Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 21:14:16 -0400 Reply-To: Evolutionary Computation Digest <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Evolutionary Computation Digest <[log in to unmask]> From: Ozlem Ozmen Garibay <[log in to unmask]> Subject: EC-Digest v21n6 Comments: To: [log in to unmask] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Evolutionary Computation Digest Wednesday, June, 20 2007 Volume 21 : Issue 6 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 ------------- - PhD position in mathematical modelling and genetic algorithms - book announcement - Immediate Opening at Genetic Programming Inc. for Scientific Research ... - Job Vacancy: Research Fellow in Dynamic Evolutionary Optimisation - PhD student position in Swarm Robotics and Swarm Intelligence CFPs ---- - CFP: Special Issue on 'Particle Swarms: The Next Decade' - CfP: ICES2008 - Second Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN Conference (LION 2): CFP - 2nd International Workshop on Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies ... - CfP: 2nd Workshop on Inductive Programming (at ECML 07) - cfp: Bio-inspired modelling of complex systems, Korea, October - BIBE2007 - Deadline Extended to July 10th - Call for book chapters: Bio-inspired Algorithms for the VRP - Call for Papers-IDEAL 07 (submissions open) -------------------------------- CALENDAR OF GA-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: James Smith <[log in to unmask]> Subject: PhD position in mathematical modelling and genetic algorithms Hi, The University of the West of England, Bristol, in collaboration with the Uk Office of National Statistics has an EPSRC-funded PhD position in Mathematical Modelling and Evolutionary algorithms. Further details may be found at : http://info.uwe.ac.uk/vacancies/job_details.asp?ref=PHD/030507 Jim Smith Dr Jim Smith Senior Lecturer Faculty of Computing Engineering and Mathematical Sciences University of the West of England Bristol BS16 1QY UK e: [log in to unmask] t: +44 (0) 117 3283161 f: +44 (0)117 3283182 w: www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~jsmith -------------------------------- Sender: Fernando Lobo <[log in to unmask]> Subject: book announcement I would like to announce a new book edited by myself, Claudio Lima, and Zbigniew Michalewicz. The book belongs to the Springer Series "Studies in Computational Intelligence". Parameter Setting in Evolutionary Algorithms Edited by Fernando G. Lobo, Claudio F. Lima, and Zbigniew Michalewicz Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer, 2007. Description One of the main difficulties of applying an evolutionary algorithm (or, as a matter of fact, any heuristic method) to a given problem is to decide on an appropriate set of parameter values. Typically these are specified before the algorithm is run and include population size, selection rate, operator probabilities, not to mention the representation and the operators themselves. This book gives the reader a solid perspective on the different approaches that have been proposed to automate control of these parameters as well as understanding their interactions. The book covers a broad area of evolutionary computation, including genetic algorithms, evolution strategies, genetic programming, estimation of distribution algorithms, and also discusses the issues of specific parameters used in parallel implementations, multi-objective evolutionary algorithms, and practical consideration for real-world applications. It is a recommended read for researchers and practitioners of evolutionary computation and heuristic methods. Table of contents 1. Parameter Setting in EAs: a 30 Year Perspective, Ken De Jong 2. Parameter Control in Evolutionary Algorithms, Agoston Eiben, Zbigniew Michalewicz, Marc Schoenauer, James Smith 3. Self-Adaptation in Evolutionary Algorithms,Silja Meyer-Nieberg, Hans-Georg Beyer 4. Adaptive Strategies for Operator Allocation, Dirk Thierens 5. Sequential Parameter Optimization Applied to Self-Adaptation for Binary Coded Evolutionary Algorithms, Mike Preuss, Thomas Bartz-Beielstein 6. Combining Meta-EAs and Racing for Difficult EA Parameter Tuning Tasks, Bo Yuan, Marcus Gallagher 7. Genetic Programming: Parametric Analysis of Structure Altering Mutation Techniques, Alan Piszcz, Terrence Soule 8. Parameter Sweeps for Exploring Parameters Spaces of Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms, Michael Samples, Matt Byom, Jason Daida 9. Adaptive Population Sizing Schemes in Genetic Algorithms, Fernando Lobo, Claudio Lima 10. Population Sizing to Go: Online Adaptation Using Noise and Substructural Measurements, Tian-Li Yu, Kumara Sastry, David Goldberg 11. Parameter-less Hierarchical Bayesian Optimization Algorithm, Martin Pelikan, Alexander Hartmann, Tz-Kai Lin 12. Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization Without Additional Parameters Kalyanmoy Deb 13. Parameter Setting in Parallel Genetic Algorithms, Erick Cantu-Paz 14. Parameter Control in Practice, Zbigniew Michalewicz, Martin Schmidt 15. Parameter Adaptation for GP Forecasting Applications, Neal Wagner, Zbigniew Michalewicz [... edited due to length .... ] -------------------------------- Sender: John Koza <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Immediate Opening at Genetic Programming Inc. for Scientific Resear... Genetic Programming Inc. is a small privately funded corporation operating a beowulf cluster computer system consisting of 1,000 Pentium processors to do research in applying genetic programming to produce human-competitive results. Our current focus is on automating the invention process and generating useful, patentable, and human-competitive inventions by means of genetic programming. Our group publishes and presents numerous research papers each year at various scientific conferences and journals (both in the field of genetic and evolutionary computation and in the particular fields of the work). A good overview of the type of work we do can be seen on the home page of Genetic Programming Inc. at http://www.genetic-programming.com and the home page of John R. Koza at Stanford University is http://www.johnkoza.com Our genetic programming system is written in Java. The simulators with which we frequently work are typically written in C and other languages. Genetic Programming Inc. is seeking a SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH PROGRAMMER. The position requires the ability to - read scientific literature, suggest interesting new problems on which to work, - contribute ideas on how to solve new problems using genetic programming; - write, debug, and run the necessary programs in the context of our existing software and hardware system; - analyze the results; - help in the writing up of the results for publication (including making figures and graphics); - make changes in our existing software and hardware system; and - do systems administration to maintain the operation of our existing software and hardware system. Excellent programming skills and productivity are a must. Although actual programming will consume less than half of the time, the person in this position must be able to rapidly prototype code. The code includes code to analyze results as well as to produce results. This position calls for at least a B.S. degree and at least two years experience in Java and/or C doing academic research programming or corporate research programming. A Master's degree is preferable and a PhD degree would be even more desirable. It would be desirable for the successful candidate to have expertise in some specific science or engineering domain in order to advance the aim of applying genetic programming to that domain. The possibilities for domain areas are very open-ended and include, but are not limited to, analog circuit design, controller design, finite element analysis, shape optimization, operations research, mechanical design, signal processing, bioinformatics, optical lens systems; antennas; etc. Actual previous experience with, or knowledge of, genetic programming is a big plus.. Experience with, or knowledge of, genetic and evolutionary algorithms in general, machine learning, neural networks, artificial intelligence, artificial life, etc. is a plus, but not required. The position offers competitive compensation and benefits. Compensation will be appropriate for the level of education and experience. Please include all relevant information, date available, and several references. PLEASE SUBMIT INFORMATION AS A PDF FILE (ONLY) BY E-MAIL TO [log in to unmask] John R. Koza Genetic Programming Inc. (Third Millennium On-Line Products Inc.) Post Office Box K Los Altos, California 94023 USA FAX: 650-941-9430 E-mail: [log in to unmask] URL: http://www.genetic-programming.com [... edited due to length .... ] -------------------------------- Sender: Xin Yao <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Job Vacancy: Research Fellow in Dynamic Evolutionary Optimisation The Centre of Excellence for Research in Computational Intelligence and Applications (CERCIA) URL: http://www.cercia.ac.uk School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK Research Fellow - Dynamic Evolutionary Optimisation http://www.personnel.bham.ac.uk/vacancies/furtherParticulars.htm?refNo=43175 Applications are invited for a Research Fellow in Dynamic Evolutionary Optimisation to work on an EPSRC-funded project on "Evolutionary Algorithms for Dynamic Optimisation Problems: Design, Analysis and Applications," which is a collaborative project between Universities of Birmingham and Leicester, BT and Honda Research Institute Europe. The research at Birmingham will focus on theoretical analysis of EAs and other meta-heuristic search algorithms on selected dynamic optimisation problems and the characterisation of these problems. The successful candidate is expected to have a PhD in evolutionary optimisation. S/he must have outstanding analytical skills and research achievements evidenced by publications in leading journals and conferences. Candidates with new PhDs will be considered where their achievements or potential may be assessed by their PhD theses. Essential skills required by applicants are a strong mathematical background, excellent computational skills, communication (both oral and written) skills, people skills, the ability to work independently as well as a team member, and the ability to take the initiative and be proactive. The successful candidate will be rewarded with