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Today's Topics:
ANNOUNCEMENTS
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- Book of Music-Inspired Harmony Search Algorithm
- New Master in Soft Computing and Intelligent Data Analysis
- ECJ 19 Released
- FOGA, GECCO and GEC 2009 conferences bibtex available
- Request for information about human-competitive results produced by GP
CFPs
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- SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS: EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION (EC) TRACK
- CFP: WORKSHOP on COMPLEXITY, EVOLUTION AND EMERGENT INTELLIGENCE
- 2nd CFP: NICSO 2010 (The IV Intl Wksp on Nature Inspired Cooperative ...
- EvoStar 2010 - First Call for Papers
- CFP: EvoTransLog 2010: EC for Transportation and Logistics
- EvoCOP 2010 Call for Papers
- EvoMUSART 2010: 8th European Wksp on Evol. and Bio. Inspired Music, ...
- Call For Entries for 2010 human-competitive awards at GECCO-2010 conf.
- CFP: 3rd Workshop on Theory of Randomized Search Heuristics
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CALENDAR OF GA-RELATED ACTIVITIES: (with EC-Digest issue reference)
TRSH09, Wksp on Theory of Randomized Search Heur, Birmingham,UK,Oct19-20(v23n7)
ACAL09, Australian Conference on Artificial Life, Melbourne, Dec 1-4,09 (v23n4)
AI09, Australian Conference on Artifical Intelligence, Melbourne,Dec 1-4(v23n4)
AI*IA09, Conf. of the Italian Assoc. for AI, Reggio Emilia,Italy,Dec9-11(v23n7)
EVO* 2010, EuroGP EvoCOP EvoBIO and EvoAppl., Istanbul, Turkey, Apr 7-9 (v23n7)
NICSO10,IV Intl Wksp on Nature Inspired ..., Granada, Spain, May 12-14 (v23n7)
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Sender: Zong Woo Geem <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Book of Music-Inspired Harmony Search Algorithm
Recently, one book has been edited on music-inspired harmony search algorithm
which mimics musician's behavior in improvization process.
http://www.springer.com/engineering/book/978-3-642-00184-0
Applications include music composition, Sudoku puzzle solving, tour planning,
web page clustering, structural design, water network design, vehicle routing,
dam scheduling, ground water modeling, soil stability analysis, ecological
conservation, energy system dispatch, heat exchanger design, transportation
energy modeling, pumping operation, model parameter calibration, satellite heat
pipe design, medical physics, etc.
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Sender: Oscar Cordon <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: New Master in Soft Computing and Intelligent Data Analysis
Soft Computing (SC) and Intelligent Data Analysis (IDA) provide powerful tools
for problem solving in a variety of domains. A non-exhaustive list of typical
applications includes client segmentation, fraud detection, credit scoring,
process control, logistics and information retrieval. Applications can be found
in all sectors: engineering, finance, marketing, operations research,
bioinformatics, medicine, ...
SC is composed of four main branches: evolutionary computation, fuzzy logic,
neural networks, and probabilistic reasoning. The current master aims to provide
a wide overview and strong basis on the fundamentals and applications of these
four families of techniques and of their hybridization. Several courses are thus
devoted to evolutionary computation and to its hybridizations with fuzzy logic,
neural networks and probabilistic reasoning (such as Evolutionary Computation
and Metaheuristics; Genetic Fuzzy Systems and Neuro-fuzzy Systems;
Evolutionary, Neural and Probabilistic Hybrid Models; ...).
The tremendous potential of SC and IDA has created a demand for well-trained
professionals in this field. For this reason, the University of Oviedo and the
European Centre for Soft Computing have joined efforts to offer an Official
Master Course in Soft Computing and Intelligent Data Analysis. This is a
one-year full-time program that combines rigorous training in advanced
techniques with a close contact with real applications.
OBJECTIVE
The objective of the Master is to provide students with the foundations required
to pursue a PhD degree, as well as with applied skills to prepare for a research
career in academy or industry.
