CFP - Simulated Evolution And Learning (SEAL'98)
Alan Blair
blair at csee.uq.edu.au
Fri Mar 13 03:26:01 EST 1998
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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
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