From owner-gann-list Mon Jul 3 16:35:30 1995 Received: (from mdomo@localhost) by cs.iastate.edu (8.6.10/8.6.9) id QAA25783 for gann-list-outgoing; Mon, 3 Jul 1995 16:12:30 -0500 Received: from ren.cs.iastate.edu (ren.cs.iastate.edu [129.186.3.41]) by cs.iastate.edu (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id QAA25778 for ; Mon, 3 Jul 1995 16:12:27 -0500 From: GANN List Admin Received: (gannadm@localhost) by ren.cs.iastate.edu (8.6.10/8.6.9) id QAA12602 for gann-list@cs.iastate.edu; Mon, 3 Jul 1995 16:12:26 -0500 Reply-To: stefano@kant.irmkant.rm.cnr.it X-Originator: stefano@kant.irmkant.rm.cnr.it Date: Mon, 3 Jul 1995 17:28:19 GMT Message-Id: <9507031728.AA14044@kant.irmkant.rm.cnr.it> To: gann@cs.iastate.edu Subject: two papers on evolutionary robotics Sender: owner-gann-list@cs.iastate.edu Precedence: bulk Papers available via WWW / FTP: Keywords: Evolutionary Robotics, Neural Networks, Genetic Algorithms, Autonomous Robots, Noise. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EVOLVING NON-TRIVIAL BEHAVIORS ON REAL ROBOTS: AN AUTONOMOUS ROBOT THAT PICK UP OBJECTS Stefano Nolfi Domenico Parisi ***Institute of Psychology, National Research Council, Rome, Italy e-mail: stefano@kant.irmkant.rm.cnr.it domenico@kant.irmkant.rm.cnr.it Abstract Recently, a new approach that involves a form of simulated evolution has been proposed for the building of autonomous robots. However, it is still not clear if this approach may be adequate to face real life problems. In this paper we show how control systems that perform a non-trivial sequence of behaviors can be obtained with this methodology by carefully designing the conditions in which the evolutionary process operates. In the experiment described in the paper, a mobile robot is trained to locate, recognize, and grasp a target object. The controller of the robot has been evolved in simulation and then downloaded and tested on the real robot. to appear in: G. Soda (Ed.) Proceedings of the Fourth Congress of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, Firenze, 11-13 October, Springer Verlag. http://kant.irmkant.rm.cnr.it/public.html or ftp-server: kant.irmkant.rm.cnr.it (150.146.7.5) ftp-file : nolfi.gripper.ps.Z (the file is 0.36 MB) for the homepage of our research group: http://kant.irmkant.rm.cnr.it/gral.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- EVOLVING MOBILE ROBOTS IN SIMULATED AND REAL ENVIRONMENTS Orazio Miglino*, Henrik Hautop Lund**, Stefano Nolfi*** *Department of Psychology, University of Palermo, Italy e-mail: orazio@caio.irmkant.rm.cnr.it **Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University, Denmark e-mail: henrik@caio.irmkant.rm.cnr.it ***Institute of Psychology, National Research Council, Rome, Italy e-mail: stefano@kant.irmkant.rm.cnr.it Abstract The problem of the validity of simulation is particularly relevant for methodologies that use machine learning techniques to develop control systems for autonomous robots, like, for instance, the Artificial Life approach named Evolutionary Robotics. In fact, despite that it has been demonstrated that training or evolving robots in the real environment is possible, the number of trials needed to test the system discourage the use of physical robots during the training period. By evolving neural controllers for a Khepera robot in computer simulations and then transferring the obtained agents in the real environment we will show that: (a) an accurate model of a particular robot-environment dynamics can be built by sampling the real world through the sensors and the actuators of the robot; (b) the performance gap between the obtained behaviors in simulated and real environment may be significantly reduced by introducing a "conservative" form of noise; (c) if a decrease in performance is observed when the system is transferred to the real environment, successful and robust results can be obtained by continuing the evolutionary process in the real environment for few generations. Technical Report, Institute of Psychology, C.N.R, Rome. http://kant.irmkant.rm.cnr.it/public.html or ftp-server: kant.irmkant.rm.cnr.it (150.146.7.5) ftp-file : miglino.sim-real.ps.Z (the file is 2.67 MB) for the homepage of our research group: http://kant.irmkant.rm.cnr.it/gral.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stefano Nolfi Institute of Psychology National Research Council e-mail: stefano@kant.irmkant.rm.cnr.it From owner-gann-list Tue Jul 11 00:29:41 1995 Received: (from mdomo@localhost) by cs.iastate.edu (8.6.10/8.6.9) id AAA13775 for gann-list-outgoing; Tue, 11 Jul 1995 00:12:57 -0500 Received: from ren.cs.iastate.edu (ren.cs.iastate.edu [129.186.3.41]) by cs.iastate.edu (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id AAA13770 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 1995 00:12:54 -0500 From: GANN List Admin Received: (gannadm@localhost) by ren.cs.iastate.edu (8.6.10/8.6.9) id AAA07860 for gann-list@cs.iastate.edu; Tue, 11 Jul 1995 00:12:53 -0500 Reply-To: Nuno Joao Mamede X-Originator: Nuno Joao Mamede Message-Id: <199507102039.VAA28816@cupido.inesc.pt> X-Authentication-Warning: cupido.inesc.pt: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: gann@cs.iastate.edu Subject: EPIA'95: preliminary program Date: Mon, 10 Jul 95 21:39:15 +0100 X-Mts: smtp Sender: owner-gann-list@cs.iastate.edu Precedence: bulk EPIA'95 - PRELIMINARY PROGRAM SEVENTH PORTUGUESE CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Casino Park Hotel, Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal 3-6 October, 1995 (Under the auspices of the Portuguese Association for AI) The 7th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence will be held at Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal, October 3-6, 1995. As in the past, EPIA 95 is an international conference with English as the official language. The conference covers all areas of Artificial Intelligence, including theoretical areas, foundational areas, and applications. The scientific program consists of invited lectures, tutorials, demonstrations and paper presentations. There will also be parallel workshops on Expert Systems, Fuzzy Logic and Neural Networks, and Applications of AI to Robotics and Vision Systems. ====================================================================== PRELIMINARY PROGRAM (Summary) ====================================================================== Tuesday - October, 3 95 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 9:00 - 12:30 TUTORIAL 1 - Artificial Life and Autonomous Robots Luc Steels 9:00 - 12:30 TUTORIAL 3 - Introduction to Artificial Intelligence Ernesto Costa (in Portuguese) 14:30 - 18:00 TUTORIAL 2 - Virtual Reality - The AI perspective 14:30 - 18:00 TUTORIAL 4 - Design of Expert Systems Ernesto Morgado (in Portuguese) Wednsday - October, 4 95 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 9:00 - 9:40 OPENING SESSION 9:40 - 10:30 QUALITATIVE REASONING 10:30 - 10:50 Coffee break 10:50 - 12:30 NEURAL NETWORKS & DISTRIBUTED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 10:50 - 12:30 FUZZY LOGIC & NEURAL NETWORKS WORKSHOP 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch 14:00 - 15:30 Invited Lecture by LUIS B. ALMEIDA (IST - Portugal) "The Connectionist Paradigm and AI" 15:30 - 15:50 Coffee break 15:50 - 17:55 BELIEF REVISION & NON-MONOTONIC REASONING 15:50 - 17:55 FUZZY LOGIC & NEURAL NETWORKS WORKSHOP 15:50 - 17:55 APPLICATIONS OF EXPERT SYSTEMS WORKSHOP 20:00 - Welcome dinner Thursday - October, 5 95 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 9:00 - 10:30 Invited Lecture by RODNEY BROOKS (MIT - USA) "The Evolutionist Approach - Past, Present and Future of AI" 10:30 - 10:50 Coffee break 10:50 - 12:30 FUZZY LOGIC & NEURAL NETWORKS WORKSHOP 10:50 - 12:30 APPLICATIONS OF EXPERT SYSTEMS WORKSHOP 10:50 - 11:40 ROBOTICS AND CONTROL 11:40 - 12:30 POSTER SECTION 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch 14:00 - 15:15 MACHINE LEARNING 14:00 - 15:15 APPLICATIONS OF AI TO ROBOTICS AND VISION SYSTEMS WORKSHOP 15:15 - 15:30 Coffee break 15:30 - 17:00 Invited Lecture by MARVIN MINSKY (MIT - USA) "Why Human Brains Can't Really Think" 17:15 - 18:30 Visit to the Madeira Wine Cellars Friday - October, 6 95 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 9:00 - 10:30 INVITED LECTURE by Manuela Veloso (CMU - USA) "Planning and Learning in Intelligent Agents" 10:30 - 10:50 Coffee break 10:50 - 12:30 PLANNING AND CASE-BASED REASONING 10:50 - 12:30 CONSTRAINT-BASED REASONING 10:50 - 12:30 APPLICATIONS OF AI TO ROBOTICS AND VISION SYSTEMS WORKSHOP 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch 14:00 - 15:30 AUTOMATED REASONING AND THEOREM PROVING 14:00 - 15:30 GENETIC ALGORITHMS & THEORY OF COMPUTATION 14:00 - 15:30 APPLICATIONS OF AI TO ROBOTICS AND VISION SYSTEMS WORKSHOP 15:30 - 15:50 Coffee break 15:50 - 17:30 PANNEL (Foundations of AI) 18:00 - 19:00 APPIA meeting 20:00 Farewell dinner Saturday - October, 7 95 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TOUR 1 - Island Tour (full day) TOUR 2 - Ribeiro Frio/Portela Walking Tour (full day) TOUR 3 - Eira do Serrado (half day) ====================================================================== PAPERS TO BE PRESENTED IN EACH SESSION ====================================================================== AUTOMATED REASONING AND THEOREM PROVING ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Terminological Meta-Reasoning by Reification and Multiple Contexts Klemens Schnattinger, Udo Hahn and Manfred Klenner CLIF, Freiburg University, Germany A New Continuous Propositional Logic Riccardo Poli, Mark Ryan and Aaron Sloman SCS, The University of Birmingham, UK Super-Polynomial Speed-Ups in Proof Length by New Tautologies Uwe Egly FG Intellektik, TH Darmstadt, Germany BELIEF REVISION ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Belief Revision in Non-Monotonic Reasoning Jose Alferes, Luis Moniz Pereira and T. Przymusinski DM, U. Evora, and CRIA, U. Nova de Lisboa, Portugal A New Representation of JTMS Truong Quoc Dung