CFP - Simulated Evolution And Learning (SEAL'98)

[Alan Blair]

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The Second Asia-Pacific Conference on Simulated Evolution And Learning
(SEAL'98)

		            Canberra, Australia

			    24-27 November 1998

				Hosted by 
			School of Computer Science
	     University College, the University of New South Wales
	Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, ACT 2600, Australia

			    in cooperation with
	COMPLEX SYSTEMS '98, Sydney, Australia, Nov 30 - Dec 4, 1998
			      IEEE ACT Section

     	 Conference URL: http://www.cs.adfa.oz.au/conference/seal98


Aims and Scopes
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Evolution and learning are two fundamental forms of adaptation. This
conference follows the successful SEAL'96 (The First Asia-Pacific
Conference on Simulated Evolution And Learning) in Taejon, Korea, 9-12
November 1996, and aims at exploring these two forms of adaptation and
their roles and interactions in adaptive systems. Cross-fertilisation between
evolutionary learning and other machine learning approaches, such as
neural network learning, reinforcement learning, decision tree learning,
fuzzy system learning, etc., will be strongly encouraged by the conference.
The other major theme of the conference is optimisation by evolutionary
approaches or hybrid evolutionary approaches. 

The conference will feature both academic and application streams
in order to encourage more interactions between researchers and
practitioners in the field of simulated evolution and learning. To provide
timely feedback, the applications stream will use a two-stage reviewing
process featuring preliminary acceptance by abstract and final acceptance
by complete paper. The refereeing panel for the applications stream will
consist of eminent practitioners in the field.

The topics of interest to this conference include but are not limited to
the following:

1. Evolutionary Learning

+ Fundamental Issues in Evolutionary Learning 
  (e.g., Generalisation, Scalability, and Computational Complexity)
+ Co-Evolutionary Learning
+ Modular Evolutionary Learning Systems
+ Classifier Systems
+ Artificial Immune Systems
+ Representation Issue in Evolutionary Learning 
  (e.g., rules, trees, graphs, etc.)
+ Interactions Between Learning and Evolution
+ Comparison between Evolutionary Learning and Other Learning Approaches
  (Neural Network, Decision Tree, Reinforcement Learning, etc.)

2. Evolutionary Optimisation

+ Global (Numerical/Function) Optimisation
+ Combinatorial Optimisation (e.g., scheduling, allocation, planning, packing,
  transportation, and various tree/graph problems.)
+ Comparison between evolutionary and non-evolutionary optimisation
algorithms
+ Hybrid Optimisation Algorithms

3. Hybrid Learning

+ Evolutionary Artificial Neural Networks
+ Evolutionary Fuzzy Systems
+ Combinations Between Evolutionary and Reinforcement Learning
+ Combinations Between Evolutionary and Decision Tree Learning
+ Evolutionary Clustering and Unsupervised Learning
+ Genetic Programming
+ Other Hybrid Learning Systems

4. Adaptive Systems

+ Complexity in Adaptive Systems
+ Evolutionary Robotics
+ Artificial Ecology

5. Evolutionary Economics and Games

+ Analysis and Simulation in Evolutionary Economics, Finance and Marketing
+ Evolutionary Games
+ Evolutionary Computation Techniques in Economics, Finance and Marketing

6. Theoretical Issues in Evolutionary Computation 

+ Convergence and Convergence Rate of Evolutionary Algorithms
+ Computational Complexity of Evolutionary Algorithms
+ Self-Adaptation in Evolutionary Algorithms

7. Evolvable Hardware (EHW)

+ FPGA Implementation of EHW
+ Algorithms for EHW
+ EHW Systems and Chips

8. Applications

+ Novel Applications of Evolutionary Techniques
+ Optimisation Algorithms for Real-World Problems
+ Solving classical OR (Operations Research) problems by Evolutionary Algorithms
+ Pattern Classification and Recognition
+ Time-Series Prediction
+ System Identification
+ Others


Important Dates
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Regular Papers
03 July 1998	Deadline for submission of papers (<=8 pages)
21 Aug. 1998	Notification of acceptance
25 Sep. 1998	Deadline for camera-ready copies of accepted papers
24-27 Nov. 1998	Conference sessions

Applications Papers
19 June 1998	Deadline for submission of applications abstracts (<= 1 page)
		(abstracts to be submitted by email)
03 July 1998	Notification of preliminary acceptance of applications papers
31 July 1998	Deadline for submission of applications papers (<=8 pages)
21 Aug. 1998	Notification of acceptance of applications papers
25 Sep. 1998	Deadline for camera-ready copies of applications papers
24-27 Nov. 1998	Conference sessions

Paper Submission
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Applications paper abstracts should be submitted by email before the
cutoff date to SEAL98 at cs.adfa.oz.au.

FOUR (4) hard copies of the completed paper should be submitted to the
programme committee chair by the due date. All manuscripts should be
prepared in LaTeX according to Springer-Verlag's llncs style 
(URL: gopher://trick.ntp.springer.de/11/tex/latex/llncs). 
Each submitted paper must include a title, a 300-400 word abstract, 
a list of keywords, the names and addresses of all authors (including
email addresses, and telephone and fax numbers), and the body. The length of 
submitted papers must be no more than 8 single-spaced, single-column pages 
including all figures, tables, and bibliography. Shorter papers are
strongly encouraged.

Papers should be submitted to the following address:

Dr Xin Yao
School of Computer Science
University College, UNSW
Australian Defence Force Academy
Canberra, ACT 2600, Australia


Publications
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All accepted papers which are presented at the conference will be included
in the conference proceedings. Outstanding papers will be considered for 
inclusion in a proposed volume of Springer Verlag's Lecture Notes in
Artificial Intelligence (LNAI). Some of them will be invited to further
expand and revise their papers for inclusion in an international journal. 
(Selections from SEAL'96 papers were published by Springer-Verlag as
 Volume 1285 of LNAI.)

Special Sessions and Tutorials
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Special sessions and tutorials will be organised at the conference.
The conference is calling for special session and tutorial proposals. 


Contact Persons
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Conference General Chair: 	Professor Charles Newton
				School of Computer Science
				University College, UNSW, ADFA
				Canberra, ACT 2600, Australia

Organising Committee Chair:	Dr Bob McKay
				School of Computer Science
				University College, UNSW, ADFA
				Canberra, ACT 2600, Australia

Programme Committee Co-Chair: 	Dr Xin Yao
				School of Computer Science
				University College, UNSW, ADFA
				Canberra, ACT 2600, Australia

Programme Committee Co-Chair:	Professor Jong-Hwan Kim
				Department of Electrical Engineering
				KAIST
				373-1, Kusung-dong, Yusung-gu, Taejon-shi
				305-701, Republic of Korea
				Email: johkim at vivaldi.kaist.ac.kr

Programme Committee Co-Chair:	Professor Takeshi Furuhashi
				Department of Information Electronics
				Nagoya University
				Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-01
				Japan
				Email: furuhashi at nuee.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Special Sessions Chair:		Professor Kit Po Wong
				Department of Electrical Engineering
				The University of Western Australia
				Nedlands, WA 6009, Australia
				Email: kitpo at ee.uwa.edu.au

Conference Secretary: 		Miss Alison McMaster
				School of Computer Science
				University College, UNSW, ADFA
				Canberra, ACT 2600, Australia
				Email: SEAL98 at cs.adfa.oz.au
				Phone: +61 2 6268 8184,  Fax: +61 2 6268 8581