EvoCompetitions 2010 - Call for Competitions proposals
DEADLINE EXTENDED: 21ST DECEMBER 2009

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For the first time, EvoStar (www.evostar.org) is inviting proposals
for competitions relevant to the topics of the EvoStar events.
These are competitions that would be open to anyone attending the
EvoStar events on 7 - 9 April 2010 in Istanbul.

Nominal prizes would be awarded at the EvoStar closing ceremony on
9 April 2010, but the main purpose is for winners to obtain
recognition by the EvoStar community.

Competition organisers should prepare a proposal to include:

* description of the problem addressed
* description of the data and, if possible, a web link for downloads
* evaluation procedures and established baselines
* an estimation of the number of participants
* the specific EvoStar event or events the competition is
relevant to
* possible sources of sponsorship, if any
* short bios of the proposers, including experience in similar
events

Please submit your proposals to the EvoCompetitions Chair

Anna I Esparcia-Alcázar, ITI, Spain
anna@...

on or before the deadline of **21st December 2009**.

Competitions will be published on the EvoStar website, www.evostar.org, as soon
as they are approved.

Workshop on Procedural Content Generation in Games (PC Games)

Co-located with FDG 2010 – Monterey, California – June 18, 2010

http://pcgames.fdg2010.org/


Overview

As computer games increasingly take place inside large, complex
worlds, the cost of manually creating these worlds is spiraling
upwards. Procedural content generation, where a computer algorithm
produces computationally generated levels, art assets, quests,
background history, stories, characters, and weapons, offers hope for
substantially reducing the authoring burden in games. Procedural
content generation has multiple benefits beyond reducing authoring
cost. With rich procedural generation, a single person becomes capable
of creating games that now require teams to create, thus making
individual artistic expression easier to achieve. Automated content
generation can take player history as one of its inputs, and thereby
create games that adapt to individual players. Sufficiently rich
content generation algorithms can create novel game elements, thereby
discovering new game potentials. Finally, the procedural generation
algorithm itself acts as an executable model of one aspect of the
game, thereby improving our theoretical understanding of game design.


Important Dates

* Paper submission: Feb. 24, 2010

* Notification to authors: April 5, 2010

* Workshop held: June 18, 2010 (day before the main conference)

Workshop Organization

PC Games is a full-day workshop, with a peer-reviewed workshop
program. Following a traditional working conference model, each talk
session will have 2-3 paper presentations, followed by extensive time
for questions and answers, as well as general discussion.

Research Areas

The PC Games workshop solicits paper submissions as either full papers
(8 pages) or short papers (4 pages). PC Games welcomes research
results that are either fully or semi-automated, in the following (and
related) list of research areas. Papers will be published as part of
the workshop proceedings.

* Procedural game level generation, for all game genres
* Procedural scenario generation for both entertainment and serious games
* Procedural quest generation, for single and multiplayer (online) games
* Procedural (non-player) character generation
* Procedurally generated game objects (e.g. weapons, vehicles, …)
* Procedural art asset generation, for a wide range of art assets
* Procedural creation of buildings, villages, towns, and cities
* Automatic layout techniques and procedural generation of interiors
* Procedural creation of natural environments, including terrain,
water, clouds, plants, trees, etc.
* Procedural generation of crowds in real time
* Procedural animation of both procedurally and manually created content
* User control in procedural generation and intuitive input mechanism
for procedural systems
* Construction and use of mixed-mode systems with both manual editing
and automatic generation of content
* Integrating frameworks for procedural methods
* Procedural creation of background history and background stories for
game worlds
* Adaptive game balancing and content generation based on prior player history
* Techniques for games that evolve and/or discover new game variants
* Procedural generation of computer and/or tabletop games
* Automatic generation of game rules
* Procedural generation of content for web-based and social networking games
* Player and/or designer experience with procedural content generation
* Models of player experience with procedurally generated content
* Theoretical implications of procedural content generation
* Meaningful incorporation of procedural generation into game design
* Procedural generation during development (e.g. for prototyping,
design, testing, tuning, etc.)
* Lessons from historical examples of procedural generation
* Case studies of industrial application of procedural generation

Submission Instructions

Submissions to the PC Games workshop must follow ACM SIG conference
formatting guidelines
(http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). Papers
must be submitted using the Easychair submission system
(http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pcgames2010).

Program Committee

Ruth Aylett, Heriot-Watt University
Rafael Bidarra, TU Delft
Ian Bogost, Georgia Tech.
Cameron Browne, Imperial College London
Simon Colton, Imperial College London
Eric Galin, LIRIS - CNRS - Université Lumière Lyon 2
Magy Seif El-Nasr, Simon Fraser University
Erin Hastings, Alion Science and Technology
Pascal Mueller, Procedural, Inc.
Ian Parberry, Univ. of North Texas
Jimmy Secretan, DiSTI Corporation
Ken Stanley, Univ. of Central Florida
Julian Togelius, ITU Copenhagen
Jim Whitehead, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz
Georgios Yannakakis, ITU Copenhagen
R. Michael Young, North Carolina State Univ.


The PC Games workshop is co-located with the 2010 Foundations of
Digital Games (FDG 2010, www.fdg2010.org), which is an official
conference of the Society for the Advancement of the Science of
Digital Games (SASDG).
FDG 2010 is supported by a generous sponsorship from Microsoft Research.

--
Julian Togelius
Assistant Professor
IT University of Copenhagen
Rued Langgaards Vej 7
2300 Copenhagen  S
Denmark
julian@...
http://julian.togelius.com
+46-705-192088



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Julian Togelius
Assistant Professor
IT University of Copenhagen
Rued Langgaards Vej 7
2300 Copenhagen  S
Denmark
julian@...
http://julian.togelius.com
+46-705-192088

* Apologies for the poor formatting in the previous post.  It should
hopefully be corrected here. *

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CIGPU 2010 - CALL FOR PAPERS

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Special session:
Computational Intelligence on Consumer Games and Graphics Hardware
(CIGPU 2010)

As part of:
IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence Conference 2010 (WCCI-2010)

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

The remarkable speed and price benefits of applying massively parallel
graphics hardware, such as the GPU, to scientific computing tasks are
becoming much more widely known and are attracting a great deal of
interest.  In computational intelligence (CI), there have already been
impressive demonstrations of the power of this technology but the
research area is still developing rapidly.  There is much work to be
done on questions such as how to make this raw power easily accessible
for general CI research, how to apply it to new CI fields and how to
continue to get the most out of it as the technology develops.  There
is also increasing interest in the use of related technologies found
in game consoles such as Microsoft's Xbox, Sony's Playstation and the
Cell processor, and in portable entertainment and cellular phone
mobile devices.

Building on the success of previous CIGPU sessions and workshops,
CIGPU 2010 will further explore the role that these technologies can
play in CI research.  Submissions of original research are invited on
the use of parallel graphics hardware for computational intelligence.
Work might involve exploring new techniques for exploiting the
hardware, new algorithms to implement on the hardware, new
applications for accelerated CI, new ways of making the technology
available to CI researchers or the utilisation of the next generation
of technologies.

Anyone who has implemented any computational intelligence technique
using any parallel graphics hardware (or related - see below) will
want to submit to this special session.

Examples of appropriate platforms and types of hardware include but
are not limited to :

   * Graphics cards and GPGPU platforms (such as CUDA, OpenCL etc)
   * Portable devices (such as cell phones, PDA etc)
   * Gaming consoles and their processors (such as Playstation (and the
Cell), Xbox etc)
   * Larrabee
   * Other mass market parallel electronic hardware

Examples of appropriate CI techniques include but are not limited to :

   * Artificial Neural Networks
   * Bayesian Networks
   * Computational Biology or Bioinformatics
   * Classification
   * Data mining
   * Differential Evolution
   * Evolutionary Computation (such as genetic programming, genetic
algorithms, evolutionary programming etc)
   * Fuzzy Logic
   * Hybrid computational intelligence techniques
   * Parallel search algorithms
   * Robotics
   * Support Vector Machines

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Special Session Website

http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/W.Langdon/cigpu/

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Submissions

Submission deadline: 31st January 2010

Page limit: 8 pages.

Please see the WCCI 2010 site (www.wcci2010.org) from more details.

