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Today's Topics:
	- Announcing this year's EvoNet Summer School
	- CFP: Applied Soft Computing
	- EvoLang2002
	- IEEE Data Mining 2001: Final Call for Papers 
	- NFL and past issues of GA-digest
	- NIPS*2001 Call For Workshop Proposals
	- PPSN2002 First announcement
	- GA "education"

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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)
EVOLANG2002 4th Int Conf on Evolution of Language, USA   Mar 27-30, 02 (v15n21)
PATAT 2002 4rth Int. Conf. ... Auto. Timetbl., Belgium   Aug 21-23, 02 (v15n10)
PPSN VII 7th Int Conf on Parallel Prob.., Granada, Spain Sep  7-11, 02 (v15n21)


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Sender: "Mij Kelly" <mij@thadia.freeserve.co.uk>
Subject: Announcing this year's EvoNet Summer School

EvoNet Summer School
27 Aug - 1 Sep 2001
Thessaloniki, Greece

The EvoNet Summer School is aimed at PhD students, postdocs, researchers
and industry practitioners who want to benefit from using evolutionary
computing techniques. Numbers will be limited to maximise the advantages
in this closely tutored environment.

The Summer School aims to:
- introduce the principles of evolutionary computing to first time
users, and provide advanced problem solving for more experienced
researchers
- provide a selection of interesting real-life problems and appropriate
tools
- demonstrate the importance of teamwork, collaboration and pooling
resources
- provide experience of preparing an academic paper under tight
deadlines
- emphasise the importance of a good presentation
- provide maximum learning from practical, hands-on sessions

The programme follows the successful format of last year's highly
successful CoIL Summer School. Tutorials will be given at introductory
and at more advanced levels by some of the leading evolutionary
computing scientists in Europe. Each research senior will also present a
problem and outline some possible solutions, and the Summer School
participants will be asked to join together in teams of 4 to tackle
their preferred problem. Initially the senior who formulated the problem
will work with the team(s) choosing that problem to provide more
background info, suggestions, pointers etc, advising them but also
allowing the team to determine their own solution. By the end of the
week, each team will have prepared a draft paper describing their work
and the results, and they will give a 20 minute presentation to the
other participants.

An atmosphere of co-operative learning between the team members was seen
as a major benefit of last year's Summer School, and several draft
papers prepared by the teams during the week have now been accepted for
publication in academic journals and conference proceedings. A member of
the team who won the Best Paper Award last year, described his
experience, "Last year I worked and sweated for a whole week, talking
with people that think like me, and we produced something very quickly.
This year I presented that paper at the EuroGP2001 conference. I cannot
imagine having spent that particular week in a better way."

For more information, please visit:
http://evonet.dcs.napier.ac.uk/summerschool2001/



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Sender: "Tiwari, Ashutosh" <A.Tiwari@cranfield.ac.uk>
Subject: CFP: Applied Soft Computing

===

APPLIED SOFT COMPUTING

Publisher: Elsevier Science

The Official Journal of the World Federation on Soft Computing (WFSC)

Journal homepage: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/asoc/
===

CALL FOR PAPERS
***************

Applied Soft Computing is an international journal promoting 
an integrated view of soft computing to solve real life problems. 
Soft computing is a collection of methodologies, which aim to exploit 
tolerance for imprecision, uncertainty and partial truth to achieve 
tractability, robustness and low solution cost. The focus is to 
publish the highest quality research in application and convergence 
of the areas of Fuzzy Logic, Neural Networks, Evolutionary Computing, 
Rough Sets and other similar techniques to address real world 
complexities.

Applied Soft Computing is a 'rolling' publication: articles are 
published as soon as the editor in chief has accepted them. 
Therefore, the web site will continuously be updated with new 
articles and the publication time will be short. 


