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[Dott. Federico Rajola]

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>>From gadistr@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil Tue Oct 14 00:58:35 1997
>Date: Mon, 13 Oct 97 19:05:50 EDT
>From: gadistr@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil (GA List Moderator)
>To: frj@aixmiced.mi.unicatt.it
>Subject: GA-List v11n37
>
>Genetic Algorithms Digest Monday, October 13, 1997 Volume 11 : Issue 
>37
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>Today's Topics:
>
>       - Discrete Dynamics Lab update
>       - McDonnell Centennial Fellowships
>       - knapsack problem
>       - Emerging Technologies Workshop 1997
>       - WSC3: 1st CFP
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>CALENDAR OF GA-RELATED ACTIVITIES: (with GA-List issue reference)
>
>EA97 Evolution Artificielle, Nimes, France          (v11n10/34) Oct 
>21-24, 97
>Evol Computation for Industrial Applications,New Zealand (v11n3)Nov 
>24-28, 97
>EuroGen97 Short course GAs & ESs / Comp Sci & Eng (v11n5)  Nov 28 - 
>Dec 5, 97
>AI97 Australian Joint Conference on AI, Perth, Australia (v11n30)   
>Dec 1, 97
>ET97 Emerging Tech Wkshp on Theory and App of EC, London (v11n37)  
>Dec 15, 97
>SAC98 GAs and Optimization Track, Atlanta, Georgia (v11n17) Feb 27- 
>Mar 1, 98
>EP98 7th Conf on Evolutionary Programming, San Diego (v11n18)   Mar 
>25-27, 98
>EUROGP98 1st European Workshop on GP, Paris            (v11n33) Apr 
>14-15, 98
>PAKDD98 Pacific-Asia Conf on Knowl Disc and Data Mining(v11n33) Apr 
>15-17, 98
>EVOROBOT98 Euro Workshop on Evolutionary Robotics,Paris (v11n34)Apr 
>16-17, 98
>ACDM98 Adaptive Comp in Design & Manufacture, Plymouth (v11n3)  Apr 
>21-23, 98
>ICEC98 Intl Conf on Evol Computation, Anchorage, Alaska (v11n22)  
>May 4-9, 98
>ISORA98 Learning Cyclic Control/Behavior in Robots,Alaska(v11n8)May 
>10-14, 98
>FLAIRS98 Sanibel Island, Florida                       (v11n34) May 
>17-20, 98
>WSC3 World Conference on Soft Computing, Internet     (v11n37) June 
>21-30, 98
>ICGI98 Intl Colloq on Grammatical Inference, Ames, IA (v11n31)  Jul 
>12-14, 98
>TARK Conf on Theor Asp of Rationality & Knowl, Evanston (v11n33)Jul 
>22-24, 98
>GP98 Genetic Programming Conference, Madison, WI (v11n23/25)    Jul 
>22-25, 98
>SAB98 Intl Conf of the Soc for Adaptive Behavior, Zurich(v11n35)Aug 
>17-21, 98
>ECAI98 13th European Conference on AI, Brighton, UK (v11n31)    Aug 
>23-28, 98
>HIC98 Intl Conf on Hydroinformatics, Copenhagen, Denmark(v11n13)Aug 
>24-26, 98
>NC98 Intl ICSC/IFAC Symposium on Neural Comp, Vienna   (v11n35) Sep 
>23-25, 98
>FOGA98 Foundations of Genetic Algorithms, Amsterdam    (v11n29) Sep 
>24-26, 98
>ICES98 Intl Conf on Evolvable Systems, Lausanne, Switz (v11n11) Sep 
>24-26, 98
>PPSN98 Parallel Problem Solving from Nature,Amsterdam(v11n16)Sep 
>27-Oct 1, 98
>
>  
>http://www.aic.nrl.navy.mil/galist/info/conferences/CONFERENCES.html 
>has
>  more information on the above conference activities. Send 
>announcements of
>  other activities to GA-List@aic.nrl.navy.mil.
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 17:23:29 -0600
>From: Andy Wuensche <wuensch@santafe.edu>
>Subject: Discrete Dynamics Lab update
>
>Announcing the Sept 97 update of "Discrete Dynamics Lab"
>for investigating discrete dynamical networks
>ranging from Cellular Automata to Random Boolean Networks.
>Check the DDLab web site
>http://www.santafe.edu/~wuensch/ddlab.html
>for further details.
