CFP: Theory of Representations Workshop @ GECCO 2005

[Marc Toussaint]

                            Call for Papers

                Workshop on "THEORY OF REPRESENTATIONS"

                       to be held as part of the
   2005 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2005)
                  Washington, D.C., June 25 - 29, 2005
       http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mtoussai/gecco05/index.html


organized by:
Marc Toussaint, University of Edinburgh, UK (mtoussai at inf.ed.ac.uk)
Alden H. Wright, University of Montana, USA (alden.wright at umontana.edu)
Edwin D. de Jong, Utrecht University (dejong at cs.uu.nl)

The choice of representation crucially determines the performance of a
heuristic search process. We believe that there have been very
interesting new ideas and approaches on the subject of learning
representations recently. However, a unifying point of view is
currently missing and the different approaches are widely scattered in
the literature with too little cross-fertilization. In this workshop
we would like to gather such work and, in a discussion between the
contributors from the various lines of research, fuse the various
approaches and formalisms into a common framework. This framework
might clarify what the scope of a theory of representations should be,
what existing algorithms may be considered as cases of representation
adaptation, and how the existing literature on the topic can be
integrated in a broader picture -- thereby also seeking contact with
related areas in Computer Science, Machine Learning and Theoretical  
Biology.


TYPE OF CONTRIBUTIONS:

We invite paper submissions on all aspects related to
representations. This includes

-- Reviews or general discussions of own work, work from a certain
    line of research, or historical work (e.g. done in theoretical
    biology) with the aim to contribute to a more integrative picture of
    what a Theory of Representations should encompass.

-- Original, also preliminary, theoretical ideas or experimental
    studies and propositions of new heuristics when they support or point
    towards theoretically grounded principles.


TOPICS and SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:

For details, please see
       http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mtoussai/gecco05/index.html


IMPORTANT DATES:

Electronic Submission Deadline  March 14, 2005
Author Notifications Sent       April 8, 2005
Camera-Ready Copy Deadline      April 22, 2005
Workshop                        June 25, 2005, 14:00PM-18:00PM