Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 13:39:25 -0500 Reply-To: Evolutionary Computation Digest <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Evolutionary Computation Digest <[log in to unmask]> From: Adrian Grajdeanu <[log in to unmask]> Subject: EC-Digest v21n2 Content-Type: text Evolutionary Computation Digest Thursday, February, 8 2007 Volume 21 : Issue 2 SUBMISSION ADDRESS: [log in to unmask] LIST INFORMATION: http://ec-digest.research.ucf.edu/ OLD LIST ARCHIVE: http://www.aic.nrl.navy.mil/galist/ NEW LIST ARCHIVE: http://listserv.gmu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=EC-DIGEST-L (UN)SUBSCRIPTION INSTRUCTIONS: at the bottom of this email -------------------------------- Today's Topics: CFPs ---- - CFP: Analysis of Genetic Representations and Operators - a Special ... - CFP: Special Session on Linkage in EC (at IEEE CEC 2007) - 2nd Workshop on Parallel Bioinspired Algorithms - CFP: EvoDOP-2007 Workshop at GECCO-2007 - ISDA07 Paper Submission Open - IEEE CEC 2007 - Paper Submission is NOW Open - WORKSHOP ON MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPU... - Call for papers, Biologically inspired computing,special issue of... - Call for book chapters - CFP: ISICA 2007, China, September - CFP: ICES 2007, China, September - Combined Special Session & Competition on MOEAs at CEC'07 -------------------------------- CALENDAR OF GA-RELATED ACTIVITIES: (with EC-Digest issue reference) FOGA-07, Foundations of Genetic Alg 9, Mexico City, Mexico, Jan 7-11,07 (v20n4) EVO*-07, EuroGP,EvoCOP,EvoBIO,EvoWorkshops,Valencia,Spain,Apr 11-13,07 (v20n10) GECCO-2007, Genetic and Evolutionary Conference, London,UK,July 7-11,07 (v21n1) IEEE CEC-07, IEEE Cong. on Evolutionary Comp, Singapore, Sept 25-28,07 (v20n10) Send announcements of other activities to [log in to unmask] -------------------------------- Sender: Jorge Tavares <[log in to unmask]> Subject: CFP: Analysis of Genetic Representations and Operators - a Special Session of CEC2007 Call for Papers Analysis of Genetic Representations and Operators (AGRO 2007) http://agro2007.dei.uc.pt A Special Session of the 2007 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2007) Singapore, September 25-28, 2007 http://www.cec2007.org/ This Special session will focus on the analysis and design of Genetic Representations and Operators in Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs). In the past few years, EAs have been successfully applied to a large number of optimization problems. Nevertheless, most of the research deals with applying an EA to a new problem or applying a new EA to an existing one. In most of these studies, the focus is on showing how the EA was able to solve the problem (or find better solutions) and not why it was able to solve it. The choice of a genetic representation and the associated operators cannot be made independently of each other as both of them are crucial to the efficiency of the optimisation algorithm. The question whether a certain representation leads to better performing EAs than an alternative representation (and the respective operators) is crucial to our understanding on why an EA can solve the problem successfully. Topics of Interest: - Representation techniques and evolutionary operators; - Theoretical and empirical properties of representations and/or operators; - Predictive performance measures; - Search space analysis; - Promising directions for future research. Important Dates Paper Submission: March 15, 2007 Decision Notification: May 15, 2007 Camera-ready Submission: June 15, 2007 Paper Submission: Manuscripts should be prepared according to the standard format of regular papers specified in CEC2007 webpage and be restricted to a maximum of 8 pages. Paper submission is strictly only PDF format and online through the regular CEC2007 submission website at: http://ieee-cis.org/conferences/cec2007/upload.php Please submit to the main research topic designated as SS01: Analysis of Genetic Representations and Operators. Special session papers will be treated in the same way as regular papers and included in the conference proceedings. [message truncated due to length...] -------------------------------- Sender: Ying-ping Chen <[log in to unmask]> Subject: CFP: Special Session on Linkage in EC (at IEEE CEC 2007) Call for Papers Special Session on Linkage in Evolutionary Computation (LEC 2007) URL: http://lec2007.nclab.tw will be held at 2007 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation September 25-28, 2007, Singapore OVERVIEW & SCOPE Genetic and evolutionary algorithms (GEAs) are powerful search methods based on the paradigm of evolution and widely applied to solve problems in many disciplines. In order to improve the performance and applicability, numerous sophisticated mechanisms have been introduced and integrated into GEAs in the past decades. One major category of these enhancing mechanisms is the concept of linkage, which models the relation between the decision variables with the genetic linkage observed in biological systems, and linkage learning techniques. Linkage learning connects the computational optimization methodologies and the natural evolution mechsnisms. We invite researchers to submit their original and unpublished work related to, but not limited to, the following topics: * Linkage in biological systems and computational algorithms * Linkage for discrete/continuous variables * Linkage processing, handling, and learning techniques * Identification and utilization of linkage * Adaptation of representation and/or operators for linkage * Theoretical aspects of linkage * Applications of the linkage concept * Position papers * Real-world applications SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Manuscripts should be prepared according to the standard format of regular papers specified in CEC 2007 and be restricted