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Conf. on Intelligent Agents, Web Technology and Internet Commerce IAWTIC'2001 - ANNIE 2001 Smart Engineering Systems Design Conference - What is a structural representation in chemistry? (pdf version) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALENDAR OF GA-RELATED ACTIVITIES: (with GA-List issue reference) NNA2001 Neural Networks & Applications, Canary Is, Spain Feb 11-15, 01 (v14n16) FSFS2001 Fuzzy Sets & Fuzzy Systems, Canary Is, Spain Feb 11-15, 01 (v14n16) EC2001 Evolutionary Computation, Canary Is, Spain Feb 11-15, 01 (v14n16) EMO01 1st Int Con of Evol Multi-Criterion Opt, Zurich Mar 7-9, 01 (v14n4) SAC2001 16th ACM Symp on Applied Computing, Las Vegas Mar 11-14, 01 (v14n14) IWES01 3rd Int WS on Emergent Synthesis, Bled, Slovenia Mar 12-13, 01 (v14n15) CSMR2001 5th Eur Conf on Soft Maint and Reeng, Portugal Mar 14-16, 01 (v14n13) ISAS2001 Int Symp on Adaptive Systems, Havana, Cuba Mar 19-23, 01 (v14n16) ISI2001 Int Congress on Info Science Innovations, Dubai Mar 20-23, 01 (v13n25) MAICS2001 Midwest AI & Cognitive Science Conf, Ohio Mar 31-Apr 1, 01 (v14n20) PAKDD01 Pacific-Asia Conf on KD and Data Min, Hong Kong Apr 16-18, 01 (v14n15) EUROGP2001 4th Euro Conf on GP, Milan, Italy Apr 18-20, 01 (v14n15) EvoWorkshops2001 at the Euro Conf on GP, Milan, Italy Apr 18, 01 (v14n16) ICANNGA2001 5th Int Conf on Artif NN and GAs, Prague Apr 22-25, 01 (v14n11) CEC2001 Congress on EC, Seoul, Korea May 27-30, 01 (v14n15) ICCS2001 Int Conf on Computational Sci, San Francisco May 28-30, 01 (v14n19) Agents2001 5th Int Conf Autonomous Agents, Montreal May 28-Jun 1, 01 (v14n14) CSCS13 Int. Conf. on Control Sys. and CS, Bucharest May 31-June 3, 01 (v15n4) IC-AI2001 Int Conf on AI, Las Vegas, NV Jun 25-28, 01 (v14n16) SOCO Soft Computing & Intell Sys for Industry, Scotland Jun 26-29, 01 (v14n18) CEF'2001 Sessions on EC in Econ. and Fin., New Haven, CN Jun 28-30, 01 (v15n4) ICML2001 18th Int Conf on Machine Learning, MA Jun 28-Jul 1, 01 (v14n16) AIME01 8th Euro Conf on AI in Medicine, Portugal Jul 1-4, 01 (v14n16) CIMCA2001 Int Conf on Comp Intelligence, Las Vegas Jul 4-6, 01 (v14n19) WOMAII Workshop on Memetic Algorithms, SF, CA Jul 7, 01 (v15n4) GECCO2001 Gen & Evolutionary Computation Conf, SF, CA Jul 7-11, 01 (v14n16) TARK VIII 8th Conf Theor Aspects of Ratnlty & Knowl, It Jul 8-10, 01 (v14n16) CIMCA2001 Int. Conf. on Comp. Int.,..., Las Vegas, NV Jul 9-11, 01 (v15n4) IAWTIC2001 Int. Conf. on Int. Agents,..., Las Vegas, NV Jul 9-11, 01 (v15n4) NASAEH 3rd Wrkshp on Evolvable Hardware, Pasadena, CA Jul 12-14, 01 (v15n2) IJCAI-01 WS on Empirical MEthods in AI, Seattle, USA Aug 4, 01 (v15n5) IDAMAP2001 Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine & Phar Sep 4, 01 (v15n3) 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) IAT2001 2nd Asia Pac Conf on Intell Agent Tech, Japan Oct 23-26, 01 (v14n14) EA01 ÉVOLUTION 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) NF2002 1st Int ICSC Congress on Neuro-Fuzzy, Cuba Jan 15-18, 02 (v14n18) Send announcements of other activities to GA-List@gmu.edu ------------------------------ Sender: "Richard Hartl" Subject: Ph.D. and Post-Doc Scholarships - University of Vienna Ph.D. and Post-Doc Scholarships: CALL FOR APPLICATIONS The Chair of Production & Operations Management at the University of Vienna / BWZ (Prof. Dr. Richard F. Hartl) http://www.bwl.univie.ac.at/bwl/prod/POM/ offers scholarships for Ph.D. students or Post-Docs starting now. The scholarships are funded by the "Austrian Science foundation" and the "Jubiläumsfonds der Oesterreichischen Nationalbank" The scientific program that is treated in these projects deals with - Adaptive (Agent Based) Modeling in Economics and Management Science - Ant Colony Optimization and application in transportation, logistics, and production - Solution of VRPTWs, pickup and delivery problems, etc. - Optimal Control and Dynamics of the Firm Required is: - expert knowledge of at least one of the above areas - proven ability, or the potential, for excellent research - social skills, ability to cooperate in a team - analytical and modelling skills - computer knowledge (programming skills) A moderate amount of teaching in Production and Operations Management (against some extra payment) is also possible. Interested individuals should send a curriculum vita, up to 3 selected reprints/preprints (if available) and the names of three references to Prof. Dr. Richard F. Hartl University of Vienna / BWZ Chair of Production & Operations Management Bruennerstr. 