IICAI-09 Call for papers:
 
The 4th Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI-09)
will be held in Tumkur (near Bangalore), India during December 16-18 2009. The
conference consists of paper presentations, special workshops, sessions, invited
talks and local tours, etc.  We invite draft paper submissions. Please see the
website: http://www.iiconference.org   for more details of the conference.
 
Sincerely
 
 
Edward
Publicity Committee




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WORKSHOP ON --- Support of Patient Care Workshop (SPC)
to be held as part of the
GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE (GECCO-2009)
July 8-12, 2009 (Wednesday-Sunday)
Delta Centre-Ville Hotel
Montreal, Canada
Sponsored by ACM SIGEVO
http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2009
PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR WORKSHOP: March 25, 2009.

The purpose of this half day workshop is threefold: (1) to provide an
opportunity for biomedical
and computer scientists to present and discuss accomplishments as well as
speculative futuristic
ideas related to the application of evolutionary computation in support of
patient care, (2) to
organize an international community interested in on-going exploration of
appropriate applications
of computational intelligence in clinical medicine, and (3) to develop an
internet-based community
of practice dedicated to developing and sharing data, computer programs,
knowledge and other
resources related to computing in support of patient care.

In the workshop, six selected brief (10-15 minutes) informal presentations
on real or imagined
applications of evolutionary computation in support of patient care will
be presented. Each
presentation will be followed by a facilitated group dialogue focusing on
the content of the
presentation. A more general open dialogue will fill out the remaining
time if there is any.
Presentation and publication: If you would like to give a 10-15 minute
presentation at this workshop
and submit a paper of 6 pages or less for publication, please send your
paper to scicomp2009@....
Papers received by the March 25, 2009 conference deadline will be reviewed
and authors will be
notified. All accepted workshop papers will be collected by Sheridan/ACM
Press, and published in a
separate workshop proceedings.

Presentation only: If you would like to just give a 10-15 minute
presentation at this workshop please
send the following information to scicomp2009@...: a title and brief
abstract (500 words or less),
the name of the presenter, and the names, affiliations, and e-mail
addresses of those contributing to
the content of the presentation before June 1, 2009. These abstracts will
not be published.
Here is a partial list of appropriate medical application topics:

· disease prevention, early detection, diagnoses and prognosis
· lifetime treatment planning and follow-up
· biomedical numeric, categorical, text, image & signal data mining
· knowledge extraction from electronic patient records
· low-cost screening devices & cost reduction in any aspect of medicine
· continuous patient monitoring and alarm systems
· detecting untoward effects such as adverse drug reactions, drug-drug
interactions, etc
· patient-management workflow optimization
· disease modeling & treatment selection
· survival prediction & other time-to-event modeling
· medical biometric technology & personal multimedia data processing
· building and using biomedical ontologies
· designing clinical research trials
· drug dose targeting & drug evaluation
· medical devices, patient monitoring & preventive treatment strategies
· subject recruitment for clinical research protocols
· translational research & comparative effectiveness
· genomics, proteomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics in relation to
clinical practice
· pharmacology, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics & pharmacogenomic

*Organizers*
Jim DeLeo, National Institutes of Health - jdeleo@...
Alexandru Floares, Oncological Institute Cluj-Napoca -
Alexandru.floares@...
Aaron Baughman, IBM Bethesda, MD, USA - baaron@...

Jim DeLeo is a computer scientist at the National Institutes of Health
Clinical Center in Bethesda Maryland,
USA. He is chief of the NIH Clinical Center Scientific Computing Section
and founder and chairman of the NIH
Biomedical Computing Interest Group. He is dedicated to promoting the
effective and practical use of modern
intelligent computing methodology.

Alexandru Floares is a neurologist and a computer scientist. He is the
head and founder of the Artificial
Intelligence Department of the Oncological Institute Cluj-Napoca,
Transilvania, Romania, and the president
and founder of SAIA - Solutions of Artificial Intelligence Applications -
organization, Cluj-Napoca,
Transilvania. His present research is more problem-oriented rather than
methods-oriented, trying to identify
important biomedical problems and to solve them with appropriate
computational intelligence tools.

Aaron Baughman is a computer scientist and software engineer. He initiated
and co-chaired the first IBM Academy
of Technology conference on biometric analytics at IBM Research,
Hawthorne, New York, USA, founded IBM's
biometric/identity virtual community, and finished observations at the
NIH/NINDS. He is dedicated to improving
quality of life through the implementation and invention of computing
technologies - Imagine, Innovate, Impact.


Aaron Baughman
Software Engineering, Computer Scientist
Biometric Community, Academy of Technology: Conference Co-Chair
IBM Inventor, IDT Member
IBM Global Business Services
aaron.baughman@... : baaron@...
c: 1-703-585-2747 w: 1-703-653-7527

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Final Call for Papers - 12th ANNUAL GECCO 2009 GRADUATE STUDENT WORKSHOP

to be held as part of the
2009 GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE (GECCO-2009)
July 8, 2009 (Wednesday)
Delta Centre-Ville
Montreal, Canada
Sponsored by ACM SIGEVO
www.sigevo.org/GECCO-2009

PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR WORKSHOP: 25 March 2009

Workshop Website:
http://www.gustafsonresearch.com/gecco2009_graduate_workshop/

This full day workshop will involve presentations by approximately 12
selected
students pursing research in some aspect of evolutionary computation.
Students will
make 15-20 minute presentations to an audience that will include a
'mentor' panel of
established researchers in evolutionary computation. Presentations will
be followed
by a 10 minute question and discussion period led by the mentor panel.

To present, submit a 4-page paper to
Steven[D0T]Gustafson[AT]research[D0T]ge[D0T]com
describing your current research. Please submit a PDF in the ACM format,
details found at
http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2009/papers.html, using a subject line of
"GECCO 2009
Graduate Workshop". Accepted papers will be published in the GECCO
Workshop Proceedings.

Students will also be invited present their work as a poster at the
evening
Poster Session - an excellent opportunity to network with industry and
academic
members of the community.

The goal of this workshop is to assist students regarding their
research: research
methodology, goals, and plans. Students will also receive feedback on
their
presentation style. Other attendees will benefit by learning about
current research,
engaging in technical discussions and meeting researchers with related
interests.
Other students are encouraged to attend as a means of strengthening
their own
research.

The group of presenting students will be chosen with the intent of
creating a
diverse group of students working on a broad range of topic areas.

Awards will be presented for best work and best presentation.  See the
workshop
website additional details.

Call for Papers - SYMBOLIC REGRESSION AND MODELING WORKSHOP

to be held as part of the
2009 GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE (GECCO-2009)
July 9, 2009 (Thursday)
Delta Centre-Ville
Montreal, Canada
Sponsored by ACM SIGEVO
www.sigevo.org/GECCO-2009

PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR WORKSHOP: March 25, 2009

Workshop Website:
http://www.gustafsonresearch.com/gecco2009_srm_workshop/

The workshop will focus on advances in using symbolic modeling for real
world
problems in industry, economics, finance and science. Papers are sought
that
contribute to the state of the art in symbolic modeling, either through
innovative applications, theoretical work on issues of generalization,
size
and comprehensibility of the results produced, and algorithmic
improvements
to make the techniques faster, more reliable and generally better
controlled.

The workshop will be a half-day, with 60% talks, 40% brainstorming/panel
discussion.
Each presentation will be a half an hour. To present, please submit 8
page papers
in PDF format, using the ACM style at
http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2009/papers.html, to
steven [d0t] gustafson [at] research [d0t] ge [d0t] com. Please use a
subject line of
"GECCO 2009 SRM Workshop" in the submission. Accepted papers will be
published in
the GECCO Workshop Proceedings.


The audience is expected to consist of people from industry and
academia, not
necessarily limited to an audience with an evolutionary computation
background.

WORKSHOP ON

                    Computational Intelligence on Consumer Games

                         and Graphics Hardware (CIGPU 2009)



                  to be held as part of the



    GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE (GECCO-2009)



               July 8-12, 2009 (Wednesday-Sunday)

                   Delta Centre-Ville Hotel

                       Montreal, Canada

                    Sponsored by ACM SIGEVO

               http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2009



            PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR WORKSHOP: March 25, 2009



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Everyone who has implemented an evolutionary algorithm or other
computational intelligence approach using graphics processing units (GPUs),
video game systems, mobile devices, cellular phones, etc. will want to
submit to this workshop.  Due to its speed, price, and availability, there
is increasing interest in using mass consumer market commodity hardware for
engineering and scientific applications. Mostly this has concentrated upon
graphics hardware, particularly GPUs, due to their ability to offer teraflop
performance on a desktop using a restricted form of parallel computing
(known as “General Purpose computing on Graphics Processing Units”,  or
“GPGPU”).  There is also increasing interest in using the computing power of
game consoles such as Microsoft's Xbox, Sony's Playstation and the Cell
processor, and portable entertainment and/or cellular phone mobile devices
for research and applications.



Submissions are invited in (but not limited to) the following areas:

-              Parallel genetic programming (GP) on GPU

-              Parallel genetic algorithms (GA) on GPU

-              Parallel evolutionary programming (EP) on GPU

-              Associated or hybrid computational intelligence techniques on
GPU

     -          Support Vector Machines

     -          Bayesian Networks

     -          Parallel search algorithms

     -          Data mining

-              Differential Evolution on GPU

-              Computational Biology or Bioinformatics on GPU

-              Evolutionary computation on video game platforms

-              Evolutionary computation on mobile devices



The workshop will be held in conjunction with the tutorial “Accelerating
Evolutionary Computation with Graphics Processing Units” by Dr. Wolfgang
Banzhaf and Dr. Simon Harding.  In addition, an nVidia-sponsored GECCO 2009
competition on GPUs for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation has been
organized with the prize of a state-of-the-art nVidia graphics card.



Workshop website: http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/external/W.Langdon/cigpu/



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Submissions and Publication



Submissions will be for papers up to 8 pages in ACM format, submitted to
gwilson@....  As the review process is double-blind, please make your
submission anonymous by removing all references to the authors.  Please see
the GECCO 2009 information for authors for further details.  All accepted
papers will be presented at CIGPU 2009 and published by Sheridan/ACM Press
in the workshop proceedings to be included on the GECCO Proceedings and
Companion Material CD and placed in the ACM Digital Library.



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Important Dates



Paper submission deadline: March 25, 2009 (Please submit to
gwilson@....)

Notification to authors: April 3, 2009

Submission of camera-ready version: April 17, 2009

Conference registration: April 27, 2009

Workshop date: July 8, 2009



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Workshop Format and Schedule



CIGPU 2009 will be held as a full day event including:



-              GPU Tutorial - Accelerating Evolutionary Computation with
Graphics Processing Units (where this will shift with final scheduling)

-              Paper presentations

-              Discussion of experiences with latest GPU and commodity
device technology

-              Presentations by GPU competition entrants and subsequent
award presentation by Dr. Harding (prize of state-of-the-art nVidia graphics
card)



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Program Committee



Workshop Chairs

-              Dr. Garnett Wilson, Department of Computer Science,

     Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, gwilson@...

