Genetic Algorithms Digest Wednesday, December 5, 2001 Volume 15 : Issue 42 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: - Announcement: Ph.D thesis on stochastic scheduling - Considering again: the convergence measures in fitness and search... - Considering again: convergence measures in fitness & search spaces - 3 PhD/3 Postdoc Positions - A paper: "What is a structural measurement process?" - ICML2002 Call for Proposals for Tuorials - ICML2002 Call for Proposals for Workshops - WSEAS Conference Announcements - SEAL'02-ICONIP'02-FSKD'02 First Call for Papers -------------------------------- CALENDAR OF GA-RELATED ACTIVITIES: (with GA-List issue reference) AL'01 1st Workshop on Art. Life Adelaide, Australia Dec 11, 01 (v15n25) HIS 2001 Int Wkshp on Hybrid Intel. 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Dec 2-6, 02 (v15n28) Send announcements of other activities to GA-List@gmu.edu -------------------------------- Sender: Mikkel Thomas Jensen Subject: Announcement: Ph.D thesis on stochastic scheduling I am very pleased to announce the availability of my Ph.D-thesis "Robust and Flexible Scheduling with Evolutionary Computation" The primary topic of the thesis is the development and testing of new methods for robust and flexible job shop scheduling in stochastic environments. Two fundamentally different approaches in this area of research are presented. The neighbourhood based robustness approach is demonstrated to decrease the average cost of job shops facing breakdowns, when disruptions in the form of machine breakdowns are encountered. This result holds for a number of different rescheduling methods and performance criteria of the job shop. The approach is found to match the performance of a state-of-the-art method, but to have a wider range of applicability. A coevolutionary approach to generate schedules guaranteeing some level of performance for schedules facing breakdowns is developed and tested. The algorithm finds schedules guaranteeing a specific level of worst case performance for makespan schedules facing a set of possible future disruptions. The approach is demonstrated to significantly decrease worst case costs when compared to standard scheduling. It is also demonstrated to work for worst deviation performance scheduling. Other contributions include a new coevolutionary algorithm for minimax problems. The new algorithm is capable of solving problems with an asymmetric property that causes previously published algorithms to fail. Also, a new algorithm to solve the economic lot and delivery scheduling problem is presented. The new algorithm is guaranteed to solve the problem to optimality in polynomial time, something previously published algorithms have not been able to do. The thesis can be downloaded from http://www.daimi.au.dk/~mjensen/research/research.html All the best, Mikkel ================================== Mikkel T. Jensen, Department of Computer Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark email:mjensen@daimi.au.dk http://www.daimi.au.dk/~mjensen/ ================================== -------------------------------- Sender: "Ahmet Irfan Oyman" Subject: Considering again: the convergence measures in fitness and search spaces Dear Community of the Evolutionary Computation, I wanted to deliver some almost 3-year-old information on my PhD thesis. For further information (or my CV) please try oyman@ieee.org or the Internet links below. Cordially and faithfully, Dr. A. Irfan Oyman, Jr. * search engine: http://www.google.com * my old home page: http://ls11-www.cs.uni-dortmund.de/~oyman http://ls11-www.cs.uni-dortmund.de/~Extern/oyman * my Ph.D. (abstract, PDF, PostScript) "Convergence Behavior of Evolution Strategies on Ridge Functions" Please consider the measures in fitness and search spaces. http://eldorado.uni-dortmund.de:8080/FB4/ls11/forschung/1999/oyman * Selected publications and software (I advise the PPSN paper ``Where Elitists Start Limping¥¥ and the simplest Evolutionary Algorithm) http://ls11-www.cs.uni-dortmund.de/~oyman/Selected.html * Publications: http://www.evalife.dk/bbase/show_author.php?au_id=1008 -------------------------------- Sender: "Tim Pearce" Subject: 3 PhD/3 Postdoc Positions Qualified applicants are being sought for 6 positions (3 postdoctoral and 3 postgraduate PhD. Researchers) at 3 institutions across Europe in the areas of computational neuroscience, neuromorphic engineering, and experimental neuroscience. All six positions are funded for 4 years duration under the EU Framework V IST, Future and Emerging Technologies initiative, starting from January 2002. The project concerns the development of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) artefact to perform stereotypical moth-like chemotaxis behaviour in uncertain environments. We propose to develop biologically-inspired sensor, information processing and control systems for a c (hemosensing) UAV. The cUAV will identify and track volatile compounds