Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 13:14:37 -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 v21n7 Content-Type: text Evolutionary Computation Digest Monday, August, 6 2007 Volume 21 : Issue 7 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 ------------- - New Book Anouncement - EuroGP 2007 online - PhD and PostDoc positions open in Orsay, France - EU Fellowships in Nanoelectronics by Genetic Programming - EC research post available - GECCO 2007 bibtex on line CFPs ---- - CFP: IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation - SAC 2008 EC Track CFP, for EC-Digest - CFP -- IDEAL 2007 Workshop on Evolutionary Algorithms for Industria... - Call for GECCO 2008 Workshop Proposals - CFP NICSO 2007: extended deadline and new special tracks -------------------------------- CALENDAR OF GA-RELATED ACTIVITIES: (with EC-Digest issue reference) 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) GECCO'08, Genetic and Evolutionary Conference, Atlanta,GA,July 12-16,08 (v21n7) Send announcements of other activities to [log in to unmask] -------------------------------- Sender: Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay <[log in to unmask]> Subject: New Book Anouncement New Book Anouncement ==================== Classification and Learning Using Genetic Algorithms: Applications in Bioinformatics and Web Intelligence Series: Natural Computing Series Authors: Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay, Sankar K. Pal Springer, Heidelberg, 2007 URL: http://www.springer.com/west/home/computer/imaging?SGWID=4-149-22-173707338-detailsPage=ppmmedia|aboutThisBook ISBN No. 978-3-540-49606-9, Pages: 326. This book provides a unified framework that describes how genetic learning can be used to design pattern recognition and learning systems. It examines how a search technique, the genetic algorithm, can be used for pattern classification mainly through approximating decision boundaries. Coverage also demonstrates the effectiveness of the genetic classifiers vis-a-vis several widely used classifiers, including neural networks. The book provides a balanced mixture of theories, algorithms, and applications, in particular results from the bioinformatics and Web intelligence domains. ========================================================= Dr. Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay Associate Professor Email: [log in to unmask] Machine Intelligence Unit URL: http://www.isical.ac.in/~sanghami Indian Statistical Institute Fax: 91 33 2578 3357 Kolkata 700 108. Tel: 91 33 2575 3114 INDIA ========================================================= -------------------------------- Sender: Langdon W B <[log in to unmask]> Subject: EuroGP 2007 online Thanks to Dr. Aniko Ekart, we can announce that the proceedings of the recently held EuroGP 2007; Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization Evolutionary Computation; Machine Learning and Data Mining in Bioinformatics and Applications of Evolutinary Computing are now online: EuroGP http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-3-540-71602-0 EvoCOP http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-3-540-71614-3 EvoBIO http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-3-540-71782-9 EvoWKS http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-3-540-71804-8 Bill W. B. Langdon, Mathematical Sciences, University of Essex Wivenhoe Park, Colchester CO4 3SQ, UK http://www.essex.ac.uk/maths/staff/langdon/ Foundations of Genetic Programming http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/W.Langdon/FOGP GECCO 2007 http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/external/W.Langdon/gecco GP EM http://www.springer.com/10710 GP Bibliography http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~wbl/biblio/ -------------------------------- Sender: Marc Schoenauer <[log in to unmask]> Subject: PhD and PostDoc positions open in Orsay, France 2 PhD and 2 Post-doc positions are open in the area of automatic tuning of search and optimization methods in Orsay, France. Context: Optimization and search methods for combinatorial or mixed discrete-continuous problems are reaching a mature state that allows users to tackle real-world problems in an efficient way. However, both exact methods (e.g. Constraint Programming) and heuristic and meta-heuristic approaches (e.g. Evolutionary Algorithms) have to face the critical issue of parameter tuning, that remains problem- and even instance-dependent, and requires past experience of the algorithm being used. In this context, a project is being launched at the INRIA-Microsoft joint lab in Orsay, co-headed by Youssef Hamadi (Constraint Reasonning Group, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK) and Marc Schoenauer (Project-team TAO, INRIA Futurs, Orsay, France). Its goal is to set up automatic tuning methods for search algorithms in e-science, allowing scientists who have little knowledge of the search technique itself to nevertheless solve their optimization problem without the