Genetic Algorithms Digest Wednesday, September 5, 2001 Volume 15 : Issue 31 SUBMISSION ADDRESS: GA-List@gmu.edu LIST INFORMATION: http://ga-digest.research.ucf.edu/ LIST ARCHIVE: http://www.aic.nrl.navy.mil/galist/ (UN)SUBSCRIPTION INSTRUCTIONS: at the bottom af this email -------------------------------- Today's Topics: - New PERL EA library - software for GA, GP, ES, EP - CFP: Special Issue on Synergies between Probabilistic Graphical - CEC'2002 - Call for Papers - HIS 2001 - Final Call for Papers - Call for Participation: 7th Fuzzy Days, Dortmund, Germany - Call for Workshop Proposals - GECCO 2002 - Third International EVALife workshop -------------------------------- CALENDAR OF GA-RELATED ACTIVITIES: (with GA-List issue reference) EVALife 3rd Int Wkshp on Adap Sys & Bio, Aarhus, Denmark Sep 24-25, 01 (v15n31) 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 VOLUTION 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) HIS 2001 Int Wkshp on Hybrid Intel. Sys, Adelaide, Austr Dec 11-12, 01 (v15n31) 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) 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) EuroGP2002 5th Euro Conference on GP , Kinsale, Ireland Apr 3-5, 02 (v15n28) Local Search Workshop, City University, London, UK Apr 16-17, 02 (v15n27) ACDM2002 5th Int. Conf. on Adaptive Comp...Devon, UK Apr 16-18, 02 (v15n25) CCSS 1st Conf. Comp. Soc. Sci..., Lake Arrowhead, CA USA May 9-12, 02 (v15n26) CEC2002 Congress on Evolutionary Comput., Honolulu, HI May 12-17, 02 (v15n23) GECCO2002 Genetic and Evolutionary Comp. Conf, NY, USA Jul 9-13, 02 (v15n30) PATAT 2002 4rth Int. Conf. ... Auto. Timetbl., Belgium Aug 21-23, 02 (v15n10) FOGA VII Foundations of GA's., Torremolinos, Spain Sep 4-6, 02 (v15n30) 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) AI'02 15th Australian Joint Conf. on AI, Canberra, Aust. Dec 2-6, 02 (v15n28) Send announcements of other activities to GA-List@gmu.edu -------------------------------- Sender: Juan Julian Merelo Guervos Subject: New PERL EA library Hi, I would like to announce the release of (yet another) PERL evolutionary algorithm library, called OPEAL (which stands for, you guessed it, our_own PERL evolutionary algorithm library). It's at http://opeal.sourceforge.net . The idea behind this library is to take advantage of the flexibility of PERL to create a buzzword-compliant library; so far, the library allows descriptions of components using XML; an algorithm is described by an XML document, and a program can just parse it to run the algorithm. A XSchema for the XML dialect is provided. The library will also use SOAP (by the SOAP::Lite module) to distibute evolutionary algorithms among different processors. So far, it has a bare-bones steady-state evolutionary algorithm, but several mutation and crossover operators for two different kind of "chromosomes" have been included. Creting new chromosomes is easy and straightforward (and documented). Of course, any advice, collaboration, and so on is welcome. Thanks! J ~~ jmerelo@geneura.ugr.es | jjmerelo@worldonline.es JJ Merelo | http://geneura.ugr.es/~jmerelo Chair, PPSN 2002 | http://ppsn2002.ugr.es Grupo Geneura ~~~- Univ. Granada | http://geneura.ugr.es -------------------------------- Sender: Eugene Eberbach Subject: software for GA, GP, ES, EP Hello, I teach this semester a new graduate course Evolutionary Computation using Michalewicz, Fogel "How to Solve it: Modern Heuristics". The selection of the book was dictated by its generality (I would like to cover 4 main EC subareas: GA, GP, ES, EP, and some elements of ALife, Evolvable Hardware, evolution of neural nets, etc.). I will also discuss alternatives to EC. Unfortunately, there is no software associated with the Michalewicz/Fogel's book. My students know C/C++/Java. I suspect that learning Lisp would not be a big problem for them. We have mostly Linux and Windows NTs programming platforms. I am mostly interested in public domain software packages covering 4 main subaraes of EC: GA, GP, ES, EP (it does not need be one package - can be even 4 separate packages). For my students, EC is a completely new area, and I would like to encourage and attract them to use EC in the future, rather than to write completely programs from scratch, and telling them that no mature standard exists yet. I would appreciate any advice. Thanks, Eugene ~~ ====================================================== Eugene Eberbach University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Computer and Information Science Department 285 Old Westport Road North Dartmouth, MA 02747-2300 Office: (508) 910-6426 Home: (508) 336-3462 Fax: (508) 999-9144 Email: eeberbach@umassd.edu URL: http://www.cis.umassd.edu/~eeberbach ====================================================== -------------------------------- Sender: Larranaga Mugica Pedro Subject: CFP: Special Issue on Synergies