Evolutionary Computation Digest - Wednesday, June 13 2012 Volume 26: Issue 6
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Today's Topics:
ANNOUNCEMENTS
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- Call for Nominations: Cajastur "Mamdani Price" for Soft Computing -
Sixth Edition
- Master in Soft Computing and Intelligent Data Analysis
- GECCO-2012 Competitions - Still time for participating!
- bibtex tools to trim long editor lists
CFPs
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- ICARIS 2012 Last Call for Abstracts/Posters/Oral Presentations:
June 15th, 2012
- ICANNGA'13
- EVO* 2013
- EvoPar 2013 (@ EVO*)
- evoMUSART 2013 (@ EVO*)
- EuroGP 2013 (@ EVO*)
- EvoSTOC 2013: First Call for Papers
- SCIS-ISIS Special Session on Biologically-inspired Information and
Communication Technology (BICT)
- Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Creativity
- Swarm, Evolutionary and Memetic Computing Conference (SEMCCO 2012; India)
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CALENDAR OF EC-RELATED ACTIVITIES: (with EC-Digest issue reference)
CEC2012, Brisbane, Australia, June 10-15, 2012 (v25n12)
GECCO 2012, Philadelphia, USA, July 7-11, 2012 (v25n12)
PPSN2012, Taormina, Italy, September 1-5, 2012 (v25n11)
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Subject: Call for Nominations: CAJASTUR "MAMDANI PRIZE" FOR SOFT
COMPUTING - SIXTH EDITION
CAJASTUR "MAMDANI PRIZE" FOR SOFT COMPUTING
The CAJASTUR "MAMDANI PRIZE" FOR SOFT COMPUTING is meant to distinguish a
person or group of persons for the realization of a relevant scientific or
industrial application, meaning an original contribution in the area of Soft
Computing.
The Prize consists of 20,000.00 euros and a Plaque. The prize winner (or the
representative in case of a group) will be invited to travel to Oviedo
(Spain) to personally receive the Award. The prize winner commits
herself/himself to attend the awarding ceremony, to deliver a specialized
talk at the European Centre for Soft Computing as well as a talk open to the
general public in Asturias.
Deadline for submitting applications for the 2012 Prize is July 14th 2012.
For additional information visit the web page of the European Centre for
Soft Computing http://www.softcomputing.es/prize
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Subject: MASTER IN SOFT COMPUTING AND INTELLIGENT DATA ANALYSIS
One year Master, fully in English, with international lecturers, and
scholarships program.
The registration period will close next July 10th.
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, …
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.
Academic Period: September 2012 to July 2013.
Language: English.
Class Schedule: From 15:30 until 20:00, Monday through Friday.
Location: Research Building in the Mieres Campus of the University of
Oviedo (SPAIN).
Application Periods:
First pre-registration period: from 15 February to 15 March
Second pre-registration period: from 15 May to 10 July 2012
Pre-registration and registration will be done through the on-line
application in the following site:
https://sies.uniovi.es/preweb/web/preinscripcion/acceso/documento.faces.
For a complete information on program, courses, lecturers, and all
administrative aspects please visit: http://www.softcomputing.es/master
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Subject: GECCO-2012 Competitions - Still time for participating!
* The Evolutionary Art, Design, and Creativity Competition
Submission deadline: June 15, 2012
Official Webpage: http://eadcc.sigevolution.org
* Demolition Derby
Submission deadline: July 2, 2012
Official Webpage: http://cm.inf.uni-tuebingen.de/competitions
* GPUs for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation
Submission deadline: June 22nd 2012
Official Webpage: http://www.gpgpgpu.com/gecco2012/
* Visualizing Evolution Competition
Submission deadline: June 25, 2012
Official Webpage: https://sites.google.com/site/visualizingevo/
* EvoRobocode Competition
Submission deadline: June 22th, 2012
Official Webpage: https://sites.google.com/site/evorobocode/
* Simulated Car Racing Championship
Submission deadline: June 25, 2012
Official Webpage: http://games.ws.dei.polimi.it/competitions/scr/
* Industrial Challenge
Submission deadline: June 22, 2012
Official Webpage: http://gociop.de/gecco-2012-industrial-challenge
to be held as part of the
2012 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2012)
July 7-11, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Organized by ACM SIGEVO
http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2012
GECCO-2012 offers seven competitions and each of them involves a
completely different challenge!
Individual deadlines are approaching for each of the competitions – but
it is not too late to participate!