72 A-1210 Wien Fax. +43-1-4277-38094 E-Mail: Richard.Hartl@univie.ac.at http://www.bwl.univie.ac.at/bwl/prod/POM/ ------------------------------ Sender: Richard Dybowski Subject: Machine Learning Journal Special Issue on Fusion of Knowledge with Data: Second Call for Papers Machine Learning Journal Special Issue on Fusion of Domain Knowledge with Data for Decision Support >>> Second Call for Papers <<< Statistics and machine learning are data-oriented tasks in which domain models are induced from data. The bulk of research in these fields concentrates on inducing models from data archived in computer databases. However, for many problem domains, human expertise forms an essential part of the corpus of knowledge needed to construct models of the domain. The discipline of knowledge engineering has focused on encoding the knowledge of experts in a form that can be encoded into computational models of a domain. At present, knowledge engineering and machine learning remain largely separate disciplines. Yet in many fields of endeavor, substantial human expertise exists alongside data archives. When both data and domain knowledge are available, how can these two resources effectively be combined to construct decision support systems? The aim of this special issue of the Machine Learning journal is to allow researchers to communicate their work on integrating domain knowledge with data (knowledge-data fusion; theory revision; theory refinement) to a general machine learning audience. 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. Possible frameworks for knowledge-data fusion include probabilistic (Bayesian/belief) networks, possibilistic logics and networks, hybrid neuro-fuzzy networks, and inductive logic programming. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Practical applications of knowledge-data fusion. What lessons have been learnt from attempts to apply knowledge-data fusion to real-world decision problems? * How are the various knowledge representation and inference frameworks that permit induction theoretically related to each other? * What frameworks enable an existing induced model, such as a neural network, to be incorporated into a proposed knowledge-based system? * How can knowledge-data fusion be applied to temporal data? Submitted papers must not exceed 30 pages and must conform to the Machine Learning journal style. Please see the associated Web site for further submission details: http://www.btinternet.com/~rdybowski/mlkdf/ This Call for Papers is *not* restricted to those who presented at the UAI 2000 Workshop on Knowledge-Data Fusion: it is open to everyone who has an interest in this topic. Please direct any enquiries to Richard Dybowski: rdybowski@btinternet.com Schedule === Paper submission deadline: June 1, 2001 Authors' notification of decisions: September 1, 2001 Final revised papers due: December 15, 2001 Guest Editors === Richard Dybowski Kathryn Blackmond Laskey (George Mason University) James Myers (Ballistic Missile Defense Organization) Simon Parsons (Liverpool University) ------------------------------ Sender: Stefano Nolfi Subject: Evolutionary Robotics: new book and software available EVOLUTIONARY ROBOTICS THE BIOLOGY, INTELLIGENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY OF SELF-ORGANIZING MACHINES Stefano Nolfi and Dario Floreano MIT Press/ Bradford Books Evolutionary robotics is a new technique for the automatic creation of autonomous robots. Inspired by the Darwinian principle of selective reproduction of the fittest, it views robots as autonomous artificial organisms that develop their own skills in close interaction with the environment and without human intervention. Drawing heavily on biology and ethology, it uses the tools of neural networks, genetic algorithms, dynamic systems, and biomorphic engineering. The resulting robots share with simple biological systems the characteristics of robustness, simplicity, small size, flexibility, and modularity. In evolutionary robotics, an initial population of artificial chromosomes, each encoding the control system of a robot, is randomly created and put into the environment. Each robot is then free to act (move, look around, manipulate) according to its genetically specified controller while its performance on