Evolutionary Computation Digest - Saturday, January 26 2013 Volume 27: Issue 1
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Today's Topics:
ANNOUNCEMENTS
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- ICML 2013 contact information & poster
- International Artificial Evolution Summer School 2013
CFPs
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- ICML 2013 Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals
- GECCO 2013 deadline extended to 31 Jan. 2013
- CFP: Workshop on Evolutionary Computation Software Systems
(EvoSoft) @ GECCO 2013
- CFP IEEE CEC 2013
- CFP: 2013 IEEE CEC Special Session and Competition on: Niching
Methods for Multimodal Optimization
- CEC Special Session on Evolutionary Algorithms for Cloud Computing Systems
- Artificial Evolution 2013 (Bordeaux-France) - First call for papers
- Call for Special Session on 'Distributed Optimization and
Collective Intelligence' at the 2013 IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics
(SMC' 2013) at Manchester, UK
- CFP: Special session Euro 2013: Hybridization of Metaheuristics
with AI Techniques
- ECAL 2013 - European Conference on Artificial Life - 2-6 September,
2013 Taormina, Italy
- CfP: International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and
Automated Learning (IDEAL'2013), Hefei, China
- CFP: Special Issue on Evolvability and Robustness in Artificial
Evolving Systems for the Springer journal Genetic Programming and
Evolvable Machines
- Call For Papers: The 2013 World Congress in Computer Science,
Computer Engineering, and Computing
- CfP: EMO session at MCDM'2013
- ICARIS 2013 CFP: The 12th Int. Conf. on Artificial Immune Systems
- CFP: SPECIAL ISSUE IN "ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS OF ARTIFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE" (ELSEVIER)
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CALENDAR OF EC-RELATED ACTIVITIES: (with EC-Digest issue reference)
EVO* 2013, Vienna, Austria, 3-5 April, 2013 (v26n7)
CEC 2013, Cancún, México, June 20-23, 2013 (v27n1)
GECCO 2013, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 06-10, 2013, (v27n1)
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Subject: ICML 2013 contact information & poster
Dear Colleague,
Help us to promote ICML 2013, and enable us to keep in touch with you.
Please follow the link below and let us know your address. We'll
ship you one or more beautiful ICML 2013 posters! The deadline for
submitting poster requests is 01/31/2013. We'll also follow up with
occasional emails to let you know about the events for ICML 2013 in
Atlanta.
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Subject: International Artificial Evolution Summer School 2013
The 8th edition of the international Artificial Evolution Summer School
will take place from June 10 to June 14, 2013 in Quiberon (France).
Providing introductory and advanced reference lectures as well as
insightful practical exercises, the school targets a multi-disciplinary
audience of students, researchers and industrials. It will be a unique
opportunity to be in contact with a recognized community of researchers,
covering the main topics of evolutionary computation.
More details and updated information available on the school website:
http://aess2013.sciencesconf.org/
Topics
* Artificial evolution
* Evolutionary algorithms, metaheuristics
* Continuous optimization, combinatorial optimization
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Subject: ICML 2013 Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals
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Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals
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The International Conference on Machine
Learning solicits proposals for workshops
and tutorials to be held in conjunction with
the ICML 2013 conference in Atlanta, USA.
This document contains instructions for
how to propose a workshop (first section)
and how to propose a tutorial (second
section). Note that some due dates have
been extended.
Important dates
•Workshop & Tutorial proposal deadline Jan 31, 2013
•Workshop acceptance notification Feb 15, 2013
•Tutorial acceptance notification Mar 1, 2013
•Workshop submissions due Mar 15, 2013
(suggested date)
•Workshop author notification Apr 15, 2013
(suggested date)
•Tutorials June 16, 2013
•Workshops June 20-21, 2013
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Subject: GECCO 2013 deadline extended to 31 Jan. 2013
***** Submission for all GECCO 2013 tracks has been extended to
***** January 31, 2013
* CALL FOR PAPERS
* 2013 GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE (GECCO-2013)
* Genetics-Based Machine Learning track
* July 06-10, 2013, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
* Organized by ACM SIGEVO
* http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2013 [www.sigevo.org]
January 31, 2013 - Extended (and final) paper submission deadline
April 17, 2013 - Camera-ready version of accepted articles
July 06-10, 2013 - GECCO 2013 Conference in Amsterdam
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Subject: Call for Papers: Workshop on Evolutionary Computation
Software Systems (EvoSoft) @ GECCO 2013
WORKSHOP ON EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION SOFTWARE SYSTEMS (EvoSoft)
to be held as part of the 2013 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation
Conference (GECCO-2013) July 06-10, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Organized by ACM SIGEVO
http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2013
Submission deadline for this workshop: March 28th, 2013
Additional details are available at http://evosoft.heuristiclab.com
IMPORTANT DATES:
Submission Deadline: March 28th, 2013
Notification of Acceptance: April 15th, 2013
Camera-ready Submission: April 25th, 2013
Workshops at GECCO 2013: July 6th and 7th, 2013
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Subject: CFP IEEE CEC 2013
CALL FOR PAPERS
IEEE CEC 2013
June 20-23, Cancún, México
http://www.cec2013.org
The annual IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation is one of the
leading events in the area of evolutionary computation.
