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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION for The 2010 Intl Wksp on Nature Inspired Computati...
- FOGA 2011 registration first deadline 8 Oct 2010
- GECCO 2010 conference bibtex available
CFPs
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- EvoCOP 2011 (27-29 April 2011 - Torino, Italy): Call for papers
- CFP: Evol. Computation in Image Analysis and Signal Processing - EvoIASP 2011
- EC in Transportation and Logistics 2011
- CFP - NIDISC'11: 14th Intl Workshop on Nature Inspired Distributed Computing
- CFP evomusart 2011. Evol. and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and ...
- Call for GECCO 2011 workshop proposals
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CALENDAR OF GA-RELATED ACTIVITIES: (with EC-Digest issue reference)
AIAI 2010,6th IFIP Conf on AI Applicatio..., Ayia Napa, Cyprus, Oct5-7'10(v24n7)
IWNICA'10,Intl Wksp on Nature Inspired Comp and Applications,Oct23-27'10(v24n10)
META'10,Intl. Conf. on Meta. and Nature ..., Djerba, Tunisia,Oct28-30'10 (v24n5)
BIONETICS'10,5th Intl ICST Conf on Bio-Inspi...,Boston, MA, USA,Dec1-3'10(v24n6)
NaBIC'10,2nd World Congress on Nature ..., Kitakyushu, Japan,Dec 15-17'10(v24n6)
SEMCCO'10,Intl Conf on Swarm, Evolut..., Chennai, India, Dec. 16-18, 2010(v24n6)
FOGA'11,Foundations of Gen. Alg. XI, Schwarzenberg, Austria, Jan 5-9 2011(v24n3)
ACM-SAC11,26th ACM Symp Applied Comp EC Track,TaiChung Taiwan,Mar21-25'11(v24n7)
IEEE SDE'11,IEEE Symp on Differential Evolution,Paris, France,Apr11-15'11(v24n6)
ICANNGA'11,Intl Conf. on Adaptive and ...,Ljubljana, Slovenia,Apr14-16'11(v24n6)
EVO*'11, The main European events on EC, Torino, Italy, April 27-29, 2011(v24n9)
GECCO'11,Genetic and Evol Comp Conference, Dublin, Ireland,July 12-16 '11(v24n7)
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Sender: Ke Tang <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION for The 2010 International Workshop on Nature
Inspired Computation and Applications (IWNICA'10)
The 2010 International Workshop on Nature Inspired Computation and
Applications (IWNICA'10)
October 23th -27th, 2010.
http://nical.ustc.edu.cn/nica2010/
HOSTED AND ORGANIZED BY
Nature Inspired Computation and Applications Laboratory (NICAL) School of
Computer Science and Technology University of Science and Technology of
China (USTC), Hefei, Anhui, China
CO-SPONSORED BY
The Joint Birmingham-USTC Research Institute in Intelligent Computing and
Its Applications
WORKSHOP VENUE: Grand Hotel Overseas Traders Club, Hefei, China
(http://www.hfwshotel.com/en/hotel_introduction.html)
INTRODUCTION
The 2010 International Workshop on Nature Inspired Computation and Applications
is the fourth in this high-level international workshop series. The first was
held in October 2004, the second in October 2006 and the third in May 2008. The
primary goal of this workshop series is to provide a small and informal setting
for researchers to engage in deep discussions on latest research issues in
nature inspired computation and its applications. The workshop speakers always
feature the very best researchers in the world. The 2010 workshop is no
exception. Each of its invited speakers will give two talks, the first will be
of tutorial nature, and the second will focus on the latest research in the
related area.
REGISTRATION (http://nical.ustc.edu.cn/nica2010/registration/rege.htm)
The workshop is free of any registration fees. However, registration is required
in order for the organizers to provide the participants with more detailed
information about the workshop. The participants can choose either of the
following options:
1. No fee to pay for attending the workshop. The participants are
responsible for their own travel, accommodation and all catering
arrangements. No workshop materials will be given.
2. The organizers can arrange lunches and dinners for the 5-days workshop,
and a hardcopy of the materials of invited talks (including the slides and
references). This will cost USD 100.
WORKSHOP HOMEPAGE
http://nical.ustc.edu.cn/nica2010/
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Sender: w langdon <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: FOGA 2011 registration first deadline 8 Oct 2010
A quick reminder, the deadline for early registration at the next FOGA
is Friday, October 8, 2010.