IRIDIA, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium CONSTRAINT-BASED REASONING ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Retrieval Problem in a Concept Language with Number Restrictions Aida Vitoria, Margarida Mamede and Luis Monteiro DI, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Formalizing Local Propagation in Constraint Maintenance Systems Gilles Trombettoni INRIA-CERMICS, France A Dependency Parser of Korean Based on Connectionist/Symbolic Techniques Jong-Hyeok Lee and Geunbae Lee Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea A Symbiotic Approach to Arc and Path Consistency Checking Pierre Berlandier INRIA-CERMICS, France DISTRIBUTED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Adoption, Derivation and Evolution Graca Gaspar and Helder Coelho Faculdade de Ciencias de Lisboa, and INESC, Portugal A Closer Look to Artificial Learning Environments Helder Coelho, Augusto Eusebio and Ernesto Costa INESC, Portugal, and DEI, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Building Multi-Agent Societies from Descriptions to Systems: Inter-Layer Translations Helder Coelho, Luis Antunes and Luis Moniz INESC, Portugal GENETIC ALGORITHMS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ System Jose Ramon Zubizarreta and Javier Arrieta Facultad de Informatica de San Sebastian, Spain MACHINE LEARNING ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A Controlled Experiment: Evolution for Learning Difficult Image Classification Astro Teller and Manuela Veloso Carnegie Mellon University, USA Minimal Model Complexity Search Chris McConnell CMU School of Computer Science, USA Characterization of Classification Algorithms Joao Gama and Pavel Brazdil LIACC, Universidade do Porto, Portugal NEURAL NETWORKS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Neurons, Glia and the Borderline Between Subsymbolic and Symbolic Processing J. G. Wallace, K. Bluff Swinburne University of Technology, Australia NON-MONOTONIC REASONING ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Arguments and Defeat in Argument-Based Nonmonotonic Reasoning Bart Verheij University of Limburg, The Netherlands A Preference Semantics for Ground Nonmonotonic Modal Logics Daniele Nardi and Riccardo Rosati DIS, Universita di Roma ``la Sapienza", Italy Logical Omniscience vs. Logical Ignorance On a Dilemma of Epistemic Logic Ho Ngoc Duc ILPS, University of Leipzig, Germany PLANNING AND CASE-BASED REASONING ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On the Role of Splitting and Merging Past Cases for Generation of New Solutions Carlos Bento, Penousal Machado and Ernesto Costa DEI, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Theorem Proving by Analogy - A Compelling Example Erica Melis Department of AI, University of Edimburgh, Scotland Non-Atomic Actions in the Situation Calculus Jose Julio Alferes, Renwei Li and Luis Moniz Pereira CRIA and DCS, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Planning under Uncertainty: A Qualitative Approach Nikos Karacapilidis FIT.KI, GMD, Sankt Augustin, Germany QUALITATIVE REASONING ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Qualitative Reasoning under Uncertainty Daniel Pacholczyk DMI, U.F.R., Science d'Angers, France Systematic Construction of Qualitative Physics-Based Rules for Process Diagnostics Jaques Reifman and Thomas Y.C. Wei Argonne National Laboratory, USA ROBOTICS AND CONTROL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Integrated Process Supervision (IPS): A Structured Approach to Expert Control Chai Quek, P.W. Ng, M. Pasquier Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Using Stochastic Grammars to Learn Robotic Tasks Pedro Lima and George Saridis ISR, Technical Univ. of Lisbon, Portugal, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA THEORY OF COMPUTATION ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Constraint Categorial Grammars Luis Damas and Nelma Moreira LIACC, Universidade do Porto, Portugal A New Translation Algorithm from Lambda Calculus into Combinatory Logic Sabine Broda and Luis Damas LIACC, Universidade do Porto, Portugal POSTER SECTION ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Interlocking Multi-Agent and Blackboard Architectures Bernhard Kipper DCS, University of Saarbrucken, Germany A Model Theory for Paraconsistent Logic Programming Carlos Viegas Damasio and Luis Moniz Pereira CRIA, and DCS, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Promoting Software Reuse Through Explicit Knowledge Representation Carmen Fernandez-Chamizo, Pedro A. Gonzalez-Calero and Mercedes Gomez-Albarran Universidad Complutense, Spain Efficient Learning in Multi-Layered Perceptron Using the Grow-And-Learn Algorithm Gildas Cherruel, Bassel Solaiman and Yvon Autret Univ. de Bretagne Occidentale, and TNI, and ENSTB, France An Non-Diffident Combinatorial Optimization Algorithm Gilles Trombettoni and Bertrand Neveu INRIA-CERMICS, France Modelling Diagnosis Systems with Logic Programming Iara Mora, Jose Alferes CRIA, U. Nova de Lisboa, and DM, U. Evora, Portugal Agreement: A Logical Approach to Approximate Reasoning Luis Custodio and Carlos Pinto-Ferreira ISR, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal Constructing Extensions by Resolving a System of Linear Equations Messaoudi Nadia Universite Aix-Marseille II, France Presenting Significant Information in Expert System Explanation Michael Wolverton Daresbury Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK A Cognitive Model of Problem Solving with Incomplete Information Nathalie Chaignaud LIPN, Universite Paris-Nord, France Filtering Software Specifications Written In Natural Language Nuria Castell and Angels Hernandez Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain Parsimonious Diagnosis in SNePS Pedro A. Matos and Joao P. Martins DEM, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal Syntactic and Semantic Filtering in a Chart Parser Sayan Bhattacharyya, Steven L. Lytinen University of Michigan, and DePaul University, USA GA Approach to solving Multiple Vehicle Routing Problem Slavko Krajcar, Davor Skrlec, Branko Pribicevic and Snjezana Blagajac Faculty of Electrical Eng. and Computing, Croatia Multilevel Refinement Planning in an Interval-Based Temporal Logic Werner Stephan and Susanne Biundo German Research Center for AI, Germany ====================================================================== ENQUIRIES ADDRESS ====================================================================== EPIA'95 - INESC E-mail: epia95@inesc.pt Av. Alves Redol, 9 Fax: 351-1-525843 1000 Lisboa Voice: 351-1-3100325 PORTUGAL Home Page: http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt/~cpf/epia95 ====================================================================== SUPPORTERS ====================================================================== Banco Nacional Ultramarino Governo Regional da Madeira Instituto Superior Tecnico SISCOG - Sistemas Cognitivos INESC CITMA IBM TAPair Portugal =========================== Last Line ================================ From owner-gann-list Tue Jul 11 00:29:43 1995 Received: (from mdomo@localhost) by cs.iastate.edu (8.6.10/8.6.9) id AAA13802 for gann-list-outgoing; Tue, 11 Jul 1995 00:13:42 -0500 Received: from ren.cs.iastate.edu (ren.cs.iastate.edu [129.186.3.41]) by cs.iastate.edu (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id AAA13797 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 1995 00:13:38 -0500 From: GANN List Admin Received: (gannadm@localhost) by ren.cs.iastate.edu (8.6.10/8.6.9) id AAA10215 for gann-list@cs.iastate.edu; Tue, 11 Jul 1995 00:13:37 -0500 Reply-To: Nuno Joao Mamede X-Originator: Nuno Joao Mamede Message-Id: <199507102039.VAA28823@cupido.inesc.pt> X-Authentication-Warning: cupido.inesc.pt: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: gann@cs.iastate.edu Subject: EPIA'95: registration Date: Mon, 10 Jul 95 21:39:27 +0100 X-Mts: smtp Sender: owner-gann-list@cs.iastate.edu Precedence: bulk ====================================================================== EPIA'95 - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION SEVENTH PORTUGUESE CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Casino Park Hotel, Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal 3-6 October, 1995 (Under the auspices of the Portuguese Association for AI) The 7th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence will be held at Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal, October 3-6, 1995. As in the past, EPIA 95 is an international conference with English as the official language. The conference covers all areas of Artificial Intelligence, including theoretical areas, foundational areas, and applications. The scientific program consists of invited lectures, tutorials, demonstrations and paper presentations. There will also be parallel workshops on Expert Systems, Fuzzy Logic and Neural Networks, and Applications of AI to Robotics and Vision Systems. Invited Speakers ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Marvin Minsky (MIT - USA) "Why Human Brains Can't Really Think" Manuela Veloso (CMU - USA) "Planning and Learning in Intelligent Agents" Luis B. Almeida (IST - Portugal) "The Connectionist Paradigm and AI" Rodney Brooks (MIT - USA) "The Evolutionist Approach - Past, Present and Future of AI" Tutorials ~~~~~~~~~ T1 - Artificial Life and Autonomous Robots (3.10.95 AM) Luc Steels Artificial Life studies the phenomenon of life the same way AI studies intelligence: by building artificial systems that show the same capabilities as living systems. For a growing group of researchers in AI, there must be strong connections between the two disciplines, because they believe that the principles of living systems are a prerequisite for those of intelligent systems. This tutorial is intended for a general AI audience with no prior background in biology, Alife, or robotics. It gives an overview of research in Alife, the behavior-oriented approach to AI, and the biological significance of this research. T2 - Virtual Reality - The AI