an outstanding research environment that will support his/her research career. Starting salary GBP24,402 a year, in the range of GBP24,402 to GBP31,840 a year (potential progression on performance once in post to GBP33,799). This post is available from 1 October 2007 until 31 July 2010. Informal enquiries may be made to Professor Xin Yao tel +44 121 414 3747 or e-mail [log in to unmask] Closing date: 22 June 2007 Reference: S43175 Details from +44 121 415 9000 or www.hr.bham.ac.uk/jobs HR, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK All applications must be sent to HR, *not* to Professor Yao. -------------------------------- Sender: Marco DORIGO <[log in to unmask]> Subject: PhD student position in Swarm Robotics and Swarm Intelligence A fellowship for doctoral studies in Swarm Robotics and Swarm Intelligence is available at IRIDIA (http://code.ulb.ac.be/iridia.home.php). Start date: September 1st, 2007. See here for some info on our research projects: http://www.swarm-bots.org/ http://www.swarmanoid.org/ Please email me a full CV if interested. Marco Dorigo ========================================================================== Swarm Intelligence: a new quarterly journal published by Springer Information on the journal available at http://www.springer.com/11721 Papers can be submitted at http://www.editorialmanager.com/ ========================================================================= Marco Dorigo, Ph.D. email mdorigo@(no.spam)ulb.ac.be Directeur de Recherches du FNRS URL iridia.ulb.ac.be/~mdorigo IRIDIA CP 194/6 Skype: mdorigo Universite' Libre de Bruxelles Tel +32 (0)2 6503169 Avenue Franklin Roosevelt 50 Mobile +32 478 301233 1050 Bruxelles Fax +32 (0)2 6502715 Belgium Secretary +32 (0)2 6502729 -------------------------------- Sender: Stefano Cagnoni <[log in to unmask]> Subject: CFP: Special Issue on 'Particle Swarms: The Next Decade' JOURNAL OF ARTIFICIAL EVOLUTION AND APPLICATIONS (http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jaea/) Special issue on PARTICLE SWARMS: THE SECOND DECADE http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jaea/osi.html AIMS: Over the last decade or so Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), that was only a few years ago a curiosity, has now started attracting the interest of many researchers and practitioners around the globe. This special issue will focus on recent advances in PSO, both in terms of the understanding and the applications of the algorithm. The aim is to attract papers on particularly innovative research, speculative ideas, and novel applications that could act as seeds for PSO research in its second decade. TOPICS: Topics include (but are not limited to): Novel empirical and theoretical analyses of PSO population dynamics Innovative studies and algorithms for setting PSO parameters New adaptive and parameterless PSO Analyses and new proposals of social network topologies PSO for combinatorial and hierarchical search spaces Novel PSOs for dynamic problems, noisy functions, and multi-modal functions Advanced bare-bones/distribution-based PSOs Unconventional hybrids of PSO with other techniques Novel applications in engineering, biomedicine, clustering, classification, entertainment, finance, image and signal processing, graphics, computational intelligence and robotics. DEADLINES: Submission: 20 July 2007 First round of reviews: 1 November 2007 Tentative publication date: February/March 2008 For more information, feel free to approach one of the guest editors (see below) GUEST EDITORS: Riccardo Poli Department of Computer Science University of Essex Wivenhoe Park Colchester CO7 7JW, UK [log in to unmask] +44-1206-872338 +44-1206-872788 (fax) Jim Kennedy US Bureau of Labor Statistics 2, Massachusetts Avenue NE Washington DC, USA 20212 [log in to unmask] +1-202-691-6913 +1-202-691-7007 (fax) Tim Blackwell Department of Computing Goldsmiths College New Cross, London, SE14 6NW, UK [log in to unmask] +44-20-79197859 Alex Freitas Computing Laboratory University of Kent CT2 7NF UK [log in to unmask] +44 (0)1227 827220 +44 (0)1227 762811 (fax) [... edited due to length .... ] -------------------------------- Sender: Giovanni Squillero <[log in to unmask]> Subject: CfP: ICES2008 Dear Colleague We would like to invite you to submit a paper to ICES 2008 The 8th International Conference of Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware which will be held in Prague, September 21-24, 2008. http://www.fit.vutbr.cz/events/ices2008 Topics to be covered include, but are not limited to: Evolutionary hardware design Evolutionary circuit diagnostics and testing Self-reconfiguring/repairing and fault tolerant systems Co-evolution of hybrid systems Generative and developmental approaches Embryonic hardware Hardware/software co-evolution Intrinsic and extrinsic evolution Real-world applications of evolvable hardware On-line hardware evolution MEMS and nanotechnology in evolvable hardware Evolutionary robotics Formal models for bio-inspired hardware systems Adaptive computing Novel devices/testbeds/tools for evolvable hardware Prospective authors are cordially invited to submit original papers using the electronic submission form on the conference web page. Papers should be written in