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Machine Learning List: Vol. 16, No. 2
Sunday, January 25, 2004
Contents
Meeting Announcements
IEEE/WIC/ACM Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'04)
AGENTS and AUTONOMOUS COMPUTING for BUSINESS AUTOMATION
Business Agents and the Semantic Web (BASeWEB'04)
Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (BICS 2004)
ICMLA '04: 3rd Int'l Conf. on Machine Learning and Applications
2nd Workshop on CBR in the Health Sciences @ ECCBR 2004
CASA2004: Computer Animation and Social Agents 2004
ECAI 2004 Workshop on Symbolic Networks
COMPSAC 2004
Workshop on Anticipatory Behavior in Adaptive Learning Systems
First IFIP Conference on AI Applications and Innovations
KI2004 - Call for Workshop Proposals
ITS 2004: 7th Int'l Conf. on Intelligent Tutoring Systems
CEC'2004 DEADLINE SUBMISSION EXTENSION UNTIL FEBRUARY 7, 2004
CEC 2004: Learning and Approximation in Design Optimization
CEC 2004: Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization
CEC 2004: Theoretical Foundations of Evolutionary Computation
CEC 2004: Evolutionary Computing in Finance and Economics
CEC 2004: Evolutionary Design Automation
CEC 2004: Evolutionary Optimization in Dynamic Environments
CEC 2004: Biomolecular Computation
CEC 2004: Evolutionary Computation in Bioinformatics and Computational ...
CEC 2004: Evolutionary Computation and Games
CEC 2004: Evolutionary Computation in Cryptology and Computer Security
CEC 2004: Evolutionary Design
CEC 2004: Evolutionary Optimization in Dynamic Environments
Career Opportunities
[Imageworld] PhD positions at ITU Copenhagen
Miscellaneous Announcements
Neuromorphic Engineering Workshop Call for Applications
Artificial Immune Systems Network
Knowl & Inform Sys: Volume 5 Contents (4 Issues)
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From: "IEEE/WIC/ACM WI/IAT Conference Secretariat" <[email protected]>
Subject: IEEE/WIC/ACM Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'04)
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 11:44:14 +0900
2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent
Technology (IAT 2004)
Conference Name: IEEE/WIC/ACM Intelligent Agent Technology 2004
Date: September 20-24, 2004
Location: Bejing, China
Sponsors: IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee,
Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC),
and ACM-SIGART.
Conference Web Site URL: http://www.maebashi-it.org/IAT04/
The 2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM WI/IAT Conference Secretariat
[email protected]
The 2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM Web Intelligence (WI'04)
http://www.maebashi-it.org/WI04/
The 2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'04)
http://www.maebashi-it.org/IAT04/
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From: ABA <[email protected]>
Subject: AGENTS and AUTONOMOUS COMPUTING for BUSINESS AUTOMATION
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 19:34:59 -0500 (EST)
Call for Papers
The 2004 International Conference-Crossing Workshop
AGENTS and AUTONOMOUS COMPUTING for BUSINESS AUTOMATION
June - October, 2004
Las-Vegas (USA), Wellington (New Zealand), The Hague (The Netherlands)
http://www.aba-rd.org/
http://cs.newpaltz.edu/~pham/ABA/all/index.html
SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR DRAFT PAPERS IS FEBRUARY 23, 2004
TOPICS:
AUTONOMOUS COMPUTING and particularly AGENT technology can help us to
process information, knowledge, manufacturing data, and business
transactions in an automatic, flexible, intelligent, and efficient
way. The goals of this International Workshop are to gather ACADEMIC
and INDUSTRIAL researchers to exchange new ideas and experiences, to
initialize new contacts or to strengthen existing collaborations. We
hope to create a dynamic forum and effective connections among
RESEARCHERS, USERS, and DEVELOPERS in this field.
This year we plan to have the following tracks:
+ Track-A: "Agents for Autonomous Information and Knowledge Processing"
(at IKE) June 21 - 24, Las Vegas, USA.
+ Track-B: "Distributed & Parallel Computing Techniques for Agents"
(at PDPTA) June 21 - 24, Las Vegas, USA.
+ Track-C: "Intelligent Agents for Autonomous Processing"
(at IC-AI) June 21 - 24, Las Vegas, USA.
+ Track-D: "Internet Agents for Autonomous Processing"
(at IC) June 21 - 24, Las Vegas, USA.
+ Track-E: "Agents for Business and Engineering Systems"
(at KES) September 20-24, Wellington, New Zealand.
+ Track-G: "Agent-based Systems for Autonomous Processing"
(at IEEE SMC) October 10-13, The Hague, The Netherlands
We welcome papers on architectures, protocols, algorithms, design,
evaluation, implementation techniques, and applications of autonomous
and agent-based systems. Technical issues to be addressed include, but
are not limited to:
SPECIAL INTERESTS
Autonomous Computing and Agents for Business Automation in:
+ Interface to Human Users
+ Data Retrieval and Automatic Formation of Demands and Supplies
+ Matching Demands/Supplies and Transaction Formation
+ Transaction Implementation & Validation
+ Logistics & Workflow Management
+ Monitoring, Control, and Visualization of Agent-based Business
Automation
+ Modeling, Simulation, Design, & Evaluation of Agent-based Business
Systems
+ Problems Statements/Descriptions of Challenging Scenarios in
Business Automation
APPLICATIONS
Autonomous Computing and Agents for:
+ Virtual Offices
+ Processing Multimedia and Heterogeneous Information
+ Personal and Professional Assistants
+ E-Marketing and E- Advertising
+ E-Management and E-Control
+ E-Trade and E-Marketplace
+ E-Payment and E-Banking
+ E-Government and E-Administration
+ Financial & Investment Management
+ Supply Chains & B2B systems
+ Games on the Internet
+ Wireless Systems
+ Semantic Webs
+ Large-Scale Heterogeneous and Distributed Systems
METHODOLOGIES & IMPLEMENTATION TECHNIQUES
+ Agent Architectures and Multi-agent Infrastructures
+ Agent Learning
+ Agent Negotiation
+ Agent Trusts & Trust-based Actions
+ Agent Cooperation/Competition
+ Soft Computing (Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, GA ...) for Agents
+ Agent Communication
+ Agent Interaction/Coordination
+ Agent Mobility
+ Real-Time Agents
+ Agent Security and Authentication
+ Agent Reliability and Fault Tolerance
+ Agent Visualization
+ Distributed and Parallel Techniques for Agents and Autonomous
Computing
SUBMISSION:
You are invited to submit papers through the http://www.aba-rd.org/
site. If the files are more than 10Mb even after zipping then please
email them to the contact address below. Please use the IEEE-format
with less than 7 pages for draft papers. After being reviewed, papers
may be accepted in the following categories:
+ RESEARCH Papers for presentations (7 pages) and for posters (4
pages);
+ REPORT Papers for System/Software/Product descriptions, analysis,
and demos (7 or 4 pages);
+ POSITION Papers for stating problems and issues of Challenging
business scenarios (2 pages).
Accepted papers of all categories will be published in the conference
proceedings.
FORMAT & PUBLICATION:
This International Workshop consists of Technical Tracks held at
several International Conferences. Our workshop papers will be
published in those corresponding Conference Proceedings in hard copy
(ISBN). In addition to that, we also plan to publish the revised
versions of papers of ALL tracks in a book. In the past, selected
papers from our previous workshops were extended and published in two
journal issues:
+ "ASPECTS of INTERNET AGENT-BASED E-BUSINESS SYSTEMS", Journal of
Electronic Commerce Research, Volume 3:3-4, July-October 2003,
Kluwer Publisher;
http://cs.newpaltz.edu/~pham/ABA/papers/J1/
+ "SOFTWARE AGENTS for BUSINESS AUTOMATION", Journal of E-commerce
Research and Applications, Vol.2, N.3, July-October 2003, Elsevier
Publisher.
http://cs.newpaltz.edu/~pham/ABA/papers/J2/
CONFERENCE EVENTS:
Our technical tracks are planned to be held at the following conferences:
IKE: The 2004 International Conference on Information and Knowledge
Engineering (*)
IT: The 2004 International Conference on Internet Computing (*)
PDPTA: The 2004 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed
Processing Techniques and Applications (*)
IC-AI: The 2004 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (*)
KES: The 8th International Conference on Knowledge-Based & Intelligent
Information & Engineering Systems, KES, September 20-24,
Wellington, New Zealand.
IEEE SMC: The 2004 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man &
Cybernetics, October 10-13, The Hague, The Netherlands
( Conferences with (*) are among the 18 Conferences of the 2004
International MultiConference IMCSCE, June 21 - 24, Las Vegas, USA)
PARTICIPATION:
For the authors who may not be able to present their papers at the
conference site, we plan to make post-conference on-line interactive
forums & presentations (all other authors will also be invited to
participate). This is for introduction, questions/answers about papers and
related projects, discussions about possible cooperation ... Minutes of
all discussions will be distributed to the participants.
