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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) WATT2001 Wrkshp of...Automated Timetabling, Rotterdam Jul 9-11, 01 (v15n8) NASAEH 3rd Wrkshp on Evolvable Hardware, Pasadena, CA Jul 12-14, 01 (v15n2) SCI2001 Evolvable Sys. and Gen. Prog., Orlando, FL USA Jul 22-25, 01 (v15n8) 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 -------------- Second Call for Papers ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Sixth International Computer Science Conference: Active Media Technology 18 - 20 December 2001, Hong Kong Home Page: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~amt01 Organized by IEEE Hong Kong Section Computer Chapter Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ As a newly emerged, fast-growing branch in information technology and com-puter science, Active Media Technology (AMT) strongly emphasizes on the in-creasingly important proactive roles of computational systems and media in dif-ferent aspects of digital life. This conference will particularly focus on (i) the current state of research and development in theory, art, and science of AMT, and (ii) the demonstration of the latest architectures, prototypes, tools, and field-ed systems that demonstrate or enable AMT. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Human-Machine Collaboration, Self-Adapting Computers, - Face and Gesture Recognition, Learning, Visualization, - Evolutionary Art, Models of Emotion, Motivation, or Personality, - Smart Environments, Wearable Computers, Hand-Held or - Satellite-Based Devices and Avatars, - Multi-Agent Systems, Multi-Modal Interfaces, Smart Materials, - Collaborative Information Gathering, - Virtual Marketplace or Community, Internet Ecology, - Augmented Reality, Knowledge Network, Personalization, - Distributed Softbots and Netbots, Synthetic Agents and Believable, - Pervasive Technology, Push Technology, Multi-Modal - Content/Service Delivery, Active Perception. Keynote Speakers: ================= Prof. James L. Crowley INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France Prof. Toshio Fukuda Nagoya University, Japan Prof. Toru Ishida Kyoto University, Japan Prof. Oussama Khatib Stanford University, USA Prof. Takeo Kanade The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Submission: =========== Submission of paper must be in full manuscript. Electronic submission is encouraged. The accepted papers will be published in conference pro-ceedings. It is understood that one of the authors of the accepted paper will register and pre-sent their paper at the conference. Selected high-quality papers from the proceedings will be published in an international journal. Important Dates: ================ Submission Due : April 15, 2001 Notification of Acceptance: June 15, 2001 Camera Ready Manuscripts Due: August 15, 2001 For more information, please contact: ===================================== AMT 2001 Secretariat Department of Computer Science Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Fax: (852)-2339-7892 Email: amt01@comp.hkbu.edu.hk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Conference Organizing Committee: ================================ Congress Chair: Ernest C M Lam Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Conference Chairs: Toshio Fukuda Nagoya university, Japan Joseph Ng Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong [ ... modified by moderator for brevity ... ] -------------- Sender: "Vincent A. Cicirello" Subject: final cfp: IJCAI-01 Workshop on AI and Manufacturing The deadline for submissions to this workshop has been extended to March 9. Final Call for Papers / Participation The IJCAI-01 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Manufacturing: New AI Paradigms for Manufacturing August 5, 2001 Seattle, WA Organized by the AAAI Special Interest Group for AI and Manufacturing (SIGMAN). Over the past decade, artificial intelligence concepts and techniques have been applied to many aspects of manufacturing, ranging from product and process development, to production management, to process diagnosis and quality control. New manufacturing concepts such as agile/lean manufacturing and virtual manufacturing place increasing emphasis on the need for more intelligent manufacturing systems. It is no longer a question of whether AI technologies will have an impact on manufacturing but one of better understanding and exploiting the broad potential of AI in this domain. The main purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners in AI and in manufacturing to discuss how AI-based technology is used today, identify open problems and suggest new opportunities for using AI to address these challenges. A specific focus of this meeting will