Genetic Algorithms Digest Tuesday, September 18, 2001 Volume 15 : Issue 33 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: - PhD Student Bursary available - Learning Classifier Systems - Koza Fellowship - To Our American Colleagues - BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT: Genetic Fuzzy Systems - EMO Track at CEC2002 - GEP tutorial available at the WSC6 web site - EA'01: Last call for early registration - ICML 2002 call for papers - Final CFP: 7th Int'l Conf on Intelligent Autonomous Systems -------------------------------- CALENDAR OF GA-RELATED ACTIVITIES: (with GA-List issue reference) WSC6 6th Online World Conf on Soft Computing, www Sep 10-24, 01 (v15n32) 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) IAS-7 7th Int. Conf. on Int. Aut. Sys., Marina..., Calif Mar 25-27, 02 (v15n33) 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) MICAI2002 Mexican Int. Conf. on AI, Mexico, Apr 22-26, 02 (v15n32) 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) ICML02 19th Int. Conf. on Mach. Learn., Sydney, Australi Jul 8-12, 02 (v15n33) 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: "Alwyn Barry" Subject: PhD Student Bursary available - Learning Classifier Systems, University of the West of England PhD Student Bursary Call for Applications A Ph.D. studentship in Learning Classifier Systems is available at the University of the West of England, U.K. within the Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences. Members of the Faculty have made a considerable contribution to many fields within Evolutionary Computation, and the successful candidate will be joining a strong team of Learning Classifier System researchers. The subject of the research is the autonomous development of interacting hierarchical populations of rules within Learning Classifier Systems. This work builds on previous research conducted within the Faculty, both on hierarchy within LCS and on the application of LCS to real-world control problems. As a PhD student, the successful candidate will be expected to make an original research contribution, and should have a good first degree/masters in an area relevant to one of the research topics listed above. The ideal candidate will have programming knowledge in a modern programming language (Java, C++, etc.). Applications are welcome from all candidates with a good command of English (normally IELTS 6.5 or TOEFL 600), regardless of nationality. However, travel costs to and within the United Kingdom are not paid. For more details, please contact: Alwyn Barry Faculty of Computing, Engineering & Mathematical Sciences University of the West of England Bristol BS16 1QY, U.K. alwyn.barry@uwe.ac.uk -------------------------------- Sender: Robert B Heckendorn Subject: Koza Fellowship Openings for the Koza Fellowship in Genetic Programming The due date for applications for the Koza Fellowship in Genetic Programming has been extended to 9/19. This fellowship provides full tuition and fees, a generous stipend, a research budget, and a travel allowance for three years in order for the Fellow to pursue doctoral studies in genetic programming. The ideal candidate will already have an MS in computer science or a related field and a research track record. Please send cover letter, CV, list of references, a description of your research interests, and any other appropriate materials to: James A. Foster, Koza Fellowship Search Committee Chair University of Idaho Department of Computer Science Moscow, ID 83844-1010 Materials need to arrive before 9/19. For details, please see: http://www.cs.uidaho.edu/ibest/koza-fellowship/ Please forward this email to anyone who you think might be interested. -- | Robert Heckendorn | We may not be the only | heckendo@cs.uidaho.edu | species on the planet but | http://www.cs.uidaho.edu/~heckendo | we sure do act like it. | CS Dept, University of Idaho | | Moscow, Idaho, USA 83844-1010 | -------------------------------- Sender: "Natalio Krasnogor." Subject: To Our American Colleagues Dear Colleagues around the World, I want to use this media, and to go out of the strict academic content of this list, to express my sympathy with all our American Colleagues for the atrocities perpetrated in their country. Terror will fail, and I hope that freedom and enlightenment will prevail. yours, Nat Krasnogor. -------------------------------- Sender: Francisco Herrera Subject: BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT: Genetic Fuzzy Systems ******************************************************** BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT ******************************************************** GENETIC FUZZY SYSTEMS Evolutionary Tuning and Learning of Fuzzy Knowledge Bases by Oscar CordÛn , Francisco Herrera (University of Granada), Frank Hoffmann (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm) & Luis Magdalena (Universidad PolitÈcnica de Madrid) Series: Advances in Fuzzy Systems - Applications and Theory - Vol. 19 World Scientific ISBN 981-02-4016-3 462 pp Pub. date: Jul 2001 http://decsai.ugr.es/~herrera/gfs.html http://www.wspc.com/books//compsci/4177.