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Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 16:24:51 -0400
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Evolutionary Computation Digest Saturday, July, 12 2008 Volume 22 : Issue 6
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Today's Topics:
ANNOUNCEMENTS
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- Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN X): Registration open
- International School of Natural Computation - *Extended* Deadline ...
CFPs
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- CFP: Special Session on Linkage in EC (at IEEE CEC 2009)
- NEW JOURNAL - call for papers
- EvoCOP 2009 Call for Papers
- SEAL 2008 - Final call for papers
- CALL FOR PAPERS: EVOIASP 2009
- Evostar 2009 - second Call for Papers
- ICES2008 - Call for late-breaking papers
- Special Issue on Artificial Evolution Methods in the Biological and...
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CALENDAR OF GA-RELATED ACTIVITIES: (with EC-Digest issue reference)
GECCO'08, Genetic and Evolutionary Conference, Atlanta,GA,July 12-16,08 (v21n7)
ECAI'08, European Conf. on Artif. Intell., Patras,Greece,July 21-25,'08 (v22n1)
PPSN'08,Parallel Prob. Solving From Nature,Dortmund,Germany,Sep13-17,08(v21n11)
ICIC'08,Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Computing,Shanghai,China,Sep15-18,08 (v22n1)
ICES'08, Intl. Conference on Evolvable Systems, Prague, Sep. 21-24,08 (v22n6)
ANTS'08,6th Intl. Conf. on Ant Col. Opt..., Brussels,Belgium,Sep22-24,08(v22n1)
NCA'08,5th Intl. WS on Nat. Comp. and App.,Timisoara,Romania,Sep26-29,08(v22n5)
SEAL'08,IntConf.Sim. Evo. and Learning, Melbourne, Australia,Dec07-10,08(v22n6)
FOGA'09,Foundations of Genetic Algorithms, Orlando, Florida,Jan9-11,09 (v22n5)
Evo*'09,EuroGP,EvoCOP,EvoBIO,EvoWorkshops,T?bingen,Germany,Apr15-17,09 (v22n4)
CEC'09,IEEE Congress on Evol. Computa., Trondheim, Norway, May 18-21,09 (v22n5)
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Sender: Nicola Beume <nicola.beume at CS.UNI-DORTMUND.DE>
Subject: Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN X): Registration open
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PPSN 2008
10th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature
September 13-17, 2008
Technische Universitaet Dortmund, Germany
http://www.ppsn2008.org
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REGISTRATION
The registration for PPSN 2008 is open, please refer
to the homepage for further information.
WORKSHOPS
The PPSN workshops are traditionally an important part of the
conference, enabling discussions of concepts and also presenting
preliminary results leading into new, interesting directions, all
focused on a specific research area.
Some of the workshops are still open to submissions, so please
consider putting any matching paper there:
Deadline Workshop
July 2 Theory of Randomized Search Heuristics 2008
June 25 Set-based Evolution
June 30 Computational Intelligence and Games
TBD Multi-competence Adaptation in Natural and
Artificial Systems
GENERAL INFORMATION
PPSN X will bring together an international community from academia,
government, and industry interested in algorithms suggested by the
unifying theme of natural computing. Natural Computing is the study of
computational systems that use ideas and get inspiration from natural
systems, including biological, ecological, physical, chemical, and
social systems. It is a fast growing interdisciplinary field in which a
range of techniques and methods are studied for dealing with large,
complex, and dynamic problems with various sources of potential
uncertainties.
SCOPE
PPSN X will showcase a wide range of topics in Natural Computing
including, but not restricted to: Evolutionary Computation, Quantum
Computation, Molecular Computation, Neural Computation, Artificial Life,
Swarm Intelligence, Artificial Ant Systems, Artificial Immune Systems,
Self-Organizing Systems, Emergent Behaviors, and Applications to
Real-World Problems.