English with a twelve page maximum in the LNCS format. Please identify the contact author with complete contact information. All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings. Important dates: Deadline for submissions: March 19, 2008 Notification of acceptance: April 30, 2008 Camera-ready deadline: May 30, 2008 For further information please visit the ICES 2008 web site or contact Lukas Sekanina Faculty of Information Technology Brno University of Technology Bozetechova 2, 612 66 Brno Czech Republic phone: +420 54114 1215 fax: +420 54114 1270 e-mail: [log in to unmask] -------------------------------- Sender: Watson, Jean-paul <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Second Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN Conference (LION 2): CFP Call For Papers Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN Conference - LION (II) 2007. December 8-13, 2007 - Trento, Italy. http://www.intelligent-optimization.org/LION2007bis Building on the success of the first LION meeting in February, 2007, the LION II conference aims at bringing together experts actively engaged in research at the intersection of machine learning, artificial intelligence, mathematical programming, and algorithm analysis to discuss novel approaches to understanding and solving challenging optimization problems. The conference program will consist of plenary presentations, introductory and advanced tutorials, technical presentations, and discussion sessions. Authors of all accepted original presentations will be invited to submit their work to a conference post-proceedings volume. Additionally, a special journal issue dedicated to intelligent optimization will follow publication of the post-proceedings volume. The publication outlets for both the post-proceedings volume and journal special issue are currently under negotiation. Please see the conference web site for full and up-to-date information. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Stochastic local search methods and meta-heuristics - Reactive search (online self-tuning methods) - Supervised,unsupervised and reinforcement learning applied to heuristic search - Hybridizations of constraint and mathematical programming with meta-heuristics - Memetic algorithms and evolutionary / local search hybrids - Memory-based optimization - Model-based meta-heuristics - Prohibition-based methods (tabu search) - Penalty-based methods and dynamic local search - Variable neighborhood search - Evolutionary algorithms and swarm intelligence methods - Adaptation of discrete optimization methods to continuous optimization problems - Algorithm portfolios and racing algorithms - Experimental analysis and modeling of algorithms High-quality scientific contributions to these topics are solicited, in addition to advanced case studies from interesting, high-impact application areas. We also welcome proposals for advanced tutorial presentations. We will accept submissions in the following formats: - Original novel and unpublished work (max. 12 pages). - Manuscripts that have recently been accepted for publication or appeared within the last 6 months in a peer-reviewed journal or which are currently under review (max. 12 pages). - A statement of interest / position statement/extended abstract (max.2 pages). - Tutorial proposals (max. 1 page). Submissions will be handled according to the following schedule: September 15, 2007: (Hard) Deadline for submissions. November 10, 2007: Notification of acceptance. January 31: Deadline for post-proceedings submissions. If you have any questions, please contact Jean-Paul Watson at [log in to unmask] [... edited due to length .... ] -------------------------------- Sender: Mario Pavone <[log in to unmask]> Subject: CFP: 2nd International Workshop on Nature Inspired Cooperative .. NICSO 2007 - International Workshop on Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization Acireale, Italy, November 8-10 2007 http://www.dmi.unict.it/nicso2007/ *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** Biological and natural processes have always been a source of inspiration for computer science and information technology in many real-world applications. Its well known that biological entities, from single cell organisms - like bacteria - to humans, often engage on a rich repertoire of social interaction that could range from altruistic cooperation through open conflict. One specific kind of social interaction is cooperative problem solving (CPS), where a group of autonomous entities work together to achieve certain goal. NICSO 2007 is the second edition of the Workshop and it aims are to give a deeper investigation and a vigorous exchange of ideas about emerging research areas in problem solving strategies. All submitted papers will be blind reviewed and acceptance will be based on originality, significance, technical soundness and clarity. Selected contributions will be published in the book series on *Studies in Computational Intelligence*, SPRINGER-VERLAG. The length of each contribution will not exceed 12 pages (see the NICSO 2007 web site for formatting instructions). The authors of the best selected papers will be invited to adapt and extend their works for the publication in an International