Therefore, do not miss this opportunity to be part of GECCO and join the
GECCO-2012 Competitions - http://vimeo.com/37167767
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Subject: bibtex tools to trim long editor lists
There has been some discussion on the GP mailing list about
(semi)-automated ways to reduce the volume of citations. In
particular ways to replace long lists of editors (ie GECCO) or authors
by first name, et al. I have placed some suggestions in the tools
sub-directory of the genetic programming bibliography. See
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~wbl/biblio/tools/README.html
The new tools are:
bbl_others.awk
Gawk script to replace long author and editor lists by first name
"and others". This assumes your BibTeX style file understands
"others" is not the name of the second author.
gpbook.bst
BibTeX style file written by Riccardo Poli for "A Field Guide to
Genetic Programming" http://www.gp-field-guide.org.uk/
gpbib_bbl.awk
Gawk script for adding links into the GP bibliography from your
paper the papers it cites.
kapalike.bst
Version of the kapalike.bst BibTeX style file which (like
gpbook.bst) automatically truncates long lists with et al.
Bill
Dr. W. B. Langdon,
Department of Computer Science,
University College London
Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/W.Langdon/
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Subject: ICARIS 2012 Last Call for Abstracts/Posters/Oral
Presentations: June 15th, 2012
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS, SHORT PRESENTATIONS & POSTERS
*Apologies for cross-posting*
The 11th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems
28-31 August 2012 Taormina, Italy
http://www.artificial-immune-systems.org/icaris/2012/
http://www.artificial-immune-systems.org/icaris/2012/submission.php
http://www.artificial-immune-systems.org/icaris/2012/submission_abstract.php
IMPORTANT DATES:
* Abstract/Poster/Short Presentation Submission deadline: June 15th, 2012
* Notification of acceptance: June 20th, 2012
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Subject: ICANNGA'13 CALL FOR PAPERS
11th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADAPTIVE AND NATURAL COMPUTING
ALGORITHMS - ICANNGA 2013
web site:
http://www.icannga.com
e-mail:
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4-6 April 2013 Lausanne, Switzerland
CALL FOR PAPERS
Submission Deadline: October 8, 2012
Interested authors are invited to contribute original high quality
papers in the following
topic areas:
* neural networks,
* evolutionary computation,
* soft computing,
* bioinformatics and computational biology,
* advanced computing,
* applications.
All papers will be peer reviewed and comments will be provided to the
authors. The accepted papers will all be included in the proceedings
volume and will be presented either orally in the appropriate session
during the conference, or as posters in a poster session. Extended
versions of the selected papers may be published in a special issue of
a well known journal.
IMPORTANT DATES
Papers and special sessions submission: October 8, 2012
Notification of acceptance: December 22, 2013
Camera ready papers: January 20, 2013
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Subject: EVO* 2013 - First Call for Papers
EVO* 2013
EvoStar - The Leading European Event on Bio-Inspired Computation
EuroGP, EvoCOP, EvoBIO, EvoMUSART and EvoApplications
3-5 April 2011 - Vienna, Austria
http://www.evostar.org
EvoStar comprises the premier co-located conferences in the field of
Bio-Inspired Computing:
EuroGP, EvoCOP, EvoBIO, EvoMUSART and EvoApplications.
Featuring the latest in theoretical and applied research, EvoStar 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, signal processing and pattern recognition, in finance
and economics, computer games, risk management, security and defence
applications, communication networks, parallel and distributed
infrastructures, dynamic and stochastic environments and in a wide range
of applications to scientific, industrial, financial and other
real-world problems.
Important Dates:
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Submission deadline: 1 November 2012
Notification to authors:21 December 2012
Camera-ready deadline: 15 January 2013
EvoStar event 3-5 April 2013
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Subject: EvoPar 2013 First Call for papers
- Part of Evo* 2013, the main European events on evolutionary
computation: eurogp,
evocop, evobio, evomusart and evoapplications - http://www.evostar.org
EvoPar: Track on parallel and distributed Infrastructures for evolutionary
algorithms
At EvoPar 2012 scientists and engineers gathered to share and exchange their
experiences, discuss challenges, and report state-of-the-art and in-progress
research on all aspects of the application of evolutionary algorithms
for improving
parallel architectures and distributed computing Infrastructures.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
* Parallel implementation of evolutionary algorithms.
* Optimization of Parallel architectures by means of EAs.
* Hardware implementation of EAs, including but not limited to Field
Programmable Gate Arrays.
* GP-GPU optimization.
* Improving Scheduling techniques for P2P and Grid Systems.
Improving Scheduling
techniques for running distributed EAs.
* Improving Fault tolerance techniques for distributed systems and
Distributed
EAs. Studying capabilities for coping with failures.
* Analytical modeling and performance evaluation of Parallel and Distributed
Infrastructures when running EAs.
* Improvement in system performance through optimization and tuning.
* Case studies showing the role of Parallel and Distributed
Infrastructures in
conjunction with Distributed EAs when solving hard real-life problems.
* Volunteer computing.
* EAs on the Cloud.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
EvoStar website: http://www.evostar.org
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: 1 November 2012
Notification to authors:21 December 2012
Camera-ready deadline: 15 January 2013
EvoStar event 3-5 April 2013
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Subject: evoMUSART 2013 - First call for papers
CALL FOR PAPERS
evomusart 2013
2nd International Conference on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired
Music, Sound, Art and Design
3-5 April 2013, Vienna, Austria
Part of evo* 2013
evo*: http://www.evostar.org
The main goal of evomusart 2013 is to bring together researchers who are
using biologically inspired computer techniques for artistic tasks,
providing the opportunity to promote, present and discuss ongoing work in
the area.