be an analysis of new AI paradigms for manufacturing. Examples include the use of evolutionary techniques for design and manufacturing, the impact of e-commerce on AI and manufacturing and the potential for cross-fertilization from other research areas such as genetics research, game theory, and economics. Topics Specific topics of interest include (but are not limited to): o Agent-based manufacturing systems o Integrated product/process development o Manufacturing process planning o Assembly and task planning o Robotics and automation o Scheduling and resource planning o Knowledge-based manufacturing systems o Learning and intelligent manufacturing systems o E-Commerce and manufacturing o Role of AI in supporting new manufacturing concepts such as agility, virtual manufacturing, etc. Format The workshop will include panel discussions and contributed papers. Attendance is limited to 40 participants. Planned panel discussions include: o State of the Technology, Where We Are Today o Surveys of Existing Tools o Cross-Fertilization to Manufacturing from Other Areas o Impact of E-Commerce on AI and Manufacturing Submissions Submissions will consist of either an extended abstract or a statement of interest: Extended abstract: 3-4 pages describing either: o research relevant to the workshop themes, or o key challenges and technological potential to bridging the gaps between problem and solution perspectives Statement of interest: 1 page describing interest and prior experience in the area of AI in manufacturing All submissions must be emailed to the workshop chair (gainesdm@vuse.vanderbilt.edu) in PDF format on or before the deadline. Include the name and contact information (including phone and email address) of the corresponding author. We are planning a special issue of a journal with extended versions of the best papers. Important Dates o March 9, 2001: Submissions due o March 23, 2001: Notification of acceptance o April 16, 2001: Camera-ready copy due o August 4-6, 2001: IJCAI-01 workshops Chair Daniel M. Gaines Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department Vanderbilt University Station B, Box 1679 Nashville, TN 37235 Email: gainesdm@vuse.vanderbilt.edu Voice: 615-322-2907 Fax: 615-343-5459 Committee Suzanne Barber, University of Texas at Austin, barber@mail.utexas.edu Vincent A. Cicirello, Carnegie Mellon University, cicirello@ri.cmu.edu Leslie Cumiford, Sandia National Laboratories, ldcumif@sandia.gov Maria Gini, University of Minnesota, gini@cs.umn.edu William C. Regli, Drexel University, regli@drexel.edu Jan Vandenbrande, Boeing Phantom Works, jan.h.vandenbrande@boeing.com Workshop Webpage: http://sigman2001.vanderbilt.edu For additional information and events related to AI and manufacturing, please visit the AAAI Special Interest Group for AI and Manufacturing (SIGMAN) at http://sigman.cs.umn.edu. -------------- Sender: "Boschetti, Fabio (EM, Nedlands)" Subject: User supplied fitness functions (once more) Dear Colleagues, my mail is a bit late since I had missed the original quest for information about User supplied fitness functions. This mail is to inform you that we have used User supplied fitness functions outside standard artistic application. We used it in a scientific application to solve inverse problems where precise numerical fitness is hard to evaluate. You can download the paper "Interactive Inversion in Geosciences", at http://www.ned.dem.csiro.au/BoschettiFabio/ Comments are most welcome. Fabio Dr. Fabio Boschetti Senior Research Scientist CSIRO Exploration and Mining 39 Fairway, Nedlands, 6009, Western Australia Tel ++61 8 9284 8421 Fax ++61 8 9389 1906 http://www.ned.dem.csiro.au/BoschettiFabio/ -------------- Sender: Graham Williams Subject: PAKDD-01, Hong Kong, April 16-18: Call for Participation ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Visit the PAKDD-01 Home Page: http://www.csis.hku.hk/pakdd01/ Early Bird Registration Due March 16: http://www.csis.hku.hk/pakdd01/page-registration.htm There are several international fairs, exhibitions, and conferences (some related to PAKDD, including DASFAA and IFIP DS-9) in Hong Kong during the month of April 2001. Reserve your accommodation soon: http://www.csis.hku.hk/pakdd01/page-hotel.