Details on ACM SigEvo web site:
http://www.sigevo.org/foga-2011/registration.html
The eleventh Foundations of Genetic Algorithms workshop
will be held in the Alpes in the west of Austria near lake Constance
from 5-9 Jan 2011 (Wednesday-Sunday).
(Hirschen, Schwarzenberg, zip code A-6867.)
Register online via https://www.regonline.com/foga11
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Sender: w langdon <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: GECCO 2010 conference bibtex available
I am pleased to announce that bibtex files describing the papers recently
presented at GECCO are available via anonymous ftp:
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~wbl/biblio/gecco2010.bib
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~wbl/biblio/gecco2010comp.bib
They may be incorporated into the collection of computer science bibliographies,
http://liinwww.ira.uka.de/bibliography/Ai/gecco.html
and DBLP. The papers are available via the ACM library.
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Sender: Jin-Kao Hao <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: EvoCOP 2011 (27-29 April 2011 - Torino, Italy): Call for papers
CALL FOR PAPERS
EvoCOP 2011: The 11th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation
and Metaheuristics in Combinatorial Optimization
27-29 April 2011 - Torino, Italy
(Submission deadline: 22 November 2010)
http://www.evostar.org
Topics
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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, 5482, 6022 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 EuroGP2011 (the 14th European
Conference on Genetic Programming), EvoBIO 2011 (the 8th European Conference on
Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning and Data Mining in Bioinformatics),
and EvoWorkshops 2011 (including specialist workshops on a range of evolutionary
computation topics and applications), in a joint event collectively known as
EvoStar 2011.
Submission
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The submission deadline: 22 November, 2010
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.
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
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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: [log in to unmask]
Subject: CFP: Evolutionary Computation in Image Analysis and Signal
Processing - EvoIASP 2011
Evolutionary Computation in Image Analysis and Signal Processing
an EvoApplication (European Conference on the Applications of
Evolutionary Computation) event incorporated in Evo* 2011
Torino, Italy, 27-29 April 2011
*************** SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 22 November 2010 ****************
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
Evolutionary algorithms have been shown to be tools which can be used
effectively in the development of systems (software or hardware) for
image analysis and signal processing in complex domains of high
industrial and social relevance.
EvoIASP has been the first European event specifically dedicated to
the applications of evolutionary computation (EC) to image analysis
and signal processing (IASP) and 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, besides fostering closer future
interaction between members of the three scientific communities.
In 2011, EvoIASP will reach its thirteenth edition, after being held
in Gothenburg, Sweden (1999), Edinburgh, UK (2000), Como, Italy
(2001), Kinsale, Ireland (2002), Colchester, UK (2003), Coimbra,
Portugal (2004), Lausanne, Switzerland (2005), Budapest, Hungary
(2006), Valencia, Spain (2007), Naples, Italy (2008), Tuebingen,
Germany (2009), Istanbul, Turkey (2010).
EvoIASP 2011 is part of EvoApplications 2011, the Conference on
Applications of Evolutionary Computation, one of the events which will
take place under the common name of Evo* 2011, which will be held in
Torino, the first capital of Italy, in the year in which the 150th
anniversary of the country's unification is celebrated.
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.
Submissions
Submit your manuscript, at most 10 A4 pages long, in Springer LNCS
format (instructions are downloadable from
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) using
the online submission service (see http://www.evostar.org for further
details) no later than November 22, 2010. The papers will be peer
reviewed by at least two members of the program committee. Authors
will be notified via email on the results of the review by January 7,
2011.
The authors of accepted papers will be invited to improve their paper
on the basis of the reviewers' comments and asked to send a camera
ready version of their manuscripts, along with text sources and
pictures, February 1, 2011. The accepted papers will appear in the
proceedings of Evo*, published in Springer LNCS Series, which will be
available at the Conference.
Important dates
November 22, 2010 Paper submission
January 7, 2011 Notification of Acceptance
February 1, 2011 Camera-ready submission
April 27-29, 2011 Conference (including all other Evo* events)
Web address http://www.evostar.org
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Sender: Joern Grahl <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: EC in Transportation and Logistics 2011
1st CFP: Evolutionary Computation in Transportation and Logistics 2011
We would like to draw your attention to Evotranslog 2011, the 5th European event
on Evolutionary Computation in Transportation and Logistics
EvoTransLog 2011 is incorporated in EvoStar 2011, 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 Torino, Italy, 27-29 April 2011. Submission
deadline is November 22, 2010.
