From: "H.M.VOIGT" <voigt@fb10.tu-berlin.de>
Subject: CONF: Evolutionary Computation: PPSN96 Extended Deadline
Date: 31 Jan 1996 12:17:15 GMT
Message-ID: <4enmkb$an7@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany


From: "H.M.VOIGT" <voigt@fb10.tu-berlin.de>

          INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION

THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PARALLEL PROBLEM SOLVING FROM NATURE 
                                 (PPSN IV)

                      BERLIN, GERMANY, SEPTEMBER 22 - 27, 1996


                       FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

The International Conference on Evolutionary Computation - The Fourth
International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN
IV) will be held in Berlin, Germany between September 22 - 27,
1996. This meeting will bring together an international community from
academia, government and industry interested in algorithms suggested
by the unifying theme of natural computation.

Natural computation is a common name for the design, theoretical and
empirical understanding of algorithms gleaned from nature.
Characteristic for natural computation is the metaphorical use of
concepts, principles and mechanisms underlying natural systems.
Examples are genetic algorithms, evolutionary programming and
evolution strategies inspired by the evolutionary processes of
mutation, recombination, and natural selection in biology, simulated
annealing inspired by many-particle systems in physics, growth
processes in nature and economics and algorithms inspired by
multi-cellular systems like neural and immune networks.

Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:
evolution strategies, evolutionary programming, genetic algorithms and
classifier systems, other forms of evolutionary computation, simulated
annealing, neural and immune networks, machine learning and
optimization using these methods, their relations to other learning
paradigms, and mathematical description of their behaviour.

The conference program committee will particularly welcome application
papers dealing with these techniques to solve real problems in
manufacturing, design, planning and engineering provided these are of
the highest level. The application type of papers should either
exhibit outstanding performance in solving particular problems in
contrast to other techniques or address real problems of significant
and unique importance to science.

The schedule for submission of papers is:

	February 29, 1996 	Submission of full papers 
	May 1, 1996		Notification of acceptance 
	June 1, 1996		Submission of revised accepted papers 


Five copies of the full paper, not longer then 10 pages, should be sent by  mail 
to PPSN IV, Program Committee, Humboldt-University,	Institut fuer Physik, 
Lehrstuhl fuer Statistische Physik, Invalidenstra{\ss}e 110, D- 10115 Berlin, 
Germany, Tel: +49 30 2803 237, Fax: +49 30 2803 238. Electronic submissions as 
PostScript or LaTeX files should be sent using 

            http://summa.physik.hu-berlin.de/ppsn


For questions concerning submissions use e-mail


            ppsnhub@summa.physik.hu-berlin.de

For more information contact Hans-Michael Voigt, Technical University of Berlin, 
Ackerstr.71-76 (ACK1), D-13355 Berlin, Germany, Tel.: +49-30-314 72677, 
Fax:  +49-30-314 72658, voigt@fb10.tu-berlin.de. More informations are also 
available from 

            http://ftp-bionik.fb10.tu-berlin.de/ 

PPSN STEERING COMMITTEE: 

Yuval  Davidor (Israel)     		 Bernard  Manderick (Belgium) 
Kenneth  De Jong (USA)        		 Hans-Paul Schwefel (Germany) 
Hiroaki  Kitano (Japan)      		 Hans-Michael Voigt (Germany) 
Reinhard  Maenner (Germany)           

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE:

Ingo Rechenberg         		Hans-Michael Voigt
Conference Co-Chair 			Conference Co-Chair
Technical University of Berlin 		Technical University of Berlin   
                            

Werner Ebeling				Hans-Paul Schwefel
Program Co-Chair			Program Co-Chair
Humboldt-University at Berlin		University of Dortmund


PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Jarmo Alander (Finland)			Thomas Baeck (Germany)
Wolfgang Banzhaf (Germany)		Joachim Born (Germany)
Agoston E. Eiben (The Netherlands)	Hitoshi Iba (Japan)
Terry Jones (USA)			Kenneth De Jong (USA)
Yuval Davidor (Israel)			Marco Dorigo (Belgium)
Terence C. Fogarty (UK)			David Fogel (USA)
Michael Herdy (Germany)			Tetsuya Higuchi (Japan)
Phil Husbands (UK)			Hiroaki Kitano (Japan)
Reinhard Lohmann (Germany)		Reinhard Maenner (Germany)
Bernard Manderick (Belgium)		J.J. Merelo Guervos (Spain)
Jean-Arcady Meyer (France)		Zbigniew Michalewicz (USA)
Heinz Muehlenbein (Germany)		Nicholas J Radcliffe (UK)
Guenter Rudolph (Germany)		J. Dave Schaffer (USA)
Lutz Schimansky-Geier (Germany)		Marc Schoenauer (France)
William Spears (USA)			J.L. Verdegay (Spain)
Gunter P. Wagner (USA)			L. Darrell Whitley (USA)

ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE:

Michael Herdy				Cornelia Kappler			
Technical University of Berlin 		Humboldt-University at Berlin
                                 
Hans-Michael Voigt  
Technical University of Berlin