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Special Session Chairs

Dr Simon Harding
Department of Computer Science
Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada

Dr W B Langdon
Department of Computer Science
King's College London, UK

Tony Lewis
Department of Computer Science and Information Systems
Birkbeck, University of London, UK

Dr Man Leung Wong
Department of Computing and Decision Sciences
Lingnan University, Hong Kong

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CIGPU 2010 - CALL FOR PAPERS

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

Special session:
Computational Intelligence on Consumer Games and Graphics Hardware
(CIGPU 2010)

As part of:
IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence Conference 2010 (WCCI-2010)

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

The remarkable speed and price benefits of applying massively parallel
graphics hardware,
such as the GPU, to scientific computing tasks are becoming much more
widely known and
are attracting a great deal of interest.  In computational
intelligence (CI), there have
already been impressive demonstrations of the power of this technology
but the research
area is still developing rapidly.  There is much work to be done on
questions such as how
to make this raw power easily accessible for general CI research, how
to apply it to new
CI fields and how to continue to get the most out of it as the
technology develops.
There is also increasing interest in the use of related technologies
found in game
consoles such as Microsoft's Xbox, Sony's Playstation and the Cell
processor, and in
portable entertainment and cellular phone mobile devices.

Building on the success of previous CIGPU sessions and workshops,
CIGPU 2010 will further
explore the role that these technologies can play in CI research.
Submissions of
original research are invited on the use of parallel graphics hardware
for computational
intelligence.  Work might involve exploring new techniques for
exploiting the hardware,
new algorithms to implement on the hardware, new applications for
accelerated CI, new
ways of making the technology available to CI researchers or the
utilisation of the next
generation of technologies.

Anyone who has implemented any computational intelligence technique
using any parallel
graphics hardware (or related - see below) will want to submit to this
special session.

Examples of appropriate platforms and types of hardware include but
are not limited to :

   * Graphics cards and GPGPU platforms (such as CUDA, OpenCL etc)
   * Portable devices (such as cell phones, PDA etc)
   * Gaming consoles and their processors (such as Playstation (and the
Cell), Xbox etc)
   * Larrabee
   * Other mass market parallel electronic hardware

Examples of appropriate CI techniques include but are not limited to :

   * Artificial Neural Networks
   * Bayesian Networks
   * Computational Biology or Bioinformatics
   * Classification
   * Data mining
   * Differential Evolution
   * Evolutionary Computation (such as genetic programming, genetic algorithms,
evolutionary programming etc)
   * Fuzzy Logic
   * Hybrid computational intelligence techniques
   * Parallel search algorithms
   * Robotics
   * Support Vector Machines

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

Special Session Website

http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/W.Langdon/cigpu/

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

Submissions

Submission deadline: 31st January 2010

Page limit: 8 pages.

Please see the WCCI 2010 site (www.wcci2010.org) from more details.

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

Special Session Chairs

Dr Simon Harding
Department of Computer Science
Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada

Dr W B Langdon
Department of Computer Science
King's College London, UK

Tony Lewis
Department of Computer Science and Information Systems
Birkbeck, University of London, UK

Dr Man Leung Wong
Department of Computing and Decision Sciences
Lingnan University, Hong Kong

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International Workshop on Learning Classifier Systems
Call for Papers - Post-Workshop Proceedings Volume IWLCS 2008/2009
Submission deadline: February 19, 2010
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A Compilation of two exciting workshop years - IWLCS 2008 / 2009.
Current advances and future outlooks.

Since Learning Classifier Systems (LCSs) were introduced by Holland
(1977) as a way of applying evolutionary computation to machine learning
problems, the LCS paradigm has broadened greatly into a framework
encompassing many representations, rule discovery mechanisms, and credit
assignment schemes. Current LCS applications range from data mining to
automated innovation to on-line cognitive control. Classifier systems
are a very active area of research, with newer approaches, in particular
Wilson's linear approximation-based XCSF (Wilson, 2002), receiving a
great deal of attention. LCS are also benefiting from advances in the
field of reinforcement learning, adaptive filtering, and machine
learning. Novel insights in these two areas are continuously integrated
into the LCS framework.

For the post-workshop proceedings volume, we invite submissions of
extended versions of the workshop contributions as well as additional
contributions that survey state-of-the art advances, cutting edge
research in the field, as well as future outlooks following on from
workshop discussions. The volume will comprise recent developments in
all areas of research on, and applications of, Learning Classifier Systems.

* Submission Format

Submitted papers (deadline February 19, 2010) should have a maximum
length of twenty (20) pages in 10pt, one-column format. Please use the
LNCS Springer-Verlag style as specified at
http://www.springeronline.com/comp/lncs/authors.html
(LATEX utilities can be found in the file llncs2e.zip). Papers will be
reviewed for acceptance by the program committee and the organizers to
ensure highest possible post-workshop proceedings quality.

All papers should be submitted, providing both source and a printable
version in PDF format, using the online submission system at
http://senldogo0039.springer-sbm.com:80/IWLCS/servlet/Conference

* Important dates

* Paper submission deadline: Friday, February 19, 2010
* Notification to authors: Friday, March 25, 2010
* LNCS Post-workshop proceedings camera-ready material: by Friday,
April 22, 2010
* Estimated publication of volume: Around IWLCS 2010



* Committees

Organizing Committee

* Jaume Bacardit, University of Nottingham (UK). E-mail:
jaume.bacardit@...
* Will Browne, Victoria University of Wellington (NZ). E-mail:
will.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, Politecnico 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 Bernado-Mansilla, Universitat Ramon Llull (Spain).

* Further Information

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



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University of Nottingham

Automated Scheduling, Planning and Optimisation research group,
School of Computer Science, Jubilee Campus, Nottingham, NG8 1BB, UK

Multidisciplinary Centre for Integrative Biology,
School of Biosciences, Sutton Bonington, LE12 5RD, UK

Tel: +441159516276
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Sorry for the typo.

It's just a fitness function, not some kind of clever meta "fitness fitness
function"!

--- In genetic_programming@yahoogroups.com, Bob MacCallum <uncoolbob@...> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Just making a quick plug for our large-scale evolutionary music
> experiment happening this week at http://darwintunes.org
>
> In a collaboration between Prof. Armand Leroi and myself, we have
> coerced around 120 first year biology students at Imperial to be our
> fitness fitness function (providing 250 ratings each during the week).
>  It's all on the web and we hope to have a lot of public participation
> too - if we get enough, it will give us another experimental
> replicate.
>
> If you would like to take part and/or tell your friends and
> colleagues, we'd be very grateful.
>
> It won't sound great at the beginning, of course, but that's evolution for
you!
>
> cheers,
> Bob.
>
> --
> http://evolectronica.com - survival of the funkiest
> http://darwintunes.org - a test-tube for cultural evolution
> http://twitter.com/darwintunes
>

Hi all,

Just making a quick plug for our large-scale evolutionary music
experiment happening this week at http://darwintunes.org

In a collaboration between Prof. Armand Leroi and myself, we have
coerced around 120 first year biology students at Imperial to be our
fitness fitness function (providing 250 ratings each during the week).
  It's all on the web and we hope to have a lot of public participation
too - if we get enough, it will give us another experimental
replicate.

If you would like to take part and/or tell your friends and
colleagues, we'd be very grateful.

It won't sound great at the beginning, of course, but that's evolution for you!

cheers,
Bob.

--
http://evolectronica.com - survival of the funkiest
http://darwintunes.org - a test-tube for cultural evolution
http://twitter.com/darwintunes

ICML-2010 Call for Tutorials

The ICML-2010 Organizing Committee invites proposals for tutorials to
be held at the 27th International Conference on Machine Learning, on
Monday, June 21, 2010 in Haifa, Israel (http://www.icml2010.org).

We seek proposals for tutorials on core techniques and areas of
knowledge that enjoy broad interest within the machine learning
community. We are interested in tutorials on established or emerging
research topics within the field itself, but we also welcome tutorials
from related research fields or application areas provided that they
are of sufficient interest to the machine learning community. The
ideal tutorial should attract a wide audience. It should be broad
enough to provide a gentle introduction to the chosen research area,
but it should also cover the most important contributions in depth.
Proposals that exclusively focus on the presenters' own work or
commercial presentations are not eligible.