Major topics
---
The scope of this journal covers the following soft computing and 
related techniques, interactions between several soft computing 
techniques, and their industrial applications:

* Fuzzy Computing    
* Neuro Computing
* Evolutionary Computing    
* Probabilistic Computing
* Immunological Computing    
* Hybrid Methods
* Intelligent Agents and Agent Theory
* Causal Models
* Case-based Reasoning    
* Chaos Theory
* Interactive Computational Models    

The application areas of interest include but are not limited to:
* Decision Support    
* Process and System Control
* System Identification and Modelling    
* Optimisation
* Signal or Image Processing    
* Vision or Pattern Recognition
* Condition Monitoring    
* Fault Diagnosis
* Systems Integration    
* Internet Tools
* Human-Machine Interface    
* Time Series Prediction
* Robotics    
* Motion Control and Power Electronics
* Biomedical Engineering    
* Virtual Reality
* Reactive Distributed AI    
* Telecommunications
* Consumer Electronics    
* Industrial Electronics
* Manufacturing Systems    
* Power and Energy
* Data Mining    
* Data Visualisation
* Intelligent Information Retrieval    
* Bio-inspired Systems
* Autonomous Reasoning    
* Intelligent Agents


Publication
---

Authors are invited to submit technical papers(no limit on max. 
number of pages), state of the art survey papers, industry reports 
(max. 5 pages) and book reviews. Authors are encouraged to utilise 
the opportunity given by this on-line publication to include 
animations, software demonstrations, and video clips etc. The 
papers will be published on Elsevier Science Web Site as soon as 
they are accepted, which enables authors to publish their work FAST 
and readers get the latest work in Soft Computing on their desktop! 
There will be a free hardcopy of volume available to authors by the 
end of the year. So have your latest research published on the 
Applied Soft Computing Website and get a FREE hardcopy of the volume 
that includes your paper later.

For any further queries, paper submission and special issue proposals, 
please contact: 

Dr. Rajkumar Roy 
Editor in Chief
'Applied Soft Computing' 
Department of Enterprise Integration, 
School of Industrial and Manufacturing Science, 
Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedford, MK43 0AL, United Kingdom. 
Tel: +44 (0)1234 754072 or +44 (0)1234 750111 Ext. 2423 , 
Fax: +44 (0)1234 750852 
Email: asoc@cranfield.ac.uk

Journal Website: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/asoc/



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Sender: jim@ling.ed.ac.uk
Subject: EvoLang2002



                      EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE:
               Fourth International Conference, 2002.

                        Harvard University 

             Wednesday March 27th --- Saturday March 30th.

This is the fourth conference in the series, continuing from
Edinburgh/1996, London/1998, and Paris/2000. 

WEBSITE for this conference: http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/evolang2002/

LOCAL ORGANIZER: Tecumseh Fitch (Harvard University)


CONFIRMED PLENARY SPEAKERS:

Marc Hauser (Harvard University)
Ray Jackendoff (Brandeis University)


CALL FOR PAPERS

Papers are solicited on all aspects of the origin and evolution of
language, from any relevant discipline, including Anthropology,
Archaeology, Artificial Intelligence, Biology, Cognitive Science,
Computational or Mathematical Modelling, Ethology, Genetics,
Linguistics, Neuroscience, Palaeontology, and Psychology.  It is
anticipated that papers will be presented in 25 minutes, with 5 minutes
for discussion.  Papers will be accepted on the basis of submitted
abstracts, refereed by independent assessors.  Some papers not accepted
as talks will be accepted as posters. 

SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS

Deadline: October 31st, 2001.

Length limit: 1 single page, with reasonable margins (at least 1 inch (2.5cm)
all round, in print no smaller than 10pt, and preferably larger)

Format: A MSWord.doc file, modified from the template downloadable from
the website (see above). 

Submission: Electronically --- attach your MSWord formatted abstract to
an email message sent to evolang@ling.ed.ac.uk .  Do not attempt to
include your abstract in the body of your message. 