need for some "optimization engineer". Relying on Machine Learning and statistical techniques, the project will address both off-line and on-line tuning issues, at the problem level as well as at the instance level. The target algorithms will be Constraint Programming, building on the expertise of the Constraint Reasoning Group at MSR, and meta-heuristics, with a particular emphasis on Evolutionary Algorithms, one research area of the TAO project-team at INRIA Futurs. Two PhD and two post-doc positions are open (to start on October 1.). The location for all positions is the new INRIA-Microsoft Joint lab in Orsay, France (http://www.msr-inria.inria.fr). The PhDs will be supervised by Youssef Hamadi (MSR), Marc Schoenauer (INRIA), and other TAO researchers. Needless to say, all the results of this project will be published and made available as Open Source. PhD students ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Profiles: Both PhD students should have a Master in Computer Science or Applied Maths, or some equivalent diploma, with a strong background on Statistics and Machine Learning, and a solid programming experience. Some knowledge of optimization methods, either complete combinatorial methods or heuristic methods, is also mandatory. One position will be focused on Constraint Programming techniques, and the other one on Evolutionary Algorithms, but both should work together on the statistical learning techniques that are common to both problems when it comes to parameter tuning. Note that other related profiles will also be considered. * Competencies: Constraint Programming, Meta-heuristics, Machine Learning. * Technical skills: C, C++, C#, Matlab. * Additional competencies: French and English, Knowledge in Biology/Bioinformatics/e-Sciences, Development experience with MS Visual Studio. Salary: Standard French public PhD scholarship package. Post-doc students ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Profiles: Post-doc candidates must have completed their PhD at the start of the project. The profile of the first Post-doc position is similar to that of the PhD students above. The other Post-doc should have a strong experience in bio-informatics, related to search or Machine Learning. She will work on the applications of the project, ensuring the practical relevance of the fundamental findings of the project. * Competencies: Constraint Programming, Meta-heuristics, Machine Learning. * Technical skills: C, C++, C#, Matlab. * Additional competencies: French and English, Knowledge in Biology/Bioinformatics/e-Sciences, Development experience with MS Visual Studio. Salary: Standard French public Post-doc package. Contact: ~~~~~~~~ Send full CV and at least two letters of reference to 'youssefh at microsoft dot com' and 'Marc dot Schoenauer at inria dot fr'. -------------------------------- Sender: Giuseppe Nicosia <[log in to unmask]> Subject: EU Fellowships in Nanoelectronics by Genetic Programming Dear Friends and Colleagues, I inform you that the official announcement for the vacancies relative to two Early Stage Research (ESR) Marie Curie fellowships at the University of Catania, Italy within the EU COMSON project has been delivered and it is available at URL: http://www.unict.it/Public/Bandi/bando6946_allegato2538.pdf I invite and encourage all the interested students to apply. The fellowship is aimed to the development of a research programme in Genetic Programming and Optimization in nanotechnology. More details about the project can be found at the web site www.comson.it 1) There is a position for one year (renewable) and there is a shorter position of 8 months. You must explicitly write in the application if you want to apply for both the position or just for one, specifying which. If you apply for both fellowships you can get of course only one of them, but you have to present two application one for each position and two set of documents. 2) The deadline for the application is Septembr 5, 2007. It is required a hard letter of application, sent by mail. Be careful, the letter must arrive before that September 5, 2007 and must be addressed to Rector of University of Catania, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, viale A. Doria 6, 95125 Catania, Italy. In the envelope the word COMSON must be written. I suggest to send a copy to me also by e-mail ([log in to unmask]) or by fax (+39 095 330094) to avoid any problem could arise with the mail. As template for the application form you can use the following one: To whom it may concern, I am ...., graduate in .... I would like to apply for the position of 12 (8) months relative to the Marie Curie fellowship within the EU COMSON project. Attached to the present letter are the following documents: 1) detailed curriculum vitae; 2) copy of the following qualifications: a).... b).... 