>
>Compiled versions of DDLab are available for
>UNIX/XWindows/Sun, Linux/PC and DOS/PC
>
>In this update a number of interesting new features have been added
>to DDLab, including a larger maximum neighbourhood size (13),
>sequential as well as parallel updating, "hypercube" connections
>and probabilistic networks.
>
>A brief description of DDLab is given below.
>___________________________________________
>Andy Wuensche
>Santa Fe Institute
>1399 Hyde Park, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
>tel 505 984-8800 fax 505 982-0565
>wuensch@santafe.edu
>http://www.santafe.edu/~wuensch/
>http://www.santafe.edu/~wuensch/ddlab.html
>___________________________________________
>
>DDLab is an interactive graphics program for research into the
>dynamics of finite binary networks, relevant to the study of
>complexity, emergent phenomena, neural networks, and aspects of
>theoretical biology such as gene regulatory networks. A network can
>be set up with any architecture between regular CA (1d or 2d) and
>"random Boolean networks" (networks with arbitrary connections
>and heterogeneous rules). The network may also have
>heterogeneous neighborhood sizes.
>
>The program iterates the network forward to display space-time
>patterns, and also runs the network "backwards" to generate a
>pattern's predecessors and reconstruct its branching sub-tree of all
>ancestor patterns. For smaller networks, sub-trees, basins of
>attraction or the whole basin of attraction field can be 
>reconstructed
>and displayed as a directed graph or set of graphs in real time.
>
>The network's parameters, and the graphics display and presentation
>options, can be flexibly set, reviewed and altered, including changes
>(mutations) "on the fly". Various statistical measures and data are
>available. Learning/forgetting algorithms allow "sculpting" attractor
>basins to approach a desired scheme of hierarchical categorization.
>___________________________________________
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 12:49:25 -0400
>From: "Susan" <susan@jsmf.org>
>Subject: McDonnell Centennial Fellowships
>
>DEADLINE APPROACHING!!!
>
>
>CALL FOR PROPOSALS
>James S. McDonnell Centennial Fellowships
>The James S. McDonnell Foundation will award up to 10 $1,000,000 
>research
>fellowships to early career scientists and scholars.   The 
>fellowships will
>be awarded across five areas:
> astrophysics and cosmology
> human cognition
>global and complex systems
> human genetics
>history and philosophy of science
>
>Applications are due December 15, 1997.  All information and 
>application
>guidelines are available at www.jsmf.org or can be obtained via 
>email by
>contacting centennial@jsmf.org, or by writing Centennial Fellowship
>Program, James S. McDonnell Foundation, 1034 South Brentwood Blvd, 
>Suite
>1850, Saint Louis, MO 63117 USA .
>
>
>
>
>Susan M. Fitzpatrick, Ph.D.
>Program Officer
>James S. McDonnell Fdn
>1034 South Brentwood Blvd, Suite 1850
>St. Louis, Mo 63117
>email: susan@jsmf.org
>http://www.jsmf.org
>
>------------------------------
>
>From: huxin <huxin@rjgc.whu.edu.cn>
>Subject: knapsack problem
>Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 10:18:08 +-800
>
>       Can anyone give me some WWW sites or related information about
>solving 0-1 knapsack problem via GAs?
>
>e-mail to:huxin@rjgc.whu.edu.cn
>
>------------------------------
>
>Subject: Emerging Technologies Workshop 1997
>Date: Thu, 09 Oct 1997 12:07:11 +0100
>From: Kanta Vekaria <K.Vekaria@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
>
>
>
>
>                         CALL FOR PAPERS
>
>                    Emerging Technologies '97:
>        Theory and Application of Evolutionary Computation
>
>           University College London, 15th December 1997
>
>
>The Emerging Technologies (ET) workshop series provides a forum for
>presenting and discussing current and future research directions in 
>areas
>directly relevant to industry. Innovations presented at the ET 
>workshops
>aim to predict areas of major change in IT within the next two to 
>five
>years.
>
>The workshop is aimed at academic researchers, business consultants 
>and
>managers. We encourage those who are interested in understanding the
>future directions of IT to attend the workshop and contribute to the
>fruitful exchange of ideas.
>
>Each ET workshop has a different theme. Last year's theme was 
>Software -
>The Next Generation and this year it is Theory and Application of
>Evolutionary Computation.
>
>Topics of interest for ET'97 include, but are not limited to:
>
>* Genetic Algorithms                     * Forecasting
>* Genetic Programming                    * Scheduling
>* Evolutionary Optimisation Techniques   * Modelling and Simulation
>* Evolving Agents                        * Information Routing and 
>Filtering
>* Reinforcement Search and Learning      * Data Mining and Profiling
>
>Submission
>
>Presentation papers should be in English, single-sided, A4 size, not
>longer than 15 un-numbered pages, using Springer-Verlag LNCS style.
>Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings and 
>may be
>re-published elsewhere. Please email papers in PostScript format to
>ET97@ibm.net The deadline for submission is 15th November 1997. 
>Authors
>will be notified by 1st December 1997.
>
>The ET workshop series is an initiative of the Information Systems 
>Research
>Group (ISRG) in the Department of Computer Science at UCL. For more
>information, please visit http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/isrg/et97/
>
>
>General Chair:    Chris Clack
>Programme Chairs: Kanta Vekaria and Nadav Zin
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Fri, 10 Oct 97 09:30:16
>From: "Roy, Rajkumar" <RRoy@cim.cran.ac.uk>
>Subject: WSC3: 1st CFP
>
>
>                    First Call for Papers and On-line Tutorials
>
>                    3rd Online World Conference on Soft Computing
>                       in Engineering Design and Manufacturing
>                                        (WSC3)
>
>                                 21-30 June 1998
>                          On the Internet (World-Wide Web)
>
>                                   Hosted by:
>                    Cranfield University, United Kingdom
>                          University of Bath, United Kingdom
>                          Nagoya University, Japan
>                        Michigan State University, USA
>                    University of Cape Town, South Africa
>
>
>                                  WSC3 Servers:
>                         http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/wsc3/
>                    http://www.bath.ac.uk/Departments/Eng/wsc3/
>                http://www.bioele.nuee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/wsc3/
>                      http://garage.cps.msu.edu/wsc3/
>
>
>     OVERVIEW:
>
>     Original papers and on-line tutorial proposals are invited for 
>the 3rd
>     Online World Conference on Soft Computing (WSC3) to be held on 
>the
>     Internet. WSC3 will bring together practitioners and 
>researchers in
>     soft computing in engineering design and manufacturing across 
>the world
>     with the aim to publish quality research rapidly and with less 
>cost.
>
>     Special features of WSC3 are:
>
>        * Good Quality Original Papers
>        * Invited Key Papers
>        * Virtual Exhibition
>        * On-line Tutorials
>        * Virtual panel discussions
>        * Best Paper Prizes
>        * Possible publication of selected papers in a journal
>
>     WSC3 is the premier online event on soft computing and its
application to
>     engineering design and manufacturing. The previous events are:
>     WSC1 (http://www.bioele.nuee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/wsc1) and
>     WSC2 (http://www.zen.co.uk/cim.inst/wsc2/)
>
>     TOPICS OF INTEREST:
>
>     The scope of this conference covers the following soft 
>computing and
>     related techniques and their application to engineering design 
>and
>     manufacturing:
>
>          Fuzzy Logic
>          Neural Networks
>          Evolutionary Computing
>          Other Stochastic Optimisation Techniques
>          Hybrid Methods
>          Intelligent Agents and Agent Theory
>          Causal Models
>          Data Mining
>          Probabilistic Reasoning
>          Case-based Reasoning
>          Chaos Theory
>          Interactive Computational Models
>
>     The application areas of interest include but are not limited 
>to :
>
>          Decision Support
>          Process and System Control
>          System Identification and Modelling
>          Optimisation
>          Signal or Image Processing
>          Vision or Pattern Recognition
>          Condition Monitoring
>          Fault Diagnosis
>          Systems Integration
>          Innovation
>          Collaborative Work
>          Internet Tools
>          Extended Enterprise
>
>     Conference tracks will cover the following THEMES:
>
>          1. General problem solving issues in different areas of
>          engineering design and manufacturing and how Soft 
>Computing can
>          address those issues more effectively than the conventional
>          techniques.
>
>          2. Successful industrial applications and case studies;
>          application methodologies; Good Practice Guides on soft 
>computing
>          applications.
>
>          3. Soft computing architectures; practical models of soft
>          computing; computational costs.
>
>          4. Prototypes and tools for soft computing; 
>Internet-accessible
>          tools; distributed soft agents.
>
>          5. Human-computer interaction (HCI), social and Legal 
>issues
>          (copyright, IPR), international standards.
>
>     In addition to research papers, the conference also welcomes 
>good
surveys
>     and tutorial-style papers.