perspective (3.10.95 PM) The tutorial will examine the rapidly evolving field of Virtual Reality (VR) and explore the key role that AI could play in its future development. Participants will gain an understanding of the state of the art in VR hardware and systems, and an appreciation of the major areas in which it is being applied. With this background, the aim is to provoke interest and activity in the application of AI to VR through the development of: (1) automatons to populate virtual worlds alongside human participants; and (2) intelligent systems for creating virtual worlds from sensory images of the real world, in order to give the illusion of presence at a remote location. T3 - Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (in Portuguese - 3.10.95 AM) Ernesto Costa Artificial Intelligence is the enterprise of building intelligent agents. An intelligent agent is an entity that perceives, reasons about and acts upon the environment. We will start by briefly discussing the different paradigms (symbolic, connectionist, genetic, emergent) that had been proposed as approaches to the task of building such agents. We will then focus on the symbolic approach, showing how intelligence is the result of the interplay between knowledge and reasoning, and discussing the declarative, procedural and structured ways of dealing with knowledge representation and reasoning. We will conclude with simple examples from areas of learning, planning and natural language understanding. T4 - Design of Expert Systems (in Portuguese - 3.10.95 PM) Ernesto Morgado The objective of this tutorial is to introduce the key ideas about expert systems. What are the problems that require them? What makes expert systems different from other programs? What are the main techniques used by them? What are the different types of expert systems available today? How can they be integrated with other problems in the real world? How can they be developed successfully? These and many other aspects must be understood for someone who desires to develop expert systems in the real world. The Venue ~~~~~~~~~ Madeira is an island in the northern half of the Atlantic Ocean about 1,000 km from Lisbon. It is 57 km long and 22 km wide. The landscape is vernal and luxuriant: the rich flora, with its diversity of trees and flowers, exist in a truly sub-tropical environment. The population of the entire island is approximately 280,000, and that of the capital, Funchal, is approximately 140,000. Climate and Dress ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ At the beginning of October, the temperature ranges from 22C to 25C (72F to 77F) during the day, and 20C to 22C (68F to 72F) at night. Lightweight clothing is therefore recommended. However, if you plan to visit the mountain areas of the island, it is recommended that you bring a jacket. The island does receive rain from time to time during this part of the year, so it is advisable to bring an umbrella. Transport and Accommodations ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The trip from the airport to the hotels in Funchal is by bus. The round trip from the airport to the Congress Hotel is included in the conference fee only for those who make their airline reservations through JFM Tours - the EPIA 95 official travel agency. If you take a cab from the airport, be prepared to pay from 3000 PTE (daytime working days, without luggage) to around 5000 PTE for the trip from the airport terminal to the Casino Park Hotel. (Note that these are merely rough estimates.) All tickets issued by JFM Tours will not be restricted as to the minimum number of days of stay, and tickets can therefore be changed on request. Hotels ~~~~~~ Casino Park Hotel ------------------- The conference is held in Casino Park Hotel, which includes a casino and a conference center. It is one of the finest five-star hotels on the island. For your convenience, EPIA 95 has booked a limited number of rooms at reduced conference rates. As Funchal is a tourist city, you are strongly advised to reserve your room, by filling in the enclosed form, as early as possible. Accommodations for Students --------------------------- There is a limited number of available rooms for students in the Madeira Youth Hostel. Double rooms, and some collective rooms have private WCs. Reservations ------------ The reservation is considered to be effective when the payment for all the days of stay has been made. There are other hotels available near the conference center. The deadline for reservations is June 30. Rooms cannot be guaranteed if requests for reservations are received after that date. The deadline for refund requests is September 15. There will be a processing fee of PTE 7,500 fee on all refunds. Enquires and requests for accommodation forms should be directed to the EPIA 95 official travel agency: JFM Tours Av. das Comunidades Madeirenses, 15 9000 Funchal, PORTUGAL FAX: +351 (091) 230198 Voice: +351 (091) 220317 Social Program ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The conference program includes scheduled tours and visits for both the participants and their companions on Saturday, October 7 (Tour 1, Tour 2 and Tour 3). Other activities are scheduled on the conference days for the participants companions (Tour 4, Tour 5 and Tour 6). Tour 1 - Island Tour (7.10.95 full day) Departure from Funchal passing Camara de Lobos, a typical village, to Porto Moniz (passing Encumeada) where lunch will be served in a restaurant near to the volcanic rocks swimming pools. Return passing by Ponta Delgada, going on to Santana, where you can appreciate the colourful cottages. Return to Funchal passing by Ribeiro Frio and Monte. (4,550 PTE, including lunch). Tour 2 - Ribeiro Frio/Portela Walking Tour (7.10.95 full day) A relaxing "back to nature" walk along an old levada (irrigation channel). (PTE 4,300, including pic-nic). Tour 3 - Eira do Serrado (7.10.95 half day) Visit to Pico dos Barcelos to admire the view over the City of Funchal. Continue to Eira do Serrado, view point, overlooking the Valley of Curral das Freiras. On the way back to Funchal stop at Monte (PTE 3,200, including toboggan). Tour 4 - Tour in the city (03.10.95 AM) Visit to the farmers market, wine lodge, and an embroidery factory (PTE 1,320). Tour 5 - Pico do Areeiro Tour (04.10.95 AM) Visit to Monte, Pico do Areeiro, and Camacha - the centre of the wickerwork industry (PTE 1,580). Tour 6 - Museums (06.10.95 AM) Tour in the city, visiting museums and the Botanical garden (PTE 2,400, including entrance fees). Conference Dinners and a visit to a Madeira Wine Cellar ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Two conference dinners are included in the social program: welcome dinner (in town, on October 4, not included in the conference fee), and a farewell dinner (out of the town, on October 6, included in the conference fee, except for students for whom it is optional). A Madeira folklore group will perform during this dinner. The visit to a Madeira Wine Cellar is scheduled for October, 5. During this visit, participants and companions will be served a Madeira Wine. Shopping for wine can also be done during the visit. Conference Registration Form ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Please fill out the attached registration form and mail it with the corresponding conference fee to the address below for EPIA 95 enquiries. The registration fee covers your attendance at the conference, the conference proceedings, a copy of the working notes for the workshop (or tutorial) you attend, coffee breaks, and the farewell dinner. Method of Payment ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Payments can be made by check to the order of EPIA 95 or by credit card (Visa, American Express, MasterCard, Eurocard and Diners Club). All payments are in Portuguese Escudos (PTE). All refunds requests must be in writing and postmarked by September 15, 1995. A 7500 PTE processing fee will be levied on all refunds granted. No refunds will be granted after this date. Those registering as full-time students must include legible proof of their student status. Conference proceedings and farewell dinner are not included when applying reduced conference fee for students. Student Scholarships ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A limited number of student scholarships is available. To apply, you must submit proof of your full-time student status in a degree-bearing program, such as a letter from your faculty advisor or a copy of your current registration receipt. Note that student body cards will not suffice. These scholarships, aided by support from ACM SIGART, are intended to assist those who would not otherwise be able to attend the conference, and in particular, those students from the less well-off countries. To apply for a scholarship, please contact either of the conference co-chairs at the address for enquiries given below. Insurance ~~~~~~~~~ The EPIA 95 Committee can accept no liability for personal injuries, or for loss of or damage to property belonging to conference participants, either during or as a result of the conference. Program Committee ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Antonio Porto (Portugal) Luc Steels (Belgium) Benjamin Kuipers (USA) Luigia Aiello (Italy) Bernhard Nebel (Germany) Luis B. Almeida (Portugal) Erik Sandewall (Sweden) Luis Monteiro (Portugal) Ernesto Costa (Portugal) Manuela Veloso (USA) Helder Coelho (Portugal) Maria Cravo (Portugal) Joao P. Martins (Portugal) Miguel Filgueiras (Portugal) John Self (UK) Yoav Shoham (USA) Jose Carmo (Portugal) Yves Kodratoff (France) Laurie Carlson (Finland) Conference & Program Co-Chairs ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Carlos Pinto-Ferreira Nuno Joao Mamede Instituto Superior Tecnico Instituto Superior Tecnico ISR, Av. Rovisco Pais INESC, Apartado 13069 1000 Lisboa, Portugal 1000 Lisboa, Portugal Voice: +351 (1) 8418270 Voice: +351 (1) 3100234 Fax: +351 (1) 8418291 Fax: +351 (1) 525843 E-mail: cpf@isr.isr.ist.utl.pt E-mail: Nuno.Mamede@inesc.pt