FURTHER INFORMATION

Further information, about added plenary speakers, accommodation,
conference fees, etc. will be forthcoming from time to time.  If this
message was not emailed directly to you, and you would like to be
included in further emailings, please subscribe to the EvoLang2002 email
list.  You can do this by sending an email to majordomo@ling.ed.ac.uk
with the following single-line message (not in the subject header): 

subscribe evolang2002


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Organizing Committee:
Bernard Comrie (Max Planck Institute, Leipzig)
Jean-Louis Dessalles (Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, Paris)
Tecumseh Fitch (Harvard University)
James R Hurford (University of Edinburgh)
Chris Knight (University of East London)
Alison Wray (Cardiff University)



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Sender: Ning Zhong <zhong@maebashi-it.ac.jp>
Subject: IEEE Data Mining 2001: Final Call for Papers 


   ICDM '01: The 2001 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining
                Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society


             Doubletree Hotel, San Jose, California, USA
                    November 29 - December 2, 2001
       Home Page: http://kais.mines.edu/~xwu/icdm/icdm-01.html

                          INVITED SPEAKERS: 
             Jerome H. Friedman, Stanford University, USA
   Jim Gray (The 1999 Turing Award Winner), Microsoft Research, USA
      Pat Langley, Daimler-Benz Research & Technology Center, USA
     Benjamin W. Wah (IEEE Computer Society President), UIUC, USA

                         CORPORATE SPONSORS: 
             Blue Martini Software, San Mateo, California;
             Insightful Corporation, Seattle, Washington; 
                     NARAX Inc., Golden, Colorado; 
                  Springer-Verlag, New York, New York;
                     StatSoft Inc., Tulsa, Oklahoma

                           Call for Papers
                           ***************

**********************************************************************
- Papers due: June 15, 2001
- Submission website: http://wie.mines.edu/register/login.jsp
- Electronic submissions are required in the form of PDF or
   postscript files.
**********************************************************************

The  2001  IEEE International Conference  on  Data  Mining  (ICDM '01)
provides a forum  for  the sharing  of  original research results  and
practical development experiences  among  researchers  and application
developers  from different data mining related areas  such as  machine
learning,   automated   scientific   discovery,  statistics,   pattern
recognition, knowledge acquisition, soft computing, databases and data
warehousing,  data visualization,  and  knowledge-based  systems.  The
conference   seeks  solutions  to  challenging   problems  facing  the
development of data mining systems,  and  shapes  future directions of
research   by  promoting  high  quality,  novel  and  daring  research
findings.  As  an important part  of  the  conference,  the  workshops
program will focus on new research challenges and initiatives.

Topics of Interest
==================

Topics  related to  the design,  analysis  and  implementation of data
mining  theory,  systems  and  applications  are  of  interest.  These
include, but are not limited to the following areas:

  - Foundations and principles of data mining 
  - Data mining algorithms and methods in traditional areas (such as
    classification, clustering, probabilistic modeling, and
    association analysis), and in new areas
  - Data and knowledge representation for data mining 
  - Modeling of structured, textual, temporal, spatial, multimedia and
    Web data to support data mining
  - Complexity, efficiency, and scalability issues in data mining
  - Data pre-processing, data reduction, feature selection and feature
    transformation
  - Statistics and probability in large-scale data mining
  - Soft computing (including neural networks, fuzzy logic,
    evolutionary computation, and rough sets) and uncertainty
    management for data mining
  - Integration of data warehousing, OLAP and data mining 
  - Man-machine interaction in data mining and visual data mining 
  - Artificial intelligence contributions to data mining 
  - High performance and distributed data mining 
  - Machine learning, pattern recognition and automated scientific
    discovery
  - Quality assessment and interestingness metrics of data mining
    results
  - Process centric data mining and models of data mining process 
  - Security and social impact of data mining 
  - Emerging data mining applications, such as electronic commerce,
    Web mining and intelligent learning database systems

