Evolutionary Digest # 18 (reszlet) From: fogel(a)ece.UCSD.EDU (Fogel) Date: Tue, 21 Dec 93 13:48:59 PST Subject: EP94 registration and program Dear Colleagues: I'm sending along a registration form for EP94 followed by the preliminary program. If you want to register by email, please send your registration to Bill Porto, finance chair, at porto(a)orincon.com and then follow it up with regular mail. If you have any questions regarding the conference, please either send them to me, or to Bill Porto as you deem appropriate. Best wishes for the holidays, David _________________________________________________ REGISTRATION FORM FOR THE THIRD ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON EVOLUTIONARY PROGRAMMING (EP94) February 24-26, 1994 Sheraton Harbor Island Hotel San Diego, CA, USA Sponsored by the Evolutionary Programming Society In Cooperation with the IEEE Neural Networks Council Please Indicate Your Form of Registration: Full Registration: (All three days/proceedings/banquet) EP Society or IEEE Member: Before Jan. 15, 1994: $225 After Jan. 15, 1994: $275 Non-Member: Before Jan. 15, 1994: $275 After Jan. 15, 1994: $325 Single Day Registration: (Includes proceedings but not banquet) Before Jan. 15, 1994: $100 After Jan. 15, 1994: $150 Student Registration: (No proceedings/no banquet/ID require) EP Society or IEEE Member: Before Jan. 15, 1994: $20/day After Jan. 15, 1994: $30/day Non-Member: Before Jan. 15, 1994: $30/day After Jan. 15, 1994: $40/day Tickets for the banquet can be purchased at the conference on a space available basis. The banquet speaker will be Dr. Gerald Joyce of Scripps Clinic and Research Institute. Papers are due at the conference and the proceedings will be published by World Scientific and distributed within four months. Total Registration in US$:______________ Please Indicate Form of Payment: Check in US$ (make payable to "EP94") VISA/MC __________________________________ Signature ________________________________ Date _____________________________________ Name _____________________________________ Affiliation ______________________________ Address __________________________________ City/State/Zip ___________________________ Country __________________________________ Mail to: Evolutionary Programming Society EP94 - Registration 9363 Towne Centre Dr. San Diego, CA 92121 Attn: Bill Porto, Finance Chair _________________________________________________ Preliminary Program for The Third Annual Conference on Evolutionary Programming February 24-26, 1994 Sheraton Harbor Island Hotel San Diego, CA, USA Sponsored by the Evolutionary Programming Society In Cooperation with the IEEE Neural Networks Council General Chairman: A.V. Sebald, U.C.S.D. Technical Program Chairman: L.J. Fogel, Natural Selection, Inc. Thursday, February 24, 1994 Registration: 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. 8:30 a.m. - 9:15 a.m. Plenary Talk: "An Introduction to Simulated Evolution" D.B. Fogel, Natural Selection, Inc. 9:15 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. -- Break 9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Evolving Neural Networks Session Chair: V.W. Porto, ORINCON Corporation "Evolving Neural Networks" - - P.J. Angeline, IBM - - G.M Saunders, J.B. Pollack, The Ohio State Univ. "Neural Network Construction using Evolutionary Programming" - - J.R. McDonnell, W.C. Page, NCCOSC - - D. Waagen, TRW "Growing Universal Neural Networks using GESA" - - P.P.C. Yip, Y.-H. Pao, Case Western Res. "Generalization in Populations of Recurrent Neural Networks" - - T.M. English, Texas Tech. Univ. 11:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. -- Break 11:15 a.m. - 12:00 noon Evolution Strategies Session Chair: H.