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Evolutionary Computation Digest Monday, October, 15 2007 Volume 21 : Issue 9
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Today's Topics:
ANNOUNCEMENTS
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- Job Vacancy: Research Centre Administrator
CFPs
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- CfP: EvoSTOC 2008
- CFP- EvoNUM2008 First European Workshop on Bio-inspired Algorithms for...
- CFP - EvoPhD 2008 European Graduate Student Workshop on EC
- CFP EvoCOP 2008
- ISMIS'08 Call for Papers
- CFP: First Intl. Workshop on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, ...
- Final CFP EvoTransLog 2008
- ARCS-08 Call for papers
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CALENDAR OF GA-RELATED ACTIVITIES: (with EC-Digest issue reference)
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)
EVO*'08, European Events on Ev. Computation, Napoli,Italy, Mar 26-28'08 (v21n8)
GECCO'08, Genetic and Evolutionary Conference, Atlanta,GA,July 12-16,08 (v21n7)
Send announcements of other activities to EC-Digest-L at listserv.gmu.edu
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Sender: Xin Yao <X.Yao at cs.bham.ac.uk>
Subject: Job Vacancy: Research Centre Administrator
(Although this is primarily an administration job, there are ample
opportunities in engaging in research related activities.)
The University of Birmingham, UK
School of Computer Science - Centre of Excellence for Research in
Computational Intelligence and Applications (CERCIA)
CERCIA Administrator (Ref No. S36557)
http://www.cercia.ac.uk/news/job-S36557.php
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic administrator to
join this Research Centre in the School of Computer Science. You will
provide expert support to the Centre Director, assisting him with
financial matters, project applications, outreach activities, and the
day-to-day running of the Centre.
The successful applicant will hold a degree and possess a high standard of
Maths and English, being able to communicate effectively both verbally and
in writing. You will also need excellent IT skills, including advanced
knowledge and experience of Microsoft Office. Experience in a similar
role within a higher education institution or government office is
preferred.
Informal enquiries may be made to Professor Xin Yao, Director of CERCIA
via email to x.yao at cs.bham.ac.uk.
Starting salary in the range of GBP22,332 to GBP24,403 a year (potential
progression on performance once in post to GBP27,466). The post is
currently funded for two years in the first instance.
Closing date for applications: 2 November 2007
Ref: S36557
Details from +44 (0)121 415 9000 or www.hr.bham.ac.uk/jobs.
Human Resources, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT,
UK.
A University of Fairness and Diversity.
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Sender: A. Sima Etaner-Uyar <etaner at cs.itu.edu.tr>
Subject: CfP: EvoSTOC 2008
CALL FOR PAPERS
EvoSTOC2008
Fifth European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation
in Stochastic and Dynamic Environments
incorporating EvoWorkshops 2008
Napoli, Italy, 26-28 March 2008
In many real-world optimization problems, a wide range of uncertainties
has to be taken into account. Generally, uncertainties in evolutionary
optimization can be categorized into four classes:
1. Noisy fitness function. Noise in fitness evaluations may come from
many different sources such as sensory measurement errors or randomized
simulations.
2. Approximated fitness function. When the fitness function is very
expensive to evaluate,or an analytical fitness function is not available,
approximated fitness functions are often used instead.
3. Robustness. Often, when a solution is implemented, the design
variables or the environmental parameters are subject to perturbations or
changes. Therefore, a common requirement is that a solution should still
work satisfyingly either when the design variables change slightly, e.g.,
due to manufacturing tolerances, or when the environmental parameters
vary slightly. This is generally known as the search for robust solutions.
4. Dynamic fitness function. In a changing environment, it should be
possible to continuously track the moving optimum rather than repeatedly
re-start the optimization process. For evolutionary computation in dynamic
environments, learning and adaptation usually play an important role.
Multi-objective problems may also involve dynamic environments.
The EvoSTOC workshop's objective is to foster interest in the issue of
handling uncertainties, to provide a forum for researchers to meet, and a
platform to present and discuss latest research in the field. Papers are
solicited addressing any of the aforementioned four areas and/or their
combination with optimization methods inspired by nature. Theoretical
results as well as real-world applications are welcome.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
* handling noisy fitness functions
* using fitness approximations
* searching for robust solutions
* tracking moving optima
* multi-objective problems in uncertain environments
* co-evolution in uncertain environments
* real-world applications
The workshop is part of the EvoWorkshops and is held together with the
EuroGP, EvoCOP and EvoBIO conferences. All accepted papers are published as
papers in a volume of the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
SUBMISSIONS
Manuscripts should be submitted up to 10 pages long in Springer LNCS
format using the online
submission service. The reviewing process will be double-blind.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: 1 November 2007
Notification of acceptance: 15 December 2007
Camera ready papers due: 8 January 2008
Workshop: 26-28 March 2008
WEBSITE
http://www.evostar.org/
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Sender: Anna I Esparcia Alcazar <anna at iti.upv.es>
Subject: CFP- EvoNUM2008 First European Workshop on Bio-inspired Algorithms ...