to a maximum of 8 pages. Paper submission is online through the CEC 2007 submission website with selecting "SS24. Linkage in Evolutionary Computation" for the research topic. Special session papers will be treated in the same way as regular papers and included in the conference proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: March 15, 2007 Decision Notification: May 15, 2007 Camera-Ready Submission: June 15, 2007 [message truncated due to length...] -------------------------------- Sender: Francisco Fernandez de Vega <[log in to unmask]> Subject: 2nd Workshop on Parallel Bioinspired Algorithms CALL FOR PAPERS 2nd Workshop on Parallel Bioinspired Algorithms (PBA 2007) http://boinc.unex.es/pba, http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2007/workshops.html will be held at 2007 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference July 7-11, 2007, London, England OVERVIEW & SCOPE The application of Bioinspired Algorithm to solving difficult problems has shown that they need high computation power and communications technology. During the last few years researchers have tried to embody parallelism into this kind of algorithms, so that a very interesting research area has emerged and matured. The combination of Bioinspired algorithms and Parallel systems has allowed researchers to develop new algorithms, and also solve hard problems. Nevertheless any effort for increasing the performances in this kind of meta heuristics would be very welcome by the community. Grid and P2P technologies could thus be of great interest for improving performances obtained when using Bioinspired Algorithms. The topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Parallel Evolutionary Algorithms (PEAs), including but not limited to Genetic Algorithms, Genetic Programming, Evolutionary Programming, and Evolution Strategies. * Other biologically inspired parallel algorithms: Ant Colonies, Immune Systems, Artificial Life, Cultural Algorithms. * P2P and Grid implementation of PEAs. * Fault tolerant implementations of PEAs. * Analytical modeling of PEAs. * Performance evaluation of PEAs. * Improvement in system performance through optimization and tuning. * Case studies showing the role of PEAs when solving hard real-life problems. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Manuscripts should be prepared according to the standard format of regular papers specified in GECCO 2007 and be restricted to a maximum of 8 pages. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: March 23, 2007 Decision Notification: March 30, 2007 Camera-Ready Submission: April 11, 2007 Conference Registration deadline: April 11, 2007 [message truncated due to length...] -------------------------------- Sender: Peter A.N. Bosman <[log in to unmask]> Subject: CFP: EvoDOP-2007 Workshop at GECCO-2007 Workshop Announcement and Call for Participation Workshop on EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS FOR DYNAMIC OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS (EvoDOP-2007) to be held as part of the 2007 GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE (GECCO-2007) July 07-11, 2007 University College London London, England TOPIC Many real-world optimization problems are dynamic. New jobs are to be added to a schedule, the quality of the raw material may be changing, new orders have to be included into the routing of a fleet of vehicles, etc. In such cases, when the problem changes over the course of the optimization, the purpose of the optimization algorithm changes from finding an optimal solution to being able to continuously track the movement of the optimum through time. Since in a sense natural evolution is a process of continuous adaptation, it seems straightforward to consider evolutionary algorithms as appropriate candidates for dynamic optimization problems. The goal of this workshop is to foster interest in the important subject of evolutionary algorithms for dynamic optimization problems, get together the researchers working on this topic, and to discuss recent trends in the area. SUBMITTING TO EvoDOP-2007 To submit your contribution, send your ACM-formatted paper in Postscript or PDF by e-mail to Peter A.N. Bosman at [log in to unmask] Papers should not exceed the limit of 8 pages and must meet with deadline of the workshop (see important dates for details). In case you can not submit your paper electronically, please contact one of the workshop chairs. Please note that all contributions must abide ACM formatting rules because all contributions will be on the conference CD as well as in the ACM digital library. Failing to comply with the ACM formatting rules will result in exclusion from the proceedings. For formatting details, visit http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2007/papers.html. IMPORTANT DATES FOR EvoDOP-2007 March 10, 2007: Paper submission deadline April 03, 2007: Notification of acceptance April 11, 2007: Camera-ready copy deadline WEBSITE http://homepages.cwi.nl/~bosman/evodop2007/ [message truncated due to length...] -------------------------------- Sender: Keshav Dahal <[log in to unmask]> Subject: ISDA07 Paper Submission Open 7th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA'07) October 22-24, 2007, Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL http://www.isda07.eng.uerj.br Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA'07) is the 7th International conference that brings together international soft computing, artificial intelligence, computational intelligence researchers, developers, practitioners and users. The aim of ISDA'07 is to serve as a forum to present current and future work as well as to exchange research ideas in this field. ISDA'07 will focus on the following topics: A. Intelligent Systems Architectures and Applications B. Intelligent Image and Signal Processing C. Intelligent Internet