Genetic Algorithms Digest Tuesday, July 24, 2001 Volume 15 : Issue 26 - 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: - Re: Random Number Generator [Sean Luke] - Re: Random Number Generator [Jaroslaw Zola] - ISGEC executive board - EvoDebate - Ph.D Dissertation available - CFP: EvoIASP2002 - CFP: EvoCOP 2002 - Workshop on EC in Combinatorial Optim,... - CFP: EvoSTIM/EvoPLAN Workshop 2002 - More Info: EvoSTIM/EvoPLAN 2002 - WSES CONFERENCES (EC Conference) and NEW ACADEMIC POSITIONS - Call for Bids to host AAMAS2003 - CFP: CIEF'2002, 2nd Int WS Computational Intelligence,... -------------------------------- CALENDAR OF GA-RELATED ACTIVITIES: (with GA-List issue reference) 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) EvoNet Summer School, Thessaloniki, Greece Aug 27-Sept 1, 01 (v15n25) 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) AL'01 1st Workshop on Art. Life Adelaide, Australia Dec 11, 01 (v15n25) SAGA2001 1st Symp on Stoch Alg..., Berlin, Germany Dec 13-14, 01 (v15n25) 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) WSES-EC2002 3rd Int Conf on EC Interlaken, Switzerland Feb 11-15, 02 (v15n26) ICAIS2002 1st ICSC on Aut. Int. Sys., Geelong, Australia Feb 12-15, 02 (v15n22) CIEF2002 2nd Int WS on Comp Intel in Economics...,NC USA Mar 8-13, 02 (v15n26) EVOLANG2002 4th Int Conf on Evolution of Language, USA Mar 27-30, 02 (v15n21) EvoSTIM/EvoPLAN2002 WS EC on schedu..., Kinsale, Ireland Apr 3-5, 02 (v15n26) EvoCOP2002 2nd Euro WS EC on Combin..., Kinsale, Ireland Apr 3-4, 02 (v15n26) EVOIASP2001 4th Euro WS EC on Image..., Kinsale, Ireland Apr 3, 02 (v15n26) ACDM2002 5th Int. Conf. on Adaptive Comp...Devon, UK Apr 16-18, 02 (v15n25) CEC2002 Congress on Evolutionary Comput., Honolulu, HI May 12-17, 02 (v15n23) 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) ICSC-NAISO 3rd ICSC on Eng of Int. Sys., Malago, Spain Sep 24-27, 02 (v15n24) Send announcements of other activities to GA-List@gmu.edu -------------------------------- Sender: Sean Luke Subject: Re: random number generator Hardeep Singh Rai wrote: > The Evolutionary Computation uses random number for its all > operations. Is EA's performance depends on type of random number > generator (RNG) used? If so, which algorithms are consider good and > used for GA, ES and EP. The results you get are often very strongly influenced by your choice of random number generator. Unfortunately, in some EC domains (notably GP) it has been shown that you can often get *better* results if you use a *bad* random number generator. That being said, I'm going to recommend a high-quality random number generator. The reason for this is methodological: if you get interesting results, it's harder to blame the results on the generator. There are a number of good-quality RNGs out there, but IMHO the best one around is Mersenne Twister. http://www.math.keio.ac.jp/~matumoto/emt.html is the main web page for this RNG. MT has several interesting features: first, it has extraordinarily good statistical properties. Second, it has a VERY VERY long period. Lastly, it is fast. It's distributed under GNU, but the authors also will distribute it under the Artistic license so it's relatively free of constraints on commercial use. It's become quite popular. The only thing it doesn't have going for it is cryptographic security. Basically, it's a win. The MT home page has MT written for many different languages -- but make certain that the implementation you get has the new, superior seeding algorithm. If you're using Java, the version of MT in ECJ is, to my knowledge, the fastest Java implementation available. The synchronized version is about 150% the speed of java.util.Random. The nonsynchronized version is almost 300% the speed. MT is located in the ec.util package of ECJ, which you can download at http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/ec/ecj/ Sean -------------------------------- Sender: Jaroslaw Zola Subject: Re: Random Number Generator I am not sure if efficiency of EPs depends on RNG, but I can state that efficiency of EPs implementation is RNG depended. The basic RNGs provided with operation systems are fast but their accuracy is rather poor. I have included Mersenne Twister (mt19937) [http://www.math.keio.ac.jp/~matumoto/emt.html] in my library for EPs and it works really good. I think that it is really hard to prove that convergency of particular EPs depends on random number generator. Best regards, Jaroslaw Zola -------------------------------- Sender: Bill LANGDON Subject: ISGEC executive baord 3 members of the ISGEC council leave each year. So the election of three new members should be soon. The details should be on the www.isgec.org site somewhere. Bill -------------------------------- Sender: "Mij