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In recent years, a great number of publications have explored the use of genetic algorithms as a tool for designing fuzzy systems. Genetic Fuzzy Systems explores and discusses this symbiosis of evolutionary computation and fuzzy logic. The book summarizes and analyzes the novel field of genetic fuzzy systems, paying special attention to genetic algorithms that adapt and learn the knowledge base of a fuzzy-rule-based system. It introduces the general concepts, foundations and design principles of genetic fuzzy systems and covers the topic of genetic tuning of fuzzy systems. It also introduces the systems: the Michigan, Pittsburgh and Iterative-learning methods. Finally, it explores hybrid genetic fuzzy systems such as genetic fuzzy clustering or genetic neuro-fuzzy systems and describes a number of applications from different areas. Genetic Fuzzy System represents a comprehensive treatise on the design of the fuzzy-rule-based systems using genetic algorithms, both from a theoretical and a practical perspective. It is a valuable compendium for scientists and engineers concerned with research and applications in the domain of fuzzy systems and genetic algorithms. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Contents: * Fuzzy Rule-Based Systems * Evolutionary Computation * Introduction to Genetic Fuzzy Systems * Genetic Tuning Processes * Learning with Genetic Algorithms * Genetic Fuzzy Rule-Based Systems Based on the Michigan Approach * Genetic Fuzzy Rule-Based Systems Based on the Pittsburgh Approach * Genetic Fuzzy Rule-Based Systems Based on the Iterative Rule Learning Approach * Other Genetic Fuzzy Rule-Based System o FRBSs with GP o Genetic Selection of Fuzzy Rule Sets o Learning the Knowledge Base via the Genetic Derivation of the Data Base o Other Genetic-Based Machine Learning Approaches * Other Kinds of Evolutionary Fuzzy Systems o Genetic Fuzzy Neural Networks o Genetic Fuzzy Clustering o Genetic Fuzzy Decision Trees * Applications o Classification o System Modelling o Control Systems o Robotics ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *************************************************************************** * Francisco Herrera * * * Dept. of Computer Science and A.I. * FAX: + 34 58 243317 * * E.T.S. Ingenieria Informatica * PH0NE: + 34 58 244017 * * University of Granada * E-Mail: herrera@decsai.ugr.es * * 18071 Granada (SPAIN) * URL: http://decsai.ugr.es/~herrera * *************************************************************************** -------------------------------- Sender: Eckart Zitzler Subject: EMO Track at CEC2002 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CALL FOR PAPERS Special Track on Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization (EMO) at Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) Hilton Hawaiian Village Hotel, Honolulu, Hawaii May 12-17, 2002 http://www.tik.ee.ethz.ch/emotrack/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Over the last few years, evolutionary algorithms (EAs) have demonstrated elegant and unique ways of handling multi-objective optimization problems. Ideally, these problems give rise to a set of Pareto-optimal solutions, none of which can be said to be better than the other. Since multi-objective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) use the population based EA in their core, MOEAs offer a less-subjective mean of finding many such Pareto-optimal solutions in a single simulation run. Depending on the preference of a decision-maker, the remaining task is to choose one such solution. Based on this two-step approach, many researchers and practitioners have developed and applied various MOEAs in different problem domains. The increasing importance of MOEAs over the years has now been amply exemplified by the overwhelming number of participants in recent EMO-related conferences and special sessions and by the publication of EMO-related books and journals. In order to boost more interests in the topic and to exchange recent researches and applications in the area, we have decided to organize this special track during the World Congress event in Honolulu next year, when no other conference activities in this area are planned. The special track is planned for a complete day including invited talks highlighting the state-of-the-art research and applications in this emerging area. There will be oral and poster presentations, discussing various issues related to EMO, and the end of the day will be devoted to a panel discussion with a few leading researchers in the field in order to discuss in depth various imminent issues by fully involving the special track participants. The EMO special track is particularly interested in papers related to multi-criterion evolutionary optimization, including, but not limited to, the following topics: * convergence to Pareto-optimal front * diversity preservation among Pareto-optimal solutions * elitism in EMO algorithms * test problem