-*------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ACO-list Monday 21 October 2002, Volume 2 : Number 3 Send announcements of other activities to: ACO-list@iridia.ulb.ac.be with subject: "announcement" Send subscription requests to: ACO-list-request@iridia.ulb.ac.be with subject: "subscription" Note that if you search on "-*" you will skip from one message to the next. -*----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Today's Topics: - INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON METAHEURISTICS - Book announcement in Evolutionary Computation for Optimization - EuroGP2003: Sixth European Conference on Genetic Programming - EVOBIO 2003: 1st European Workshop on EC and Bioinformatics - Special Issue on Swarm Robotics -*----------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALENDAR OF ACO-RELATED ACTIVITIES: (with ACO-list issue reference) ICONIP'02 9th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, SEAL'02 4th Asia-Pacific Conference on Simulated Evolution And Learning, FSKD'02 Int. Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery, Singapore, Nov 18-22 2002 (v2n2) EuroGP2003: Sixth European Conference on Genetic Programming Essex, United Kingdom, April 14-16, 2003 (v2n3) EVOBIO 2003: 1st European Workshop on EC and Bioinformatics University of Essex, April 14-16, 2003 (v2n3) -*----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 9 Oct 2002 From: cblum@ulb.ac.be INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON METAHEURISTICS March 3-7, 2003 Parc Club Europe Hotel, Playa de las Américas Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain) The International Summer School on Metaheuristics is aimed at Ph.D. students interested in the growing field of modern optimization techniques. Internationally renowned experts will give introductory tutorials on the basics of metaheuristics and plenary talks on the very latest in approximation methods. The participants will have plenty of opportunities for discussion, debate and work. TOPICS COVERED Confirmed: * Evolutionary Computation * Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence * Tabu Search * Iterated Local Search and Variable Neighborhood Search * Exact Methods, Combining Local Search with Exact Methods * Implementing Local Search * Multi-Objective Optimization * Statistical & Empirical Analysis of Heuristics * Real World Applications * Local Search Methods for AI problems To be confirmed: * Guided Local Search * Lagrangian Relaxation * Advanced Local Search Strategies * Search Space Analysis * Simulated Annealing ORGANIZERS * Marco Dorigo, IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. * Michael Sampels, IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. * Thomas Stützle, FG Intellektik, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany. LOCATION AND BOOKING Tenerife is one of the Canary Islands on the west coast of Africa. Surrounded by the sea, it never gets really hot or cold. With an average day temperature of 23 C and about 8 hours of sunshine a day in March, it is an optimal place for a summer school in a relaxing atmosphere. The summer school fee is 150 Euro. The hotel and flights can be booked at: EUROPE Hotelbuchungs- und Reiseservice, Mrs Christine Schmitz, Planegger Strasse 23a-c, 82166 Gröfelfing, Germany, tel. +49- 89-896095-12, Fax +49-89-896095-22. The hotel costs are approximately 43 Euro per person per night (double, breakfast included). For exact rates refer to EUROPE Hotelbuchungs- und Reiseservice. REGISTRATION As the number of participants is limited please register as soon as possible by sending an email to: summerschool@iridia.ulb.ac.be. Up-to-date information will be published as soon as available on the following website: http://www.metaheuristics.net -*----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 25 Jan 2002 From: osyczka@mech.pk.edu.pl Dear Colleague Below, please find the information about my new book entitled: "Evolutionary Algorithms for Single and Multicriteria Design Optimization". I hope that you will find it interesting. I will appreciate any comments you or your students may have while studying this book. I would also be obliged if you pass the information about my book to your colleagues who might be interested in the subject of the book. With best regards Andrzej Osyczka ------------------------------------------------------------- A. Osyczka, Cracow University of Technology, Cracow, Poland Evolutionary Algorithms for Single and Multicriteria Design Optimization 2001. XIV, 218 pp. 76 figs., 24 tabs. (Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, Vol. 79) Hardcover Euro 54,95 ISBN 3-7908-1418-0 Many design optimization problems are of a very complex nature and quite hard to solve by conventional optimization techniques. Genetic and evolutionary algorithms have recently received considerable attention because of their potential of being a very effective design optimization technique. The book starts with an introduction to design optimization which is followed by a description of genetic and evolutionary algorithms. Then the advanced evolutionary algorithm techniques are provided. These techniques are used in the single and multi-criteria optimization methods described in this book. Finally three real-life design optimization problems are formulated and solved by means of these methods.20 The book is designed as a self-study guide for researchers and students in all engineering departments, especially in mechanical, civil and industrial engineering. It may also be useful as a comprehensive text for operations researchers and artificial intelligence researchers. Contents: Introduction to Design Optimization.- Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms as a Design Optimization Tool.- Advanced Evolutionary Algorithm Techniques.- Evolutionary Algorithms for Single Criterion Optimization.- Evolutionary Algorithms for Multi-criteria Optimization.- Some Other Evolutionary Algorithms Based Methods.- Design Optimization Examples and Their Solution by Evolutionary Algorithms.- Appendix: Evolutionary Optimization System.- Appendix: C Codes for Two Design Optimization. -*----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 19 Sep 2002 From: mkeijzer@flits.cs.vu.nl CALL FOR PAPERS EuroGP2003 Sixth European Conference on Genetic Programming Essex, United Kingdom, April 14-16, 2003 ---------------------------------------------- Key dates: Submission deadline: 20 November 2002 Notification of acceptance: 20 December 2002 Camera ready copy due: 17 January 2003 ---------------------------------------------- The annual EuroGP series are the premier conferences in Europe devoted entirely to genetic programming. Typically 30-35 submitted papers are published in the conference proceedings. The standard is high with about 40% of submissions accepted for oral presentation. The conference is a mixture of oral presentations and poster sessions. ALL accepted papers (both orals and posters) are published as full papers in the proceedings. EuroGP conferences are always enjoyable and offer good opportunities for informal contact with fellow researchers in a friendly and relaxed setting. EuroGP2003 will be held at the University of Essex, UK, in conjunction with EvoWorkshops2003. --------------------- Location --------------------- Essex University, Colchester, stands in beautiful Wivenhoe Park, in the heart of "Constable Country" - known for the rolling English hills, woodland and fluffy white clouds as painted by John Constable in the 17th and 18th century. Colchester is Britain's oldest recorded town, a settlement for over three thousand years and the original Roman capital of Britannia. It boasts its own impressive Norman castle, a Roman wall circling the town, a "Dutch quarter" consisting of many streets of 16th century buildings, and even some famously haunted churches! It has a rich history, which includes the great battle against the Romans by Queen Boudicca, and the English Civil War (the "Seige House" still bears Musket ball scars visible today). --------------------- Submission procedure --------------------- High quality papers are sought on topics strongly relating to genetic programming, ranging from theoretical work to innovative applications. Submissions should be a maximum of ten A4 pages and they should be sent in zipped postscript format. It is advisable that the papers conform to the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science format (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). The reviewing process is double blind. Authors should remove their names from submitted papers, and should take reasonable care that their identity is disguised. References to own work can be included in the paper, but should be referred to in the third person. It is very important that the email accompanying submission should state ALL the authors, including ALL their email addresses. To avoid problems with electronic delivery, papers should be emailed to BOTH of the program chairs: Terence Soule Conor Ryan A notification of receipt will be emailed a few days after the deadline. -------------------- Organising Committee -------------------- Program co-chairs (as above) Local chairs: Edward Tsang & Riccardo Poli Publication chair: Ernesto Costa Publicity chair: Maarten Keijzer ------------------------------------------ http://evonet.dcs.napier.ac.uk/eurogp2003/ ------------------------------------------ -*----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 6 Sep 2002 From: elena@cs.vu.nl EVOBIO 2003 1ST EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION AND BIOINFORMATICS University of Essex, April 14-16, 2003 http://www.cs.vu.nl/~evobio/evobio.html http://evonet.dcs.napier.ac.uk/eurogp2003/evobio.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ EvoBIO is the first workshop of the newly formed EvoNet (European Network of Excellence in Evolutionary Computation) working group on bioinformatics. EvoBIO covers research in all aspects of computational intelligence in bioinformatics and computational biology. The emphasis is on algorithms based on evolutionary computation, on neural networks and on other novel optimisation and machine learning methods, that address important problems in molecular biology, genomics and genetics, that are computationally efficient, and that have been implemented and tested in simulations and on real datasets. The goal of the workshop is to present recent research results, including significant work-in-progress, and to identify and explore directions of future research, besides stimulating closer interaction between members of this scientific community working on Bioinformatics. Each accepted paper will be presented orally at the workshop and printed in the proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series. The workshop is sponsored by EvoNet, the Network of Excellence in Evolutionary Computing, and will be held in conjunction with EuroGP2003, the European Conference on Genetic Programming (April 14-16). Submissions To submit, send your manuscript (postscript or PDF, maximum length: 10 A4 pages) via email to evobio@cs.vu.nl no later than November 20, 2002. Formatting instructions can be found at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/instruct/typeinst.pdf The papers will be peer reviewed by three members of the program committee. Authors will be notified via email on the results of the review by December 20, 2002. 