Genetic Algorithms Digest Thursday, November 15, 2001 Volume 15 : Issue 40 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 at this email -------------------------------- Today's Topics: - SCI: Call for papers. - GECCO-2002 Call for Papers - Re: ISDA 2002 - First Call for Papers - Third CALL FOR PAPERS for EIS 2002 -------------------------------- 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) 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) SAB2002 From Animals to Animats, 7th Int... Edinburgh,UK Aug 4-11, 02 (v15n39) 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. Michael O.Odetayo" Subject: SCI: Call for papers. CALL FOR PAPERS 6th World Multi-Conference on Systems, Cybernetics and Informatics, July 14 -18 2002 Orlando Florida COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENT METHODS IN MEDICINE SESSION You are invited you to submit papers for the "Computational Intelligent Methods in Medicine" session of the 6th World Multi-conference on systems, cybernetics and Informatics (SCI 2002) which take place in Orlando, Florida, from July 14 -18 2002. My e-mail address in m.o.odetayo@coventry.ac.uk My surface mail address is: Dr. Michael Odetayo School of MIS Coventry University, Priory Street, Coventry CV1 5FB UK. DEADLINES 21st December 2001 Submission of Extended abstracts (500 -1200 words) or full papers (2000 - 5000 words). 22nd February, 2002 Notification of Acceptance 12th April, 2002 Submission of camera-ready papers: hard copies and electronic versions. More information about the conference is available at: http://www.iiis.org/sci2002/Default.htm Thanks. Dr. Michael Odetayo -------------------------------- Sender: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Subject: GECCO-2002 Call for Papers ********************************************************************** SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference GECCO-2002 July 9-13, 2002 (Tuesday - Saturday) New York City, New York, USA http://www.isgec.org/GECCO-2002 SUBMISSION DEADLINE: WEDNESDAY JANUARY 23, 2002 ********************************************************************** The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2002) will present the latest high-quality results in the growing field of genetic and evolutionary computation. Topics include genetic algorithms (GA); genetic programming (GP); evolution strategies (ES); evolutionary programming (EP); evolvable hardware (EH); evolutionary robotics (ER); real-world applications (RWA); learning classifier systems (LCS); DNA and molecular computing (DNA); artificial life, adaptive behavior, agents, and ant colony optimization (AAAA); methodology, pedagogy, and philosophy (MPP); evolutionary scheduling and routing (ESR). Papers are now invited (see further information below), with manuscripts to be received for review no later than WEDNESDAY JANUARY 23, 2002. FREE TUTORIALS Thirty-two tutorials by recognized experts on diverse areas of GEC are scheduled for presentation on Wednesday, July 10, 2002. All tutorials are free to registered GECCO attendees. (see listing and updates on www.isgec.org/GECCO-2002). WORKSHOPS In addition to a Graduate Student Workshop, many other workshops on a variety of EC-related topics will be held during GECCO-2002, on Tuesday, July 9. For more information see the web pages (www.isgec.org/GECCO-2002/workshops) or contact the Workshops Chair, Alwyn Barry (alwyn.barry@uwe.ac.uk) to propose a workshop. EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTING IN INDUSTRY In addition to the regular peer-reviewed Real-World Application sessions, there will be a special track featuring invited and contributed tutorials, including case studies from industry dedicated to applications of evolutionary computation. The track will provide a forum to share experiences on real life EC project implementation. For more information contact Dave Davis (david.davis@nutechsolutions.com) and Rajkumar Roy (r.roy@cranfield.ac.uk) CONFERENCE CHAIR: Erick Cantu-Paz (cantupaz@llnl.gov) PROCEEDINGS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: William Langdon BUSINESS COMMITTEE: David E. Goldberg and John Koza CHAIRS OF CORE PROGRAM POLICY COMMITTEES: Genetic Algorithms -- Keith Mathias Genetic Programming - Riccardo Poli Evolution Strategies & Evolutionary Programming - Guenter Rudolph Real-World Applications - David Davis & Rajkumar Roy CHAIRS OF SPECIAL PROGRAM COMMITTEES: Alife, Adaptive Behavior, Agents, and Ant Colonies -- Karthik Balakrishnan and Vasant Honavar DNA and Molecular Computing -- Natasha Jonoska Evolutionary Robotics -- Mitchell A. Potter and Alan C. Schultz Evolutionary Scheduling and Routing -- Edmund Burke Evolvable Hardware -- Julian Miller Learning Classifier Systems -- Larry Bull Search-Based Software Engineering -- Joachim Wegener WORKSHOPS CHAIR: Alwyn Barry ELECTRONIC PUBLICITY CHAIR: Kumara Sastry STUDENT TRAVEL GRANTS Travel grants to assist graduate students in meeting the expenses of attending GECCO to present a paper will be available. See the web site for details. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION For information concerning hotel reservations, travel discounts, student housing, student travel grants, graduate student workshop, late-breaking papers, and other matters, visit www.isgec.org/GECCO-2002. For technical matters, email the General Chair, Erick Cantu-Paz at cantupaz@llnl.gov. For administrative matters, email gecco@aaai.org. Conference administered by the American Association for Artificial Intelligence. Conference operated by the International Society for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, Inc., a not-for-profit corporation. HOW TO SUBMIT A PAPER TO THE GECCO CONFERENCE The deadline for ARRIVAL at the physical address below of the eight (8) paper copies of each submitted paper is WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 2002. The address is GECCO-2002, c/o AAAI, 445 Burgess Drive, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA. Phone 650-328-3123. Submitted papers are to be in single-spaced, 10-point type on 8-1/2" x 11" OR A4 paper with 1" margins at top and 3/4" margin at left, right, and bottom, and are a maximum of eight (8) pages. Papers may not be submitted by email or fax. It is preferred (but not required) that the format of submitted papers roughly follow the required format for final camera-ready papers, which is posted on www.isgec.org/GECCO-2002 and is similar to that of GECCO-2001. Each paper submitted to GECCO will be rigorously reviewed, in a blind review process, by one specialized program committee. The separate and independent committees make their own final decisions on submitted papers for their areas, subject only to conference-wide space limitations and procedures. Review criteria will include significance of the work, novelty, clarity, writing quality, and sufficiency of information to permit replication (if applicable). FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION, see the web site, www.isgec.org/GECCO-2002 -- Erick Cantu-Paz (cantupaz@llnl.gov), General Chair, GECCO-2002 Center for Applied Scientific Computing Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory -------------------------------- Sender: Ajith Abraham Subject: ISDA 2002 - First Call for Papers Dear Colleagues, After the success of ISDA 2001, we are organising ISDA 2002: Second International Workshop on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications in Atlanta, USA. Venue: Atlanta, USA Date: 07-08 August 2002, Workshop URL: http://isda2002.softcomputing.net/ Sponsors: Technically co-sponsored by The World Federation of Soft Computing (WFSC) Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA 2002) is an International workshop that brings together international soft computing / artificial intelligence researchers, developers, practitioners, and users. The aim of ISDA 2002 is to serve as a forum to present current and future work as well as to exchange research ideas in this field. ISDA 2002 invites authors to submit their original and unpublished work that demonstrate current research in all areas of soft computing and computational intelligence including design of artificial neural networks, fuzzy systems, evolutionary algorithms, hybrid systems, agents, and their applications in science, technology, business and commercial. Topics of interest include but not limited to: Applications/techniques using the following, but not limited to: Artificial Neural Networks - Mathematical foundations of neural networks, architectures and algorithms. - Learning theory (supervised/unsupervised/reinforcement learning) - Knowledge based networks - Implementation issues of neural networks - Neural network applications - Special topics Fuzzy Systems - Fuzzy logic and possibility theory - Fuzzy expert systems - Fuzzy system design using evolutionary