PROGRAM STRUCTURE
The program is designed to provide a balanced mix of academic and professional
training. The course is divided into four Modules plus a Master's project:
Module I: Fundamentals of Soft Computing
Module II: Hybrid Intelligent Systems
Module III: Intelligent Data Analysis
Module IV: Application Domains
LECTURERS
The teaching staff has been selected among the top academics in this field. All
lecturers have considerable teaching experience (on average, 15 years) and a
world-class reputation in research. The list of lecturers includes among others:
Piero Bonissone, Christian Borgelt, Oscar Cordón, Sven Crone, Didier Dubois,
M. Ángeles Gil, Francisco Herrera, Janusz Kacprzyk, Rudolf Kruse, Manuel Laguna,
Pedro Larrañaga, Ramón López de Mántaras, Luis Magdalena, and Enric Trillas.
MAIN FEATURES
Academic Period: October 2009 to July 2010.
Language: English.
Class Schedule: From 15:30 until 20:00, Monday through Friday.
Location: Scientific Building in the Mieres Campus of the University of
Oviedo (SPAIN).
Application Period: June 1 to July 15. Late applications will be processed only
if there are places available.
Course Fee: approximately 1800?(official prices for next year not yet published)
Financial Aid: The Master offers scholarships that will cover registration fee,
round trip and living expenses. Scholarships are open to all applicants and will
be awarded on the basis of academic excellence.
INFORMATION
http://www.softcomputing.es/master
For any specific information write or call:
EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR SOFT COMPUTING
Telephone: +34 985 456545
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
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Sender: Sean Luke <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: ECJ 19 Released
Just in time for GECCO! No, wait...
After languishing a long time out on CVS for a year, ECJ 19 has been finally
released as a snapshot. See
http://cs.gmu.edu/~eclab/projects/ecj/
ECJ is a Java-based evolutionary computation toolkit developed at George Mason
University, and is reasonably widely used in the research community. ECJ has
support for a large number of evolutionary computation techniques and
representations, including strong support for genetic programming and a robust
set of parallel evolutionary procedures.
Have fun!
Sean Luke
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Sender: Langdon W B <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: FOGA, GECCO and GEC 2009 conferences bibtex available
I am pleased to announce that bibtex files describing the papers recently
presented at the Foundations of Genetic Algorithms workshop in Orlando, the
ACM/SigEvo GEC Summit in Shanghai and GECCO in Montreal are available via
anonymous ftp:
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~wbl/biblio/foga2009.bib
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~wbl/biblio/sigevo_gec2009.bib
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~wbl/biblio/gecco2009.bib
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~wbl/biblio/gecco2009comp.bib
They may be incorporated into the collection of computer science bibliographies,
http://liinwww.ira.uka.de/bibliography/Ai
and DBLP. The papers are available via the ACM library.
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Sender: John Koza <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Request for information about human-competitive results produced by GP
I am in the process of writing a review article on human-competitive results
produced by genetic programming. I'd like to assemble a complete collection
of such results. Of course, the human-competitive results that have already
been entered into the annual "Humies" awards at GECCO at
www.human-competitive.org are well-known. Aside from those, I would
appreciate receiving a copy of any published article (and complete
bibliographic citation for the article if not apparent from the face of the
article itself). I am planning to use this information for the immediate
article (due soon) and probably also for an expanded human-competitive web
site, tutorials, etc .
Thank you.
Dr. John R. Koza
Box K
Los Altos Hills, California 94023 USA
Phone: 650-941-0336
Fax: 650-941-9430
Email: [log in to unmask]
URL: www.johnkoza.com
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Sender: Federico Divina <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS: EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION (EC) TRACK
25th ACM Symposium On Applied Computing
March 22-26, 2010
Sierre, Switzerland
For over twenty years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing has been an
important forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software
engineers, and application developers to interact and present their work.
