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From: Human Competitive CFP GECCO 2005 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Thursday, November 11, 2004, 2:57:05 AM
Subject: CALL FOR ENTRIES FOR $10,000 HUMAN-COMPETITIVE AWARDS IN GENETIC AND
EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION
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CALL FOR ENTRIES FOR
$10,000 HUMAN-COMPETITIVE AWARDS FOR 2005 IN
GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION
http://www.human-competitive.org
Techniques of genetic and evolutionary computation are being
increasingly applied to difficult real-world problems—often yielding
results that are not merely interesting and impressive, but
competitive with the work of creative and inventive humans.
At the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) in
Seattle in June 2004, $5,000 in 2004 awards for human-competitive
results were awarded for six human-competitive results that had been
produced by some form of genetic and evolutionary computation in the
previous year. These six results brought the total number of known and
identified human-competitive results produced by genetic and
evolutionary computation to 43 (as of November 2004). For the 11
entries in 2004,
visit http://www.genetic-programming.org/gecco2004hc.html
Entries are now being solicited for awards totaling $10,000 for 2005
awards for human-competitive results that have been produced by any
form of genetic and evolutionary computation (e.g., genetic algorithms,
genetic programming, evolution strategies, evolutionary programming,
learning classifier systems, grammatical evolution, etc.) and that are
published in the open literature between July 1, 2004 and the deadline
for 2005 entries of Monday June 20, 2005.
The publication may be a GECCO paper (i.e., regular paper, poster
paper, or late-breaking paper) or a paper published elsewhere in the
open literature (e.g., journal, another conference, technical report,
thesis, book, book chapter) or a paper that has been unconditionally
accepted in final form and is “in press.”.
An automatically created result is “human-competitive” if it satisfies
at least one of the eight criteria below.
(A) The result was patented as an invention in the past, is an
improvement over a patented invention, or would qualify today as a
patentable new invention.
(B) The result is equal to or better than a result that was accepted as
a new scientific result at the time when it was published in a peer-
reviewed scientific journal.
(C) The result is equal to or better than a result that was placed into
a database or archive of results maintained by an internationally
recognized panel of scientific experts.
(D) The result is publishable in its own right as a new scientific
result, independent of the fact that the result was mechanically
created.
(E) The result is equal to or better than the most recent human-created
solution to a long-standing problem for which there has been a
succession of increasingly better human-created solutions.
(F) The result is equal to or better than a result that was considered
an achievement in its field at the time it was first discovered.
(G) The result solves a problem of indisputable difficulty in its
field.
(H) The result holds its own or wins a regulated competition involving
human contestants (in the form of either live human players or
human-written computer programs).
At the 2005 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference
(GECCO-2005) to be held in Washington, DC on June 25–29 (Saturday-
Wednesday), 2005, short oral presentations (probably 10 minutes) by
the finalists will be heard by an awards committee and conference
attendees at a special session (probably 2 hours). If the number of
entries exceed 11, the awards committee (or a subcommittee thereof)
will create a short list of about 11 finalists who will be invited to
make oral presentations. The oral presentation should primarily focus
on why the result qualifies as being human-competitive and secondarily
on the nature of the work itself. The presenting author for each entry
must register for the GECCO.
After the oral presentations, the award committee will meet and
consider the presentations. The awards and prizes will be announced
and presented at a to-be-announced at the Wednesday morning plenary
session during the GECCO-2005 Conference (GECCO).
The 2005 judging committee will include
· Wolfgang Banzhaf (Editor-in-Chief of Genetic Programming and
Evolvable Hardware journal)
· David Goldberg (past chair of International Society of
Genetic and Evolutionary Computation)
· Erik Goodman (chair of International Society of
Genetic and Evolutionary Computation)
· Riccardo Poli (GECCO-2004 Chair)
· Una-May O’Reilly (GECCO-2005 Chair)
The prize fund will be divided, as the committee decides, among the
entries. Every new result deemed by the committee to be
human-competitive for the past year will get some cash award.
Depending on the committee’s evaluation of the relative merit of the
entries, the prize fund may be divided equally or may be divided so as
to reflect a ranking among the results deemed to be human-competitive.
The committee will divide the prize money equally among co-authors.
Authors are encouraged to nominate their own work. Anyone may call the
committee’s attention to particular work by making an entry on behalf
of someone else.
No member of the awards committee may be associated with any entry
(e.g., academic advisor, collaborator, co-author). No cash prize
may be awarded to anyone employed by the company donating the prize
funds (i.e., Third Millennium On-Line Products Inc.); however, a result
may be entered by such person.
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Carlos Gershenson...
Centrum Leo Apostel, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Krijgskundestraat 33. B-1160 Brussels, Belgium
http://homepages.vub.ac.be/~cgershen/
"Describing and understanding problems will not solve them..."