Conference Publications and ICDM Best Paper Awards
==================================================

High quality papers  in all data mining areas  are  solicited.  Papers
exploring  new  directions  will  receive  a  careful  and  supportive
review.  All submitted papers should be limited to a maximum of  6,000
words (approximately 20 A4 pages),  and  will be reviewed on the basis
of   technical  quality,  relevance  to  data   mining,   originality,
significance,  and clarity.  Accepted papers  will be published in the
conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press.  A selected
number of ICDM '01 accepted papers  will be  expanded and revised  for
possible  inclusion  in  the Knowledge and Information Systems journal
(http://kais.mines.edu/~kais/) by Springer-Verlag.

ICDM Best Paper Awards  will be conferred  on the authors  of the best
papers at the conference.

Important Dates
===============

     June 15, 2001                    Paper submissions. 
     July 31, 2001                    Acceptance notices.
     August 31, 2001                  Final camera-readies.
     Nov 29 - Dec 2, 2001             Conference.

All  paper  submissions  will  be  handled  electronically.   Detailed
instructions   are   provided  on   the   conference   home  page   at
http://kais.mines.edu/~xwu/icdm/icdm-01.html.

Conference Chair:
=================

      Xindong Wu, Colorado School of Mines, USA
         (xindong@computer.org)

Program Committee Chairs:
=========================

      Nick Cercone,  University of Waterloo, Canada
         (ncercone@math.uwaterloo.ca)
      T.Y. Lin, San Jose State University, USA
         (tylin@mathcs.sjsu.edu)

ICDM '01 Workshops Chair:
=========================

      Johannes Gehrke, Cornell University, USA
         (johannes@cs.cornell.edu)

ICDM '01 Tutorials Chair:
=========================

      Chris Clifton, MITRE, USA
         (clifton@mitre.org)

ICDM '01 Panels Chair:
======================

      Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, University of Melbourne, Australia
         (rao@cs.mu.oz.au)

ICDM '01 Publicity Chair:
========================= 

      Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
         (zhong@maebashi-it.ac.jp)
   
ICDM '01 Local Arrangements Chair:
================================== 

      Xiaohua (Tony) Hu, Blue Martini Software Inc., USA
         (tonyhu@bluemartini.com)

ICDM Steering Committee
=======================

      Max Bramer, University of Portsmouth, UK
      Nick Cercone, University of Waterloo, Canada
      Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, University of Melbourne, Australia
      Katharina Morik, University of Dortmund, Germany
      Xindong Wu, Chair (Colorado School of Mines, USA)
      Philip S. Yu, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
      Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
      Jan M. Zytkow, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA

Further Information
===================

      Dr. Xindong Wu
      Dept. of Mathematical and Computer Sciences,
      Colorado School of Mines,
      1500 Illinois Street,
      Golden, Colorado 80401, 
      USA.

      Telephone: +1-303-273-3874
      Facsimile: +1-303-273-3875
      E-mail: xindong@computer.org



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Sender: Natalio Krasnogor <Natalio2.Krasnogor@uwe.ac.uk>
Subject: NFL and past issues of GA-digest

Dear Colleagues,

This short message is to point you to volume 9 of the GA-digest where
extensive discussions on NFL + Kolmogorov-Chaitin complexity issues took
place. I thought it might be of your interest. Moreover, it can be
interesting to hearing from the main participants in that discussions 6
years ago about how their views changed (or not) with this 6 years gap.
My particular point of view regarding the NFL coincides quite nicely
with that of Mr (Dr?) Kihong Park, so I will just point you to that
GA-digest volume.

thanks,
Nat
-- 

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Research Assistant               Faculty of  Computer Studies and
Mathematics
Visiting Lecturer          Frenchay Campus, Office 3p30    
                                  University of the West of England 
Tel.: +44 - 0117 - 3443357       Coldarbour Lane
Fax.: +44 - 0117 - 3443182       Bristol, BS16 1QY          
                  United Kingdom. 