For more information, visit http://www.evostar.org
The impact of transportation and logistics on the modern economy and society has
been growing steadily over the last few decades. The worldwide division of
labour, the connection of distributed production centres, and the increased
mobility of individuals lead to an increased demand for efficient solutions to
problems in transport, logistics, and supply chain management.
Along with the development of more powerful computer systems, design and
optimisation techniques like evolutionary computing approaches have been
developed that allow us to use computers for the systematic design,
optimisation, and improvement of systems. evotranslog, Evolutionary Computation
in Transportation and Logistics, addresses all aspects of the use of
evolutionary computation, local search, matheuristics and other nature-inspired
optimisation and design techniques for transport, logistics, and supply chain
management.
Evotranslog gives researchers in the above-named fields, 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 different scientific communities.
Areas of interest and contributions:
Relevant application topics include (but are not limited to):
- transportation and supply networks;
- logistics;
- supply chain management;
- 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.
Publication details:
Accepted papers will appear in the proceedings of evo*, published in a volume of
the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, which will be available at
the Conference.
Submission details:
Submissions must be original and not published elsewhere. The submissions will
be peer reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. 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. At least one author of each accepted work has to register for the
conference and attend the conference and present the work.
The reviewing process will be double-blind, please omit information about the
authors in the submitted paper. Submit your manuscript in Springer lncs format.
Submission link: http://myreview.csregistry.org/evoapps11
Page limit: 10 pages.
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Sender: Gregoire Danoy <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: CFP - NIDISC'11: 14th International Workshop on Nature Inspired
Distributed Computing
The 14th International Workshop on
Nature Inspired Distributed Computing
(NIDISC'11)
http://nidisc2011.gforge.uni.lu/
held in conjunction with
The 25th IEEE International
Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'2010)
16-20 May 2011
Anchorage (Alaska) USA
http://www.ipdps.org
Workshop Theme :
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Techniques based on metaheuristics and nature-inspired paradigms can provide
efficient solutions to a wide variety of problems. Moreover, parallel and
distributed metaheuristics can be used to provide more powerful problem solving
environments in a variety of fields, ranging, for example, from finance to
bio- and health-informatics. This workshop seeks to provide an opportunity for
researchers to explore the connection between metaheuristics and the development
of solutions to problems that arise in operations research, parallel computing,
telecommunications, bioinformatics, and many others.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Nature-inspired methods (e.g. ant colonies, GAs, cellular automata, DNA and
molecular computing, local search, etc) for problem solving environments.
* Parallel and distributed metaheuristics techniques (algorithms, technologies
and tools).
* Applications combining traditional parallel and distributed computing and
optimization techniques as well as theoretical issues (convergence,
complexity, etc).
* Other algorithms and applications relating the above mentioned research areas.
Prospective authors of high quality research contributions are invited to submit
an electronic copy of their manuscript not exceeding 8 two-column pages
including figures and references in the traditional IEEE format used in IPDPS.
Please, use Postscript or PDF when possible. In your email, please indicate
paper title, author(s), and the corresponding author.
A selected group of papers from the workshop will be invited to submit extended
versions of their papers to a special issue of an international scholarly
journal. Further announcements will be made during the workshop.
Papers should be submitted to:
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- P. Bouvry, University of Luxembourg -Luxembourg- ( [log in to unmask] )
- F. Seredynski, Polish Academy of Sciences -Poland- ( [log in to unmask] )
- E-G. Talbi, University of Lille, INRIA -France- ( [log in to unmask] )
Important Dates:
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- Submission Deadline - December 4, 2010
- Notification of Acceptance - January 8, 2011
- Final Copy Due - February 1, 2010
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Sender: Evomusart 2011 <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: CFP evomusart 2011. Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music,
Sound, Art and Design
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS evomusart 2011
9th European Event on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art
and Design
27-29 April, 2011, Torino, Italy
evomusart 2011:
http://www.evostar.org/call-for-contributions/evoapplications/evomusart/
evo* 2011: http://www.evostar.org/
CFP in pdf:
http://www.evostar.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/call_evomusart.pdf
INTRODUCTION
The use of biologically inspired techniques for the development of artistic
systems is a recent, exciting and significant area of research. There is a
growing interest in the application of these techniques in fields such as:
visual art and music generation, analysis, and interpretation; sound
synthesis; architecture; video; poetry; and design.
evomusart 2011 is the ninth european event on Evolutionary Music and Art.