3) two recommendation letters. Yours Faithfully If you have any problem do not hesitate contact me. Best Regards, Giuseppe Nicosia. ** Giuseppe Nicosia, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Phone +39 095 738 30 30 University of Catania Fax +39 095 33 00 94 Viale A. Doria n. 6 Email [log in to unmask] 95125 Catania, Italy http://www.dmi.unict.it/nicosia -------------------------------- Sender: Jim Smith <[log in to unmask]> Subject: EC research post available The Artificial Intelligence Group at UWE, Bristol has a fixed term vacancy for a Research Associate to work on the development of software for interactively customising image processing routines based on the concepts developed in [Caleb-Solly and Smith, 2007]. Working in conjunction with other partners in the EU FP6 project Dynavis (www.dynavis.org) , the aim is to produce software for investigating both the algorithmic and HCI issues surrounding human-machine interactions in the evolutionary computing paradigm. the full job advert may be found at http://info.uwe.ac.uk/vacancies/job_details.asp?ref=R/11406RWS for further details or informal discussion please contact Dr Jim Smith: [log in to unmask] 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: Langdon W B <[log in to unmask]> Subject: GECCO 2007 bibtex on line Bibtex files describing the London GECCO conference papers (inclding workshop and late breaking papers) can be found on line: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~wbl/biblio/gecco2007.bib http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~wbl/biblio/gecco2007comp.bib There is also a www search interface: http://liinwww.ira.uka.de/bibliography/Ai/gecco.html Bill W. B. Langdon Mathematical Sciences University of Essex Wivenhoe Park, Colchester CO4 3SQ, UK http://www.essex.ac.uk/maths/staff/langdon/ -------------------------------- Sender: <[log in to unmask]> Subject: CFP: IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation Special Issue on Evolutionary Algorithms based on Probabilistic Models New Submission Deadline: October 1, 2007 AIMS and SCOPE Evolutionary algorithms based on probabilistic models (EAPM) have been recognized as a new computing paradigm in evolutionary computation. There is no traditional crossover or mutation in EAPMs. Instead, they explicitly extract global statistical information from their previous searches and build a probability distribution model of promising solutions, based on the extracted information. New solutions are then sampled from the model thus built. Instances of EAPMs include estimation of distribution algorithms, probabilistic model building genetic algorithms, ant colony optimization, and the cross entropy method, to name just a few. SUBMISSIONS Manuscripts should be prepared according to the instructions of the "Information for Authors" section of the journal founded at (http://ieee-cis.org/pubs/tec/authors/) and submission should be done through the journal website: http://tevcieee.manuscriptcentral.com/ and clearly mark "Special Issue on EAPM" as comments to the editor-in-chief. Submission of a manuscript implies that it is the authors' original unpublished work and is not being submitted for possible publication elsewhere. The review process will be driven by the Guest Editors of this Special Issue and the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Xin Yao. For any clarification please contact Jose A. Lozano, Qingfu Zhang or Pedro Larranaga at the addresses below. NEW IMPORTANT DATES *October 1, 2007, Submission deadline *January 31, 2008, Notification of the first review *March 30, 2008, Revised versions due *May 30, 2008, Final notice of acceptance/reject *June 30, 2008, Final manuscript. The expected publication of the special issue is early 2009. [message edited for length] -------------------------------- Sender: Julstrom, Bryant A. <[log in to unmask]> Subject: SAC 2008 EC Track CFP, for EC-Digest CALL FOR PAPERS The Evolutionary Computation track of the 2008 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2008) March 16-20, 2008 Fortaleza, Ceara', Brazil The EC track of SAC 2008 welcomes original, unpublished papers describing advances in and applications of evolutionary computation and related techniques, including genetic algorithms, evolution strategies, evolutionary programming, memetic algorithms, genetic programming, ant colony optimization, co-evolutionary algorithms, and classifier systems. All accepted papers will appear in the SAC 2008 Proceedings. Selected papers, not accepted as full papers, will be accepted as poster papers and will be published as two-page extended abstracts in the Proceedings. For more information, visit the SAC 2008 web page at www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2008 and the track CFP page at web.stcloudstate.edu/bajulstrom/sac-ec/cfp08.html Submission and reviewing of papers will be handled through the eCMS conference management system. The URL for abstract and paper submission is sac.cs.iupui.edu/sac2008/ IMPORTANT DATES: September 8, 2007 - Paper submission deadline October 16, 2007 - Author notification October 30, 2007 - Camera-ready copy due March 16, 2008 - Conference begins Bryant Julstrom, EC Track Chair Department of Computer