Evolutionary Computation Digest - Tuesday, September 6th, 2011 Volume 25: Issue 9 SUBMISSION ADDRESS: [log in to unmask] LIST INFORMATION: http://ec-digest.research.ucf.edu/ OLD LIST ARCHIVE: http://www.aic.nrl.navy.mil/galist/ NEW LIST ARCHIVE: http://listserv.gmu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=EC-DIGEST-L (UN)SUBSCRIPTION INSTRUCTIONS: at the bottom of this email ******************************************************************************** Today's Topics: ANNOUNCEMENTS ------------- - Book Announcement: Design of Modern Heuristics - EnviGP - Grants available CFPs ---- - EVO* 2012 - WIVACE2012: Italian Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation - JECE special issue: deadline extension (September 15) - Special Issue on EC of Journal of Computer Science and Technology (JCST) - JECE special issue - EA'2011 1st call of participation - Final CFP HIS 2011 - IEEE - Malacca ******************************************************************************** CALENDAR OF GA-RELATED ACTIVITIES: (with EC-Digest issue reference) EUROGEN 2011, Capua, Italy, September 14-16, 20, 2011 (v25n02) NICSO 2011, Cluj Napoca, Romania, October, 20-22, 2011 (v25n04) EA-2011, Angers, France, October 24-26, 2011 (v25n02) EVO*, Malaga, Spain, April 11-13, 2012 (v25n08) EuroGP 2012, Malaga, Spain, April 11-13, 2012 (v25n08) ******************************************************************************** Sender: Franz Rothlauf [log in to unmask] Subject: Book Announcement: Design of Modern Heuristics Dear Colleagues, If you teach courses about, or are interested in, Modern Heuristics, you are probably seeking answers to questions like * for which types of problems you should use modern heuristics, * how you can select a modern heuristic that fits well to your problem, * what are common design elements of modern heuristics, * how you can categorize different types of modern heuristics, * what are basic principles for the design of modern heuristics, and * how you can use problem-specific knowledge for the design of modern heuristics. The book "Design of Modern Heuristics: Principles and Application" gives answers to these problems and teaches you how to design efficient and effective modern heuristics. With the term modern heuristics, it denotes improvement heuristics that can be applied to a wide range of different problems (they are general-purpose methods) and that use during search both intensification (exploitation) and diversification (exploration) steps. Thank you, Franz Rothlauf ps: If you, or faculty in your department, may be interested in using this book for undergraduate or graduate courses, please contact me - course materials will follow based on interest. Design of Modern Heuristics: Principles and Application http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/book/978-3-540-72961-7 Most textbooks on modern heuristics provide the reader with detailed descriptions of the functionality of single examples like genetic algorithms, genetic programming, Tabu search, simulated annealing, and others, but fail on teaching the underlying concepts behind all these different approaches. This book focuses on the users' needs and gives answers to three fundamental questions: First, it tells us for which types of problems modern heuristics are expected to perform well and which ones should be left to traditional optimization methods. Second, it teaches us how we can systematically design the ``right'' modern heuristic for a particular problem by providing a coherent view on design elements and working principles. Third, it shows us how we can make us of problem-specific knowledge for the design of efficient and effective modern heuristics that solve not only small toy problems but also perform well on large real-world problems. The book is written in an easy-to-read style and aimed at students and practitioners who want to understand modern heuristics and are interested in a guide to their systematic design and use. ******************************************************************************** Sender: Sara Silva [log in to unmask] Subject: EnviGP - Grants available ===== Two research grants are now available ===== ===== Application deadline: 15 / Sep / 2011 ===== Project: EnviGP - Improving Genetic Programming for the Environment and Other Applications Website: http://kdbio.inesc-id.pt/~sara/envigp.html Objectives / summary: The EnviGP project is dedicated to improving Genetic Programming in order to allow its practical usage by practitioners of different scientific domains. It studies the issues of bloat, overfitting, complexity and interpretability of the solutions, and a more efficient usage of GP in multiclass classification problems. All new developments are tested in both benchmark and real world data of different domains including forest science and biomedical informatics. More information on available grants: http://kdbio.inesc-id.pt/~sara/envigp_grants.html Cheers, Sara Silva ******************************************************************************** Sender: Multiple Subject: EVO* 2012 ABOUT EVO* The evo* event comprises the premier co-located conferences in the field of Evolutionary Computing: eurogp, evocop, evobio, evomusart and evoapplications. In 2012, the evo* will take place at the Malaga, Spain. 