1st Call for participation
OBUPM-2001
OPTIMIZATION BY BUILDING AND USING
PROBABILISTIC MODELS 2001
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
Martin Pelikan and Kumara Sastry
to be held on Saturday, July 7, 2001
WORKSHOP SUMMARY
Algorithms that replace two-parent recombination of genetic
algorithms by building and simulating a probabilistic model
of promising solutions have received much attention over
the past years. The proposed methods resolve many problems
of other evolutionary algorithms and are increasingly used
to solve various problem of practical and theoretical importance.
Theory was designed to understand the dynamics of the algorithms
as well as their limits.
The purpose of this workshop is to
- review and describe the basic principles of discussed methods,
- present recent developments in the covered area of research,
- discuss current problems and future directions of research
in this area, and
- encourage communication among active researchers in the area
and other participants.
The length of the workshop is 4 hours. The workshop will start
by an introduction to the field by Martin Pelikan. This will be
followed by about 5-7 presentations. The workshop will finish
with a panel discussion.
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://www-illigal.ge.uiuc.edu/obupm2001/index.html
IMPORTANT DATES (subject to change)
Paper submission deadline: February 15, 2001
Decisions will be mailed by: April 1, 2001
Submissions of camera-ready papers: April 20, 2001
WORKSHOP CHAIRS
Martin Pelikan
Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory
117 Transportation Building
104 S. Mathews Ave.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, IL 61801
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tel/Fax: (217) 333-2346, (217) 244-5705
Kumara Sastry
Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory
117 Transportation Building
104 S. Mathews Ave.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, IL 61801
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tel/Fax: (217) 333-2346, (217) 244-5705
ATTENDANCE
Attendance to the workshop is open to all GECCO attendees.
Further information will be posted on the workshop web pages
(www-illigal.ge.uiuc.edu/obupm2001/index.html) as it becomes
available.
We are looking forward to your participation at the second
workshop OBUPM-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 using probabilistic models for a more powerful
recombination.