Guidelines for preparing a proposal can be found at:
http://www.icml2010.org/tutorials.html

Tutorial proposals should be submitted via email in PDF format to
tutorials@... . Soon after submission, proposers should
expect to receive a verification of receipt.

The timeline is as follows:

    * Tutorial proposals due: February 13, 2010
    * Acceptance notification: February 28, 2010
    * Website due: March 15, 2010
    * Tutorial material due: May 30, 2010
    * Tutorials date: June 21, 2010

Contact: Ben Taskar
Tutorials Chair ICML 2010

CALL FOR ICML/COLT 2010 WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

This is a call for workshop proposals for ICML & COLT 2010 in Haifa,
Israel (http://www.icml2010.org and http://www.colt2010.org).
The workshop will take place on June 25, in between ICML June 21-24
and COLT June 27-29. This two day slot presents an excellent
opportunity for you to organize a workshop on the machine
learning-related topic of your choice.

Workshop day:             June 25, 2010, Haifa, Israel
Proposal deadline:        Monday, January 18, 2010
Acceptance notification:  Monday, February 8, 2010

Workshops are a great format for active research on new topics. The
ideal workshop covers a compelling subject of current or upcoming
research, and includes an impressive set of speakers with diverse
backgrounds to discuss the subject. Discussion via panels,
identification of open problems, or a "discussant" are all great
components to include.

Organization

The format, style, and content of accepted workshops is under the
control of the workshop organizers and largely autonomous from the main
conferences. The workshops can be up to seven hours long, split into
morning and afternoon sessions. Workshop organizers are expected to
manage the workshop content, specify the workshop format, be present to
moderate the discussion and panels, invite experts in the domain, and
maintain a website for the workshop. Workshop registration will be
handled centrally by the main conference with a single uniform
registration fee and with registrants allowed to attend workshops other
than the one they register for.

Submission Instructions

Proposals should specify clearly all of the following:

     * Workshop title (what is it called?)
     * Topic (what is it about?)
     * Motivation (why a workshop on this topic?)
     * Impact and expected outcomes (what will having the workshop do?)
     * Potential list of invited speakers (who might come?)
     * List of related publications (where can we learn more?)
     * Main workshop organizer (who is making it happen?)
     * Other organizers (who else is making it happen?)
     * Bio for each organizer (who are you?)
     * Workshop URL (where will interested parties get more information?)
     * Relevant conferences (which of ICML and COLT would it appeal to?)

This information should be sent by email (in plain text or pdf format)
to workshops@... by January 18.

John Langford
Workshop Chair ICML 2010

The Center for the Study of Complex Systems (CSCS) at the University
of Michigan is pleased to be hosting:

  GPTP-2010 -- Eighth Annual Genetic Programming Theory and
                                 Practice Workshop
  May 20-22 (Thur-Sat), 2010
  Ann Arbor Michigan USA

GPTP is a small, one-track, invitation-only workshop devoted to the
integration of theory and practice. In particular, it focuses on how
theory can inform practice and what practice reveals about theory.

If you are interested in presenting a paper at GPTP-2010, we ask you
to submit an extended abstract describing your work and results. We
will extend a limited number of invitations based on proposed
abstracts.

We encourage our contributors to submit work that asks new questions
about GP and its application, and finds creative ways to address those
questions. We encourage presentation of results that

   * highlight a qualitative new understanding of some GP issue along
with empirical evidence;
   * demonstrate a qualitatively new GP application; or
   * show substantive (2 to 10x!) improvements in speed, reliability,
results quality, etc.

The goal is to continue to make GPTP workshops a leading venue for
high quality, cutting-edge work for progress toward a science of GP.

To see a list of participants and papers for previous GPTP workshops, visit

  http://cscs.umich.edu/events/gptp-workshops

Papers have been published in a series of "Genetic Programming Theory
and Practice" books, one for each year (by Kluwer/Springer).

The format of GPTP 2010 will be similar to that of the previous ones
(2003-2009): a relatively small, invitation-only workshop on the
campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, with plenty of time
for discussion of a roughly equal mix of a total of 18 papers by
theorists and practitioners. In order to facilitate a substantial
exchange of ideas, workshop talks will be approximately 30 minutes
long, with considerable time allocated for discussion. The papers will
be reviewed by co-participants prior to the workshop, and collected
for publication in a book to be published as soon as possible after
the workshop. As we would like to have the papers available for
distribution before the workshop, the deadline for the submission of
full papers will be mid/late March 2010. Papers will be 16 pages max.

If you are interested in having a paper considered for presentation at
the workshop and included in the book, please send a one-page abstract
as well as a short CV of the authors to:

    gptp-2010@...

by: 11 January 2010. *** Earlier responses are encouraged ***

The abstracts will be reviewed and decisions made by 18 January 2010.
We will select 2-6 proposed papers based on relevance to the GPTP
workshop goals, the expected quality of the contribution, and how the
paper topic will fit with the "mix" of other invited and selected
papers.

There is no "workshop fee" for participation, as workshop is funded by
generous donations from groups and companies interested in advancing
the art and science of GP.

If you have questions, please email them to gptp-2010@... .

GPTP-2010 Workshop Organization Committee

Rick Riolo Trent McConaghy Katya Vladislavleva

ps Please forward to colleagues and/or post the attached announcement.



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Rick Riolo                           rlriolo@...
Center for the Study of Complex Systems (CSCS)
321a West Hall
University of Michigan         Ann Arbor MI 48109-1107
Phone: 734 763 3323                  Fax: 734 763 9267
http://cscs.umich.edu/~rlr

2010 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2010)
                     July 7-11, 2010 (Wednesday-Sunday)
                           Portland, Oregon, USA

                          Organized by ACM SIGEVO

                     http://www.sigevo.org/GECCO-2010

      19th International Conference on Genetic Algorithms (ICGA) and the
              15th Annual Genetic Programming Conference (GP)

         One Conference - Many Mini-Conferences - 15 Program Tracks

The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2010) will
present the latest high-quality results in the growing field of genetic
and evolutionary computation.

Topics include: genetic algorithms, genetic programming, evolution
strategies, evolutionary programming, real-world applications, learning
classifier systems and other genetics-based machine learning, evolvable
hardware, artificial life, adaptive behavior, ant colony optimization,
swarm intelligence, biological applications, evolutionary robotics,
coevolution, artificial immune systems, and more.

IMPORTANT DATES
* Submission deadline: January 13, 2010
* Notification of paper acceptance: March 10, 2010
* Camera-ready submission: April 5, 2010
* GECCO-2010 Conference: July 7-11, 2010

ON-LINE CALENDAR & UPDATES
* Calendar (ical format): http://tinyurl.com/gecco-2010-ics
* Updates:  http://twitter.com/GECCO2010

CONFERENCE FLYER
* http:www.sigevo.org/docs/cfp-gecco-2010.pdf

TUTORIALS & WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
* To propose a tutorial, contact Una-May O Reilly at unamay@...
* To propose a workshop, contact Jaume Bacardit at jqb@...

Please include GECCO in your subject line.

VENUE
The Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront Hotel, located in downtown
Portland, is near the Portland Riverplace Marina, restaurants, shopping &
performing arts venues.

MORE INFORMATION
Visit http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2010 for information about electronic
submission procedures, formatting details, student travel grants,
the latest list of tutorials and workshop, late-breaking papers, and more.

Conference updates are also posted on Twitter at http://twitter.com/GECCO2010

CONTACT
For technical matters, contact Conference Chair Martin Pelikan at
pelikan@...

For conference administration matters contact submit your questions to
the moderated comment system at: http://geccosupport.wordpress.com

ORGANIZERS
* Conference Chair: Martin Pelikan
* Editor-in-Chief: Juergen Branke
* Local Chair: Kumara Sastry
* Publicity Chair: Pier Luca Lanzi
* Tutorials Chair: Una-May O'Reilly
* Workshops Chair: Jaume Bacardit
* Competitions Chairs: Christian Gagné
* Late Breaking Papers Chair: Daniel Tauritz
* Graduate Student Workshop Chair: Riccardo Poli
* Business Committee: Erik Goodman & Una-May O'Reilly
* Evolutionary Computation in Practice: Thomas Baek,
   Thomas Bartz-Beielstein, Erik Goodman and Joern Mehnen

GECCO is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery Special
Interest Group for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (ACM SIGEVO).