Following the success of previous events and the growth of interest
in the field, the main goal of evomusart 2011 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 the area.
The event will be held from 27-29 April, 2011 in Torino, Italy
as part of the evostar event.
Accepted papers will be presented orally at the event and included
in the evoapplications proceedings, published by Springer Verlag in the
Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission: 22 November 2010
Notification: 7 January 2011
Camera ready: 1 February 2011
Workshop: 27-29 April 2011
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND SUBMISSION DETAILS
Submit your manuscript, at most 10 A4 pages long, in Springer LNCS
format (instructions downloadable from
http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html)
no later than November 22, 2010 to site http://myreview.csregistry.org/evoapps11
The reviewing process will be double-blind, please omit information about the
authors in the submitted paper.
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 January 7, 2011.
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 February 1, 2011. 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:
evomusart2011:
http://www.evostar.org/call-for-contributions/evoapplications/evomusart/
evostar 2011: http://www.evostar.org/
CFP in pdf:
http://www.evostar.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/call_evomusart.pdf
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Sender: Jaume Bacardit <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Call for GECCO 2011 workshop proposals
CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
2011 GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE (GECCO-2011)
Sponsored by ACM SIGEVO
http://www.sigevo.org/GECCO-2011
The GECCO-2011 Program Committee invites proposals for workshops to be held in
conjunction with the 2011 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference
(GECCO-2011) in Dublin, Ireland, July 12-16.
** Important Dates **
Deadline for Workshop Proposals: November 8th, 2010
Notification of Acceptance: November 29th, 2010
Information and Submissions: [log in to unmask]
GECCO workshops provide an excellent opportunity to meet people with similar
interests, to be exposed to cutting-edge research and to exchange ideas in an
informal setting. Ideally, a GECCO workshop should focus on a specialized
research area, on an emerging research field, or on interdisciplinary research
area between the genetic and evolutionary computation community and other
research fields. GECCO workshops can be two hours, half day, or a full day long.
The format can be decided by the organizers who are encouraged to plan
interactive sessions (e.g, debate/discussion sessions, brainstorming or problem
solving sessions) which cannot be easily accommodated in the GECCO conference
program. Proposals should be mailed to: [log in to unmask]
Each proposal must be submitted as a plain text file and must contain the
following information:
1. A half page description of the workshop including a clear description
of the specific topics issues on which the workshop will focus should be
identified.
2. A brief (half page) discussion of why the topic is of interest to the
genetic and evolutionary computation community and about the workshop
target audience.
3. The estimated number of potential attendees, accepted papers and
submissions. If a previous edition of the workshop has already taken place,
then the previous number of submissions, accepted papers, and attendees
should be included.
4. A draft schedule of the workshop (with a duration of either 2 hours,
half day or a full day) highlighting the planned discussion sessions
(panels, Q&A, hands-on demonstrations, problem-solving sessions,
brainstorming, etc.)
5) The complete contact information of the workshop organizers (Postal
address, E-mail, phone and fax numbers, & WWW page).
6) A brief biography of the organizers with their photos
The proposal should be accompanied by the full CVs of the organizers in PDF
format. These should include previous experience in workshop or conference
organization.
The organizers of an accepted workshop are responsible for its coordination, for
its publicity (e.g., for sending out call for papers), for collecting and
reviewing the papers, for providing a list of accepted papers and their
authors, if applicable.
Attendance at the workshops will be open to all GECCO attendees.
Note that *all* organizers, participants and presenters must register to the
GECCO-2011 conference. Organizers of a workshop *do not* qualify for a reduction
in the registration or accommodation costs at the conference. Accepted workshop
papers will be collected by Sheridan/ACM Press, and published in a separate
workshop proceedings volume. Details and additional deadlines will be provided
once it has been decided which workshops will be accepted for GECCO-2011. All
accepted Workshop Papers must use the ACM template for papers and must follow
all ACM formatting rules. Accepted workshop papers that do not use the ACM
template and/or do not adhere to ACM formatting rules will not be published.
The deadline for the submission of workshop proposal is November 8th, 2010.
Proposals should be submitted as plain text files (no HTML) with the exception
of the CVs which have to be submitted as PDFs. Workshop organizers will be
notified by November 29th whether the workshop proposal has been accepted.
GECCO is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery Special
Interest Group on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (SIGEVO). SIG
Services: 2 Penn Plaza, Suite 701, New York, NY, 10121, USA,
1-800-342-6626 (USA and Canada) or +212-626-0500 (Global).
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