URL: http://www.csm.uwe.ac.uk/~n2krasno  

e-mail: Natalio2.Krasnogor@uwe.ac.uk 
         nkrasno@cs.sandia.gov         
         nkrasnogor@hotmail.com 

__
The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; 
he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in 
it because it is beautiful.
If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth 
knowing, and if nature
were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.

                                                  Henri  Poincare.



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Sender: Richard Zemel <zemel@cs.toronto.edu>
Subject: NIPS*2001 Call For Workshop Proposals


           *@* NEW LOCATION: WHISTLER, BC, CANADA *@*

                   Call for Workshop Proposals

     Neural Information Processing Systems -- Natural and Synthetic
     NIPS*2001 Post-Conference Workshops -- December 7 and 8, 2001
              Whistler/Blackcomb Resort, BC, CANADA

Following the regular program of the Neural Information Processing
Systems 2001 conference in Vancouver, BC, Canada, workshops on various
current topics in neural information processing will be held on December
7 and 8, 2001, in Whistler, BC, Canada.  We invite researchers
interested in chairing one of these workshops to submit workshop
proposals.

The goal of the workshops is to provide an informal forum for
researchers to discuss important research questions and challenges.
Controversial issues, open problems, and comparisons of competing
approaches are encouraged and preferred as workshop topics.
Representation of alternative viewpoints and panel-style discussions are
particularly encouraged.  Workshop topics include, but are not limited
to, the following:

  Active Learning, Architectural Issues, Attention, Audition, Bayesian
  Analysis, Bayesian Networks, Benchmarking, Brain Imaging, Computational
  Complexity, Computational Molecular Biology, Control, Genetic
  Algorithms, Graphical Models, Hippocampus and Memory, Hybrid
  Supervised/Unsupervised Learning Methods, Hybrid HMM/ANN Systems,
  Implementations, Independent Component Analysis, Mean-Field Methods,
  Markov Chain Monte-Carlo Methods, Music, Network Dynamics, Neural
  Coding, Neural Plasticity, On-Line Learning, Optimization, Recurrent
  Nets, Robot Learning, Rule Extraction, Self-Organization, Sensory
  Biophysics, Signal Processing, Spike Timing, Support Vectors, Speech,
  Time Series, Topological Maps, and Vision.

Detailed descriptions of previous workshops may be found at
   http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/NIPS/NIPS2000/Workshops

There will be six hours of workshop meetings per day, split into
morning and afternoon sessions, with free time inbetween for ongoing
individual exchange or outdoor activities.

Selected workshops may be invited to submit their workshop proceedings
for publication as part of a new series of monographs for the
post-NIPS workshops.

Workshop organizers have several responsibilities including:
* Coordinating workshop participation and content, which includes
    - arranging short informal presentations by experts,
    - arranging for expert commentators to sit on a discussion panel, 
    - formulating a set of discussion topics, etc.
* Moderating the discussion, and reporting its findings and conclusions
     to the group during evening plenary sessions.
* Writing a brief summary and/or coordinating submitted material for
     post-conference electronic dissemination.


SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Interested parties should submit a short proposal for a workshop of
interest via email by July 8, 2001. 

Proposals should include title, description of what the workshop is to
address and accomplish, proposed workshop length (1 or 2 days), planned
format (e.g., lectures, group discussions, panel discussion,
combinations of the above, etc.), and proposed speakers. Names of
potential invitees should be given where possible. Preference will be
given to workshops that reserve a significant portion of time for open
discussion or panel discussion, as opposed to pure ``mini-conference''
format. An example format is:

* Tutorial lecture providing background and introducing terminology
     relevant to the topic. 
* Two short lectures introducing different approaches, alternating with
     discussions after each lecture. 
* Discussion or panel presentation.
* Short talks or panels alternating with discussion and question/answer
     sessions. 
* General discussion and wrap-up.