Oscar Cordon escribió:
>
>
> Buenas!
>
> Pues si me haces el favor, le das una en mano a Antonio Cañas, que
> tiene una reunion aqui en Mieres el lunes para un proyecto europeo del
> CEVUG, y asi me la sube para la biblioteca del centro.
>

Ya se lo he dado a su mujer

Que os lo paséis bien.

JJ

Hi all,

Sorry for broadcasting the message to everybody (especially when it was written
in Spanish). It was only addressed to JJ, asking him a copy of the proceedings.
The usual mistake of directly clicking on the Reply to button without checking
the address. Shame on me!

Cheers,

     Oscar.

----- Mensaje original -----
De: Oscar Cordon <oscar.cordon@...>
Para:<genetic_programming@yahoogroups.com>
Cc:
Fecha: jueves, noviembre 12 2009 01:32 PM
Asunto: Re: [GP] Copies of PPSN 2002



       Buenas!


Pues si me haces el favor, le das una en mano a Antonio Cañas, que tiene una
reunion aqui en Mieres el lunes para un proyecto europeo del CEVUG, y asi me la
sube para la biblioteca del centro.


Gracias por adelantado! Un abrazo,


Oscar.


----- Mensaje original -----

De: Juan Julian Merelo Guervos <jmerelo@...>

Para:<genetic_programming@yahoogroups.com>

Cc:

Fecha: jueves, noviembre 12 2009 01:03 PM

Asunto: [GP] Copies of PPSN 2002




       Hi,


I still have copies of the PPSN 2002 proceedings lying around:

http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/ppsn/ppsn2002.html


including a whole series of already classical papers, which you can


obtain online, but here's the real thing!


Please send me your snail mail address, and I'll send them to you in a


first come, first served basis.


Cheers!


JJ


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Buenas!

Pues si me haces el favor, le das una en mano a Antonio Cañas, que tiene una
reunion aqui en Mieres el lunes para un proyecto europeo del CEVUG, y asi me la
sube para la biblioteca del centro.

Gracias por adelantado! Un abrazo,

     Oscar.

----- Mensaje original -----
De: Juan Julian Merelo Guervos <jmerelo@...>
Para:<genetic_programming@yahoogroups.com>
Cc:
Fecha: jueves, noviembre 12 2009 01:03 PM
Asunto: [GP] Copies of PPSN 2002



       Hi,

I still have copies of the PPSN 2002 proceedings lying around:

http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/ppsn/ppsn2002.html


including a whole series of already classical papers, which you can

obtain online, but here's the real thing!


Please send me your snail mail address, and I'll send them to you in a

first come, first served basis.


Cheers!


JJ




[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Hi,
I still have copies of the PPSN 2002 proceedings lying around:

http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/ppsn/ppsn2002.html

including a whole series of already classical papers, which you can
obtain online, but here's the real thing!

Please send me your snail mail address, and I'll send them to you in a
first come, first served basis.

Cheers!

JJ

***

Several authors have contacted EvoStar to get an extension of the
submission deadline. It was therefore agreed, to extend the deadline
for all events. Authors who have already submitted their work may
update their submission until the deadline.

                                     ***


EvoMUSART 2010 -  * SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 30 NOVEMBER 2009 *

8th European Event on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art
and Design

7-9 April, 2010, Istanbul, Turkey

http://dces.essex.ac.uk/research/evostar/evomusart.html

----------------------------------------------------------------------
INTRODUCTION
----------------------------------------------------------------------

EvoMUSART 2010 is the eighth European Event on Evolutionary and Biologically
Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design. Following the success of previous
editions and the growth of interest in the field, the main goal of EvoMUSART
2010 is to bring together researchers who are using biologically inspired
techniques for artistic tasks, providing the opportunity to promote, present and
discuss ongoing work in this area.

EvoMUSART 2010 will be held from 7-9 April, 2010 in Istanbul, Turkey as part of
the European Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation,
EvoApplications 2010.

Accepted papers will be presented orally at the conference and included in the
EvoApplications proceedings, published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes
in Computer Science series.


EvoMUSART 2010 important dates are:

Submission deadline: November 30, 2009
Conference: 7-9 April, 2010


----------------------------------------------------------------------
TOPICS OF INTEREST
----------------------------------------------------------------------

The papers should concern the use of bio-inspired techniques (Evolutionary 
Computation, Artificial Life, Artificial Neural Networks, Swarm Intelligence,
etc.) in the scope of the generation, analysis and interpretation of art, music,
design, architecture and other artistic fields. Topics of interest include, but
are not limited to:

- Generation
     o Biologically Inspired Design and Art-Making Systems that create drawings,
images, animations, sculptures, poetry, text, objects, designs, webpages,
buildings, etc.;
     o Biologically Inspired Sound-Generators and Music-Systems that create
music, aggregate sound, or simulate instruments, voices, effects, etc;
     o Robotic Based Evolutionary Art and Music;
     o Other related generative techniques;
- Theory
     o Computational Aesthetics, Emotional Response, Surprise, Novelty;
     o Representation techniques;
     o Comparative analysis and classification;
     o Validation methodologies;
     o New biologically inspired computation models in art, music and design;
- Computer Aided Creativity
     o New ways of integrating users into evolutionary computation art and music
frameworks;
     o Analysis and evaluation of: the artistic potential of biologically
inspired art and music; the artistic processes inherent to these approaches; the
resulting artifacts;
     o Collaborative distributed artificial art environments;
- Automation
     o Techniques for automated fitness assignment;
     o Systems that exploit biologically inspired computation to analyze artistic
objects and artifacts;

----------------------------------------------------------------------
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND SUBMISSION DETAILS
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Submit your manuscript, at most 10 A4 pages long, in Springer LNCS format no
later than November 30, 2009. Formatting instructions available at:

http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0

The papers will be peer reviewed by at least three members of the program
committee. Authors will be notified via email on the results of the review by 6
January 2009.

The authors of accepted papers will have to improve their paper on the basis of
the reviewers' comments and will be asked to send a camera ready version of
their manuscripts, along with text sources and pictures, by 10 January 2010. The
accepted papers will appear in the event proceedings, published in Springer LNCS
Series, which will be available at the event.

Further information, including the Online Submission Details, can be found on
the following pages:
     Evo*2010: http://www.evostar.org
     EvoMUSART2010: http://dces.essex.ac.uk/research/evostar/evomusart.html


----------------------------------------------------------------------
  IMPORTANT DATES
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Submission:        30 November 2009
EvoMUSART:        7-9 April 2009


----------------------------------------------------------------------
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Alain Lioret, Paris 8 University, France
Alan Dorin, Monash University, Australia
Alejandro Pazos, University of A Coruna, Spain
Amilcar Cardoso, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Amy K. Hoover, University of Central Florida, USA
Andrew Gildfind, Google, Inc., Australia
Andrew Horner, University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong
Anna Ursyn, University of Northern Colorado, USA
Antonino Santos, University of A Coruna, Spain
Artemis Sanchez Moroni, Renato Archer Research Center, Brazil
Bill Manaris, College of Charleston, USA
Brian Ross, Brock University, Canada
Carlos Grilo, Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, Portugal
Christian Jacob , University of Calgary, Canada
Colin Johnson, University of Kent, UK
Craig Kaplan, University of Waterloo, Canada
David Hart, Independent Artist, USA
Eduardo Miranda, University of Plymouth, UK
Eleonora Bilotta , University of Calabria, Italy
Erwin Driessens, Independent Artist, Netherlands
Gary Nelson, Oberlin College, USA
Gerhard Widmer, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Hans Dehlinger, Independent Artist, Germany
James McDermott, University of Limerick, Ireland
Jon McCormack, Monash University, Australia
Jonatas Manzolli , UNICAMP, Brasil
Jorge Tavares, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Juan Romero, University of A Coruna, Spain
Kenneth O. Stanley, University of Central Florida, USA
Luigi Pagliarini, Pescara Electronic Artists Meeting & University of Southern
Denmark, Italy
Maria Verstappen, Independent Artist, Netherlands
Matthew Lewis, Ohio State University, USA
Mauro Annunziato, Plancton Art Studio, Italy
Nicolas Monmarché, University of Tours, France
Oliver Bown, Monash University, Australia
Pablo Gervás, Universidad Complutense de Madrid , Spain
Palle Dahlstedt, Göteborg University, Sweden
Paul Brown, University of Sussex, UK
Paulo Urbano, Universidade de Lisboa , Portugal
Peter Bentley, University College London , UK
Philip Galanter, Texas A&M College of Architecture, USA
Rafael Ramirez, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain
Rui Pedro Paiva, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Ruli Manurung, University of Indonesia, Indonesia
Simon Colton, Imperial College, UK
Somnuk Phon-Amnuaisuk, Multimedia University, Malaysia
Stefano Cagnoni, University of Parma, Italy
Stephen Todd, IBM, UK
Steve DiPaola, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Tim Blackwell, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
Vic Ciesielski, RMIT, Australia

