Genetic Algorithms Digest Tuesday, January 23, 2001 Volume 15 : Issue 2 - Send submissions (articles) to GA-List@gmu.edu. 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Beginning with the next issue (v15n3), the digest will be mailed from GMU using ListProc 7.1 mailing list management software. We would like to thank everyone for their patience during GA Digest's move from NRL to GMU. We have already entered the latest mailing list into ListProc, so no action on your part is required for you to continue receiving GA Digest. However, the basic list administration procedure has changed as follows: * Submissions to GA Digest should now be sent to ga-list@gmu.edu. * To subscribe send email to listproc@gmu.edu containing the following text in the body of the message: subscribe ga-list * To unsubscribe send email to listproc@gmu.edu containing the following text in the body of the message: unsubscribe ga-list * To change your email address, simply unsubscribe the old address and subscribe the new one. In addition to the change in location, we are pleased to introduce Ivan Garibay and Paul Wiegand, who will be the new moderators of GA Digest. 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Mitch Potter and Annie Wu ------------------------------ Sender: Franz Rothlauf Subject: CFP: ROPNET-2001 Workshop at GECCO-2001 2nd Call for participation ROPNET-2001 REPRESENTAITONS AND OPERATORS FOR NETWORK PROBLEMS Bird-of-a-feather Workshop at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2001 ( GECCO-2001 ) San Francisco, California, July 7 - 11, 2001 (Saturday - Wednesday) A recombination of the Sixth Annual Genetic Programming Conference (GP-2001) and the International Conference on Genetic Algorithms (ICGA-2001) organized by Franz Rothlauf to be held on Saturday, July 7, 2001 WORKSHOP SUMMARY Finding good solutions for network design problems is important in many fields such as telecommunications, computer, backbone access, transportation and distribution networks. Over the last years genetic algorithms have been applied with success to a wide variety of these different problems. One of the major design issues is how the network could be represented as an artificial chromosome and what kind of operators could be defined on the chromosome. The workshop is intended to give an overview over the existing approaches and to discuss various representations and operators in the context of genetic and evolutionary computation. It should compare theoretical properties and empirical performance characteristics of different representations and operators and try to find explanations for performance differences of a genetic algorithm. The workshop will be focused on representations and operators for network problems, but it welcomes interesting contributions to encoding issues that are meaningful for network representations. PARTICIPATION Presentations will be selected according to the submitted 10-page papers which will be reviewed by at least two members of the international program committee. Accepted papers will be available in electronic form before the workshop. Abbreviated versions of the papers will be later published in the workshop proceedings. The length of each paper will be determined by the number of accepted papers. For more detailed submission guidelines and recent updates, see the workshop pages at http://btw6x2.oec.uni-bayreuth.de/ropnet/ IMPORTANT DATES (subject to change) Paper submission deadline: March 1, 2001 Decisions will be mailed by: April 1, 2001 Submissions of camera-ready papers: April 20, 2001 WORKSHOP CHAIR Franz Rothlauf Department of Information Systems University of Bayreuth 95445 Bayreuthn Germany rothlauf@uni-bayreuth.de Tel/Fax: +49 921 55 2819, +49 921 55 2216 Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory 104 S. Mathews Ave. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL 61801 rothlauf@illigal.ge.uiuc.edu ATTENDANCE Attendance to the workshop is open to all GECCO attendees. Further information will be posted on the workshop web pages ( http://btw6x2.oec.uni-bayreuth.de/ropnet/ ) as soon as it becomes available. We are looking forward to your participation at the first workshop ROPNET-2001 which is a great opportunity to meet and discuss the covered topics for researchers in this area of research as well as the ones who would like to learn more about representations and networks. ------------------------------ Sender: Conor Ryan Subject: Call for Participation : EuroGP 2001. Apologies for any crossposts.... CALL FOR PARTICIPATION EuroGP 2001 18-20 April 2001 Lake Como (Milan), Italy EuroGP2001 -- 4th European Conference on Genetic Programming Registration is now available at : http://evonet.dcs.napier.ac.uk/eurogp2001/ There is just a single registration for EuroGP2001 and EvoWorkshops2001, which includes attendance at all sessions over the three days. There is a substantial discount on registrations made before March 15. A complete list of oral and poster presentations is available at : http://evonet.dcs.napier.ac.uk/eurogp2001/papers.html Genetic programming:(noun) 1. a means of automatically generating computer programs to perform certain tasks, in which the principles of Darwinian natural selection are used to drive adaptation and learning. 