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONFERENCE BACKGROUND, THEMES AND TARGET AUDIENCE: PAKDD 2001, Hong Kong, 16--18 April, is the Fifth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. It is the successor of earlier PAKDD conferences held in Singapore (1997), Melbourne, Australia (1998), Beijing, China (1999), and Kyoto, Japan (2000). PAKDD 2001 will be an international forum for the sharing of original research results and practical development experiences. Practitioners and researchers alike will benefit from the technical program and scholarly exchange. KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS Incompleteness in Data Mining Professor H. V. Jagadish, a world leading researcher in data mining from the University of Michigan thinks that the current data mining techniques, with carefully engineered algorithms, are extremely expensive. Since the central goal of data mining is to find SOME interesting patterns, he will argue that it is not necessary to find ALL of them -- is incompleteness the right answer ? Mining E-commerce Data: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Dr. Ronny Kohavi, Director of Data Mining at Blue Martini Software, is an industrial leader in Data Mining software. He will talk about the lessons, stories, and challenges of data mining based on mining real data. According to Ronny e-commerce provides all the right ingredients for data mining (the Good). So, what are the Bad and the Ugly ? Seamless Integration of Data Mining with DBMS and Applications Professor Hongjun Lu of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, an internationally renowned researcher in data mining, will argue that most data mining algorithms can only be loosely coupled with data infrastructures in organizations and are difficult to infuse into existing mission-critical applications. He will propose to tackle the problem of integration of data mining with DBMS and applications from three directions. TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS: The technical program features 38 regular presentations and 22 short presentations. Topics include: Web and Text Mining; Sequence, Spatial and Temporal Mining; Applications and Tools; and more. For a complete list of papers visit: http://www.csis.hku.hk/pakdd01/page-program.htm INDUSTRIAL TRACK PRESENTATIONS: PAKDD01 has created a new track for practitioners, vendors and users to present experiences in data mining in their respective areas. - Data Mining at Standard Chartered Bank, Steven Parker, Standard and Charter - Improving web design - mining web data at SCMP.com, H.P.Lo, City U of Hong Kong - Data Mining Application and Implementation in Banking, a Case Study, Dick Cheng, SAS Institute, Australia - Data Mining Application in Internet Polling, Dennis Pang, Superpoll, Taiwan - and many more .... TUTORIALS: An Introduction to MARS - Dr. Dan Steinberg, CEO of Salford Systems, USA Static and Dynamic Data Mining Using Advanced Machine Learning Methods - Professor Ryszard S. Michalski, George Mason University, USA Sequential Pattern Mining: From Shopping History Analysis to Weblog Mining and DNA Mining - Professor Jiawei Han and Mr. Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University, Canada Recent Advances in Data Mining Algorithms for Large Databases - Dr. Rajeev Rastogi and Dr. Kyuseok Shim, AT&T Bell Lab & KAIST, Korea. Web Mining for E-Commerce - Professor Jaideep Srivastava, University of Minnesota, USA From Evolving Single Neural Networks to Evolving Ensembles - Professor Xin Yao, The University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. WORKSHOPS: Spatial and Temporal Data; Statistical Techniques in Data Mining; Data Mining an Electronic Business. ORGANIZATION: Conference Chairs: Chung-Jen Tan (University of Hong Kong and IBM Watson) Jiawei Han (Simon Fraser University, Canada) [ ... modified by moderator for brevity ... ] -------------- Sender: sfillat@mkp.com Subject: New Book: Swarm Intelligence Swarm Intelligence by James Kennedy and Russell C. Eberhart, with Yuhui Shi Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, February 2001 http://www.mkp.com/books_catalog/catalog.asp?ISBN=1-55860-595-9 Traditional methods for creating intelligent computational systems have privileged private "internal" cognitive and computational processes. In contrast, Swarm Intelligence argues that human intelligence derives from the interactions of individuals in a social world and further, that this model of intelligence can be effectively applied to artificially intelligent systems. The authors first present the foundations of this new approach through an extensive review of the critical literature in social psychology, cognitive science, and evolutionary computation. They then show in detail how these theories and models apply to a new computational intelligence methodology?particle swarms?which focuses on adaptation as the key behavior of intelligent systems. Drilling down still further, the authors describe the practical benefits of applying particle swarm optimization to a range of engineering problems. Developed by the authors, this algorithm is an extension of cellular automata and provides a powerful optimizat ion, learning, and problem solving method. This important book