----------------------------------------------------------------------
EvoMUSART CHAIRS
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Penousal Machado
University of Coimbra, Portugal
Machado AT dei DOT uc DOT pt

Gary Greenfield
University of Richmond, USA
ggreenfi AT richmond DOT edu

Hi John

The following entry was considered for Humies 2008 but was overlooked in your
list:

http://www.genetic-programming.org/hc2008/06-Rajda/Rajda-TEXT.txt

The corresponding link to IEEE Transactions publication is:

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4637891&tag=1


Regards
Atif

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Sent: Mon 11/9/2009 5:20 PM
To: gp-list
Subject: [GP] Request for Comments on list of human-competitive results produced
by GP

I am compiling a list of human-competitive results produced by GP for an
article in the GP journal. If you've produced such a result, please check
this list to see if there are any errors or omissions in the list or
incompleteness or errors in the citation. Thank you.



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                      CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
     2010 GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE (GECCO-2010)

                       Sponsored by ACM SIGEVO
                    http://www.sigevo.org/GECCO-2010

The GECCO-2010 Program Committee invites proposals for workshops to be
held in conjunction with the 2010 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation
Conference (GECCO-2010) in Portland, Oregon, USA, July 7-11.

** Important Dates **
Deadline for Workshop Proposals:  November 16th, 2009
Notification of Acceptance:       November 30th, 2009
Information and Submissions:      jqb@...

GECCO workshops provide an excellent opportunity to meet people with
similar interests, to be exposed to cutting-edge research and to
exchange ideas in an informal setting. Ideally, a GECCO workshop should
focus on a specialized research area, on an emerging research field, or
on interdisciplinary research area between the genetic and evolutionary
computation community and other research fields. GECCO workshops can be
two hours, half day, or a full day long. The format can be decided by
the organizers who are encouraged to plan interactive sessions (e.g,
debate/discussion sessions, brainstorming or problem solving sessions)
which cannot be easily accommodated in the GECCO conference program.
Proposals should be mailed to: jqb@...

Each proposal must be submitted as a plain text file and must contain
the following information:
1. A half page description of the workshop including a clear description
of the specific topics issues on which the workshop will focus should be
identified.
2. A brief (half page) discussion of why the topic is of interest to the
genetic and evolutionary computation community and about the workshop
target audience.
3. The estimated number of potential attendees, accepted papers and
submissions. If a previous edition of the workshop has already taken
place, then the previous number of submissions, accepted papers, and
attendees should be included.
4. A draft schedule of the workshop (with a duration of either 2 hours,
half day or a full day) highlighting the planned discussion sessions
(panels, Q&A, hands-on demonstrations, problem-solving sessions,
brainstorming, etc.)
5) The complete contact information of the workshop organizers (Postal
address, E-mail, phone and fax numbers, & WWW page).
6) A brief biography of the organizers.

The proposal should be accompanied by the full CVs of the organizers in
PDF format. These should include previous experience in workshop or
conference organization.

The organizers of an accepted workshop are responsible for its
coordination, for its publicity (e.g., for sending out call for papers),
for collecting and reviewing the papers, for providing a list of
accepted papers and their authors, if applicable.

Attendance at the workshops will be open to all GECCO attendees. Note
that *all* organizers, participants and presenters must register to the
GECCO-2010 conference. Organizers of a workshop *do not* qualify for a
reduction in the registration or accommodation costs at the conference.
Accepted workshop papers will be collected by Sheridan/ACM Press, and
published in a separate workshop proceedings volume. Details and
additional deadlines will be provided once it has been decided which
workshops will be accepted for GECCO-2010. All accepted Workshop Papers
must use the ACM template for papers and must follow all ACM formatting
rules. Accepted workshop papers that do not use the ACM template and/or
do not adhere to ACM formatting rules will not be published.

The deadline for the submission of workshop proposal is November 16,
2009. Proposals should be submitted as plain text files (no HTML) with
the exception of the CVs which have to be submitted as PDFs. Workshop
organizers will be notified by November 30th whether the workshop
proposal has been accepted.

GECCO is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery Special
Interest Group on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (SIGEVO). SIG
Services: 2 Penn Plaza, Suite 701, New York, NY, 10121, USA,
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EvoGames: 2nd European event on Bio-inspired Algorithms in Games,
Istanbul, 7th - 9th April 2010

http://dces.essex.ac.uk/research/evostar/evogames.html

News:
- Invited Speaker: Kostas Karpouzis, NTUA, Greece "Low-cost affect
     sensing for gaming applications"
- Game competitions

Games, and especially video games, are now a financially and culturally
important commercial factor within the software and entertainment
industries. They  provide an excellent test bed for and application of a
wide range of computational intelligence methods including evolutionary
computation, neural networks, fuzzy systems, swarm intelligence, and
temporal difference learning. There has been a rapid growth in research
in this area over the last few years. This event focuses on new computational
intelligence or biologically inspired techniques that may be of practical value
for improvement of existing games or creation of new games, as well as on
innovative uses of games to improve or test computational intelligence
algorithms.

We invite prospective participants to submit full papers following
Springer's LNCS guidelines (10 pages max).

Submision Deadline:
30th November 2009

Topics include but are not limited to:
* Avatars and new forms of communication between game intelligence and
players
* Player satisfaction measurement and optimization
* (Semi-)automated game content creation
* Evolutionary game theory
* Human-like artificial adversaries and emotion modeling
* Authentic movement, believable multi-agent control
* Computational Intelligence in video games
* Learning in games
* Experimental methods for gameplay evaluation
* Evolutionary testing and debugging of games
* Games related to social, economic, and financial simulations
* Educational/serious games
* General game intelligence (e.g. general purpose drop-n-play Non-Player
Characters, NPCs).


- Invited Speaker:
Kostas Karpouzis, NTUA, Greece: "Low-cost affect sensing for gaming
applications"

Abstract: Game designers and developers are constantly seeking ways to provide
users with novel and natural interaction paradigms; the success of Nintendo's
Wii
and the related handheld controllers and the interest on Microsoft's Natal
technology indicate that the new generation of games will enable game
players to control the characters and the game scenario using the same means
of interaction as they use in everyday human-human communication. Algorithms
to detect affective and control cues without the need of exotic hardware,
besides
a regular computer and a webcam, will be elaborated on, as well as
representation
and fusion models used to infer the affective and behavioral state of the user
in the
context of entertainment applications.

- Game competitions
Competitions:
The competitions program will be part of the 2010 Mario AI championship.