>
>     WSC3 CONFERENCE SCHEDULE:
>
>       Now:   Expression of interest
>       1 Dec: Extended Abstracts due (500 words)
>       1 Jan: Provisional Acceptance (Prog Chairs' decision)
>       1 Mar: Full Papers due
>       1 May: Acceptance and review feedback to authors
>       1 Jun: Final manuscripts due
>       8 Jun: HTML version of the paper and a link to on-line
>         presentations due
>
>       Dates for On-line Tutorials:
>         1 Mar: Proposals for Tutorials due
>         1 Apr: Acceptance and Review Feedback of Tutorial proposals
>         1 May: Tutorial servers ready/due
>
>       Dates for Bookings and Registration:
>         15 Apr: Deadline for Virtual Exhibition Bookings
>         1  Jun: Deadline for Tutorial Registrations
>         19 Jun: Deadline for Conference Registrations
>
>       Conference Schedule:
>         1 May-1 Aug: Virtual Exhibition
>         1-14 June:   On-line Tutorials
>         15-20 June:  Conference Preview week
>         21-30 June:  WSC3 Conference
>
>
>     SUBMISSION PROCEDURE AND PUBLICATION:
>
>     Full papers will be required in HTML version AND Postcript 
>form. On-line
>     presentation about the papers is compulsory. Only the 
>presentations can
>     use multimedia. For further details please follow the 
>instructions
>     published in WSC3 home page after few weeks.
>
>     Full papers will be "blind reviewed" by a panel of referees 
>prior to
>     their acceptance. Authors are expected to make all necessary 
>changes
>     as suggested by the reviewers before the final submission of 
>full
>     paper manuscript.
>
>     The WSC3 post-conference proceedings including all accepted 
>papers
will be
>     published both in an On-line version and a Hardcopy version. 
>Expanded
>     version of selected papers will be considered for publication 
>in a
journal
>     after the conference.
>
>     OFFICIAL LANGUAGE:
>
>     All papers and on-line discussion during the conference will be
>in English.
>     Main texts in the HTML and Postscript files should only include
>     International Latin-2 character set, and Greek symbols for 
>mathematical
>     expressions.
>
>     CONFERENCE FORMAT:
>
>     WSC3 will be held on-line on the World Wide Web. This means that
>there will
>     be contents of both static and dynamic nature. Full contents 
>will be
>     accessible only to the REGISTERED participants. However there 
>will be
some
>     information that will be accessible to everyone over the 
>Internet
without
>     restriction.
>
>     The conference will consist of three parts: On-line Tutorial 
>Sessions,
>     Technical Sessions and a Virtual Exhibition. For details about 
>each
>     part please follow the information in WSC3 servers.
>
>     VIRTUAL EXHIBITION of commercial, industrial and academic 
>stands will
>     complement the technical programme of WSC3. The exhibition in 
>WSC2 was
>     a great success. It will present information on commercial 
>products,
>     industrial projects and academic research groups related to soft
>     computing and engineering design & manufacturing. Companies and
>     professional organisations interested in the development or use 
>of
>     soft computing will also be welcome to present their 
>perspective.
>
>     CONFERENCE SPONSORSHIP WANTED:
>
>     WSC3 provides an excellent opportunity for Companies and 
>Professional
>     Institutions to influence future trends and promote leadership 
>in soft
>     computing, engineering design and manufacturing by way of 
>sponsorship.
>     Please visit WSC3 servers for further information and to 
>sponsor WSC3.