-              Dr. Simon Harding, Department of Computer Science,

     Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, simonh@...

-              Dr. W.B. Langdon, Department of Computer Science,

     King’s College London, UK, wlangdon@...

-              Dr. Man Leung Wong, Department of Computing and Decision
Sciences,

     Lingnan University, Hong Kong, mlwong@...



Program Committee: Malcolm Heywood, Wai-Man Pang, Raghavendra D. Prabhu,
Tien-Tsin Wong, Stephane Gobron, Ignacio Hidalgo, Francisco Fernández de
Vega, Juan Lanchares, Denis Robilliard



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>
> Call for Papers The 4th International Symposium on Intelligence Computation
> and Applications
> (ISICA 2009)
> Wuhan, PRC, 23-25 October 2009
>
> The 4th International Symposium on Intelligence Computation and
> Applications (ISICA 2009) will be held on October 23-25, 2009, in Huangshi,
> China. ISICA 2009 will present current progress of theories and
> methodologies in the field of computational intelligence and their
> applications.
>   Following the success of the First International Symposium on
> Intelligence Computation and Applications (ISICA 2005) sponsored by the
> China University of Geosciences (CUG), ISICA 2007 and ISICA 2008 have
> presented four proceedings, including two volumes of Lecture Notes in
> Computer Science by Springer and two books by China University of
> Geosciences Press. All papers included in the two volumes by Springer have
> been indexed by both EI and ISTP, and the papers presented in the two books
> are indexed by ISTP. The upcoming ISICA 2009 proceedings covers the
> following topics, but not limited to:
>
> •Evolutionary computation
> •Neural networks
> •Fuzzy systems
> •Ant colony optimization
> •Artificial life
> •Bioinformatics & bioengineering
> •Combinatorial & numerical optimization
> •Evolutionary data mining
> •Evolutionary learning systems
> •Evolutionary multi-objective and dynamic optimization
> •Molecular & quantum computing
> •Representations & operators
> •Real-world applications
> •Theory of intelligent computation
>
>
> Keynote Speakers:
>
> Prof. H.R.Tizhoosh, University of Waterloo,CA
> Prof. Erik D. Goodman , Michigan State University, USA
> Prof. Massimiliano Vasile, University of Glasgow, UK
>
>
> Important Due Dates:
>
> ¡ø Paper Submission: April 15, 2009
> ¡ø Decision Notification: June 1, 2009
> ¡ø Camera-Read Submission: June 15, 2009
>
> All papers in PDF format should be submitted electronically through
> the conference website. The manuscripts should be written in English
> and follow the LNCS format provided by Springer(
> http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html ) . Full papers are
> limited to maximum 10 pages
>
> Conference Website: http://isica.cug.edu.cn
>


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Draft paper submission deadline extended
 
Special Session on Genetic Programming
 
The deadline for draft paper submission at the 2009 International Conference on
Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR-09) (website:
http://www.PromoteResearch.org) is extended due to numerous requests from the
authors. As a result, the deadline for paper submission for the special session
is also extended accordingly. The conference and the session will be held during
July 13-16 2009 in Orlando, FL, USA. We invite draft paper submissions. The
conference will take place at the same time and venue where several other
international conferences are taking place. The other conferences include:
·         International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Control Systems
(ARCS-09)
·         International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology,
Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-09)
·         International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web
Technologies (EISWT-09)
·         International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking and
Communication Systems (HPCNCS-09)
·         International Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ISP-09)
·         International Conference on Recent Advances in Information Technology
and Applications (RAITA-09)
·         International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice
(SETP-09)
·         International Conference on Theory and Applications of Computational
Science (TACS-09)
·         International Conference on Theoretical and Mathematical Foundations
of Computer Science (TMFCS-09)
 
The website http://www.PromoteResearch.org contains more details.
 
Sincerely
John Edward
Publicity committee
 
 




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- LAST CALL  FOR  PAPERS  -  LAST CALL  FOR  PAPERS -

                               WORKSHOP ON
               Evolutionary Computation and Multi-Agent Systems
                    and Simulation Workshop (ECoMASS-2008)

                           to be held as part of the

     2009 GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE (GECCO-2009)

                    July 8-12, 2009 (Wednesday-Saturday)
                         Delta Centre-Ville Hotel
                         Montreal, Canada
                         Organized by ACM SIGEVO
                         www.sigevo.org/GECCO-2009/

                 PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR WORKSHOP: MARCH 25, 2009


Workshop URL: http://www.cscs.umich.edu/ecomass/

---------------------------------------------------------------
Evolutionary computation (EC) and multi-agent systems and simulation
(MASS) both involve populations of agents. EC is a learning technique
by which a population of individual agents adapt according to the
selection pressures exerted by an environment; MASS seeks to
understand how to coordinate the actions of a population of (possibly
selfish) autonomous agents that share an environment so that some
outcome is achieved. Both EC and MASS have top-down and bottom-up
features. For example, some aspects of multi-agent system engineering
(e.g., mechanism design) are concerned with how top-down structure can
constrain or influence individual decisions. Similarly, most work in
EC is concerned with how to engineer selective pressures to drive the
evolution of individual behavior towards some desired goal. Multi-agent
simulation (also called agent-based modeling) addresses the bottom-up
issue of how collective behavior emerges from individual action.
Likewise, the study of evolutionary dynamics within EC (for example in
coevolution) often considers how population-level phenomena emerge from
individual-level interactions. Thus, at a high level, we may view EC and
MASS as examining and utilizing analogous processes. It is therefore
natural to consider how knowledge gained within EC may be relevant to
MASS, and vice versa; indeed, applications and techniques from one field
have often made use of technologies and algorithms from the other field.
Studying EC and MASS in combination is warranted and has the potential
to contribute to both fields.

The goal of this workshop is to facilitate the examination and
development of techniques at the intersection of evolutionary
computation and multi-agent systems and simulation.

The ECoMASS workshop welcomes original submissions in the theory and
practice on all aspects of Evolutionary Computation and Multi-Agent
Systems and Simulation, which include (but are not limited to) the
following topics and themes:

-Multi-agent systems and agent-based models utilizing evolutionary
computation
-Optimization of multi-agent systems and agent-based models using
evolutionary computation
-Evolutionary computation models which rely not on explicit fitness
functions but rather implicit fitness functions defined by the
relationship to other individuals / agents
-Applications utilizing MASS and EC in combination
-Biological agent-based models (usually called individual-based
models) involving evolution
-Evolution of cooperation and altruism
-Genotypic representation of the complex phenotypic strategies of MASS
-Evolutionary learning within MASS (including Baldwinian learning and
phenotypic plasticity)
-Emergence and feedbacks
-Open-ended strategy spaces and evolution
-Adaptive individuals within evolving populations

*Paper Submission
See http://www.cscs.umich.edu/ecomass/ for details.

*Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: 25 March, 2009
Notification of acceptance: 3 April, 2009

*Workshop Chairs:
Bill Rand, University of Maryland
Sevan Ficici, Natural Selection
Rick Riolo, University of Michigan

*Program Committee:
Matt Knudson, Oregon State University
Mike North, Argonne National Laboratory
Liviu Panait, Google
Bob Reynolds, Wayne State University
Moshe Sipper, Ben-Gurion University
Kagan Tumer, Oregon State University
Tina Yu, Memorial University of Newfoundland

Dear Colleagues,

Please consider submitting papers summarizing your defense-related
research to the workshop described below.  Contact me if you have any
questions.

Best regards,
Frank

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Final Call for Papers

GECCO 2009 Defense Applications of Computational Intelligence Workshop

Thursday, July 9, 2009, 8:30 AM – 6:00 PM

to be held as part of the

2009 GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE (GECCO-2009)
July 8-12, 2009 (Wednesday-Sunday)
Delta Centre-Ville Hotel
777 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, H3C 3Z7, Canada
Organized by ACM SIG-EVO
www.sigevo.org/GECCO-2009

Important Dates

Submission deadline:     Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Acceptance notification: Friday, April 3, 2009
Camera ready deadline:   Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Workshop Description

Within the last decade, the use of computational intelligence techniques
for solving challenging defense related problems has achieved widespread
acceptance. The genesis of this interest lies in the fact that repeated
attempts of using more traditional techniques have left many important
problems unsolved, and in some cases, not addressed. Additionally, new
problems have emerged that are difficult to tackle with conventional
methods, since social, cultural and human behavioral factors tend to be
at the heart of these new types of problems (e.g. within the broad areas
of the global war on terrorism, homeland security, and force protection).

The purpose of the workshop is to introduce and discuss current and
ongoing efforts in using computational intelligence techniques in
attacking and solving defense-related problems, with a focus on genetic
and evolutionary computation techniques. These include, but are not
limited to the following:

* Genetic and evolutionary techniques in the design of military systems
and sub-systems.
* Genetic and evolutionary techniques for logistics and scheduling of
military operations.
* Genetic and evolutionary algorithms (GEAs) in strategic planning and
tactical decision making.
* Multiobjective GEAs for examining tradeoffs in military, security, and
counter-terrorism procedures.
* Automated discovery of tactics and procedures for site security, force
protection, and consequence management.
* Genetics-based knowledge discovery and data mining of large databases
used to recognize patterns of individual behavior.
* Co-evolutionary for simultaneous red-blue team strategic-tactical
simulation and gaming.
* Other computational intelligence techniques for applications in the
areas listed above.

The workshop invites completed or ongoing work in using computational
intelligence techniques for addressing these or any other applications
to defense related problems. It is intended to encourage communication
between active researchers and practitioners to better understand the
current scope of efforts within this domain. The ultimate goal is to
understand, discuss, and help set future directions for computational
intelligence in defense problems.

Submissions

Authors are invited to submit papers not to exceed 8 pages that must
strictly adhere to the ACM formatting rules; Word and LaTex templates
are provided at http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2009/papers.html.

Papers should be submitted in PDF format only and should be submitted
via email to ayworkshops@.... Be sure to place the text
"GECCO 2009 DACI" in the subject line of your message.

For additional information, please refer to the workshop web site at
http://math.uaa.alaska.edu/~daci2009/.

Contact Point
Frank W. Moore
ayworkshops@...

Dear Colleagues,

Please encourage your undergraduate students to submit papers to the
workshop described below.  Contact me if you have any questions.

Best Regards,
Frank

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Final Call for Papers

Seventh GECCO Undergraduate Student Workshop

Wednesday, July 8, 2009, 2:00 – 6:00 PM

to be held as part of the

2009 GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE (GECCO-2009)
July 8-12, 2009 (Wednesday-Sunday)
Delta Centre-Ville Hotel
777 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, H3C 3Z7, Canada
Organized by ACM SIG-EVO
www.sigevo.org/GECCO-2009

Important Dates

Submission deadline:     Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Acceptance notification: Friday, April 3, 2009
Camera ready deadline:   Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Workshop Description

The seventh annual Undergraduate Student Workshop at a GECCO conference
will occur on Wednesday, July 8, 2009 as part of the GECCO-2009
conference in Montreal, QC, Canada. The workshop will provide an
opportunity for undergraduate students to present their research in
evolutionary computation. Typically, presentations will describe
senior-level research projects supervised by a faculty mentor; however,
summer research projects or exceptional course projects may also be
appropriate.