IMPORTANT DATES:
February 23, 2004: Draft papers
March 27, 2004: Notification of acceptance
April 21, 2004: Camera-Ready papers
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
( Please visit http://www.aba-rd.org/ for an update list )
CONTACT:
Dr. Hanh Pham
Department of Computer Science
State University of New York
75 S. Manheim Blvd. Suite 6, FOB-08
New Paltz, NY 12561, USA
E-mail: aba <at> cs <dot> newpaltz <dot> edu
phamh <at> newpaltz <dot> edu
URL: http://cs.newpaltz.edu/~pham/
Tel: 1-845-257-3574
Fax: 1-845-257-3996
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From: "Buffett, Scott" <[email protected]>
Subject: Business Agents and the Semantic Web (BASeWEB'04)
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 11:18:16 -0400
CALL FOR PAPERS
Business Agents and the Semantic Web (BASeWEB'04)
May 16, 2004 - London, Ontario, Canada
A workshop held in conjunction with
The Seventeenth Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence
http://www.cs.unb.ca/baseweb/baseweb04/CFP-2004.htm
Theme
E-business increasingly uses Web Services or agents acting on behalf
of human buyers and sellers. Such Business Agents can profit from the
machine-interpretable product and service descriptions provided by the
Semantic Web. Cross-fertilized techniques from AI (e.g., Intelligent
Agents) and the Internet (e.g., the Semantic Web) are thus explored by
numerous organizations world-wide, including W3C, OASIS, DARPA, NRC,
IST, and INTAP. Web ontologies - consisting of taxonomies and/or
rules - constitute the centerpiece of the new AI-Internet synthesis.
This workshop addresses researchers extending Web techniques by using
AI methods, or transferring AI techniques to the Web in an attempt to
create intelligent business agents. The current workshop builds on
previous workshops such as BASeWEB'03 and '02, Novel E-Commerce
Applications of Agents and Semantic Web-based E-Commerce and Rules
Markup Languages.
The main goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers working
on E-business, Agents, Web Systems and the Semantic Web to explore
novel uses of AI techniques in the Web.
Panel
In addition, a panel session on "Machine Learning for Intelligent
Business Agents: Successes and Challenges" will be held. This is an
open session which will feature three or four leading researchers in
the field. More details to follow.
Topics of interest
All topics related to agents and e-business are welcome. Topics of
interest include, but are not restricted to:
* Semantic Web approaches and architectures
* Semantic Web services
* Web agents for producers and consumers
* E-business architectures in the Semantic Web
* Business agent architectures
* Knowledge management and e-business agents
* Product and service codes/registries (e.g., UNSPSC/UDDI)
* Description logics and web ontologies
* Extended Horn logics and rule markup techniques (e.g., RuleML)
* Application areas for rules (e.g., P3P, XACML, ebXML, DRM, etc.)
* Belief logics and planning for multiple agents
* Negotiation (bargaining, auctions and trust)
* Inference engines: deduction and induction
* Distributed deduction for the Semantic Web
* Natural language interfaces for business agents
* Adaptive business agents
* Web service composition and choreography
* Machine learning for adaptive systems and user modeling
* Human-business agent interaction/cooperation
* Lessons learned from implemented systems
Workshop format
The workshop will commence with some short introductory remarks by the
organizers, followed by an invited talk. The main part of the session
will then be devoted to presentations of submitted works. The workshop
will then conclude with a panel session on issues dealing with agents
in machine learning.
Participation and Submissions
Participation in this workshop is by invitation only and invitees must
be registered for the AI2003 conference. Also attendance is
limited. Therefore, in case that a selection becomes necessary, we ask
researchers that just want to attend the workshop without contributing
a paper to send a short email to [email protected] expressing their
particular interest in the workshop.
Researchers interested in contributing a paper should send it to
[email protected] (in PDF format ONLY), up to 10 pages. Papers may
already be prepared in one of the Elsevier formats.
The papers will be reviewed by the program committee members. All
accepted papers will be included into the workshop notes and their
authors will be invited to the workshop. The objective is to cover a
broad variety of concepts and contributions to the goals stated
above. To facilitate a lively and interesting discussion, we will try
to make all the papers available to the participants of the workshop
before the workshop takes place.
Workshop organizers can submit paper(s) subject to the following extra
conditions: Papers will be submitted blind, i.e. given a double-blind
review. None of the reviewers of those papers will be organizers of
the workshop. Any decisions regarding those papers will be in camera,
not including the author.
After workshop activities
A special issue of Computational Intelligence is being planned to
feature revised workshop papers. Only authors of accepted papers will
be invited to resubmit their work to this special issue.
Important dates
Submissions/Requests for Participation: Feb 20, 2004
Notifications of Acceptance/Invitations: Mar 17, 2004
Camera-ready paper due: April 9, 2004
Workshop: May 16, 2004
For more information, visit:
http://www.cs.unb.ca/baseweb/baseweb04/CFP-2004.htm
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From: "Jeanny S. Ryffel" <[email protected]>
Subject: Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (BICS 2004)
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 19:16:22 -0700
Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (BICS 2004):
August 29 September 1, 2004, University of Stirling, Scotland
UPCOMING PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE January 31, 2004
NEW: Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended
version of their paper for publication in a special issue of the
Neurocomputing Journal, published by Elsevier Science B.V.
(http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/neucom)
Why This Conference, and who should Attend:
The science of neural computation focuses on mathematical aspects for
solving complex practical problems. It also seeks to help neurology,
brain theory and cognitive psychology in the understanding of the
functioning of the nervous system by means of computational models of
neurons, neural nets and sub-cellular processes. BICS2004 aims to
become a major point of contact for research scientists, engineers and
practitioners throughout the world in the fields of cognitive and
computational systems inspired by the brain and biology.
Participants will share the latest research, developments and ideas in
the wide arena of disciplines encompassed under the heading of
BICS2004:
First International ICSC Symposium on Cognitive Neuro Science (CNS
2004)
(from computationally inspired models to brain-inspired
computation)
Chair: Prof. Igor Aleksander, Imperial College London,
U.K
Second International ICSC Symposium on Biologically Inspired Systems
(BIS 2004)
Chair: Prof. Leslie Smith, University of Stirling, U.K.
Third International ICSC Symposium on Neural Computation (NC'2004)
Chair: Dr. Amir Hussain, University of Stirling, U.K.
http://www.icsc-naiso.org/conferences/bics2004/bics-cfp.html
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From: Lukasz Kurgan <[email protected]>
Subject: ICMLA '04: 3rd Int'l Conf. on Machine Learning and Applications
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 19:45:04 -0700
Call for Papers
ICMLA '04: The Third International Conference on Machine Learning and
Applications
Sponsored/Co-sponsored by the IEEE SMC, the ACM SIGKDD, Association
for ML and Applications, and University of Louisville
Louisville, Kentucky
December 16-18 2004
http://www.cs.csubak.edu/~icmla/icmla04/
(Papers Due: June 4, 2004)
AIMS AND SCOPE
ICMLA'04 aims to bring together researchers and practitioners to
present the latest achievements and innovations in the area of machine
learning (ML). The conference provides a leading international forum
for the dissemination of original research in ML, with emphasis on
applications, novel algorithms, software and systems. For the third
time the conference attracts researchers and application developers
from a wide range of ML related areas such as statistical,
probabilistic, fuzzy, evolutionary, inductive, and other kinds of
learning, data mining, knowldge discovery, pattern recognition,
knowledge acquisition and retrieval, databases, data warehousing and
visualization, knowledge-based systems and high performance computing.
The main goal of the conference is to advance the state of the art in
ML via promotion of high quality and novel research.
TOPICS
Topics related to the design, development, analysis, implementation of
ML theory, systems, and applications are of interest. These include,
but are not limited to the following areas:
- multistrategy learning - statistical learning
- neural network learning - learning through fuzzy logic
- learning through evolution - evolutionary algorithms)
- bayesian network - case-based reasoning
- evolutionary computation - reinforcement learning
- ML of natural language - grammatical inference
- knowledge discovery in DBs - knowledge intensive learning
- knowledge representation - knowledge reasoning
- information retrieval&learning- plausible reasoning
- cooperative learning - planning and learning
- multi-agent learning - web navigation and mining
- learning through mobile DM - online and incremental learning
- inductive learning - inductive logic programming
- support vector machines - computational learning theory
- cognitive-modeling - hybrid algorithms
- knowledge acquisition and learning
- scalability of learning algorithms
- learning through text and multimedia mining
- distributed and parallel learning algorithms and applications
- feature extraction and classification
- machine learning in science and engineering,
game playing and problem solving, intelligent virtual
environments, medicine, biology and bioinformatics,
homeland security applications, and industrial applications
IMPORTANT DATES
Regular Research Papers due : June 4, 2004
Notification of acceptance : September 4, 2004
Camera-ready papers &
Pre-registration : October 1, 2004
The ICMLA Conference : December 16-18, 2004
All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Detailed
instructions are provided on the conference home page at
http://www.cs.csubak.edu/~icmla/icmla04/
SUBMISSIONS
High quality papers in all ML areas are solicited. Papers that present
new directions will receive especially careful and supportive
reviews. Authors are expected to ensure that their final manuscripts
are original and are not appearing in the other publications.
Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of 8 pages, and will
be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical
quality, originality, significance, and clarity. All submissions will
be handled electronically. Accepted papers will be published in the
conference proceedings, as a hardcopy. A selected number of accepted
papers will be invited for possible inclusion, in an expanded and
revised form, in a journal. ICMLA'04 Best Paper Awards will be
conferred at the conference on the authors of the best research paper.
SPECIAL SESSIONS, WORKSHOPS and TUTORIALS
We invite the submission of proposals for special sessions, workshops
and tutorials. Proposals to organize such sessions should include the
following information:
- name and address of the proposer(s)
- title of the session
- description of the session (see further details below)
Each special session will have at least six paper presentations. The
special session chairs will be responsible for soliciting the papers,
reviewing, and making final decisions, in consultation with the
conference chairs. The description of the session should include a
short description on how the session will be advertised. Proposals to
organize tutorials or workshops should be 1-5 pages long and should
include a definition of the scope of coverage. Special sessions will
be open to all participants.