Modeling D. Intelligent Data mining E. Intelligent Business Systems F. Intelligent Control and Automation G. Intelligent Agents H. Intelligent Knowledge Management Prospective authors are invited to submit a: - full paper of 8 pages (PDF), for oral presentation. Authors must use the double columns IEEE format. - proposal to organize a workshop. The submission of a paper implies that the paper is original and has not been submitted under review or copyright protected by the author if accepted. Besides papers in regular sessions, papers in special sessions are also invited to provide forums for focused discussions on new topics and innovative applications of established approaches. A special session consists of at least four related papers. All papers should be submitted electronically via Online Paper Submission System (electronic link available). The format of the initial submissions can be PDF. The file of the final accepted papers should be in either Word or Latex. Important Dates: * Special Session Proposal: February 15th, 2007 * Paper Submission: March 16th, 2007 * Notification of Acceptance: June 1st, 2007 * Final Paper Submission: June 15th, 2007 [message truncated due to length...] -------------------------------- Sender: Keshav Dahal <[log in to unmask]> Subject: IEEE CEC 2007 - Paper Submission is NOW Open IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) September 25-28, 2007 Swissotel The Stamford, Singapore http://www.cec2007.org We would like to invite you to attend the 2007 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC). Sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, and co-sponsored by the Evolutionary Programming Society and the IET, the CEC 2007 will be held in Singapore, September 25-28, 2007. The annual IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation is one of the leading events in the area of evolutionary computation. CEC 2007 will feature a world-class conference that aims to bring together researchers and practitioners in the field of evolutionary computation and computational intelligence from all around the globe. Technical exchanges within the research community will encompass keynote speeches, over 35 special sessions, over 10 tutorials and workshops, panel discussions as well as poster presentations. On top of these, participants will be treated to a series of social functions, receptions and networking sessions, which will serve as a vital channel to establish new connections and foster everlasting friendship among fellow counterparts. Student Travel Support: The IEEE/CIS Student Travel Grant Program offers a number of travel grants to assist IEEE/CIS Student Members presenting papers at IEEE CEC 2007. For more information, please see the conference website at http://www.cec2007.org. Best Paper Awards: The Evolutionary Programming Society will sponsor two Best Student Paper Awards and one Best Overall Paper Award at CEC 2007. These awards will be presented at the banquet. The winners will be chosen by the EPS Board of Directors based on the technical merit of the accepted papers to CEC 2007. Important Dates: Paper Submission Deadline: March 15, 2007 Decision Notification: May 15, 2007 Camera-Ready Submission: June 15, 2007 [message truncated due to length...] -------------------------------- Sender: Stefano Cagnoni <[log in to unmask]> Subject: WORKSHOP ON MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION (MEDGEC) WORKSHOP ON MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION (MEDGEC) to be held as part of the 2007 GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE (GECCO-2007) 7-11 July 2007 University College London, England We are pleased to invite you to submit a paper to MedGEC 2007, the GECCO Workshop on Medical Applications of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation. Full details can be found at the MedGEC Web site: http://www.elec.york.ac.uk/intsys/events/MedGEC2007/home.htm Subjects will include (but are not limited to) applications of GEC to: Medical imaging Medical signal processing Clinical diagnosis and therapy Data mining medical data and records Clinical expert systems Modeling and simulation of medical processes The Workshop has two main aims: (i) to provide delegates with examples of the current state of the art of applications of GEC to medicine. (ii) to provide a forum in which researchers can discuss and exchange ideas, support and advise each other in theory and practice. Important dates: Paper submission deadline: 1 March 2007 Notification of acceptance: 30 March, 2007 Camera-ready copy deadline: 11 April, 2007 Workshop: 7 or 8 July, 2007 (provisional date) [message truncated due to length...] -------------------------------- Sender: ibi esat <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Call for papers, Biologically inspired computing, special issue of the Journal of Integrated Design and Process Science Call for Papers The Journal of Integrated Design and Process Science will publish a special issue on biologically inspired computing. If you are interested to submit a paper please let me know. All submitted papers will be processed, and if accepted, will be published in the July issue of the journal. More information about the society of Design and Process Science can be found on http://www.sdpsnet.org Deadline for submission of papers is 23rd of February 2007. Prof. I. Esat ([log in to unmask]) Head of Applied Mechanics Group School of Engineering and Design Brunel University Uxbridge Middlesex UB8 3PH UK -------------------------------- Sender: Bhanu Prasad <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Call for book chapters *Note*: Papers are reviewed and accepted/rejected on first come first serve basis The following two books are planned to be published by Springer-Verlag during 2007/2008: (1). Soft Computing Applications in Business (2). Soft