The Evolutionary Computation (EC) track 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, artificial immune systems, particle swarm
optimization, and classifier systems. All accepted papers will appear in the
SAC 2010 Proceedings. Selected papers, not accepted as full papers, will be
accepted as poster papers. These will be presented at a poster session during
the Symposium and will be published as two-page extended abstracts in the
Proceedings. A paper may be submitted to only one track of SAC 2010.
GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION
* Papers should represent original and previously unpublished works that are
currently not under review for any journal or other conference. Both basic and
applied research papers are welcome.
* Submissions will be in electronic format via this web site:
http://sac.cs.iupui.edu/SAC2010/
* Submission must follow ths template found at this URL:
http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2010/downloads10.htm
* Authors are allowed up to eight (8) pages in the specified format, but there
is a charge of US$80 for each page over five (5).
* Authors' names and addresses must not appear in the body of the submitted
papers, and self-references should be in the third person. This is to
facilitate blind review.
* Begin the submission process by submitting your paper's abstract on the
conference web site at the URL above.
* All submitted papers must include the paper identification number (assigned
when the abstract is submitted) on the front page above the title of the paper
* No author's name may appear on more than two papers accepted to the EC track.
Note also the guidelines in the general SAC 2010 Call for Papers
(http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2010/SAC2010-CFP.pdf).
IMPORTANT DATES (all deadlines will be strictly enforced)
SEPTEMBER 8, 2009 PAPER SUBMISSIONS
OCTOBER 19, 2009 AUTHOR NOTIFICATION
NOVEMBER 2, 2009 CAMERA-READY COPY DUE
MARCH 22, 2010 CONFERENCE BEGINS
For additional information, visit the SAC 2010 EC Track web page
(www.upo.es/eps/SAC/cfpSAC2010EC.html) and the general SAC 2010 web page
(http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2010/).
TRACK CHAIRS
Federico Divina, Raúl Giráldez Rojo
School of Engineering
Pablo de Olavide University
Seville, Spain
{fdivina,giraldez} AT upo DOT es
Phone: +34 954 977592
Fax: +34 9543 48689
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Sender: Stefano Cagnoni <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: CFP: WORKSHOP on COMPLEXITY, EVOLUTION AND EMERGENT INTELLIGENCE
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WORKSHOP on COMPLEXITY, EVOLUTION AND EMERGENT INTELLIGENCE
12 December 2009 Reggio Emilia (Italy)
Satellite workshop of
AI*IA 2009 International Conference of the
Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence
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* * * CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline October 4, 2009 * * *
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WORKSHOP WEBSITE
Updated information can be found on the workshop section of the
conference website, http://www.aixia09.unimore.it
CALL FOR PAPERS
The workshop aims at bringing together scientists who work from
different perspectives, from basic science to applications, on the
common theme of systems composed by many components that interact
non-linearly.
Due to the different backgrounds and references of the scientific
communities of researchers working in these fields, opportunities to
exchange ideas and to achieve cross-fertilization are lacking. The
aim of the workshop is therefore to try and bridge this gap and reach
a better comprehension of the mechanisms underlying such systems, as
well as to find new applications based on them.
Such systems (complex systems, or CS for short) very often exhibit
interesting features, as self-organisation, robustness, surprising
collective processes and occasionally intelligence; in particular, up
to now the living CSs are the only systems able to support the last
feature.
As already suggested, the contemporary presence of intelligence and
complex interactions may not be casual but, instead, able to disclose
deeper links between the two characteristics. Are there universal
patterns of organization in complex systems, from pre-biotic
replicators to evolved beings, to artificial objects? Do these
structures allow effective computational processes to develop?
Key questions are how robust structures which develop in such systems
are, how information is incorporated into these structures and how
computation emerges. The study of complex systems is also interested
in determining the contributions of selection, chance and
self-organization to the functioning and evolution of complex
structures.
The interactions between the communities of Complex Systems Science
(CSS) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) have been rather limited so
far, although both might benefit from closer interactions. Recent
developments for example in the context of agent-based modelling,
distributed and/or evolutionary computation - represent new
opportunities for further exploring and strengthening these scientific
interactions and connections.