Submissions should concern the use of biologically inspired computer
techniques -- e.g. Evolutionary Computation, Artificial Life, Artificial
Neural Networks, Swarm Intelligence, other artificial intelligence
techniques -- in the generation, analysis and interpretation of art, music,
design, architecture and other artistic fields.
Submission: 1 November 2012
Conference: 3-5 April 2013
Notification to authors: 21 December 2012
Camera-ready deadline: 15 January 2013
Evo*: 3-5 April 2013
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Subject: EuroGP 2013: First CfP
EuroGP 2013, 16th European Conference on Genetic Programming
3-5 April 2013, Vienna, Austria
www.evostar.org
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 1 November 2012
EuroGP is the premier annual conference on Genetic Programming,
attracting participants from all over the world. High quality papers
describing new original research are sought on topics strongly related
to the evolution of computer programs, ranging from theoretical work
to innovative applications.
Visit http://www.evostar.org/cfpEuroGP.html or join the EVOstar group on
LinkedIn for more details and updates.
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Subject: EvoSTOC 2013: First Call for Papers
CALL FOR PAPERS
evostoc 2013 - track on Evolutionary Algorithms in Stochastic and
Dynamic Environments of EvoApplications 2013
11-13 April 2012, Vienna, Austria
Part of evo* 2013
evo*:http://www.evostar.org
evostoc:http://www.kevinsim.co.uk/evostar2013/cfpEvoSTOC.html
*EvoSTOC at EVO*: Evolutionary Algorithms in Stochastic and Dynamic
Environments*
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, any of the
following in the realm of nature-inspired computation:
- noisy fitness functions
- fitness approximations / surrogate-assisted optimisation
- robust solutions
- dynamic optimisation problems
- dynamic constrained optimisation problems
- dynamic multi-objective optimisation problems
- co-evolutionary domains
- real-world applications characterised by uncertainty
- optimisation in (video) games and related domains (e.g., dynamical systems)
- theoretical results (e.g., runtime analysis) for stochastic problems
Submission deadline:1 November 2012
Notification to authors: 21 December 2012
Camera-ready deadline:15 January 2013
EvoStar event: 3-5 April 2013
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Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS: SCIS-ISIS Special Session on
Biologically-inspired Information and Communication Technology (BICT)
http://www.cs.umb.edu/~jxs/scis-bict/
Kobe, Japan
Paper submission due: June 30, 2012
Conference date: November 20 - 24, 2012
Proceedings to be published by IEEE and indexed by EI Compendex.
Four journal special issues:
- Springer Transactions on Computational Science
- Elsevier Swarm and Evolutionary Computation Journal
- Int'l Journal of Computational Science and Engineering
- Int'l Journal of Energy Optimization and Engineering
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Subject: Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Creativity
Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Creativity CALL FOR PAPERS
- Part of IEEE SSCI 2013, Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence
15-19 April 2013 - Singapore
http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/epnsugan/index_files/SSCI2013/index.html
Computational intelligence (CI) techniques, including neural network,
fuzzy systems,
and evolutionary computation, have shown to be effective for search
and optimization
problems. Recently, CI gained several promising results and becomes an important
tool in Computational Creativity, such as in music, visual art, literature,
architecture, and industrial design.
AREAS OF INTEREST AND CONTRIBUTIONS
- Generation of art, including Visual Art, Music, Literature, Architecture and
Design, etc.
- Computational modelling of creativity and creative processes
- Data representations for creative systems
- Algorithmic design in creative intelligence
- Optimisation in creativity
- Development of hardware and software for creative systems
- Evaluation methodologies
- Assistance of human creativity
- Computational aesthetics
- Emotion response
- Human-machine creativity
Detailed instructions on the paper format and submission process will
be provided at:
http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/epnsugan/index_files/SSCI2013/index.html
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission: 10 Oct 2012
Decision: 05 Jan 2013
Final submission: 05 Feb 2013
Early Registration: 05 Feb 2013
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Subject: Swarm, Evolutionary and Memetic Computing Conference (SEMCCO 2012)
Co-located Joint International Conferences:
Swarm, Evolutionary and Memetic Computing Conference (SEMCCO 2012)
&
Fuzzy And Neural Computing Conference (FANCCO 2012)
December 20 -22, 2012, INDIA
Submission of Full Manuscript 30-06-2012
Notification of Acceptance 30-08-2012
Camera ready copy 30-09-2012
Submission of Tutorial Proposals 30-07-2012
Submission of Special Session Proposal 30-05-2012
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Paper Submission https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semcco2012
For Further Details logon to : http://soa.ac.in/semcco/
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