Enquiries Address ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ EPIA'95 - INESC E-mail: epia95@inesc.pt Av. Alves Redol, 9 Fax: 351-1-525843 1000 Lisboa Voice: 351-1-3100325 PORTUGAL Home Page: http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt/~cpf/epia95 Supporters ~~~~~~~~~~ Banco Nacional Ultramarino Governo Regional da Madeira Instituto Superior Tecnico SISCOG - Sistemas Cognitivos INESC CITMA IBM TAPair Portugal ====================================================================== EPIA'95 REGISTRATION FORM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Return the following form (by email, fax or mail) to: E-mail: epia95@inesc.pt EPIA'95 (INESC) Rua Alves Redol 9 FAX: (351-1) 525843 Apartado 13069 1000 Lisboa, PORTUGAL PARTICIPANT (Please print legibly and use one form per participant) ~~~~~~~~~~~ Name: ________________________________________________________________ University/Comp.: ____________________________________________________ Address: _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ ZIP Code: ____________________________________________________________ Country: _____________________________________________________________ E-mail: ______________________________________________________________ Phone: _______________________________________________________________ Fax: _________________________________________________________________ Accompanying Person: _________________________________________________ Registration FEEs (in Portuguese Escudos (PTE), including VAT) CONFERENCE ~~~~~~~~~~ +-----------------------------------------------+ | Early | Late | | | Registration | Registration | | | | | On-Site | | Rec. before | Rec. before | Registration | | June, 30 | Sept., 20 | | +---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------| | Student | 9 000 | 12 000 | 15 000 | | | (proceedings and Farewell dinner NOT included)| |---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------| | Student | 20 000 | 25 000 | 30 000 | |---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------| | University | 35 000 | 45 000 | 55 000 | |---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------| | Regular | 50 000 | 65 000 | 75 000 | +---------------------------------------------------------------+ All tutorial attendees and workshop participants have to register in the conference. 1 x ________ = _________ WORKSHOPS (each) ~~~~~~~~~ +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | Student | 3 500 | 4 500 | 6 000 | |---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------| | University | 5 000 | 7 000 | 9 000 | |---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------| | Regular | 7 500 | 9 000 | 12 500 | +---------------------------------------------------------------+ [ ] Applications of Expert Systems [ ] Fuzzy Logic and Neural Networks [ ] Robotics and Vision Systems ___ workshops x ________ = _________ TUTORIALS (each) ~~~~~~~~~ +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | Student | 3 000 | 4 000 | 5 000 | |---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------| | University | 4 000 | 5 000 | 7 000 | |---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------| | Regular | 5 000 | 7 000 | 9 000 | +---------------------------------------------------------------+ [ ] Artificial Life (AM) [ ] Virtual Reallity(PM) [ ] Introduction to AI (AM) (in Portuguese) [ ] Design of Expert Systems (PM) (in Portuguese) ___ tutorials x ________ = _________ GRAND TOTAL = _________ DISCOUNT ~~~~~~~~ [ ] APPIA Member Number: ___ (joined in 1995) (3 000 discount) [ ] APPIA Member number: ___ (joined in 1994 or before) (5 000 discount) [ ] PC member (5 000 discount) [ ] Reviewer (5 000 discount) DISCOUNT = _________ TOTAL ENCLOSED ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GRAND TOTAL - DISCOUNT = TOTAL ENCLOSED __________ - ________ = ___________ METHOD OF PAYMENT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [ ] Check (payable to EPIA95 and drawn on a Portuguese bank) [ ] Visa [ ] MasterCard [ ] Eurocard [ ] Diners Club [ ] American Express Card Number: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Exp. Date: __ /__ Name (as it appears on card) _________________________________________ Signature_____________________________________________________________ ====================================================================== EPIA'95 ACCOMMODATION and SOCIAL PROGRAM FORM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Return the following form (by fax or mail) to: FAX: (351-091) 230198 JFM Tours Av. das Comunidades Madeirenses, 15 Voice: (351-091) 220317 9000 Funchal, PORTUGAL PARTICIPANT (Please print legibly and use one form per participant) ~~~~~~~~~~~ Name: ________________________________________________________________ University/Comp.: ____________________________________________________ Address: _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ ZIP Code: ____________________________________________________________ Country: _____________________________________________________________ Phone: _______________________________________________________________ Fax: _________________________________________________________________ Accompanying Person: _________________________________________________ Registration FEEs (in Portuguese Escudos (PTE), including VAT) ACCOMMODATION AT THE CASINO PARK HOTEL: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Accommodation Fees Date of arrival (at Funchal) : __ /__ +-------------------+ | Single | 12 500 | Date of departure (from Funchal): __ /__ +---------+---------+ | Double | 15 000 | Number of nights: ______ +-------------------+ Rates are based on [ ] Double [ ] Single charges per room, per night with breakfast, [ ] Other hotel (on request) service and VAT incl. __ nights x _______ = _________ ACCOMMODATION AT THE YOUTH HOSTEL (students): ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Double rooms and some collective rooms have a private WC. Collective rooms have 6, 8, 10 or 12 beds. A limited number of beds is available. The deadline for this student housing reservation is June, 30. Reservations received after June 30 cannot be guaranteed availability. Accommodation Fees Date of arrival +----------------------+-------+ (at Funchal) : __ /__ | Double (with WC) | 3 850 | |----------------------+-------| Date of departure | Collective (with WC) | 3 500 | (from Funchal): __ /__ |----------------------+-------| | Collective | 1 750 | Number of nights: ______ +----------------------+-------+ Rates are based on charges per person, per night without, [ ] Male [ ] Female breakfast (300 each). [ ] Double [ ] Colective [ ] Colective (with private WC) (no private WC) [ ] Other hotel (on request) __ nights x _______ = _________ __ breakfasts x _______ = _________ AIR PLANE TICKET: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Air Plane Fees Place of Origin: __________________ +---------------------+ | Lisbon | 31 000 | Date of depart. (from origin): __ __ / __ __ | Porto | 44 900 | Date of depart. (from Funchal):__ __ / __ __ | Paris | 87 396 | | London | 75 812 | [ ] Other origin/destination (on request) | Rome | 104 197 | | Milan | 104 197 | | Frankfurt | 112 287 | | Bruxels | 102 362 | | New York | 140 670 | +---------------------+ Rates include all taxes __ tickets x _______ = _________ SOCIAL EVENTS AND TOURS: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [ ] Welcome dinner __ tickets x 6 000 = _______ [ ] Farewell dinner __ extra tickets x 6 000 = _______ [ ] Tour 1 (for participants also) __ tickets x 4 550 = _______ [ ] Tour 2 (for participants also) __ tickets x 4 300 = _______ [ ] Tour 3 (for participants also) __ tickets x 3 200 = _______ [ ] Tour 4 (for companions) __ tickets x 1 320 = _______ [ ] Tour 5 (for companions) __ tickets x 1 580 = _______ [ ] Tour 6 (for companions) __ tickets x 2 400 = _______ TOTAL ENCLOSED ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TOTAL ENCLOSED = ___________ METHOD OF PAYMENT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [ ] Check (payable to EPIA95 and drawn on a Portuguese bank) [ ] Visa [ ] MasterCard [ ] Eurocard [ ] Diners Club [ ] American Express Card Number: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Exp. Date: __ /__ Name (as it appears on card) _________________________________________ Signature_____________________________________________________________ ====================================================================== From owner-gann-list Tue Jul 11 14:03:55 1995 Received: (from mdomo@localhost) by cs.iastate.edu (8.6.10/8.6.9) id NAA26257 for gann-list-outgoing; Tue, 11 Jul 1995 13:57:53 -0500 Received: from ren.cs.iastate.edu (ren.cs.iastate.edu [129.186.3.41]) by cs.iastate.edu (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id NAA26252 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 1995 13:57:50 -0500 From: GANN List Admin Received: (gannadm@localhost) by ren.cs.iastate.edu (8.6.10/8.6.9) id NAA05824 for gann-list; Tue, 11 Jul 1995 13:57:48 -0500 Message-Id: <199507111857.NAA05824@ren.cs.iastate.edu> Subject: Reading "Old" Messages.. To: gann-list@cs.iastate.edu Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 13:57:46 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1909 Sender: owner-gann-list@cs.iastate.edu Precedence: bulk Dear Colleagues, All postings on the GANN Mailing List are automatically archived by the Majordomo server. If you wish to look at an old posting, you can request the Majordomo server to extract an archive for you. Details follow. Send a mail to -- majordomo@cs.iastate.edu with body (not subject) index gann-list This will return a list of current archives. For e.g.: >>>> index gann-list total 622 -rw-r----- 1 mdomo sys 73201 May 22 22:14 gann-list.9505 -rw-rw---- 1 mdomo ssg 8230 Jun 23 14:10 gann-list.9506 -rw-rw---- 1 mdomo ssg 4885 Jul 3 17:35 gann-list.9507 The server typically compiles one archive for each month. Now you have to afford a guess as to when the posting of your interest actually appeared on this List (Sorry -- there doesn't seem to be a better way right now :( :(). 