of different chemical composition in outdooor environments. Its olfactory and sensory-motor systems are to be inspired by the moth. This development continues our research in artificial and biological olfaction, sensory processing and analysis, neuronal models of learning, real-time behavioural control, and robotics. Fleets of cUAVs will ultimately be deployed to sense, identify, and map the airborne chemical composition of large scale environments. Further details on the project and the research teams can be found at http://www.le.ac.uk/eg/tcp1/amoth/ The project includes significant funding and opportunities for travel within Europe to visit the laboratories of the participating consortia and outside Europe to attend international scientific meetings. University of Leicester, UK. A computational neuroscience postdoctoral researcher is required to develop a biologically constrained model of the insect antennal lobe operating in real-time and driven by broadly-tuned integrated chemosensors. Expertise in modelling of spiking neuronal populations, information theoretical analysis, and/or modelling of synaptic plasticity is desirable. A postgraduate researcher (who will be expected to register for a PhD) in the area of neuromorphic engineering is required to support this modelling activity as well as deal with the implementation of the model using FPGA/DSP technology and its integration with real-world chemical sensors. Strong mathematical, analytical and programming skills are required for both positions. Informal enquiries regarding these positions and the project in general should be addressed to the project co-ordinator, Dr. T.C. Pearce, Department of Engineering, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, United Kingdom, +44 116 223 1290, t.c.pearce@le.ac.uk ETH/Univ Zurich, Switzerland. A computational neuroscience postdoctoral researcher is required to implement a model of sequence-based learning based upon the protocerebellum of the moth. A PhD researcher is also required for neuromorphic hardware implmentation. Both researchers will be involved in the construction of the UAV. Hence, interest and demonstrated skills in both computational neuroscience and the construction and control of robots is required. Informal enquiries regarding these positions and the project in general should be addressed to the project co-ordinator, Dr. P.F.M.J. Verschure, Institute of Neuroinformatics Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057, Zurich, Switzerland. ++41 1 6353070, pfmjv@ini.phys.ethz.ch Sveriges Lantbruksuniversitet, Sweden. At the researcher level we will hire a postdoctoral scientist specializing in neurophysiology and neuromorphology of the insect central olfactory system. The main task will be to elucidate neural interactions within the antennal lobe allowing the amplification in sensitivity observed in earlier investigations A postgraduate researcher (who will be expected to register for a PhD) will work on similar issues but will also perform behavioural experiments investigating moth orientation to host odours and run linked gas chromatographic - electrophysiological experiments to pinpoint active semiochemicals. Both positions require skills in neurobiological techniques. Both positions will be formal positions, including full Swedish social benefits. Informal enquiries regarding these positions and the project in general should be addressed to the local co-ordinator, Professor Bill S. Hansson, Division of Chemical Ecology, Department of Crop Science, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, P.O. Box 44, SE-23053 Alnarp, Sweden, +46 40415300, bill.hansson@vv.slu.se Applicants should send a CV, cover letter stating for which position they are applying, the names of at least three referees, to the named academic associated with each position. Deadline for receipt of applications is 20th December, 2001. Regards, Tim. -- T.C. Pearce, PhD URL: http://www.leicester.ac.uk/eg/tcp1/ Lecturer in Bioengineering E-mail: t.c.pearce@leicester.ac.uk Department of Engineering Tel: +44 (0)116 223 1290 University of Leicester Fax: +44 (0)116 252 2619 Leicester LE1 7RH Bioengineering, Transducers and United Kingdom Signal Processing Group -------------------------------- Sender: Lev Goldfarb Subject: A paper: "What is a structural measurement process?" Dear colleagues, The following paper, whose abstract is attached below, proposes a far-reaching (biologically inspired) generalization of the classical concept of measurement process, based on the ETS model for structural representation proposed by us earlier, and attempts to explain it on a simple "shape example". The paper also attempts to clarify the radical differences between the two kinds of "measurement" processes. Thus, we address a very broad scientific context within which it might be useful to treat the proposed ETS model. http://www.cs.unb.ca/profs/goldfarb/smp.ps or http://www.cs.unb.ca/profs/goldfarb/smp.pdf