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. The proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. EVO* EVENTS eurogp 15th European Conference on Genetic Programming evocop 12th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization evobio 10th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning and Data Mining in Computational Biology evomusart 1st International Conference and 10th European Event on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design evoapplications - European Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation evocomnet Track on nature-inspired techniques for telecommunication networks and other parallel and distributed systems evocomplex Track on algorithms and complex systems evofin Track on evolutionary and natural computation in finance and economics evogames Track on bio-inspired algorithms in games evohot Track on bio-inspired heuristics for design automation evoiasp Track on evolutionary computation in image analysis and signal processing evonum Track bio-inspired algorithms for continuous parameter optimisation evopar Track on parallel and distributed Infrastructures evorisk Track on computational intelligence for risk management, security and defence applications evostim Track on nature-inspired techniques in scheduling, planning and timetabling evostoc Track on evolutionary algorithms in stochastic and dynamic environments evotranslog Track on evolutionary computation in transportation and logistics EVO* SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS 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. The submission deadline is 30 november 2011. The other submission details are conference specific. Please follow the instructions and links bellow. eurogp: submission link: http://myreview.csregistry.org/eurogp12/ page limit: 12 pages evocop: submission link: http://myreview.csregistry.org/evocop12/ page limit: 12 pages evobio: submission link: http://myreview.csregistry.org/evobio12/ evobio is interested in papers in three major areas: 1. Full research articles (maximum 12 pages) 2. System Demonstrations (maximum 8 pages) 3. Short reports (maximum 8 pages) 4. Abstracts (maximum 4 pages) evomusart: submission link: http://myreview.csregistry.org/evomusart12/ page limit: 12 pages evoapplications: submission link: http://myreview.csregistry.org/evoapps12/ page limit: 10 pages IMPORTANT DATES submission deadline: 30 november 2011 notification to authors: 14 january 2012 camera-ready deadline: 5 february 2012 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION evostar website: http://www.evostar.org ******************************************************************************** Sender: Stefano Cagnoni [log in to unmask] Subject: WIVACE2012: Italian Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation * WIVACE 2012 * * Italian Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation * * "Artificial Life, Evolution and Complexity" * * Parma, Centro S.Elisabetta - University Campus * * 20-21 February 2012 * Aims WIVACE 2012 will offer researchers in Evolutionary Computation, Artificial Life and Complex Systems a chance to present their results in a collaborative environment, in which knowledge can be shared based on a multidisciplinary approach to the study and modeling of natural biological processes. The workshop will include oral sessions, a poster session, invited talks and a discussion panel. We invite contributions about the theory and applications of Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life, with special regard to the study of the complex processes studied by these disciplines and, in particular, to the following non-exhaustive list of topics: - Applications of Bio-inspired Algorithms - Bio-inspired Computational Paradigms - Bio-inspired Robotics - Complex System Biology - Emergent Behaviours - Evolutionary Systems’ Dynamics - Financial/Economical Systems - Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms - Hybrid Optimization Algorithms - Models of Collective Behaviour - Parallel Implementation of Bio-inspired Models - Self-organising Systems - Swarm Intelligence e Artificial Ant Systems - System Biology Call for Papers Two kinds of contributions will be considered: - Communications (in English or Italian, up to 4 pages, presented as posters) - Full Papers (in English, up to 12 pages, presented orally or as posters) The contributions can be submitted, no later than 15 December 2011, online at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wivace2012 The proceedings will be made available online and published as an ISBN-registered CD. A selection of the full papers will be published (possibly in an extended version) in the book “Artificial Life, Evolution and Complexity” published by Springer. Deadlines Paper Submission: 15 December 2011 Notification of Acceptance: 10 January 2012 Final Version Due: 25 January 2012 Workshop: 20-21 February 2012 Email: [log in to unmask] Web site: http://wivace2012.ce.unipr.it Facebook: WIVACE2012 LinkedIn: WIVACE2012 ******************************************************************************** Sender: K.E. Parsopoulos [log in to unmask] Subject: JECE special issue: deadline extension (September 15) Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jece/) Special issue on "Nature-Inspired Optimization in Communications and Signal Processing" Call for Papers Nature-inspired optimization algorithms have attracted a lot of attention over the last decades. They are well-established methods in various research fields, because they can efficiently solve hard scientific and engineering problems. These algorithms require only minor information about the underlying models (objective functions). Today there are a number of established algorithms that exhibit a plethora of applications in almost all major engineering fields. Genetic algorithms, evolution