CFP: Workshop on Approximation and Learning in EC

[Yaochu Jin]

Call for Papers

A workshop on ``Approximation and Learning in Evolutionary 
Computation''  is to be organized within the Genetic and 
Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) from July 9 to 
July 13, 2002, New York City, USA. 
See further details at http://www.cs.unr.edu/~sushil/workshop/ .

1. Workshop Description
 
In real-world applications, it is often necessary to build 
approximate models for fitness evaluation.  One essential 
difficulty in applying evolutionary algorithms to the 
optimization of complex systems is the high time complexity 
of each fitness evaluation. Besides, in some applications, 
no explicit mathematical functions are available for
fitness evaluation. Further more, approximate fitness models 
have also been proved useful in dealing with noisy and 
multi-modal fitness functions. This workshop aims to get 
together researchers coming from different research areas 
to see the state-of-art, to discuss the main problems and 
future work in this area. 

2. Topics of Interests

Submissions are invited in, but not limited to, any of the 
following areas:

* Off-line and on-line learning for approximate model 
  construction
* Off-line and on-line learning for performance improvement
* Evolution control and model management in evolutionary 
  computation
* Multi-level evolutionary optimization
* Learning in multi-objective evolutionary optimization
* Fitness estimation in noisy environment
* Comparison of different modeling methods, such as 
  neural networks, response surface and least squares methods, 
  and probabilistic models for evolutionary computation
* Comparison of different sampling techniques for on-line and 
  off-linelearning

3. Submission Details

Please follow the main conference guidelines with regards to the
format of the paper. We expect submissions to be short papers 
or extended abstracts upto four (4) pages in length. Please send 
an electronic copy of the paper in PDF or postscript to 
yaochu_jin at de.hrdeu.com with subject ``GECCO workshop submission'' 
no later than March 4, 2002. Workshop proceedings will be published 
and will be available at the conference. 

Important dates:

Paper submission deadline: March 4, 2002
Notification of acceptance: April 5, 2002
Final manuscript:  April 25, 2002

4. Conferences Organizers

Yaochu Jin
Future Technology Research
Honda R&D Europe
Carl-Legien-Str. 30
63073 Offenbach/Main
Germany
Phone: +49-69-89011735
Fax:   +49-69-89011749
Email: yaochu_jin at de.hrdeu.com
       yaochu.jin at hre-ftr.f.rd.honda.co.jp

Sushil J. Louis
University of Nevada, Reno
Reno, NV 89557
U.S.A.
Phone:(775)784-4315
Fax:(775)784-1877
Email: sushil at cs.unr.edu 

Khaled M. Rasheed
Computer Science Department
The University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602
U.S.A.
Phone:(706)542-3444
Fax:(706)542-2966
Email: khaled at cs.uga.edu
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Yaochu Jin
Future Technology Research
Honda R&D Europe (D)
Carl-Legien-Str. 30
63073 Offenbach/Main
GERMANY

Tel: +49 69 89011735
Fax: +49 69 89011749
Email: yaochu.jin at hre-ftr.f.rd.honda.co.jp
       yaochu_jin at de.hrdeu.com 
Alias: yaochu.jin at ieee.org