Best regards, Lev http://www.cs.unb.ca/profs/goldfarb.htm ********************************************************************** WHAT IS A STRUCTURAL MEASUREMENT PROCESS? Lev Goldfarb and Oleg Golubitsky ABSTRACT. Numbers have emerged historically as by far the most popular form of representation. All our basic scientific paradigms are built on the foundation of these, numeric, or quantitative, concepts. Measurement, as conventionally understood, is the corresponding process for (numeric) representation of objects or events, i.e., it is a procedure or device that realizes the mapping from the set of objects to the set of numbers. Any (including a future) measurement device is constructed based on the underlying mathematical structure that is thought appropriate for the purpose. It has gradually become clear to us that the classical numeric mathematical structures, and hence the corresponding (including all present) measurement devices, impose on "real" events/objects a very rigid form of representation, which cannot be modified dynamically in order to capture their combinative, or compositional, structure. To remove this fundamental limitation, a new mathematical structure--evolving transformation system (ETS)--was proposed earlier. This mathematical structure specifies a radically new form of object representation that, in particular, allows one to capture (inductively) the compositional, or combinative, structure of objects or events. Thus, since the new structure also captures the concept of number, it offers one the possibility of capturing simultaneously both the qualitative (compositional) and the quantitative structure of events. In a broader scientific context, we briefly discuss the concept of a fundamentally new, biologically inspired, "measurement process", the inductive measurement process, based on the ETS model. In simple terms, all existing measurement processes "produce" numbers as their outputs, while we are proposing a measurement process whose outputs capture the representation of the corresponding class of objects, which includes the class projenitor (a non-numeric entity) plus the class transformation system (the structural class operations). Such processes capture the structure of events/objects in an inductive manner, through a direct interaction with the environment. -------------------------------- Sender: icml2002@cse.unsw.edu.au (ICML 2002) Subject: ICML2002 Call for Proposals for Tuorials Call for Tutorial Proposals International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-2002) The ICML-2002 Organizing Committee invites proposals for tutorials to be presented at the Nineteenth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-2002). ICML-2002 tutorials will be held on the first day of the conference, 9 Jluy, at the University of New South Wales, the site of all ICML events. Anyone interested in presenting a tutorial at the conference should submit a proposal as outlined below. ICML tutorials will provide conference participants with an opportunity to learn about important advances in the science and practice of machine learning. Tutorials will cover both recent advances that are of broad interest, and more mature topics that may be unfamiliar to a significant portion of the field. Tutorials are included in the registration fees of all participants, and will be an integral part of the conference. Each tutorial will last two hours. Topics We seek tutorial proposals on core techniques and areas of knowledge that should be broadly known within the machine learning community. We are interested in tutorials that summarize recent technical advances in a core area of machine learning or that summarize techniques recently introduced from other fields. We are also interested in tutorials that educate the community about more mature techniques from machine learning and statistics that are still unfamiliar to part of the community. Finally, we are interested in tutorials that present basic knowledge necessary to bridge the gap between machine learning and another field of science that could offer unique technical insights or opportunities for innovative applications of machine learning. Proposals Proposals should provide sufficient information to evaluate the quality and importance of the topic, the likely quality of the presentation materials, and the speakers' teaching ability. We encourage tutorials taught by two-person teams because the added perspective of a second presenter can provide richer, more balanced coverage of an area. Proposals should be 3-5 pages long and contain at least the following information: * Description -- A short paragraph summarizing the topic of the tutorial. * Goal -- Who is the target audience? What will the audience learn? Why do they need to know it? * Prerequisites -- What knowledge are audience members assumed to have before entering the tutorial? * Content -- Detailed outline of the topics to be presented. If