algorithms - Fuzzy system modeling and simulation - Fuzzy systems and applications - Special topics Evolutionary Algorithms - Genetic algorithms - Evolution strategies - Genetic programming - Evolutionary programming - Learning Classifiers - Hybrid evolutionary algorithms - Evolutionary algorithms and applications - Special topics Hybrid Soft Computing Neural network- fuzzy systems Fuzzy systems- evolutionary algorithms Neural network - evolutionary algorithms Neural network- fuzzy systems- evolutionary algorithms Hybrid systems applications Special topics All Other Intelligent Systems - Intelligent agents (architectures, environments, adaptation/ learning and knowledge management) - Support Vector Machines - Bayesian networks and probabilistic reasoning - Rough sets - Hard computing techniques - Fusion of hard and soft computing techniques - Intelligent CAD systems - Intelligent optimization techniques - Special topics ************************************************************************** Paper Submission ************************************************************************** Authors of contributed and invited papers are requested to submit, before February 28, 2002, an article not exceeding 4 pages of their research presentation (each additional page costs US$50.00 per page). Please type each article single spaced on one side of 8.5x11 size paper with one inch margin on all sides. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper. All full papers are to be submitted in PDF, postscript or MS word version electronically to: isda02@softcomputing.net Hard copies should be sent only if electronic submission is not possible. All papers will be peer reviewed by at least two independent referees of the international program committee of ISDA'02. Extended version of selected papers will be considered as book chapters for a special edited volume which will be published in the "Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing" by Springer Verlag, Germany. Authors should indicate whether they wish their papers to be considered for this special volume. Extended version of outstanding papers will be invited for the Elsevier Science International On-line " Applied Soft Computing Journal" (official journal of the World Federation on Soft Computing) . The paper will be selected by the International Technical Committee of ISDA 2002. **************************************************************** Important Dates **************************************************************** Submission deadline: February 28, 2002 Notification of acceptance: March 22, 2002 Camera ready papers and pre-registration due : April 15, 2002 [ ... modified for brevity by moderators ... ] -------------------------------- Sender: NAISO Subject: Third CALL FOR PAPERS for EIS 2002 Third CALL FOR PAPERS Third International NAISO Symposium on ENGINEERING OF INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS (EIS 2002) University of Malaga Malaga, Spain September 24 - 27, 2002 And the ISMC 2002 Workshop Workshop on Information Systems for Mass Customization The extensive call for papers incl. committees, topics and more information on the all special events can be downloaded from the website at: http://www.icsc-naiso.org/conferences/eis2002/indexcfp.html EIS 2002 NEWS! Submission deadline for the EIS 2002 and the ISMC workshop December 20th, 2001 (extended) KEYNOTE SPEECH by Prof. David E. Goldberg Prospects for a Golden Age of Computational Innovation: How Competent, Efficient Genetic Algorithms Will Change Our Future More details on the website under http://www.icsc-naiso.org/conferences/eis2002/indexsp.html PLENARY SPEECHES Plenary presentations have been confirmed by A. Ollero, Spain and R. Babuska, The Netherlands SPECIAL TRACK within the EIS 2002 CHAOS and COMPUTATION WORKSHOP Hybridization of Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms (HyNNGA) Submission also open for the following special events: SPECIAL TRACK within the EIS 2002 CHAOS and COMPUTATION organized by Prof. Nigel T. Crook and Dr Tjeerd Olde Scheper http://www.icsc-naiso.org/conferences/eis2002/indexsp.html (under invited sessions) PLEASE NOTE: SUBMISSION DEADLINE JANUARY 15th 2002 Introduction The purpose is to give people the opportunity to share their research on how they are using chaos in the context of computation and infomation processing. More specifically, we are interested in how people are taking