The workshop will be a half-day event, during which approximately eight
undergraduate students will present their work to each other, to
participating students' faculty mentors, and to GECCO participants
interested in undergraduate research. Students should plan on 20-minute
presentations, followed by five minutes of questions and discussion.

Students invited to the workshop will also participate in the conference
poster session. Students will display posters summarizing their work,
allowing the larger GECCO community to see what's being done by
undergraduates in evolutionary computation. The poster session will also
be a great opportunity for networking!

The goals of the Undergraduate Student Workshop are to:
(*) provide a forum allowing undergraduate students to put a capstone on
their undergraduate research activities, by presenting their work at an
international conference
(*) encourage teaching faculty to consider undergraduate research
opportunities for their students in the EC field
(*) prepare undergraduate students for graduate work in EC areas
(*) encourage sharing and networking amongst teaching faculty with
students participating in undergraduate research projects in EC
(*) provide networking opportunities for graduate school faculty and
undergraduate students interested in pursuing advanced degrees, and
(*) encourage more emphasis on education at the GECCO conference

Workshop Format

We anticipate a half-day workshop with approximately 8 presentations,
organized according to the following schedule:
14:00 – 14:10 Workshop welcome
14:10 – 15:50 Four presentations (20 minutes + 5 minutes Q&A each)
15:50 – 16:10 Coffee break and informal discussion
16:10 – 17:50 Four presentations (20 minutes + 5 minutes Q&A each)
17:50 – 18:00 Discussion and planning for future workshops

Submissions

Students are invited to submit papers not to exceed 6 pages that must
strictly adhere to the ACM formatting rules; Word and LaTex templates
are provided at http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2009/papers.html.

Papers should be submitted in PDF format only and should be submitted
via email to ayworkshops@.... Be sure to place the text
"GECCO 2009 UGWS" in the subject line of your message.

For additional information, please refer to the workshop web site at
http://math.uaa.alaska.edu/~ugws2009/

In addition, each paper must be accompanied by an email message from a
supervising faculty member verifying that the author(s) performed the
research described in the paper while enrolled as undergraduate students
during the 2007-8 and/or 2008-9 academic year. By custom, faculty
members are not named co-authors of Undergraduate Student Workshop
papers, although they may be recognized in the acknowledgments section
of the paper.

Faculty Participation

Since many undergraduate students do not normally read the EC newsgroups
and mailing lists, faculty participation is a key element for promoting
this workshop.

Faculty who have taught undergraduate courses related to evolutionary
computation, or who have supervised undergraduate research activities in
the field, are encouraged to consider which of their outstanding
students might wish to submit papers for the workshop. In addition,
faculty members who are interested in undergraduate education may serve
on the workshop panel. The panel will provide an excellent opportunity
for sharing project ideas and pedagogy related to evolutionary
computation. Interested faculty members should contact the workshop
organizers at ayworkshops@....

Organizing Committee

Clare Bates Congdon
University of Southern Maine
congdon@...

Laurence D. Merkle
l.merkle@...

Frank W. Moore
University of Alaska Anchorage
affwm@...

Contact Point
Frank W. Moore
ayworkshops@...

*ISWC'09 CALL FOR PAPERS, POSTERS AND NOTES*

   ISWC'09, the thirteenth annual IEEE International Symposium  on
   Wearable Computers, is the premier forum for wearable computing
   and  issues  related  to  on-body and worn mobile technologies.
   ISWC'09  will  bring  together  researchers,  product  vendors,
   fashion  designers,  textile  manufacturers, users, and related
   professionals to share information  and  advances  in  wearable
   computing.  ISWC'09  explicitly  aims  to  broaden its scope to
   include cell phones and cell phone applications  as  they  have
   become the most successful wearable computer to date.

   ISWC'09  invites  to submit original work in one or more of the
   following formats: full papers, notes, posters,  late  breaking
   results,  demonstrations,  videos,  tutorials and workshops. As
   already successfully performed in the past,  this  year's  ISWC
   also   invites  for  a  contest  of  wearable  system  designs,
   encouraging academic  and  industrial  design,  media  and  art
   authorities to submit conceptual work in a creative, inspiring,
   innovative and future oriented style.

   For  first time, ISWC'09 will publish adjunct proceedings which
   will  include  the  late  breaking   results,   video   papers,
   demonstrations, design papers of selected workshops.


   *Wearable Systems*
   - Wearable  system  design,   wearable  displays and electronic
     textiles
   - Wearable sensors, actuators, input/output devices  and  power
     management systems
   - Interaction design, industrial design of wearable systems
   - Wearable   sensor  networks  for  sensing  context-awareness,
     activity or cognitive state
   - Software  and  service architectures, infrastructure based as
     well as ad-hoc systems
   - Operating  systems  issues  related  to  wearable  computing,
     including  issues  such  as  dependability,  fault-tolerance,
     security, trustworthiness and power management
   - Networks, including wireless networks, on-body networks,  and
     support for interaction  with  other wearables, pervasive and
     ubiquitous computing systems or the Internet
   - Cooperative   wearables,  ensembles  of  wearable  artefacts,
     coordination or wearables
   - Techniques for power management  and  heat  dissipation,  and
     manufacturing issues

   *Usability, HCI and Human Factors in Wearable Computing*
   - Human  factors  issues  with  and  ergonomics  of  body  worn
     computing systems
   - User modeling,  user  evaluation,  usability  engineering  of
     wearable systems
   - Systems    and    designs    for   combining   wearable   and
     pervasive/ubiquitous computing
   - Interfaces,  including  hands-free  approaches,  speech-based
     interaction,   sensory  augmentation,   haptics,  and  human-
     centered robotics
   - Social implications, health risk, environmental  and  privacy
     issues
   - Wearable    technology    for    social-network    computing,
     visualization and augmentation
   - Experience design

   *Applications of Wearable Systems*
   - Wearable    systems    in   consumer,    industrial,    work,
     manufacturing,  environmental,  educational, medical, sports,
     wellness, health care and ambient assisted living domains
   - Wearable systems in culture, fashion and the arts
   - Smart clothing, for people with disabilities, and for elderly
     enablement
   - Use  of  wearable  computers as components of larger systems,
     such as  augmented  reality  systems,  training  systems  and
     systems designed to support collaborative work
   - Formal   evaluation  of  performance  of  wearable   computer
     technologies, and comparisons with existing technologies

   *Mobile Phones as Wearables*
   - Mobile  applications  designed  for / delivered through  cell
     phones
   - Cell phone services,  cell  phone  designs,  cell  phones  as
     personal computers
   - Cell phone technologies,  e.g. combining short and long range
     radios, multimedia streaming
   - Extending  cell  phone  hardware   e.g.  sensing,  novel   IO
     modalities, embeddings
   - Cell  phone  interaction,  cooperative cell phones, grids and
     clouds of cell phones
   - Studies based on cell  phone  deployments  (especially  large
     scale)



   *SUBMISSIONS*

   *Full Papers*
   Regular   paper   submissions  must  present  original,  highly
   innovative, prospective and forward-looking research in one  or
   more  of  the  themes  given  above. Full papers must break new
   ground, present new insight,  deliver  a  significant  research
   contribution  and provide validated support for its results and
   conclusions. Successful submissions typically represent a major
   advance for the field of wearable  computing,  referencing  and
   relating  the  contribution to existing research work, giving a
   comprehensive, detailed and  understandable  explanation  of  a
   device,  system,  study,  theory  or  method,  and  support the
   findings with a compelling evaluation and/or  validation.  Each
   paper  must  be submitted as a single PDF file in IEEE Computer
   Science Press 8.5x11 inch two-column format  (not  longer  than
   eight  pages  in  length).  Accepted  regular  papers  will  be
   included   in  the  printed  conference  main  proceedings  and
   presented in the paper sessions. Submissions  to  ISWC'09  must
   not  be  under  review  by  any other conference or publication
   during the ISWC  review  cycle,  and  must  not  be  previously
   published or accepted for publication elsewhere.

   *Notes and Posters*
   Notes  (not  longer than four pages in length) and posters (not
   longer than two pages in length) must report  new  results  and
   provide  support  for  the  results  as  a  novel  and valuable
   contribution to the field - just like full  papers.  Notes  are
   intended  for  succinct  work  that  is nonetheless in a mature
   state ready for inclusion in archival proceedings. Posters  are
   intended  to  present very concise, yet focused and significant
   research results. Both notes and posters will be  held  to  the
   same  standard of scientific quality as full papers, albeit for
   a shorter presentation, and must still state how they fit  with
   respect  to  related work, and provide a compelling explanation
   and validation. Notes and posters must be submitted  as  single
   PDF  file in IEEE Computer Science Press 8.5x11-inch two-column
   format. Accepted notes and posters will  be  published  in  the
   conference  main  proceedings.  Notes  will be presented in the
   paper sessions of the conference, posters will be presented  at
   the conference poster and demonstration session.

   *Late Breaking Results*
   This  submission  format aims at presenting very topical issues
   and late breaking application oriented results in all areas  of
   wearable  computing.  Just  like  regular papers, late breaking
   results should  present  directing  research,  but  in  a  very
   focused  and  compact  format.  Late  breaking  results are not
   understood as short papers condensed into less page space,  but
   are  intended  to  present  pointed  results at a high level of
   technicality.  LBR  submissions  can  gain  from  an  "extended
   submission deadline" (May 18, 2009), and should be formatted in
   Springer LNCS single column format,  not  exceeding  8  pages).
   They will undergo a scientific reviewing process managed by the
   LBR  program  committee  under  the  steering of the LBR chair.
   Accepted LBRs will be presented at the conference, and will  be
   published  in  the "Advances in Wearable Computing" book of the
   OCG  (adjunct   proceedings),   accompanying   the   conference
   proceedings.

   *Video Papers*
   Submissions  are  invited  to  present novel wearable computing
   systems, devices or just  designs,  or  demonstrate  innovative
   styles  of  interaction  or  usability  of those systems - in a
   lively format: as a video. Video clips should be no longer than
   8 minutes and be accompanied by  a  4  page  (or  approx.  2000
   words)  written  summary.  Video  paper  submissions  should be
   formatted in  Springer  LNCS  single  column  format,  and  not
   exceeding  4 pages). Accepted video papers will be published in
   the  "Advances  in  Wearable  Computing"  book  of   the   OCG,
   accompanying  the  conference  proceedings.  The author(s) of a
   video are expected to  present  a  brief  introduction  at  the
   conference,  while all full videos will be presented during the
   ISWC'09 night show - a special event in the frame of  the  30th
   anniversary  of the Ars Electronica Festival. Video papers will
   be published in the  ISWC'09  adjunct  proceedings,  all  video
   clips will be presented in the ISWC'09 Video DVD.