Program Committee:
Lourdes Araujo, UNED, Spain
Wolfgang Banzhaf, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Luigi Barone, University of Western Australia, Australia
Simon Colton, Imperial College London, UK
Ernesto Costa, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Carlos Cotta, Universidad de Malaga, Spain
Marc Ebner, University of Tuebingen, Germany
Aniko Ekart, Aston University, UK
Anna Esparcia Alcazar, University of Valencia, Spain
Antonio J Fernandez Leiva, Universidad de Malaga, Spain
Francisco Fernandez, Universidad de Extremadura, Spain
Mario Giacobini, Universita degli Studi di Torino, Italy
Johan Hagelbock, Blekinge Tekniska Hogskola, Sweden
John Hallam, University of Southern Denmark
David Hart, Fall Line Studio, USA
Philip Hingston, Edith Cowan University, Australia
Stefan Johansson, Blekinge Tekniska Hoegskola, Sweden
Krzysztof Krawiec, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Bill Langdon, University of Essex, UK
Pier Luca Lanzi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Simon Lucas, University of Essex, UK
Penousal Machado, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
JJ Merelo, Universidad de Granada, Spain
Risto Miikkulainen, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Antonio Mora, Universidad de Granada, Spain
Steffen Priesterjahn, University of Paderborn, Germany
Moshe Sipper, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
Terry Soule, University of Idaho, USA

Event chairs:

Mike Preuss, TU Dortmund, Germany
Julian Togelius, IT University of Copenhagen (Center for Computer Games
Research)
Georgios N. Yannakakis, IT University of Copenhagen (Center for Computer
Games Research), Dennmark

Due to popular demand, the deadline for EvoNUM 2010
has ben extended to
*** 30th November 2009 ***

Authors can submit new papers or re-upload
already submitted ones at
http://myreview.csregistry.org/evoapplications10//
until November 30th.
For more details see the CFP below.

---------------------------------
EvoNUM 2010 -
3rd European Event on
Bio-inspired Algorithms for
Continuous Parameter Optimisation

part of the Evo* 2010 EvoApplications Conference

Istanbul, Turkey, 7-9 April 2010
---------------------------------

__Introduction__

Many engineering problems of both theoretical and practical interest
involve choosing the best configuration of a set of parameters to
achieve a specified objective. Numerical optimisation refers to the
case when these parameters take continuous real values, as opposed to
combinatorial optimisation, which deals with discrete values. Examples
include designing production processes for maximum efficiency, optimal
parameter adjustment for controllers and many others. EvoNUM focuses
on such problems.

We seek high quality papers involving the application of bio-inspired
algorithms (genetic algorithms, genetic programming, evolution
strategies, differential evolution, particle swarm optimization,
evolutionary programming, simulated annealing... and their hybrids) to
continuous optimisation problems in engineering. We also welcome
cross-fertilisation between Nature-inspired algorithms and more
classical numerical optimisation algorithms.

EvoNUM deals with engineering applications where continuous parameters
or functions have to be optimised, in fields such as control,
chemistry, agriculture, electricity, building and construction,
energy, aerospace engineering, design optimisation...

The workshop will be part of Evo* 2010, a joint event which will
incorporate EuroGP 2010, the 13th European Conference on Genetic
Programming, EvoCOP 2010, the 10th European Conference on Evolutionary
Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation, EvoBIO 2010, the 8th
Conference on Evolutionary Bioinformatics, and EvoApplications 2010,
the European Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary
Computation.

__Topics of Interest__

EvoNUM aims to cover areas that include but are not limited to:
- Local learning of parameters
- Mechanisms to incorporate constraints
- Theoretical developments
- Performance measures and performance analysis
- Benchmark problems

__EvoNUM chairs__

Anna I Esparcia-Alcazar, ITI
, Spain
Aniko Ekart, Aston University, United Kingdom

__Submission details and additional information__

Submit your manuscript, at most 10 A4 pages long, in Springer LNCS
format (instructions are downloadable from:

http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html)
using the online submission service no later than 30 November 2009 (Please note
THIS IS A HARD DEADLINE).

The papers will be peer reviewed by at least two members of the
program committee. Authors will be notified via email on the results
of the review by December 2009.

The authors of accepted papers may have to improve their paper on the
basis of the reviewers' comments and will be asked to send a camera
ready version of their manuscripts, including all source files (text
and images), by January 2010. All accepted papers will appear in the
workshop proceedings, published in the Springer LNCS series, which
will be available at the workshop.

The authors of papers that receive the best reviews will be nominated
for the 'Best paper Award'.

__Important Dates__

Submission deadline EXTENDED: 30 November 2009
Notification of acceptance: Late December 2009
Camera ready papers due: Mid January 2010
EvoNUM : 7-9 April 2010

__Web Addresses__

Conference web page
http://www.evostar.org

EvoNUM web page
http://dces.essex.ac.uk/research/evostar/EvoNUM.htm

I am compiling a list of human-competitive results produced by GP for an
article in the GP journal. If you've produced such a result, please check
this list to see if there are any errors or omissions in the list or
incompleteness or errors in the citation. Thank you.



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submission deadline. It was therefore agreed, to extend the deadline
for all events. Authors who have already submitted their work may
update their submission until the deadline.

REVISED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 30 NOVEMBER 2009

***

Call for papers: Evolutionary Computation in Transportation and Logistics 2010

Dear Colleague,

We would like to draw your attention to the fourth edition of EvoTransLog,
Evolutionary Computation in Transportation and Logistics.
EvoTransLog 2010 is incorporated in Evo* 2010, which joins Europe's premier
co-located conferences in the field of evolutionary computing, namely EuroGP,
EvoCOP, EvoBIO, and the EvoApplications Conference on the Application of
Evolutionary Computation.

EvoTransLog will be held in Istanbul, Turkey, 7-9 April 2010. Submission
deadline is November 30, 2009.

For more information, visit http://www.evostar.org and
http://dces.essex.ac.uk/research/evostar/EvoTRANSLOG.htm .

EvoTransLog addresses all aspects of the use of evolutionary computation, local
search, and other nature-inspired optimisation and design techniques for
transport, logistics, and supply chain management. Relevant application topics
include (but are not limited to):

           - transportation and supply networks
           - logistics
           - freight and passenger services
           - tracking and tracing
           - fleet and order management
           - modelling and traffic management
           - traffic simulation
           - individual and public transportation
           - inventory optimisation
           - routing and scheduling
           - supply chain management

Accepted papers will be published in a volume of the Springer Lecture Notes in
Computer Science series together with papers from the EvoApplications Conference
on the Application of Evolutionary Computation.

Best regards,

Andreas Fink and Jörn Grahl
(program chairs)

Call For Papers

                                                                EvoFIN
4th European Event on Evolutionary and Natural Computation in Finance
and Economics
                                           Istanbul, Turkey, 7-9 April
2010

                                       REVISED SUBMISSION DEADLINE
                                                  30 NOVEMBER 2009


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for all events. Authors who have already submitted their work may
update their submission until the deadline.
***

As evolutionary computing (EC) becomes a mature area of computer
science, researchers
and practitioners in other domains including engineering, medicine and
finance are adopting
evolutionary and related natural computing methodologies in order to
solve problems in their
own applications area. Although there has always been interaction
between the domains of EC
and finance/economics, it is noticeable that there has been an
increasing volume of research at
this interface in recent years. EvoFIN 2010 is the fourth edition of
this event, specifically dedicated
to the applications of EC (and related natural computing
methodologies) to finance and economics.

Interesting synergies exist between the methodological issues faced by
researchers in computational
finance and economics, and those faced by researchers in other Evo*
application domains.
Applications such as optimisation, model induction, clustering and
classification span multiple
domains and therefore novel EC methodologies, or novel applications of
these, are of common
interest to attendees at multiple events. Financial environments are
typically hard, being dynamic,
noisy and co-evolutionary. These environments serve as an excellent
test bed for novel evolutionary
methodologies. It is anticipated that this event will assist in a
useful two-way flow of ideas between
the finance/economics community and the EC community.

Areas of Interests and Contributions

EvoFIN 2010 focuses primarily on the use of EC and related natural
computing techniques in
computational finance and economics. High quality paper submissions
which demonstrate novelty
in terms of methodology, application or both, are strongly encouraged.
Applications of interest include (but are not limited to):
	 • algorithmic trading
	 • forecasting financial time series
	 • portfolio selection and management
	 • pricing complex financial products
	 • developing risk management systems
	 • financial engineering

Other applications of interest include artificial stock markets and
agent-based models of related
social processes. Methodologies of interest include EC methodologies
such as genetic programming,
genetic algorithms and evolutionary strategies, as well as other
natural computing methodologies
such as particle swarm, foraging algorithms, artificial immune
systems, hybrid systems,
and multi-agent systems.

Publication Details

Accepted papers will appear in the proceedings of Evo*, published in a
volume of the
Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, which will be available at
the Conference.