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Sender: Mario Pavone <mpavone at dmi.unict.it>
Subject: International School of Natural Computation - *Extended* Deadline
July 16th, 2008
* Please pass this Call for Partecipation to interested Colleagues *
Bertinoro International Summer School of Natural Computation - BNC 2008
University Residential Center - Bertinoro (Forl?-Cesena), Italy
September 20-27, 2008
http://www.dmi.unict.it/~bnc/
The International Summer School of Natural Computing is devoted to
disseminate the various branches of Natural Computing. The school will
gather leading specialists from several horizons lecturing and
discussing on the achievements and perspectives both fundamental and
applied, non excluding junior scientists and PhD students.
List of topics:
Self-Organizing Systems; DNA, BioMolecular and Chemistry Computing;
Artificial Immune Systems; Metabolic Systems and Artificial
Biochemistry; Bio-Inspired Robotics; Rule-Based Modeling of
Biochemical Systems; Synthetic Biology for Natural Computing vs.
Synthetic Biology for Bioengineering.
The school is interdisciplinary in nature, and can be seen both as a
School for advanced students, and as a Workshop for researchers.
The school is structured in lectures in the morning and poster/seminar
sessions and informal discussion in the afternoon.
Students in different area of computer science, natural sciences and
mathematics are particularly encouraged to apply. Accepted students
may submit a poster and/or a seminar to present their recent research
activities.
The main goal of this International school is to develop the mutual
interaction between specialists from natural computing scientists and
biologists.
For the students, the prime objective is to learn state-of-art
methodologies, algorithms and problems in Natural Computing.
Registrations Close: July 16th, 2008 (*entended* deadline)
Past this deadline, the Bertinoro Center will accept registrations on
a space availability basis. For any questions regarding registration,
accomodations, accompanying persons, etc. please contact Eleonora
Campori at ecampori at ceub.it.
The registration fee for the School is 990 Euro (resp. 1190 Euro) and
includes all local expenses from the evening of Saturday September
20th to morning on Saturday September 27th.
Attendance is limited to 60 students (M.Sc students, Ph.D. students,
Post-Doc) and will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis.
For any question please send email to bnc at dmi.unict.it
Best Regards,
Dr. Mario Pavone (PhD)
Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
University of Catania
V.le A. Doria 6 - 95125 Catania, Italy
tel: 0039 095 7383038
fax: 0039 095 330094
Email: mpavone at dmi.unict.it
http://www.dmi.unict.it/mpavone
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Sender: Ying-ping Chen <ypchen at cs.nctu.edu.tw>
Subject: CFP: Special Session on Linkage in EC (at IEEE CEC 2009)
Special Session on Linkage in Evolutionary Computation (LEC 2009)
2009 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation
May 18-21, 2009, Trondheim, Norway
URL: http://lec2009.nclab.tw
SCOPE
This special session aims at providing a forum for reviewing of current
state-of-art linkage learning techniques, exchanging of ideas and
viewpoints on linkage, as well as discussing the future directions. We
invite researchers to submit their original and unpublished work related
to, but not limited to, the following topics:
* Linkage in biological systems and computational algorithms
* Linkage for discrete/continuous variables
* Linkage processing, handling, and learning techniques
* Identification and utilization of linkage
* Adaptation of representation and/or operators for linkage
* Theoretical aspects of linkage
* Applications of the linkage concept
* Position papers
* Real-world applications
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Manuscripts should be prepared according to the standard format of
regular papers specified in CEC 2009. Paper submission is online through
the CEC 2009 submission website. Special session papers will be treated
in the same way as regular papers and included in the conference
proceedings.