Could methodologies coming from research in Complexity inspire the
rise of new paradigms and/or theories in Artificial Intelligence? Or
could AI methods deepen the knowledge of complex environments? This
workshop would like to encourage the dialogue between the two
disciplines and, possibly, recognise that this dialogue is actually
already fruitfully commenced.
PAPER SUBMISSION FORMAT
Papers not exceeding 10 pages, written in English and complying with
the LNCS Springer-Verlag format
(http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0) should
be submitted electronically. Submissions are due in PDF format
attached to an email sent to the following email address:
[log in to unmask]
IMPORTANT DATES
* Paper submission: October 4, 2009
* Camera-ready of accepted papers: November 11, 2009
* Workshop day: December 12, 2009
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Sender: German Terrazas Angulo <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: 2nd CFP: NICSO 2010 (The IV International Workshop on Nature Inspired
Cooperative Strategies for Optimization)
The IV International Workshop on Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for
Optimization - NICSO 2010
May 12th - 14th | Granada, Spain | http://www.nicso2010.org
2nd CALL FOR PAPERS
Biological and natural processes have always been a source of inspiration for
computer science and information technology. It is well known that biological
entities, from single cell organisms -like bacteria- to humans, often engage in
a rich repertoire of social interaction that could range from altruistic
cooperation through open conflict. One specific kind of social interaction is
cooperative problem solving (CPS), where a group of autonomous entities work
together in order to achieve certain goal.
The NICSO 2010 aims at promoting cooperative problem solving strategies bringing
together international researchers and practitioners from different disciplines
in order to discuss the investigations and exchange ideas on the current state
of the art of the topic. The conference seeks contributions that are inspired by
Nature and that encompass a range of spatio-temporal scales, for visionary
conceptions of information processing and computation as pertaining to
cooperation mechanisms in the context of problem solving.
All submitted papers will be blind reviewed by at least two reviewers. Selection
criteria will be based on relevance, originality, significance, impact,
technical soundness and quality of the presentation. Contributions are expected
to provide original results, insights and experimental innovations. Manuscripts
must be in PDF, not exceeding 12 pages and conforming to the guidelines
specified in the workshop's website. Contributions are welcome to submission
through the system available at
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nicso2010. The accepted papers will
be published in the book series on Studies in Computational Intelligence
(Springer). The authors of the best accepted papers will be invited to revise
and extend their contributions for publication in a special issue in the
Memetic Computing Journal (Springer).
Target topics (but not limited to):
Adaptive Behaviour
Ants Colonies
Amorphous Computing
Artificial Life
Artificial Immune
Bio-inspired architecture
Distributed Computing
Evolutionary Robotics
Evolvable Systems
Genetic Algorithms
Genetic Programming
Membrane Computing
Quantum Computing
Software Self-Assembly
Systems Coevolution
Swarm Intelligence
* * * IMPORTANT DATES * * *
Full paper submission: October 15, 2009
Acceptance notification: November 30, 2009
Final camera ready: December 15, 2009
NICSO: May 12 - 14, 2010
website: http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gzt
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Sender: Stephen Dignum <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: EvoStar 2010 - First Call for Papers
EVO* 2010 including EuroGP, EvoCOP, EvoBIO and EvoApplications
7th - 9th April, 2010
Istanbul Technical University | Istanbul, Turkey | http://www.evostar.org
The EuroGP, EvoCOP, EvoBIO and EvoApplications conferences compose EVO*:
Europe's premier co-located events in the field of Evolutionary Computing.
Featuring the latest in theoretical and applied research, EVO* topics include
recent genetic programming challenges, evolutionary and other meta-heuristic
approaches for combinatorial optimization, evolutionary algorithms, machine
learning and data mining techniques in the biosciences, 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.
Important dates for all events are:
*** Submission deadline: 4th November 2009 ***
Conference: 7th - 9th April 2010
Scope of the events:
EuroGP:
13th 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:
10th 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:
8th 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.