Kelly" Subject: EvoDebate Announcing Fit for the Future - The online debate about the future of evolutionary computing http://evonet.dcs.napier.ac.uk/evoweb/research_consultancy/evodebates/in dex.html EvoNet is hosting what we hope will be a controversial, thought provoking and informative debate on the future of evolutionary computing. - Is current research rigorous enough? - Does the future of EC lie within soft computing? - What role can evolutionary algorithms play in quantum computing? - Is interactive evolution the next big thing? - What's wrong with focusing on optimization? Twenty-four researchers have already posted position statements on these and other questions they consider important to the future of evolutionary computing. You can find out what they have written, and put forward your own point of view at: http://evonet.dcs.napier.ac.uk/evoweb/research_consultancy/evodebates/in dex.html or follow the links from the EvoNet homepage at: http://evonet.dcs.napier.ac.uk/ -------------------------------- Sender: "CHEN Yuehui" Subject: Ph.D Dissertation available The Ph.D Dissertation entitled "Hybrid Soft Computeing Approach to Identification and Control of Nonlinear Systems" is now available. Ph.D Yuehui Chen Memory-tech Corporation, Tokyo, Japan. chen@memory-tech.co.jp http://www31.freeweb.ne.jp/computer/chen_yh/ [ ... Modified by moderator for brevity. For more information please refer to: http://www31.freeweb.ne.jp/computer/chen_yh/publication.html ] -------------------------------- Sender: Stefano Cagnoni Subject: Call For Papers: EvoIASP2002 PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS EVOIASP2001 Fourth European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Image Analysis and Signal Processing Kinsale, Ireland, April 3, 2002 EvoIASP is the first European event specifically dedicated to the applications of evolutionary computation (EC) to image analysis and signal processing (IASP) and gives European and non-European researchers in those fields, as well as people from industry, an opportunity to present their latest research and to discuss current developments and applications, besides fostering closer future interaction between members of the three scientific communities. The previous editions of the Workshop were held in Goteborg, Sweden (1999), Edinburgh, UK (2000) and in Como, Italy (2001). The workshop is sponsored by EvoNet, the Network of Excellence in Evolutionary Computing, and is one of the activities of EvoIASP, the EvoNet working group on Evolutionary Computation for Image Analysis and Signal Processing. It will be part of EvoWorkshops2002 and will be held in conjunction with EuroGP2002, the European Conference on Genetic Programming. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: applications of evolutionary computation to real-life IASP problems, evolvable vision and signal processing hardware, evolutionary pattern recognition, hybrid architectures for machine vision and signal processing including evolutionary components, theoretical developments, comparisons between different evolutionary techniques and between evolutionary and non-evolutionary techniques in IASP applications, financial time series analysis by means of EC techniques. The workshop Proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS series and will be available at the workshop. Important Dates: Submission deadline: 4 November 2001 Notification of acceptance: 1 December 2001 Camera ready papers for workshop: 20 December 2001 Workshop: 3 April 2002 For full details about submissions and updated news about the workshop please visit the workshop web pages: http://evonet.dcs.napier.ac.uk/eurogp2002/evoiasp.html http://evonet.dcs.napier.ac.uk/eurogp2002/ -------------------------------- Sender: Guenther Raidl Subject: CFP: EvoCOP 2002 - Workshop on EC in Combinatorial Optimization EvoCOP 2002 2ND EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION IN COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION Kinsale, Ireland, April 3-4, 2002 Call for Papers http://www.ads.tuwien.ac.at/evocop2002 http://evonet.dcs.napier.ac.uk/eurogp2002/evocop.html Evolutionary algorithms have often been shown to be effective for difficult combinatorial optimization problems appearing in various industrial, economical, and scientific domains. Prominent examples of such problems are transportation problems, vehicle routing, traveling salesperson, satisfiability, packing, network design, or general mixed integer programming. This year's EvoCOP 2001 (http://www.ads.tuwien.ac.at/evocop2001) was the first international event specifically dedicated to the application of evolutionary computation to combinatorial optimization problems. It gave researchers a good opportunity to present