Genetic Algorithms Digest Thursday, November 1, 2001 Volume 15 : Issue 38 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 of this email -------------------------------- Today's Topics: - Research position - London - CFP: First Int.J.Conf.on AUTONOMOUS AGENTS & MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS, 2002 - effect of RNG on GA/GP performance - DEADLINE REMINDER: EvoIASP2002 -------------------------------- CALENDAR OF GA-RELATED ACTIVITIES: (with GA-List issue reference) 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) FEA2002 4th Int. WS on the Frontiers of EAs, NC, USA Mar 8-13, 02 (v15n34) 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) BioSP3-IPDPS2002 Bio-Inspired..,Fort Lauderdale, Florida Apr 15, 02 (v15n34) 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) ICMLA02 Int. Conf. on Mach. Learn...., Las Vegas, NV USA Jun 24-27, 02 (v15n35) 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) AAMAS2002 Aut. Agents & Multi-Agent Sys., Bologna, Italy Jul 15-19, 02 (v15n38) 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: "Dr J.E. Beasley" Subject: Research position - London Applications are invited for a Research Assistant to work on an EPSRC sponsored project concerned with algorithms for the scheduling of aircraft landings and takeoffs. The post is for three years and is based at the Imperial College Management School in South Kensington London. The assistant will work with Dr J E Beasley (http://mscmga.ms.ic.ac.uk/jeb/jeb.html), who has an international reputation in Operations Research, and the work will involve mathematical optimisation techniques (both exact and metaheuristic techniques). Applicants should have a background that will enable them to apply such techniques to the particular problem of the scheduling of aircraft landings/takeoffs considered. More details of the proposed work can be seen at http://mscmga.ms.ic.ac.uk/jeb/epsrc.html. If the assistant does not have a PhD then the salary will be in the RA1B range UK pounds 17451-19486 plus 2134 London Allowance per annum. If the assistant wishes to register for a research degree then a substantial contribution to fees will also be made. For an assistant with a PhD the salary will be in the RA1A range: UK pounds 17451-26229 plus 2134 London Allowance per annum. Additional benefits are UK pounds 1500 for the purchase of an appropriate pc and a travel/conference allowance of UK pounds 1700 per annum. An application form is available from Mrs Afrey Edes, Imperial College Management School, 53 Prince's Gate, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2PG, or (preferably) email: a.edes@ic.ac.uk. Closing date: 23rd November 2001 -------------------------------- Sender: Evangelos Milios Subject: CFP: First Int.J.Conf.on AUTONOMOUS AGENTS & MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS, 2002 CALL FOR PAPERS THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON AUTONOMOUS AGENTS & MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS AAMAS 2002 Palazzo Re Enzo, Bologna, Italy July 15-19, 2002 http://lia.deis.unibo.it/aamas2002 "Bringing People and Agents Together" Sponsors include: the ACM Special Interest Group for Artificial Intelligence (SIGART) and the International Foundation for Multi-Agent Systems (IFMAS) Nov. 5, 2001 Deadline for electronic abstracts of submitted papers Nov. 6, 2001 Deadline for electronic submission of papers CONFERENCE THEME: The theme of the conference is "Bringing People and Agents Together" As agent-based computing becomes ever more widespread, it is increasingly important for agents to interact effectively with people and with other agents. In addition to the normal research topics of the component conferences (see area keywords below), we particularly encourage submissions that address issues of how to improve interaction and collaboration among agents and people. CONFERENCE TOPICS, PROGRAM COMMITTEE, SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS The full Call for Papers with detailed submission instructions is available from the conference home page at: http://lia.deis.unibo.it:8080/confs/aamas2002/downloads/call.pdf http://lia.deis.unibo.it:8080/confs/aamas2002/downloads/call.txt OTHER IMPORTANT DATES Jan. 7, 2002 Deadline for workshop and tutorial proposals Jan. 15, 2002 Paper acceptance notifications sent to authors [ ... content modified by moderator for brevity ... ] -------------------------------- Sender: Matt Streeter Subject: effect of RNG on GA/GP performance Hello, Does anyone know of work related to the effect of different random number generators on GA/GP performance? I have found four papers (references below) dealing with the subject. If you email me individually I will send a collected list back to the group. Matt ***** Mark M. Meysenburg and James A. Foster. Randomness and GA performance, revisited. Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Vol. 1, pp. 425-432, Morgan Kaufmann, 13-17 July 1999. Mark M. Meysenburg and James A. Foster. Random generator quality and GP performance. Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Vol. 2, pp. 1121-1126, Morgan Kaufmann, 13-17 July 1999. Mark M. Meysenburg and James A. Foster. The quality of pseudo-random number generators and simple genetic algorithm performance. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Genetic Algorithms, pp. 276-282, Morgan Kaufmann, July 19-23 1997. Jason Daida, Steven Ross, Jeffrey McClain, Derrick Ampy, and Michael Holczer. Challenges with verification, repeatability, and meaningful comparison in genetic programming. Genetic Programming 1997: Proceedings of the Second Annual Conference, pp. 64-69, Morgan Kaufmann, July 13-16 1997. -------------------------------- Sender: Stefano Cagnoni Subject: DEADLINE REMINDER: EvoIASP2002 REMINDER: NOV. 4 DEADLINE IS APPROACHING DUE TO THE SHORT TIME AVAILABLE FOR THE REVIEWS THERE WILL BE NO DEADLINE EXTENSION! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ EVOIASP2002 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. Authors of the best papers submitted to EvoIASP2002 will be invited to submit an extended version of their work for publication in a special issue on Evolutionary Image Analysis and Signal Processing of the "EURASIP Journal of Applied Signal Processing" (http://asp.hindawi.com). 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/ For previous EvoWorkshops Proceedings: EvoWorkshops2001 http://www.springer.de/cgi-bin/search_book.pl?isbn=3-540-41920-9 EvoWorkshops2000 http://www.springer.de/cgi-bin/search_book.pl?isbn=3-540-67353-9 -------------------------------- (UN)SUBSCRIPTION INSTRUCTIONS: - Send submissions (articles) to GA-List@gmu.edu. 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