strategies, evolutionary algorithms, ant colony optimization, particle swarm optimization, and differential evolution are some of the most important methods, counting a huge number of research works. Communications constitute a research area where nature-inspired algorithms have offered significant contributions. Specialized variants of the algorithms have been used for hardware design, data transmission, network design, routing, scheduling, and resource allocation, offering solutions with significant economic and social impact. Signal processing is another field where nature-inspired algorithms have exhibited promising results. Image processing, speech processing and recognition, adaptive filtering, wavelet optimization, and software synthesis are some of the problems tackled through nature-inspired optimization algorithms, alone or in combination with other popular computational intelligence methodologies. The present special issue is devoted to recent developments (both theoretical and applications) of nature-inspired optimization algorithms in any aspect of communications and signal processing. Original high-quality papers are solicited on the application of nature-inspired optimization algorithms. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: * Genetic algorithms * Genetic programming * Evolution strategies * Evolutionary algorithms * Evolutionary programming * Ant colony optimization * Particle swarm optimization * Differential evolution * Bee colony optimization * Bacterial foraging optimization * Artificial immune systems * Memetic algorithms * Cooperative/coevolutionary algorithms * DNA computing * Hybrid methods * Neural networks Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jece/guidelines/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable: Manuscript Due: September 15, 2011 First Round of Reviews: November 1, 2011 Publication Date: February 1, 2012 ******************************************************************************** Sender: olivetps [log in to unmask] Subject: Special Issue on EC of Journal of Computer Science and Technology (JCST) CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue of Journal of Computer Science and Technology (JCST) on Evolutionary Computation http://www.springerlink.com/content/1000-9000 *EXTENDED DEADLINE* Due to many requests we have extended the submission deadline to the *14th October 2011*. Introduction Evolutionary computation is now an established research field at the intersection among artificial intelligence, computer science and operations research. Not only has it grown hugely in its breadth, it has also developed substantial depth in its theoretical foundations, especially in the computational time complexity analysis of randomised (meta-)heuristics. Such enormous growth of evolutionary computation has seen numerous specialised journals and conferences in evolutionary computation emerging in the last decade or so. Some of the journals in evolutionary computatio have been consistent ranked among the top few in artificial intelligence and computer science. For example, the two year impact factor of IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation was 4.589 in 2009, which placed it the 2nd among 130 "Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence" journals, the 3rd among 91 "Computer Science, Theory & Methods" journals, and the 4th among all 426 Computer Science journals. According to the 5 year impact factor (7.621), IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation was ranked the 2nd, 2nd and 4th, respectively, in the above categories. However, one of the potential risks of having such specialised journals and conferenes might be the weakening of important communications and interactions between evolutionary computation and other fields in computer science and technology (CST) in general. This special issue, which is organised in a generic CST journal, will try to encourage and promote closer interactions and cross-fertilisation between evolutionary computation and other areas in CST. Aims and Scopes The primary aim of this special issue is to publish the very best papers in evolutionary computation that define the state-of-the-art. Both theoretical and application papers are welcome. For theoretical papers, we are looking for major adavances in any aspects related to the foundations of evolutionary computation. For application paper, we are looking for innovative and non-trivial applications of evolutionary computation. All areas and topics related to evolutionary computation will be considered, including but not limited to evolutionary optimisation, evolutionary learning, swarm intelligence, adaptive behaviours, collective intelligence, artificial immune systems, multi-objective optimisation and learning, constraint handling, etc. Important Dates Submission (extended): 14 October 2011 First revision: 30 November 2011 Second revision: 31 January 2011 Final decision: 29 February 2012 Publication: second half of 2012 Although we have planned to have three rounds of rigorous reviews, papers may be rejected at any round. Rejected paper cannot be re-submitted to the special issue. Submission Procedures All submissions must be done electronically through JCST's e-submission system at https://mc03.manuscriptcentral.com/jcst, with a Manuscript Type: "Special Issue on Evolutionary Computation." ******************************************************************************** Sender: K.E. Parsopoulos [log in to unmask] Subject: JECE special issue Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jece/) Special