Submit your manuscript, at most 10 A4 pages long, in Springer LNCS
format no later than
November 30, 2009 using the online submission tool at
http://myreview.csregistry.org/evoapplications10/

Please refer to Springer LNCS web site for the paper formatting
instructions.

Submissions must be original and not published elsewhere, and will be
peer reviewed by
at least two members of the program committee.

The review process is double-blind and therefore the paper must not
contain any references
that would identify the authors.

The authors of accepted papers will have to improve their paper on the
basis of the reviewers'
comments and will be asked to send a camera ready version of their
manuscripts.

At least one author of each accepted paper has to register for the
conference no later than the
early registration deadline, and at least one author has to attend the
conference and present the paper.



Programme Chairs

Anthony Brabazon
University College Dublin
Ireland
anthony.brabazon(at)ucd.ie

Michael O'Neill
University College Dublin
Ireland
m.oneill(at)ucd.ie

---
Dr Michael O'Neill
Director - Natural Computing Research & Applications Group
School of Computer Science & Informatics
Complex & Adaptive Systems Laboratory
University College Dublin
Belfield, Dublin 4
Ireland

http://ncra.ucd.ie

http://casl.ucd.ie/people/michael.oneill

http://www.fmc-cluster.org

GEVA - Grammatical Evolution in Java
http://ncra.ucd.ie/geva

Foundations in Grammatical Evolution for Dynamic Environments
http://www.springer.com/978-3-642-00313-4

Biologically Inspired Algorithms for Financial Modelling
http://www.springer.com/978-3-540-26252-7

Grammatical Evolution
http://www.springer.com/978-1-4020-7444-8

EvoFIN 2010
http://www.evostar.org

GECCO 2010
http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2010/

Natural Computing in Computational Finance
http://www.springer.com/978-3-540-77476-1

Natural Computing in Computational Finance (Volume 2)
http://www.springer.com/978-3-540-95973-1

Due to popular demand, the deadline for EuroGP 2010
has ben extended to
*** 30th November 2009 ***

Authors can submit new papers or re-upload
already submitted ones at
http://myreview.csregistry.org/eurogp10/
until November 30th.
For more details see the CFP below.

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EuroGP 2010
The 13th European Conference on Genetic Programming

CALL FOR PAPERS

Istanbul, Turkey, 7-9 April 2010

http://www.evostar.org
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EuroGP is the premier annual conference on Genetic Programming. We
invite high quality submissions in all areas of evolution of computer
programs describing new original research.


The EuroGP conference is always a very enjoyable event offering
excellent opportunities for networking, informal contact, exchange of
ideas and discussions with fellow researchers in a friendly and
relaxed setting.

The conference will be held in conjunction with EvoCOP2010 (the 10th
European Conference on Evolutionary Computation and Metaheuristics in
Combinatorial Optimization), EvoBIO 2010 (the 8th European Conference
on Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning and Data Mining in
Bioinformatics), and EvoApplications 2010 (European Conference on
Applications of Evolutionary Computation), in a joint event
collectively known as EvoStar 2010.

Previous editions of EuroGP were published in the Springer Verlag
LNCS volumes 1598, 1802, 2038, 2278, 2610, 3003, 3447, 3905, 4445,
4971, 5481.

Topics
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High quality papers are sought on topics strongly related to the
evolution of computer programs, ranging from theoretical work to
innovative applications.
Topics include, but are not limited to

* Theoretical developments
* Empirical studies of GP performance and behaviour
* Algorithms, representations and operators
* Applications of GP to real-life problems
* Hybrid architectures including GP components
* Unconventional evolvable computation
* Evolutionary design
* Evolutionary robotics
* Grammar-based GP
* Evolvable hardware
* Linear GP
* Self-reproducing programs
* Evolution of tree or graph structures
* Evolution of various classes of automata or machine
  (e.g. cellular automata, finite state machines,
   pushdown automata, Turing machines)
* Object-oriented genetic programming

Submission
----------

Submission will be done electronically using the online submission service.
More details will be available at the conference website www.evostar.org

Papers must be at most 12 pages long and formatted following Springer
LNCS guidelines.

Accepted papers will be presented orally or as posters at the
Conference and will be printed in the proceedings published by
Springer Verlag in the LNCS series.

Important Dates
---------------
Submission deadline EXTENDED: 30 November 2009
Notification of acceptance: late December 2009
Camera ready papers due: mid January 2010
Conference: 7-9 April 2010

Web Address
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http://www.evostar.org

Programme chairs
----------------
Anna I Esparcia-Alcázar, ITI, Spain
Anikó Eckárt, Aston University, United Kingdom

***

Several authors have contacted EvoStar to get an extension of the
submission deadline. It was therefore agreed, to extend the deadline
for all events. Authors who have already submitted their work may
update their submission until the deadline.

***

* Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement *



E V O *   2 0 1 0   R E V I S E D  S U B M I S S I O N  D E A D L I N E


*** Submission now open for all conferences ***

*** REVISED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 30th November 2009 ***


EuroGP, EvoCOP, EvoBIO and EvoApplications



7th - 9th April, 2010

Istanbul Technical University

Istanbul, Turkey


http://www.evostar.org



The EuroGP, EvoCOP, EvoBIO and EvoApplications conferences comprise EVO*:
Europe's premier co-located events in the field of Evolutionary Computing.


Featuring the latest in theoretical and applied research, EVO* topics include
recent genetic programming challenges, evolutionary and other meta-heuristic
approaches for combinatorial optimization, evolutionary algorithms, machine
learning and data mining techniques in the biosciences, in numerical
optimization, in music and art domains, in image analysis and signal processing,
in hardware optimization and in a wide range of applications to scientific,
industrial, financial and other real-world problems.


*** Conference: 7th - 9th April 2010 ***



Scope of the events:



EuroGP:

13th European Conference on Genetic Programming: papers are sought on topics
strongly related to the evolution of computer programs, ranging from theoretical
work to innovative applications.



EvoCOP:

10th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial
Optimization: practical and theoretical contributions are invited, related to
evolutionary computation techniques and other meta-heuristics for solving
combinatorial optimization problems.



EvoBIO:

8th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning and Data
Mining in Bioinformatics: emphasis is on evolutionary computation and other
advanced techniques addressing important problems in molecular biology,
proteomics, genomics and genetics, that have been implemented and tested in
simulations and on real-life datasets.



EvoApplications:



EvoCOMNET: 7th European event on nature-inspired techniques for
telecommunication networks and other parallel and distributed systems
EvoCOMPLEX (new): Evolutionary algorithms and complex systems
EvoENVIRONMENT: 2nd European event on nature inspired methods for environmental
issues
EvoFIN: 4th European event on evolutionary and natural computation in finance
and economics
EvoGAMES: 2nd European event on bio-inspired algorithms in games
EvoIASP: 12th European event on evolutionary computation in image analysis and
signal processing
EvoINTELLIGENCE (new): Interactive evolution and humanized computational
intelligence
EvoMUSART: 8th European event on evolutionary and biologically inspired music,
sound, art and design
EvoNUM: 3rd European event on bio-inspired algorithms for continuous parameter
optimisation
EvoSTOC: 7th European event on evolutionary algorithms in stochastic and dynamic
environments
EvoTRANSLOG: 4th European event on evolutionary computation in transportation
and logistics

EvoPHD: 5th Graduate Student Workshop on evolutionary computation.

In 2010, the event will take place at the Istanbul Technical University (ITU).
With a history stretching back 236 years, providing technical education within a
modern educational environment and strong academic staff, ITU is strongly
identified with architectural and engineering education in Turkey.



Evo* 2010 proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes
in Computer Science series. The website http://www.evostar.org offers
information relevant to all events, including calls for papers, deadlines,
organising committees, submission requirements and local information.

***

Several authors have contacted EvoStar to get an extension of the
submission deadline. It was therefore agreed to extend the deadline
for all events. Authors who have already submitted their work may
update their submission until the deadline.

