Genetic Algorithms Digest Tuesday, May 29, 2001 Volume 15 : Issue 20 - 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: - JOB in Evolutionary Collective Robotics - new web resources about Estimation of Distribution Algorithms - NFL and algorithmic complexity - Book announcement - GA in the medicine and drug modelling -------------------------------- CALENDAR OF GA-RELATED ACTIVITIES: (with GA-List issue reference) 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) AMT01 6th Int Conf Active Media Tech, Hong Kong, China Dec 18-20, 01 (v15n16) 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: Noel Sharkey Subject: JOB in Evolutionary Collective Robotics The following job will shortly be advertised in the press and we need someone ASAP - please excuse multiple postings. Research Associate/Assistant in Evolutionary Collective Robotics This is an exciting opportunity to join a team working on high profile projects at the Creative Robotics Unit at Magna, directed by Prof. Noel Sharkey. The recently opened unit is a joint project between the University of Sheffield and the new Magna science adventure centre (over 100K visitors in its first month). There are two main projects at present with more to follow soon: (i) a large scale predator and prey study in a ``self-sustaining'' ecology (featured on BBC's Tomorrow's World) and (ii) an investigation of flocking and swarming with large autonomous aerial robots. We are currently looking for an additional researcher for the predator/prey project. Proficiency in C programming is required. Salary according to age and experience. Our brief is produce leading edge robotics research that is both transparent and intrinsically interesting to the general public. For further information please contact m.kus@dcs.shef.ac.uk. Please send an statement of interest and a CV and we will get back to you quickly about an application. -------------------------------- Sender: Larranaga Mugica Pedro Subject: new web resources about Estimation of Distribution Algorithms ************************************* Estimation of Distribution Algorithms ************************************* This is to announce that the web page of the Intelligent Systems Group of the Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at the University of the Basque Country, located at: http://www.sc.ehu.es/isg has been updated with the next resources about Estimation of Distribution Algorithms: - Abstracts of the chapters a new book: Estimation of Distribution Algorithms. A New Tool for Evolutionary Computation (Kluwer Academic Publishers). In press - A list of BibTex references - Links to other research groups - Tutorials - Papers on the following journals: Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, Complex Systems - Conference papers: MIUA2001, EMMCVPR2001, ICANNGA2001, ISAS2001, ISMDA2000, ECAI2000, UAI2000, GECCO2000, ISAS1999 If you have any questions or comments, please e-mail: ccplamup@si.ehu.es ********************************************************************* A brief explanation on Estimation of Distribution Algorithms Based on Genetic Algorithms (GAs), Estimation of Distribution Algorithms (EDAs) generalizes GAs by replacing the crossover and mutation operators by learning and sampling the probability distribution of the best individuals of the population of solutions at each iteration of the algorithm. Working in such a way, the relationships between the variables involved in the problem domain are explicitly and effectively captured and exploited. *************************************************************************** Pedro Larrañaga Dept. of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence University of the Basque Country M. de Lardizabal Pasalekua, 1 20009 Donostia-San Sebastian Spain e-mail: ccplamup@si.ehu.es Phone +34 943 018045 Fax +34 943 219306 http://www.sc.ehu.es/isg ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------- Sender: Bill LANGDON Subject: NFL and algorithmic complexity This week's discussion of NFL mentioned billions of problems, but how many solutions are there to these problems? It is possible to show that rather than there being one solution there may be billions (or more). Proofs are given in "Scaling of Program Tree Fitness Spaces", W. B. Langdon, Evolutionary Computation, 1999, volume 7 number 4, pages 399-428. ftp://cs.ucl.ac.uk/genetic/papers/WBL.fitnessspaces.ps.gz Bill W. B. Langdon, Phone +44 20 7679 4436 Computer Science, Fax +44 20 7387 1397 University College, London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/W.Langdon GECCO San Francisco 7-11 July http://www.isgec.org/GECCO-2001 GP+EM Journal http://www.wkap.nl/journalhome.htm/1389-2576 -------------------------------- Sender: Bart Naudts Subject: Book announcement ****************** Book announcement ****************** THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTING L. Kallel, B. Naudts and A. Rogers, editors. Springer-Verlag, Natural Computing Series From the cover: This book is the first in the field to provide extensive entry-level tutorials on the theory of Evolutionary Computing, covering the main approaches to understanding the dynamics of Evolutionary Algorithms. It combines this with recent, previously unpublished research papers based on the material of the tutorials. The outcome is a book which is self-contained to a large degree, attractive both to graduate students and researchers from other fields, who want to get acquainted with the theory of Evolutionary Computing, and to active researchers in the field who can use this book as a reference and a source of recent results. The book contains 8 tutorials by: A. Keane -- A.E. Eiben -- J.E. Rowe -- A. Prügel-Bennett and A. Rogers -- J.L. Shapiro -- H.-G. Beyer and D.V. Arnold -- H. Mühlenbein and T. Mahnig -- L. Kallel, B. Naudts and C.R. Reeves. Technical papers by A. Rogers and A. Prügel-Bennett -- M. Oates, J. Smedley, D. Corne and R. Loader -- D.V. Arnold -- J.E. Rowe -- C. Ronnewinkel, C.O. Wilke and T. Martinetz -- A. Berny -- C.A. Schippers -- F.J. Burkowski -- J. Garnier and L. Kallel -- T. Jansen -- A. Marino -- P. Stagge and C. Igel -- C. Van Hoyweghen -- P. Del Moral and L. Miclo 497 pages, DM 119 recommended list price On the web: http://www.springer.de/cgi-bin/search_book.pl?isbn=3-540-67396-2 -------------------------------- Sender: oulbachev@yahoo.com Subject: GA in the medicine and drug modelling Dear collegues, Do you know GA applications in the medicine and for drug modelling? I would like to contact researchers who are working on this area. Azamat Oulbachev Kabardino-Balkarian State University Computer Science Department Nalchik Russia ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie -------------------------------- End of Genetic Algorithms Digest ********************************