possible, provide samples of past tutorial slides or teaching materials. * Presenters -- The name, mailing address, phone number, e-mail address, and webpage of each presenter. In addition, indicate presenters' background in the tutorial area. Submission Deadlines 1 March 2002 Proposals due 15 March 2002 Notification of acceptance 29 March 2002 Abstracts due 31 May 2002 Tutorial notes due Proposals will be reviewed by the tutorial chair and members of the organizing committee. Please submit electronic submissions in text, PostScript or PDF to: Tatjana Zrimec tatjana@cse.unsw.edu.au Additional Information For additional information, see the conference web site: 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 icml2002@cse.unsw.edu.au. -------------------------------- Sender: icml2002@cse.unsw.edu.au (ICML 2002) Subject: ICML2002 Call for Proposals for Workshops Call for Workshop Proposals International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-2002) The ICML-2002 Organizing Committee invites proposals for workshops to be held at the Nineteenth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-2002). ICML-2002 workshops will be held on the first day of the conference, 9 July, at the University of New South Wales, the site of all ICML-2002 events. Workshop proposals should be submitted as outlined below. ICML workshops provide organizers and participants with an opportunity to focus intensively on a specific topic within machine learning. Often, workshops concentrate on an emerging topic of technical interest, a unique area of application for machine learning technologies or a community-wide issue that deserves specialized attention. Proposals Workshop proposals should provide sufficient information to evaluate the quality and importance of the topic, the goals of the workshop, and the size of the interested community. Proposals should identify one or more chairs and several other individuals willing to serve on an organizing committee and assist with publicity and reviewing. Proposals should be 2-4 pages and contain at least the following information: * Description -- What will the workshop be about? Why is the topic best addressed in an ICML workshop, as opposed to a workshop at another conference or papers in an ICML technical session? * Goals -- What do you expect will come out of the workshop? How will the workshop change participants' understanding of the area? * Format -- How will the workshop sessions be scheduled? How much time will be used for discussion, panel discussions, paper presentations, invited talks, or other methods for encouraging communication and consensus? Organizers are encouraged to focus on mechanisms other than traditional paper presentations and to differentiate themselves clearly from typical conference sessions. * Publicity -- How do you intend to publicize the workshop? How will you reach the most interested and appropriate participants? * Potential participants -- Who are potential participants in the workshop? * Organizers -- Please include the name, postal address, phone number, e-mail address, and webpage of each chair and each member of the organizing committee. In addition, indicate the chairs' background in the workshop area. Important Dates 25 January 2002 Proposals due 5 February 2002 Notification 22 February 2002 Publicity material due 22 April 2002 Written materials due 29 April 2002 Notification to participants 31 May 2002 Working notes due 9 July 2002 Workshop held Proposals will be reviewed by the workshop chair and members of the organizing committee. Please submit an electronic copy (plain text, PostScript or PDF) to the workshop chair. Proposals should be submitted to: Tatjana Zrimec tatjana@cse.unsw.edu.au Additional Information For additional information, see the web site for the conference: 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 icml2002@cse.unsw.edu.au -------------------------------- Sender: "WSEAS NEWSLETTER" Subject: WSEAS Conference Announcements Dear WSEAS Newsletters Recipients, For you (and for all WSEAS members), we PROLONG the deadline for paper submission for: 3rd WSEAS Int.Conf. on NEURAL NETWORKS AND APPLICATIONS 3rd WSEAS Int.Conf. on FUZZY SETS AND FUZZY SYSTEMS 3rd WSEAS Int.Conf. on EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION (Interlaken, Switzerland, Febr.11-14, 2002) UNTIL: DECEMBER 15, 2001. Also, we remind that the deadline for 2nd WSEAS Int.C.on MEASUREMENT, CONTROL, CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS 2nd WSEAS Int.C.on INFORMATION SCIENCE AND APPLICATIONS 2nd WSEAS Int.C.on SOFT COMPUTING, OPTIMIZATION, SIMULATION AND MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS 4th WSEAS Int.C.on MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTERS IN PHYSICS 4th WSEAS Int.C.on MECHANICAL ENGINEERING MULTICONFERENCE (Cancun, Mexico, May 12-16, 2002) expires on DECEM.20, 2001 All the papers will be published in the Proceedings and in the Luxurious