EvoApplications:
EvoCOMNET: Telecommunication networks and other Parallel and Distributed Systems
EvoCOMPLEX (new): Interaction of evolutionary algorithms (and metaheuristics
in general) with complex systems
EvoENVIRONMENT: Environmental issues
EvoFIN: Finance and economics
EvoGAMES: Bio-inspired Algorithms in Games
EvoIASP: Image analysis and signal processing
EvoINTELLIGENCE (new): Interactive evolution and humanized computational
intelligence
EvoMUSART: Music, sound, art and design
EvoNUM: Continuous parameter optimisation
EvoSTOC: Stochastic and dynamic environments
EvoTRANSLOG: Transportation and logistics
EvoPHD: Graduate student workshop on evolutionary computation
Evo* 2010 proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture
Notes in Computer Science series.
The website http://www.evostar.org offers information relevant to all events,
including calls for papers, deadlines, organizing committees, submission
requirements, local information and information about previous conferences.
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Sender: Joern Grahl <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: CFP: EvoTransLog 2010: EC for Transportation and Logistics
We would like to draw your attention to the fourth edition of EvoTransLog,
Evolutionary Computation in Transportation and Logistics. EvoTransLog 2010 is
incorporated in Evo* 2010, which joins Europe's premier co-located conferences
in the field of evolutionary computing, namely EuroGP, EvoCOP, EvoBIO, and the
EvoApplications Conference on the Application of Evolutionary Computation.
EvoTransLog will be held in Istanbul, Turkey, 7-9 April 2010.
Submission deadline is November 4, 2009. For more information, visit
--> http://www.evostar.org and
--> http://dces.essex.ac.uk/research/evostar/EvoTRANSLOG.htm .
EvoTransLog addresses all aspects of the use of evolutionary computation, local
search, and other nature-inspired optimisation and design techniques for
transport, logistics, and supply chain management.
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
- supply chain management
Accepted papers will be published in a volume of the Springer Lecture Notes in
Computer Science series together with papers from the EvoApplications Conference
on the Application of Evolutionary Computation.
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Sender: Peter Merz <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: EvoCOP 2010 Call for Papers
CALL FOR PAPERS
EvoCOP 2010
The Tenth European Conference on Evolutionary Computation
and Metaheuristics in Combinatorial Optimization
Istanbul, Turkey, 7-9 April 2010
(Submission deadline 4th November 2009)
http://www.evostar.org
Topics
Metaheuristics are used to solve difficult combinatorial optimization problems
appearing in various industrial, economic, and scientific domains. Prominent
examples of metaheuristics include: 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.
The EvoCOP series, started in 2001 and held annually since then, was the first
event specifically dedicated to the application of evolutionary computation and
related methods to combinatorial optimization problems. Following the general
trend of hybrid metaheuristics and diminishing\ boundaries between the different
classes of metaheuristics, EvoCOP broadened its scope in 2006, and now
explicitly invites submissions on any kind of metaheuristic for combinatorial
optimization. All accepted papers will be presented orally at the conference and
printed in the proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series (see LNCS
volumes 2037, 2279, 2611, 3004, 3448, 3906, 4446, 4972 and 5482 for the previous
proceedings).
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Applications of metaheuristics to combinatorial optimization problems
- Novel application domains for metaheuristic optimisation methods
- 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
- Automated tuning of metaheuristics using machine learning, evolutionary and
other approaches
The conference will be held in conjunction with EuroGP2010 (the 13th European
Conference on Genetic Programming), EvoBIO 2010 (the 8th European Conference on
Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning and Data Mining in Bioinformatics),
and EvoWorkshops 2010 (including specialist workshops on a range of evolutionary
computation topics and applications), in a joint event collectively known as
EvoStar 2010.
Submission
Submissions will be done electronically using the online submission service.
More details will be available at the conference website http://www.evostar.org
Papers must be formatted following Springer LNCS guidelines, with no more than
12 pages. The submission deadline is 4th November, 2009.