various tasks is automatically evaluated. The fittest robots then "reproduce" by swapping parts of their genetic material with small random mutations. The process is repeated until the "birth" of a robot that satisfies the performance criteria. This book describes the basic concepts and methodologies of evolutionary robotics and the results achieved so far. An important feature is the clear presentation of a set of empirical experiments of increasing complexity. Software with a graphic interface, freely available on a Web page (http://gral.ip.rm.cnr.it/evorobot/simulator.html), allows the reader to replicate and vary (in simulation and on real robots) most of the experiments. Stefano Nolfi is Coordinator of the Division of Neural Systems and Artificial Life, Institute of Psychology, National Research Council, Rome. Dario Floreano is Assistant Professor of Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). CONTENTS 1. The Role of Self-organization for the Synthesis and the Understanding of Behavioral Systems 2. Evolutionary and Neural Techniques 3. How to Evolve Robots 4. Evolution of Simple Navigation 5. Power and Limits of Reactive Intelligence 6. Beyond Reactive Intelligence 7. Learning and Evolution 8. Competitive Co-Evolution 9. Encoding, Mapping, and Development 10. Complex Hardware Morphologies: Walking Machines 11. Evolvable Hardware Intelligent Robots and Autonomous Agents series edited by Ronald C. Arkin, MIT Press. November 2000 ISBN 0-262-14070-5 384 pp., 157 illus. The book is distributed by MIT Press: http://mitpress.mit.edu/book-home.tcl?isbn=0262140705 It is also available trough amazon: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262140705/qid%253D967489468/sr%253D1 -2/105-3677959-5763124 To download the Evorobot software visit: http://gral.ip.rm.cnr.it/evorobot/simulator.html For more information about Evolutionary Robotics visit: http://gral.ip.rm.cnr.it/evorobot/ -- Stefano Nolfi Institute of Psychology, C.N.R. Viale Marx, 15 - 00137 - Rome - Italy voice: 0039-06-86090231 fax: 0039-06-824737 e-mail: nolfi@ip.rm.cnr.it www: http://gral.ip.rm.cnr.it/nolfi ------------------------------ Sender: Evelyne.Lutton@inria.fr Subject: EA01 - Le Creusot, France, October 29-31, 2001 CALL FOR PAPERS ÉVOLUTION ARTIFICIELLE 01 - EA'01 October 29-31, 2001 Université de Bourgogne, Le Creusot, France EA'01 is the 5th Conference on Evolutionary Computation organized in France. Following EA'94 in Toulouse, EA'95 in Brest, EA'97 in Nîmes, and EA'99 in Dunkerque, the Conference will be held in Le Creusot, hosted by the Université de Bourgogne. As usual, the conference will benefit from its specificity: keeping away from Paris will allow for both very low registration fees (less than 150 EUROS) and the discovery of another French region, renowned for its gastronomy and its very famous wines: Burgundy. Authors are invited to present original work relevant to simulated evolution, including but not limited to: Evolutionary Optimization and Learning - Theory of Evolutionary Computation - Artificial Life - Population Dynamics - Implementation and Real-World Application of evolutionary paradigms. PAPERS All submitted papers will be reviewed by three members of the Program Committee. All accepted papers will be presented at the Conference (single track oral presentation of 20mn with 10mn for questions, and discussion, in order to favor interactions among participants), and published in the conference proceedings, available at the conference. If quality permits, a selection of the best papers will further be published by an international publisher, as happened for the previous issues (Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1063, 1363 and 1829). Electronic submission of the papers (12 pages maximum in Springer lncs format, i.e. 11pt Times Roman font, 17x25cm text), is strongly encouraged. The use of LaTeX is strongly recommended. A model style file can be obtained on the conference Web site, where Gill Bates' fans can also find a Word template. CONTACT Chantal LABEILLE (labeille@cheverny.u-bourgogne.fr) Conférence EA'01 Centre Universitaire Condorcet 720 Ave de l'Europe - 71200 Le Creusot - France Tel: +33 (0)1 03.85.77.00.77 - Fax: +33 (0)1 03.85.55.84.58 e-mail: ea01@cmapx.polytechnique.fr - http://www.cmap.polytechnique.fr/ea01 CALENDAR Deadline for paper submission May 11 2001 Notifications of acceptance July 1 2001 Final version for