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Thanks, - GANN Admin - gannadm@cs.iastate.edu From owner-gann-list Wed Jul 12 16:04:10 1995 Received: (from mdomo@localhost) by cs.iastate.edu (8.6.10/8.6.9) id PAA29877 for gann-list-outgoing; Wed, 12 Jul 1995 15:30:47 -0500 Received: from ren.cs.iastate.edu (ren.cs.iastate.edu [129.186.3.41]) by cs.iastate.edu (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id PAA29805 for ; Wed, 12 Jul 1995 15:30:42 -0500 From: GANN List Admin Received: (gannadm@localhost) by ren.cs.iastate.edu (8.6.10/8.6.9) id PAA23550 for gann-list@cs.iastate.edu; Wed, 12 Jul 1995 15:30:40 -0500 Reply-To: rafal@idsia.ch (Rafal Salustowicz) X-Originator: rafal@idsia.ch (Rafal Salustowicz) Date: Wed, 12 Jul 95 13:52:53 +0200 Message-Id: <9507121152.AA07907@fava.idsia.ch> To: gann@cs.iastate.edu Subject: Master's Thesis Available Sender: owner-gann-list@cs.iastate.edu Precedence: bulk Master's Thesis Available ========================= The following master's thesis is available for anonymous FTP and WWW from: http://www.idsia.ch/reports.html or ftp://ftp.idsia.ch/pub/papers/salustowicz-mt.ps.gz A Genetic Algorithm for the Topological Optimization of Neural Networks Rafal Salustowicz Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull'Intelligenza Artificiale (IDSIA) Corso Elvezia 36 6900 Lugano Switzerland Tel.: +41 91 288838 e-mail: rafal@idsia.ch Master's Thesis, Technical University of Berlin, Stanford University, 1995 Abstract: This study focuses on the genetic construction of feedforward neural networks. Feedforward neural networks constitute a good solution for many difficult problems. They can be trained with fast and reliable learn algorithms once their topology is known. Unfortunately the topology is problem dependent and usually not easy to find. The genetic system presented in this study is an approach to solve this problem automatically. It consists of two innovative parts: the Semantic Changing Genetic Algorithm and the Unit-Cluster Model. The Semantic Changing Genetic Algorithm is an extended genetic algorithm that allows fast dynamic adaption of the genetic coding through population analysis. The Unit-Cluster Model is an approach to the construction of modular feedforward networks with a ``backbone'' structure. 128 Pages. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ In order to obtain a copy of the paper via FTP, use the following procedure: % ftp ftp.idsia.ch Name: anonymous Password: @ ftp> cd /pub/papers ftp> binary ftp> get salustowicz-mt.ps.gz ftp> quit % gzip -d salustowicz-mt.ps.gz % lpr -P salustowicz-mt.ps Sorry, no hardcopies available. -- Rafal Salustowicz Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull'Intelligenza Artificiale (IDSIA) Corso Elvezia 36 6900 Lugano Switzerland Tel.: +41 91 288838 e-mail: rafal@idsia.ch From owner-gann-list Thu Jul 13 23:50:43 1995 Received: (from mdomo@localhost) by cs.iastate.edu (8.6.10/8.6.9) id XAA04588 for gann-list-outgoing; Thu, 13 Jul 1995 23:29:44 -0500 Received: from ren.cs.iastate.edu (ren.cs.iastate.edu [129.186.3.41]) by cs.iastate.edu (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id XAA04582 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 1995 23:29:21 -0500 From: GANN List Admin Received: (gannadm@localhost) by ren.cs.iastate.edu (8.6.10/8.6.9) id XAA17774 for gann-list@cs.iastate.edu; Thu, 13 Jul 1995 23:29:19 -0500 Reply-To: "Peter J. Angeline" X-Originator: "Peter J. Angeline" Message-Id: <9507131345.ZM15302@barbarian.endicott.ibm.com> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 1995 13:45:04 -0400 X-Face: +BWP-8[^J|_CYV*m/-^6oCy6EL@?[z--(wd6,ItJoRdBH`DO7n0[UwL;DT(wli=*Wt%I"[HUb%.#(u~srB.(Ub)LVUJ?V-PJt?fwkG)g,U{[w%o%"{al;|OM)q(1^"L2cY,i$Rt| X-Mailer: Z-Mail (3.2.1 15feb95) To: colt@cs.uiuc.edu, connectionists@MAILBOX.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU, evolutionary-computing@mailbase.ac.uk, ga-molecule-approval@interval.com, gann-list@cs.iastate.edu, ml@ics.uci.edu, neuron-request@CATTELL.psych.upenn.edu, TIERRA@life.slhs.udel.edu, alife@cognet.ucla.edu, cells@tce.ing.uniroma1.it, cellular-automata@think.com, ep-list@magenta.me.fau.edu, ga-list@aic.nrl.navy.mil, genetic-programming@CS.Stanford.EDU Subject: EP96 Change in Tech Chairs Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="PART-BOUNDARY=.19507131345.ZM15302.endicott.ibm.com" Sender: owner-gann-list@cs.iastate.edu Precedence: bulk -- --PART-BOUNDARY=.19507131345.ZM15302.endicott.ibm.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii ECers Everywhere, EP96 had a minor reorgnization. Please note that the addresses for sending submissions to the conference are down to 2 now! Submissions are due to one of the technical chairs by September 26th. Pete Angeline Thomas Baeck ********************** EP96 The Fifth Annual Conference On Evolutionary Programming February 29 to March 3, 1996 Sheraton Harbor Island Hotel San Diego, CA, USA Sponsored by The Evolutionary Programming Society The Fifth Annual Conference on Evolutionary Programming will serve as a forum for researchers investigating applications and theory of evolutionary programming and other related areas in evolutionary and natural computation. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the use of evolutionary simulations in optimization, neural network training and design, automatic control, image processing, and other applications, as well as mathematical theory or empirical analysis providing insight into the behavior of such algorithms. Of particular interest are applications of simulated evolution to problems in biology. Conference Committee General Chairman: Lawrence J. Fogel, Natural Selection, Inc. Technical Program Co-Chairs: Peter J. Angeline, Loral Federal Systems Thomas Baeck, Informatik Centrum Dortmund Finance Chair: V. William Porto, Orincon Corporation Local Arrangements: Ward Page, Naval Command Control and Ocean Surveillance Center Conference World Wide Web Page: http://www.aic.nrl.navy.mil/galist/EP96/ Submission Information Authors are invited to submit papers which describe original unpublished research in evolutionary programming, evolution strategies, genetic algorithms and genetic programming, artificial life, cultural algorithms, and other models that rely on evolutionary principles. Specific topics include but are not limited to the use of evolutionary simulations in optimization, neural network training and design, automatic control, image processing, and other applications, as well as mathematical theory or empirical analysis providing insight into the behavior of such algorithms. Of particular interest are applications of simulated evolution to problems in biology. Hardcopies of manuscripts must be received by one of the technical program co-chairs by September 26, 1995. Electronic submissions cannot be accepted. Papers should be clear, concise, and written in English. Papers received after the deadline will be handled on a time- and space-available basis. The notification of the program committee's review decision will be mailed by November 30, 1995. Papers eligible for the student award must be marked appropriately for consideration (see below). Camera ready papers are due at the conference, and will be published shortly after its completion. Submissions should be single-spaced, 12 pt. font and should not exceed 15 pages including figures and references. Send five (5) copies of the complete paper to: In Europe: Thomas Baeck Informatik Centrum Dortmund Joseph-von-Fraunhofer-Str. 20 D-44227 Dortmund Germany Email: baeck@home.informatik.uni-dortmund.de In US: Peter J. Angeline Loral Federal Systems 1801 State Route 17C Mail Drop 0210 Owego, NY 13827 Email: pja@lfs.loral.com Authors outside Europe or the United States may send their paper to any of the above technical chairmen at their convenience. Evolutionary Programming Society Award for Best Student Paper In order to foster student contributions and encourage exceptional scholarship in evolutionary programming and closely related fields, the Evolutionary Programming Society awards one exceptional student paper submitted to the Annual Conference on Evolutionary Programming. The award carries a $500 cash prize and a plaque signifying the honor. To be eligible for the award, all authors of the paper must be full-time students at an accredited college, university or other educational institution. Submissions to be considered for this award must be clearly marked at the top of the title page with the phrase "CONSIDER FOR STUDENT AWARD." In addition, the paper should be accompanied by a cover letter stating that (1) the paper is to be considered for the student award (2) all authors are currently enrolled full-time students at a university, college or other educational institution, and (3) that the student authors are responsible for the work presented. Only papers submitted to the conference and marked as indicated will be considered for the award. Late submissions will not be considered. Officers of the Evolutionary Programming Society, students under their immediate supervision, and their immediate family members are not eligible. Judging will be made by officers of the Evolutionary Programming Society or by an Awards Committee appointed by the president. Judging will be based on the perceived technical merit of the student's research to the field of evolutionary programming, and more broadly to the understanding of self-organizing systems. The Evolutionary Programming Society and/or the Awards Committee reserves the right not to give an award in any year if no eligible student paper is deemed to be of award quality. Presentation of the Student Paper Award will be made at the conference. Important Dates --------------- September 26, 1995 - Submission deadline for papers November 30, 1995 - Notification sent to authors February 29, 1996 - Conference Begins Program Committee: J. L. Breeden, Santa Fe Institute M. Conrad, Wayne State University K. A. De Jong, George Mason University T. M. English, Texas Tech University D. B. Fogel, Natural Selection, Inc. G. B. Fogel, University of California at Los Angeles R. Galar, Technical University of Wroclaw P. G. Harrald, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology K. E. Kinnear, Adaptive Systems J. R. McDonnell, Naval Command Control and Ocean Surveillance Center Z. Michalewicz, University of North Carolina F. Palmieri, University of Connecticut R. G. Reynolds, Wayne State University S. H. Rubin, Central Michigan University G. Rudolph, University of Dortmund N. Saravanan, Ford Research H.