   *Reviewing Process for Papers, Notes, Posters, LBRs and Videos*
   ISWC'09  will  adopt  a  double-blind  process for full papers,
   notes and posters - as well as for late  breaking  results  and
   video papers. Authors' names and their affiliations must not be
   revealed  or mentioned anywhere in the submission. Please refer
   to  the  paper  submission  link  at  the  conference   website
   (www.iswc.net).  Questions  about the papers, notes and posters
   should be directed to progchair@..., about  late  breaking
   results  submissions  to  lbrchair@...,  and  about  video
   papers to videochair@....

   *Demos*
   Demonstrations   provide   an   opportunity  to  show  research
   prototypes and works-in-progress to colleagues for comment in a
   relaxed atmosphere. Both independent demonstrations  and  those
   accompanying   accepted   papers   and   posters  are  welcome.
   Demonstrations will not be published  in  the  main  conference
   proceedings,  but  will be included in the adjunct proceedings.
   Accommodations (power,  space,  etc...)  will  be  limited,  so
   participants  should  plan  to be mobile and self-supported. To
   apply to perform a demonstration, please submit (i) a  one-page
   summary  that describes what you plan to demonstrate, including
   a 200 word abstract (ii) a photo or diagram to be  included  in
   the  demonstration handout alongside the abstract (minimum size
   640 x 480 pixels),  and  (iii)  to  demonstrations@...  by
   Monday, May 18, 2009. Only the abstract will be included in the
   "Advances  in  Wearable Com-puting" book (adjunct proceedings),
   the rest of the summary will be used to judge  the  quality  of
   the submission.

   *Design Contest*
   Participating at the ISWC design contest is a great opportunity
   to  showcase  your  product  or  prototype  to  the  leaders in
   wearable computing. The design contest will take  place  during
   the  conference banquet dinner on Sunday, September 6, 2009 and
   can be used to demonstrate your "smart  gadgets"  (plan  to  be
   mobile  and  self-supported). Contributions are encouraged from
   all areas of wearable computing, from technologies to textiles,
   from potential employers to product vendors.  Direct  questions
   related to the Design Contest to designcontest@....

   *Tutorials and Workshops*
   Workshop proposals should be submitted in PDF format via E-mail
   to  workshops@...  by February 1, 2009. The workshops will
   provide  a  forum  to  discuss  topical  aspects  of   wearable
   computing  in  focus groups. State of the art tutorials will be
   presented  by  experienced,   distinguished   presenters.   The
   workshops  and tutorials will take place on Friday, September 4
   2009 (a day before the main  conference).  (workshops@...,
   tutorials@...)

   *Doctoral Colloquium*
   The  purpose  of  the  colloquium  is to offer PhD students and
   candidates, interested  in  the  wearable/mixed  and  augmented
   reality  fields,  an  opportunity  to  present  their ideas and
   research plans in an international, agile and renowned audience
   of junior and senior researchers and developers in the wearable
   computing field. Thesis position papers (5 pages including  all
   figures  and  bibliography)  are  solicited  relating a problem
   statement, methodological approach,  potential  for  innovation
   and   expected   contribution  to  the  international  wearable
   computing literature. Accepted submissions  will  be  presented
   during  the  colloquium  and  will  be  included in the ISWC'09
   adjunct proceedings. The doctoral colloquium will take place on
   Friday, September 4, 2009 (a day before the  main  conference).
   Authors will also be expected to present a poster of their work
   during  demonstration  session  at  ISWC  (September  6, 2009).
   Further information can be obtained from the conference website
   www.iswc.net or from doctoralcolloquium@....



   *PUBLISHING*

   The ISWC'09 Proceedings will  be  published  by  IEEE  Computer
   Society Press as print proceedings, and on-line via IEEE XPlore
   Digital   Library   (approval  pending).  The  ISWC'09  Adjunct
   Proceedings will be published by  the  OCG,  an  ISBN  carrying
   publisher, in the book "Advances in Wearable Computing".



   *CONFERENCE COMMITTEE*

   Conference Co-Chairs
   Alois Ferscha (University of Linz, Austria),
   Gerfried Stocker (Ars Electronica Center Linz, Austria)

   Program Committee Co-Chairs
   Paul Lukowicz (University of Passau, Germany)
   Kent Lyons (Intel Research, USA)

   Finance Chair
   Gabriele Kotsis (University of Linz, Austria)

   Publicity Chair
   Andreas Riener (University of Linz, Austria)
   email: publicitychair@...

   *TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMITTEE*

   Oliver Amft (ETH Zurich, SUI)
   Michael Beigl (TU Braunschweig, GER)
   Lucy Dunne (Un. of Minnesota, USA)
   Steve Feiner (Columbia University, USA)
   Jennifer Healey (Intel, USA)
   Cornel Klein (Siemens CT SE 2 Munich, GER)
   Tom Martin (Virginia Tech, USA)
   Kenji Mase (Nagoya University, JPN)
   Joe Paradiso (MIT, USA)
   Cliff Randell (University of Bristol, GBR)
   Daniel Roggen (ETH Zurich, SUI)
   Joachim Schaper (SAP Walldorf, GER)
   Bernt Schiele (TU Darmstadt, GER)
   Dan Siewiorek (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
   Asim Smailagic (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
   Mark Smith (KTH, SWE)
   Thad Starner (Georgia Tech, USA)
   Bruce Thomas (University of South Australia, AUS)
   Kristof Van Laerhoven (TU Darmstadt, GER)
   Roy Want (University of Trier, GER)
   Leah Buechley (MIT, USA)
   Jamie Ward (Lancaster University, GBR)
   Holger Kenn (Microsoft EMIC Aachen, GER)



   *SUBMISSION DEADLINES*

   Papers & Posters       March 30, 2009
   Workshops & Tutorials  February 1, 2009
   Late Breaking Results  May 18, 2009
   Design Contest         May 18, 2009


   ISWC'09 will be held from September 4-7, 2009 in Linz (Austria)
   Tutorial/Workshops September 4, Doctoral Colloquium September 4
   Main Conference September 5-7, 2009


   All  details or for subscription to the ISWC 2009 Alert Ticker:
   www.iswc.net or info@...

   Best regards,
   A. Ferscha and G. Stocker, ISWC'09 General Co-Chairs

[Apologies for multiple receipts.]

Title : MSR PhD Scholarship on Autonomous Local Search

Full information : www.info.univ-angers.fr/pub/saubion/PHD/Index.htm

Supervision :  Frédéric Saubion (University of Angers, France) , Youssef Hamadi 
(Microsoft Research, Cambridge UK), Lucas Bordeaux (Microsoft Research,
Cambridge UK)

Location : LERIA, University of Angers, France

Application : please send  CV, recommendation letters to 
Frederic.Saubion@...

Abstract :

Autonomous Search is a new paradigm, which aims at producing adaptive and
self-adaptive algorithms, and is now rising and crossing several computer
science areas, including the integration of tools from machine learning,
combinatorial optimization or constraint programming.  In this context, the
purpose of this thesis focuses on autonomous local search for combinatorial
problems solving. The definition and the management  of neighborhood functions
is a key issue when using local search algorithms to solve difficult
combinatorial optimization problems. Unfortunately, the neighborhood is often
problem dependant and requires a great expertise to achieve good performances. 
Therefore, in order to provide more autonomous solving facilities, we propose to
automatically  generate suitable neighborhood functions together with their
control features in a uniform solving framework. We will use genetic programming
to facilitate the design of functions and also control techniques  including
learning mechanisms. Finally, the integration of the approach will also be
considered in a distributed framework in order to optimize the stages of
knowledge acquisition and of resolution.

Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement.

Please note the changed camera ready deadline.
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          12th International Workshop on Learning Classifier Systems

                            to be held as part of the

      2009 GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE (GECCO-2009)

                     July 8-12, 2009 (Wednesday - Sunday)
                          Delta Centre-Ville hotel
                          Montreal, Quebec, Canada
                          Sponsored by ACM SIGEVO
                     http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2009/


PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR WORKSHOP: Wednesday, March 25, 2009

                               Workshop Website:
                   http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~jqb/IWLCS2009/

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The Twelfth International Workshop on Learning Classifier Systems
(IWLCS 2009) will be held in Montreal, Canada, Thursday, July 9, 2009
during the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference
(GECCO-2009), July 8-12, 2009.

Originally, Learning Classifier Systems (LCSs) were introduced by John
H. Holland as a way of applying evolutionary computation to machine
learning and adaptive behavior problems. Since then, the LCS paradigm
has broadened greatly into a framework that encompasses many
representations, rule discovery mechanisms, and credit assignment
schemes.

Current LCS applications range from data mining, to automated
innovation and the on-line control of cognitive systems. LCS research
includes various actual system approaches: While Wilson's accuracy-
based XCS system (1995) has received the highest attention and gained
the highest reputation, studies and developments of other LCSs are
usually discussed and contrasted. Advances in machine learning, and
reinforcement learning in particular, as well as in evolutionary
computation have brought LCS systems the necessary competence and
guaranteed learning properties. Novel insights in machine learning and
evolutionary computation are being integrated into the LCS framework.

Thus, we invite submissions that discuss recent developments in all
areas of research on, and applications of, Learning Classifier Systems.
IWLCS is the event that brings together most of the core researchers
in classifier systems. Moreover, a free introductory tutorial on LCSs
is presented the day before the workshop at GECCO 2009. Tutorial and
IWLCS workshop thus also provide an opportunity for researchers
interested in LCSs to get an impression of the current research
directions in the field as well as a guideline for the application of
LCSs to their problem domain.


Submissions and Publication
---------------------------

Submissions will be short-papers up to 8 pages in ACM format. Please
see the GECCO 2009 information for authors for further details.

All accepted papers will be presented at IWLCS 2009 and will appear in
the GECCO workshop volume. Proceedings of the workshop will be
published on CD-ROM, and distributed at the conference. Authors will
be invited after the workshop to submit revised (full) papers for
publication in the next post-workshop proceedings volume (scheduled
for 2010), in the Springer LNCS/LNAI book series.

All papers should be submitted in PDF format and e-mailed to:
jqb@....


Important dates
---------------

* Paper submission deadline: Wednesday, March 25, 2009
* Notification to authors: Friday, April 3, 2009
* Submission of camera-ready material: by Friday, April 17, 2009
* Conference registration: by Monday, April 27, 2009
* Workshop date: Thursday, July 9, 2009

Committees
----------

- Organizing Commitee

     * Jaume Bacardit, University of Nottingham (UK). E-mail:
jaume.bacardit@...
     * Will Browne, University of Reading (UK). E-mail:
w.n.browne@...
     * Jan Drugowitsch, University of Rochester (USA). E-mail:
jdrugowitsch@...

- Advisory Committee

     * Tim Kovacs, University of Bristol (UK)
     * Xavier Llora University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA)
     * Pier Luca Lanzi, Politechnico de Milano (Italy)
     * Wolfgang Stolzmann, Daimler Chrysler AG (Germany)
     * Keiki Takadama, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan)
     * Stewart Wilson, Prediction Dynamics (USA)
     * Martin V. Butz, Universitat Wurzburg (Germany)
     * Ester Bernad-Mansilla, Universitat Ramon Llull (Spain).