                                      ***

                  * SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 30 NOVEMBER 2009 *

                                  EvoEnvironment 2
                  Nature Inspired Methods for Environmental Issues

EvoEnvironment 2, an event of the EvoApplications Conference is devoted
to the use of nature inspired methods for environmental issues. The goal
of this event is to bring researchers from a variety of different areas,
computer scientists, engineers, biologists, chemists - all in concern
about
the environment - together for an exchange of ideas. We invite
submissions
on many diverse topics such as waste management, sewage treatment,
control of greenhouse gas emissions, biodegradation of materials,
efficient energy use or use of renewable energies to name but a few.
Nature inspired methods include all aspects of evolutionary
computation such as genetic algorithms, evolution strategies, genetic
programming, ant algorithms, or particle swarm systems. Researchers
working with bio-inspired systems or bionic systems, i.e. systems
developed by looking at how nature has solved a problem are also
encouraged
to submit their work.

Accepted papers will be published in a volume of the Springer Lecture
Notes in Computer Science together with papers from other events
of the EvoStar conference.

The EvoStar conference is always a very enjoyable event offering good
opportunities for networking, informal contact, exchange of ideas and
discussions with fellow researchers in a friendly and relaxed setting.

Web address:     http://www.evostar.org

High quality papers are sought on topics related to environmental issues
using nature inspired methods, ranging from theoretical work to
innovative applications in the context of

        * Waste management
        * Sewage treatment
        * Control of greenhouse gas emissions
        * Reduction of energy usage
        * Pollution prevention
        * Biodegradation of materials
        * Use of renewable energy technologies such as solar power,
          wind power, biomass, biofuels, geothermal energy
        * Soft energy technology
        * Efficient energy use
        * Low energy housing, zero energy buildings
        * Empirical studies comparing different methods
        * Species extinction
        * Intensive Farming

Important dates:

- Submission deadline:           30 November 2009
- Notification of acceptance:      6 January 2010
- Camera-ready manuscript:        15 January 2010
- EvoEnvironment:                  7-9 April 2010

Submission requirements:

- Submissions (no longer than 10 pages) must be made through the
    conference management software.
    http://myreview.csregistry.org/evoapplications10/
- Since the review process is double-blind the paper must not contain
    any references that would identify the authors.
- The submitted material has to be substantially new research which
    has not been published previously.
- The paper has to be formatted according to LNCS style guidelines.
    (See ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/llncs2e.zip)
- By submitting a paper, the authors agree that, if their paper is
    accepted, they will prepare a camera-ready version in accordance with
    the   changes requested by the reviewers by the deadline for camera-
ready
    papers. They also agree that at least one author will register for
the
    conference no later than the early registration deadline if their
paper is
    accepted and at least one author will attend the conference and
present
    the paper.

Program Chairs:
---------------
Marc Ebner, University of Tuebingen, Germany, ebner(at)wsii.uni-
tuebingen.de
Neil Urquhart, Edinburgh Napier University, UK,
n.urquhart(at)napier.ac.uk

Program Committee
-----------------
Cagnoni, Stefano (University of Parma, Italy)
Collet, Pierre (Université de Strasbourg, France)
Cullinane, Kevin (Napier University, UK)
Dittrich, Peter (Friedrich-Schiller-Univ. Jena, Germany)
Ebner, Marc (Universität Tübingen, Germany)
Elkamel, Ali (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Foster, James A (University of Idaho, USA)
Jin, Nanlin (University of Leeds, UK)
Lewis, Rhyd (Cardiff Business School, UK)
Li, Rongxin (CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia)
Magette, William (University College Dublin, Ireland)
McKay, R I (Bob) (Seoul National University, Korea)
O'Neill, Michael (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Pizzuti, Stefano (Energy New technologies and Environment Agency, Italy)
Rye, Tom (Napier University, UK)
Santulli, Carlo (University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy)
Schoenauer, Marc (INRIA, France)
Soule, Terence (University of Idaho, USA)
Summerscales, John (University of Plymouth, UK)
Urquhart, Neil (Edinburgh Napier University, UK)
Yu, Tina (Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland, Canada)
Zhang, Mengjie (Univ. of Wellington, New Zealand)

***

Several authors have contacted EvoStar to get an extension of the
submission deadline. It was therefore agreed, to extend the deadline
for all events. Authors who have already submitted their work may
update their submission until the deadline.

                                      ***

                  * SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 30 NOVEMBER 2009 *

                                 EvoIntelligence
               Nature Inspired Methods for Intelligent Systems


EvoIntelligence is devoted to the use of nature inspired methods
to create intelligent systems. The goal of this event is to bring
researchers from a variety of different areas together who all want
to create intelligent systems. Researchers working in Computer
Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics or other related areas are
invited to submit their latest work. We invite submissions on different
areas such as Evolutionary Robotics, Artificial Life or other related
areas.
Intelligent systems do not necessarily have to exhibit human or animal-
like
intelligence. Intelligent behavior can also be found in everyday devices
such as a DVR or handheld devices such as a MP3-Player which learn
from the human who is operating the device.
Nature inspired methods include all aspects of evolutionary
computation, e.g. genetic algorithms, evolution strategies, genetic
programming, ant algorithms, or particle swarm systems. Learning
from biological systems on how to solve a problem also qualifies as
a nature inspired method. Examples of such systems are bio-inspired
systems or bionic systems.

Accepted papers will be published in a volume of the Springer Lecture
Notes in Computer Science together with papers from other events
of the EvoStar conference.

Web address:     http://www.evostar.org

High quality papers are sought on topics related to intelligent systems
using nature inspired methods, ranging from theoretical work to
innovative applications in the context of

       * Evolutionary Robotics
       * Artificial Life
       * Intelligent Devices
       * Intelligent Language Systems
       * Bionic Systems
       * Learning Systems
       * Intelligent Behavior
       * Intelligent Agents

Important dates:

- Submission deadline:           30 November 2009
- Notification of acceptance:      6 January 2010
- Camera-ready manuscript:        15 January 2010
- EvoIntelligence:                 7-9 April 2010

Submission requirements:

- Submissions (no longer than 10 pages) must be made through the
    conference management software.
    http://myreview.csregistry.org/evoapplications10/
- Since the review process is double-blind the paper must not contain
    any references that would identify the authors.
- The submitted material has to be substantially new research which
    has not been published previously.
- The paper has to be formatted according to LNCS style guidelines.
    (See ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/llncs2e.zip)
- By submitting a paper, the authors agree that, if their paper is
    accepted, they will prepare a camera-ready version in accordance with
    the   changes requested by the reviewers by the deadline for camera-
ready
    papers. They also agree that at least one author will register for
the
    conference no later than the early registration deadline if their
paper is
    accepted and at least one author will attend the conference and
present
    the paper.

Program Chairs:
---------------
Marc Ebner, Universität Tuebingen, Germany, ebner(at)wsii.uni-
tuebingen.de
Cecilia Di Chio,  University of Strathclyde, UK,
cecilia(at)stams.strath.ac.uk

Program Committee:
------------------
Banzhaf, Wolfgang (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada)
Bentley, Peter (University College London, UK)
Bullock, Seth (University of Southampton, UK)
Cagnoni, Stefano (University of Parma, Italy)
Cangelosi, Angelo (University of Plymouth, UK)
Di Chio, Cecilia (University of Strathclyde, UK)
Dittrich, Peter (Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena, Germany)
Ebner, Marc (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany)
Giacobini, Mario (University of Torino, Italy)
Hornby, Greg (University of California Santa Cruz, USA)
Hurford, James R (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Jacob, Christian (University of Calgary, Canada)
Khan, Gul Muhammad (NWFP UET Peshawar, Pakistan)
Kokai, Gabriela (Fraunhofer Inst. für Integrated Circuits, Germany)
Langdon, William B (King‘s College, London)
Machado, Penousal (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
Miller, Julian (University of York, UK)
Olague, Gustavo (CICESE, Mexico)
O‘Neill, Michael (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Ray, Thomas (University of Oklahoma, USA)
Schoenauer, Marc (INRIA, France)
Sipper, Moshe (Ben-Gurion University, Israel)
Tanev, Ivan (Doshisha University, Japan)
Thompson, Adrian (University of Sussex, UK)
Zhang, Mengjie (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)

The new issue of SIGEVOlution is now available for you to download from:

  http://www.sigevolution.org

The issue features:

  * Computational Intelligence Marketing by Arthur Kordon

  * Pyevolve: a Python Open-Source Framework for Genetic Algorithms by Christian
S. Perone

  * Calls & calendar

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