-P. Schwefel, University of Dortmund A. V. Sebald, University of California at San Diego W. M. Spears, Naval Research Labs D. E. Waagen, TRW Systems Integration Group -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Peter J. Angeline, PhD | | | Advanced Technologies Dept. | | | Loral Federal Systems | | | State Route 17C | I have nothing to say, | | Mail Drop 0210 | and I am saying it. | | Owego, NY 13827-3994 | | | Voice: (607)751-4109 | - John Cage | | Fax: (607)751-6025 | | | Email: pja@lfs.loral.com | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ --PART-BOUNDARY=.19507131345.ZM15302.endicott.ibm.com X-Zm-Content-Name: ep96.txt Content-Type: text/plain ; name="ep96.txt" ; charset=us-ascii Fifth Annual Conference on Evolutionary Programming EP96 The Fifth Annual Conference On Evolutionary Programming February 29 to March 3, 1996 Sheraton Harbor Island Hotel San Diego, CA, USA Sponsored by The Evolutionary Programming Society The Fifth Annual Conference on Evolutionary Programming will serve as a forum for researchers investigating applications and theory of evolutionary programming and other related areas in evolutionary and natural computation. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the use of evolutionary simulations in optimization, neural network training and design, automatic control, image processing, and other applications, as well as mathematical theory or empirical analysis providing insight into the behavior of such algorithms. Of particular interest are applications of simulated evolution to problems in biology. Conference Committee General Chairman: Lawrence J. Fogel, Natural Selection, Inc. Technical Program Co-Chairs: Peter J. Angeline, Loral Federal Systems Thomas Baeck, Informatik Centrum Dortmund Finance Chair: V. William Porto, Orincon Corporation Local Arrangements: Ward Page, Naval Command Control and Ocean Surveillance Center Conference World Wide Web Page: http://www.aic.nrl.navy.mil/galist/EP96/ Submission Information Authors are invited to submit papers which describe original unpublished research in evolutionary programming, evolution strategies, genetic algorithms and genetic programming, artificial life, cultural algorithms, and other models that rely on evolutionary principles. Specific topics include but are not limited to the use of evolutionary simulations in optimization, neural network training and design, automatic control, image processing, and other applications, as well as mathematical theory or empirical analysis providing insight into the behavior of such algorithms. Of particular interest are applications of simulated evolution to problems in biology. Hardcopies of manuscripts must be received by one of the technical program co-chairs by September 26, 1995. Electronic submissions cannot be accepted. Papers should be clear, concise, and written in English. Papers received after the deadline will be handled on a time- and space-available basis. The notification of the program committee's review decision will be mailed by November 30, 1995. Papers eligible for the student award must be marked appropriately for consideration (see below). Camera ready papers are due at the conference, and will be published shortly after its completion. Submissions should be single-spaced, 12 pt. font and should not exceed 15 pages including figures and references. Send five (5) copies of the complete paper to: In Europe: Thomas Baeck Informatik Centrum Dortmund Joseph-von-Fraunhofer-Str. 20 D-44227 Dortmund Germany Email: baeck@home.informatik.uni-dortmund.de In US: Peter J. Angeline Loral Federal Systems 1801 State Route 17C Mail Drop 0210 Owego, NY 13827 Email: pja@lfs.loral.com Authors outside Europe or the United States may send their paper to any of the above technical chairmen at their convenience. Evolutionary Programming Society Award for Best Student Paper In order to foster student contributions and encourage exceptional scholarship in evolutionary programming and closely related fields, the Evolutionary Programming Society awards one exceptional student paper submitted to the Annual Conference on Evolutionary Programming. The award carries a $500 cash prize and a plaque signifying the honor. To be eligible for the award, all authors of the paper must be full-time students at an accredited college, university or other educational institution. Submissions to be considered for this award must be clearly marked at the top of the title page with the phrase "CONSIDER FOR STUDENT AWARD." In addition, the paper should be accompanied by a cover letter stating that (1) the paper is to be considered for the student award (2) all authors are currently enrolled full-time students at a university, college or other educational institution, and (3) that the student authors are responsible for the work presented. Only papers submitted to the conference and marked as indicated will be considered for the award. Late submissions will not be considered. Officers of the Evolutionary Programming Society, students under their immediate supervision, and their immediate family members are not eligible. Judging will be made by officers of the Evolutionary Programming Society or by an Awards Committee appointed by the president. Judging will be based on the perceived technical merit of the student's research to the field of evolutionary programming, and more broadly to the understanding of self-organizing systems. The Evolutionary Programming Society and/or the Awards Committee reserves the right not to give an award in any year if no eligible student paper is deemed to be of award quality. Presentation of the Student Paper Award will be made at the conference. Important Dates --------------- September 26, 1995 - Submission deadline for papers November 30, 1995 - Notification sent to authors February 29, 1996 - Conference Begins Program Committee: J. L. Breeden, Santa Fe Institute M. Conrad, Wayne State University K. A. De Jong, George Mason University T. M. English, Texas Tech University D. B. Fogel, Natural Selection, Inc. G. B. Fogel, University of California at Los Angeles R. Galar, Technical University of Wroclaw P. G. Harrald, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology K. E. Kinnear, Adaptive Systems J. R. McDonnell, Naval Command Control and Ocean Surveillance Center Z. Michalewicz, University of North Carolina F. Palmieri, University of Connecticut R. G. Reynolds, Wayne State University S. H. Rubin, Central Michigan University G. Rudolph, University of Dortmund N. Saravanan, Ford Research H.-P. Schwefel, University of Dortmund A. V. Sebald, University of California at San Diego W. M. Spears, Naval Research Labs D. E. Waagen, TRW Systems Integration Group --PART-BOUNDARY=.19507131345.ZM15302.endicott.ibm.com-- From owner-gann-list Sun Jul 16 23:19:26 1995 Received: (from mdomo@localhost) by cs.iastate.edu (8.6.10/8.6.9) id WAA24526 for gann-list-outgoing; Sun, 16 Jul 1995 22:51:38 -0500 Received: from ren.cs.iastate.edu (ren.cs.iastate.edu [129.186.3.41]) by cs.iastate.edu (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id WAA24521 for ; Sun, 16 Jul 1995 22:51:35 -0500 From: GANN List Admin Received: (gannadm@localhost) by ren.cs.iastate.edu (8.6.10/8.6.9) id WAA29305 for gann-list@cs.iastate.edu; Sun, 16 Jul 1995 22:51:35 -0500 Reply-To: king@cs.cuhk.hk (Dr. Irwin K. King) X-Originator: king@cs.cuhk.hk (Dr. Irwin K. King) Message-Id: <9507142242.AA10879@cucs18.cs.cuhk.hk> Subject: ICONIP'96 CFP To: neuron-request@cattell.psych.upenn.edu, Connectionists@cs.cmu.edu, bisc-group@diva.eecs.berkeley.edu, nafips-l@sphinx.gsu.edu, gannadm@cs.iastate.edu Date: Sat, 15 Jul 1995 06:55:19 +0800 (HKT) Cc: iconip96@cs.cuhk.hk X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 5752 Sender: owner-gann-list@cs.iastate.edu Precedence: bulk FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS 1996 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING The Annual Conference of the Asian Pacific Neural Network Assembly ICONIP'96, September 24 - 27, 1996 Hong Kong Exhibition and Convention Center, Wan Chai, Hong Kong The goal of ICONIP'96 is to provide a forum for researchers and engineers from academia and industry to meet and to exchange ideas on the latest developments in neural information processing. The conference further serves to stimulate local and regional interests in neural information processing and its potential applications to industries indigenous to this region. CONFERENCE TOPICS ================= * Theory * Algorithms & Architectures * Applications * Supervised/Unsupervised Learning * Hardware Implementations * Visual & Speech Processing * Intelligent Control & Robotics * Cognitive Science & AI * Recurrent Net & Dynamics * Image Processing * Pattern Recognition * Computer Vision * Time Series Prediction * Financial Engineering * Optimization * Fuzzy Logic * Evolutionary Computing * Other Related Areas CONFERENCE'S SCHEDULE ===================== Submission of paper February 1, 1996 Notification of acceptance May 1, 1996 Early registration deadline July 1, 1996 SUBMISSION INFORMATION ====================== Authors are invited to submit one camera-ready original and five copies of the manuscript written in English on A4-format white paper with one inch margins on all four sides, in one column format, no more than six pages including figures and references, single-spaced, in Times-Roman or similar font of 10 points or larger, and printed on one side of the page only. Electronic or fax