Journal. In the previous edition of the workshop the best selected papers were published in International Journal on Intelligent Systems. For more information see http://www.dmi.unict.it/nicso2007/ *** IMPORTANT DATES *** * Deadline for Submission:July, 23 * Notification of Acceptance:September, 24 * Deadline for Camera-ready:October, 9 *** TOPICS *** Topics of interest are, but not limited to: * Ants Colonies * Amorphous Computing * Artificial Immune Systems * Distributed Computing * Evolvable Systems * Membrane Computing * Quantum Computing * Software Self Assembly * Swarm Intelligence [... edited due to length .... ] ------------------------------------------------ Dr. Mario Pavone Ph.D. in Computer Science Department of Mathematics and Computer Science University of Catania V.le A. Doria 6 - 95125 Catania, Italy fax: 0039 095 330094 Email: [log in to unmask] http://www.dmi.unict.it/~mpavone -------------------------------- Sender: Emanuel Kitzelmann <[log in to unmask]> Subject: CfP: 2nd Workshop on Inductive Programming (at ECML 07) Call for papers: ECML'07 Workshop on Approaches and Applications of Inductive Programming (AAIP) The second workshop on inductive programming will be held on Friday, 21st September 2007 in conjunction with the 18th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML) in Warsaw, Poland. ECML 2007 page: http://www.ecmlpkdd2007.org/ AAIP Workshop page: http://www.cogsys.wiai.uni-bamberg.de/aaip07/ Inductive programming incorporates all approaches which are concerned with learning programs or algorithms from incomplete specifications such as input/output examples describing the desired behavior of the intended program or traces describing steps of computation of specific outputs. Typical additional input to an IP system is background knowledge such as predefined functions and predicates to be used or schemas/templates defining the general data flow of the intended program. Output of an IP system is a program in some arbitrary programming language containing conditionals and loop- or recursive control structures. In the workshop, we aim at bringing together researchers working on different approaches to inductive programming with the goal of discussing and evaluating the relative strengths and limitations of the different approaches (class of learnable programs, quality of learned programs, amount of background knowledge needed for synthesis, efficiency of synthesis, etc.). Furthermore, we are interested in presenting current applications and discussing possible further application domains. The workshop will be interesting to anyone studying the synthesis of general programs. Topics of interest include but are not limited to * induction of recursive programs using techniques from inductive logic programming, evolutionary programming, synthesis of functional programs, or grammar inference, * theoretical analysis of learnability of recursive programs and of IP algorithms, * applications of inductive programming such as programming support for endusers, novice programmers, and routine programming, invention of new algorithms for optimization problems, policy learning, language learning, web-mining, data transformation. Submissions are invited in four categories: * full papers (6-12 pages), * reports on work in progress (4-12 pages), * position papers, * abstracts for software demos (please provide a link to the demo or software). All submissions will be peer reviewed by two referees. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Submitted papers must be in English and should be formatted according to the Springer's LNCS (preferably LaTeX) guidelines. Authors instructions and style files can be downloaded at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. To submit your paper, please use the electronic submission procedure. You must indicate the category of the paper. Please also indicate whether you wish to be included in the mailing list for the workshop where discussions on relevant open problems and possibilites for cooperation may take place before the workshop begins. The deadline for submissions is June 30, 2007. Further dates are: July 21, 2007 Notification of workshop paper acceptance July 28, 2007 Workshop camera ready copy submission Sept 21, 2007 Workshop More information about the workshop and the program committee can be found at the workshop webpage: http://www.cogsys.wiai.uni-bamberg.de/aaip07/ Emanuel Kitzelmann Ute Schmid [... edited due to length .... ] -------------------------------- Sender: <[log in to unmask]> Subject: cfp: Bio-inspired modelling of complex systems, Korea, October Special Session for Bio-Inspired Modelling of Complex Systems http://www.sersc.org/FBIT2007/page2.php This special session focuses on the modeling of complex systems using methods derived from biological systems, including such areas as genetic programming, classifier systems and recurrent neural networks. Modeling problems may be divided into two classes; those in which the structure of the model is known, and all that has to be found are the parameters for the models; and problems where the structure of solutions is unknown, and has to be discovered. This session focuses on the latter. Papers in all relevant areas are welcome. Areas include, but are not limited to: • genetic programming • grammatical evolution • estimation of distributions in genetic programming • ant-based complex systems methods • classifier systems • recurrent neural networks A refereed paper will appear in one of the approved publications by the conference date: IEEE Conference Proceedings: high quality E.I. indexed proceedings for FBIT. Soft Computing journal: special issue of this SCIE listed journal will consider quality papers from this session. Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology: The FBIT interdisciplinary special issue of this high impact factor journal will consider high impact factor papers with a medical or biosciences motivation. It will appear by the conference date. Details are in the conference pages (open access with I.F. 1.8 in SCIE). International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems: special issue of this SCIE listed journal will consider quality papers that are compatible with the scope of this journal. Important Dates: Paper Submission Deadline 30 June 2007 (see web site for LaTeX or Word style files) Notification of Acceptance 15 July 2007 Advance Registration Deadline 1 August 2007 Final Program Announced 15 September 2007 Send papers directly to the Special Session Organizers: c/- Bob McKay, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea Email: [log in to unmask] -------------------------------- Sender: BIBE 2007 <[log in to unmask]> Subject: BIBE2007 - Deadline Extended to July 10th Paper Submission Deadline extended to July 10, 2007. All accepted papers will be published by IEEE indexed in EI, INSPEC, DBLP and Library of Congress, and will be all further invited for journal issues dedicated for IEEE 7th BIBE. *********************************************************************** BIBE 2007 IEEE 7th Symposium on BioInformatics & BioEngineering October 14-17, 2007 Cambridge - Boston, Massachusetts, USA http://www.cs.gsu.edu/BIBE07/ *********************************************************************** Bioinformatics and bioengineering are complementary disciplines that hold great promise for the advancement of research and development in medicine, pharmaceuticals, public health, agriculture, and environmental studies. Combined research and development in bioinformatics and bioengineering is helping us understand living organisms at multiple levels, develop innovative implants and prosthetics, create new medical imaging technologies, and improve tools and techniques for the detection, prevention and treatment of diseases. IEEE BIBE 2007 will provide a platform for the cross fertilization of ideas, bridging these two important and complementary disciplines and helping shape knowledge and scientific achievements. The symposium solicits original contributions in the following areas: BIOINFORMATICS: - Bio-molecular and Phylogenetic Databases,Bio-Languages,Interoperability in BioDBs,Bio-Ontology and Data Mining,Identification and Classification of Genes, Sequence Search and Alignment,Protein Structure Prediction and Molecular Simulation, Molecular Evolution and Phylogeny,Functional Genomics,Proteomics, Drug Discovery Gene Expression Analysis,Bioinformatics Engineering,Bio-Data Visualization,Systems Biology, Algorithms, Modeling and Simulation of Bio-Sets, Biomarkers of Toxicity,Bio-Imaging,Signaling and Computation BIOENGINEERING: - Biological Systems and Models,Engineering Models in Bio-Medicine,Image Guide Radio Therapy 4-D Images,Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy,Intensity Modulated Proton Therapy Dose Calculation and Optimization,Monte Carlo Simulation,Biological Modeling,Cancer Detection and Medical Images,Computer Assisted Intervention Systems and Medical Robotics Biomedical and Biological Sensors,Cell Engineering,Molecular and Cellular Systems Body's and Cell's Bio-Signatures,Tissue Engineering,Biomedical Image Processing/Analysis Microarray Technologies,Biomedical Data Engineering,Biomaterials, Diagnosis-Discoveries for Disabled,Medical Devices for Disabled All accepted papers will be published by IEEE/CS and indexed in EI, INSPEC, DBLP and Library of Congress. Accepted papers can be also included into one of the special journal issues, dedicated to IEEE BIBE07, that can be also indexed into SCI, such as IJBB, Springer's LNCS Transactions on Computational Systems Biology and Journal of Supercomputing, InderScience's IJBRA , and IJDMB , RIP’s HJCIB , and Taylor & Francis's IJGS. In addition, World Scientific Publisher's Journal of Bioinformatics and Computation Biology (JBCB) will warmly invite extended-version submission by selected authors based on recommendation by the IEEE BIBE’07 PC chair. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Dr. Jay Loeffler, Harvard University Dr. Jun S. Liu, Harvard University and Broad Institute of MIT-Harvard Dr. Mary Qu Yang, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services Dr. Yi Pan, Georgia State University Dr. A. Keith Dunker, Indiana University - Purdue University Important Dates Paper submission deadline (IEEE Computer Society Conference format, 8 pages max): July 10, 2007 Notification of acceptance: July 20-26, 2007 Camera-ready and pre-registration (IEEE Computer Society Conference format, 8 pages max): July 28-31, 2007 For more information visit http://www.cs.gsu.edu/BIBE07/ [... edited due to length .... ] -------------------------------- Sender: Francisco Pereira <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Call for book chapters: Bio-inspired Algorithms for the VRP Call for Book Chapters – Springer SCI Series Title: Bio-Inspired Algorithms for the Vehicle Routing Problem Publisher: Springer - Studies in Computational Intelligence Series ******************************************************** Motivation The Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) is a complex combinatorial optimization problem that can be described as follows: given a fleet of vehicles, a set of depots, and several costumer demands represented as a collection of geographical scattered points, find the set of routes with overall minimum route cost that satisfy all the demands. Due to its theoretical and practical interest (it has numerous real world applications, given that distribution is a major part of logistics and a substantial cost for many companies), the VRP has received a great amount of attention since its proposal. Given the nature of the problem, it is not viable to use exact methods for large instances of the VRP. Therefore, most approaches rely on heuristics that provide approximate solutions. In the past few years several bio-inspired algorithms, such as evolutionary computation techniques or ant colony optimization, were proposed for this problem. Results achieved prove that they are an efficient approach to discover good quality solutions in a reasonable time. The main objective of this book is to present a comprehensive presentation of the most relevant bio-inspired approaches to different VRP variants. The contributions should emphasize the most relevant components of the algorithms that help to enhance performance. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Application of bio-inspired algorithms to any VRP variant; - Representation issues; - Specific evolutionary operators for the VRP; - Hybridization of bio-inspired algorithms with other techniques; - Real world applications; - Promising directions for future research; Important Dates Extended Abstract Submission deadline: September 30, 2007. Decision Notification: October 31, 2007. Chapter final version: January 15, 2008. Paper Submission Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract (max. 3 pages) that clearly addresses the main content, issues and potential contributions of the proposed chapter. Submissions should be sent no later than September 30, 2007 to one of the volume editors. Authors of accepted proposals will have to prepare the chapter final version according to Springer’s formatting guidelines (www.springer.com/series/7092). The final manuscript should not exceed 30 pages. The material to appear in a chapter must represent substantially new work that has not been previously published. We look forward to receiving your contribution. If you have any question or if you need any further information please contact one of the volume editors. Editors: Francisco B. Pereira Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra, Portugal xico [at] dei [dot] uc [dot] pt Jorge Tavares University of Coimbra, Portugal jast [at] dei [dot] uc [dot] pt -------------------------------- Sender: [log in to unmask]> Subject: Call for Papers-IDEAL 07 (submissions open) *** PAPER SUBMISSION OPEN*** Paper submission for IDEAL 07 is now open. Please visit: URL: http://events.cs.bham.ac.uk/ideal07/submission.php 1st CALL FOR PAPERS 8TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT DATA ENGINEERING AND AUTOMATED LEARNING (IDEAL'07) 16th-19th December, 2007, Birmingham, UK URL: http://www.cercia.ac.uk/other/2007/ideal *** GENERAL INFORMATION *** IDEAL is an annual conference dedicated to emerging and challenging topics in intelligent data analysis and engineering and their associated learning paradigms. After successful recent events in Burgos (2006), Brisbane (2005), Exeter (2004), Hong Kong (2003), and Manchester (2002), IDEAL'07 will be held in the well-established, vibrant midland city of England, Birmingham, the second largest city in the UK. IDEAL'07 will provide a stimulating forum for presenting and discussing the latest theoretical advances and real-world applications in Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning. *** TOPICS *** The main themes of the conference are (but not limited to): LEARNING AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DATA MINING & INFORMATION MANAGEMENT BIOINFORMATICS & NEUROINFORMATICS AGENTS & DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS FINANCIAL ENGINEERING AND MODELLING For more details please visit http://www.cercia.ac.uk/other/2007/ideal *** PAPER SUBMISSION *** All submissions will be refereed by experts in the field based on originality, significance, quality and clarity. Accepted papers will be included in IDEAL'07 Proceedings, to be published by Springer in the prestigious Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Papers should not exceed 10 pages and should comply with the format of LNCS/LNAI proceedings (see http://www.springer.com). 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