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission: November 01, 2008
Decision Notification: January 16, 2009
Camera-Ready Submission: February 16, 2009
SESSION ORGANIZERS
Ying-ping Chen, National Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan, ypchen at cs.nctu.edu.tw
Chuan-Kang Ting, National Chung Cheng Univ., Taiwan, ckting at cs.ccu.edu.tw
Pier Luca Lanzi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, pierluca.lanzi at polimi.it
Meng-Hiot Lim, Nanyang Technological Univ., Singapore, emhlim at ntu.edu.sg
DOWNLOAD CALL FOR PAPERS
A4 Format (http://lec2009.nclab.tw/LEC09-CFP-A4.pdf)
Letter Format (http://lec2009.nclab.tw/LEC09-CFP-Letter.pdf)
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Sender: Christine <C.L.Mumford at cs.cardiff.ac.uk>
Subject: NEW JOURNAL - call for papers
ANNOUNCING THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF METAHEURISTICS:
CALL FOR PAPERS
Submissions are invited for the inaugural issue of the International
Journal of Metaheuristics.
http://www.inderscience.com/ijmheur
The International Journal of Metaheuristics is a new scientific journal to
be launched on January the 1st, 2009. It aims to expose the reader to
valuable and cutting-edge metaheuristic methods for solving difficult
practical and theoretical problems, and to foster discussion through the
publication of high-quality, informative, and scientifically rigorous
articles.
In general, a metaheuristic can be considered an algorithmic framework that
defines a set of heuristic methods that can then be directed towards a
variety of different optimisation problems. In other words, they can be seen
as "higher level" heuristic-based algorithms that are applicable to various
individual problems with relatively few modifications needing to be made in
each case.
Suitable topics for the journal include (but are not restricted to):
- Neighbourhood search algorithms (such as simulated annealing, tabu search,
iterated local search, scatter search, and path re-linking)
- Evolutionary algorithms
- Variable neighbourhood search
- Ant systems
- Particle swarms
- Combinatorial optimisation
- Neural networks
- Parallel metaheuristics
- New metaheuristic approaches and operators
- The theory and practice of metaheuristics
- Constraint handling techniques
- Representation and encoding issues
- Case studies and real-world applications
- Applications to machine learning
- Multiobjective optimisation
- Artificial immune systems
- Comparison papers
- Hybrid methods (including the use of non-metaheuristic techniques)
- Parameter analysis
Further details on the aims and scope of this journal, as well as
additional submission information are available on the journal website at
http://www.inderscience.com/ijmheur and also at
http://www.inderscience.com/guidelines
Dr Christine Mumford and Dr Rhyd Lewis (Editors in Chief)
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Sender: Peter Cowling <p.i.cowling at BRADFORD.AC.UK>
Subject: EvoCOP 2009 Call for Papers
Ninth European Conference on Evolutionary Computation
and Metaheuristics in Combinatorial Optimization
Tuebingen, Germany, 15-17 April 2009
http://www.evostar.org
Metaheuristics have often been shown to be effective for difficult
combinatorial optimization problems appearing in various industrial,
economical, and scientific domains. Prominent examples of
metaheuristics are evolutionary algorithms, simulated annealing,
tabu search, scatter search and path relinking, memetic algorithms,
ant colony and particle swarm optimization, variable neighborhood
search, iterated local search, greedy randomized adaptive search
procedures, estimation of distribution algorithms, and
hyperheuristics. Successfully solved problems include scheduling,
timetabling, network design, transportation and distribution
problems, vehicle routing, traveling salesman, graph problems,
satisfiability, packing problems, planning problems, and general
mixed integer programming.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Applications of metaheuristics to combinatorial optimization problems
- 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 12th European
Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP2009), EvoBIO 2009 (7th European
Conference on Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning and Data Mining
in Bioinformatics), and EvoWorkshops 2009 (the specialist workshops
on a range of evolutionary computation topics and applications), in
a joint event collectively known as EvoStar 2009.