Due date for the submission of proposals:
- Special sessions May 7, 2004
- Workshops and Tutorials May 7, 2004
Email your proposal to the Workshops, Tutorials & Special
Sessions Chair Dr. Alan Sprague ([email protected]).
FURTHER INFORMATION
Dr. Mariofanna (Fani) Milanova, Progaram Chair
Associate Professor
Donaghey College of Information Science
and Systems Engineering
Computer Science Department
Dickinson Hall, Room 515
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
2801 S. University Ave.,
Little Rock, Arkansas 72204-1099
E-mail: [email protected]
For up-to-date information consult the conference web site at
http://www.cs.csubak.edu/~icmla/icmla04/
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From: Isabelle Bichindaritz <[email protected]>
Subject: 2nd Workshop on CBR in the Health Sciences @ ECCBR 2004
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 21:45:51 -0800 (PST)
Workshop on CBR in the Health Sciences
The Seventh European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ECCBR-04)
Madrid, Spain
August 31, 2004
Call for Papers
Health sciences applications have been central to CBR ever since its
early days. New directions, including CBR integration, synergies
between CBR and knowledge discovery, enabling home health care
technologies, and bioinformatics applications, keep this a vital and
exciting domain for CBR research. The goals of this workshop are to:
* provide a forum for identifying important contributions and
opportunities for research on the application of CBR to the health
sciences
* promote the systematic study of how to apply CBR to the health
sciences
* showcase applications of CBR in the health sciences
Some of the technical issues addressed, and potential outcomes of the
workshop, are to identify preferred types and domains of applications,
challenges specific to applying CBR to the health sciences, and
guidelines to better develop CBR systems in this domain. This
workshop builds upon progress made at the First Workshop on CBR in the
Health Sciences, which was held at ICCBR-03, in Trondheim, Norway. In
addition, the authors of the best submissions will be invited to
expand and refine their papers for publication in a special issue of
the journal Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (Elsevier) on
Case-Based Reasoning in the Health Sciences. Topics of interest
include (but are not limited to):
* Integration of CBR in health care environments
* CBR in medical decision-support systems
* CBR in medical imaging
* CBR in enabling technologies for those with physical disabilities or
chronic health problems
* CBR and knowledge discovery in medicine and the health sciences
* Cognitive approaches to applying CBR to medicine
* Theoretical framework for CBR in medical reasoning
* CBR in bioinformatics
* CBR and evidence-based medicine
Paper presentations will be interspersed with discussions in which we
characterize, categorize, and discuss the benefits of specific CBR
applications in the health sciences. A wrap-up round table discussion
will summarize the lessons learnt, issues identified, and future
directions.
Review Process
Papers will be reviewed by the organizing committee for relevance,
significance, technical soundness and depth, and readability. We will
not accept papers that are exact duplicates of others, but we welcome
papers that are modifications of them that focus on CBR in the Health
Sciences. For example, submissions summarizing previously published
material relating to this workshop's topic are welcomed. In your
submissions and finalized papers, please cite the other publication
and indicate clearly its relationship to this workshop's paper.
Submission Requirements
PostScript (compressed and uuencoded) or PDF paper submissions should
be formatted according to Springer LNCS format, with a maximum of ten
pages. Author's instructions along with LaTeX and Word macro files are
available on the web at
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html
Please upload submissions to the electronic submission site:
http://faculty.washington.edu/ibichind/eccbr04wk/submission
or Email submissions to:
Isabelle Bichindaritz at [email protected].
Important Dates
* Submission Deadline: May 7, 2004
* Notification Date: June 7, 2004
* Camera-Ready Deadline: July 9, 2004
* Workshop Date: August 31, 2004
Workshop Web Site
Information about this Workshop is available at
http://oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu/~marling/eccbr04/workshop.html
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From: "Casa2004" <[email protected]>
Subject: CASA2004: Computer Animation and Social Agents 2004
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 09:23:43 +0100
COMPUTER ANIMATION AND SOCIAL AGENTS 2004
CALL FOR PAPERS
Geneva-Switzerland: July 7-9, 2004
Important Dates:
April 9, 2004 Paper Submission Deadline
May 7, 2004 Papers Notification
May 17, 2004 Camera Ready Papers to the Publisher
July 7-9, 2004 Start of CASA2004
The COMPUTER GRAPHICS SOCIETY (CGS) is pleased to announce the 17th
annual conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA2004),
held at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, July 7-9, organized by
MIRALab with the support of IFIP WG5.10 (Computer Graphics and Virtual
Worlds).
http://casa2004.miralab.unige.ch/
The topics of interest in Computer Animation and Social Agents 2004
Animation Techniques
a. Motion Control
b. Motion capture and retargeting
c. Path planning
d. Physics-based animation
e. Vision techniques in animation
f. Behavioral animation
g. Artificial life
h. Image rendering in animation
i. Deformable Models
j. Facial Animation
Social agents
a. Social agents and avatars
b. Emotions and personality
c. Simulation involving Virtual Humans
d. Autonomous characters and actors
e. A.I. - based animation
f. Social and Conversational agents
g. Interagent communication
h. Modeling of groups and crowds
i. Social behavior
j. Autonomous Virtual Humans in games
Virtual Environments
a. Medical 3D simulation
b. Simulation involving Virtual Humans
c. Virtual Cultural Heritage
d. Autonomous characters and actors
e. VCE (Virtual Collaborative Environments)
f. A.I. - based animation
g. Virtual reality
h. Interaction with Virtual Humans
i. Augmented Reality
j. Perceptual models
k. Virtual Sensors
Paper Submission Procedures
Submissions are made electronically, in PDF format only (no paper copy
will be accepted) at casa2004.miralab.unige.ch/submit.html. All
accepted papers will appear in a special issue of the Journal of
Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds (formally JVCA) published by
John Wiley.
Paper Format
Original unpublished papers of up to 12 pages (single-spaced, 12
point, including figures, tables and references) are
invited. Manuscripts must be written in English. The first part of the
paper should include a title, an abstract, keywords, and author's
information (name, title, affiliation, address, phone and fax numbers,
e-mail address). Submission will be online and there will be
instructions on the web Any animation sequences should be uploaded as
an archive .zip file with your manuscript.
Send Queries to
Secretariat CASA2004
Email: [email protected]
Fax: +41 22 7057780
Website: casa2004.miralab.unige.ch
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From: Damian Lopez <[email protected]>
Subject: ECAI 2004 Workshop on Symbolic Networks
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 15:39:11 +0100 (CET)
ECAI 2004 Workshop on Symbolic Networks
Valencia (Spain)
August 22-24, 2004
Call for Papers
(http://www.dsic.upv.es/users/tlcc/wsn.html)
Scope and areas of interest
Symbolic networks are mathematic constructions in which the
information is represented mainly by strings or multisets of abstract
symbols and it is processed in a cooperative, distributed, and/or
parallel manner. The interest of this kind of architectures in
Artificial Intelligence has been always maintained in different
research areas such as temporal logics, belief networks or generalized
semantic networks, with special emphasis in applications such as
natural language processing and pattern recognition. Here, we propose
a workshop focused in this kind of formal architectures inspired by
different theories ( mainly biology, computability and control
processing). The scope of this workshop is summarized in different
topics such as, but not restricted to:
- "Bioinspired" architectures (tissue P systems and other variants of
P system networks, DNA based networks, etc)
- Networks of evolutionary processors
- Neural networks (specially Siegelmann's artificial recurrent neural
networks and McCulloch-Pitts neural networks)
- Other architectures and related topologies.
Interest of the workshop
Recent advances in symbolic networks, mainly motivated by biological
computation and further research in formal language and complexity
theory, make them a front-end topic in computation theory and of
increasing interest in AI. For instance, membrane computing, as a
branch of natural computing, is a fast developing area (see
http://psystems.disco.unimib.it), with motivations coming both from
cell biology and from neural nets structure and functioning.
The topics that we propose in the workshop and its scope have been
part of several conferences devoted to Artificial Intelligence,
Evolutionary computation, Unconventional computing, DNA computing,
etc. We mention only a few of these conferences: International
Work-conference on Artificial and Natural Neural Networks (IWANN),
Genetic Computation Conference (GECCO), International Conference on
Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN), DNA Based Computing,
Unconventional Models of Computation (UMC), the series of Workshops on
Membrane Computing (WMC), not to speak about the many conferences on
theoretical computer science. There also are several journals where
these topics have been exposed in many papers: Future Generation
Computer Systems, Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, New
Generation Computing, Natural Computing, Soft Computing are only some
of them.
Important dates
Submission deadline: April 5, 2004
Notification of acceptance: April 30, 2004
Final version for the Pre-Proceedings: May 17, 2004
Workshop: August 22,23 or 24, 2004
Submission Procedure
Interested participants are requested to submit their papers in PDF or
Postscript. Papers should not exceed 15 pages according to a4paper,
11pt, article LaTeX style. Submissions should be electronically made
to the workshop chair:
Dr. José M. Sempere.
Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación
Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
Valencia (Spain)
email: [email protected]
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From: Massimo Felici <[email protected]>
Subject: COMPSAC 2004
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 17:06:07 GMT
COMPSAC 2004
The 28th IEEE Annual International Computer Software
and Applications Conference
September 27-30, 2OO4
Hong Kong
http://rachel.utdallas.edu/compsac
COMPSAC is a major international forum for researchers, practitioners,
managers, and policy makers interested in computer software and
applications. It was first held in Chicago in 1977, and since then it
has been one of the major forums for academia, industry, and
government to discuss the state of art, new advances, and future
trends in software technologies and practices. The technical program
includes keynote addresses, research papers, industrial case studies,
panel discussions and fast abstracts. It also includes a number of
workshops on emerging important topics.
The major theme will be DEVELOPING TRUSTWORTHY SOFTWARE SYSTEMS
IMPORTANT DATES
January 15, 2004: Deadline for workshop and panel proposals
January 30, 2004: Notification for workshop/panel organizers
March 15, 2004: Deadline for regular and workshop
paper submissions
May 20, 2004: Notification for authors of regular
and workshop papers
June 30, 2004: Deadline for camera-ready copies
of accepted regular
For more detailed information of the program, including the
submissions of various proposals and papers, please refer to
http://rachel.utdallas.edu/compsac
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From: Martin Butz <[email protected]>
Subject: Workshop on Anticipatory Behavior in Adaptive Learning Systems
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 09:32:09 -0600 (CST)
C A L L F O R P A P E R S
ABiALS Workshop 2004
Anticipatory Behavior in Adaptive Learning Systems
July 17th 2004
Los Angeles, CA, USA
http://www-illigal.ge.uiuc.edu/ABiALS
to be held during
the eighth international conference on the
Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB'04)
http://www.isab.org/sab04/
ABiALS is an interdisciplinary workshop investigating the influence of
anticipations on behavior and learning. ABiALS is designed to help
understand how anticipations can influence and guide behavior and
learning as well as how anticipatory influences can be implemented in
an adaptive behavior system.
Submission deadline: 31. March 2004
Objectives
Anticipatory behavior is a mechanism, or a behavior, that does not
only depend on the past and present but also on predictions,
expectations, or beliefs about the future.
The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers that are
interested in such anticipatory mechanisms and essentially
anticipatory adaptive behavior. It is aimed for an interdisciplinary
gathering that brings together researchers from distinct areas so as
to discuss the different guises that anticipation takes in these
different perspectives. After a very successful workshop on
Anticipatory Behavior at SAB 2002, resulting in the Springer-Verlag
LNCS 2684 State-of-the-Art survey named after the workshop, we are
interested in building upon that initiative emphasizing the
exploitation of anticipations in learning and planning.
Previous work on anticipatory behavior has concentrated more on the
learning of environmental models, especially online generalized model
learning. Up to now though, exploitation of the model has been done
mainly to show that exploitation is possible or that an appropriate
model exists in the first place. Only very few applications exist that
show the utility of the model for the simulation of anticipatory
processes and consequent adaptive behavior. However, the exploitation
of the model and the interaction of learning and behavior by the means
of the model is the most promising and important area for future
research.
Essential Questions
- How can anticipations be exploited to improve planning?
- How can anticipations be exploited to direct or speed-up learning?
- Which social agent interactions can be improved by the means of
anticipatory behavior?
- How do anticipations influence attention?
- How can anticipations improve the adaptive behavior of an artificial
learning system?
- How can anticipatory adaptive behavior be implemented in an
artificial learning system?
- How does an incomplete predictive model influence anticipatory
behavior?
- How do anticipations guide further model learning?
- Can anticipations be used for the detection of special environmental
properties?
- What role do anticipations play for the implementation of
motivations and emotions?
- What is the trade-off between simple bottom-up stimulus-response
driven behavior and more top-down anticipatory driven behavior?
- In what respect does anticipation mediate between low-level
environmental processing and more complex cognitive simulation?
- Which anticipatory mechanisms can be distinguished? Which are the
benefits/drawbacks of the different mechanisms?
Submission:
Submissions for the workshop should address or at least be related to
one of the questions listed above. However, other approaches to
anticipatory adaptive behavior are encouraged as well. The workshop is
not limited to one particular type of anticipatory learning system or
a particular representation of anticipations. However, the learning
system should learn its anticipatory representation online rather than
being provided by a model of the world beforehand.
Since this is a full day workshop, we hope to be able to provide more
time for presentations and discussions. In that way, the advantages
and disadvantages of the different learning systems should become
clearer. It is also aimed for several discussion sessions in which
anticipatory influences will be discussed in a broader sense.
Papers will be reviewed for acceptance by the program committee and
the organizers. Papers should be submitted electronically to one of
the organizers via email in pdf or ps format. Electronic submission is
strongly encouraged. If you cannot submit your contribution
electronically, please contact one of the organizers. Submitted papers
should have a maximal length of ten 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).
Submission deadline is the 31st of MARCH 2004.
Dependent on the quality and number of contributions we will publish
Post Workshop proceedings as either a Springer LNAI volume or a
special issue of a journal. For more information please refer to
http://www-illigal.ge.uiuc.edu/ABiALS/
Important Dates:
31.March 2004: Deadline for Submissions
15. May 2004: Notification of Acceptance
10. June 2004: Camera Ready Version for SAB Workshop Proceedings
17. July 2004: Workshop ABiALS
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From: "Max Bramer" <[email protected]>
Subject: First IFIP Conference on AI Applications and Innovations
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 17:25:10 -0000
AIAI 2004
First IFIP Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and
Innovations
http://www.ifiptc12.org/
Toulouse, France
August, 22-27, 2004
The AIAI Conference is an integral session in the IFIP World Computer
Congress program. All submissions will be reviewed by an
international Program Committee. All accepted papers will appear in
the official IFIP Conference Proceedings published by Kluwer Academic
Publishers. AIAI will bring together researchers, engineers and
practitioners. AIAI will interest researchers, IT professionals and
consultants by examining technologies and applications of demonstrable
value. AIAI will focus on profitable intelligent systems and
technologies.
Submission
[1] February 9th 2004 -- Email a plain text abstract of your paper
including the title, authors, abstract and email contact to:
[email protected]
[2] February 16, 2004 -- Submit your full paper to the conference web
site: http://www.wcc2004.org/
Submitted papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted to
another journal or conference for consideration of publication.
Papers must be written in English; they should be at most 10 pages
long in total, including bibliography, in the Kluwer format
[http://www.wkap.com/ifip/styles/]. [NB: some copies of the printed
IFIP brochure ask for 16 pages - that is a misprint.] Accepted papers
will be presented at the conference, as either oral or poster
presentations, and published in the official IFIP conference
proceedings by Kluwer Academic Publishers. At least one author of
each accepted paper is required to register with the conference and to
present the paper.
Call for Papers
[Deadlines: abstracts February 9, 2004; full papers February 16, 2004]
AIAI focuses on real world applications; therefore authors should
highlight the benefits of AI technology for industry and services.
Novel approaches to solving business and industrial problems, using
AI, will emerge from this conference. Papers describing advanced
prototypes, systems, tools and techniques and general survey papers
indicating future directions are also encouraged. Papers describing
original work are invited in any of the areas listed below.
Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality, and,
above all, on the practical value of the work. Both full research
papers and professional work-in-progress reports are welcome. There
will be both oral and poster presentations.
- Industrial Applications of Artificial Intelligence
- Intelligent Decision Support Systems
- Integration of AI with other Technologies
- Evaluation of AI Systems
- AI Languages, Programming Techniques and Tools
- Knowledge Acquisition
- Expert Knowledge-based Systems
- Fuzzy Logic and Plausible Inference
- Neural Networks
- Evolutionary Computation and Algorithms
- Speech and Natural Language Interfaces
- Machine Vision
- Intelligent Information Retrieval
- Genetic Algorithms
- Planning and Scheduling
- Bayesian Networks and Stochastic Reasoning
- Evolutionary Programming
- Learning and Adaptive Systems
- Intelligent Agents
- Distributed AI Algorithms, Techniques, and Applications
- Distributed AI Systems and Architectures
- Intelligent Tutoring Systems
- Structured and Unstructured Datamining
- Case-Based Reasoning Systems
- Hardware and Robotics
- Social Impact, Acceptance and Implications of AI
- Intelligent Systems Engineering and Design Methodologies
- Ontologies and Semantic Web
- Knowledge and Information Management
- Business Process Management and Enterprise Portals
- Organisational Memory Knowledge Systems
- Inter-organisational KM portals
- KM, E-Learning and Enterprise Portals
For more information, visit http://www.ifiptc12.org/
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From: [email protected] (Dept AI Uni Ulm)
Subject: KI2004 - Call for Workshop Proposals
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 15:24:10 +0100 (CET)
27th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence KI2004
CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
September 20-24, Ulm, Germany
The Programme Committee invites proposals for workshops to be held at
KI-2004. The workshops are intended to offer the opportunity for the
in-depth discussion of specific topics and the informal exchange of
novel ideas in an inspiring atmosphere. Workshop proposals from all
subfields of Artificial Intelligence are invited. Workshops may be
held in German or English.
Proposal Submission:
Anyone wishing to organize a workshop is asked to email a proposal (in
plain text or pdf format and up to three pages) not later than by
February 16, 2004, to the Workshop Chair. Proposals should provide
the following information:
* TITLE of the proposed workshop.
* Description of the workshop CONTENTS (the issues on which it
concentrates, its main goals, its relevance, and its target
audience).
* Description of workshop FORMAT (plans for the workshop agenda,
intended workshop length - typically half-day or full-day -, and
planned events such as invited talks, panels and discussion forums).
