Dear Colleague,
We are soliciting papers for the following Birds-of-a-feather workshop
on Coevolution to be held at GECCO-2001.
We are looking forward to your participation.
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1st Call for Papers
COEVOLUTION:
TURNING ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS UPON THEMSELVES
Birds-of-a-feather Workshop
at the
Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2001 ( GECCO-2001 )
San Francisco, California, July 7 - 11, 2001 (Saturday - Wednesday)
organized by
Richard K. Belew & Hugues Juill�
http://www.eurobios.com/GECCO-2001/
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WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
Coevolution has now been observed within natural populations for
almost 50 years, and exploited in computer simulations for a decade.
Applications of coevolutionary search (e.g., in optimization,
evolutionary robotics and adaptive agents) make it seem that some of
the same mechanisms which have allowed natural evolution to achieve
the complex living systems we know today can be captured in an
algorithmic framework. However, it seems that coevolution has never
reached the level of promise that one would have expected following
the initial encouraging experiments. Also, subsequent analysis makes
it appears that the reasons for successes that have been achieved are
not always clearly understood.
The purpose of that workshop is twofold. First, we will compare
researchers' views of coevolution and make explicit the important
issues associated with the study of coevolution. Our goals are to
adopt a shared system of technical definitions, and to then identify
classes of problems for which a coevolutionary approach offers a
definitive advantage for improving search over other
approaches. Underlying this approach is the analysis of the heuristics
embedded in coevolutionary frameworks that make them more effective.
Second, we will consider coevolution in the context of open-ended
(a.k.a. exogenous, emergent) adaptation. Coevolution has been
proposed as the solution to problems like self-learning and the
generation of solutions to progressively more difficult problems. But
computational learning theory seems to imply intrinsic limits on the
effectiveness of any learning algorithm presented with finite data.
Should coevolution be considered just one more method for controlling
search, or are there opportunities for breakthroughs based on the
exploitation of coevolutionary frameworks? Given evidence of
coevolutionary "arms-race" in natural environments, what might this
say about distributions of "natural" vs. "artificial" training sets?
PARTICIPATION AND SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Papers exploring computational aspects of coevolution from theoretic
or empirical perspectives are solicited. All submissions will be
reviewed by members of the international program committee, and accepted
papers will be published as part of the workshop proceedings. The
workshop event itself will include brief presentation by authors of
accepted papers, but also allow ample time to explore coevolutionary
topics of mutual interest.
For more detailed submission guidelines and recent updates, see
the workshop pages at:
http://www.eurobios.com/GECCO-2001/
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission deadline: February 25, 2001
Notification of acceptance: April 7, 2001
Submission of camera-ready papers: April 21, 2001
Workshop: July 7, 2001
ORGANIZERS
Richard K. Belew
Computer Science & Engr. Dept. (0114)
University of California - San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093-0114
USA
e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hugues Juill�
Eurobios
Tour Ernst & Young
92037 La D�fense cedex
France
e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