presents valuable new insights by exploring the boundaries shared by cognitive science, social psychology, artificial life, artificial intelligence, and evolutionary computation and by applying these insights to the solving of difficult engineering problems. Researchers and graduate students in any of these disciplines will find the material intriguing, provocative, and revealing as will the curious and savvy computing professional. _______________________________________________________________ Morgan Kaufmann Publishers San Francisco, California http://www.mkp.com orders@mkp.com -------------- Sender: iat01@kis.maebashi-it.ac.jp Subject: Final CFP: IAT-2001 [Apologies if you receive this more than once] ------------------------------------------------------------------- FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: IAT-2001 The Second Asia-Pacific Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology SPONSORED BY ACM SIGART Maebashi Institute of Technology ------------------------------------------------------------------- Maebashi TERRSA, Maebashi City, Japan October 23-26, 2001 Home Page: http://kis.maebashi-it.ac.jp/iat01 Mirror Page: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/IAT/iat01 Paper Submission Deadline: March 20, 2001 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ IN COOPERATION WITH ACM SIGCHI, ACM SIGWEB Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI) JSAI SIGFAI, JSAI SIGKBS, IEICE SIGKBSE CORPORATE SPONSORS Maebashi Convention Bureau Maebashi City Government Gunma Prefecture Government The Japan Research Institute, Limited US AFOSR/AOARD and US Army Research Office in Far East IAT-2001 will be jointly held with The First Asia-Pacific Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-2001) (One registration may attend both IAT-2001 and WI-2001) ======================================================= IAT-2001 and WI-2001 Joint Keynote Speakers: Benjamin Wah (2001 IEEE CS President), U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Edward A. Feigenbaum (Turing Award Winner), Stanford University IAT-2001 Invited Speakers: Toyoaki Nishida (University of Tokyo, Japan) Zbigniew W. Ras (University of North Carolina, USA) Andrzej Skowron (Warsaw University, Poland) Katia Sycara (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) The Asia-Pacific Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT) is a high-quality, high-impact biennial agent conference series. The second meeting in this conference series follows the success of IAT'99 held in Hong Kong in 1999 (http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/IAT99). IAT-2001 will primarily focus on (1) the state-of-the-art in the development of intelligent agents and (2) the theoretical and computational foundations of intelligent agent technology. The aim of IAT-2001 is to bring together researchers and practitioners from diverse fields, such as computer science, information technology, business, education, human factors, systems engineering, and robotics to (1) examine the design principles and performance characteristics of various approaches in intelligent agent technology, and (2) increase the cross-fertilization of ideas on the development of autonomous agents and multiagent systems among different domains. By encouraging idea-sharing and discussions on the underlying logical, cognitive, physical, and biological foundations as well as the enabling technologies of intelligent agents, IAT-2001 is expected to stimulate the future development of new models, new methodologies, and new tools for building a variety of embodiments of agent-based systems. TOPICS ====== The technical issues to be addressed include, but not limited to: * Applications: - data and knowledge intensive domains (e.g., large databases, Internet, digital libraries, distributed decision making, financial modeling and engineering, business information systems and process automation) - software and interface agents (e.g., personal assistant, translator, scheduler, information filter, tutor) - computational intelligence (e.g., pattern analysis and recognition, imaging, optimization, resource allocation, constraint satisfaction, planning) - agents in e-commerce and e-business - autonomous agents in science and engineering (e.g. aerospace, survey of the seabed and space) - physically embodied systems (e.g., autonomous robots and groups) - very-large, complex, integrated intelligent systems * Computational Architecture and Infrastructure: - computational architectures - ontology models - agent-level and multi-agent-level infrastructure - communication languages - multi-modal systems and interfaces - protocols - tools and standards - heterogeneity and interoperability - scalability * Learning and