Connectionists: CFP: GECCO-2010 Workshop on Entropy, Information and Complexity

[Brenda & Stu Card]

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                              WORKSHOP ON
                   ENTROPY, INFORMATION & COMPLEXITY

                       to be held as part of the

         2010 GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE
                              (GECCO-2010)
                        Sponsored by ACM SIGEVO

                   http://www.sigevo.org/GECCO-2010

                  July 7-11, 2010 (Wednesday-Sunday)
              Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront Hotel
                         Portland, Oregon, USA

        PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR WORKSHOP: March 25, 2010

Among the basic concepts and state variables of thermodynamics,
ENTROPY plays a central role, explained by Boltzmann et al as
statistical mechanics. Entropy and its complement [mutual] INFORMATION
play key roles in the theory of communication by Shannon et al.
COMPLEXITY and algorithmic information play the corresponding roles
in the complexity theory of Kolmogorov et al.

All three theories are directly applicable to both natural biological
evolution and evolutionary computation, but have been applied generally
by neither theoreticians nor practitioners in the latter field. In the
past few years, a few papers have appeared, scattered across different
venues. This workshop will for the first time bring together researchers
with a common interest in applying these concepts systematically to
evolutionary computation and learning.

This Call For Participation invites submissions of 8 page papers to be
published in the GECCO proceedings and the ACM digital library (in ACM
format, see http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2010/papers.html) and extended
abstracts of presentations on research in progress or concepts likely
to be of interest to workshop participants. Each submitted paper will
be independently reviewed by at least two reviewers.

Important dates:

  Paper submission deadline: 25 March 2010

  Notification of acceptance: 01 April 2010

  Camera-ready copy deadline: 13 April 2010

  Workshop: afternoon of Thursday 08 July 2010

For more information about the workshop as it develops see

                               http://evolearn.org

To be able to post information there, register for a login
(we ask only for a login name and a valid e-mail address).

Organizers
  Stuart W. Card <cards at ntcnet.com>
  Yossi Borenstein < yos <dot> bor <at> gmail <dot> com >

GECCO is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Special Interest Group on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (SIGEVO).
SIG Services: 2 Penn Plaza, Suite 701, New York, NY, 10121, USA,
1-800-342-6626 (USA and Canada) or +212-626-0500 (Global).
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