Further information
-------------------

For more details, please visit the workshop website at:
http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~jqb/IWLCS2009/

I need a version of the Koza code from volume 1 ported to Clisp. From searching
the archives the implication is that some or more have done such a thing. My
lisp skills are not quite up to the task (stuck on first error!!) so I'd
appreciate any help!

--hsm

Hello,
i need some benchmark GP in order to test an compare a genetic
operator used in tree-based GP.
any paper indicates some benchmark
or any work

thank's

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The Genetic Programming bibliography
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~wbl/biblio/
contains many papers on this.


                                 Bill

         Dr. W. B. Langdon,
         Department of Computer Science,
         King's College London,
         Strand, London, WC2R 2LS, UK
         http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/external/W.Langdon

A Field Guide to Genetic Programming
                        http://www.gp-field-guide.org.uk/
Evolving purple robot 
http://bioinformatics.essex.ac.uk/users/wlangdon/field_guide/
EuroGP 2009        http://www.evostar.org
CIGPU 2009        http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/external/W.Langdon/cigpu
GP EM                  http://www.springer.com/10710
GP Bibliography        http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~wbl/biblio/

> Hello,
> i need some benchmark GP in order to test an compare a genetic
> operator used in tree-based GP.
> any paper indicates some benchmark
> or any work
>
> thank's

Bill, your GP bib contains too much information for him. I guess he just want to
know whether even parity, artificial ant, etc can be considered as benchmarks or
just toy problems.

Honestly, so far I have not seen a concrete agreement on the benchmarks although
people frequently use some common problems (like the ones I just mentioned
above) in their research.

It would be nice and useful to have a discussion here and reach a firm
agreement. :-)

Jas



----- Original Message ----
From: Langdon W B <wlangdon@...>
To: genetic_programming@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 9:30:12 PM
Subject: Re: {Disarmed} [GP] benchmark for tree-based GP

The Genetic Programming bibliography
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~wbl/biblio/
contains many papers on this.


                                 Bill

         Dr. W. B. Langdon,
         Department of Computer Science,
         King's College London,
         Strand, London, WC2R 2LS, UK
         http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/external/W.Langdon

A Field Guide to Genetic Programming
                        http://www.gp-field-guide.org.uk/
Evolving purple robot 
http://bioinformatics.essex.ac.uk/users/wlangdon/field_guide/
EuroGP 2009           http://www.evostar.org
CIGPU 2009           http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/external/W.Langdon/cigpu
GP EM                  http://www.springer.com/10710
GP Bibliography        http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~wbl/biblio/

> Hello,
> i need some benchmark GP in order to test an compare a genetic
> operator used in tree-based GP.
> any paper indicates some benchmark
> or any work
>
> thank's


------------------------------------

Yahoo! Groups Links

*** GPUs for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation ***
                  http://www.gpgpgpu.com/gecco2009/


                     A COMPETITION OF GECCO-2009

                  SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 23 June 2009



  2009 GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE (GECCO-2009)
                  July 8-12, 2009 (Wednesday-Sunday)
                      Delta Centre-Ville Hotel
                          Montréal, Canada
                      Sponsored by ACM SIGEVO
                  http://www.sigevo.org/GECCO-2009

We are pleased to announce the official start of the GPU competition
of GECCO-2009 with the publication of the competition rules and the
scoring system.

This competition focuses on the applications of genetic and
evolutionary computation that can maximally exploit the parallelism
provided by low-cost consumer graphical cards. The competition will
award the best applications both in terms of degree of parallelism
obtained, in terms of overall speed-up, and in terms of programming
style.

Entrants must submit (1) the application sources with the
instructions to compile it and (2) a two pages description of the
application. Submissions will be reviewed by a committee of
researchers from the evolutionary computation community and from
industry. Each reviewer will score the submission according to 12
criteria concerning the submitted algorithm, the speed-up it
achieves, and its impact on the evolutionary computation community.
The total score will be obtained as the weighted sum of the 12
separate scores.

Submissions should be mailed to gecco2009@... no later than
June 23, 2009. The final scores will be announced during GECCO.

More information is available at:

http://www.gpgpgpu.com/gecco2009/

http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2009/competitions.html


*** IMPORTANT DATES ***

- Submission deadline: June 23st 2009
- Conference: July 8th-12th 2009

*** ORGANIZERS ***

- Simon Harding, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
- David Luebke, NVIDIA
- Pier Luca Lanzi, Politecnico di Milano
- Edmondo Orlotti, NVIDIA
- Antonino Tumeo, Politecnico di Milano

CALL FOR PAPERS
Invited Session on Nature-Inspired Collective Intelligence - NICI 2009
         at
1st International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence - Semantic
Web, Social Networks & Multiagent Systems - ICCCI 2009
5-7 October, 2009 Wroclaw (Poland)

1. INTRODUCTION

The aim of the invited session is to bring together, for the first time at
ICCCI, researchers working on nature-inspired paradigm and collective
intelligence as well as to discuss these issues and to present current research
results.

2. INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS

The papers will be reviewed by NICI International Program Committee. The papers
should present original and unpublished research. The conference proceedings
will be published by Springer-Verlag in series LNCS/LNAI. Submitted papers for
NICI should be prepared in LNCS/LNAI style and should be limited to 12 pages
(regular papers)or 8 pages (short papers). Please follow the instructions given
at the ICCCI site to format and submit your paper.

3. TOPICS OF INTEREST

Evolutionary Computation-based Agents
Bioinformatics Tools and Intelligent Decision Making Systems
Bio-inspired Computing Models
Cellular and Organic Grids, Agent Colonies
Cognitive Learning and Memory
Computational Neuroscience
Gene Expression Data Analysis
Metabolomics and Pathway Analysis
Molecular Data Management
Natural Team Formation
Nature-inspired Performance Evaluation
Neuroinformatics
Novel Bioinformatics Algorithms
Protein Structural Prediction
Self-adaptation and Evolution
Social Intelligence, Ant and Swarm Intelligence

4. chairs

Heitor Silvério Lopes, Federal Technological University of Paraná , Brazil
hslopes [at] pesquisador.cnpq.br
Dariusz Król, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland dariusz.krol [at]
pwr.wroc.pl

5. IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission:                 31 Mar 2009
Notification of acceptance:         31 May 2009
Camera-ready:                         30 Jun 2009

More details is available at the websites:
Special session -> http://www.ii.pwr.wroc.pl/~krol/eng_NICI.htm
Main event ->      http://isccci.org/iccci-09/

IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG-2009)
                     Milano, Italy - September 7-10, 2009
                            http://www.ieee-cig.org

The 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games brings together
leading researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to discuss
recent advances and explore future directions in this field.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Learning in games
* Coevolution in games
* Neural-based approaches for games
* Fuzzy-based approaches for games
* Console and video games
* Character Development and Narrative
* Player/Opponent modeling in games
* CI/AI-based game design
* Multi-agent and multi-strategy learning
* Comparative studies
* Applications of game theory
* Board and card games
* Economic or mathematical games
* Imperfect information games
* Non-deterministic games
* Evasion (predator/prey) games
* Realistic games for simulation or training
* Player satisfaction in games
* Games for mobile or digital platforms
* Games involving control of physical objects
* Games involving physical simulation

CALL FOR PAPERS
Prospective authors are invited to contribute high-quality papers describing new
work in the field. Papers should be formatted according the conference format
available at http://www.ieee-cig.org/

All papers are to be submitted electronically in PDF.

CALL FOR TUTORIALS
CIG-2009 will feature pre-congress tutorials covering fundamental and
advanced aspects of computational intelligence and games. Proposals should be
submitted to tutorials@... by May 1, 2009.

IMPORTANT DATES
Tutorial proposals:     May 1, 2009
Paper submission:       May 29, 2009
Decision Notification:  July 3, 2009
Camera-ready:           July 24, 2009
Symposium:              September 7-10, 2009

CONFERENCE FLYER
A conference brochure is available at:
http://www.ieee-cig.org/cig-2009/flyer.pdf

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
General Chair: Pier Luca Lanzi
Program Chair: Sung-Bae Cho
Proceedings Chair: Luigi Barone
Publicity Chair: Julian Togelius
Competition Chair: Simon Lucas
Sponsorship Chair: Georgios N. Yannakakis
Local Chairs: Nicola Gatti and Daniele Loiacono

CONFERENCE VENUE
The symposium will be held at the Politecnico di Milano, the largest
technical university in Italy, ten minutes from downtown Milan, the shopping
area, and its famous galleries and museums.

For more information please visit:
http://www.ieee-cig.org

Thank you very much
yours
Malek

Ja S <jas199931@...> a ?it :

>
> Bill, your GP bib contains too much information for him. I guess he
> just want to know whether even parity, artificial ant, etc can be
> considered as benchmarks or just toy problems.
>
> Honestly, so far I have not seen a concrete agreement on the
> benchmarks although people frequently use some common problems (like
>  the ones I just mentioned above) in their research.
>
> It would be nice and useful to have a discussion here and reach a
> firm agreement. :-)
>
> Jas
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Langdon W B <wlangdon@...>
> To: genetic_programming@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 9:30:12 PM
> Subject: Re: {Disarmed} [GP] benchmark for tree-based GP
>
> The Genetic Programming bibliography
> http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~wbl/biblio/
> contains many papers on this.
>
>
>                                 Bill
>
>         Dr. W. B. Langdon,
>         Department of Computer Science,
>         King's College London,
>         Strand, London, WC2R 2LS, UK
>         http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/external/W.Langdon
>
> A Field Guide to Genetic Programming
>                        http://www.gp-field-guide.org.uk/
> Evolving purple robot
> http://bioinformatics.essex.ac.uk/users/wlangdon/field_guide/
> EuroGP 2009           http://www.evostar.org
> CIGPU 2009           http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/external/W.Langdon/cigpu
> GP EM                  http://www.springer.com/10710
> GP Bibliography        http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~wbl/biblio/
>
>> Hello,
>> i need some benchmark GP in order to test an compare a genetic
>> operator used in tree-based GP.
>> any paper indicates some benchmark
>> or any work
>>
>> thank's
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>
>
>



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Due to a number of requests, the deadline for SLS 2009 has been
extended to

          April 15, 2009.

Website: http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/sls2009/

Publication: Accepted papers are published in the Lecture Notes in
Computer Science (LNCS) series of Springer Verlag.

SLS 2009 is a forum for all researchers that are interested in a sound
methodology for the design, implementation and analysis of stochastic
local search algorithms and metaheuristics.

SLS 2009 seeks for high-quality manuscripts that report on research,
applications of SLS algorithms, and recent developments on topics
related to the workshop. All papers will be peer reviewed.

Workshop Chairs:

Thomas Stuetzle, IRIDIA, ULB, Brussels, Belgium
Mauro Birattari, IRIDIA, ULB, Brussels, Belgium
Holger H. Hoos, CS Department, UBC, Vancouver, Canada


P.S.: Due to some server problems, the webpage was offline for about two days;
these problems have been solved. Apologies for the inconveniences caused by
this.


