1st Call for participation
ROPNET-2001
REPRESENTAITONS AND OPERATORS FOR
NETWORK PROBLEMS
Bird-of-a-feather Workshop
at the
Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2001
( GECCO-2001 )
San Francisco, California, July 7 - 11, 2001 (Saturday - Wednesday)
A recombination of
the Sixth Annual Genetic Programming Conference (GP-2001) and
the International Conference on Genetic Algorithms (ICGA-2001)
organized by
Franz Rothlauf
to be held on Saturday, July 7, 2001
WORKSHOP SUMMARY
Finding good solutions for network design problems is important in many fields
such as telecommunications, computer, backbone access, transportation and
distribution networks. Over the last years genetic algorithms have been
applied with success to a wide variety of these different problems. One of the
major design issues is how the network could be represented as an artificial
chromosome and what kind of operators could be defined on the chromosome.
The workshop is intended to give an overview over the existing approaches
and to discuss various representations and operators in the context of
genetic and evolutionary computation. It should compare theoretical properties
and empirical performance characteristics of different representations and
operators and try to find explanations for performance differences of a genetic
algorithm. The workshop will be focused on representations and operators for
network problems, but it welcomes interesting contributions to encoding issues
that are meaningful for network representations.
PARTICIPATION
Presentations will be selected according to the submitted 10-page
papers which will be reviewed by at least two members of the
international program committee. Accepted papers will be available
in electronic form before the workshop. Abbreviated versions of
the papers will be later published in the workshop proceedings.
The length of each paper will be determined by the number of
accepted papers.
For more detailed submission guidelines and recent updates,
see the workshop pages at
http://btw6x2.oec.uni-bayreuth.de/ropnet/
IMPORTANT DATES (subject to change)
Paper submission deadline: March 1, 2001
Decisions will be mailed by: April 1, 2001
Submissions of camera-ready papers: April 20, 2001
WORKSHOP CHAIR
Franz Rothlauf
Department of Information Systems
University of Bayreuth
95445 Bayreuthn
Germany
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tel/Fax: +49 921 55 2819, +49 921 55 2216
Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory
104 S. Mathews Ave.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, IL 61801
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
ATTENDANCE
Attendance to the workshop is open to all GECCO attendees.
Further information will be posted on the workshop web pages
( http://btw6x2.oec.uni-bayreuth.de/ropnet/ ) as soon as it becomes
available.
We are looking forward to your participation at the first
workshop ROPNET-2001 which is a great opportunity to meet and
discuss the covered topics for researchers in this area of
research as well as the ones who would like to learn more
about representations and networks.