Adaptation: - soft-computing in multi-agent systems - uncertainty management in multi-agent systems - integrated exploration and exploitation - long-term reliability - neural networks - artificial life - behavioral selection - coordinating perception, thought, and action - behavioral self-organization - believable lifelike quality - classifier systems - evolution and learning in dynamic environments - adaptation and self-adaptation - emergent behavior - evolutionary computation * Data and Knowledge Engineering/Communication: - information filtering - data mining - heterogeneous data integration and management - human-agent interaction - knowledge discovery - knowledge sharing - knowledge aggregation - reasoning and planning - adaptation and evolution of knowledge networks - distributed knowledge systems * Distributed Intelligence: - dynamics of groups and populations - swarms - population evolution - coevolution - collective group behavior - coordination and cooperation - distributed intelligence - social integration - market-based computing * Formal Theories of Agents: - formal/computational modeling - chaotic and fractal dynamics - computational complexity - efficiency in distributed systems - taxonomy of agent environments - classification and characterization of complex behaviors - theories of perception, rationality, intention, emotion, coordination, action, and social behaviors PAPER SUBMISSION & PUBLICATION ============================== High quality full-length papers in all IAT related areas are solicited. Papers exploring new directions are most welcome and will receive a careful and supportive review. All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. Electronic submission is encouraged and preferred. Please send LaTex (MS-Words, or PDF) and PostScript versions of your paper, and an ASCII version of the cover page (in separate email), by March 20, 2001 to: iat01@maebashi-it.ac.jp Or use the Submission Form at the IAT-2001 webpage: http://kis.maebashi-it.ac.jp/iat01 to submit your paper. Four (4) hardcopies of the paper by regular mail are also requested if electronic submission is not possible. Please send hardcopies of your paper by March 20, 2001 to: Prof. Ning Zhong (IAT-2001) Department of Information Engineering Maebashi Institute of Technology 460-1, Kamisadori-Cho, Maebashi-City, 371-0816 Japan TEL&FAX: +81-27-265-7366 E-mail: zhong@maebashi-it.ac.jp The ASCII version of a cover page must include author(s) full address, email, paper title and a 200 word abstract, and up to 5 keywords. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by World Scientific, An International Publisher, as a hardcover book. A selected number of IAT-2001 accepted papers will be expanded and revised for inclusion in ``Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal'' by Springer-Verlag and in "International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence" by World Scientific. IAT best paper award will be conferred on the author(s) of the best papers at the conference. All manuscripts (upto about 10 pages long) must be formatted using the World Scientific's style files for proceedings. The style files can be found at: http://www.wspc.com/others/style_files/proceedings/proceedings_style_files.html -- use the style files appropriate to a trim size of 8.5"x6". DEMO SESSION ============ IAT-2001 also welcomes submissions of research projects, research prototypes, experimental systems, and commercial products for demonstrations at the conference. Each submission should include a title page containing a title, a 200-300 word abstract, a list of keywords, the names, mailing addresses, and Email addresses of the presenters, and a two-page description of the demo system. Submissions should reach the IAT-2001 Demo Chair: Dr. Jianchang Mao (IAT-2001) Verity Inc. 894 Ross Drive Sunnyvale CA 94089, USA E-mail: jmao@verity.com by July 2, 2001 Authors of accepted IAT-2001 papers will be invited to demonstrate their systems at the conference. It is understood that once a submission is selected for demonstration at the conference, the presenter(s) of the demo will be responsible for bringing necessary software/hardware equipment. IMPORTANT DATES =============== March 20, 2001 Paper submission deadline May 28, 2001 Notification of paper acceptance mailed June 20, 2001 Camera-ready copies of accepted papers due July 2, 2001 Demo submission deadline August 3, 2001 Notification of demo acceptance mailed October 23-26, 2001 Conference technical sessions CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS ===================== IAT-2001 Conference Organizing Committee ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ General Chairs: Setsuo Ohsuga, Waseda University, Japan Jeffrey