issue on "Nature-Inspired Optimization in Communications and Signal Processing" Call for Papers Nature-inspired optimization algorithms have attracted a lot of attention over the last decades. They are well-established methods in various research fields, because they can efficiently solve hard scientific and engineering problems. These algorithms require only minor information about the underlying models (objective functions). Today there are a number of established algorithms that exhibit a plethora of applications in almost all major engineering fields. Genetic algorithms, evolution strategies, evolutionary algorithms, ant colony optimization, particle swarm optimization, and differential evolution are some of the most important methods, counting a huge number of research works. Communications constitute a research area where nature-inspired algorithms have offered significant contributions. Specialized variants of the algorithms have been used for hardware design, data transmission, network design, routing, scheduling, and resource allocation, offering solutions with significant economic and social impact. Signal processing is another field where nature-inspired algorithms have exhibited promising results. Image processing, speech processing and recognition, adaptive filtering, wavelet optimization, and software synthesis are some of the problems tackled through nature-inspired optimization algorithms, alone or in combination with other popular computational intelligence methodologies. The present special issue is devoted to recent developments (both theoretical and applications) of nature-inspired optimization algorithms in any aspect of communications and signal processing. Original high-quality papers are solicited on the application of nature-inspired optimization algorithms. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: * Genetic algorithms * Genetic programming * Evolution strategies * Evolutionary algorithms * Evolutionary programming * Ant colony optimization * Particle swarm optimization * Differential evolution * Bee colony optimization * Bacterial foraging optimization * Artificial immune systems * Memetic algorithms * Cooperative/coevolutionary algorithms * DNA computing * Hybrid methods * Neural networks Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jece/guidelines/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable: Manuscript Due: September 15, 2011 First Round of Reviews: November 1, 2011 Publication Date: February 1, 2012 ******************************************************************************** Sender: Laetitia Jourdan [log in to unmask] Subject: EA'2011 1st call of participation EA'2011- Call for Participation The Biennial International Conference on Artificial Evolution (EA-2011) October 24-26, 2011. Angers, France http://www.info.univ-angers.fr/ea2011/ REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN!! Description The conference EA'2011 will be held in Angers, France from 24 to 26 October 2011. Original works relevant to artificial evolution, including but not limited to: Evolutionary Optimization, Evolutionary Computation, Co-evolution, Artificial Life, Population Dynamics, Theory vs algorithmics and modelling, Implementations, Application of evolutionary paradigms to the Real World (industry, biology,...), Applications to biosciences, bioinformatics, understanding and treating diseases, drug design and pharmaceutical industry, Other biologically-inspired paradigms (swarm, ants, artificial immune systems, ...), Memetic algorithms, multi-objective optimization, constraint handling, parallel algorithms, Machine Learning and hybridization with other soft computing techniques will be presented at the conference. Accepted papers =============== The list of accepted papers are available at http://www.info.univ-angers.fr/ea2011/accepted_papers.php Registration ============= Registration is now open http://www.info.univ-angers.fr/ea2011/registration.php Until 10 october 2011: * EUR 250 for students * EUR 350 for other academics participants * EUR 400 for industrials participants Venue ===== The City of Angers is located on the Western Edge of France, in the area of Loire Valley (Vallée de la Loire), which is part of UNESCO world heritage. From Paris, Angers can be reached easily by the TGV (High Speed Train) in one and half hour. It can also be reached from the City of Nantes by train in 40 minutes (Nantes Atlantic Airport is 30 minutes away from Nantes railway station). Important dates =============== * Registration (low rate): October 10 2011 * Conference: October 24-26 2011 ******************************************************************************** Sender: Ajith Abraham [log in to unmask] Subject: Final CFP HIS 2011 - IEEE - Malacca Extended Deadline for Paper Submission: September 20, 2011 Notification of Acceptance: October 15, 2011 Camera ready submission and author registration: October 31, 2011 11th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS'11) Melaka, Malaysia December 5-8, 2011 WWW: http://www.mirlabs.org/his11 http://www.mirlabs.net/his11 (mirror site) http://www.mirlabs.org/his10 (past event) Objective: Hybridization of intelligent systems is a promising research field of modern artificial/computational intelligence concerned with the development of the next generation of intelligent systems. A fundamental stimulus to the investigations of Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS) is the awareness in the academic communities that combined approaches will be necessary if the remaining tough problems in artificial/computational