post-conf. books as well as a great number of them in: WSEAS Transactions on Circuits, WSEAS Transactions on Systems, WSEAS Transactions on Computers, WSEAS Transactions on Mathematics and WSEAS Transactions on Communications More details: www.wseas.org/Calendar.htm Prof. K.Papanikolaou -------------------------------- Sender: "ICONIP '02-SEAL '02-FSKD'02" Subject: SEAL'02-ICONIP'02-FSKD'02 First Call for Papers ====================================================================== 4th Asia-Pacific Conference on Simulated Evolution And Learning (SEAL'02) 9th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP'02) International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD'02) ====================================================================== November 18 - 22, 2002, Singapore http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/nef Organized by: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Sponsored by: Asia-Pacific Neural Network Assembly SEAL & FSKD Steering Committees Lee Foundation In Co-Operation with: IEEE Neural Network Council International Neural Network Society European Neural Network Society SPIE CALL FOR PAPERS =============== SEAL'02, ICONIP'02, and FSKD'02 will be jointly held in Singapore from November 18 to 22, 2002. The conferences will not only feature the most up-to-date research results in neural information processing, evolutionary computation, fuzzy systems, and knowledge discovery, but also promote cross-fertilization over these exciting and yet closely- related areas. Registration to any one of the conferences will entitle a participant to the technical sessions and the proceedings of all three conferences, as well as the conference banquet, buffet lunches, and a tour to one of the major attractions in Singapore. About Singapore =============== Located at one of the most important crossroads of the world, Singapore is truly a place where East and West come together. Here you will find Chinese, Indian, and Malay communities living together, their long established cultures forming a unique backdrop to a clean and modern garden city. English is spoken everywhere and is the common business language of all. Few places on earth promise such a delight for the palate, with gourmet cuisine from over 30 countries. Exotic resorts of Malaysia and Indonesia are only a short bus/ferry ride away. Submission of Papers ==================== Authors are invited to submit electronic files (postscript, pdf or Word format) through the conference home page. A selected number of accepted papers will be expanded and revised for possible inclusion in edited books and peer-reviewed journals, such as "Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal" by Springer-Verlag. Special Sessions ================ The conferences will feature special sessions on specialized topics to encourage in-depth discussions. One organizer of each successfully organized special session with at least 6 papers will enjoy a 50% discount on the conference registration fee. To propose a special session, email the session title, contact information of the organizer(s), and a short description on the theme and topics covered by the session to Xin Yao, Special Sessions Chair (x.yao@cs.bham.ac.uk), with a copy to Lipo Wang, General Chair (Cc: elpwang@ntu.edu.sg). Sponsorship =========== The conferences will offer product vendors a sponsorship package and/or an opportunity to interact with conference participants. Product demonstration and exhibition can also be arranged. For more information, please visit the conference website or contact Tong Seng Quah, Sponsorship/Exhibition Chair (etsquah@ntu.edu.sg), with a copy to Lipo Wang, General Chair (Cc: elpwang@ntu.edu.sg). Keynote Speakers (more will be confirmed later) ================ Shun-ichi Amari, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan David Fogel, Natural Selection, Inc., USA Xin Yao, The University of Birmingham, UK Lotfi A. Zadeh, University of California, USA Important Dates =============== Paper/Summary Deadline : April 30, 2002 Notification of Acceptance : July 15, 2002 Camera-Ready Copy Due : August 15, 2002 [ ... modified by moderator for brevity ... ] For More Information ==================== Please visit the conference home page or contact: Lipo Wang, ICONIP'02-SEAL'02-FSKD'02 General Chair School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Nanyang Technological University Block S2, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798 Email: elpwang@ntu.edu.sg Phone: +65 790 6372 Conference Secretariat ====================== ICONIP'02-SEAL'02-FSKD'02 Secretariat Conference Management Center/CCE, NTU Administration Annex Building #04-06 42 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639815 Email: nef@ntu.edu.sg Fax: +65 793 0997 -------------------------------- (UN)SUBSCRIPTION INSTRUCTIONS: - Send submissions (articles) to GA-List@gmu.edu. 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