development for EMO * complexity analysis of EMO algorithms * development of new EMO algorithms (EAs and related methods) * comparison of different EMO algorithms * comparison of EMO algorithms with classical and/or non-evolutionary techniques * EMO for scheduling * real-world applications of EMO Interested persons are invited to submit original, full-length papers. * Submissions to the EMO special track must be made electronically via email to emo@tik.ee.ethz.ch, i.e. DIRECTLY TO THE TRACK ORGANIZERS. * The paper should be in double-column format, should include an abstract not exceeding 50 words and should be within the 6-page limit, including figures, tables and references. * The papers must be in pdf format for 8.5 in x 11 in or A4 paper. * Papers accepted for presentation will be published in the CEC conference proceedings. Please note that double submissions of the same paper to both the special track and the main CEC are not possible. Instructions on the preparation of a paper including full formatting details are available from the conference Web site http://www.wcci2002.org/author/paperform.html. If there are any questions, please do not hesitate to contact any of the special track organizers. Important dates related to this conference: Paper submission deadline: December 1, 2001 Notification to authors: January 7, 2002 Final camera-ready paper due: January 23, 2002 Conference dates: May 12-17, 2002 Organizers: Kalyanmoy Deb, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India (deb@iitk.ac.in) Lothar Thiele, ETH Zurich, Switzerland (thiele@tik.ee.ethz.ch) Gary Yen, Oklahoma State University, USA (gyen@okstate.edu) Eckart Zitzler, ETH Zurich, Switzerland (zitzler@tik.ee.ethz.ch) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -------------------------------- Sender: "candida ferreira" Subject: GEP tutorial available at the WSC6 web site Dear all, A Gene Expression Programming tutorial is available at the 6th Online World Conference in Soft Computing. Just check the Tutorials Session at: http://vision.fhg.de/wsc6 See you there. Candida Ferreira ~~~ Candida Ferreira, PhD Chief Scientist, Gepsoft http://www.gepsoft.com/gepsoft/ http://www.gene-expression-programming.com/gep/ -------------------------------- Sender: "Pierre COLLET" Subject: EA'01: Last call for early registration ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ EVOLUTION ARTIFICIELLE 2001 Dear all, The following message was already sent to the list when we heard of the terrible news. All the members of the EA'01 Organising Committee want to express their deepest sympathy to the North American Nation concerning the disaster that occurred in New York city yesterday morning. Please excuse the futility of this announcement: LAST CALL FOR EARLY REGISTRATION www.cmap.polytechnique.fr/~ea01/registration.html This very short message to inform those of you who intend to attend EA'01 that the programme is available on the web site, and that registrations at the reduced price of 850F/130EUROS will close on Saturday September 15th. With our most sincere condolences to all of you who might have lost friends, or members of your family, Pierre Collet On behalf of the EA'01 Organising Committee ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -------------------------------- Sender: Claude Sammut Subject: ICML 2002 call for papers Call for Papers The Nineteenth International Conference on Machine Learning 8 - 12 July 2002 University of New South Wales Sydney Australia ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Nineteenth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-2002) will be held at the University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia from 8 - 12 July 2002. The conference will bring together researchers to exchange ideas and report recent progress in the computational study of learning. Important Dates Submissions due: 1 February 2002 Acceptance decisions mailed to authors: 22 March 2002 Revised copies of conditionally accepted papers due: 15 April 2002 Camera-ready copies of accepted papers (conditional and unconditional) due: 19 April 2002 Topics for Submission ICML-2002 welcomes submissions on all facets of machine learning and especially solicits papers on problem areas, research topics, learning paradigms, and approaches to evaluation that include: * the role of learning in natural language and speech, vision, planning and scheduling, design and configuration, logical and spatial reasoning, motor control, and more generally on learning for performance tasks carried out by intelligent agents; * the discovery of scientific laws and taxonomies, the construction of componential and structural models, and learning at multiple levels of temporal and spatial resolution; * novel applications of machine, particularly those that require non-standard techniques; * computational models of human learning, exploratory research that describes novel learning tasks, work that integrates familiar methods to demonstrate new functionality, and agent architectures in which learning plays a central