2. a robust and flexible automated procedure ideally suited for design, pattern recognition and control problems. EuroGP2001:(noun) 1. the largest European event entirely devoted to Genetic Programming. 2. an annual conference frequented by a lively and diverse population of researchers and practitioners. 3. a forum for intellectual exchange - a breeding ground, where ideas recombine and mutate, and where new developments are presented. 4. the next iteration of the GP meta-algorithm. GP applications areas:(phrase) 1. those areas of human activity in which theoretical research into genetic programming has been successfully applied, as for example: financial data mining, robotic and engineering control, signal and image processing, electronic circuit synthesis, bio-informatics, engineering design, music and art. 2. areas that broadly mirror the range of current scientific endeavour - from gene sequencing to satellite imaging and the design of control systems for humanoid robots. human competitive results:(phrase) 1. in the case of genetic programming, results that offer the best available solution, or are equivalent or superior to results produced by humans. 2. for genetic programming an informal benchmark used to establish the effectiveness and utility of the technique. topics of interest:(phrase) 1. fundamental issues within the field of genetic programming, as for example: scalability, code bloat, performance measures, automatic modularisation and code reuse. 2. new theoretical findings. 3. novel applications. Lake Como:(noun) 1. area of outstanding natural and tranquil beauty, within easy reach of Milan. 2. region famed for medieval architecture, and archaeological and artistic museums. 3. location for EuroGP2000. previous events:(phrase) 1. EuroGP98 in Paris. 2. EuroGP99 in Goteburg. 3. EuroGP2000 in Edinburgh. www site http://evonet.dcs.napier.ac.uk/eurogp2001/ Registration: http://146.176.18.61/scripts/eurogp2001/ Papers: http://evonet.dcs.napier.ac.uk/eurogp2001/papers.html Contacts: Programme co-chairs Julian Miller J.F.Miller@cs.bham.ac.uk Marco Tomassini mtomassi@iissun4.unil.ch Local co-chairs Pier Luca Lanzi lanzi@elet.polimi.it Andrea Tettamanzi tettaman@dsi.unimi.it ------------------------------ Sender: Martin Pelikan Subject: CFP: OBUPM-2001 Workshop at GECCO-2001 2nd Call for participation OBUPM-2001 OPTIMIZATION BY BUILDING AND USING PROBABILISTIC MODELS 2001 Bird-of-a-feather Workshop at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2001 ( GECCO-2001 ) San Francisco, California, July 7 - 11, 2001 (Saturday - Wednesday) A recombination of the Sixth Annual Genetic Programming Conference (GP-2001) and the International Conference on Genetic Algorithms (ICGA-2001) organized by Martin Pelikan and Kumara Sastry to be held on Saturday, July 7, 2001 WORKSHOP SUMMARY Algorithms that replace two-parent recombination of genetic algorithms by building and simulating a probabilistic model of promising solutions have received much attention over the past years. The proposed methods resolve many problems of other evolutionary algorithms and are increasingly used to solve various problem of practical and theoretical importance. Theory was designed to understand the dynamics of the algorithms as well as their limits. The purpose of this workshop is to - review and describe the basic principles of discussed methods, - present recent developments in the covered area of research, - discuss current problems and future directions of research in this area, and - encourage communication among active researchers in the area and other participants. The length of the workshop is 4 hours. The workshop will start by an introduction to the field by Martin Pelikan. This will be followed by about 5-7 presentations. The workshop will finish with a panel discussion. PARTICIPATION Presentations will be selected according to the submitted 10-page papers which will be reviewed by at least two members of the international program committee. Accepted papers will be available in electronic form before the workshop. Abbreviated versions of the papers will be later published in the workshop proceedings. The length of each paper will be determined by the number of accepted papers. For more detailed submission guidelines and recent updates, see the workshop pages at http://www-illigal.ge.uiuc.edu/obupm2001/index.html IMPORTANT DATES (subject to change) Paper submission deadline: March 9, 2001 Decisions will be mailed by: April 1, 2001 Submissions of camera-ready papers: April 20, 2001 WORKSHOP CHAIRS Martin Pelikan and Kumara Sastry Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory 117 Transportation Building 104 S. Mathews Ave. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL 61801 pelikan@illigal.ge.uiuc.edu Tel/Fax: (217) 333-2346, (217) 244-5705 ATTENDANCE Attendance to the workshop is open to all GECCO attendees. Further information will be posted on the workshop web pages (www-illigal.ge.uiuc.edu/obupm2001/index.html) as it becomes available. We are looking forward to your participation at the second workshop OBUPM-2001 which is a great opportunity to meet and discuss the covered topics for researchers in this area of research as well as the ones who would like to learn more about using probabilistic models for a more powerful recombination. ------------------------------ Sender: "Shi, Yuhui" Subject: Particle Swarm Optimization Workshop Particle Swarm Optimization Workshop April 6-7, 2001 University Hotel and Conference Center Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis Indianapolis, Indiana, USA Abstracts due February 1, 2001 300-500 words, Word or PDF format Submit electronically to yuhui.shi@eds.com Full papers due March 1, 2001 Six pages maximum, Word or PDF format Submit electronically to eberhart@engr.iupui.edu Preliminary Program Summary Friday, April 6, 2001 Morning: Basic and Advanced Tutorials on Particle Swarm Optimization Afternoon: Technical paper presentations Evening: Reception sponsored by EDS Saturday, April 7, 2001 Morning: Keynote speech by Douglas Hofstadter "Codelets, Enzymes, Ants: an Evolving Cognitive Architecture" Technical paper presentations Afternoon: Technical paper presentations Registration: by 3/1/01 after 3/1/01 Non-student $110 $125 Student $50 $60 General Chair Russell C. Eberhart Purdue School of Engineering and Technology Technical Co-Chairs Yuhui Shi Electronic Data Systems, Inc. Jim Kennedy Bureau of Statistics ------------------------------ Sender: Andrea Danyluk Subject: Review criteria for ICML-2001 To aid authors in the process of preparing papers for submission to ICML-2001, we have made available the review criteria that will be used. They can be found by going to the ICML-2001 homepage at: http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/ICML2001/ ------------------------------ Sender: Andrea Danyluk Subject: Announcing the ICML-2001 Student Scholarship Program The Eighteenth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-2001) announces its student scholarship program. The goals of this program are to integrate students in their research sub-community and to give them a forum to talk to leading researchers in the field about their Ph.D. research. Students participating in the program will be provided scholarships to subsidize travel, conference, and housing expenses for ICML-2001. Note that both US and international students are eligible for this program. For details, please see: http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/ICML2001/ ------------------------------ Sender: "Candida Ferreira" Subject: First GEP components now available Dear colleagues, I am proud to announce the release of GEP Symbolic Regression! WHAT IS GEP-SR? GEP-SR is the first AI component based on Gene Expression Programming (GEP), a new learning algorithm that outperforms Genetic Programming in 2-4 orders of magnitude. GEP-SR is the first product ever to bring the power of GEP to developers, scientists, engineers and anyone with an interest in Evolutionary Computation. GEP-SR is a COM component developed with the ATL framework. It can be used from Visual Basic and Excel as well as from most other COM compatible languages and tools under Windows 98, Windows ME, NT 4.0 or Windows 2000. Its interface is very simple and easy to understand and most properties have pre-set optimal values. No prior knowledge of evolutionary computation is assumed and the complexity is hidden behind a programmer friendly interface. The sample code and application by themselves are enough to start using GEP-SR without any coding and the documentation includes a detailed description of the source code and the techniques used. For a detailed description of GEP-SR go to http://www.gepsoft.com/gepsoft/products.asp DEMOS With the Demo of GEP-SR it is possible to load sets of data and experiment with all the properties of GEP-SR. The methods Evolve and Evolve With Seed are fully functional, except for the evolved programs which are not shown; the Calculator method is fully functional. Download the Demo at http://www.gepsoft.com/gepsoft/demos/ AVAILABILITY GEP-SR is available for purchase at The Component Source: http://www.componentsource.com/ REQUIREMENTS - Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT 4.0 SP 6.0 or Windows 2000 - PII 350 Mhz with 48 Mb RAM (Win98) or 128 Mb RAM (NT/2000) - GEP-SR needs 8 Mb of free memory for each object - COM compatible development environment or tool (Visual Basic 6.0 SP 3 and Excel 97/2000 supported and needed to run the examples) Note: Some non-English versions of Excel are not compatible with GEP-SR; try the Demo before purchasing the complete product. MAILING LIST To receive announcements of future Gepsoft releases, please subscribe to our mailing list at: http://www.gepsoft.com/gepsoft/MailingList.asp Regards, Candida ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Candida Ferreira, PhD Assistant Professor of Biochemistry Department of Agricultural Sciences The Azores University Email: candidaf@gene-expression-programming.com http://www.gene-expression-programming.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------ Sender: "Candida Ferreira" Subject: Update of gene-expression-programming.com Dear colleagues, I updated my web site in order to include the commercial activities related to Gene Expression Programming: http://www.gene-expression-programming.com And now that Gene Expression Programming is well known, I included two more executables that allow the complete analysis of the evolutionary history of a run, using the simple language of GEP chromosomes: http://www.gene-expression-programming.com/gep/problem09.asp http://www.gene-expression-programming.com/gep/problem10.asp And, of course, I am interested in any comments related to GEP. Regards, Candida ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Candida Ferreira, PhD Assistant Professor of Biochemistry Department of Agricultural Sciences The Azores University Email: candidaf@gene-expression-programming.com http://www.gene-expression-programming.