Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:44:59 -0400 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 v21n4 Content-Type: text Evolutionary Computation Digest Friday, April, 27 2007 Volume 21 : Issue 4 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: ANNOUNCEMENTS ------------- - Workshop Theory of Randomized Search Heuristics 2007 - IDSIA Tenure Track in Intelligent Systems CFPs ---- - CFP: 7th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HI... - Final Call for Papers -- PRIB 2007 - Evolution Artificielle 07 - Deadline extended to May 15, 2007 - 2nd CFP: HM 2007 (submission is now open) -------------------------------- CALENDAR OF EC-RELATED ACTIVITIES: (with EC-Digest issue reference) GECCO-2007, Genetic and Evolutionary Conference, London,UK,July 7-11,07 (v21n1) ECAL'07, 9th European Conf. on Artificial Life, Lisbon, Sept 10-14,07 (v21n3) IEEE CEC-07, IEEE Cong. on Evolutionary Comp, Singapore, Sept 25-28,07 (v20n10) EA'07, 8th Intl Conf on Artificial Evolution, Tours, Oct 29-31,07 (v21n4) IICAI'07, 3rd Indian Intl Conf on Artificial Intell, India, Dec 17-19,07(v21n3) Send announcements of other activities to [log in to unmask] -------------------------------- Sender: Frank Neumann <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Workshop Theory of Randomized Search Heuristics 2007 Workshop Theory of Randomized Search Heuristics 2007 (colocated with ICALP 2007) July 14 -15, 2007 Wroclaw, Poland Description Randomized search heuristics such as evolutionary algorithms or ant colony optimization turned out to be very surprisingly successful in different applications. However, proving that such an algorithm satisfies certain performance guarantees seems to be a very hard problem. Understanding this dichotomy and gaining a theoretical understanding of randomized search heuristics therefore is an important task. Since randomized search heuristics are nothing more than particular randomized algorithms, this also belongs to the area of design and analysis of randomized algorithms. This workshop not only is colocated with ICALP, but also takes place right after GECCO, a leading conference on evolutionary computation. Aim The aim of this workshop is to stimulate discussions among people already working on these problems and those with a general background in randomized algorithmics as well as to point out interesting topics for future work. Tutorials There will be two tutorials by leading researchers in that field such that people not specialized in the theory of randomized search heuristics can follow the technical talks. Tutorial Speakers Anne Auger (INRIA Futurs, Paris) Carsten Witt (University of Dortmund) Technical Talks / Submission of Abstracts Technical talks by researchers working on various aspects of the theory of randomized search heuristics will follow the tutorials. Researches working on theoretical aspects of randomized search heuristics are invited to submit proposals for a talk in form of a short abstract (one single page) to [log in to unmask] The decision about whether the proposed talk is accepted for the workshop program will be made within two weeks after the submission has been received. There is no deadline for the submission of abstracts but we advice to make submissions as soon as possible. Organizers Benjamin Doerr, MPI Saarbruecken Frank Neumann, MPI Saarbruecken Further Information http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~doerr/workshop/ -------------------------------- Sender: Luca Maria Gambardella <[log in to unmask]> Subject: IDSIA Tenure Track in Intelligent Systems Tenure-Track Position in Intelligent Systems Starting September 2007. IDSIA - Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull'Intelligenza Artificiale, Manno-Lugano, Switzerland We are seeking an outstanding highly motivated and talented researcher scientist in Intelligent Systems with a strong scientific background in one or more of the following disciplines: * Metaheuristics (with emphasis on ant colony optimization) * Optimization & Simulation (with emphasis on transportation and vehicle routing problems) * Robotics (with emphasis on autonomous and swarm robotics) The successful candidate must have proved research and teaching experiences and the ability to set-up, drive and motivate a research team. Candidates for this position must hold a doctoral degree in Operations Research/Simulation/Computer Science/Artificial Intelligence/Robotics. Candidate will be involved in research projects in the previously mentioned areas and, when is needed, in bachelor, master and PhD teaching activities. Theoretical and applied knowledge is required. http://www.idsia.ch/~luca/researcher_2007_IDSIA.html Attractive Swiss salary. DEADLINE: May 30th 2007 Applicants should submit: 1. Detailed curriculum vitae, 2. List of three references (including their email addresses), 3. Statement on how their research interests fit the above topics (1-2 pages), Please submit your application by email to Prof. Luca Maria Gambardella IDSIA, Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull Intelligenza Artificiale Galleria 2 6928 Manno-Lugano Switzerland Phone : +41 91-6108663, Fax : +41 91-61208661 www.idsia.ch/luca email: [log in to unmask] -------------------------------- Sender: Christian Igel <[log in to unmask]> Subject: CFP: 7th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS 2007) 7th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS 2007) September 17th - 19th 2007, Kaiserslautern, Germany http://his07.hybridsystem.com Contact: [log in to unmask] Important Dates: Manuscript Submission 15th May 2007 Acceptance Notification 30th June 2007 Exhibition Proposals 1rst April 2007 Special Session Proposals 15th April 2007 Camera Ready Submission 15th July 2007 Registration 15th July 2007 Conference 17th - 19th Sep 2007 Conference Objectives: Hybridization provides the leverage to deal with complexity and performance challenges imposed on intelligent systems and their physical embodiment by current and emerging applications. The conference goals are to provide a forum for advanced methods