We suggest that organizers allocate at least 50% of the workshop
schedule to questions, discussion, and breaks.  Past experience suggests
that workshops otherwise degrade into mini-conferences as talks begin to
run over.  For the same reason, we strongly recommend that each workshop
include no more than 12 talks.

The proposal should motivate why the topic is of interest or
controversial, why it should be discussed, and who the targeted group of
participants is.  It also should include a brief resume of the
prospective workshop chair with a list of publications to establish
scholarship in the field.  We encourage workshops that build, continue,
or arise from one or more workshops from previous years. Please mention
any such connections.

NIPS does not provide travel funding for workshop speakers.  In the
past, some workshops have sought and received funding from external
sources to bring in outside speakers.  In addition, the organizers of
each accepted workshop can name up to four people (six people for 2-day
workshops) to receive free registration for the workshop program.

Submissions should include contact name (if there is more than one
organizer, please designate one organizer as the ``contact person'') as
well as addresses, email addresses, phone and fax numbers for all
organizers.

Proposals should be emailed as plain text to
   nips-workshop-proposal@cs.unm.edu.  

Please do not use attachments, Microsoft Word, postscript, html, or pdf
files. 

Questions may be addressed to nips-workshop-admin@cs.unm.edu.

Information about the main conference and the workshop program can be
found at http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Web/Groups/NIPS.

     Virginia de Sa, University of California, San Francisco 
          Barak Pearlmutter, University of New Mexico
                NIPS*2001 Workshops Co-Chairs


          PROPOSALS MUST BE RECEIVED BY JULY 8, 2001  
                           -Please Post-     



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Sender: Juan Julian Merelo Guervos <jmerelo@geneura.ugr.es>
Subject: PPSN2002 First announcement

Hi,
    Here's the first announcement for the PPSN2002 conference. Sorry for
cross-posting:

--

                 THE SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on
                    PARALLEL PROBLEM SOLVING FROM NATURE
                                  PPSN VII

                              Granada, Spain,
                           September 7 - 11, 2002

The Seventh International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from
Nature (PPSN VII) will be held in Granada, Spain, on September 7 - 11,
2002. This meeting will bring together an international community from
academia, government, and industry interested in algorithms suggested by
the unifying theme of natural computation. 

Natural computation is a common name for the design, theoretical
analysis
and empirical understanding of algorithms gleaned from nature.
Characteristic of natural computation is the metaphorical use of
concepts,
principles and mechanisms underlying natural systems. Examples include
evolutionary processes involving mutation, recombination, and selection
in
natural evolution, annealing or punctuated equilibrium processes of
many-particle systems in physics, growth processes in nature and
economics, collective intelligence in biology, DNA-based computing in
molecular chemistry, and multi-cellular behavioral processes in neural
and
immune networks.

Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original research
results
related to natural computation by February 22, 2002.

For more information, contact JJ Merelo (jmerelo@geneura.ugr.es) or
check the web page at http://ppsn2002.ugr.es
---

J
--
          jmerelo@geneura.ugr.es  | jjmerelo@worldonline.es  
JJ Merelo                         | http://geneura.ugr.es/~jmerelo
Grupo Geneura ---- Univ. Granada  | http://www.geneura.org/



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Sender: Azamat Oulbachev<oulbachev@yahoo.com>
Subject: Where can I find GA "education" ?

Dear collegues,

Do you know Universities with Genetic-Algorithm -
Oriented Ph.D. program. I want to study in GA area.
My special interests:

- GA modelling in medicine
- imitation modelling in medicine and biology
- differential equation. 
- GA modelling of human body answers for drug's
drench.
- mathematical modelling and simulation of sympatric
speciation

Can you help me?

Azamat Oulbachev

Kabardino-Balkarian State University
Computer Science Department
Nalchik
Russia



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