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 by January 17, 2003. By submitting a camera-ready paper, the author(s) agree that at least one author will attend and present each accepted paper at the workshop. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Organizing Commitee: EvoBIO Chairs: Dave W. Corne School of Computer Science, Cybernetics University of Reading d.w.corne@reading.ac.uk http://www.personal.rdg.ac.uk/~ssscorne/ phone: +44 118 931 8983 fax: +44 118 975 1994 Elena Marchiori Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Free University Amsterdam de Boelelaan 1081a 1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands elena@cs.vu.nl http://www.cs.vu.nl/~elena phone: +31(0)20 444 7738 fax: +31(0)20 444 7653 EvoBIO 2003 Program Committee : * Jesus S. Aguilar-Ruiz, University of Seville (Spain) * Wolfgang Banzhaf, University of Dortmund (Germany) * Jacek Blazewicz, Institute of Computing Science, Poznan (Poland) * Carlos Cotta-Porras, University of Málaga (Spain) * Bogdan Filipic, Department of Intelligent Systems, Ljubljana (Slovenia) * Gary B. Fogel, Natural Selection, Inc. (USA) * James Foster, University of Idaho (USA) * Steven A. Frank, University of California, Irvine (USA) * Jin-Kao Hao, LERIA, Universite d'Angers, (France) * William Hart, Sandia National Labs (USA) * Francisco Herrera, University of Granada (Spain) * Antoine van Kampen, AMC University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands) * Maarten Keijzer, Free University Amsterdam (The Netherlands) * Douglas B. Kell, University of Wales (UK) * W.B. Langdon, UCL (UK) * Bob MacCallum, Stockholm University (Sweden) * Brian Mayoh, Aarhus University (Denmark) * Andrew C.R. Martin, University of Reading (UK) * Peter Merz, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen (Germany) * Martin Middendorf, Catholic University Eichstatt-Ingolstadt (Germany) * Pablo Moscato, The University of Newcastle (Australia) * Martin Oates, British Telecom Plc (UK) * Jon Rowe, University of Birmingham (UK) * Jem Rowland, Aberystwyth, The University of Wales (UK) * Vic J. Rayward-Smith, University of East Anglia (England) * El-ghazali Talbi, Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale de Lille (France) * Eckart Zitzler, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Switzerland) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Important Dates: Submission deadline: November 20, 2002 Notification of acceptance: December 20, 2002 Camera ready due: January 17, 2003 Workshop: April 14-16, 2003 Contacts: For any information please contact the EvoBIO chairs at evobio@cs.vu.nl -*----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 11 Jun 2002 From: esahin@ulb.ac.be Call for Papers Autonomous Robots Special Issue on Swarm Robotics Guest Editors: Marco Dorigo and Erol Sahin Social insect colonies are fascinating examples of how collectively intelligent systems can be generated by the interaction of a large number of relatively simple agents. Based on the social insect metaphor, swarm intelligence (SI) has emerged as a novel approach to the design of "intelligent" systems, which emphasizes distributedness, local interaction between agents, flexibility, and robustness. The SI approach has already been successfully applied to many important problems such as the approximate solution of combinatorial optimization problems and adaptive routing in communications networks. The special issue will be dedicated to the publication of original research related to swarm robotics, which can be loosely defined as the application of SI to the control of a "swarm" of robots. It aims to compile studies on the analysis and synthesis of embodied swarms. Differently from other applications of SI, the physical embodiment of the agents and their realistic interactions as a consequence of this embodiment are emphasized. Specifically, the submitted papers are expected to address one or both of the following questions: What are the principles behind the emergence of intelligence in natural swarms? How should individual embodied agents be designed and controlled so that the swarm as a whole can perform user-defined tasks? Interested researchers are advised to submit a one page abstract to the editors in advance to get feedback on whether their work fits into the call or not. All interested researchers are invited to submit their work for consideration. The deadline for submissions is December 31, 2002. Submissions must be in postscript or pdf format and e-mailed to: swarm-robotics@iridia.ulb.ac.be Submitted manuscripts should be typeset in double space with figures and tables embedded within the text. Up-to-date information about the special issue is available at: http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/swarm-robotics/ -*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------