IEEE CEC 2013 will have more than 30 special sessions focused on
specific topics within evolutionary computation (see the website
of the conference for details).
Program and general inquiries can be made to: [log in to unmask]
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* Important dates *
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* Tutorial proposals February 22, 2013 *
* Paper submissions February 15, 2013 *
* Notification of acceptance April 8, 2013 *
* Final paper submission April 26, 2013 *
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Subject: CFP: 2013 IEEE CEC Special Session and Competition on:
Niching Methods for Multimodal Optimization
2013 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation Special Session and
Competition on:
Niching Methods for Multimodal Optimization
June 20 - 23, 2013, Cancun, Mexico
URL: http://goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au/~xiaodong/cec13-niching/index.html
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Objectives
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Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) in their original forms are usually
designed for locating a single global solution. These algorithms
typically converge to a single solution because of the global
selection scheme used. Nevertheless, many real-world problems are
“multimodal” by nature, i.e., multiple satisfactory solutions exist.
It may be desirable to locate many such satisfactory solutions so that
a decision maker can choose one that is most proper in his/her problem
domain. Numerous techniques have been developed in the past for
locating multiple optima (global or local). These techniques are
commonly referred to as “niching” methods. A niching method can be
incorporated into a standard EA to promote and maintain formation of
multiple stable subpopulations within a single population, with an aim
to locate multiple globally optimal or suboptimal solutions. Many
niching methods have been developed in the past, including crowding,
fitness sharing, derating, restricted tournament selection, clearing,
speciation, etc.
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Important Dates
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- Paper Submission: 15 February 2013
- Decision Notification: 8 April 2013
- Final Paper Submission: 26 April 2013
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Subject: CEC Special Session on Evolutionary Algorithms for Cloud
Computing Systems
*CALL FOR PAPERS*
Special Session : Evolutionary algorithms for Cloud computing systems
2013 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2013)
June 20-23, Fiesta Americana Grand Coral Beach Hotel, Cancún, México
http://cec2013.org/
Cloud computing systems represent an emerging technology which allows
users to pay as you need using high performance computing systems.
Cloud computing is generally a heterogeneous system as well and it
holds large amount of application programs and data.
Many difficult and complex optimization and learning problems arise in
Cloud computing systems. This session seeks to promote novel research
works using evolutionary algorithms and other metaheuristics to solve
such problems. The following (but not limited to) issues of interest
are:
- Scheduling in Cloud computing
- Optimization of public, private and hybrid cloud computing systems
- Learning application demands
- Pricing mechanisms in Cloud computing systems
- Cloud computing architecture
- Evolutionary algorithms and metaheuristics on Clouds
- Virtualization of resources
- Maintenance and management of Cloud computing
- etc
*Important Data:*
*Initial Submission: ****February 15, 2013*
*Notification of Acceptance:****April 08, 2013*
*Final Paper Submission: ****April 26, 2013***
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Subject: Artificial Evolution 2013 (Bordeaux-France) - First call for papers
The Biennial International Conference on Artificial Evolution
(EA-2013) will celebrate its 11th anniversary from 21 to 23 October
2013 in Bordeaux, France.
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Topics of interest
Authors are invited to submit original papers related, but not limited to:
- Evolutionary computation, evolutionary optimization,
co-evolution, natural computing, soft computing.
- Artificial Life, population dynamics.
- Theory, algorithm design and evaluation, implementations.
- Application of evolutionary paradigms to the Real World
(biosciences, industry, social-economic sciences etc).
- Other biologically-inspired paradigms (swarm intelligence,
artificial ants, artificial immune systems, cultural algorithms, etc).
- Memetic algorithms, multi-objective optimization, constraint
handling, dynamic optimization, etc.
- Machine Learning and hybridization with other soft computing techniques.
- Evolutionary robotics…
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Important dates
• Conference: 21-23 October 2013
• Submission deadline: 24 April 2013
• Notification of acceptance: 20 June 2013
• Camera-ready paper: 10 July 2013
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Subject: Call for Special Session on 'Distributed Optimization and
Collective Intelligence' at the 2013 IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics
(SMC' 2013) at Manchester, UK
We would like to inform you that we are organizing a Special Session
on 'Distributed Optimization and Collective Intelligence' at the 2013 IEEE
Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC' 2013) that will be held on October 13-
16, 2013, in Manchester, UK.
