From: "Una-May O'Reilly" Subject: CFP: Canadian AI: Workshop on Evolutionary Computation Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 11:48:36 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: ---------------------- Call for Short Papers ------------------- 12th Canadian Conference on AI: Workshop on Evolutionary Computation A workshop on Evolutionary Computation will be held at Simon Fraser University the day preceeding AI-98, the Canadian conference on Artificial Intelligence. We solicit contributions describing current or recently completed projects related to research or application of evolutionary algorithms. Anticipated participants are graduate students, academics and professionals who will be attending AI-98, VI-98 or GI-98. Potential topics of interest related to Evolution Strategies, Evolutionary Programming, Genetic Algorithms or Genetic Programming are (but not restricted to): - genetic operator design - formal or experimental analysis - representation choices - inspiration from natural systems - comparison of algorithms - applications to real-world problems - applications to AI system sub-modules - practitioner insights - distributed or parallel implementations - hybridized optimization systems - evolving neural nets - artificial life Authors should submit short manuscripts (2-3 pages) formatted as postscript, adobe-acrobat, plain text or html. Contributions will be reviewed for quality and relevance. A short presentation (approx 15 minutes) will be expected of accepted submissions. The format of the workshop will be groups of presentations interleaved with general discussion motivated by the presentation topics. One purpose of the meeting will be to promote a network of researchers interested in E.C. Therefore, if you wish to attend the workshop yet not submit a manuscript, you may instead submit a brief email explaining your motivation to attend. If you would be interested in attending a 1-2 hour tutorial on evolutionary algorithms on the day of the workshop or during AI-98, send an email to: unamay@ai.mit.edu. Cost of the workshop is $30 (CDN) for non-student and 1/2 price for students. Please submit your paper electronically to: unamay@ai.mit.edu Check the WWW site for further details: http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/unamay/cai-ws-cfp.html Milestones for this workshop are as follows: April 15, 1998 Paper submission deadline May 1, 1998 Notification of acceptance and schedule Wed, June 17, 1-4 pm Workshop Organizers Franz Oppacher, School of Computer Science, Carleton University, oppacher@scs.carleton.ca, http:///www.scs.carleton.ca/people/faculty/oppacher.html Una-May O'Reilly, Artificial Intelligence Lab, MIT, unamay@ai.mit.edu http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/unamay Related Information cscsi.sfu.ca/conferences/ai98/ai98_cfp.html Information: AI-98 Conference zeppo.cs.ubc.ca:2001/aigivi98/home.html Information: AI/GI/VI-98 Conferences