role; We also welcome submissions on all the traditional topics of Machine Learning. Format of the Conference The conference will be co-located with COLT and ILP. The two conferences will span the week starting 8 July, 2002, with one overlap day of joint session. ICML will include a one-day program of workshops and tutorials. This will be followed by three days of talks, poster sessions, and informal gatherings designed to foster discussion of research in machine learning. The conference will include both plenary and parallel tracks for the presentation of papers published in the conference proceedings. Speakers will also present their work at an evening poster session, which will allow conference attendees to discuss the work with the authors at greater length. In addition to paper presentations, there will be talks given by three invited speakers. Please watch for the announcement of the distinguished speakers for this year's conference. Paper Submission Authors should submit papers using the same format and length as will be required for the final proceedings version. Detailed instructions, as well as templates for LaTeX and Word are available from http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~icml2002/format.html Submission will be entirely electronic by transferring papers to the ICML-2002 submission site. Authors must submit papers in postscript or pdf format to ensure our ability to print them out for review. ICML-2002 allows simultaneous submission to other conferences, provided this fact is clearly indicated on the submission form. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings only if they are withdrawn from other conferences. Simultaneous submissions that are not clearly specified as such will be rejected. Review Process All papers submitted to ICML-2002 will be read by at least two reviewers, as well as an area chair. We will follow the policy adopted in 2000 and 2001 of conditionally accepting papers that are not publishable in their initial form, but that the reviewers feel can be improved enough in time to appear in the proceedings. If a paper is conditionally accepted, the requirements for acceptance will be explicitly listed on the review form. Papers that have been conditionally accepted will be reviewed again after re-submission. Additional Information For additional information, see the web site for the conference at http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~icml2002 which will provide additional details as they become available. If you have questions about ICML-2002, please send electronic mail to Claude Sammut at icml2002@cse.unsw.edu.au. -------------------------------- Sender: Maria Gini Subject: Final CFP: 7th Int'l Conf on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (- the deadline for submissions is coming up soon -) The 7th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS-7) March 25-27, 2002, Marina del Rey, California, USA Web Page: http://ias7.cs.umn.edu Email: ias7@cs.umn.edu Sponsored by the Intelligent Autonomous Systems Society The goal of IAS-7 is to exchange and stimulate research ideas that make future robots and systems more intelligent and autonomous. This conference emphasizes that intelligence should and could be best illustrated by systems that can directly sense and act in their own environment without demanding detailed supervisions from humans. As more robots are entering our daily life, researchers are facing increasingly many challenges in how to construct, control, and interact with such systems. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Submission: October 1, 2001. Full papers of not over 8 pages, to be submitted electronically (see http://ias7.cs.umn.edu) Acceptance: November 30, 2001 Camera-ready copy: December 21, 2001 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ All accepted papers will be printed in the conference proceedings. The best papers will be invited for publication in a special issue in the journal "Robotics and Autonomous Systems". General Chair: Maria Gini Computer Science and Eng., University of Minnesota 200 Union St SE, Room 4-192, Minneapolis, MN 55455 tel: +1-612-625-5582 email: gini@cs.umn.edu Program Co-Chairs: Wei-Min Shen Carme Torras Hideo Yuasa ISI/USC IRI (CSIC-UPC) Precision Eng, Univ of Tokyo 4676 Admiralty Way Llorens i Artigues 4-6 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku Marina del Rey, CA 90292 08028-Barcelona, Spain Tokyo 113-8656, Japan email: shen@isi.edu ctorras@iri.upc.es yuasa@prince.pe.u-tokyo.ac.jp tel: +1-310-448-8710 +34-93-401.57.90 +81-3-5841-6447 Steering Committee: Franz Groen (chair), University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Enrico Pagello, University of Padua, Italy Ruediger Dillmann, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Tamio Arai, University of Tokyo, Japan Anthony Stentz, Carnegie Mellon University, USA -------------------------------- (UN)SUBSCRIPTION INSTRUCTIONS: - Send submissions (articles) to GA-List@gmu.edu. 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