Bradshaw, University of West Florida, USA [ ... modified by moderator for brevity ... ] CONFERENCE SITE =============== The IAT-2001 and WI-2001 will take place in Maebashi City. Maebashi, the capital of Gumma Prefecture, is called the `City of water, greenery, and poetry'. Maebashi is an `International Convention City' designated by the Ministry of Transportation. Maebashi and the neighboring areas in Gunma is a land of greenery blessed with the wonders of natural beauty and more than a hundred hot springs offering relaxation and peace of mind. IAT-2001 and WI-2001 will organize a tour during the conference to a resort hotel with hot spring in Ikaho that is one of the most famous hot springs areas in Japan. Maebashi is positioned nearly in the center of the Japan Archipelago. Only a hundred kilometers from Japan's capital city of Tokyo and reachable in an hour by bullet train or high-speed expressway, a variety of favorable land conditions lead to flourishing economic activity. Maebashi City and the neighboring areas in Gunma are expected to further develop into an IT conurbation with highly advanced information technology. FURTHER INFORMATION =================== Please send suggestions and inquiries regarding IAT-2001 to: Prof. Ning Zhong (IAT-2001) Department of Information Engineering Maebashi Institute of Technology 460-1, Kamisadori-Cho, Maebashi-City, 371-0816 Japan TEL&FAX: +81-27-265-7366 E-mail: zhong@maebashi-it.ac.jp ------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- Sender: "Paul P. Wang" Subject: CFP: Medical Informatics CALL FOR PAPERS SPECIAL ISSUE ON MEDICAL INFORMATICS It has been nearly half of a century since artificial intelligence researchers set their eyes on expert systems for medical diagnosis and as decision support software to aid hospital operations. Even so, development of an automatic diagnostic tool for serious human disease is nowhere in sight. However, many simple expert systems have found their way into operating rooms, waiting rooms, utility rooms, record rooms and patient bedrooms. There is no doubt that the usefulness of expert systems has made them an integral part of the healthcare industry! Fueled by advances in the biologically-inspired and data driven consortium of significant discoveries such as fuzzy logic, artificial neural network, genetic algorithms, evolutionary computings, believe networks etc., there is a need to revisit the issue of expert system designs for the healthcare industry! This new consortium of methodologies, aggregately known as computational intelligence or soft-computing, has revolutionized many areas of scientific and technological inquiries. We call this movement a paradigm shift! The time is ripe for us to take another look, to reflect on the research community's accomplishments, to review what is state-of-the-art and most importantly, to plan and propose where to invest and determine what results are reasonable. We call the attention of all potential authors, health care system administrators, government funding agencies around the world, and world heath organizations such as the United Nations, Red Cross, etc. By taking advantage of not only powerful software, but also Internet technology and photonics networks, low cost effective solutions are attainable. This special issue is not limited to new technical and research results. We also welcome tutorial, survey, and societal study materials. All interested authors should submit 4 hard copies for peer review. These will be handled by a committee of leading researchers and system analysis specialists. Please send all inquiries and 4 hard copies to: Professor Paul P. Wang Box 90291 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Duke University Durham, N.C. U.S.A. 27708-0291 e-mail : ppw@ee,duke.edu fax : 919-660-5293 phone : 919-660-5259 Thank you very much for your interest in this endeavor. -------------- Sender: Edmund Burke Subject: WATT Workshop and Special Issue of EJOR ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4th Workshop of the EURO Working Group on Automated Timetabling (WATT) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 4th WATT Workshop will be held at the EURO Conference in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, on July 9-11, 2001. Details of the EURO Conference can be seen on the Web page: http://www.fbk.eur.nl/PRJ/EURO2001/content.html As in the past, the workshop will be organised as a special session (or sessions) at the conference. The session will consist of a number of talks dealing with various issues on automated timetabling research/work. To give a talk you should submit an abstract, not longer then 1400 characters, by March 15, 2001 following the instructions given on the Web site: http://www.fbk.eur.nl/PRJ/EURO2001/sub.html The deadline for submission has already been extended. Please adhere strictly to this deadline, as no other extensions will be possible. Authors of abstracts are invited to submit a full paper to a feature issue of the European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR) on "Timetabling and Rostering". The deadline for submission of papers is 31st August 2001. The full call for papers is included below. For more details about this feature issue see http://www.asap.cs.nott.ac.uk/ASAP/watt/events.html Please note that although the feature issue of EJOR is being held in conjunction with the workshop it is NOT necessary to attend the workshop in order to submit a paper to the feature issue. The abstracts should be submitted either via e-mail or by ordinary mail to: Sanja Petrovic Automated Scheduling, Optimisation and Planning Research Group School of Computer Science and Information Technology University of Nottingham Jubilee Campus, Wollaton Road Nottingham NG8 1BB UK Fax: +44 (0)115 951 4249 E-mail: sxp@cs.nott.ac.uk Accepted abstract will be published in a Conference proceeding. Please note that EURO may be able to subsidise the cost of attendance at the conference for Central and East European WATT members and for student members. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers Feature Issue of the European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR) "Timetabling and Rostering" Guest Editors: Edmund Burke and Sanja Petrovic ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A feature issue of EJOR will be aimed at all aspects of timetabling and rostering research. Original, high quality papers are sought from across the range of theoretical and applied timetabling research issues. This feature issue is being organised in conjunction with the 4th Workshop of the EURO Working Group on Automated Timetabling (WATT) being held at the 18th European Operational Research Conference (EURO XVIII) in Rotterdam, July 9-11, 2001. For more details about the workshop see http://www.asap.cs.nott.ac.uk/ASAP/watt/events.html Submission of papers to the issue is NOT restricted, however, to the workshop attendees and papers are sought from across the timetabling and rostering research community. The articles submitted will be peer-reviewed, according to the usual procedure of the European Journal of Operational Research. Topics covered by the feature issue may include, but are not restricted to the following aspects of Timetabling and Rostering: o Applications o Theoretical Issues o Heuristics and Meta-heuristics o Knowledge Based Approaches o Distribution and Large Scale Issues o Solution Quality and Evaluation o The Impact of Emerging Technologies Manuscripts can be submitted either via e-mail or by sending 4 hard-copies to the address indicated below. All submissions should include a title page containing title, contact author, author(s) names and affiliations, regular postal addresses, and e-mail addresses. Sanja Petrovic Guest Editor, European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR) University of Nottingham School of Computer Science and IT Automated Scheduling, Planning and Optimisation Group Jubilee Campus, Wollaton Road Nottingham, NG8 1BB UK Email: sxp@cs.nott.ac.uk Deadline for submissions: August 31, 2001 Detailed instructions for authors can be found at: http://www.elsevier.com/homepage/sae/orms/eor/menu.htm -------------- Sender: Franz Rothlauf Subject: CFP: ROPNET-2001 Workshop at GECCO-2001 3rd and last Call for participation Extended deadline!! ROPNET-2001 REPRESENTATIONS AND OPERATORS FOR NETWORK PROBLEMS Bird-of-a-feather Workshop at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2001 ( GECCO-2001 ) San Francisco, California, July 7 - 11, 2001 (Saturday - Wednesday) http://www.isgec.org/GECCO-2001/ IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: March 12, 2001 Decisions will be mailed by: April 5, 2001 Submissions of camera-ready papers: April 20, 2001 Presentation: July 7, 2001 WORKSHOP SUMMARY Finding good solutions for network design problems is important in many fields such as telecommunications, computer, backbone access, transportation and distribution networks. Over the last years genetic algorithms have been applied with success to a wide variety of these different problems. One of the major design issues is how the network could be represented as an artificial chromosome and what kind of operators could be defined on the chromosome. The workshop is intended to give an overview over the existing approaches and to discuss various representations and operators in the context of genetic and evolutionary computation. It should compare theoretical properties and empirical performance characteristics