advantage of the properties of chaos (e.g. sensitivity to initial conditions, ability to synchronise, space filling, etc) when addressing computational or information processing problems. Our target audience will primarily include researchers from intelligent systems, communications, information systems and neuroscience. We are not aiming this specifically at Chaoticians who are contributing to the mathematics of chaos, rather than how it may be used in information processing. Topics (not exhaustive) include: Chaotic neural networks - the application of globally coupled chaotic maps to information processing - dynamic memory states as stabilsed orbits embedded in chaotic attractors - memory states corresponding to "wings" of attractors - using chaos to as a search mechanism (chaotic itinerancy) - learning and adaptation in chaotic neural networks - generalisation and capacity issues with chaotic neural networks - using synchronisation as a means of communication between distinct network modules Chaos and synchronisation - Applications of chaos to secure, noise tolerant secure communications Control of chaos in the context of information processing - direct control of chaos (e.g. OGY method) - continuous delayed feedback method - chaotic control of chaos Chaos and neuroscience - Evidence of the presence and use of chaos in natural intelligence Applications - the application of chaos to information systems/intelligent systems problems WORKSHOP Hybridization of Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms (HyNNGA) Organized by Dr M. Rocha and Dr P. Cortez http://www.icsc-naiso.org/conferences/eis2002/indexsp.html PLEASE NOTE: SUBMISSION DEADLINE JANUARY 15th 2002 Introduction Living creatures improve their adaptation capabilities to a changing world by means of two orthogonal processes: evolution and lifetime learning. Within Artificial Intelligence, both mechanisms inspired the development of non-orthodox problem solving tools, namely Genetic Algorithms (GAs) and Neural Networks (NNs). Both methods have been combined in several ways, in order to gain improved performances in various Machine Learning tasks. Typically, GAs are used to provide optimization for the NN learning process. The workshop is intended to gather people investigating in this field, providing room for debate of the different approaches. Topics - Training methods for NNs based on GAs - NN topology optimization via GAs - Genetic Data filtering for NN feeding - Lamarck vs Baldwin evolution - Reinforcement learning - Artificial life environments - Practical applications of hybrid GA/NN methods Organizers Miguel Rocha Depart. Inform·tica University of Minho email:mrocha@di.uminho.pt Paulo Cortez University of Minho email: pcortez@dsi.uminho.pt ISMC'2002 Workshop on Information Systems for Mass Customization Second Workshop on Information Systems for Mass Customization (ISMC 2002) (http://www-wi.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/mc/ismc2002/) as part of the Third International ICSC Symposium on Engineering of Intelligent Systems (EIS 2002) Malaga, Spain, 24.09.-27.09.2002 Please click the following link for detailed information: http://www.icsc-naiso.org/conferences/eis2002/indexsp.html WORKSHOP CHAIR AND ORGANIZATION Prof. Dr. Claus Rautenstrauch Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg Germany PD Dr. Klaus Turowski University of the Federal Armed Forces Munich Germany EIS 2002 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Honary Chair Witold Pedrycz University of Alberta, Canada General Chair Jose Ruiz Gomez Engineering and Automation University of Malaga, Spain Important Dates for the EIS 2002 and the ISMC workshop: Submission Deadline December 20th, 2001 (extended) Notification Deadline February 28, 2002 Final Manuscripts + Early bird registration April 15, 2002 Registration May 30, 2002 Conference Organizer NAISO Interdisciplinary Research Inc. Correspondence to: NAISO The Netherlands (Operating Division) P.O. Box 1091 3360 BB Sliedrecht, The Netherlands Phone: +31-184-496999, Fax: +31-184-421065 eis2002@global-conf.org (Operating Division) planning@icsc.ab.ca (Planning Division) For all information submissions we refer to the website at: http://www.icsc-naiso.org/conferences/eis2002/indexsub.html -------------------------------- (UN)SUBSCRIPTION INSTRUCTIONS: - Send submissions (articles) to GA-List@gmu.edu. 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