrita.edu/cidm ===== Organising Secretary, National Conference on Computer Integrated Design and Manufacturing, Amrita Institute of Technology & Science,Ettimadai, Coimbatore-641 105, INDIA. Ph: (Desk) +91-422-856221/273/280/281, (Home) +91-422-577281 (Residence), Fax: +91-422-856274 Resi Address: 7 Badrakaliamman Koil 3rd Street, Uppilipalayam, Coimbatore, 641 015, INDIA. ------------------------------ Sender: Yu Xinjie Subject: EA and internet safe information request Dear All, I'd like to do some research work on Internet safe( including invasion detection, attack pattern recognition, etc.) by using Evolutionary Algorithm. In my original idea, Genetic Programming (or Gene Express Programming) can deal with learning problem, and Genetic Algorithm is used to evolve the operation. Can anybody give some ideas, important papers (books), or comments? Many thanks in advance. Best regards, Yu Xinjie ---- Yu Xinjie PhD Dept. of Electrical Engineering Tsinghua University Beijing, 100084 P.R.China yuxinjie96@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn Tel. 86-10-62771944 Fax. 86-10-62783057 ------------------------------ Sender: Ning Zhong Subject: IAT-2001 Deadline Extension Dear Colleagues, We have received many requests for extending the IAT-2001 submission deadline. After further consideration, we decide to extend the submission deadline to April 1, 2001. On-Line Submission is encouraged and preferred. Please use the Submission Form at the IAT-2001 webpage: "http://kis.maebashi-it.ac.jp/iat01" to submit your paper. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by World Scientific, An International Publisher, as a hardcover book entitled: INTELLIGENT AGENT TECHNOLOGY: RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT. Authors of selected papers will be invited to have their papers included in a special issue of an international journal. Best Regards, Ning Zhong and Jiming Liu Program Chairs, IAT-2001 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: IAT-2001 The Second Asia-Pacific Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology SPONSORED BY ACM SIGART Maebashi Institute of Technology Maebashi TERRSA, Maebashi City, Japan October 23-26, 2001 Home Page: http://kis.maebashi-it.ac.jp/iat01 Mirror Page: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/IAT/iat01 ******************************************* !!! deadline extended to April 1, 2001 !!! ******************************************* IN COOPERATION WITH ACM SIGCHI, ACM SIGWEB Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI) JSAI SIGFAI, JSAI SIGKBS, IEICE SIGKBSE CORPORATE SPONSORS Maebashi Convention Bureau Maebashi City Government Gunma Prefecture Government The Japan Research Institute, Limited US AFOSR/AOARD and US Army Research Office in Far East IAT-2001 will be jointly held with The First Asia-Pacific Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-2001) (One registration may attend both IAT-2001 and WI-2001) FURTHER INFORMATION === Please send suggestions and inquiries regarding IAT-2001 to: Prof. Ning Zhong (IAT-2001) Department of Information Engineering Maebashi Institute of Technology 460-1, Kamisadori-Cho, Maebashi-City, 371-0816 Japan TEL&FAX: +81-27-265-7366 E-mail: zhong@maebashi-it.ac.jp [ ... Modified by moderator for brevity ... ] ------------------------------ Sender: Ning Zhong Subject: WI-2001 Deadline Extension Dear Colleagues, We have received many requests for extending the WI-2001 submission deadline. After further consideration, we decide to extend the submission deadline to April 1, 2001. On-Line Submission is encouraged and preferred. Please use the Submission Form at the WI-2001 webpage: "http://kis.maebashi-it.ac.jp/wi01" to submit your paper. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in AI series (LNCS/LNAI). Authors of selected papers will be invited to have their papers included in a special issue of an international journal and in an edited hardcover book to be published by Springer-Verlag. Best Regards, Ning Zhong and Yiyu Yao Program Chairs, WI-2001 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: WI-2001 The First Asia-Pacific Conference on Web Intelligence SPONSORED BY ACM SIGART Maebashi Institute of Technology Maebashi TERRSA, Maebashi City, Japan October 23-26, 2001 Home Page: http://kis.maebashi-it.ac.jp/wi01 Mirror Page: http://cs.uregina.ca/~wi01/ ******************************************* !!! deadline extended to April 1, 2001 !!! ******************************************* IN COOPERATION WITH ACM SIGCHI, ACM SIGWEB Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI) JSAI SIGFAI, JSAI SIGKBS, IEICE SIGKBSE CORPORATE SPONSORS Maebashi Convention Bureau Maebashi City Government Gunma Prefecture Government The Japan Research Institute, Limited US AFOSR/AOARD and US Army Research Office in Far East WI-2001 will be jointly held with The Second Asia-Pacific Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT-2001) (One registration may attend both IAT-2001 and WI-2001) FURTHER INFORMATION Please send suggestions and inquiries regarding WI-2001 to: Prof. Ning Zhong (WI-2001) Department of Information Engineering Maebashi Institute of Technology 460-1, Kamisadori-Cho, Maebashi-City, 371-0816 Japan TEL&FAX: +81-27-265-7366 E-mail: zhong@maebashi-it.ac.jp [ ... Modified by moderator for brevity ... ] ------------------------------ Sender: Uday Chakraborty Subject: Journal CFP: Information Sciences (Elsevier) CALL FOR PAPERS Information Sciences (Elsevier) Special Issue on Evolutionary Computing Guest Editor: Uday K. Chakraborty Submission deadline: June 15, 2001 Information Sciences (Elsevier) (http://www.elsevier.nl/inca/publications/store/5/0/5/7/3/0/index.htt) invites original contributions for a forthcoming special issue on evolutionary computing. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the theory and applications of: - Genetic algorithms - Evolution strategies - Evolutionary programming - Genetic programming - Classifier systems - Evolutionary robotics - Hybrid (evolutionary and other soft computing) systems Manuscripts (in English) should not normally exceed 10,000 words in length. Please provide a title page containing the title of the paper, names and affiliations of the authors, and mailing address, e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers of the corresponding author. The manuscript must contain an abstract. Four hard copies (not faxes) of the manuscript should be submitted to the guest editor: Uday K. Chakraborty Dept. of Mathematics & Computer Science University of Missouri - St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63121, U.S.A. Email: uday@cs.umsl.edu Phone: 314 516 6339 Fax: 314 516 5400 ------------------------------ Sender: Luca Maria Gambardella Subject: Job Opening in Operational Research at IDSIA Job Opening in Operational Research for a European IST Project http://www.idsia.ch/luca/ROEU2001PD.htm === IDSIA Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull'Intelligenza Artificiale Galleria 2, 6928 Manno-Lugano, Switzerland A RESEARCH ASSISTANT position with 3 years funding with possible extensions is open for applications. We are looking for a Post Doctoral candidate to work on a new European Project starting June 2001. The project studies algorithms and tools to support urban distribution in case of stochastic and dynamic environment. On-line vehicle routing problems are also addressed. The person appointed should have an outstanding record in operational research/artificial intelligence. In principle, the optimal curriculum will include both research and industrial experiences. Project consortium includes industrial and accademic partners from Italy, Germany, Swiss and England. APPLICATION DEADLINE === MAY 15th 2001 CONTACT INFORMATION === If you wish to apply, please send (i) Detailed curriculum vitae (ii) List of three references (and their email addresses) (iii) Transcripts of undergraduate and graduate (if applicable) studies (iv) Concise statement of your research interests (two pages max). Candidates are also encouraged to submit their scores in the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) general test (if available). Applications can also be submitted electronically (in plain ASCII or postscript format) to luca@idsia.ch. Please connect "ROEU2001PD" with your first and last name in the message subject, and add a meaningful extension. For instance, if your name is John Smith, then your messages could have subjects such as: ROEU2001PD.John.Smith.cv.ps, ROEU2001PD.John.Smith.statement.txt, ROEU2001PD.John.Smith.correspondence.txt. Please send all documents to Luca Maria Gambardella: Luca Maria Gambardella IDSIA Galleria 2 6928 Manno-Lugano Switzerland Phone : +41 91 - 610 8663 Fax : +41 91 - 610 8661 Secretary: +41 91 - 6108660 mailto:luca@idsia.ch http://www.idsia.ch/luca SHORT DESCRIPTION OF IDSIA === IDSIA , Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull'Intelligenza Artificiale, is a non-profit oriented research institute. Thanks to the Fondazione Dalle Molle per la Qualitŕ della Vita it was founded in 1988 to conduct basic research in artificial intelligence and to contribute to the advancement of the scientific and technological culture of the Italian-speaking Switzerland. IDSIA is affiliated with the Swiss Italian University (USI) and the Swiss Italian University for Applied Science (SUPSI). The "X-Lab Survey" by Business Week Magazine ranks IDSIA among the world's top ten labs in Artificial Intelligence. The main research activities of the institute are: (i) the study of different metaheuristic approaches to solve combinatorial optimization problems. (ii) basic and applied research on the modeling, simulation and optimization of transport systems. (iii) the development of learning algorithms that focus on collective behavior and lifelong learning. (iv) the development of neural network algorithms for generalization starting from small training sets, based on information theory, statistics and. (v) complexity theory, applied to forecasting and image recognition. IDSIA develops and participates in projects funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (FNR), by the European Commission (EU) and by the Swiss Commission for Technology and Innovation (CTI). IDSIA also consults private firms and enterprises. Last updated March 25, 2001 ------------------------------ Sender: Michele Sebag Subject: CFP: Inductive Logic Programming - ILP01 Eleventh International Workshop on Inductive Logic Programming ILP'01 September 9-11 2001, Strasbourg, France http://hydria.u-strasbg.fr/ILP2001/ ILP'01 continues a series of international workshops on Inductive Logic Programming, and looks for papers concerned with inductive logic programming and learning from multi-relational data. ILP'01 will take place close to PKDD'01 and ECML'01, and this appears an unprecedented opportunity to confront the theoretical and practical achievements in ILP with the challenges offered by learning and mining from structured or semi-structured data, ranging from XML to data warehouses. We therefore encourage submissions of papers related with (non exhaustive list) : - learning in and from extended languages (Datalog, description logics, multiple instance problems, data warehouse, semi-structured databases, higher order logics, constraint logic programming...) - logical settings and operators for these extended languages (generalization, abstraction, conceptual clustering, reformulation, constructive induction, propositionalization, OLAP) - statistical and complexity issues (worst-case complexity, distribut- ional complexity, aggregation of classifiers, phase transition pheno- mena, randomization) - search on multi relational domains : search criteria, incremental algorithms, local search, stochastic and probabilistic exploration, Bayesian inference, evolutionary algorithms. Especially welcome are papers related to real-world applications, e.g. natural language processing, bioinformatics, spatial or temporal knowledge discovery in databases, information retrieval, Web mining, alarm control,...(non exhaustive list again). CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS Celine Rouveirol, Universite Paris-XI Orsay Michele Sebag, Ecole Polytechnique IMPORTANT DATES Electronic titlepage submission due: April 20, 2001 Paper submission due: April 23, 2001 Acceptance notifications: June 5, 2001 Final camera-ready copies due: June 25, 2001 Conference dates: September 9-11, 2001 CONFERENCE WEB SITE The Web site for the conference is http://hydria.u-strasbg.fr/ILP2001/ A longer version of this announcement can be found there. PUBLISHER : Springer Verlag LNAI series. ------------------------------ End of Genetic Algorithms Digest ******************************