from neural computing, machine learning, fuzzy logic, evolutionary algorithms, agent-based methods, quantum computing, and related techniques and their combination to efficient systems answering challenges from all disciplines of Science, Business, Engineering, Automotive, Medicine, Health, Environment, Horticulture, Agriculture, Bio-security, Biometrics, Bioinformatics, or Social Sciences. In particular, approaches to systematic or automated intelligent system design, also explicitly including constraints of physical embodiments, distributed systems and implementations, as well as dynamic aspects of system evolution or adaptation to changing environment is a major focus of the conference. Submission and Publication: Full paper of 6 pages (A4 size) for oral presentation and 4 pages for poster presentation should be formatted following the IEEE Journal format and be submitted via the conference home page by 15 May, 2007. As in the last years, the proceedings will be published by the IEEE computer society (confirmation pending). Selected and extended papers will be published in several special issues including the Intl. Journal of Hybrid Intelligent Systems (more to be announced). [message edited for length...] -------------------------------- Sender: Norhana Binte Ahmad <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Final Call for Papers -- PRIB 2007 2nd IAPR Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics 2007 (PRIB 2007) Park Royal on Coleman Street, Singapore October 1 - 2, 2007 Deadline for paper submission: April 30, 2007 Organizers IAPR Technical Committee on Pattern Recognition for Bioinformatics School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Sponsor International Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR) This workshop is aimed to bring together top researchers, practitioners, and students from around the world to discuss the applications of pattern recognition methods in the field of bioinformatics to solve problems in life sciences. Prospective authors are invited to submit papers of topics relevant to the workshop. Topics of applications include but are not limited to: * bio-sequence analysis * gene and protein expression analysis * protein structure and interaction prediction * motifs and signal detection * ontologies and taxonomies * systems biology, pathway analysis * immunoinformatics * evolution and phylogeny * biological databases * bio-imaging Pattern recognition techniques of interests include: statistical, syntactic and structural approaches, neural networks, fuzzy techniques, genetic algorithms, graphical models, data mining techniques, and their hybrids. The latest information on PRIB 2007 and related Special Issues of journals are available at: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/sce/prib/prib07 [message edited for length...] -------------------------------- Sender: <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Evolution Artificielle 07 - Deadline extended to May 15, 2007 8th International Conference on Artificial Evolution (EA'07) October 29-31 2007, Tours, France http://ea07.hant.li.univ-tours.fr New: - Due to several requests, submission deadline has been extended and is now May, 15th Topics of interest: ================================================================ Authors are invited to present original work relevant to artificial evolution, including but not limited to: - Evolutionary Computation, Evolutionary Optimization, Co-evolution, - Artificial Life, Population Dynamics, - Theory, algorithmics and modelling, Implementations, - Application of evolutionary paradigms to the Real World (industry, biosciences,...) - Other biologically-inspired paradigms (swarm, artificial ants, artificial immune systems, ...). - Memetic algorithms, multi-objective optimization, constraint handling, parallel algorithms, dynamic optimization,... - Machine Learning and hybridization with other soft computing techniques. Important dates: ================================================================ OLD Deadline for paper submission: April 27, 2007. NEW Deadline for paper submission: May 15, 2007. Notification of acceptance: June 29, 2007. Final version for conference handouts: September 15, 2007. Conference: Tours, October 29-31, 2007. Conference web site: ================================================================ http://ea07.hant.li.univ-tours.fr Contact: ================================================================ Email: [log in to unmask] [message edited for length ...] -------------------------------- Sender: Nicola Beume <[log in to unmask]> Subject: 2nd CFP: HM 2007 (submission is now open) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ HM 2007 4th International Workshop on Hybrid Metaheuristics http://www.hm2007.org October 8-9, 2007 University of Dortmund, Germany SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS SUBMISSION IS NOW OPEN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CONTACT http://www.hm2007.org [log in to unmask] IMPORTANT DATES Submission of papers: May 14, 2007 Authors notification: June 29, 2007 Camera-ready copy: July 20, 2007 Workshop: October 8-9, 2007 TOPICS OF INTEREST Contributions to the workshop should address the combination and comparison of different metaheuristic components and concepts. Also negative results (e.g., a component shows poor performance for the majority of test instances) are of considerable importance in hybridization. Such results have often been ignored in standard metaheuristics research. Furthermore, the enlarged number of parameters of the combined concepts attracts more attention to the design of algorithms and the tuning of parameters. This workshop aims at papers that give good examples for carefully designed and well-analyzed hybrid metaheuristics. Researchers are explicitly encouraged to address statistical validity of their results. The extraction of guidelines for the general design of hybrid metaheuristics would be desirable. All accepted papers will be published in the LNCS series of Springer. 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