You may find further information at: "http://www.oatresearch.org/wp-
content/uploads/2013/01/CFP-Special-Session-SMC-2013-Distributed-
Optimization-and-Collective-Intelligence.pdf" as well as www.smc2013.org.
Important Dates
Paper Submission: 31 March 2013
Notification of Acceptance: 30 June 2013
Final Paper Submission: 31 July 2013
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Subject: Call for papers -special session Euro 2013: Hybridization of
Metaheuristics with AI Techniques
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*** CALL FOR PAPERS
*** EURO-INFORMS JOINT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE (EURO2013)
*** STREAM ON HYBRIDISATION OF HEURISTIC FOR GLOBAL OPTIMISATION
*** SESSION ON HYBRIDIZATION OF METAHEURISTICS WITH AI TECHNIQUES
*** 1-4 July 2013, Rome, Italy
*** http://www.euro2013.org
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** Aims & Scope **
Metaheuristics, such as evolutionary algorithms, particle swarm
optimization, ant colony optimization and estimation of distribution
algorithms, have been successfully used to solve many hard problems
(continuous/discrete, mono/multi-objective, dynamic optimization,
optimization under uncertainty). However, in recent years, hybrid
metaheuristics have attracted a growing interest. In this new class of
algorithms, a smart combination of concepts and techniques from
different optimization methods is used. We propose to focus this session on
the hybridization of metaheuristics with artificial intelligence
techniques, and more generally with any technique that can provide
learning or predictive capabilities to an optimization algorithm. A
particular interest will be given to the evaluation of their
performances and to their applications.
** Important Dates **
1 March 2013 - ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE
15 March 2013 - NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE/REJECTION TO AUTHORS
15 April 2013 - DEADLINE FOR AUTHORS REGISTRATION
1-4 July 2013 - EURO 2013 Conference in Rome, Italy
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Subject: ECAL 2013 - European Conference on Artificial Life - 2-6
September, 2013 Taormina, Italy
First CALL FOR PAPERS: ECAL 2013
ECAL 2013, European Conference on Artificial Life,
an International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems
2-6 September 2013, Taormina, Italy
http://www.dmi.unict.it/ecal2013/
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Researchers are invited to submit original work in the field of
artificial life, synthetic biology, living systems, and complex
systems as papers of not more than 8 pages. Papers must be submitted
as PDF files. The authors' names shall not be blinded for the
reviewing process. Papers must be submitted in MIT Press style through
the conference homepage:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecal2013
Important Dates
Call for Workshop Submission: January 31, 2013
Workshop Acceptance: February 15, 2013
Call for Tutorial Submission: January 31, 2013
Tutorial Acceptance: February 15, 2013
Paper Submission: February 28, 2013
Author Notification: May 1, 2013
Camera Ready Paper Submission: June 1, 2013
Early registration: June 25, 2013
Late registration: June 26 - September 6, 2013
On-Site registration: September 2-6, 2013
Registration as Presenting Author: June 25, 2013
Conference: September 2-6, 2013
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Subject: CfP: International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering
and Automated Learning (IDEAL'2013), Hefei, China
======= Call for Papers: IDEAL'13, October 2013, Hefei, China =======
The 14th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and
Automated Learning (IDEAL'2013)
October 20-23, 2013, Hefei, Anhui, China
http://nical.ustc.edu.cn/ideal13/
The International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and
Automated Learning (IDEAL) is an annual international conference
dedicated to emerging and challenging topics in intelligent data
analysis, data mining and their associated learning systems and
paradigms. Its core themes include: the Big Data challenges, Machine
Learning, Data Mining, Information Retrieval and Management, Bio- and
Neuro-Informatics, Bio-Inspired Models (including Neural Networks,
Evolutionary Computation and Swarm Intelligence), Agents and Hybrid
Intelligent Systems, and Real-world Applications of Intelligent
Techniques. Other related and emerging themes and topics are also
welcome.
Important Dates:
Paper Submission Deadline: 24 May 2013
Special Session/Workshop Proposals Deadline: 26 April 2013
Notification of Acceptance: 05 July 2013
Camera-Ready Copy Due: 26 July 2013
Early Registration: 26 July 2013
Conference Presentation: 20-23 October 2013
Conference Website: http://nical.ustc.edu.cn/ideal13/
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Subject: Special Issue on
Evolvability and Robustness in Artificial Evolving Systems
for the Springer journal Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines
∼ Call for Papers ∼
Special Issue on
Evolvability and Robustness in Artificial Evolving Systems
for the Springer journal Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines
Extended Deadline — April 30, 2013
The journal Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines (GPEM) is
calling for papers for a special issue on Evolvability and Robustness
in Artificial Evolving Systems. A diversity of concepts under the
rubrics of evolvability and robustness have been introduced as the
literature on these subjects has expanded. This special issue is open
to the full range of these concepts. However, confusion has entered
the literature due to imprecise usage of these terms. Therefore, a
unique requirement for this special issue will be that the authors
provide precise quantitative definitions for the aspects of
‘evolvability’ and ‘robustness’ they investigate.