>
>     AWARDS:
>
>     The conference will recognise excellence of contributions in a 
>number of
>     ways and the following five awards will be made at the end of 
>the
>     conference: Best Overall Paper Award, Best Presentation Award, 
>Best
>     On-line Tutorial Award, Best Industrial Stand Award, Best 
>Academic Stand
>     Award
>
>     INTERNATIONAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE:
>
>      Rajkumar Roy, Cranfield Univ. (UK) - Conference Chair
>      Yasuhiko Dote, Muroran Inst. of Tech. (Japan) - Int. Co-Chair
>      Takeshi Furuhashi, Nagoya Univ. (Japan) - Program Co-Chair
>      Pravir K. Chawdhry, Univ. of Bath (UK) - Program Co-Chair
>      Ivanoe De Falco, IRSIP - CNR (Italy) - Virtual Exhibition Chair
>      Wallace E. Kelly, III, Texas A&M Univ. (USA) - On-line 
>Tutorial Chair
>      Jeffrey Goldberg, Cranfield Univ. (UK) - Local Organisation 
>Chair
>
>     INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE (to be expanded):
>
>     Prof. Zbigniew Michalewicz, University of North Carolina, USA
>     Prof. D T Pham, University of Wales Cardiff, UK
>     Prof. Norenkov Igor, Moscow State Technical University, RUSSIA
>     Prof. Rajkumar Pant, IIT Bombay, INDIA
>     Prof. Vladimir Kvasnicka, Slovak Technical University, SLOVAKIA
>     Prof. Prabhat Hajela, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
>     Prof. Kay Hameyer, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BELGIUM
>     Dr. Tadashi Iokibe, Meidensha Corporation, JAPAN
>     Prof. Erik D. Goodman, Michigan State University, USA
>     Prof. John S. Gero, University of Sydney, AUSTRALIA
>     Prof. Witold Pedrycz, University of Manitoba, CANADA
>     Prof. Antonio A. R. Coelho, Univ. Federal de Santa Catarina, 
>BRAZIL
>     Prof. V.A. Zarubin, Samara State Aerospace University, RUSSIA
>     Dr. Frank Hoffmann, BISC, University of California, USA
>     Dr. Phil Culverhouse, University of Plymouth, UK
>     Dr. John Greene, University of Cape Town, South Africa
>     Prof. Asim Roy, Arizona State University, USA
>     Prof. Noel Sharkey, University of Sheffield, UK
>     Dr. Alex H B Duffy, University of Strathclyde, UK
>     Dr. Riccardo Poli, The University of Birmingham, UK
>     Dr. Antony Satyadas, Flexible Intelligence Group, USA
>     Prof. Okyay Kaynak, Bogazici University, TURKEY
>     Dr. Dr Xin Yao, Australian Defence Force Academy, AUSTRALIA
>     Prof. Elie Sanchez, University of Marseille, FRANCE
>     Prof. SongDe MA, Chinese Academy of Sciences, CHINA
>     Mr. Steve Thornton, British Steel, UK
>     Ir.C.M.Kalker-Kalkman, Delft University, THE NETHERLANDS
>     Prof. Sung-Bae Cho, Yonsei University, KOREA
>     Prof. Vladislav Valkovsky, St.Petersburg Electrotechnical 
>Univ., RUSSIA
>     Dr. George Bilchev, BT Laboratories, UK
>     Dr. Dorigo Marco, Universite' Libre de Bruxelles, BELGIUM
>     Prof. Nik  Kasabov, University of Otago, NEW ZEALAND
>
>     CONTACTS:
>
>     1. Submission of Extended Abstract:
>
>        Takeshi Furuhashi
>        WSC3 Program Co-Chair
>        Fax.+81-52-789-3166
>        Email: furuhashi@nuee.nagoya-u.ac.jp and wsc3@cim.cran.ac.uk
>
>     2. Submission of On-line Tutorial Proposals:
>
>        Wallace E. Kelly, III
>        WSC3 On-line Tutorial Chair
>        Email: wkelly@computer.org and wsc3@cim.cran.ac.uk
>
>     3. Booking Virtual Exhibition Stand and enquiry:
>
>        Ivanoe De Falco
>        WSC3 Virtual Exhibition Chair
>        Email: ivan@irsip.na.cnr.it and wsc3@cim.cran.ac.uk
>
>
>     For FURTHER INFORMATION and ENQUIRIES, registration, 
>sponsorship,
>     and advertisement please contact the Conference Chair:
>
>          Rajkumar Roy
>          WSC3 Virtual Conference Office
>          (wsc3@cim.cranfield.ac.uk)
>          The CIM Institute
>          Cranfield University
>          Cranfield, Bedford MK43 0AL
>          United Kingdom
>          Tel. +44 (0)1234 750111 Ext. 2860 or 754073
>          Fax. +44 (0)1234 750852
>          Email: rroy@cim.cranfield.ac.uk or r.roy@ieee.org
>
>
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>
>     Please send the form to: wsc3@cim.cranfield.ac.uk  with
'WSC3-exp-int' as
>     subject (without the single quotes).
>
>     Expression of Interest Form
>
>     Name:
>     Position:
>     Affiliation :
>     Address :
>     Phone :
>     Fax :
>     E-mail :
>     Home URL:
>
>     I am interested in (pl. DELETE the one you are NOT interested):
>
>     Submission of paper/proposing an on-line tutorial/attending a 
>tutorial/
>     booking a stall in the Virtual Exhibition/sponsoring 
>WSC3/attending the
>      conference only/advertising in WSC3 home pages
>
>------------------------------
>
>End of Genetic Algorithms Digest
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>
>
>
____________________________________________

Dott. Federico Rajola
Istituto di Economia Aziendale
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
via L. Necchi, 5
20123 Milano - Italy

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