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
EvoNUM2008
First European Workshop - First European Workshop on Bio-inspired Algorithms
for Continuous Parameter Optimisation incorporated in Evo* 2008
Napoli, Italy, 26-28 March 2008
__Introduction__
"The main application areas of EC techniques [in industry] are
multi-objective optimization, classification, data mining and numerical
optimization". [1]
Many engineering problems of both theoretical and practical interest involve
choosing the best configuration of a set of parameters to achieve a
specified objective. Numerical optimisation refers to the case when these
parameters take continuous real values, as opposed to combinatorial
optimisation, which deals with discrete values. Examples include designing
production processes for maximum efficiency, optimal parameter adjustment
for controllers and many others. EvoNUM focuses on such problems.
We seek high quality papers involving the application of bio-inspired
algorithms (genetic algorithms, genetic programming, evolution strategies,
differential evolution, particle swarm optimization, evolutionary
programming, simulated annealing... and their hybrids) to continuous
optimisation problems in engineering. We also welcome cross-fertilisation
between Nature-inspired algorithms and more classical numerical optimisation
algorithms.
EvoNUM deals with engineering applications where continuous parameters or
functions have to be optimised, in fields such as control, chemistry,
agriculture, electricity, building and construction, energy, aerospace
engineering, design optimisation...
__Topics of Interest__
EvoNUM aims to cover areas that include but are not limited to:
- Local learning of parameters
- Mechanisms to incorporate constraints
- Theoretical developments
- Performance measures and performance analysis
- Benchmark problems [2]
The workshop will be part of Evo* 2008, a joint event which will incorporate
EuroGP 2008, the 11th European Conference on Genetic Programming, EvoCOP
2008, the 8th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in
Combinatorial Optimisation, EvoBIO 2008, the 6th Conference on Evolutionary
Bioinformatics, and EvoWorkshops 2008, a set of ten thematic workshops on
the theory and applications of Evolutionary Computation.
__Important Dates__
Submission deadline: 1 November 2007
Notification of acceptance: 15 December 2007
Camera ready papers due: 8 January 2008
Workshop: 26-28 March 2008
Conference web page
<http://www.evostar.org/> http://www.evostar.org
Workshop web page
http://evostar.iti.upv.es/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=51&I
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Sender: Anna I Esparcia Alcazar <anna at iti.upv.es>
Subject: CFP - EvoPhD 2008 European Graduate Student Workshop on EC
EvoPhD 2008
Third European Graduate Student Workshop on EC
Naples, Italy, 26-28 March 2008
This is the third European workshop on evolutionary computation that focuses on
work of PhD students. Its main aim is to give students feedback on the current
state of their thesis. This workshop provides a chance to students to present
their work to a friendly audience of other students as well as experts in the
field. It also provides students with contacts and professional networking
opportunities, which helps them to integrate into the community.
For you as a student, the aim of a submission is to get feedback on the current
state of your thesis. Submissions will be evaluated by members of a high-quality
committee that consists of long running members of the community with the goal
to provide in-depth feedback. You are required to submit a paper that summarizes
the research performed and planned as part of your dissertation.
The number of participants is limited. Accepted papers will not be published in
a proceedings, but will be disseminated among the participants of the event.
The workshop is part of Evo*2008, which combined form Europe's premier
co-located events in the field of evolutionary computing. The next event takes
place in Naples, Italy.Featuring the latest in theoretical and applied research,
the topics include recent genetic programming challenges, evolutionary and other
meta-heuristic approaches for combinatorial optimization,evolutionary algorithms
in the biosciences, in music and art domains, in image analysis and signal
processing systems, in hardware optimisation and as applied to a range of
industrial and financial optimisation problems.