submission is not acceptable. Additional pages will be charged at USD $50 per page. Centered at the top of the first page should be the complete title, author(s), affiliation, mailing, and email addresses, followed by an abstract (no more than 150 words) and the text. Each submission should be accompanied by a cover letter indicating the contacting author, affiliation, mailing and email addresses, telephone and fax number, and preference of technical session(s) and format of presentation, either oral or poster (both are published). All submitted papers will be refereed by experts in the field based on quality, clarity, originality, and significance. Authors may also retrieve the ICONIP style, "iconip.tex" and "iconip.sty" files for the conference by anonymous FTP at ftp.cs.cuhk.hk in the directory /pub/iconip96. For further information, inquiries, and paper submissions please contact ICONIP'96 Secretariat Department of Computer Science The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong Fax (852) 2603-5024 E-mail: iconip96@cs.cuhk.hk http://www.cs.cuhk.hk/iconip96 ====================================================================== General Co-Chairs ================= Omar Wing, CUHK Shun-ichi Amari, Tokyo U. Advisory Committee ================== International ------------- Yaser Abu-Mostafa, Caltech Michael Arbib, U. Southern Cal. Leo Breiman, UC Berkeley Jack Cowan, U. Chicago Rolf Eckmiller, U. Bonn Jerome Friedman, Stanford U. Stephen Grossberg, Boston U. Robert Hecht-Nielsen, HNC Geoffrey Hinton, U. Toronto Anil Jain, Michigan State U. Teuvo Kohonen, Helsinki U. of Tech. Sun-Yuan Kung, Princeton U. Robert Marks, II, U. Washington Thomas Poggio, MIT Harold Szu, US Naval SWC John Taylor, King's College London C. v. d. Malsburg, Ruhr-U. Bochum Asia-Pacific Region ------------------- Marcelo H. Ang Jr, NUS, Singapore Sung-Yang Bang, POSTECH, Korea Hsin-Chia Fu, NCTU., Taiwan Toshio Fukuda, Nagoya U., Japan Kunihiko Fukushima, Osaka U., Japan Zhenya He, Southeastern U., China Marwan Jabri, U. Sydney, Australia Nikola Kasabov, U. Otago, New Zealand Yousou Wu, Tsinghua U., China Organizing Committee ==================== L.W. Chan (Co-Chair), CUHK K.S. Leung (Co-Chair), CUHK D.Y. Yeung (Finance), HKUST C.K. Ng (Publication), CityUHK A. Wu (Publication), CityUHK K.P. Lam (Publicity), CUHK M.W. Mak (Local Arr.), HKPU C.S. Tong (Local Arr.), HKBU T. Lee (Registration), CUHK M. Stiber (Registration), HKUST K.P. Chan (Tutorial), HKU H.T. Tsui (Industry Liaison), CUHK I. King (Secretary), CUHK Program Committee ================= Co-Chairs --------- Lei Xu, CUHK Michael Jordan, MIT Erkki Oja, Helsinki Univ. of Tech. Mitsuo Kawato, ATR Members ------- Yoshua Bengio, U. Montreal Chris Bishop, Aston U. Leon Bottou, Neuristique Gail Carpenter, Boston U. Laiwan Chan, CUHK Huishen Chi, Peking U. Peter Dayan, MIT Kenji Doya, ATR Scott Fahlman, CMU Francoise Fogelman, SLIGOS Lee Giles, NEC Research Inst. Michael Hasselmo, Harvard U. Kurt Hornik, Technical U. Wien Steven Nowlan, Synaptics Jeng-Neng Hwang, U. Washington Nathan Intrator, Technion Larry Jackel, AT&T Bell Lab Adam Kowalczyk, Telecom Australia Soo-Young Lee, KAIST Todd Leen, Oregon Grad. Inst. Cheng-Yuan Liou, National Taiwan U. Eric Mjolsness, UC San Diego John Moody, Oregon Grad. Inst. Nelson Morgan, ICSI Michael Perrone, IBM Watson Lab Ting-Chuen Pong, HKUST Paul Refenes, London Business School Hava Siegelmann, Technion Ah Chung Tsoi, U. Queensland Benjamin Wah, U. Illinois Andreas Weigend, Colorado U. Ronald Williams, Northeastern U. John Wyatt, MIT Alan Yuille, Harvard U. Richard Zemel, CMU From owner-gann-list Mon Jul 24 14:20:34 1995 Received: (from mdomo@localhost) by cs.iastate.edu (8.6.10/8.6.9) id OAA27983 for gann-list-outgoing; Mon, 24 Jul 1995 14:02:38 -0500 Received: from ren.cs.iastate.edu (ren.cs.iastate.edu [129.186.3.41]) by cs.iastate.edu (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id OAA27971 for ; Mon, 24 Jul 1995 14:02:08 -0500 From: GANN List Admin Received: (gannadm@localhost) by ren.cs.iastate.edu (8.6.10/8.6.9) id OAA01487 for gann-list@cs.iastate.edu; Mon, 24 Jul 1995 14:02:08 -0500 Reply-To: R.Poli@cs.bham.ac.uk X-Originator: R.Poli@cs.bham.ac.uk Mon, 17 Jul 95 18:28:44 BST Date: Mon, 17 Jul 95 18:28:44 BST Message-Id: <7327.9507171728@sonic.cs.bham.ac.uk> To: colt@cs.uiuc.edu, connectionists@MAILBOX.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU, evolutionary-computing@mailbase.ac.uk, ga-molecule-approval@interval.com, gann-list@cs.iastate.edu, ml@ics.uci.edu, neuron-request@CATTELL.psych.upenn.edu, TIERRA@life.slhs.udel.edu, alife@cognet.ucla.edu, cells@tce.ing.uniroma1.it, cellular-automata@think.com, ep-list@magenta.me.fau.edu, ga-list@aic.nrl.navy.mil, genetic-programming@CS.Stanford.EDU Cc: R.Poli@cs.bham.ac.uk Subject: PhD Studentships Sender: owner-gann-list@cs.iastate.edu Precedence: bulk Dear Colleagues, Could you please circulate the following advertisement for PhD studentships? Thank you very much, Riccardo Poli Dr. Riccardo Poli E-mail: R.Poli@cs.bham.ac.uk School of Computer Science Telephone: +44-121-414-3739 The University of Birmingham Fax: +44-121-414-4281 Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The University of Birmingham School of Computer Science Research Studentships in ~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~ EMERGENT AND EVOLUTIONARY BEHAVIOUR, INTELLIGENCE, AND COMPUTATION (EEBIC) Applications are invited for a number of Studentships for full-time PhD research in the School of Computer Science to carry out research within the recently founded EEBIC group. The group's research interests include: evolutionary computation (e.g. genetic algorithms and genetic programming), emergent behaviour, emergent intelligence (e.g. emergent communication), emergent computation and artificial life and their practical applications in hard engineering problems. The members of the group, at Birmingham and elsewhere, are active researchers in Artificial Intelligence, Engineering or Psychology with a variety of different backgrounds including Biology, Computer Science, Engineering, Psychology and Philosophy. In addition to EEBIC, the research experience of the members of the group includes computer vision, neural nets, signal processing, intelligent autonomous agents, The group interacts very closely with the Cognition and Affect group led by Aaron Sloman who is a member of both groups. (For more information see URLs: ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/groups/cog_affect and http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs .) The successful applicants will join the group's effort to explore EEBIC in many interesting directions (from engineering to psychology, from new practical applications to new theoretical frameworks). They will have constant interaction and collaboration with the other members of the group. In addition to the usual requirements of possessing a good honours degree (equivalent to a first or upper second class degree in a UK university) and being EU residents, the successful candidates will need to be particularly open minded to the cross-fertilisation in the group deriving from the different backgrounds and experience of the members. Additional information about how to apply and about the School is available via WWW from URL: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk Informal enquiries about the EEBIC group can be directed to Riccardo Poli Phone: +44-121-414-3739 Fax: +44-121-414-4281 Email: R.Poli@cs.bham.ac.uk Enquiries concerning the Cognition and Affect group may be sent to Aaron Sloman Phone: +44-121-414-4775 Fax: +44-121-414-4281 Email: A.Sloman@cs.bham.ac.uk For any other queries contact our research students' admission tutor: Dr Peter Hancox Email: P.J.Hancox@cs.bham.ac.uk From owner-gann-list Mon Jul 24 14:20:36 1995 Received: (from mdomo@localhost) by cs.iastate.edu (8.6.10/8.6.9) id OAA28096 for gann-list-outgoing; Mon, 24 Jul 1995 14:07:44 -0500 Received: from ren.cs.iastate.edu (ren.cs.iastate.edu [129.186.3.41]) by cs.iastate.edu (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id OAA28091 for ; Mon, 24 Jul 1995 14:07:40 -0500 From: GANN List Admin Received: (gannadm@localhost) by ren.cs.iastate.edu (8.6.10/8.6.9) id OAA07676 for gann-list@cs.iastate.edu; Mon, 24 Jul 1995 14:07:40 -0500 Reply-To: ipmu96@robinson.ugr.es (Congreso IPMU96) X-Originator: ipmu96@robinson.ugr.es (Congreso IPMU96) Date: Thu, 20 Jul 95 14:05:54 +0100 Message-Id: <9507201305.AA03486@robinson.ugr.es> To: gannadm@cs.iastate.edu Subject: IPMU'96 Call for Paper Sender: owner-gann-list@cs.iastate.edu Precedence: bulk Dear Sir, You can find enclosed the preliminary call for paper for IPMU'96 International Conference. As you can see in the topics, it is of primary interest for the genetic community, so that we hope it is an important contribution to your list. Yours Sincerely, IPMU'96 Organization Commitee --------- Mail Contribution to the List begin here -------- ***************************************************** * Preliminary Call for Paper * * * * IPMU'96 * * * * Information Processing and Management of * * Uncertainty * * in Knowledge Based Systems * * * * Granada, Spain, July 1-5, 1996 * ***************************************************** -------------------------------------------------------- Organized by Departamento de Ciencias de la Computacion e Inteligencia Artificial. Universidad de Granada. Sponsored by Junta de Andalucia. Universidad de Granada. Ayuntamiento de Granada. -------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------- Aims and Scope -------------------------------------------------------- Organized at a regular two-year interval, the IPMU International Conference deals with the difficulties existing in the acquisition, representation, management and transmission of data in knowledge-based and decision-making systems. It brings together researches working on various methodologies for the management of uncertain information and provides a useful exchange between theorists and practitioners using these different methodologies. -------------------------------------------------------- Topics of particular interest -------------------------------------------------------- * Uncertainty Methods: Measures of Information and Uncertainty, Bayesian and Probabilistic Methods, Fuzzy Methods, Mathematical Theory of Evidence, Belief Networks, Chaos Theory. * Non-standard Logics: Non-monotonic Logics, Approximate Reasoning, Multivalued Logics, Modal Logics, Temporal Reasoning, Case-based Reasoning. * Knowledge Acquisition and Representation: Machine Learning, Inductive Methods, Commonsense Knowledge, Intelligent Databases and Information Systems. * Intelligent Systems: Fuzzy Control, Neural Networks, Genetic Algorithms and Evolutionary Computation, Expert Systems under Uncertainty, Decision Support Systems, Multicriteria and Group Decision Making, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing, Classification, Belief Updating and Inconsistency Handling. -------------------------------------------------------- Address and Location -------------------------------------------------------- IPMU'96 Dpto. Ciencias de la Computacion e Inteligencia Artificial. E.T.S.I. Informatica. Avda. Andalucia, 38 Universidad de Granada. 