Computing Applications in Industry We invite book chapter contributions. Please see the website: http://www.bhanuprasad.org/chapters.html for more information. Please feel free to contact me if you need additional information. Sincerely Bhanu Prasad Contact address Bhanu Prasad Department of Computer and Information Sciences Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL 32307, USA Email: [log in to unmask] Phone: 1-850-412-7350 Fax: 1-850-599-3221 -------------------------------- Sender: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Subject: CFP: ISICA 2007, China, September Call for Papers International Symposium on Intelligence Computation and Applications (ISICA 2007) Wuhan, PRC, 21-23 September 2007 Conference Website: http://ec.cug.edu.cn/isica2007.htm The 2nd International Symposium on Intelligence Computation and Applications (ISICA 2007) will be held on September 21-23, 2007 in Wuhan , China, at the same time as the 7th International Conference on Evolvable Systems: From Biology To Hardware (ICES 2007). In order to cover both high-level and most up-to-date results, the ISICA Program Committee plan to publish two separate proceedings. Papers from the oral presentations will be published in the Lecture Notes by the Springer. These papers will emphasise the development of theories and methodologies in the field of computational intelligence. Papers from the poster sessions will be collected in a separate proceedings which will be published by the China University of Geosciences Press. The ISICA 2005 proceedings were also published by the China University of Geosciences Press, and have been accepted into the Index To Scientific & Technical Proceedings (ISTP). Papers in the poster sessions will focus on innovative applications of computational intelligence. Paper Submission: March 31, 2007 Decision Notification: May 15, 2007 Camera-Read Submission: June 15, 2007 All papers in PDF format should be submitted electronically through the conference website. The manuscripts should be written in English and follow the LNCS format provided by Springer( http:// www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html ) . Full papers are limited to maximum 8 pages -------------------------------- Sender: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Subject: CFP: ICES 2007, China, September Call for Papers The 7th International Conference on Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware September 21-23, 2007, Wuhan, China Conference Web Site http://www.eccug.cn/ices2007.html The 7th International Conference on Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware (ICES 2007) will be held on September 21-23, 2007 at Wuhan, China. ICES 2007 will address the theme "From Laboratory to Real World", explaining how to shorten the gap between evolvable hardware research and design for real-world applications. Cross-fertilization of evolvable hardware, intelligent computation and newly emerging technologies is strongly encouraged. It will feature world-renowned plenary speakers, state-of-the-art special sessions, regular technical sessions, poster interactions, and entertaining social activities. Important Due Dates Paper Submission: March 31, 2007 Decision Notification: May 15, 2007 Camera-Read Submission: June 15, 2007 Submission and Publications All papers in PDF format should be submitted electronically through the conference website. The conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) in both hard copy and electronic form. The manuscripts should be written in English and follow the LNCS format provided by Springer (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Full papers are limited to maximum 12 pages. -------------------------------- Sender: Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam Suganthan \(Assoc Prof\) <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Combined Special Session & Competition on MOEAs at CEC'07 Special Session & Competition on Performance Assessment of Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithms @ CEC-07, Singapore, 25-28 September 2007 We've the technical report and codes in Matlab and C available from http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/epnsugan in "CEC'07 Session". Please try out these codes and let us know if there are bugs or errors. Please do not start collecting results until about 8th of Feb. We'll update you with the amendments by then. We are extending the submission deadline to 10th of April. This would give 2 months from 8th of Feb to run your algorithms, collect the results and prepare the manuscript. If you find any bugs or errors, please inform us. Please refer to the following web pages for further details: http://www.cec2007.org/ http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/staff/sml/cec2007/competitions.html Thank you very much for your participation and look forward to receiving your submissions. Suganthan A/Prof P N Suganthan Tel: 65 6790 5404 School of EEE Fax: 65 6792 0415 Nanyang Technological University [log in to unmask] Republic of Singapore 639798 Office: S2-B2a-21 -------------------------------- (UN)SUBSCRIPTION INSTRUCTIONS: - Send submissions (articles) to [log in to unmask] DO NOT send submissions to the [log in to unmask] address. - To subscribe send email to [log in to unmask] containing the following text in the body of the message: subscribe ec-digest-l - To unsubscribe send email to [log in to unmask] containing the following text in the body of the message: unsubscribe ec-digest-l - To change your email address, simply unsubscribe the old address and subscribe the new one. - Send other administrative requests to [log in to unmask] - For further information about the digest, see http://ec-digest.research.ucf.edu -------------------------------- End of Evolutionary Computation Digest ********************************