Web address: http://www.evostar.org
Topics include, but are not limited to,
* Any topic that fits in the scope of the conferences and workshops
* Bio-inspired computing, such as evolutionary computing, ant colony
optimization, swarm intelligence, and neural networks
* Local optimisation methods (tabu search, simulated annealing)
* All flavours of evolutionary computation (genetic programming, evolution
strategies, genetic algorithms, memetic algorithms, etc.)
* Combinatorial optimisation with bio-inspired computing
* Application of evolutionary computation to real-life problems
* Hybrid architectures that include bio-inspired components
* Theory on a relevant area of bio-inspired computing
Submission Information
The deadline for submission is 22 December 2007.
Authors will be notified of acceptance on 1 February 2008.
Camera-ready version of accepted paper due on 29 February 2008.
The page limit is 12 A4 pages in Springer LCNS format.
Submissions should be e-mailed in PDF or gzipped postscript to
evophd (at) vanhemert.co.uk
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Sender: Carlos Cotta <ccottap at lcc.uma.es>
Subject: CFP EvoCOP 2008
EvoCOP 2008 26-28 March 2008 Napoli, Italy www.evostar.org
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Eighth European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in
Combinatorial Optimization
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EvoCOP 2008 invites submissions on any kind of metaheuristic for
combinatorial optimization. Each accepted paper will be presented
orally at the conference and printed in the proceedings published
by Springer in the LNCS series. Topics of interest include, but
are not limited to:
- Applications of metaheuristics to combinatorial optimization
- Representation techniques
- Neighborhoods and efficient algorithms for searching them
- Variation operators for stochastic search methods
- Constraint-handling techniques
- Hybrid methods and hybridization techniques
- Parallelization
- Theoretical developments
- Search space analyses
- Comparisons between different (also exact) techniques
The conference will be held in conjunction with the 11th European
Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP2008), the 6th European
Conference on Evolutionary Computation (EvoBIO2008) and EvoWorkshops2008,
a collection of application-oriented workshops in the field of
evolutionary computation.
Important Dates
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* Submission deadline: 1 November 2007
* Events: 26-28 March 2008
More detailed information can be found at http://www.evostar.org
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Sender: ISMIS 2008 <ismis08 at cse.yorku.ca>
Subject: ISMIS'08 Call for Papers
The Seventeenth International Symposium on Methodologies
for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS'08)
May 20-23, 2008, York University, Toronto, Canada
http://www.cse.yorku.ca/~ismis08/
ISMIS is an established and prestigious conference for exchanging the latest
research results in building intelligent systems. Held twice every three years,
the conference provides a medium for exchanging scientific research and
technological achievements accomplished by the international community. In
May 2008, ISMIS will be held for the first time in Canada and in a dynamic
city, Toronto, which is home to more than 100 cultures.
Important Dates:
Paper submission due: October 22, 2007
Notification of review results: December 28, 2007
Camera ready due: January 18, 2008
Conference Theme:
The scope of ISMIS is intended to represent a wide range of topics on applying
Artificial Intelligence techniques to areas as diverse as decision support,
automated deduction, reasoning, knowledge based systems, machine learning,
computer vision, robotics, planning, databases, information retrieval, etc.
The focus is on research in intelligent systems. The conference addresses
issues involving solutions to problems that are complex to be solved through
conventional approaches and that require the simulation of intelligent
thought processes, heuristics and applications of knowledge. The integration
of these multiple approaches in solving complex problems is of particular
importance. ISMIS provides a forum and a means for exchanging information
for those interested purely in theory, those interested primarily in
implementation, and those interested in specific research and industrial
applications.
Topics of Interest:
o Active Media Human-Computer Interaction
o Autonomic and Evolutionary Computation
o Digital Libraries
o Intelligent Agent Technology
o Intelligent Information Retrieval
o Intelligent Information Systems
o Intelligent Language Processing
o Knowledge Representation and Integration
o Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
o Knowledge Visualization
o Logic for Artificial Intelligence
o Music Information Retrieval
o Soft Computing
o Web Intelligence
o Web Services
In addition, we solicit papers dealing with Applications of Intelligent
Systems in complex/novel domains, e.g. human genome, global change,
manufacturing, health care, etc.
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Sender: Magdiel Galan Oliveras <mgalan at asu.edu>
Subject: CFP: First Intl. Workshop on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, ...