18071 Granada. Spain. Phone: +34.58.244019 Fax: +34.58.243317 e-mail: ipmu96@robinson.ugr.es e-mail for submissions: ipmu96-submissions@robinson.ugr.es URL: http://pirata.ugr.es/ipmu96.html Granada, a world-famous city, whose history spans over thousand years, also has outstanding features as a modern conference town. The Alhambra, the city's monuments, cultural and University traditions, as well as excellent leisure facilities, good restaurants, lively night life, the Sierra Nevada mountains and the Coast, all attract thousand of visitors to Granada every year. -------------------------------------------------------- Submission Information -------------------------------------------------------- Authors should submit three copies of each full paper by November 1st. There will be a six page (two columns) limit on the final versions of accepted papers. Papers will be carefully reviewed and authors will be notified on the acceptance/rejection by February 1st, 1996. Final camera-ready copies for publication will required by April 1st, 1996. Submissions may be sent by mail to the address included in this call. Electronic submissions are encouraged. To submit a paper electronically, send an e-mail to ipmu96-submissions@robinson.ugr.es including the following information (in this order): a) Paper title (plain text) b) Author's names, including professional status. c) Surface mail and e-mail address for a contact author (plain text) d) A short abstract, including keywords or topic indicators (plain text) e) Paper body (Postscript format) Proceedings will be available at the opening of the Conference. Relevant papers may be selected for publication in special issues of leading international journals. -------------------------------------------------------- Dates and Deadlines -------------------------------------------------------- Nov. 1 1995: Deadline for submission of papers. Feb. 1 1996: Notification of acceptance/rejection. Apr. 1 1996: Reception of final camera-ready. May 15 1996: Deadline for early registration. July 1-5 1996: CONFERENCE. Early Registration Fee: 60.000 pesetas (ptas). Late Registration Fee: 70.000 pesetas (ptas). -------------------------------------------------------- Invited sessions -------------------------------------------------------- A number of invited sessions on special topics will be included in the program of IPMU'96. Authors will be invited to contribute to these sessions, which will be chaired by recognized experts in these topics. Proposals to organize invited sessions are welcome to be considered by the committee until September 15th. -------------------------------------------------------- Honorary President -------------------------------------------------------- Lotfi A. Zadeh(University of California, Berkeley, USA) -------------------------------------------------------- General Chairpersons Committee -------------------------------------------------------- Bernardette Bouchon-Meunier (CNRS, France) Miguel Delgado (University of Granada, Spain) Jose Luis Verdegay (University of Granada, Spain) Maria Amparo Vila (University of Granada, Spain) Ronald R. Yager (Iona College, NY, USA) -------------------------------------------------------- International Program Committee -------------------------------------------------------- J. Aczel (Canada) J. Aguilar-Martin (France) J. Baldwin (UK) S. Barro (Spain) A. Blanco (Spain) H. Berenji (USA) J. Bezdek(USA) P. Bonissone (USA) P. Bosc (France) J.L. Castro(Spain) D. Dubois (France) F. Esteva (Spain) M. Fedrizzi (Italy) M.A. Gil (Spain) A. Gonzalez (Spain) S. Guiasu (Canada) J. Gutierrez (Spain) F. Herrera (Spain) K. Hirota(Japan) J. Jacas (Spain) J.Y. Jaffray (France) J. Kacprzyk (Poland) A. Kandel (USA) E.P. Klement (Austria) G. Klir (USA) R. Kruse (Germany) M.T. Lamata (Spain) H.L. Larsen (Denmark) S.L. Lauritzen (Denmark) R. Lopez de Mantaras (Spain) R. Marin (Spain) J. Montero (Spain) S. Moral (Spain) H. Nguyen (USA) S. Ovchinnikov(USA) J. Pearl (USA) H. Prade(France) I. Requena (Spain) A. Rocha (Brazil) E. Ruspini (USA) A. Sage (USA) E. Sanchez (France) G. Shafer (USA) P. Shenoy (USA) P. Smets (Belgium) M. Sugeno (Japan) S. Termini (Italy) A. Titli (France) E. Trillas (Spain) I.B. Turksen (USA) R. Valle (France) L. Valverde (Spain) T. Yamakawa (Japan) H.J. Zimmermann (Germany) -------------------------------------------------------- Organizing Committee: -------------------------------------------------------- S. Moral (President) A. Blanco J.L. Castro J.C. Cubero A. Gonzalez F. Herrera M.T. Lamata J.M. Medina O. Pons I. Requena J.M. Zurita -------------------------------------------------------- PRE-REGISTRATION FORM -------------------------------------------------------- If you want to be kept informed, please fill in this form and return it to the address included in this call. ....................... cut here ....................... Pre-Registration Form Surname: First Name: Mailing Address: Phone: Fax: E-Mail: _ |_| I am interested in attending the conference. _ |_| I am interested in submitting a paper. From owner-gann-list Tue Jul 25 21:55:18 1995 Received: (from mdomo@localhost) by cs.iastate.edu (8.6.10/8.6.9) id VAA21267 for gann-list-outgoing; Tue, 25 Jul 1995 21:37:37 -0500 Received: from ren.cs.iastate.edu (ren.cs.iastate.edu [129.186.3.41]) by cs.iastate.edu (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id VAA21262 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 1995 21:37:30 -0500 From: GANN List Admin Received: (gannadm@localhost) by ren.cs.iastate.edu (8.6.10/8.6.9) id VAA13811 for gann-list@cs.iastate.edu; Tue, 25 Jul 1995 21:37:28 -0500 Reply-To: cs0ahu@isis.sund.ac.uk (Andy.Hunter) X-Originator: cs0ahu@isis.sund.ac.uk (Andy.Hunter) Date: Mon, 24 Jul 1995 14:07:22 +0100 Message-Id: <9507241307.AA24866@osiris.sund.ac.uk> To: gann-list@cs.iastate.edu Subject: Sugal v2.0 GA software available content-length: 3066 Sender: owner-gann-list@cs.iastate.edu Precedence: bulk To: gann list subscribers, Here's a copy of the release announcement for Sugal v2.0. I also have Neural Network code working with Sugal (although its not in the release), and hope to include it in the next release (v2.1 - due Oct95, or there abouts). Sugal V2.0 is now available. Sugal aims to provide the most comprehensive package for Genetic Algorithm research and implementation in the world - and its free. Sugal V2.0 has the following features: Written in ANSI C. Tested on SUN SOLARIS 2 and PC BORLAND C++ 3.0. (and has been successfully run on OS/2 and SGI). Supports multiple datatypes seamlessly: bit strings, integers, real numbers, symbols (from arbitrarily sized alphabets). Also supports mixed datatypes. A powerful and general Genetic Algorithm (features listed below). Generates extensive statistics on population fitness and diversity. A platform-independent Graphical User Interface (running on PC Windows or X-Windows with MOTIF), including fitness and diversity graphing facilities. Interface can be extended and/or customised using simple registration routines and screen configuration files. Conducts multiple experiments and calculates aggregate statistics. Parameters can be set in configuration files, and overruled by command-line options, hard-coded program statements, and/or on-screen. Users can add their own configuration file parameters and/or add additional options to existing parameters. Virtually all major actions in the GA can be augmented/overridden by the user. Major Features of the Sugal v2.0 Genetic Algorithm Initialisation: Uniform, Gaussian, Loaded Bit and from File.

Selection: Roulette, Integral Roulette (i.e. Expected Value Model), Tournament and Uniform Fitness Normalisation: Biased, Inversion, Linear and Mean-Linear, Rank Linear and Rank Geometric fitness normalisation (all either for minimisation or maximisation of fitness function). Crossover: Uniform, One-Point, Two-Point and arbitrary N-Point crossover, variable crossover rates. Mutation: Bit Inversion, Gene Reinitialisation, Step-delta, Uniform-delta and Gaussian-delta Mutation, including time-decay mutation sizes; variable mutation rates. Replacement: Uniform, Rank-based, Tournament, Crowding and Parental replacement; replacement can be Unconditional, Simple Conditional (i.e. If Improved) or Simulated Annealing; variable replacement rate (i.e. generation gap); elitism. Sugal has been extensively improved since v1.0. Sugal is available primarily via the World-Wide-Web at: http://osiris.sund.ac.uk/ahu/sugal/home.html - this includes source files, user registration (if you wish to be informed of Sugal upgrades, etc) and bug-report facilities. You can also obtain Sugal by anonymous ftp from: osiris@sund.ac.uk in /pub/sugal The author welcomes comments and cries for help: cs0ahu@sund.ac.uk Dr. Andrew Hunter, University of Sunderland, England.