* Description of the workshop ORGANIZATION (organizational schedule,
plans for encouraging submissions and selecting papers, strategies for
recruiting participants, and other ideas on how to increase the
workshop's attractiveness).
* Full contact address of the PRIMARY WORKSHOP ORGANIZER (name, email
address, postal address, phone, and fax number).
* Members of the ORGANIZING COMMITTEE, if available (names, email
addresses, and postal addresses).
* ESTIMATED NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS and, if available, list of TENTATIVELY CONFIRMED ATTENDEES.
Contact:
Please send any inquiries concerning workshop proposals to the
Workshop Chair:
PD Dr. Michael Beetz
Institut für Informatik IX
Technische Universität München
Boltzmannstr. 3
85748 Garching b. München
Tel: 089 289-17759
Fax: 089 289-17757
E-mail: [email protected]
Further information is available on the conference website:
http://ki2004.uni-ulm.de
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From: "Its" <[email protected]>
Subject: ITS 2004: 7th Int'l Conf. on Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 08:19:56 -0500
Call for Participation
www.itsconference.org/2004/
ITS 2004
The Seventh International Conference
on Intelligent Tutoring Systems
August 30 - September 3, 2004
Maceio, Brazil
FIRST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Submissions Due: March 15, 2004
www.itsconference.org/2004/
The Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems
(ITS 2004) provides a leading international forum for the
dissemination of original results in the design, implementation,and
evaluation of intelligent tutoring systems. The conference draws
researchers from a broad spectrum of disciplines ranging from
artificial intelligence and cognitive science to pedagogy and
educational psychology. Continuing in the rich tradition of previous
ITS conferences, ITS 2004 will bring togethe scientists, developers,
and parishioners from all areas of intelligent tutoring systems.
ITS 2004 will be held in Macei=F3, Brazil, which is known as "The Wate
Paradise" of Brazil's beautiful northeastern coastline. The
conference site will be the Meli=E1 Hotel, which is located by the
Jatiuca Beach sea shore. The week's events consist of tutorials,
workshops, advanced seminars, open forums, tasks forces and plenary
lectures, in addition to the daily presentation of accepted
manuscripts describing innovative research and development in ITS.
Areas of Interest
Original papers related to the design, implementation, and evaluation
of intelligent tutoring systems are solicited. Topics include, but
are not limited to, the following:
* Adaptive Hypermedia
* Affect and Models of Emotion
* Agent-based Tutoring Systems
* Architectures
* Assessment
* Authoring Systems
* Case-Based Reasoning Systems
* Cognitive Modeling
* Collaborative Learning
* Distributed Learning Environments
* Electronic Commerce and Learning
* Evaluation of Instructional Systems
* Human Factors and Interface Design
* Instructional Design
* Instructor Networking
* Intelligent Agents
* Intelligent Web-Based Learning
* Intelligent Multimedia Systems
* Internet Environments
* Knowledge Acquisition
* Knowledge Construction
* Knowledge Representation
* Learning Environments
* Machine Learning in ITS
* Natural Language and Discourse
* Pedagogical Planning
* Situated Learning
* Speech and Dialogue Systems
* Student Modeling
* Training
* Virtual reality
* Wireless and Mobile Learning
Conference Proceedings and Paper Submission Guidelines
Proceedings of the conference will be published by Springer Verlag in
its Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Papers must describe
original and unpublished work; papers currently under review at other
conferences or journals cannot be considered for publication at ITS
2004. Papers may not exceed 5000 words. All submissions will be
handled electronically. Complete submission guidelines will be
provided on the conference website:
www.itsconference.org/2004/
Submissions are due March 15, 2004.
For more information, visit http://www.itsconference.org/2004/
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From: Eugene Eberbach <[email protected]>
Subject: CEC'2004 DEADLINE SUBMISSION EXTENSION UNTIL FEBRUARY 7, 2004
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 06:10:30 -0500
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
*CEC'2004 DEADLINE SUBMISSION EXTENSION UNTIL FEBRUARY 7th, 2004*
Because of many requests, the deadline for the CEC'2004 submission has
been extended until Saturday, February 7th, 2004. This applies both to
regular and special session submissions. Please submit your (regular
or special session) paper electronically through
http://cec2004.org
2004 Congress on Evolutionary Computation
June 19-23, 2004
Portland, Oregon, USA
General Chair: Garrison Greenwod, Portland State University
Program Chair: Gary Fogel, Natural Selection, Inc.
Check out http://cec2004.org for the latest information on the 2004
Congress on Evolutionary Computation Conference held right here in
Portland, Oregon!
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From: Eugene Eberbach <[email protected]>
Subject: CEC 2004: Learning and Approximation in Design Optimization
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 08:23:22 -0500
CEC Special Session:
Learning and Approximation in Design Optimization
More information at: http://www.cs.unr.edu/~sushil/cec/#LADO
Bernhard Sendhoff and Yaochu Jin
Honda Research Institute Europe
Carl-Legien-Str.30
63073 Offenbach/Main
Germany
Design optimization has become one of the primary areas of application
of evolutionary computation in recent years. One of the essential
difficulties in applying evolutionary algorithms to design
optimization of complex systems is the time-consuming fitness
evaluations. To alleviate this difficulty, computationally efficient
approximate models, also known as meta-models have successfully been
employed to assist evolutionary algorithms. Domain knowledge acquired
by learning, a priori expert knowledge as well as human decisions have
been incorporated in evolutionary optimization for performance and
efficiency improvement. Hybrid approaches combining traditional
methods like design of experiments with evolutionary algorithms have
also shown promising results. This special session is dedicated to
learning and approximation in evolutionary computation, and
applications of evolutionary computation to design
optimization. Topics include but are not limited to:
* off-line and on-line learning for approximate model construction,
* domain knowledge extraction and reuse,
* comparison of different modeling and learning techniques,
* design of 2D or 3D aerodynamic structures, mechanical structures,
* and multi-disciplinary and multi-physics processes,
* important issues arisen in design optimization, such as choice of
representation, search for robust solutions, handling of noise, and
multi-objectivity,
* multi-level evolutionary optimization, experimental design
* optimization
* parallelization of existing algorithms for design optimization
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From: Eugene Eberbach <[email protected]>
Subject: CEC 2004: Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 08:21:13 -0500
CEC 2004 Special Session Announcement
Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization
Carlos A. Coello Coello
More information at: http://www.cs.unr.edu/~sushil/cec/#EMOO
Most real-world problems have several (and normally conflicting)
objectives that have to be satisfied at the same time. Problems
involving the simultaneous optimization of two or more objective
functions are called "multiobjective" and are very common in practical
applications. Vilfredo Pareto stated in 1896 a concept (known today as
"Pareto optimum") that constitutes the origin of research in
multiobjective optimization (although the original concept of
"compromise" solution can be traced back to the work of
Edgeworth). According to this concept, the solution to a
multiobjective optimization problem is normally not a single value,
but instead a set of values (also called the Pareto set). The interest
of applying evolutionary computation techniques to multiobjective
optimization dates back to the 1960s, with Rosenberg's doctoral
dissertation, although the first actual implementations are relatively
recent (from the mid 1980s). One of the reasons why evolutionary
algorithms are so suitable for multiobjective optimization is because
they can generate a whole set of solutions (the Pareto optimal set) in
a single run rather than requiring an iterative process like
traditional mathematical programming techniques. The interest on
Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization (EMO) is reflected by the
high volume of publications in this topic in the last few years
(almost 70 PhD theses, more than 320 journal papers, and more than 840
conference papers). The main aim of this special session is to bring
together both experts and newcomers working on EMO to discuss
different issues including (among others) the following:
* Real-world applications of multiobjective evolutionary algorithms
* Test functions for EMOO algorithms
* New EMO techniques (either evolutionary or based on other
heuristics such as particle swarm optimization, differential evolution,
cultural algorithms, etc.)
* Metrics for EMO algorithms
* Techniques to keep diversity in the population of a multiobjective
evolutionary algorithm
* Comparative studies
* Theoretical aspects of EMO algorithms
* Hybrid techniques (e.g., with mathematical programming approaches)
* Parallel issues of EMO algorithms
* Dimensionality analysis (e.g., techniques to deal with a high
number of objectives and/or decision variables)
Carlos A. Coello Coello
Seccion de Computacion
Depto. de Ing. Electrica
Av. IPN No. 2508
Col. San Pedro Zacatenco
Mexico, D.F. 07300
MEXICO
email: [email protected]
Phone: +52 55 5061 3800 x 6564
Fax: +52 55 5061 3757
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From: Eugene Eberbach <[email protected]>
Subject: CEC 2004: Theoretical Foundations of Evolutionary Computation
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 06:14:42 -0500
CEC 2004 Special Session:
Theoretical Foundations of Evolutionary Computation
Dr. Jun He , Dr. Xin Yao , and Dr. Qingfu Zhang
More information at: http://www.cs.unr.edu/~sushil/cec/#TFEC
It has been recognised in the evolutionary computation (EC) community
that EC theory is lagging behind applications. However, progresses
have been made in recent years on a number of theoretical topics,
e.g., convergence of evolutionary algorithms (EAs), (local)
convergence rate of EAs, computational complexity of EAs, modified
schema theorems, fitness landscape analysis, etc. This special session
aims at bringing researchers who are interested in the theory of EAs
together to review the current state-of-art, exchange the latest ideas
and explore future directions. The major topics of interest include,
but are not limited to:
* Time complexity of EAs.
* Impact of different genetic operators (crossover, mutation,
selection, etc.) on the performance of EAs.