their latest research and to discuss current developments and applications, besides stimulating closer future interaction between members of this scientific community. The success of EvoCOP 2001 was documented by 31 submitted and 23 accepted papers, which were published by Springer in the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Volume 2037. EvoCOP 2002 wants to bring researchers in the field together once again. Each accepted paper will be presented orally at the workshop and printed in the proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series. The workshop is sponsored by EvoNet, the Network of Excellence in Evolutionary Computing, and will be held in conjunction with EuroGP2002, the European Conference on Genetic Programming (April 3-5), EvoIASP, the 4th European Workshop on Image Analysis and Signal Processing, and EvoSTIM, the 3rd European Workshop on Scheduling and Timetabling. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Applications of evolutionary algorithms and related heuristics like simulated annealing or ant systems to combinatorial optimization problems * Representation techniques * Evolutionary operators * Constraint-handling techniques * Hybrid methods * Parallelization * Theoretical developments, search space analyses * Comparisons between different (also non-evolutionary) techniques Submissions To submit, send your manuscript (postscript or PDF, maximum length: 10 A4 pages) via email to evocop2002@ads.tuwien.ac.at no later than November 4, 2001. Formatting instructions can be found at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/instruct/typeinst.pdf The papers will be peer reviewed by three members of the program committee. Authors will be notified via email on the results of the review by December 1, 2001. The authors of accepted papers will have to improve their paper on the basis of the reviewers' comments and will be asked to send a camera ready version of their manuscripts by December 20, 2001. By submitting a camera-ready paper, the author(s) agree that at least one author will attend and present each accepted paper at the workshop. Organizing Commitee: EvoCOP Chairs: Jens Gottlieb SAP AG Neurottstr. 16 69190 Walldorf, Germany jens.gottlieb@sap.com phone: +49(6227)7-49356 fax: +49(6227)78-32766 Günther Raidl Institute of Computer Graphics and Algorithms Vienna University of Technology Favoritenstr. 9-11/186 1040 Vienna, Austria raidl@ads.tuwien.ac.at www.ads.tuwien.ac.at/people/Raidl.html phone: +43(1)58801-18616 fax: +43(1)58801-18699 EvoCOP 2001 Program Committee: * Edmund Burke (UK) * Jie Cheng (USA) * David Corne (UK) * Carlos Cotta-Porras (Spain) * Peter Cowling (UK) * David Fogel (USA) * Jin-Kao Hao (France) * Michiel de Jong (The Netherlands) * Bryant Julstrom (USA) * Dimitri Knjazew (Germany) * Joshua Knowles (UK) * Gabriele Kodydek (Austria) * Mario Köppen (Germany) * Jozef Kratica (Yugoslavia) * Ivana Ljubic (Austria) * Elena Marchiori (The Netherlands) * Dirk Mattfeld (Germany) * Helmut Mayer (Austria) * Zbigniew Michalewicz (USA) * Martin Middendorf (Germany) * Georgios Papadimitriou (Greece) * Colin Reeves (UK) * Marc Reimann (Austria) * Franz Rothlauf (Germany) * Marc Schoenauer (France) * Thomas Stützle (Germany) * Christine Valenzuela (UK) Timetable : Submission deadline: November 4, 2001 Notification of acceptance: December 1, 2001 Camera ready due: December 20, 2001 Workshop: April 3-4, 2002 Contacts: For any information please contact the EvoCOP chairs Jens Gottlieb and Günther Raidl -------------------------------- Sender: "Hart, Emma" Subject: CFP: EvoSTIM/EvoPLAN Workshop 2002 Call for papers: EvoSTIM/EvoPLAN 2002 Scheduling and Timetabling are amongst the most successful applications of evolutionary techniques. A related and promising field for the application of evolutionary methods is AI Planning. EvoSTIM2002 is the third European event specifically dedicated to the applications of evolutionary computation to scheduling and timetabling, following on from the successful EvoSTIM2001 held in Italy in April 2001. EvoSTIM2002 is merged with the Second EvoPlan workshop, the first was held in Las Vegas in July 2000, to include evolutionary methods for AI Planning. It gives European and non-European researchers in those fields an opportunity to present their latest research and discuss current developments and applications. It is also an opportunity to meet with other researchers and industrialists working in the same field. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Case studies of applications of evolutionary techniques to real-life problems in scheduling, timetabling, and AI Planning 1) Theoretical Developments, including benchmarking and other comparative studies 2) Hybrid methods and Novel Heuristics 3) Methods for fast and minimally disruptive rescheduling 4) Dynamic Scheduling 5) Distributed Scheduling 6) Scheduling in industrial environments including transport and distribution 7) Educational courses and exam timetabling 8) Employee and workforce scheduling 9) Organisation and resource scheduling 10) Generation of plans and construction of planners 11) Plan merging and decomposition of planning problems 12) Handling of multiple goals in scheduling and planning 13) Planning under ressource constraints Submission procedure Send your manuscript, at most 10 A4 pages long, in Springer LNCS format (instructions downloadable from http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/instruct/typeinst.pdf) to one of the programme chairs, Emma Hart or Martin Middendorf , in gzipped PostScript or pdf format by email no later than 4 November 2001. The papers will be peer reviewed by at least two members of the program committee. Authors will be notified via email on the results of the review by 1 December 2001. The authors of accepted papers will have to improve their paper on the basis of the reviewers' comments and will be asked to send a camera ready version of their manuscripts, along with text sources and pictures, by 20 December 2001. The accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings, which will be available at the workshop. By submitting a camera-ready paper, the author(s) agree that at least one author will attend and present each accepted paper at the workshop. Important Dates === Submission deadline: 4 November 2001 Notification of acceptance: 1 December 2001 Camera ready due: 20 December 2001 EvoWorkshops: 3-4 April 2002 Committee EvoSTIM Chairs: Emma Hart emmah@dcs.napier.ac.uk School of Computing Napier University 219 Colinton Road Edinburgh EH14 1DJ Scotland, UK Martin Middendorf middendorf@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Computer Science Group Catholic University of Eichstätt Ostenstr. 28 D-85072 Eichstätt Germany EvoSTIM program Committee (to be confirmed): Agoston E. Eiben (The Netherlands) Emma Hart (UK) Martin Middendorf (Germany) Ben Paechter (UK) Peter Swann (UK) Andrea G. B. Tettamanzi (Italy) Peter Ross (UK) -------------------------------- Sender: "Hart, Emma" Subject: More Info: EvoSTIM/EvoPLAN 2002 Apologies - the original email omitted the following details: EvoSTIM/EvoPLAN 2002 to be held in conjunction with EuroGP 2002 (and EvoWorkshops EvoCOP, EvoIASP) 3rd-5th April 2002, Kinsale, Ireland More details available at: http://evonet.dcs.napier.ac.uk/eurogp2002/evostim.htm http://evonet.dcs.napier.ac.uk/eurogp2002/ Emma Hart -------------------------------- Sender: "WSES MIV NEWSLETTER (Multimedia, Internet, Video, Signal and Image Processing, Robotics, Distance Learning, Communications)" Subject: WSES CONFERENCES related to Computational Intelligence. NEW! ACADEMIC POSITIONS Please, do not reply to: none_reply@worldses.org, but see instructions at the end of this message. (The address none_reply@worldses.org will never reply to you. 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AAMAS is a joint event comprising the 7th International Conference on Autonomous Agents (AA), the 6th International Conference on Multiagent Systems (ICMAS), and the 10th International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL). The First AAMAS conference (AAMAS'2002) will be held in Bologna, Italy, July 15 - 19, 2002. Based on the figures of attendance for previous AA, ICMAS, and ATAL events, we expect approximately 600 attendees for AAMAS. This makes AAMAS the biggest and most influential conference in the dynamic field of agents and multiagent systems, bringing together researchers and practitioners in all areas of agent technology such as software agents, multiagent systems, synthetic agents, robotic agents, human agent interaction, and mobile agents. The AAMAS Steering Committee now invites bids for hosting AAMAS 2003. We encourage submissions from countries and regions which have not hosted an ICMAS, AA, or ATAL conference in the past two years, however suitable applications from any region will be considered. BIDDING PROCEDURE All correspondence regarding bids should be directed to Victor Lesser, chair of the IFMAS steering committee, or to Joerg Mueller, chair of the Autonomous Agents steering committee: Prof. Victor Lesser e-mail: lesser@cs.umass.edu fax: +1 413-545-1249 tel: +1 413-545-1322 Dr. Joerg Mueller e-mail: joerg.mueller@mchp.siemens.de fax: +49 89 636 41423 tel: +49 89 636 43135 Email correspondence is strongly preferred. Bids should be made by individuals or small groups, with the backing of a host institution (typically a university or research centre). Groups or individuals who are planning to