Submission
Submissions will be done electronically using the online submission
service. More details will be available at the conference website
http://www.evostar.org
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Sender: Michael Kirley <mkirley at csse.unimelb.edu.au>
Subject: SEAL 2008 - Final call for papers
The Seventh International Conference on Simulated Evolution And
Learning (SEAL'08)
7 ~ 10 December 2008, Melbourne, Australia
http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/seal08/
(with an extended deadline for submission by 14 July 2008)
Hosted and Sponsored by
Evolutionary Computation and Machine Learning Group (ECML)
School of Computer Science and IT, RMIT University
Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University
of Melbourne
School of Information Technology, Monash University
Evolution and learning are two fundamental forms of adaptation. SEAL'08 is
the seventh biennial conference in the highly successful series that
aims at
exploring these two forms of adaptation and their roles and interactions in
adaptive systems. Cross-fertilisation between evolutionary learning and
other machine learning approaches, such as neural network learning,
reinforcement learning, decision tree learning, fuzzy system learning,
etc.,
will be strongly encouraged by the conference. The other major theme of the
conference is optimisation by evolutionary and other nature inspired
approaches. For detailed information on topics, please refer to SEAL'08
website: http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/seal08/.
IMPORTANT DATES
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14 July 2008, Extended deadline for submission of full papers
(<=10 pages)
18 August 2008, Notification of acceptance
8 September 2008, Deadline for camera-ready copies of accepted papers
7 ~ 10 December 2008, Conference sessions (including tutorials and
workshops)
All accepted papers which are presented at the conference will be included
in the conference proceedings, published as LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer
Science) by Springer. Selected best papers will be invited for further
revisions and extensions for possible publications by two journal special
issues (Soft Computing and Evolutionary Intelligence).
For more information please visit: http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/seal08/
For general inquiries, please contact one of the following people:
Xiaodong Li (xiaodong at cs.rmit.edu.au), SEAL'08 General Chair
Michael Kirley (mkirley at cs.mu.OZ.AU), SEAL'08 Program Chair
Mengjie Zhang (Mengjie.Zhang at mcs.vuw.ac.nz), SEAL'08 Program Chair
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Sender: Stefano Cagnoni <cagnoni at foresto.ce.unipr.it>
Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS: EVOIASP 2009
11th European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation
in Image Analysis and Signal Processing
Tuebingen, Germany, 15-17 April 2009
EvoIASP, the longest running of all EvoWorkshops, has been the first,
and is still the only, event specifically dedicated to the
applications of evolutionary computation (EC) to image analysis and
signal processing (IASP) and offers researchers in those fields
world-wide, as well as people from industry, an opportunity to present
their latest research and to discuss current developments and
applications, besides fostering closer future interaction between
members of the three scientific communities.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* applications of evolutionary computation to real-life IASP problems,
* evolvable vision and signal processing hardware,
* evolutionary pattern recognition,
* hybrid architectures for machine vision and signal processing
* including evolutionary components,
* theoretical developments,
* comparisons between different evolutionary techniques and between
evolutionary and non-evolutionary techniques in IASP applications,
* time series analysis by means of EC techniques.
Important Dates
Submission deadline 5 November 2008
Notification of acceptance 15 December 2008
Camera ready papers due: early January 2009
Workshop (within Evo*): 15-17 April 2009
Web Address:
http://www.evostar.org
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Sender: Evostar 2009 <evostar at na.icar.cnr.it>
Subject: Evostar 2009 - second Call for Papers
EVO* 2009 including EuroGP, EvoCOP, EvoBIO and EvoWorkshops
15-17 April, 2009 Eberhard Karls University T?bingen, Germany
http://www.evostar.org
The EuroGP, EvoCOP and EvoBIO conferences and the workshops
collectively entitled EvoWorkshops compose EVO*: Europe's premier
co-located events in the field of Evolutionary Computing. Featuring the
latest advances in theoretical and applied research, EVO* topics include
recent genetic programming challenges, evolutionary and other
meta-heuristic
approaches for combinatorial optimization, evolutionary computation,
machine learning and data mining techniques in biosciences, use of
evolutionary algorithms in numerical optimization, in music and art
domains, in image analysis and signal processing, in hardware
optimization and in a wide range of applications to scientific,
industrial, financial and other real-world problems.
EuroGP: 12th European Conference on Genetic Programming:
high quality papers are sought on topics strongly related to the
evolution of computer programs, ranging from theoretical work
to innovative applications.