between Probabilistic Graphical Models and Evolutionary Computation ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call for Papers International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (IJAR) Special Issue on Synergies between Probabilistic Graphical Models and Evolutionary Computation Guest editors: Pedro LarraŅaga and Jose A. Lozano ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Evolutionary computation and probabilistic graphical models have been two of the most lively research topics in Artificial Intelligence during the 90's. However, with a few exceptions, each topic has been treated and developed separately. Recently, there has been a new interest in trying to leverage the advances of one field into the other one. The aim of this special issue of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (IJAR) is to provide researchers with a forum for communicating their work to a general Artificial Intelligence audience, focusing on all aspects of cross-fertilization between probabilistic graphical models and evolutionary computation. Emphasis is on sound theoretical frameworks rather than ad hoc approaches. Of particular interest are papers that combine clear theoretical discussion with practical examples, and papers that compare different approaches. Topics covered by this special issue may include (but are not limited to): - structure learning of probabilistic graphical models with evolutionary computation - triangulation with evolutionary computation - abductive reasoning with evolutionary computation - simplification of probabilistic graphical models with evolutionary computation - combinatorial optimization by the use of probabilistic graphical models - optimization in continuous domains by the use of probabilistic graphical models Authors are invited to submit either via e-mail (by attaching Postscript, pdf, or MS Word document files) or by sending four hard-copies to the address indicated below. Manuscripts must be received by December 1, 2001 and must follow the IJAR submission guidelines (http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/ijar). Important dates: Deadline for submissions: December 1st, 2001 Notification of acceptance: March 1st, 2002 Final manuscripts for copy-editors: April 1st, 2002 Tentative Planned Publication Date: Fall 2002 Pedro LarraŅaga Dept. of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence University of the Basque Country M. de Lardizabal Pasalekua, 1 20009 Donostia-San Sebastian Spain e-mail: lozano@si.ehu.es ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~- -------------------------------- Sender: "Evolab" Subject: CEC'2002 - Call for Papers ****** New Submission Deadline: 1 December 2001 ****** CALL FOR PAPERS 2002 Congress on Evolutionary Computation May 12-17, 2002 Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, HI Held as part of the WCCI World Congress on Computational Intelligence (http://www.wcci2002.org) The annual Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) is one of the premier international conferences in the field. It covers all topics in evolutionary computation: from combinatorial to numerical optimization, from supervised to unsupervised learning, from co-evolution to collective behaviors, from evolutionary design to evolvable hardware, from molecular to quantum computing, from ant colony to artificial ecology, etc. The emphasis of the Congress will be on original theories and novel applications of evolutionary computation techniques. The Congress welcomes paper submissions from researchers, practitioners, and students worldwide. The 2002 Congress will be held in conjunction with the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) and the IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE) as part of the World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI). Crossfertilization of the three fields will be strongly encouraged. The Congress will feature keynote speeches and tutorials by world-leading researchers. It also will include a number of special sessions and workshops on the latest hot topics. Your registration admits you to all events and includes the World Congress proceedings and banquet. The deadline for submissions is 1 December 2001. Look for more details on paper submission and conference registration coming soon at http://www.wcci2002.org. CEC is jointly supported by the IEEE Neural Networks Council, the Evolutionary Programming Society, and the Institution of Electrical Engineers. -------------------------------- Sender: Ajith Abraham Subject: HIS 2001 - Final Call for Papers ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ HIS 2001 - Final Call for Papers International Workshop on Hybrid Intelligent Systems - 2001 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dear Colleagues, Due to several requests, we have extended the final deadline for submission