Dear researcher, as a continuation of workshops at previous GECCOs, we would like to invite papers from the areas of Adaptation, Approximation, and Learning in Evolutionary Computation for submission to our GECCO 2004 workshop.
Please find below the CFP. More information can be found at http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/jirio/GECCO-2004/ Best regards Jiri Ocenasek, Sibylle Mueller, Stefan Kern, Nikolaus Hansen & Petros Koumoutsakos ----------------------------------- GECCO-2004 Workshop Call for Papers ----------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Adaptation, Approximation, and Learning in Evolutionary Computation ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- to be held as part of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) Seattle, Washington USA June 26-30, 2004 (Saturday - Wednesday) http://www.isgec.org/gecco-2004/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DESCRIPTION OF THE WORKSHOP TOPIC: The goal of introducing learning to EAs to enhance their efficiency has quite some history: In evolution strategies (ES), this form of learning is usually referred to as 'adaptation' and was developed since the beginnings of ES in the 1970's. In genetic algorithms (GA), the learning is called 'estimation of distribution' or 'learning probability distributions' and has been the subject of intensive research starting in the 1990's. Moreover, in the last years the topic of learning functions, called 'approximation', has gained increasing attention from many researchers. Although belonging to the same community, there has not been so much interaction between the researchers from the different fields to work together towards an increasing efficiency of their algorithms. However, the underlying ideas are often similar. Therefore, we propose to bring together researchers from the field of ES and GA to discuss their ideas. Under the unifying concept of learning, we hope that this exchange will result in interesting new ideas and will lead to novel, rigorous and efficient algorithms. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP AND PAPER FORMAT: The workshop will run for half a day. The program will include: o 1-2 presentation by invited speakers o paper presentations (each about 20 minutes) o Panel discussion: "Summary and future work" Please see the GECCO 2004 paper submission details for the format of the papers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES: March 21 Paper submission (from 4 to 10 pages, only PDF accepted). Please send your paper to Jiri Ocenasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). April 5 Notification of paper acceptance/rejection. April 14 Camera ready paper (only PDF accepted). June 27 Workshop in Seattle. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS: Jiri Ocenasek, Sibylle Mueller, Stefan Kern, Nikolaus Hansen, Petros Koumoutsakos Contact person: Dr. Jiri Ocenasek Computational Lab & Institute of Computational Science Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zuerich ETH Zentrum, HRS H9 CH-8092 Zuerich Switzerland Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +41 1 632 6410 Fax: +41 1 632 1703 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