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             Engineering Stochastic Local Search Algorithms
                                  ---
       Designing, Implementing and Analyzing Effective Heuristics

                                SLS 2009


                 3-5 September, 2009. Brussels, Belgium

               More details and up-to-date information at
                         iridia.ulb.ac.be/sls2009




Scope of the Workshop
======================


   Stochastic local search (SLS) algorithms are among the most powerful 
techniques for solving computationally hard problems in many areas
   of computing science, operations research and engineering. SLS
   techniques range from rather simple constructive and iterative
   improvement algorithms to general-purpose SLS methods, also widely
   known as metaheuristics, such as ant colony optimization,
   evolutionary computation, iterated local search, memetic algorithms,
   simulated annealing, tabu search and variable neighbourhood search.

   In recent years, it has become evident that the development of
   effective SLS algorithms is a highly complex engineering process
   that typically combines aspects of algorithm design and
   implementation with empirical analysis and problem-specific
   background knowledge. The difficulty of this process is in part due
   to the complexity of the problems being tackled and in part due to
   the large number of degrees of freedom researchers and practitioners
   face when developing SLS algorithms.

   This development process needs to be assisted by a sound methodology
   that adresses the issues arising in the phases of algorithm design,
   implementation, tuning and experimental evaluation. In addition,
   more research is required to understand which SLS techniques are
   best suited for particular problem types and to better understand
   the relationship between algorithm components, parameter settings,
   problem characteristics and performance.



Relevant Research Areas
========================

   The aim of this workshop is to stress the importance of an
   integration of relevant aspects of SLS research into a more coherent
   engineering methodology and to bring together researchers that work
   in various fields, including computing science, operations research,
   metaheuristics, algorithmics, statistics and application areas.

   SLS 2009 solicits contributions dealing with any aspect of
   engineering stochastic local search algorithms. Typical, but not
   exclusive, topics of interest are:

     + Methodological developments for the implementation of SLS
       algorithms (engineering procedures, integration of tools in the
       SLS engineering process, ...)

     + In-depth experimental studies of SLS algorithms (behavior of SLS
       algorithms, comparison of SLS algorithms, ...), problem
       characteristics (search space analysis, ...) and their
       impact on algorithm performance.

     + Tools for the assistance in the development process of SLS
       algorithms (software libraries, automatic and semi-automatic
       tuning procedures, learning techniques, ...).

     + Case studies in the principled development of well designed
       SLS algorithms for practically relevant problems.

     + Aspects that become relevant when moving from "classical"
       NP-hard problems to those including multiple objectives,
       stochastic information or dynamically changing data.

     + New algorithmic developments (usage of AI/OR techniques, large
       scale neighbourhood searches, new SLS methods, data structures,
       distributed algorithms, ...)

     + Theoretical analysis of  SLS behaviour and their impact
       on algorithm design (analysis of operators, dynamic behaviour
       of SLS algorithms, ...)



Publication Details
====================

   The workshop proceedings will be published in Springer's Lecture
   Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.


Best Paper Award
=================

   A best paper award will be presented at the workshop.



Important Dates
===============

   Extended submission deadline       15 April, 2009
   Notification of acceptance         22 May, 2009
   Camera ready copy                  5 June, 2009
   Workshop                           3-5 September, 2009


SLS 2009 Workshop Committee
============================

General Chairs

     Thomas Stuetzle, IRIDIA, CoDE, ULB, Brussels, Belgium
     Mauro Birattari, IRIDIA, CoDE, ULB, Brussels, Belgium
     Holger H. Hoos, CS Department, UBC, Vancouver, Canada

Simulated Car Racing @ GECCO-2009 - Contest 2: Optimizing Car Setup

                     A COMPETITION OF GECCO-2009

                  SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 1 July 2009

  2009 GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE (GECCO-2009)
                  July 8-12, 2009 (Wednesday-Sunday)
                      Delta Centre-Ville Hotel
                          Montréal, Canada
                      Sponsored by ACM SIGEVO
                  http://www.sigevo.org/GECCO-2009

We are pleased to announce the official start of the second contest of the
GECCO-2009 Simulated Car Racing competition, titled Optimizing Car Setup.


*Important Dates*

    * Submission deadline: July 1st 2009
    * Conference: July 8th-12th 2009


*The Goal*

The second contest simulates the days before a race when mechanics and
pilots work on the car setup to find the one which will result in the best
performance. The goal is to build an evolutionary algorithm that can replace the
team of mechanics and pilots and can find the best car setup (e.g., gear ratio,
wing area and angle, spring setup) on a given track.

*Rules and Regulations*

The contest involves three tracks. The evolutionary algorithm will have to find
the best car setup for each one of the tracks. The contest is divided into an
optimization phase and an evaluation phase. During the optimization phase, the
evolutionary algorithm will be applied to search for the best parameter setting.
During the evaluation phase, the best solution will be scored according to the
distance covered in a fixed amount of game time (or game tics).

A parameter setting is represented by a vector of real numbers. The
competition software provides an API to evaluate a specific parameter setting on
a track and returns the best lap time, the top speed, the distance raced, and
the damage suffered. Through the API, it is possible to specify the amount of
game tics to use for evaluating a car setup. The game tics spent for an
evaluation are subtracted from the total amount of game tics available. When the
10 millions of game tics are exhausted or the evaluation process has taken up
more than 2 hours of CPU time, no further evaluation will be possible.


*Competition Software*

The competition software, including the servers for Linux & Windows, the
C++ and Java clients, can be downloaded from the competition webpage:

http://cig.dei.polimi.it/?page_id=79

For inquiries send an email to championship2009@... or visit the Car
Racing Google Group at

http://groups.google.com/group/racingcompetition


*Video Tutorials*

Installation: http://www.vimeo.com/3852922
Setup:        http://www.vimeo.com/3852860

*Organizers*

Luigi Cardamone  (Politecnico di Milano)
Daniele Loiacono (Politecnico di Milano)
Julian Togelius  (IDSIA)
Pier Luca Lanzi  (Politecnico di Milano)

Due to a number of requests the deadline for  ISWC'09  (Papers,
   Posters and Notes) has been extended  to  Sunday April 5, 2009.

   Conference website: http://www.iswc.net/

   Please forward to anyone you believe may be interested
   -- thanks!


   Do not forget to register your paper by  Tuesday March 31, 2009
   (23:59:59 PST)

   Papers, Posters and Notes submission deadline:
                               Sunday April 5, 2009 (23:59:59 PST)
   Acceptance notification:                    Monday May 11, 2009
   Camera ready final submission:             Monday June 15, 2009
   Conference date: Friday September 4 to Monday September 7, 2009


   This  is a  firm deadline.  Please find  the final  CFP  below.

   ===============================================================

   *ISWC'09 CALL FOR PAPERS*

   ISWC'09, the thirteenth annual IEEE International Symposium  on
   Wearable Computers, is the premier forum for wearable computing
   and  issues  related  to  on-body and worn mobile technologies.
   ISWC'09  will  bring  together  researchers,  product  vendors,
   fashion  designers,  textile  manufacturers, users, and related
   professionals to share information  and  advances  in  wearable
   computing.  ISWC'09  explicitly  aims  to  broaden its scope to
   include cell phones and cell phone applications  as  they  have
   become the most successful wearable computer to date.

   ISWC'09  invites  to submit original work in one or more of the
   following formats: full papers, notes, posters,  late  breaking
   results,  demonstrations,  videos,  tutorials and workshops. As
   already successfully performed in the past,  this  year's  ISWC
   also   invites  for  a  contest  of  wearable  system  designs,
   encouraging academic  and  industrial  design,  media  and  art
   authorities to submit conceptual work in a creative, inspiring,
   innovative and future oriented style.

   For  first time, ISWC'09 will publish adjunct proceedings which
   will  include  the  late  breaking   results,   video   papers,
   demonstrations, design papers of selected workshops.


   *Wearable Systems*
   - Wearable  system  design,   wearable  displays and electronic
     textiles
   - Wearable sensors, actuators, input/output devices  and  power
     management systems
   - Interaction design, industrial design of wearable systems
   - Wearable   sensor  networks  for  sensing  context-awareness,
     activity or cognitive state
   - Software  and  service architectures, infrastructure based as
     well as ad-hoc systems
   - Operating  systems  issues  related  to  wearable  computing,
     including  issues  such  as  dependability,  fault-tolerance,
     security, trustworthiness and power management
   - Networks, including wireless networks, on-body networks,  and
     support for interaction  with  other wearables, pervasive and
     ubiquitous computing systems or the Internet
   - Cooperative   wearables,  ensembles  of  wearable  artefacts,
     coordination or wearables
   - Techniques for power management  and  heat  dissipation,  and
     manufacturing issues

   *Usability, HCI and Human Factors in Wearable Computing*
   - Human  factors  issues  with  and  ergonomics  of  body  worn
     computing systems
   - User modeling,  user  evaluation,  usability  engineering  of
     wearable systems
   - Systems    and    designs    for   combining   wearable   and
     pervasive/ubiquitous computing
   - Interfaces,  including  hands-free  approaches,  speech-based
     interaction,   sensory  augmentation,   haptics,  and  human-
     centered robotics
   - Social implications, health risk, environmental  and  privacy
     issues
   - Wearable    technology    for    social-network    computing,
     visualization and augmentation
   - Experience design

   *Applications of Wearable Systems*
   - Wearable    systems    in   consumer,    industrial,    work,
     manufacturing,  environmental,  educational, medical, sports,
     wellness, health care and ambient assisted living domains
   - Wearable systems in culture, fashion and the arts
   - Smart clothing, for people with disabilities, and for elderly
     enablement
   - Use  of  wearable  computers as components of larger systems,
     such as  augmented  reality  systems,  training  systems  and
     systems designed to support collaborative work
   - Formal   evaluation  of  performance  of  wearable   computer
     technologies, and comparisons with existing technologies

   *Mobile Phones as Wearables*
   - Mobile  applications  designed  for / delivered through  cell
     phones
   - Cell phone services,  cell  phone  designs,  cell  phones  as
     personal computers
   - Cell phone technologies,  e.g. combining short and long range
     radios, multimedia streaming
   - Extending  cell  phone  hardware   e.g.  sensing,  novel   IO
     modalities, embeddings
   - Cell  phone  interaction,  cooperative cell phones, grids and
     clouds of cell phones
   - Studies based on cell  phone  deployments  (especially  large
     scale)



   *SUBMISSIONS*

   *Full Papers*
   Regular   paper   submissions  must  present  original,  highly
   innovative, prospective and forward-looking research in one  or
   more  of  the  themes  given  above. Full papers must break new
   ground, present new insight,  deliver  a  significant  research
   contribution  and provide validated support for its results and
   conclusions. Successful submissions typically represent a major
   advance for the field of wearable  computing,  referencing  and
   relating  the  contribution to existing research work, giving a
   comprehensive, detailed and  understandable  explanation  of  a
   device,  system,  study,  theory  or  method,  and  support the
   findings with a compelling evaluation and/or  validation.  Each
   paper  must  be submitted as a single PDF file in IEEE Computer
   Science Press 8.5x11 inch two-column format  (not  longer  than
   eight  pages  in  length).  Accepted  regular  papers  will  be
   included   in  the  printed  conference  main  proceedings  and
   presented in the paper sessions. Submissions  to  ISWC'09  must
   not  be  under  review  by  any other conference or publication
   during the ISWC  review  cycle,  and  must  not  be  previously
   published or accepted for publication elsewhere.