of papers until 21 September 2001. Venue: Adelaide, South Australia Date: 11-12, December 2001 Workshop URL: http://his.hybridsystem.com or http://www.hybridsystem.com Sponsors: Technically co-sponsored by The World Federation of Soft Computing and in cooperation with IEEE (Victorian, South Australia sections), Institution of Engineers, Australia (South Australia division). About HIS'01 HIS'01 is an International Workshop that brings together researchers, developers, practitioners, and users of neural networks, fuzzy inference systems, evolutionary algorithms, agents, and other conventional computing techniques. The aim of HIS'01 is to serve as a forum to present current and future work as well as to exchange research ideas in this field. HIS'01 invites authors to submit their original and unpublished work (20 pages maximum limit) that demonstrate current research using hybrid computing techniques and their applications in science, technology, business and commercial. All accepted papers will published in the proceedings of the Workshop by Springer-Verlag, Germany. For important dates, venue information, travel and accommodation details please refer to the web site of the workshop. If you need a special extension for submission of paper please let us know early. Ajith Abraham & Mario K–ppen for HIS 2001 Team -------------------------------- Sender: Stephan Lehmke Subject: Call for Participation: 7th Fuzzy Days, Dortmund, Germany, Oct 1-3, 2001 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 7. FUZZY DAYS in Dortmund, Germany International Conference on Computational Intelligence October 1-3, 2001 http://ls1-www.cs.uni-dortmund.de/fd7/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Welcome ~~~~~~~ Ten years of Fuzzy Daysin Dortmund! What was started as a relatively small workshop in 1991 has now become one of the best known smaller conferences on Computational Intelligence around the world. In fact it was (to my best knowledge) the first conference using this term in 1994, although I confess that another, larger conference was announced first and the trade mark Computational Intelligence was not coined in Dortmund. I believe, that this conferences success is grounded on the quality of its reviewed and invited papers as well as its good organisation. From the beginning we have sent every paper anonymously to five referees and we have always accepted only around 50% of the papers sent in. This year it is even a little less than that. I want to thank everybody who has helped us by considering Dortmund's Fuzzy Days as the conference to appear. I know that among the not accepted abstracts there are pretty good ones, but we where restricted to a fixed number. I also know that referees do a good job but cannot always judge wisely from abstracts. Hence my apologies to those who could not make it this year. Please come again! I want to point out that our conference also has a good regional reputation. I want to thank the City of Dortmund, it's Lord Major Dr. Langemeyer, the dortmund project, the DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the KVR Kommunalverband Ruhrgebiet, the Martin-Schmeier-Stiftung and the Comline AG/Quantum GmbH for their valuable support. Bernd Reusch Organising Institution ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ University of Dortmund, Computer Science I General Chairman ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ B. Reusch [ ... modified by moderator for brevity ... ] Registration Form ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ For registration information please consult the 7th Fuzzy Days website http://ls1-www.cs.uni-dortmund.de/fd7/registration.pdf Location ~~~~~~~~ The conference takes place in the rooms of Comline + Quantum Address: Hauert 1 D-44227 Dortmund (Technologiepark) For additional location information please consult the 7th Fuzzy Days website http://ls1-www.cs.uni-dortmund.de/fd7/location.html -------------------------------- Sender: "Alwyn Barry" Subject: Call for Workshop Proposals - GECCO 2002 Call for proposals Bird-of-a-feather Workshops at the 2002 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2002) July 9-13, 2002 (Tuesday - Saturday) New York City, New York, USA **** Deadline November 1, 2001 **** The GECCO-2002 Program Committee would like to invite proposals for Bird-of-a-feather workshops to be held during the 2002 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2002). Workshops provide an opportunity for researchers to meet and discuss topics with a selected focus in an informal and interactive setting. Workshops are an excellent forum for participants with common interests to explore new approaches, critique existing approaches, and identify emerging areas of interest in genetic and evolutionary computation (GEC). Members of all segments of the GEC community are encouraged to submit proposals. Individual workshops can be two hours, half day, or full day in length. Although the format of the workshops will be determined by their organisers, all organisers will be STRONGLY encouraged to allocate significant time to interactive sessions (discussions, panels, question and answer sessions, group problem-solving, brainstorming, etc.) that cannot normally be accommodated within a larger conference programme. Proposals for workshops should not exceed THREE pages in length and should contain the following information: 1. A description of the workshop topic. Identify the specific issues on which the workshop will focus. 