Examples of topics sought include:
• The emergence, or the engineering, of evolvability or robustness
into artificial evolutionary systems (AESs);
• New theoretical understanding of the evolution of evolvability,
robustness, neutral networks, and their inter-relationships;
• Case studies of the evolution of evolvability, robustness, or
neutral networks in AESs; • Methodology for measuring evolvability
and/or robustness;
• Relationships between 1) the robustness of the AES’s behavior to
variation in inputs and environment, and 2) its robustness under
change from the genetic operators (e.g. ‘plasto-genetic congruence’
Ancel and Fontana (2000));
• Mechanisms whereby variational properties of the environment or
inputs can shape the variational properties of the AESs
under the genetic operators;
• Generalization of the biological concept of distribution of mutation
effects on fitness to the distribution of genetic operator
effects on the objective functions in AESs (Nordin and Banzhaf, 1995).
Important Dates:
Submission deadline: April 30, 2013. Notification of acceptance: June
30, 2013. Final manuscript: August 31, 2013.
Paper Submission:
Authors are encouraged to submit high-quality, original work that has
neither appeared in, nor is under consideration by, other journals.
Springer offers authors, editors and reviewers of Genetic Programming
and Evolvable Machines a web-enabled online manuscript submission and
review system. Manuscripts should be submitted to:
http://GENP.edmgr.com. Instructions for Authors may be found at
http://www.springer.com/10710 . All enquiries should be sent to Lee
Altenberg at [log in to unmask] .
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Subject: Call For Papers: The 2013 World Congress in Computer Science,
Computer Engineering, and Computing, July 22-25, 2013, USA (Paper
Submission Deadline: March 18, 2013)
CALL FOR PAPERS
and
CALL FOR WORKSHOPS/SESSIONS
Paper Submission Deadline: March 18, 2013
WORLDCOMP'13
The 2013 World Congress in Computer Science,
Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
July 22-25, 2013, Las Vegas, USA
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/
IMPORTANT DATES:
January 31, 2013: Workshop / Session Proposals
March 18, 2013: Submission of full papers (about 7 pages)
April 18, 2013: Notification of acceptance (+/- two days)
May 5, 2013: Final papers + Copyright + Registration
July 22-25, 2013: The 2013 World Congress in Computer Science,
Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
(including all affiliated conferences).
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Subject: CfP: EMO session at MCDM'2013
Special Session on
Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization
during the
22nd Intl. Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM 2013)
June 17--21, 2013 in Malaga, Spain
http://emoatmcdm.gforge.inria.fr/
o Submission deadline full papers: January 31, 2013
o Submission deadline abstracts: January 31, 2013
o Notification of acceptance: February 28, 2013
o Deadline for early-bird registration: April 1, 2013
o Deadline for registration: May 3, 2013
o Conference dates: June 17--21, 2013
Additional Dates related to the Special Issue:
o Tentative deadline for full-length papers: mid-September 2013
o Tentative notification about acceptance: December 2013
o Expected publication date: 2014
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Subject: ICARIS 2013 CFP: The 12th Int. Conf. on Artificial Immune
Systems - August 27-29, 2013, Nottingham, UK
CALL FOR PAPERS, ORAL PRESENTATIONS & POSTERS
**Apologies for cross-posting**
The 12th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems
August 27-29, 2013 - University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
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http://www.artificial-immune-systems.org/icaris2013/
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icaris2013
http://www.artificial-immune-systems.org/icaris2013/cfp.html
Important Dates:
Paper submission: 22nd April 2013
Author notification: 28th May 2013
Camera Ready submission: 18th June 2012
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Subject: CFP: SPECIAL ISSUE IN "ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS OF ARTIFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE" (ELSEVIER)
Dear colleague,
The "Engineering
Applications of Artificial Intelligence" journal from Elsevier(impact
factor: 1.665) will publish a Special Issueon "Advances In
Evolutionary Optimization Based Image Processing"
(http://www.journals.elsevier.com/engineering-applications-of-artificial-intelligence/).
You are cordially invited to submit your paper for consideration for
publication in that special issue. The details are given below:
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GUEST EDITORS
(i) Dr. Amitava Chatterjee
Electrical Engineering Department,
Jadavpur University, Kolkata 700 032, INDIA.
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(ii) Prof. Patrick Siarry
LiSSi (EA 3956), University of Paris-Est Créteil,
122 rue Paul Armangot, 94400 Vitry-sur-Seine, FRANCE
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Deadline for paper submission:March 15, 2013.
Expected
publication date: Beginning of 2014.
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