   *Notes and Posters*
   Notes  (not  longer than four pages in length) and posters (not
   longer than two pages in length) must report  new  results  and
   provide  support  for  the  results  as  a  novel  and valuable
   contribution to the field - just like full  papers.  Notes  are
   intended  for  succinct  work  that  is nonetheless in a mature
   state ready for inclusion in archival proceedings. Posters  are
   intended  to  present very concise, yet focused and significant
   research results. Both notes and posters will be  held  to  the
   same  standard of scientific quality as full papers, albeit for
   a shorter presentation, and must still state how they fit  with
   respect  to  related work, and provide a compelling explanation
   and validation. Notes and posters must be submitted  as  single
   PDF  file in IEEE Computer Science Press 8.5x11-inch two-column
   format. Accepted notes and posters will  be  published  in  the
   conference  main  proceedings.  Notes  will be presented in the
   paper sessions of the conference, posters will be presented  at
   the conference poster and demonstration session.

   *Late Breaking Results*
   This  submission  format aims at presenting very topical issues
   and late breaking application oriented results in all areas  of
   wearable  computing.  Just  like  regular papers, late breaking
   results should  present  directing  research,  but  in  a  very
   focused  and  compact  format.  Late  breaking  results are not
   understood as short papers condensed into less page space,  but
   are  intended  to  present  pointed  results at a high level of
   technicality.  LBR  submissions  can  gain  from  an  "extended
   submission deadline" (May 18, 2009), and should be formatted in
   Springer LNCS single column format,  not  exceeding  8  pages).
   They will undergo a scientific reviewing process managed by the
   LBR  program  committee  under  the  steering of the LBR chair.
   Accepted LBRs will be presented at the conference, and will  be
   published  in  the "Advances in Wearable Computing" book of the
   OCG  (adjunct   proceedings),   accompanying   the   conference
   proceedings.

   *Video Papers*
   Submissions  are  invited  to  present novel wearable computing
   systems, devices or just  designs,  or  demonstrate  innovative
   styles  of  interaction  or  usability  of those systems - in a
   lively format: as a video. Video clips should be no longer than
   8 minutes and be accompanied by  a  4  page  (or  approx.  2000
   words)  written  summary.  Video  paper  submissions  should be
   formatted in  Springer  LNCS  single  column  format,  and  not
   exceeding  4 pages). Accepted video papers will be published in
   the  "Advances  in  Wearable  Computing"  book  of   the   OCG,
   accompanying  the  conference  proceedings.  The author(s) of a
   video are expected to  present  a  brief  introduction  at  the
   conference,  while all full videos will be presented during the
   ISWC'09 night show - a special event in the frame of  the  30th
   anniversary  of the Ars Electronica Festival. Video papers will
   be published in the  ISWC'09  adjunct  proceedings,  all  video
   clips will be presented in the ISWC'09 Video DVD.

   *Reviewing Process for Papers, Notes, Posters, LBRs and Videos*
   ISWC'09  will  adopt  a  double-blind  process for full papers,
   notes and posters - as well as for late  breaking  results  and
   video papers. Authors' names and their affiliations must not be
   revealed  or mentioned anywhere in the submission. Please refer
   to  the  paper  submission  link  at  the  conference   website
   (www.iswc.net).  Questions  about the papers, notes and posters
   should be directed to progchair@..., about  late  breaking
   results  submissions  to  lbrchair@...,  and  about  video
   papers to videochair@....

   *Demos*
   Demonstrations   provide   an   opportunity  to  show  research
   prototypes and works-in-progress to colleagues for comment in a
   relaxed atmosphere. Both independent demonstrations  and  those
   accompanying   accepted   papers   and   posters  are  welcome.
   Demonstrations will not be published  in  the  main  conference
   proceedings,  but  will be included in the adjunct proceedings.
   Accommodations (power,  space,  etc...)  will  be  limited,  so
   participants  should  plan  to be mobile and self-supported. To
   apply to perform a demonstration, please submit (i) a  one-page
   summary  that describes what you plan to demonstrate, including
   a 200 word abstract (ii) a photo or diagram to be  included  in
   the  demonstration handout alongside the abstract (minimum size
   640 x 480 pixels),  and  (iii)  to  demonstrations@...  by
   Monday, May 18, 2009. Only the abstract will be included in the
   "Advances  in  Wearable Com-puting" book (adjunct proceedings),
   the rest of the summary will be used to judge  the  quality  of
   the submission.

   *Design Contest*
   Participating at the ISWC design contest is a great opportunity
   to  showcase  your  product  or  prototype  to  the  leaders in
   wearable computing. The design contest will take  place  during
   the  conference banquet dinner on Sunday, September 6, 2009 and
   can be used to demonstrate your "smart  gadgets"  (plan  to  be
   mobile  and  self-supported). Contributions are encouraged from
   all areas of wearable computing, from technologies to textiles,
   from potential employers to product vendors.  Direct  questions
   related to the Design Contest to designcontest@....

   *Tutorials and Workshops*
   Workshop proposals should be submitted in PDF format via E-mail
   to  workshops@...  by February 1, 2009. The workshops will
   provide  a  forum  to  discuss  topical  aspects  of   wearable
   computing  in  focus groups. State of the art tutorials will be
   presented  by  experienced,   distinguished   presenters.   The
   workshops  and tutorials will take place on Friday, September 4
   2009 (a day before the main  conference).  (workshops@...,
   tutorials@...)

   *Doctoral Colloquium*
   The  purpose  of  the  colloquium  is to offer PhD students and
   candidates, interested  in  the  wearable/mixed  and  augmented
   reality  fields,  an  opportunity  to  present  their ideas and
   research plans in an international, agile and renowned audience
   of junior and senior researchers and developers in the wearable
   computing field. Thesis position papers (5 pages including  all
   figures  and  bibliography)  are  solicited  relating a problem
   statement, methodological approach,  potential  for  innovation
   and   expected   contribution  to  the  international  wearable
   computing literature. Accepted submissions  will  be  presented
   during  the  colloquium  and  will  be  included in the ISWC'09
   adjunct proceedings. The doctoral colloquium will take place on
   Friday, September 4, 2009 (a day before the  main  conference).
   Authors will also be expected to present a poster of their work
   during  demonstration  session  at  ISWC  (September  6, 2009).
   Further information can be obtained from the conference website
   www.iswc.net or from doctoralcolloquium@....



   *PUBLISHING*

   The ISWC'09 Proceedings will  be  published  by  IEEE  Computer
   Society Press as print proceedings, and on-line via IEEE XPlore
   Digital   Library   (approval  pending).  The  ISWC'09  Adjunct
   Proceedings will be published by  the  OCG,  an  ISBN  carrying
   publisher, in the book "Advances in Wearable Computing".



   *CONFERENCE COMMITTEE*

   Conference Co-Chairs
   Alois Ferscha (University of Linz, Austria),
   Gerfried Stocker (Ars Electronica Center Linz, Austria)

   Program Committee Co-Chairs
   Paul Lukowicz (University of Passau, Germany)
   Kent Lyons (Intel Research, USA)

   Finance Chair
   Gabriele Kotsis (University of Linz, Austria)

   Publicity Chair
   Andreas Riener (University of Linz, Austria)
   email: publicitychair@...

   *TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMITTEE*

   Oliver Amft (ETH Zurich, SUI)
   Michael Beigl (TU Braunschweig, GER)
   Lucy Dunne (Un. of Minnesota, USA)
   Steve Feiner (Columbia University, USA)
   Jennifer Healey (Intel, USA)
   Cornel Klein (Siemens CT SE 2 Munich, GER)
   Tom Martin (Virginia Tech, USA)
   Kenji Mase (Nagoya University, JPN)
   Joe Paradiso (MIT, USA)
   Cliff Randell (University of Bristol, GBR)
   Daniel Roggen (ETH Zurich, SUI)
   Joachim Schaper (SAP Walldorf, GER)
   Bernt Schiele (TU Darmstadt, GER)
   Dan Siewiorek (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
   Asim Smailagic (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
   Mark Smith (KTH, SWE)
   Thad Starner (Georgia Tech, USA)
   Bruce Thomas (University of South Australia, AUS)
   Kristof Van Laerhoven (TU Darmstadt, GER)
   Roy Want (University of Trier, GER)
   Leah Buechley (MIT, USA)
   Jamie Ward (Lancaster University, GBR)
   Holger Kenn (Microsoft EMIC Aachen, GER)



   *SUBMISSION DEADLINES*

   Papers, Posters and Notes      April 5, 2009
   (registration not later than   March 31, 2009)
   Workshops & Tutorials          February 1, 2009
   Late Breaking Results          May 18, 2009
   Design Contest                 May 18, 2009


   ISWC'09 will be held from September 4-7, 2009 in Linz (Austria)
   Tutorial/Workshops September 4, Doctoral Colloquium September 4
   Main Conference September 5-7, 2009


   All  details or for subscription to the ISWC 2009 Alert Ticker:
   www.iswc.net or info@...

   Best regards,
   A. Ferscha and G. Stocker, ISWC'09 General Co-Chairs

WORKSHOP ON MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY
                              COMPUTATION MEDGEC

                           to be held as part of the

     2009 GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE (GECCO-2009)

                       July 8-12, 2009 (Wednesday-Sunday)
                            Delta Centre-Ville Hotel
                                Montreal, Canada
                            Sponsored by ACM SIGEVO
                           www.sigevo.org/GECCO-2009

              PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED: NOW 3 April 2009


We are pleased to invite you to submit a paper to MedGEC 2009 the GECCO Workshop
on Medical Applications of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation.

Full details can be found at the MedGEC Web site:
http://www.elec.york.ac.uk/events/MedGEC2009/

Subjects will include (but are not limited to) applications of GEC to:

Medical imaging
Medical signal processing
Clinical diagnosis and therapy
Data mining medical data and records
Clinical expert systems
Modeling and simulation of medical processes

A dedicated workshop at GECCO provides a much needed focus for medical
related Applications of EC, not only providing a clear definition of the state
of the art, but also support to practitioners for whom GEC might not be their
main area of expertise or experience.

The Workshop has two main aims:

(i) to provide delegates with examples of the current state of the art
of applications of GEC to medicine.

(ii) to provide a forum in which researchers can discuss and exchange
ideas, support and advise each other in theory and practice.

GECCO is widely regarded to be the most authoritative conference in
GEC and, as such, offers the ideal venue for this important and growing
community.

Important dates:
Paper submission deadline: 3 April 2009
Notification of acceptance: 7 April, 2009
Camera-ready copy deadline: 16 April, 2009
Workshop: 8 July, 2009


For full details, please see the Workshop home page at:
http://www.elec.york.ac.uk/events/MedGEC2009/

Stephen Smith
Stefano Cagnoni
Workshop Organizers

Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement.