submit a bid should notify Prof. Lesser or Dr. Mueller as soon as possible, and in any event NO LATER THAN August 31, 2001. Bids are geared towards determination of responsibility for local arrangements and designation of Local Arrangements Chair. Bids will be reviewed by the AAMAS steering committee, and the outcome of the site selection will be announced in late September. A bid should consist of a short statement that explains why you meet the criteria below. Bids should be no more than a few pages in length, and at this stage, detailed financial projections are not necessary. (Ballpark financial figures -- such as estimated cost of hotel rooms -- are useful, however.) Each bid should clearly identify the authors, including full contact details. CRITERIA FOR ASSESSING AAMAS'2003 BIDS The following criteria will be used for evaluation. * Site Location --- attractiveness to conference attendees [as well as those accompanying the attendees (i.e. nearby attractions, tours, restaurants, night clubs, etc.).] Will people *want* to attend? * Accessibility --- location with respect to major air routes and local transportation (trains, buses, automobiles). Function as a gateway city serviced by both domestic and international air lines; ease of connecting to local transportation. * Dates/Time --- relation to possibly conflicting special or local holidays; to other conventions or special events at the same time or immediately before or after the conference. * Climate/Season --- particularly as these factors affect availability of rooms and rate structure (and provide some negotiating edge with the hotels). * Facilities -- quantity, quality, flexibility, availability of meeting rooms, meeting support services, and exhibition hall. This factor is linked to the choice of accommodations, as may be desirable to co-locate meeting facilities and accommodations. Provide preliminary information regarding any space rental fees that may have to be paid by the conference. * Accommodations --- ability to accommodate the anticipated numbers of conference attendees, with a range of income levels. * Supporting Scientific Community --- the presence of regional and local research communities to support the conference and to benefit from its presence. * Supporting Local Industry --- is there local/national industry that may be willing to support the conference in some way? * Volunteer Labor --- availability of an active local group willing to help out before, during, and after the conference. -------------------------------- Sender: Chia-Hsuan Yeh Subject: Call for papers, The Second International Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Economics and Finance (CIEF'2002) The Second International Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Economics and Finance (CIEF'2002) Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, U.S.A. March 8-13, 2002 http://www.ee.duke.edu/JCIS/ Keynote Speech: Agent-Based Computational Economics: The Computational Study of Evolving Decentralized Economies Leigh Tesfatsion Department of Economics Iowa State University Ames, IA 50011-1070, U.S.A. TBA Jasmina Arifovic Department of Economics Simon Fraser University Buranby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada Call for Papers The Second International Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Economics and Finance (CIEF'2002) will be held as a part of the Sixth Joint Conference on Information Science. Computational intelligence, usually known as a collection of techniques, including artificial neural networks, fuzzy logic, evolutionary algorithms, etc., is one of the most important tools in computational economics and finance. Over the last decade, computational intelligence has been widely used in various economical and financial modelling, prediction, and analysis. The most noticeable application of computational intelligence is in financial data mining. In addition to financial data mining, computational intelligence has also been intensively used in the research area known as agent-based computational economics where global regularities arise from the bottom up, through repeated local interactions of autonomous agents. Computational intelligence provides a tool to model these autonomous agents and their interactions. Issues addressed include the replication of laboratory results with human subjects, equilibrium selection, the emergence of the representative agent, rational expectations, markets and money, simulations of artificial stock markets and other social processes. We see now a need to bring together people with different backgrounds who share the same interests in their closely related studies. This conference serves this purpose. Topics of Interest: Application Areas: Application areas may include, but are not limited to: Agent-Based Computational Economics Artificial Stock Markets Simulation of Social Processes Evolutionary Game and Industrial Organization Financial Engineering Financial Data Mining Trading Strategies Hedging Strategies Portfolio Management Derivative Pricing Term Structure Models Financial Time Series Forecasting and Analysis Techniques: Artificial Neural Networks Fuzzy Logic Evolutionary Strategies Evolutionary Programming Genetic Algorithms Genetic Programming Statistical Classifiers Cluster Analysis Decision Trees Inductive Logic Programming Self-Organized Map Reinforcement Learning Wavelet Rough Sets Support Vector Machine Hybrid Systems Paper Submission Papers describing new techniques and/or novel applications are solicited. All papers should be no more than 4 pages of 10-point font, double column, single-spaced text, with figures and tables included. Papers should be sent to: Shu-Heng Chen AI-ECON Research Center Department of Economics National Chengchi University Taipei, Taiwan 11623 chchen@nccu.edu.tw While hard copies are acceptable, electronic submissions via PS or PDF files are highly encouraged. Authors who use electronic submissions should sent a separate email in plain text to indicate this. All submissions must be received by the 30th of September, 20001. Contributed papers will be reviewed by the program committee. The authors will be informed about the decision of the review process by the 5th of November 2001. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Important Dates September 30, 2001 - Deadline for submission of papers November 5, 2001 - Paper acceptance letters to be sent out to authors November 5, 2001 - Deadline for invited sessions and exhibition proposals December 3, 2001 - Deadline for early registration with discounted fee December 3, 2001 - Publication fee ($180) due for each paper (regular and invited) to be included in proceedings. This amount is included in full registration fee. December 3, 2001 - Deadline for submission of revised camera ready copies of accepted papers March 8-14, 2002 - JCIS 2002 Conference General Chair: Professor Paul P. Wang Dept of Electrical & Computer Engineering P.O. 90291 Duke University Durham, NC 27708 - 0291 U.S.A email: ppw@ee.duke.edu Conference Chairs Professor Shu-Heng Chen AI-ECON Research Center Department of Economics National Chengchi University Taipei, Taiwan 11623 R.O.C. tel: +886-2-29387308 fax: +886-2-27386874 e-mail: chchen@nccu.edu.tw http://www.aiecon.org/ Professor Xin Yao School of Computer Science The University of Birmingham Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT U.K. tel: +44 121 414 3747 Fax: +44 121 414 4281 e-mail: x.yao@cs.bham.ac.uk http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~xin Program Chair Assistant Prof. Chia-Hsuan Yeh Department of Information Management I-Shou University Kaohsiung County, Taiwan 84008 R.O.C. tel & fax: 886-7-3552758 e-mail: spockyeh@ms38.hinet.net http://econo.nccu.edu.tw/~spock/ Program Committee Peter Angeline (Natural Selection, Inc, USA) Kohen Bertels (University of Namur, Beligum) Shiddhartha Bhattacharyya (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) Jane Binner (Nottingham University, UK) Lai-Wan Chan (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK) Paul Darwen (University of Queensland, Australia) Herbert Dawid (University of Vienna, Austria) John Duffy (University of Pittsburgh, USA) Hitoshi Iba (University of Tokyo, Japan) Lakhmi Jain (University of South Australia, Australia) Mahmoud Kaboudan (Penn State University, USA) Taisei Kaizoji (International Christian University, Japan) Kin Keung Lai (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Ana Marostica (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina) Michele Marchesi (University of Cagliari, Italy) Robert Marks (Australian Graduate School of Management, Australian) Zbigniew Michalewicz (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA) Nikolay Nikolaev (University of London, UK) Akira Namatame (National Defence Academy, Japan) Pavel Osmera (Technical University Brno, Czech Republic) Thomas Riechmann (University of Hannover, Germany) Hiroshi Sato (National Defence Academy, Japan) Stephen Smith (Algometrics, UK) KY Szeto (HK University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong) Leigh Tesfatsion (Iowa State University, USA) Nicholas Vriend (University of London, UK) Lei Xu (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Byoung-Tak Zhang (Seoul National University, South Korea) Zijian Zheng (Deakin University, Australia) Gilles Zumbach (Olsen & Associates, Switzerland) -------------------------------- End of Genetic Algorithms Digest ********************************