First International Workshop on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and
Prediction
Sedona, Arizona (the Grand Canyon State)
April 1 - 2, 2008
Sponsored by Air Force Research Laboratory/II
Proceedings published by Springer
Social computing is concerned with the study of social behavior and social
context based on computational systems. Behavioral modeling reproduces the
social behavior, and allows for experimenting, scenario planning, and deep
understanding of behavior, patterns, and potential outcomes. The pervasive
use of computer and Internet technologies provides an unprecedented
environment of various social activities. Social computing facilitates
behavioral modeling in model building, analysis, pattern mining, and
prediction. Numerous interdisciplinary and interdependent systems are
created and used to represent the various social and physical systems for
investigating the interactions between groups, communities, or
nation-states. This requires joint efforts to take advantage of the
state-of-the-art research from multiple disciplines, social computing, and
behavioral modeling in order to document lessons learned and develop novel
theories, experiments, and methodologies in terms of social, physical,
psychological, and governmental mechanisms. The goal is to enable us to
experiment, create, and recreate an operational environment with a better
understanding of the contributions from each individual discipline, forging
joint interdisciplinary efforts.
This workshop is interdisciplinary and provides a platform for researchers,
practitioners, and graduate students from sociology, behavioral science,
computer science, psychology, cultural study, information systems,
operations research to share, exchange, learn, and develop preliminary
results, new concepts, ideas, principles, and methodologies, aiming to
advance and deepen our understanding of social and behavioral computing and
evaluation in help critical decision and policy making. The program will
include invited speakers from government, industry, and academia, as well as
research presentations and discussions.
Papers or abstracts are solicited on research issues, theories, and
applications. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to,
* Psycho-cultural situation awareness
* Group formation and evolution
* Cultural patterns and representation
* Social conventions and social contexts
* Causal, and non-linear relationships
* Modeling, projection, and forecasting
* Social network analysis and mining
* Group interaction and collaboration
* Group representation and profiling
* Influence process and recognition
* Public opinion representation
* Search, data, and inference
* Simulation methodology
* Tools
* Metrics and evaluation
* Case study
* Data collection and benchmarks
* Model and analysis complexity Paper Format and Submission
Papers should be submitted at http://www.easychair.org/SBP08/
Questions and inquiries are welcome. Please sent them to sbp2008 at gmail.com
Important Dates
Paper Due: November 5, 2007
Notification: November 26, 2007
Camera-Ready: December 10, 2007
For more information, please visit http://www.public.asu.edu/~huanliu/sbp08.
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Sender: Franz Rothlauf <rothlauf at uni-mainz.de>
Subject: Final CFP EvoTransLog 2008
EvoTransLog2008
Second European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation
in Transportation and Logistics
incorporated in Evo* 2008
Naples, Italy, 26-28 March 2008
http://www.evostar.org
EvoTransLog2008 addresses all aspects of the use of evolutionary
computation, local search, and other nature-inspired optimization and
design techniques for the transportation and logistics domain. Relevant
application topics include (but are not limited to):
- transportation and supply networks
- logistics
- freight and passenger services
- tracking and tracing
- fleet and order management
- modelling and traffic management
- traffic simulation
- individual and public transportation
- inventory optimisation
- routing and scheduling
EvoTransLog is dedicated to the application of heuristic optimization
methods to transportation and logistics. It gives European and
non-European researchers in those fields, as well as people from
industry, an opportunity to present their latest research and to discuss
current developments and applications.
EvoTransLog2008 is part of Evo* 2008, a joint event which incorporates
EuroGP2008, EvoCOP2008, EvoBio2008, and EvoWorkshops2008, a
set of eight thematic workshops on applications of Evolutionary
Computation.
All papers accepted for EvoTransLog2008 will be published in the
Springer LNCS Series (Applications of Evolutionary Computation).
Submission:
Submit your manuscript, at most 10 A4 pages long, in Springer LNCS
format (instructions available at http://www.evostar.org) using the
online submission system at http://evonet.lri.fr/EvoWorkshops08 no later
than November 1, 2007.
Important Dates:
Submission deadline: 1 November 2007
Notification of acceptance: mid December 2007
Camera ready papers due: mid January 2008
Events: 26-28 March 2008
Web Addresses and Further Information:
http://www.evostar.org Evo* web page
http://evostar.iti.upv.es/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=59
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Sender: John E. Edward <jeedward at gmail.com>
Subject: ARCS-08 Call for papers
The 2008 International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Control
Systems (ARCS-08) (website:
www.PromoteResearch.org<http://www.promoteresearch.org/>) will be held
during July 7-10 2008 in Orlando, FL, USA. We invite draft
paper submissions and session proposals. The conference will be held at the
same time and place where several other major events are taking place. The
website contains more details.
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