EvoCOP: 9th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation
in Combinatorial Optimization: practical and theoretical contributions
are invited, related to evolutionary computation techniques and other
meta-heuristics for solving combinatorial optimization problems.
EvoBIO: 7th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation,
Machine Learning and Data Mining in Bioinformatics: the emphasis
is on evolutionary computation and other advanced techniques
addressing important problems in molecular biology, proteomics,
genomics and genetics, that have been implemented and tested in
simulations and on real-life datasets.
EvoWorkshops: Twelve workshops which make up this event
are focused on the use of Evolutionary Computation in different
application areas.
Important Dates for all events are:
*** Submission deadline: 5 November 2008 ***
Conference: 15-17 April 2009
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Sender: Giovanni Squillero <giovanni.squillero at polito.it>
Subject: ICES2008 - Call for late-breaking papers
The 8th International Conference of Evolvable Systems: From Biology to
Hardware: Prague, September 21 - 24, 2008.
http://www.fit.vutbr.cz/events/ices2008
In 2008 we are introducing late-breaking papers to enable the latest
results in the field to be presented. We welcome new and updated results
and ongoing work to our late-breaking papers session.
Late-breaking papers will be examined by the organising committee for
relevance and acceptability, but will not be peer reviewed. Paper
acceptance decisions will be made as soon as possible after receipt of the
submission, until the 20 August 2008 deadline.
Accepted papers will be published on a CD-ROM and be available to all
delegates at the conference on condition that at least one author of the
paper is registered by the 20th August deadline. Submitted papers must be
a maximum of 10 pages and in the LNCS format and submitted as a pdf file.
Papers submitted in any other format will not be accepted due to the tight
deadlines. The format for presentation will be a poster and at least one
author must attend the conference to present the poster.
Prospective authors are invited to email "late-breaking papers" to Pauline
C. Haddow at Pauline.Haddow at idi.ntnu.no (with cc sekanina at fit.vutbr.cz)
Authors of late-breaking papers will retain copyright.
For further information please visit the ICES 2008 web site or contact
Pauline Haddow: pauline at idi.ntnu.no
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Sender: Stefano Cagnoni <cagnoni at foresto.ce.unipr.it>
Subject: Special Issue on Artificial Evolution Methods in the Biological and
Biomedical Sciences, Journal of Artificial Evolution and Applications
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jaea/osi.html
***************** DEADLINE : 1 OCTOBER 2008 *******************
This special issue of the Journal of Artificial Evolution and
Applications will focus on recent advances in artificial evolution
methods such as agent-based modeling, artificial immune systems,
estimation of distribution algorithms, evolutionary algorithms,
genetic algorithms, genetic programming, and swarm intelligence for
solving complex problems in the biological and biomedical sciences.
The aim is to attract papers that present new artificial evolution
methods with application to biological and biomedical data and
problems. Of particular interest are papers that analyze or model real
data, that address the hierarchical complexity of biological systems
and that provide a biological interpretation and/or experimental
validation of the results.
Authors should follow the Journal of Artificial Evolution and
Applications manuscript format described at the journal site
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jaea/. Prospective authors should
submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the
journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/,
according to the following timetable:
Submission: OCTOBER 1, 2008
First round of reviews: January 1, 2009
Tentative publication date: Spring 2009
HOW TO SUBMIT:
To submit a manuscript to this special issue, please use the
manuscript tracking system available at
http://mts.hindawi.com/login.aspx
You will need to register as an author before you can submit a
paper. Once, you have done that, log in into the system and click on
"Journal of Artificial Evolution and Applications". Then click on
"Author activities" and then on "Submit a new manuscript". Then tick
the four boxes (headed "Authors Contact Information", "Policy on
Plagiarism and Duplicate Publication", "Manuscript Preparation", "Open
Access") and click "Accept". You will be presented with a form where
you can enter title, etc. Under the drop down list "Special/Regular
Issue" please select "". The rest
should be self explanatory.
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