* Impact of population size on the computational time of EAs.
* Convergence analysis of EAs for optimisation problems.
* Any other theoretical issues in EAs.
Dr. Jun He and Dr. Xin Yao
School of Computer Science
The University of Birmingham
Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
Dr. Qingfu Zhang
Department of Computer Science
University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park, Colchester C04 3SQ, UK
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From: Eugene Eberbach <[email protected]>
Subject: CEC 2004: Evolutionary Computing in Finance and Economics
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 06:12:07 -0500
CEC 2004 Special Session:
Evolutionary Computing in Finance and Economics
Edward Tsang, Shu-Heng Chen, Jerry Korczak, and Sheri Markose
More information at:
http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/CSP/finance/Call_for_submissions-CEC2004.html
Evolutionary computation has been established as a useful tool for
studying economics and finance. Example applications include financial
forecasting, real and artificial stock markets creation,
micro-behaviour analysis, stock trading and portfolio optimization,
market dynamics, game theory, risk analysis and many other areas. All
of these areas are built on firm economic foundations. However, the
applicability of most economic theories is limited by their
simplifying assumptions. Advances in computing, in both hardware and
algorithms, enable researchers to study economics and finance with a
completely different approach. For example, one can seriously attempt
to recognize patterns in complex systems, simulate complex agents'
behaviour in market environments, study the interaction of complex
strategies, study algorithmic strategies in game theory, analyze
volatility in financial markets, etc. This session will accept papers
in evolutionary computation applications in economics and finance,
including, but not limited to, the above mentioned areas.
Edward Tsang
Dept. of Computer Science
The University of Essex
Colchester, UK
Email: [email protected]
Phone: +44 1206 872774
Fax: +44 1206 872788
Shu-Heng Chen
AI-Econ Research Center, Dept. of Economics
Nationall Chengchi University, Taiwan
Email: [email protected]
Jerzy Korczak
Laboratoire des science de l'image
de l'informatique et de la teledetection (LSIIT), France
Email: [email protected]
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From: Eugene Eberbach <[email protected]>
Subject: CEC 2004: Evolutionary Design Automation
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 08:48:33 -0500
CEC 2004 Special Session Announcement
Evolutionary Design Automation
Dr. Giovanni Squillero
More information at: http://www.cs.unr.edu/~sushil/cec/#EDA
The special session would show the developments in the field of
evolutionary algorithms applied to hardware optimization. This will be
highlighted from different perspectives like the use of simulation
based optimization in design automation, or evolvable hardware. The
topic is considered very relevant in these days. IEEE publishes more
than 20 papers each year where evolutionary techniques are exploited
to solve design automation problems. Concurrently, the field of
evolutionary computation reveals a significant interest in evolvable
hardware and problems such as routing, placement, or test pattern
generation. The session would cover all evolutionary computation
techniques applied to design automation, including (but not limited
to):
* Analog circuit design
* Automatic test pattern generation
* Built-in self test
* Evolvable hardware
* Floorplanning
* Hardware/Software codesign
* Logic synthesis
* Routing
* Test program generation
Dr. Giovanni Squillero
Politecnico di Torino
Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica
Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24
10129 Torino
ITALY
Tel: +39-011564.7092
Fax: +39-011564.7099
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From: Eugene Eberbach <[email protected]>
Subject: CEC 2004: Evolutionary Optimization in Dynamic Environments
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 08:51:05 -0500
CEC 2004 Special Session Announcement
Evolutionary Optimization in Dynamic Environments
Dr. Shengxiang Yang and Juergen Branke
More information at: http://www.cs.unr.edu/~sushil/cec/#EODE
Many real-world optimization problems are non-deterministic and
subject to changes over time, either with respect to the objective
function, the decision variables, some environmental parameters, or a
combination thereof. For dynamic optimization problems, the goal of an
optimization algorithm is no longer to find a (stationary) optimal
solution, but instead to continuously track the optimum in the dynamic
environment. This presents serious challenges to traditional
optimization techniques as well as conventional evolutionary
algorithms. In recent years, solving dynamic optimization problems has
received an increasing interest from the evolutionary computation
community. A variety of approaches have been developed to address this
issue. The special session aims at bringing together researchers from
academia and industry to review the most recent advances, exchange
latest ideas and explore future directions in the field of EAs for
dynamic optimization problems. Topics of interest may include (but are
not limited to):
* Benchmark problems and performance measures
* Dynamic multi-objective optimization
* Adaptation, learning, and anticipation
* Search for robust solutions
* Comparative studies
* Hybrid approaches
* Theoretical analysis
* Real-world applications
Dr. Shengxiang Yang
Department of Computer Science
University of Leicester
University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, U.K.
Tel: +44(0)116 252 5341
Fax: +44(0)116 252 3915
WWW: http://www.cs.le.ac.uk/~syang
Juergen Branke
Institute AIFB,
University of Karlsruhe
76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
Tel: +49 (721) 608-6585
Fax: +49 (721) 693717
WWW: http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/~jbr/
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From: Eugene Eberbach <[email protected]>
Subject: CEC 2004: Biomolecular Computation
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 07:53:16 -0500
CEC 2004 Special Session Announcement
Biomolecular Computation
John A. Rose and Max H. Garzon and Byoung-Tak Zhang
More information at: http://www.cs.unr.edu/~sushil/cec/#BC
Biomolecular computing is a rapidly growing, interdisciplinary field,
which focuses on the development, application, and discovery of
biopolymer-based techniques for applications in computation,
biotechnology and bioinformatics. Papers are sought in all areas
relating to biomolecular computing, including (but not restricted to)
* Applications of biomolecular algorithms
* Biotechnology and other applications
* Computational processes in vivo and in vitro
* DNA machines and bio-devices
* DNA self-assembly
* Error estimation and control
* Information encoding on DNA (e.g., sequence design)
* Software tools for simulation, analyses, and evaluation
* Theoretical models and analyses
Of particular interest are submissions reporting experimental and/or
simulation results and papers exploring applications, both in vitro
and in vivo. All submissions will be peer reviewed by referees expert
in the topic. Accepted papers will be invited for presentation, and
will be included for publication in the CEC 2004
proceedings. Publication requires at least one author to register for
and attend CEC 2004 in order to present the accepted work. People with
little experience in the field can benefit from a companion tutorial,
where an introduction to the field and recent developments will be
surveyed.
John A. Rose
Computer Science/Bioinformatics
University of Tokyo
7-3-1 Hongo, Bunko-ku
Tokyo, Japan
email: [email protected]
Max H. Garzon
Computer Science
The University of Memphis
Memphis, TN 38152
USA
email: [email protected]
Byoung-Tak Zhang
School of Comptuter Science and Engineering
Seoul National University
Seoul 151-742, Korea
E-mail: [email protected]
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From: Eugene Eberbach <[email protected]>
Subject: CEC 2004: Evolutionary Computation in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 07:51:09 -0500
CEC 2004 Special Session Announcement
Evolutionary Computation in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Dr René Thomsen
More information at: http://www.cs.unr.edu/~sushil/cec/#ECBCB
Bioinformatics and computational biology present a number of difficult
optimization problems with large search spaces. Recent applications of
evolutionary computation in this area suggest that they are
well-suited to this area of research. This special session will
highlight applications of evolutionary computation to a broad range of
topics including drug docking, protein folding, sequence alignment,
genomics, proteomics, metabolics, medicine, and ecological
modeling. Particular interest will be directed towards novel
applications of evolutionary computation to problems in these areas.
Dr René Thomsen
BiRC - Bioinformatics Research Center
Department of Computer Science
University of Aarhus
Ny Munkegade, Building 540
DK-8000 Aarhus C
Denmark
Tel: (+45) 89423130
Fax: (+45) 89423077
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From: Eugene Eberbach <[email protected]>
Subject: CEC 2004: Evolutionary Computation and Games
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 08:56:22 -0500
CEC 2004 Special Session Announcement
Evolutionary Computation and Games
Graham Kendall and Simon Lucas
More information at: http://www.cs.unr.edu/~sushil/cec/#ECG
Games provide an ideal environment for the study of evolutionary
algorithms as they provide competitive and dynamic environments and
are interesting to observe. Games also represent an important
application of evolutionary computation, and there are fascinating
challenges between various classes of player, such as human,
pre-programmed, and evolved.
Papers are invited for this special session which aims to bring
together leading researchers and practitioners in the study of this
area.
Topics include (but are not limited to) evolutionary aspects of the
following:
* Co-Evolution in Games
* Comparative studies: e.g. evolved players versus human-designed
players versus other learning algorithms.
* Cooperative Learning in Games
* Theoretical or empirical analysis of evolutionary algorithms and
Representations
* Evolutionary Game Theory
* Games involving control of physical objects (e.g. Remote Control
Car Racing)
* Evolutionary Multi-Agent and Multi-Strategy Learning
* Games involving complex physics (e.g. Tennis)
* Prey / Predator games (e.g. Pacman)
* Economics or mathematical games (e.g. Auctions, Prisoners Dilemma)
* Games involving chance (e.g. Backgammon, Poker)
* Evolutionary games for mobile platforms (phones, PDAs)
* Evolving AI for console games
Submission:
Papers should follow the formatting guidelines for CEC2004 regular
papers, and should be submitted through the conference website
(http://cec2004.org). Submissions should be in PDF format and should
not exceed 8 pages in length. This includes all figures, tables,
graphs, photos, and bibliography entries. However, they will be
treated in the same way as regular papers, and included in the
conference proceedings. Please double check the printed appearance of
your paper before sending it.