IMPORTANT: The reviewing process will be double-blind, so please omit
information about the authors in the submitted paper. The submissions will be
peer reviewed by at least three members of the program committee.
More Information
More detailed information on the event, including venue, committees, contact
addresses, etc., can be found at the Evo* homepage: http://www.evostar.org
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Sender: Penousal Machado <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: EvoMUSART 2010: 8th European Workshop on Evolutionary and Biologically
Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design
EvoMUSART 2010
8th European Workshop on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound,
Art and Design
7-9 April, 2010, Istanbul, Turkey | http://www.evostar.org
INTRODUCTION
EvoMUSART 2010 is the eight workshop of the EvoNet working group on Evolutionary
Music and Art. Following the success of previous events and the growth of
interest in the field, the main goal of EvoMUSART 2010 is to bring together
researchers who are using biologically inspired techniques for artistic tasks,
providing the opportunity to promote, present and discuss ongoing work in this
area.
The workshop will be held from 7-9 April, 2010 in Istanbul, Turkey as part of
the EvoStar event.
Accepted papers will be presented orally at the workshop and included in the
EvoWorkshops proceedings, published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in
Computer Science series.
EvoMUSART 2010 important dates are:
Submission deadline: November 4, 2009
Conference: 7-9 April, 2010
TOPICS OF INTEREST
The papers should concern the use of bio-inspired techniques (Evolutionary
Computation, Artificial Life, Artificial Neural Networks, Swarm Intelligence,
etc.) in the scope of the generation, analysis and interpretation of art, music,
design, architecture and other artistic fields. Topics of interest include, but
are not limited to:
- Generation
o Biologically Inspired Design and Art-Making Systems that create drawings,
images, animations, sculptures, poetry, text, objects, designs, webpages,
buildings, etc.;
o Biologically Inspired Sound-Generators and Music-Systems that create music,
aggregate sound, or simulate instruments, voices, effects, etc;
o Robotic Based Evolutionary Art and Music;
o Other related generative techniques;
- Theory
o Computational Aesthetics, Emotional Response, Surprise, Novelty;
o Representation techniques;
o Comparative analysis and classification;
o Validation methodologies;
o New biologically inspired computation models in art, music and design;
- Computer Aided Creativity
o New ways of integrating users into evolutionary computation art and music
frameworks;
o Analysis and evaluation of: the artistic potential of biologically inspired
art and music; the artistic processes inherent to these approaches; the
resulting artifacts;
o Collaborative distributed artificial art environments;
- Automation
o Techniques for automated fitness assignment;
o Systems that exploit biologically inspired computation to analyze artistic
objects and artifacts;
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND SUBMISSION DETAILS
Submit your manuscript, at most 10 A4 pages long, in Springer LNCS format no
later than November 4, 2009. Formatting instructions available at:
http://www.springer.com/dal/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=1-164-7-72376-0&teaserId=
45515&CENTER_ID=73062)
The papers will be peer reviewed by at least three members of the program
committee. Authors will be notified via email on the results of the review by
20 December 2009.
The authors of accepted papers will have to improve their paper on the basis of
the reviewers' comments and will be asked to send a camera ready version of
their manuscripts, along with text sources and pictures, by 10 January 2010.
The accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings, published in
Springer LNCS Series, which will be available at the workshop.
Further information, including the Online Submission Details, can be found on
the following pages:
Evo*2010: http://www.evostar.org
EvoMUSART2010: http://dces.essex.ac.uk/research/evostar/EvoMUSART.htm
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Sender: John Koza <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Call For Entries for 2010 human-competitive awards at GECCO-2010
conference
Call For Entries
for 7th Annual "Humies" Awards
for Human-Competitive Results
Produced by Genetic and Evolutionary Computation
www.human-competitive.org
Entries are hereby solicited for awards totaling $10,000 for the 2010 awards for
human-competitive results that have been produced by any form of genetic and
evolutionary computation (including, but not limited to genetic algorithms,
genetic programming, evolution strategies, evolutionary programming, learning
classifier systems, grammatical evolution, gene expression programming,
differential evolution, etc.) and that have been published in the open
literature between the deadline for the previous competition and the deadline
for the current competition.
