Connectionists: Call for Papers: CEC 2011 Special Session on "Evolution of Developmental and Generative Systems"

[Yaochu.Jin@surrey.ac.uk]

Call for Papers

2011 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation

New Orleans - June 5-8, 2011

*************Special Session on Evolution of Developmental and Generative Systems***********


Special Session Organizers

- Yaochu Jin, University of Surrey, UK
- Andy Tyrrell, University of York, UK

Motivation and Scope

            Computational modeling of biological development has received increasing interests in evolutionary computation, artificial life and computational systems biology. In the evolutionary computation community, evolutionary algorithms using an indirect coding or generative coding are believed to be more scalable in evolving highly complex systems, compared to those using a direct coding. A variety number of developmental and generative models have been proposed, ranging from a set of re-writing rules to gene regulatory network model including metabolic reactions. Evolution of developmental and generative models is of great interest not only to efficient optimization of large-scale systems, but also to the understanding of the evolution of the body plan and neural control in living systems. This special session aims to promote cross-disciplinary research in evolutionary computation, artificial life, computational neuroscience and computational systems biology. Topics of the special session include but are not limited to:

                + Scalable evolutionary algorithms using indirect or generative encoding
                + Evolution of computational models for morphological and neural development
                + Evolutionary and developmental approaches to engineering design, e.g., evolvable hardware, structural design etc.
                + Analysis of evolvability and robustness of developmental systems
                + Evolutionary synthesis of regulatory dynamics
                + Benchmarking evolutionary developmental systems


Important Dates

                + Deadline for submissions: January 15, 2011
                + Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2011
                + Final paper submission: April 1, 2011

Submission Procedure

            All papers are to be submitted electronically at http://cec2011.org/submission.htm. Please select "Special Session on Evolution of Developmental and Generative Systems" as the topic of your paper. Please also notify the special session organizers yaochu.jin #at# surrey.ac.uk or amt #at#ohm.york.ac.uk of your notice. 


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Professor Yaochu Jin
Head of the Nature-Inspired Computing and Engineering (NICE) Group
Department of Computing, University of Surrey
Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, United Kingdom
Room 35 BB02
Phone: +44(0)1483 686037   Fax:    +44(0)1483 686051
Email:  yaochu.jin at surrey.ac.uk  
http://www.surrey.ac.uk/computing/people/yaochu_jin/
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