Graham Kendall, University of Nottingham, UK
[email protected]
Simon Lucas, University of Essex, UK
[email protected]
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From: Eugene Eberbach <[email protected]>
Subject: CEC 2004: Evolutionary Computation in Cryptology and Computer Security
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 06:16:16 -0500
CEC 2004 Special Session Announcement
Evolutionary Computation in Cryptology and Computer Security
Julio Cesar Hernandez and Pedro Isasi
More information at: http://tracer.uc3m.es/cec2004ss.html
Techniques taken from the field of Evolutionary Computation (specially
Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming, but also others) are
steadily becoming more and more present in the area of cryptology and
computer security. In recent years, algorithms which take advantage of
approaches based on Evolutionary Computation have been proposed, for
example, in the design and analysis of a number of new cryptographic
primitives, ranging from pseudorandom number generators to block
ciphers, in the cryptanalysis of state-of-the-art cryptosystems, and
in the detection of network attacking patterns, to name a few. There
is a growing interest from the computer security community towards
Evolutionary Computation techniques, as a result of these recent
successes, but there still are a number of open problems in the field
that should be addressed. This special session will try to do it by
asking for submissions in all areas of evolutionary computation
dealing with applications to computer security, and by giving the
interested researchers an opportunity to review the current
state-of-art of the topic, exchange recent ideas, and explore
promising new directions.
Pedro Isasi
Artificial Intelligence Group
Carlos III University
Avda. Universidad, 30
28911 Leganés, Madrid, Spain
Tel: +34 91 624 94 55
Fax: +34 91 624 91 29
Julio Cesar Hernandez
Computer Security Group
Carlos III University
Avda. Universidad, 30
28911 Leganés, Madrid, Spain
Tel: +34 91 624 94 99
Fax: +34 91 624 91 29
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From: Eugene Eberbach <[email protected]>
Subject: CEC 2004: Evolutionary Design
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 06:14:21 -0500
CEC 2004 Special Session Announcement
Evolutionary Design
Ian Parmee
More information at: http://www.cs.unr.edu/~sushil/cec/#ED
The intention of the Special Session is to explore the integration of
evolutionary search, exploration and optimization across a wide
spectrum of design activities. The session intends to investigate the
manner in which evolutionary computation can be utilized to generate
design concepts and achieve meaningful designs in addition to more
standard evolutionary optimization processes. The manner in which EC
can be utilized to support decision-making and innovation during
preliminary design and novel EC strategies and problem representations
that best handle design complexity and support of human-centred
aspects are also of interest. It is likely that the development and
integration of appropriate evolutionary computing strategies may focus
upon engineering and architectural design. However, papers relating to
other areas such as drug design and discovery; software design; the
design of foodstuffs etc are also of significant interest. Papers
which identify and address generic design aspects that can
particularly benefit from EC application / integration and illustrate
EC potential in these areas are particularly encouraged. The following
areas would be of interest although the call is not limited to them:
* The integration of more deterministic design approaches and / or
other Computational Intelligence (CI) techniques with an evolutionary
design environment;
* The extraction and processing of evolutionary design data and its
visualization within appropriate designer interfaces;
* The application of novel evolutionary computing techniques and
strategies that address specific design / analysis problems of high
complexity;
* Human-centred aspects and interactive evolutionary design systems;
* Evolutionary search and exploration across uncertain /
poorly-defined design environments;
* Supporting innovative and creative design .
* Development and integration of aesthetic fitness measures.
* Multi-objective design satisfaction and optimization.
* Search and optimization within heavily constrained design domains;
* Reducing computational expense during detailed design, analysis
and optimisation.
* Evolutionary design systems involving high-performance and
distributed computing, problem-solving environments and grid-based
application;
Ian Parmee
Tel: ++44 117 344 3137
fax: ++44 117 344 2587
Advanced Computation in Design and Decision-making
CEMS
Frenchay Campus
University of the West of England
Bristol BS16 1QY
UK
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From: Eugene Eberbach <[email protected]>
Subject: CEC 2004: Evolutionary Optimization in Dynamic Environments
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 06:18:10 -0500
CEC 2004 Special Session Announcement
Evolutionary Optimization in Dynamic Environments
Dr. Shengxiang Yang and Juergen Branke
More information at: http://www.cs.unr.edu/~sushil/cec/#EODE
Many real-world optimization problems are non-deterministic and
subject to changes over time, either with respect to the objective
function, the decision variables, some environmental parameters, or a
combination thereof. For dynamic optimization problems, the goal of an
optimization algorithm is no longer to find a (stationary) optimal
solution, but instead to continuously track the optimum in the dynamic
environment. This presents serious challenges to traditional
optimization techniques as well as conventional evolutionary
algorithms. In recent years, solving dynamic optimization problems has
received an increasing interest from the evolutionary computation
community. A variety of approaches have been developed to address this
issue. The special session aims at bringing together researchers from
academia and industry to review the most recent advances, exchange
latest ideas and explore future directions in the field of EAs for
dynamic optimization problems. Topics of interest may include (but are
not limited to):
* Benchmark problems and performance measures
* Dynamic multi-objective optimization
* Adaptation, learning, and anticipation
* Search for robust solutions
* Comparative studies
* Hybrid approaches
* Theoretical analysis
* Real-world applications
Dr. Shengxiang Yang
Department of Computer Science
University of Leicester
University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, U.K.
Tel: +44(0)116 252 5341
Fax: +44(0)116 252 3915
WWW: http://www.cs.le.ac.uk/~syang
Juergen Branke
Institute AIFB,
University of Karlsruhe
76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
Tel: +49 (721) 608-6585
Fax: +49 (721) 693717
WWW: http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/~jbr/
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From: Mads Nielsen <[email protected]>
Subject: [Imageworld] PhD positions at ITU Copenhagen
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 16:05:06 +0100
The IT University of Copenhagen has open PhD-scholarships with
application deadline March 1st in, among others, the areas: Image
analysis, Computer vision, Medical Image analysis
Salary for applicants holding a M.Sc degree is approximately 2.900
Euro/month taxable.
The full vacancy notice can be found at
http://www.itu.dk/English/vacancies/
Mads Nielsen [email protected]
Professor ph +45 38 16 88 88/23
IT University Of Copenhagen mb +45 40 58 04 52
Glentevej 67, DK-2400 NV fx +45 38 16 88 99
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From: Giacomo Indiveri <[email protected]>
Subject: Neuromorphic Engineering Workshop Call for Applications
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 14:08:29 +0100
Neuromorphic Engineering Workshop
Call for Applications
Sunday, JUNE 27 - Saturday, JULY 17, 2004
TELLURIDE, COLORADO
Avis COHEN (University of Maryland)
Rodney DOUGLAS (Institute of Neuroinformatics, UNI/ETH Zurich,
Switzerland)
Ralph ETIENNE-CUMMINGS (Johns Hopkins University)
Timmer HORIUCHI (University of Maryland)
Giacomo INDIVERI (Institute of Neuroinformatics, UNI/ETH Zurich,
Switzerland)
Christof KOCH (California Institute of Technology)
Terrence SEJNOWSKI (Salk Institute and UCSD)
Shihab SHAMMA (University of Maryland)
We invite applications for a three week summer workshop that will be
held in Telluride, Colorado from Sunday, June 27 to Saturday, July 17,
2004. The application deadline is Friday, March 19, and application
instructions are described at the bottom of this document. The 2003
Workshop and Summer School on Neuromorphic Engineering, sponsored by
the National Science Foundation, the Whitaker Foundation, the Office
of Naval Research, the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency, and
by the Center for Neuromorphic Systems Engineering at the California
Institute of Technology, was an exciting event and a great success.
We strongly encourage interested parties to browse through the
previous workshop web pages.
GOALS:
Carver Mead introduced the term "Neuromorphic Engineering" for a new
field based on the design and fabrication of artificial neural
systems, such as vision systems, head-eye systems, and roving robots,
whose architecture and design principles are based on those of
biological nervous systems. The goal of this workshop is to bring
together young investigators and more established researchers from
academia with their counterparts in industry and national
laboratories, working on both neurobiological as well as engineering
aspects of sensory systems and sensory-motor integration. The focus of
the workshop will be on active participation, with demonstration
systems and hands on experience for all participants. Neuromorphic
engineering has a wide range of applications from nonlinear adaptive
control of complex systems to the design of smart sensors. Many of the
fundamental principles in this field, such as the use of learning
methods and the design of parallel hardware (with an emphasis on
analog and asynchronous digital VLSI), are inspired by biological
systems. However, existing applications are modest and the challenge
of scaling up from small artificial neural networks and designing
completely autonomous systems at the levels achieved by biological
systems lies ahead. The assumption underlying this three week workshop
is that the next generation of neuromorphic systems would benefit from
closer attention to the principles found through experimental and
theoretical studies of real biological nervous systems as whole
systems.
FORMAT:
The three week summer workshop will include background lectures on
systems neuroscience (in particular learning, oculo-motor and other
motor systems and attention), practical tutorials on analog VLSI design,
small mobile robots (Koalas, Kheperas, LEGO robots), hands-on projects,
and special interest groups. Participants are required to take part and
possibly complete at least one of the projects proposed. They are
furthermore encouraged to become involved in as many of the other
activities proposed as interest and time allow. There will be two
lectures in the morning that cover issues that are important to the
community in general. Because of the diverse range of backgrounds among
the participants, the majority of these lectures will be tutorials,
rather than detailed reports of current research. These lectures will be
given by invited speakers. Participants will be free to explore and play
with whatever they choose in the afternoon. Projects and interest groups
meet in the late afternoons, and after dinner. In the early afternoon
there will be tutorial on a wide spectrum of topics, including analog
VLSI, mobile robotics, auditory systems, central-pattern-generators,
selective attention mechanisms, etc.
