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Today's Topics:
ANNOUNCEMENTS
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- 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
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- 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
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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)
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Sender: Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay <sanghami at isical.ac.in>
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-?-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: sanghami at isical.ac.in
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
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Sender: Langdon W B <wlangdon at essex.ac.uk>
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/
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Sender: Marc Schoenauer <marc at lri.fr>
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'.
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Sender: Giuseppe Nicosia <nicosia at dmi.unict.it>
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 (nicosia at dmi.unict.it)
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 nicosia at dmi.unict.it
95125 Catania, Italy http://www.dmi.unict.it/nicosia
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Sender: Jim Smith <James.Smith at uwe.ac.uk>
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:
james.smith at uwe.ac.uk
Dr Jim Smith
Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Computing Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
University of the West of England
Bristol BS16 1QY UK
e: james.smith at uwe.ac.uk
t: +44 (0) 117 3283161
f: +44 (0)117 3283182
w: www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~jsmith
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Sender: Langdon W B <wlangdon at essex.ac.uk>
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/
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Sender: <ja.lozano at EHU.ES>
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 Larra?aga 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.
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Sender: Julstrom, Bryant A. <julstrom at stcloudstate.edu>
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
julstrom at stcloudstate.edu
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Sender: Dutta, Partha <Partha.Dutta at rolls-royce.com>
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
<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.
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Sender: ebner at informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de
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:
ebner at informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de
Marc Ebner, Universit?t W?rzburg, Germany
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Sender: Mario Pavone <mpavone at dmi.unict.it>
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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