Science St. Cloud State University St. Cloud, MN USA [log in to unmask] -------------------------------- Sender: Dutta, Partha <[log in to unmask]> Subject: CFP -- IDEAL 2007 Workshop on Evolutionary Algorithms for Industrial Design Optimisation. Workshop on Evolutionary Algorithms for Industrial Design Optimisation. In association with the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL'07), 16-19 December 2007, Birmingham, UK. IDEAL'07 website: http://events.cs.bham.ac.uk/ideal07/ *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** [...] This workshop aims to close the loop between the state-of-the-art EA research and the real-world challenges faced by practitioners of design optimisation. The specific goals of this meeting include, but are not limited to, the following: * Present the latest applications of EA for industrial design optimisation * Present and discuss the major EA theoretical breakthroughs with respect to the specific challenges of industrial design optimisation. * Identify problem categories which are more (or less) amenable for an EA-based solution. * Explore their unique advantages and disadvantages for such problems. * Understand if EA excite industrial design optimisation experts. If not, why not and can anything be done about it? If so, where and how its contributions can be extended? *** Please email original articles (pdf) to BOTH organizing committee members. Papers should not exceed 10 pages and should comply with IDEAL 2007 formatting guidelines, available at http://events.cs.bham.ac.uk/ideal07/submission.php . All papers will be peer-reviewed. *** IMPORTANT DATES *** Paper submission - 20 September, 2007. Notification of acceptance or rejection - 20 October, 2007. Submission of camera-ready paper - 31 October, 2007. [message edited for length] -------------------------------- Sender: [log in to unmask] Subject: Call for GECCO 2008 Workshop Proposals http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2008/workshops.html ~~~~~> Deadline 1. November 2007 <~~~~~ The GECCO 2008 Program Committee invites proposals for workshops which will be held in conjunction with the 2008 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2008). Each workshop is assumed to focus on a highly specialized research area or emerging research field. Workshops may also focus on interdisciplinary research between the genetic and evolutionary computation community and other research fields. The workshops provide an excellent opportunity to meet other researchers who share the same interests and to present recent research and exchange ideas in an informal setting. Researchers with a strong background in genetic and evolutionary computation are encouraged to submit proposals. Attendance of the workshops will be open to all GECCO attendees. Note that ALL organizers, participants and presenters must register for the GECCO 2008 conference. Organizers of a workshop do NOT qualify for a reduction in the registration or accommodation costs of GECCO 2008 conference. Accepted workshop papers will be collected by Sheridan/ACM Press, and published in a separate workshop proceedings. Details and additional deadlines will be provided once it has been decided which workshops will be accepted for GECCO 2008. All accepted Workshop Papers must use the ACM template for papers and must follow all ACM formatting rules. Accepted workshop papers that do not use the ACM template and/or do not adhere to ACM formatting rules will not be published. Workshop proposals can be submitted any time up until November 1, 2007. Proposals should be submitted as plain text files (no HTML) with the exception of the CVs which have to be submitted as PDFs. Workshop organizers will be notified by November 15, whether or not their workshop is accepted as a GECCO 2008 workshop. Proposals should be sent by E-mail to: [log in to unmask] Marc Ebner, Universitat Wurzburg, Germany [message edited for length] -------------------------------- Sender: Mario Pavone <[log in to unmask]> Subject: CFP NICSO 2007: extended deadline and new special tracks NICSO 2007 - International Workshop on Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization Acireale, Italy, November 8-10 2007 http://www.dmi.unict.it/nicso2007/ 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. *** IMPORTANT DATES *** - Deadline for Submission:August, 20 (extended!) - Notification of Acceptance:September, 24 - Deadline for Camera-ready:October, 9 *** TOPICS (not limited to) *** - Adaptive Behavior - Ants Colonies - Amorphous Computing - Artificial Life - Artificial Immune Systems - Coevolution - Distributed Computing - Evolutionary Robotics - Evolvable Systems - Genetic Algorithms - Genetic Programming - Membrane Computing - Quantum Computing - Software Self Assembly - Swarm Intelligence For more information see http://www.dmi.unict.it/nicso2007/ 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. Best accepted papers will be published in an International Journal. 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