Projects that are carried out during the workshop will be centered in a
number of working groups, including:
* active vision
* audition
* motor control
* central pattern generator
* robotics
* multichip communication
* analog VLSI
* learning
The active perception project group will emphasize vision and human
sensory-motor coordination. Issues to be covered will include spatial
localization and constancy, attention, motor planning, eye movements,
and the use of visual motion information for motor control. The
central pattern generator group will focus on small walking and
undulating robots. It will look at characteristics and sources of
parts for building robots, play with working examples of legged and
segmented robots, and discuss CPG's and theories of nonlinear
oscillators for locomotion. It will also explore the use of simple
analog VLSI sensors for autonomous robots.
The robotics group will use rovers and working digital vision boards
as well as other possible sensors to investigate issues of
sensorimotor integration, navigation and learning. The audition group
aims to develop biologically plausible algorithms and aVLSI
implementations of specific auditory tasks such as source localization
and tracking, and sound pattern recognition. Projects will be
integrated with visual and motor tasks in the context of a robot
platform.
The multichip communication project group will use existing interchip
communication interfaces to program small networks of artificial
neurons to exhibit particular behaviors such as amplification,
oscillation, and associative memory. Issues in multichip
communicationwill be discussed. This year we will also have some new
robots kindly donated by the WowWee Toys division of Hasbro in Hong
Kong. This will permit us to carry out experiments with WooWee/Hasboro
hardware through Mark Tilden. LOCATION AND ARRANGEMENTS:
The summer school will take place in the small town of Telluride, 9000
feet high in Southwest Colorado, about 6 hours drive away from Denver
(350miles). Great Lakes Aviation and America West Express airlines
provide daily flights directly into Telluride. All facilities within
the beautifully renovated public school building are fully accessible
to participants with disabilities. Participants will be housed in ski
condominiums, within walking distance of the school. Participants are
expected to share condominiums.
The workshop is intended to be very informal and
hands-on. Participants are not required to have had previous
experience in analog VLSI circuit design, computational or machine
vision, systems level neurophysiology or modeling the brain at the
systems level. However, we strongly encourage active researchers with
relevant backgrounds from academia, industry and national laboratories
to apply, in particular if they are prepared to work on specific
projects, talk about their own work or bring demonstrations to
Telluride (e.g. robots, chips, software). Internet access will be
provided. Technical staff present throughout the workshops will assist
with software and hardware issues. We will have a network of PCs
running LINUX and Microsoft Windows for the workshop projects. We also
plan to provide wireless internet access and encourage participants to
bring along their personal laptop.
No cars are required. Given the small size of the town, we recommend
that you do not rent a car. Bring hiking boots, warm clothes, rain
gear, and a backpack, since Telluride is surrounded by beautiful
mountains. Unless otherwise arranged with one of the organizers, we
expect participants to stay for the entire duration of this three week
workshop.
FINANCIAL ARRANGEMENT:
Notification of acceptances will be mailed out around mid April 2004.
Participants are expected to pay a $275.00 workshop fee at that time
in order to reserve a place in the workshop. The cost of a shared
condominium will be covered for all academic participants but upgrades
to a private room will cost extra. Participants from National
Laboratories and Industry are expected to pay for these condominiums.
Travel reimbursement of up to $500 for US domestic travel and up to
$800 for overseas travel will be possible if financial help is needed
(please specify on the application).
HOW TO APPLY:
Applicants should be at the level of graduate students or above
(i.e.postdoctoral fellows, faculty, research and engineering staff and
the equivalent positions in industry and national laboratories). We
actively encourage qualified women and minority candidates to apply.
Application should include:
* First name, Last name, Affiliation, valid e-mail address.
* Curriculum Vitae.
* One page summary of background and interests relevant to the
workshop.
* Two letters of recommendation.
Complete applications should be sent to:
Terrence Sejnowski
The Salk Institute
10010 North Torrey Pines Road
San Diego, CA 92037
e-mail: [email protected]
FAX: (858) 587 0417
The application deadline is March 19, 2004.
Applicants will be notified by e-mail around mid April.
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From: "Uwe Aickelin" <[email protected]>
Subject: Artificial Immune Systems Network
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 16:46:52 -0000
Announcement of New EPSRC Network for Artificial Immune Systems
(ARTIST)
An EPSRC network has recently been launched for the area of Artificial
Immune Systems (AIS). This is a new and exciting area of research,
that uses ideas from immunology to solve complex problems in computing
and engineering.
If you are interested in learning more about AIS, then we would like
to invite you to join the network - this can be done via the ARTIST
webpage at:
http://www.artificial-immune-systems.org/artist.htm
On this webpage you will find out about:
* Opportunities that ARTIST are providing for workshop.
* Funding mechanisms for researchers.
* Collation of AIS expertise, e.g. code repositories and test data.
* An on-line forum for the exchange of ideas.
* etc.
There are a number of workshops planned throughout the lifetime of
ARTIST, with the first one in May 2004. This workshop will focus on
how to get immunologists, mathematicians, computer scientists and
engineers all talking and working together. Financial support for
travel etc to the workshop will be available from ARTIST.
All are welcome to join, no matter what your area of research, or your
job. ARTIST is designed to be a truly interdisciplinary network. PhD
students are partially encouraged to join.
Please do visit the network website to learn more.
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From: Xindong Wu <[email protected]>
Subject: Knowl & Inform Sys: Volume 5 Contents (4 Issues)
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 10:43:37 -0500 (EST)
Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal
ISSN: 0219-1377 (printed version)
ISSN: 0219-3116 (electronic version)
by Springer-Verlag
Home Page: http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~kais
Abstracts and PDF Files:
http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/10115/tocs.htm or
http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/journals/10115/tocs.htm
VOL. 5 ISSUE 4
A General Approach to Clustering in Large Databases with Noise
pp. 387 - 415
Alexander Hinneburg, Daniel A. Keim
An Approximate Median Polish Algorithm for Large Multidimensional Data
Sets
pp. 416 - 438
Daniel Barbará, Xintao Wu
HDM: A Client/Server/Engine Architecture for Real-Time Web Usage
Mining
pp. 439 - 465
Florent Masseglia, Maguelonne Teisseire, Pascal Poncelet
A Method for Developing Component-Oriented Applications: A
Use-Context Driven Approach Toward Component Coordination
pp. 466 - 502
Mathee Olarnsakul, Dentcho N. Batanov
A Heuristic Genetic Algorithm for Solving Resource Allocation Problems
pp. 503 - 511
Zne-Jung Lee, Shun-Feng Su, Chou-Yuan Lee, et al.
VOL. 5 ISSUE 3
Web Site Synthesis Based on Computational Logic
pp. 263 - 287
João M. B. Cavalcanti, David Robertson
Database Technologies for L-System Simulations in Virtual Plant
Applications on Bioinformatics
pp. 288 - 314
Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen, Robert M. Colomb
Cell Histograms Versus Color Histograms for Image Representation and
Retrieval
pp. 315 - 336
Renato O. Stehling, Mario A. Nascimento, Alexandre X. Falcão
Compositional Verification of Knowledge-Based Task Models and
Problem-Solving Methods
pp. 337 - 367
Frank Cornelissen, Catholijn M. Jonker, Jan Treur
Modeling Spatial-Temporal Data with a Short Observation History
pp. 368 - 386
Dragoljub Pokrajac, Reed L. Hoskinson, Zoran Obradovic
VOL. 5 ISSUE 2
An Agenda- and Justification-Based Framework for Discovery Systems
pp. 133 - 161
Gary R. Livingston, John M. Rosenberg, Bruce G. Buchanan
Necessary and Sufficient Pre-processing in Numerical Range
Discretization
pp. 162 - 182
Tapio Elomaa, Juho Rousu
Discovering Similar Patterns for Characterizing Time Series in a Medical
Domain
pp. 183 - 200
Fernando Alonso, Juan P. Caraça-Valente, Loïc Martínez, et al.
Feature Weighting and Instance Selection for Collaborative Filtering: An
Information-Theoretic Approach*
pp. 201 - 224
Kai Yu, Xiaowei Xu, Martin Ester, et al.
A Methodology for Structural Conflict Resolution in the Integration of
Entity-Relationship Schemas
pp. 225 - 247
Mong Li Lee, Tok Wang Ling
Data Mining: How Research Meets Practical Development?
pp. 248 - 261
Xindong Wu, Philip S. Yu, Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, et al.
VOL. 5 ISSUE 1
Online First publication
p. 1
Xindong Wu and Christiane Notarmarco
Knowledge-Based System Explanation: The Ripple-Down Rules Alternative
pp. 2 - 25
Debbie Richards
Cost Estimation for Queries Experiencing Multiple Contention States in
Dynamic Multidatabase Environments
pp. 26 - 49
Qiang Zhu, Satyanarayana Motheramgari, Yu Sun
Maintaining Views in Object-Relational Databases
pp. 50 - 82
Jixue Liu, Millist W. Vincent, Mukesh Mohania
The Unified Problem-Solving Method Development Language UPML
pp. 83 - 131
Dieter Fensel, Enrico Motta, Frank van Harmelen, et al.
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