of different representations and operators and try to find explanations for performance differences of a genetic algorithm. The workshop will be focused on representations and operators for network problems, but it welcomes interesting contributions to encoding issues that are meaningful for network representations. PARTICIPATION Presentations will be selected according to the submitted 10-page papers which will be reviewed by at least two members of the international program committee. Accepted papers will be available in electronic form before the workshop. Abbreviated versions of the papers will be later published in the workshop proceedings. The length of each paper will be determined by the number of accepted papers. For more detailed submission guidelines and recent updates, see the workshop pages at http://btw6x2.oec.uni-bayreuth.de/ropnet/ WORKSHOP CHAIR Franz Rothlauf Department of Information Systems University of Bayreuth 95445 Bayreuthn Germany rothlauf@uni-bayreuth.de Tel/Fax: +49 921 55 2819, +49 921 55 2216 Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory 104 S. Mathews Ave. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL 61801 rothlauf@illigal.ge.uiuc.edu ATTENDANCE Attendance to the workshop is open to all GECCO attendees. Further information will be posted on the workshop web pages ( http://btw6x2.oec.uni-bayreuth.de/ropnet/ ). We are looking forward to your participation at the first workshop ROPNET-2001 which is a great opportunity to meet and discuss the covered topics for researchers in this area of research as well as the ones who would like to learn more about representations and networks. -------------- Sender: Inman Harvey Subject: MSc in Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems The Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems (EASy) group at the University of Sussex is probably the largest such multidisciplinary research group in the world, working on a wide range of topics where Computer Science and Complex Systems and AI and Artificial Life swap ideas with Biology. We have over 30 active researchers at doctoral and postdoctoral level, plus a similar number of Masters students. The EASy MSc is a one year course with 2 terms of coursework followed by a major supervised project in a relevant area. If you are interested you can find out about us on http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/adapt/index.html **Expanded funding** Due to its success over the last 4 years the UK EPSRC has now dramatically increased the financial support for this course. The number of studentships available has increased very significantly, awarded competitively: UK students tuition + living expenses, other EU students tuition fees only. Other international and local students not awarded studentships welcome on self-funding basis, part-time option over 2 years also available. The expanded funding also includes new facilities and new courses to be added. Faculty directly involved in the course include Inman Harvey - artificial evolution, evolutionary robotics, artificial life Phil Husbands - evolutionary computation, GasNets for robotics Ezequiel Di Paolo - evolving collective behaviour, homeostasis, autopoiesis Adrian Thompson - evolvable hardware, evolutionary electronics Other faculty here at Sussex in associated areas include Prof John Maynard Smith (evolutionary theory) Prof Maggie Boden (Philosophy, Creativity, Artificial Life) Prof Andy Clark (Philosophy) Dr Tom Collett (ant and bee navigational behaviour) Prof Mick O'Shea (neuroscience) http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/adapt/index.html -- Inman Harvey >> Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems Group << >> COGS, Univ. of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QH, UK << inmanh@cogs.susx.ac.uk >> http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/users/inmanh/ << -------------- Sender: Bill LANGDON Subject: eurogp2001.bib online A BibTeX file giving details of all the papers to appear at EuroGP'2001 Lake Como, Italy 18-20 April 2001 is available via ftp ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/authors/W.B.Langdon/biblio/eurogp2001.bib The entries also appear in the GP bibliography http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~wbl/biblio/gp-bibliography.bib Bill W. B. Langdon, Phone +44 20 7679 4436 Computer Science, Fax +44 20 7387 1397 University College, London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/W.Langdon EuroGP Lake Como 18-20 April http://evonet.dcs.napier.ac.uk/eurogp2001 GECCO San Francisco 7-11 July http://www.isgec.org/GECCO-2001 GP+EM Journal http://www.wkap.nl/journalhome.htm/1389-2576 -------------- End of Genetic Algorithms Digest ******************************