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------ Sender: Ricardo Salem Zebulum Subject: Third NASA Workshop on Evolvable Hardware 12-14 July 2001, Pasadena, CA First Call for Papers The Third NASA/DoD Workshop on Evolvable Hardware July 12 - 14, 2001 Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California, USA Sponsored by: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Hosted by: Center for Integrated Space Microsystems (CISM), JPL Center for Space Microelectronics Technology (CSMT), JPL NASA Technology Program (NTP), JPL NASA Ames Information Sciences and Technology Directorate The Third NASA/DoD Workshop on Evolvable Hardware (EH-2001) will be held at the Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, California and hosted by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. Evolvable Hardware is an emerging field that applies evolution to automate design and adaptation of physical structures such as electronic systems, antennas, MEMS and robots. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together leading researchers from the evolvable hardware community, representatives of the automated design and programmable/reconfigurable hardware communities, technology developers, and end-users from the aerospace, military and commercial sectors. Evolvable hardware techniques enable self-reconfigurability and adaptability of programmable devices and thus have the potential to significantly increase the functionality of deployed hardware systems. Evolvable Hardware is expected to have major impact on deployable systems for space missions and defense applications that need to survive and perform at optimal functionality during long duration in unknown, harsh and/or changing environments. Evolvable hardware is also expected to greatly enrich the area of commercial applications in which adaptive information processing is needed; such applications range from human-oriented hardware interfaces and internet adaptive hardware to automotive applications. The focus of this year's workshop will be to provide a roadmap from the current proof-of-concept stage of Evolvable Hardware to the development of larger scale real world systems addressing issues such as evolvability and scalability. The Workshop attendees will have the opportunity to discuss the fundamental issues and state-of-the art of evolvable hardware technology, plans for development of future devices and hardware systems suitable for evolution, and needs related to space applications. Topics to be covered include, but are not limited to: Evolutionary hardware design (including design of mechanical systems, electronic circuits synthesis) Co-evolution of hybrid systems (including hybrids of wetware, chemical, mechanical, and electronic components, etc.) Evolving hardware systems Intrinsic, and on-line evolution Hardware/software co-evolution Self-repairing hardware Self-reconfiguring hardware Embryonic hardware Morphogenesis Novel devices, testbeds and tools supporting evolvable hardware Adaptive computing, adaptive hardware and adaptive flight hardware Real-world applications of evolvable hardware SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Prospective authors are invited to submit the electronic version of their paper (ie PS, PDF, MSWord) by email to eh-2001@cism.jpl.nasa.gov . The paper is limited to 10 pages and should be submitted in single-spaced, 10 point type on a 8.5" X 11" or equivalent paper with 1" margins on all sides. Each submission should contain the following items: (1) title of paper, (2) author name(s), (3) first author physical address, (4) first author e-mail address, (5) first author phone number, (6) a maximum 200 words abstract. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings; details on the publication including the style for the camera-ready paper will be posted later at the workshop web site (http://cism.jpl.nasa.gov/ehw/events/nasaeh01). For further information please contact: Didier KEYMEULEN EH-2001 Workshop Chair Jet Propulsion Laboratory, MS 303-300 4800 Oak Grove Drive Pasadena, CA 91109, USA didier.keymeulen@jpl.nasa.gov Tel: +1 (818) 354-4280 Fax: +1 (818) 393-1545 IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: March 5, 2001 Author notification: April 2, 2001 Camera ready manuscript deadline: May 7, 2001 Workshop: July 12-14, 2001 Chair: Didier Keymeulen, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Co-Chair: Adrian Stoica, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Program Co-Chairs: Jason Lohn, NASA Ames Research Center Ricardo Salem Zebulum, Jet Propulsion Laboratory [ ... edited for brevity by moderator ... ] For further information please check the workshop web site or contact: Workshop web site http://cism.jpl.nasa.gov/ehw/events/nasaeh01 Workshop Chair: Didier Keymeulen Jet Propulsion Laboratory, MS 303-300 4800 Oak Grove Drive Pasadena, CA 91109, USA didier.keymeulen@jpl.nasa.gov Tel: +1 (818) 354-4280 Fax: +1 (818) 393-1545 ------------------------------ End of Genetic Algorithms Digest ******************************