conference handouts September 15 2001 Conference October 29-31 2001 [ ... Modified by moderator for brevity ... ] ------------------------------ Sender: Thomas Stuetzle Subject: CFP: IJCAI-O1 Workshop on Empirical AI The IJCAI-01 Workshop on EMPIRICAL METHODS IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE August 4, 2001, Seattle, USA Workshop Description ===================== In many areas of AI, experiments are the primary means of demonstrating the value and potential of new techniques. It is widely recognized that appropriate empirical approaches often yield new insights into algorithms and systems, and often lead to new research issues, which may be both of experimental and theoretical nature. Thus empirical methods for analysing and comparing algorithms and systems are of considerable interest to many AI researchers. The workshop will bring together researchers from different areas of AI where empirical methods are used to analyse and evaluate algorithms and systems. Workshop topics will include: ============================== -- the design of computational experiments -- performance criteria for algorithms and systems -- methods for analysing, characterising, and comparing algorithmic performance -- the choice of problem sets - benchmark problems, artificially generated problems, etc. -- the role of theoretical models in experiments -- studies from various fields of AI which exemplify good empirical methodology and its value for obtaining interesting results. The domains of interest will cover constraint satisfaction, knowledge acquisition, machine learning and neural networks, natural language processing, planning, reasoning about knowledge, robotics, satisfiability, search techniques, speech recognition, theorem proving, and vision. Format === This one-day workshop will start with an invited talk, followed by survey talks in which leading experts will discuss and compare empirical standards in their domains (rather than present the most recent results of their research). Issues raised by the presentations will then be discussed by all workshop participants. Additionally, we are planning to have 1-2 panels (the topics of these panels will be decided based on the submissions) in which panelists first present their position regarding possibly controversial issues, in a 10 minute exposition. A joint lunch or dinner will provide further opportunities for an informal exchange of experiences and ideas. This workshop on Empirical Methods in Artificial Intelligence will be coordinated with the IJCAI-01 Workshop on ``Stochastic Search Algorithms'' (organised by Holger H. Hoos and Thomas Stuetzle) and the IJCAI-01 Tutorial on Stochastic Search (held by Holger H. Hoos and Thomas Stuetzle). Important Dates === -- Submission deadline: February 28, 2001 -- Notification of acceptance: March 29, 2001 -- Camera-ready copy deadline: April 11, 2001 -- Workshop: August 4, 2001 Cochairs === Holger H. Hoos Dept. of Computer Science University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada Email: hoos@cs.ubc.ca WWW: www.cs.ubc.ca/~hoos Thomas Stuetzle Dept. of Computer Science, Intellectics Group Darmstadt University of Technology D-64283 Darmstadt, Germany Email: stuetzle@informatik.tu-darmstadt.de WWW: www.intellektik.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/~tom Additional Information === http://www.intellektik.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/~tom/IJCAI01/ijcai2001-empai.h tml [ ... Modified by moderator for brevity ... ] ------------------------------ Sender: CIMCA Subject: cfp: International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technology and Internet Commerce - IAWTIC'2001 International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technology and Internet Commerce - IAWTIC'2001 9-11 July 2001 Las Vegas - USA http://beth.canberra.edu.au/conferences/IAWTIC2001/index.htm In Conjunction with International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation - CIMCA'2001 9-11 July 2001 Las Vegas, USA http://beth.canberra.edu.au/conferences/CIMCA2001/index.htm CALL FOR PAPERS ======================= International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technology and Internet Commerce - IAWTIC'2001 provides a medium for researchers and practitioners to exchange and explore the issues and opportunities in the area of intelligent agent, web technologies and Internet commerce . The