Submission deadline extended to Wednesday, April 1st!
Please note that this leaves less time to prepare the camera-ready
material.
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          12th International Workshop on Learning Classifier Systems

                            to be held as part of the

      2009 GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE (GECCO-2009)

                     July 8-12, 2009 (Wednesday - Sunday)
                          Delta Centre-Ville hotel
                          Montreal, Quebec, Canada
                          Sponsored by ACM SIGEVO
                     http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2009/


PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR WORKSHOP: Wednesday, April 1, 2009

                               Workshop Website:
                   http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~jqb/IWLCS2009/

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The Twelfth International Workshop on Learning Classifier Systems
(IWLCS 2009) will be held in Montreal, Canada, Thursday, July 9, 2009
during the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference
(GECCO-2009), July 8-12, 2009.

Originally, Learning Classifier Systems (LCSs) were introduced by John
H. Holland as a way of applying evolutionary computation to machine
learning and adaptive behavior problems. Since then, the LCS paradigm
has broadened greatly into a framework that encompasses many
representations, rule discovery mechanisms, and credit assignment
schemes.

Current LCS applications range from data mining, to automated
innovation and the on-line control of cognitive systems. LCS research
includes various actual system approaches: While Wilson's accuracy-
based XCS system (1995) has received the highest attention and gained
the highest reputation, studies and developments of other LCSs are
usually discussed and contrasted. Advances in machine learning, and
reinforcement learning in particular, as well as in evolutionary
computation have brought LCS systems the necessary competence and
guaranteed learning properties. Novel insights in machine learning and
evolutionary computation are being integrated into the LCS framework.

Thus, we invite submissions that discuss recent developments in all
areas of research on, and applications of, Learning Classifier Systems.
IWLCS is the event that brings together most of the core researchers
in classifier systems. Moreover, a free introductory tutorial on LCSs
is presented the day before the workshop at GECCO 2009. Tutorial and
IWLCS workshop thus also provide an opportunity for researchers
interested in LCSs to get an impression of the current research
directions in the field as well as a guideline for the application of
LCSs to their problem domain.


Submissions and Publication
---------------------------

Submissions will be short-papers up to 8 pages in ACM format. Please
see the GECCO 2009 information for authors for further details.

All accepted papers will be presented at IWLCS 2009 and will appear in
the GECCO workshop volume. Proceedings of the workshop will be
published on CD-ROM, and distributed at the conference. Authors will
be invited after the workshop to submit revised (full) papers for
publication in the next post-workshop proceedings volume (scheduled
for 2010), in the Springer LNCS/LNAI book series.

All papers should be submitted in PDF format and e-mailed to:
jqb@....


Important dates
---------------

* Paper submission deadline: Wednesday, April 1, 2009
* Notification to authors: Friday, April 8, 2009
* Submission of camera-ready material: by Friday, April 17, 2009
* Conference registration: by Monday, April 27, 2009
* Workshop date: Thursday, July 9, 2009

Committees
----------

- Organizing Commitee

     * Jaume Bacardit, University of Nottingham (UK). E-mail:
jaume.bacardit@...
     * Will Browne, University of Reading (UK). E-mail:
w.n.browne@...
     * Jan Drugowitsch, University of Rochester (USA). E-mail:
jdrugowitsch@...

- Advisory Committee

     * Tim Kovacs, University of Bristol (UK)
     * Xavier Llora University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA)
     * Pier Luca Lanzi, Politechnico de Milano (Italy)
     * Wolfgang Stolzmann, Daimler Chrysler AG (Germany)
     * Keiki Takadama, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan)
     * Stewart Wilson, Prediction Dynamics (USA)
     * Martin V. Butz, Universitat Wurzburg (Germany)
     * Ester Bernad-Mansilla, Universitat Ramon Llull (Spain).


Further information
-------------------

For more details, please visit the workshop website at:
http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~jqb/IWLCS2009/

- DEADLINE EXTENDED  -  DEADLINE EXTENDED -

                               WORKSHOP ON
               Evolutionary Computation and Multi-Agent Systems
                    and Simulation Workshop (ECoMASS-2008)

                           to be held as part of the

     2009 GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE (GECCO-2009)

                    July 8-12, 2009 (Wednesday-Saturday)
                         Delta Centre-Ville Hotel
                         Montreal, Canada
                         Organized by ACM SIGEVO
                         www.sigevo.org/GECCO-2009/

 		 NEW DEADLINE
                 PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR WORKSHOP: APRIL 3, 2009


Workshop URL: http://www.cscs.umich.edu/ecomass/

---------------------------------------------------------------
Evolutionary computation (EC) and multi-agent systems and simulation
(MASS) both involve populations of agents. EC is a learning technique
by which a population of individual agents adapt according to the
selection pressures exerted by an environment; MASS seeks to
understand how to coordinate the actions of a population of (possibly
selfish) autonomous agents that share an environment so that some
outcome is achieved. Both EC and MASS have top-down and bottom-up
features. For example, some aspects of multi-agent system engineering
(e.g., mechanism design) are concerned with how top-down structure can
constrain or influence individual decisions. Similarly, most work in
EC is concerned with how to engineer selective pressures to drive the
evolution of individual behavior towards some desired goal. Multi-agent
simulation (also called agent-based modeling) addresses the bottom-up
issue of how collective behavior emerges from individual action.
Likewise, the study of evolutionary dynamics within EC (for example in
coevolution) often considers how population-level phenomena emerge from
individual-level interactions. Thus, at a high level, we may view EC and
MASS as examining and utilizing analogous processes. It is therefore
natural to consider how knowledge gained within EC may be relevant to
MASS, and vice versa; indeed, applications and techniques from one field
have often made use of technologies and algorithms from the other field.
Studying EC and MASS in combination is warranted and has the potential
to contribute to both fields.

The goal of this workshop is to facilitate the examination and
development of techniques at the intersection of evolutionary
computation and multi-agent systems and simulation.

The ECoMASS workshop welcomes original submissions in the theory and
practice on all aspects of Evolutionary Computation and Multi-Agent
Systems and Simulation, which include (but are not limited to) the
following topics and themes:

-Multi-agent systems and agent-based models utilizing evolutionary
computation
-Optimization of multi-agent systems and agent-based models using
evolutionary computation
-Evolutionary computation models which rely not on explicit fitness
functions but rather implicit fitness functions defined by the
relationship to other individuals / agents
-Applications utilizing MASS and EC in combination
-Biological agent-based models (usually called individual-based
models) involving evolution
-Evolution of cooperation and altruism
-Genotypic representation of the complex phenotypic strategies of MASS
-Evolutionary learning within MASS (including Baldwinian learning and
phenotypic plasticity)
-Emergence and feedbacks
-Open-ended strategy spaces and evolution
-Adaptive individuals within evolving populations

*Paper Submission
See http://www.cscs.umich.edu/ecomass/ for details.

*Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: 3 April, 2009
Notification of acceptance: 10 April, 2009
Camera Ready Papers Due: 17 April, 2009

*Workshop Chairs:
Bill Rand, University of Maryland
Sevan Ficici, Natural Selection
Rick Riolo, University of Michigan

*Program Committee:
Matt Knudson, Oregon State University
Mike North, Argonne National Laboratory
Liviu Panait, Google
Bob Reynolds, Wayne State University
Moshe Sipper, Ben-Gurion University
Kagan Tumer, Oregon State University
Tina Yu, Memorial University of Newfoundland

I wonder if I might ask of people's knowledge of
commercial GP tools or commercial tools using
genetic programming or related techniques.
Have you used one or more?
Would you recommend them?
How would I find them, eg do they have a www page?

All information most welcome

                             Thank you

                                 Bill

         Dr. W. B. Langdon,
         Department of Computer Science,
         King's College London,
         Strand, London, WC2R 2LS, UK
         http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/external/W.Langdon

A Field Guide to Genetic Programming
                        http://www.gp-field-guide.org.uk/
Evolving purple robot 
http://bioinformatics.essex.ac.uk/users/wlangdon/field_guide/
EuroGP 2009        http://www.evostar.org
CIGPU 2009        http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/external/W.Langdon/cigpu
GP EM                  http://www.springer.com/10710
GP Bibliography        http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~wbl/biblio/

Hi, Bill.
  I just know two commercial systems:
  - Discipulus:
    - I'm using the demo version in my doctorate research.
    - I recommend it.
    - URL: http://www.rmltech.com/products.htm
  - GeneXproTools:
    - I still have not used it.
    - URL: http://www.gepsoft.com/products.htm
 
Best Regards,
 Douglas Mota Dias, MSc
Researcher / DSc Student
email: douglasm@...
ICA: Applied Computational Intelligence Laboratory
Electrical Engineering Department
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro - PUC-Rio
Brazil
http://www.ica.ele.puc-rio.br




________________________________
De: Langdon W B <wlangdon@...>
Para: genetic_programming@yahoogroups.com
Enviadas: Domingo, 29 de Março de 2009 8:05:25
Assunto: [GP] Commercial Tools and Products


I wonder if I might ask of people's knowledge of
commercial GP tools or commercial tools using
genetic programming or related techniques.
Have you used one or more?
Would you recommend them?
How would I find them, eg do they have a www page?

All information most welcome

Thank you

Bill

Dr. W. B. Langdon,
Department of Computer Science,
King's College London,
Strand, London, WC2R 2LS, UK
http://www.cs. ucl.ac.uk/ external/ W.Langdon

A Field Guide to Genetic Programming
http://www.gp- field-guide. org.uk/
Evolving purple robot http://bioinformati cs.essex. ac.uk/users/ wlangdon/
field_guide/
EuroGP 2009 http://www.evostar. org
CIGPU 2009 http://www.cs. ucl.ac.uk/ external/ W.Langdon/ cigpu
GP EM http://www.springer .com/10710
GP Bibliography http://www.cs. bham.ac.uk/ ~wbl/biblio/




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Hello everybody!

I hope this list is an appropriate place to ask my question.

It's going to be rather lenthy mail since I need to put across some
background. Thanks in advance for your attention.

Imagine we have a system with N numerical inputs and 1 numerical output.
Let's say that using GP I want to guess the implicit relation between
inputs and output. The criterion for the better fitness will be the
lesser summarized error of the candidate solution at K historical samples.

Very classical statement.

Then to be concrete let's say I have N=30 (number of inputs) and K=6
(number of historical samples). As you see N is several times greater
than K.

Now, if I wanted to use linear regression (or any parametric model
with about 30 parameters) - there would be now way to
proceed since input data set is too small to resolve against 30
unknown coefficients.

But I can easily try to attack the problem with GP.
Formally nothing prevents me from doing so.

But if paramtric model fail to deal with this case -
****

1. what is so
special about symbolic regression that it does allow us to do this?

2. is there any prerequisites for problem statement to be able to use
GP?

****

If we look at this as quantities of information - it's OK to derive
values for 30 coefficients from 30 facts about the model (30 samples).
But GP pretends to be able to find a formula interconnecting 30 inputs
basing on 6 facts...

I'm really sorry for not being able to describe my concerns more
precisely but I think I've managed to conduct the feel of the
problem.

Thanks!

Sergey