IMPORTANT DATES:
. Monday May 31, 2010 - Entries are due by e-mail
. Monday June 21, 2010 - Finalists will be notified by e-mail
. Wednesday June 30, 2010 - Finalists must submit their presentation
. July 7-11, 2010 - Dates for GECCO conference in Portland, Oregon
. Friday July 9, 2010 (TENTATIVE) - Presentations before judging committee at
public session at GECCO conference
. Sunday July 11, 2010 (TENTATIVE) - Announcement of awards at morning plenary
session of GECCO conference
If you plan to make an entry into this competition, please check the web site at
www.human-competitive.org for updated information prior to submitting your
entry. If you make an entry, please re-check this web site periodically prior
to the conference for additional (and possible changing) information and
instructions.
JUDGING COMMITTEE:
Wolfgang Banzhaf, Erik Goodman, John R. Koza, Riccardo Poli, Darrell Whitley
CALL FOR ENTRIES
Techniques of genetic and evolutionary computation are being increasingly
applied to difficult real-world problems - often yielding results that are not
merely academically interesting, but competitive with the work done by creative
and inventive humans. Starting at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation
Conference (GECCO) in Seattle in 2004, cash prizes have been awarded for
human-competitive results that had been produced by some form of genetic and
evolutionary computation in the previous year.
This prize competition is based on published results. The publication may be a
paper at the GECCO conference (i.e., regular paper, poster paper, or any other
full-length paper), a paper published anywhere in the open literature (e.g.,
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Sender: Per Kristian Lehre <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: CFP: 3rd Workshop on Theory of Randomized Search Heuristics
Call for Abstracts and Participation
3rd Workshop on Theory of Randomized Search Heuristics
Birmingham, UK, October 19-20th 2009
http://trsh.org
Important dates
* Submission: Sep 11th 2009
* Notification: Sep 18th 2009
* Registration: Oct 1st 2009
* Workshop: Oct 19th-20th 2009
Description
Randomised search heuristics have been highly successful in various
applications, both in combinatorial and numerical optimisation. In
contrast to problem-specific randomised algorithms, they are designed
to be general black-box optimisers.
Given such a scenario, proving that such algorithms satisfy certain
performance guarantees remains a hard and widely open problem. Gaining
a theoretical understanding of randomised search heuristics is
therefore an important task. Since these search heuristics are of a
stochastic nature, there is a clear potential in applying techniques
developed in the area of design and analysis of problem-specific
randomised algorithms, in addition to the mathematical methods that
are developed specifically to analyse randomised search heuristics.
Randomised search heuristics include, but are not limited to,
* evolutionary algorithms,
* immune system inspired algorithms,
* particle swarm optimisation
* ant colony optimisation,
* simulated annealing, and
* tabu search.
Aim
The aim of this workshop is to stimulate interactions between people
already working on these problems and those with a general background
in natural computation or randomised algorithms or both. The primary
focus is on discussing recent ideas and detecting interesting topics
for future work, rather than in presenting final results.
Keynote speaker
* Artur Czumaj (University of Warwick, UK)
Tutorial speakers
Theory of randomised search heuristics for continuous optimisation.
* Anne Auger (INRIA Saclay, France)
* Nikolaus Hansen (INRIA Saclay, France)
Theory of randomised search heuristics for discrete optimisation.
* Thomas Jansen (University College Cork, Ireland)
Submission of Abstracts
Technical talks by researchers working on various aspects of the
theory of randomised search heuristics will follow the tutorials.
Researchers working on theoretical aspects of randomised search
heuristics are invited to submit proposals for a talk in form of a
short abstract (one single page) in PDF format to [log in to unmask]
Participants are free to present both previously published work and
new ideas. As there will be no printed proceedings, presented work can
be published elsewhere.
Registration
Registration is via email to [log in to unmask] There is no
registration fee.
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