conference will consist of both plenary sessions and contributory sessions, focusing on theory, implementation and applications of intelligent agents, web technologies and Internet commerce: Important Dates === 16 March 2001 Deadline for submission of draft papers 16 April 2001 Notification of acceptance 16 May 2001 Deadline for camera-ready copies of accepted papers 9-11 July 2001 Conference sessions Further Information === For further information either contact cimca@ise.canberra.edu.au or see the conference homepage at: http://beth.canberra.edu.au/conferences/IAWTIC2001/index.htm [ ... Modified by moderator for brevity ... ] ------------------------------ Sender: "Cihan Dagli" Subject: ANNIE 2001 Smart Engineering Systems Design Conference November 4-7, 2001 Dear Colleagues: On behalf of the organizing committee I would like to invite you to attend ANNIE 2001 ( http://www.umr.edu/~annie/annie01 ) which will be held November 4th-7th, 2001, at the Marriott Pavilion Hotel in downtown St. Louis, Missouri, USA. This will be the eleventh international gathering of researchers interested in Smart Engineering System Design using neural networks, fuzzy logic, evolutionary programming, complex systems, data mining, and rough sets. Each previous conference drew approximately 150 papers from twenty countries. The proceedings of all conferences have been published by ASME Press as hardbound books in nine volumes. The latest volume, edited by Dagli, et. al., was titled "Smart Engineering System Design: Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, Evolutionary Programming, Data Mining, and Complex Systems." You can visit ANNIE home page for details of these conferences http://www.umr.edu/~annie/ . ANNIE 2001 ( http://www.umr.edu/~annie/annie01 ) will cover the theory of Smart Engineering System Design techniques, namely: neural networks, fuzzy logic, evolutionary programming, complex systems, data mining, and rough sets. Presentations dealing with applications of these technologies are encouraged. The organizing committee invites all persons interested in Computational Intelligence to submit papers for presentation at the conference. You can submit your abstracts online at http://www.umr.edu/~annie/oas.htm . All papers accepted for presentation will be published in the conference proceedings. They will be reviewed by two referees, senior researchers in the field, for technical merit and content. AUTHORS SCHEDULE March 2, 2001: Deadline for contributed paper abstract, information sheet, and letter of intent. May 18, 2001: Deadline for full papers. July 6, 2001: Notification of status of contributed papers. August 10, 2001: Deadline for camera ready manuscripts. Six pages will be allocated for each accepted paper in the proceedings. All accepted papers will be published as a hardbound book by ASME Press and edited by Drs. Dagli, Buczak, Embrechts, Ersoy, Ghosh and Kercel. Authors are requested to submit the following by March 2, 2001: 1) an abstract (up to 200 words) 2) an information sheet that includes the full name of the authors, address, phone and FAX number, E-mail, Web address 3) a letter of intent Authors should forward their letter of intent, information sheet, abstract, and full paper to: Dr. Cihan H. Dagli, Conference Chair Smart Engineering Systems Laboratory Department of Engineering Management University of Missouri - Rolla 1870 Miner Circle Rolla, MO 65409-0370, USA Phone: (573) 341-6576 or (573) 341-4374 FAX: (573) 341-6268 E-Mail: annie@umr.edu -or- patti@umr.edu Internet: http://www.umr.edu/~annie ------------------------------ Sender: z17b3 Subject: What is a structural representation in chemistry? (pdf version) Dear colleagues, In view of a number of requests for our paper related to the absence of its PDF version (we supplied only the postscript file, i.e. file cadd.ps), we have now added the corresponding PDF file: http://www.cs.unb.ca/profs/goldfarb/cadd.pdf (in addition to the corrected postscript version). It goes without saying that we would greatly appreciate any comments. Lev Goldfarb Tel: 506-458-7271 Faculty of Computer Science Tel(secret.): 453-4566 University of New Brunswick Fax: 506-453-3566 P.O. Box 4400 E-mail: goldfarb@unb.ca Fredericton, N.B., E3B 5A3 Home tel: 506-455-4323 Canada http://www.cs.unb.ca/profs/goldfarb/goldfarb.htm ------------------------------ End of Genetic Algorithms Digest ********************************