intelligence are to be solved. Recently, Hybrid Intelligent Systems are getting popular due to their capabilities in handling several real world complexities involving imprecision, uncertainty and vagueness. HIS'11 builds on the success of last year's. The 4-day conference will feature prominent keynote speakers, workshop, tutorials, poster and paper presentation in parallel tracks. HIS 2011 invites novel contributions/papers of hybrid intelligent systems from fundamental aspects to various practical applications. Topics: ** Hybrid Intelligent Systems: Architectures ** Interactions between neural networks and fuzzy inference systems. Artificial neural network optimization using global optimization techniques.. Fuzzy clustering algorithms and optimization techniques. Fuzzy inference system optimization using global optimization algorithms. Hybrid computing using neural networks - fuzzy systems - evolutionary algorithms. Hybrid optimization techniques (evolutionary algorithms, simulated annealing, tabu search, GRASP etc.). Hybrid of soft computing and statistical learning techniques. Models using inductive logic programming, logic synthesis, grammatical inference, case-based reasoning etc. Autonomic computing. Hybridizatiion with novel computing paradigms: Qantum computing, DNA computing, membrane computing etc. ** Hybrid Intelligent Systems: Applications ** Image and Signal Processing Internet Modeling, Communication and Networking Data mining Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Business Information Systems Control and Automation Special topics Author Guidelines: -------------------------- Submission of paper should be made through the submission link in HIS 2011 official website or the easychair conference system at: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=his11 Please refer to the conference website for guidelines to prepare your manuscript. All accepted papers will be compiled in conference proceedings published by the IEEE. It is mandatory at least an author registers for every paper that is included in the conference proceedings. Proceedings will be made available during the conference. ******************************************************************************** Sender: Patrick SIARRY [log in to unmask] Subject: Special Issue of CIPLS in Production and Logistics Systems CALL FOR PAPERS International Journal of Production Economics SPECIAL ISSUE “Computational Intelligence in Production and Logistics Systems (CIPLS)” <http://www.elsevier.com/authored_subject_sections/S04/misc/CFP_IJPE_CIPLS.pdf> Motivation In connection with the 2011 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Production and Logistics Systems (CIPLS 2011), which was held at the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence in Paris this April, we would like to announce a call for papers for a special issue on this theme in the International Journal of Production Economics (IJPE). Introduction The management of production and logistics systems in today’s fierce competition environment is a difficult task and has become progressively complex. Major changes in products, processes, technologies, and societies bring along remarkable challenges and increasing market demands. Modelling and optimisation of the complex problems arising in production and logistics systems is of paramount importance in surviving and achieving competitive gains in productivity and quality. Within this context, CIPLS aims to address issues related to the design, planning, control, and continuous improvement of production and logistics systems using computational intelligence. In this special issue, we solicit original, high quality papers presenting substantial results on the development and implementation of novel approaches based on exact, heuristic, and/or meta-heuristic techniques. This includes local search methods (e.g., tabu search, variable neighborhood search, large neighborhood search, scatter search, etc.), evolutionary algorithms (e.g., genetic algorithms, memetic algorithms, etc.), and other nature inspired optimisation methods (e.g., ant colony optimisation, particle swarm optimisation, neural algorithms, etc.) as well as hybrid techniques and hyper-heuristics. Our intention is to cover the full spectrum of production from aggregate planning to shop-floor execution systems and modelling, planning and control of logistics systems. We would particularly like to encourage the submission of studies incorporating real-world applications. Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following: · Production planning and control · Flexible manufacturing systems · Integrated production system and process design · Capacity planning · Lot sizing · Assembly lines · Production scheduling · Inventory control · Facilities planning and design · Transport and distribution planning · Vehicle routing and scheduling · Multi-modal transport · Sustainability and green logistics · Logistics network design · Decision support systems in production and logistics Manuscript Preparation and Submission To prepare their manuscripts, authors are asked to closely follow the IJPE “Guide for Authors” at <http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505647/authorinstructions> Authors should submit their papers via the EES <http://ees.elsevier.com/ijpe> and select “Special Issue: CIPLS” when asked to indicate the “Article Type” in the submission process. Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. Manuscripts will be refereed according to the standards of IJPE. 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