2. A brief discussion of why the topic is of particular interest to the GEC community at this time. 3. A brief description of the proposed workshop format and identification of the points where the workshop will encourage the participation of all workshop attendees. (For example, workshops have often included a combination of the following: panel discussion, question and answer sessions, hands-on demonstrations, small group problem solving sessions, brainstorming sessions, short paper presentations, poster sessions, general discussion). 4. The names and full contact information (e-mail and postal addresses, fax, and telephone numbers) of the workshop organiser(s) and brief descriptions of their relevant expertise. 5. A brief description of the preferred length (2hr, half day, or full day). 6. An indicative list of potential attendees. Organisers' whose proposals are accepted for GECCO workshops will be responsible for co-ordinating the workshop and gathering abstracts/papers for publication if applicable. Attendance of the workshops will be open to all GECCO attendees. ALL organisers, participants, and presenters must register for the GECCO-2002 conference. Where workshops include paper or poster presentations abstracts and/or full papers from each workshop will be published in the separate workshop proceedings. Details and additional deadlines will be provided once decisions have been made on the proposals. Workshop proposals should be submitted as soon as possible and must be received no later than November 1, 2001. Please submit proposals in PLAIN TEXT e-mail format. Please do not send html formatted text or encoded attachments. Organisers will be notified of the committee's decisions by November 16, 2001. Updated information about the workshop program will be provided at http://www.isgec.org/GECCO-2002/workshops/ (c.f. (http://www-illigal.ge.uiuc.edu:8080/GECCO-2002/workshops/) as it is received. Please send proposals and inquiries regarding workshops to: Dr Alwyn Barry, Room 4Q62a, Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, University of the West of England, Frenchay, Bristol, UK. BS16 1QY alwyn.barry@uwe.ac.uk -------------------------------- Sender: Rasmus Kjaer Ursem Subject: Third International EVALife workshop The EVALife group would like to invite you to: THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL EVALIFE WORKSHOP ON ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS & BIO-INSPIRED COMPUTING September 24-25, 2001 at the University of Aarhus, Denmark Organizer/General Chair: Thiemo Krink Co-organizers: Lars Bach, RenČ Thomsen, Rasmus K. Ursem, and Brian H. Mayoh --oO000Oo-- Invited speakers: Rodney Cotterill, Gary Fogel, Eric Bonabeau, Adam Lomnicki, Ricard SolČ, Chris Topping, Zbigniew Michalewicz, Jan Torleif Pedersen, Paul Coker, and more to come... About the workshop: The aim of this third international workshop is to discuss adaptive systems, bio-inspired computing techniques, and their application to real-world problems. Bio-inspired computing techniques are of great interest for computing problems such as production optimization, control, or evolutionary robotics and vice versa Computer Science has become an essential tool in research on adaptive systems in life sciences and industry. Combining these techniques with Individual-based modelling and other simulation systems have provided new results in the disciplines of evolutionary biology and theoretical ecology. This concept of a mutual influence between life sciences and information technology is the main motivation for this workshop and the key idea of the EVALife project at the University of Aarhus. In this context, this annual meeting serves as a forum for the EVALife project group, which involves a research network of scientists from various disciplines and countries. The main purpose of this workshop is to join the expertise of both disciplines, which have distinct objectives but could greatly benefit from mutual knowledge exchange due to the structural similarities of research and application methods. Apart from our permanent EVALife network members, we invited guest speakers from other research institutions to enrich this meeting. 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