-P. Schwefel, Univ. Dortmund "Improved Global Convergence by Means of Collective Learning" - - R. Salomon, R. Pfeifer, Tech. Univ. Berlin "Neighborhood Model Evolution Strategies" - - J. Sprave, Univ. Dortmund 12:00 noon - 1:15 p.m. -- Lunch 1:15 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Evolutionary Image Processing and Clustering Session Chairman: M.A. Zmuda, Wright Laboratories "Evolving Wavelet Compression Strategies" - - D. Waagen, J. Argast, TRW - - J.R. McDonnell, NCCOSC "E-MORPH: A Two-Phased Learning System for Evolving Morphological Classificatio" - - M.M. Rizki, Wright State Univ. - - L.A. Tamburino, M.A. Zmuda, Wright Lab. "Classifier Design using Evolutionary Programming" - - T.W. Brotherton, D.B. Fogel, P.K. Simpson, T. Pollard, ORINCON Corp. "An EP Clustering Algorithm for Short and Long Term Memory Paradigms" - - M. Bower, Martin Marrietta "Automatic Control of Physically Realistic Animated Figures using Evolutionary Programming" - - A. Fukunaga, J.T. Ngo, Harvard Univ. - - J. Marks, Digital Equipment Corp. 3:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. -- Break 3:15 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Hybrid Evolutionary Computation Session Chairman: Z. Michalewicz, Univ. North Carolina "Evolutionary Operators for Continuous Convex Parameter Spaces" - - Z. Michalewicz, T.D. Logan, S. Swaminathan, U.N.C.C. "Evolutionary Optimization of Constrained Problems" - - Z. Michalewicz, U.N.C.C. - - N.F. Attia, Johnson Smith Univ. 4:00 p.m. - 4:10 p.m. -- Break 4:10 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Biological Application of Simulated Evolution Session Chairman: G.B. Fogel, U.C.L.A. "Application of Evolutionary Algorithm to the Structure- Activity Relationship" - - I.V. Tetko, V.Y. Tanchuk, A.I. Luik Inst. Bioorganic Petro. Chemistry "Evolving Continuous Behaviors in the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma" - - D.B. Fogel, Natural Selection, Inc. - - P.G. Harrald, Simon Fraser Univ. 7:00 p.m. Banquet Banquet Speaker: "A Massively Parallel Analog System for Evolutionary Optimization: The Wetware Approach" G.F. Joyce, Scripps Clin. Res. Inst. Friday, February 25, 1994 Registration: 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. 8:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Cultural Algorithms Session Chairman: R.G. Reynolds, Wayne State Univ. "An Introduction to Cultural Algorithms," - -R.G. Reynolds, Wayne State Univ. "Modelling the Evolution of Cooperation Using Cultural Algorithms" - - R.G. Reynolds, Wayne State Univ. "Learning to Understand Software using Cultural Algorithms" - - R. Posner and R.G. Reynolds, Wayne State Univ. "A Region-Growing Approach to Edge Detection Based Upon Cultulral Algorithms" - - W. Sverdlik, Lawrence Tech. Univ. - - R.G. Reynolds, Wayne State Univ. "Optimal Rate Concept Acquisition using Cultural Algorithms" - - W.G. Brown, Jackson State Univ. - - R.G. Reynolds, Wayne State Univ. 10:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. -- Break 10:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Evolutionary Control and Identification Session Chairman: J.R. McDonnell, NCCOSC "Reinforcement Learning using Evolutionary Programming" - - N. Saravanan, Florida Atlantic Univ. "Behavior-Based Control for Autonomous Systems" - - J.B. Watson, Columbus Research Lab. "Evolving Neural Networks to Control Unstable Dynamical Systems" - - P. Pratt, Imperial College Sci. Tech. Med. "Evolution of Neural Networks by Implicit Specification" - - A.S. Austin, Beckman Instruments Inc. "Evolutionary Optimization of State Space Representation of Experimental Data" - - J.L. Breeden, Prediction Company 12:30 p.m. - 1:45 -- Lunch 1:45 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. Genetic Programming Session Chairman: P.J. Angeline, IBM "Genetic Programming: Myths and Facts" - - P.J. Angeline, IBM "Scalability and Generalization in Genetic Programs: The Donut Problem" - - W. Tackett, Hughes Missile Syst. Comp. "The Evolution of Evolvability in Genetic Programming" - - L. Altenberg, Duke University "Scalable Learning in Genetic Programming Using Automatic Function Definition" - - J. Koza, Stanford University 3:45p.m. - 4:00 p.m. -- Break 4:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. Panel Discussion: The Fundamental Questions of Evolutionary Design: An Open Discussion Panelists: - -W. Atmar, AICS Research, Inc. - -M.E. Gilpin, U.C.S.D. - -G.F. Joyce, Scripps Clin. Res. Inst. - -P. Mabee, San Diego State Univ. Saturday, February 26, 1994 Registration: 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Foundations of Evolutionary Algorithms Session Chairman: A.V. Sebald, U.C.S.D. "An Empirical Evaluation of the Gaussian Mutation Function in Evolutionary Programming" - - M. Davis, New Mexico State Univ. "Controlled Offspring Generation in Evolutionary Programming" - - G.P. Babu, M. Murty, Indian Inst. Science "Evolution of Two: An Example of Space of States Approach" - - R. Galar, I. Karcz-Duleba. Tech. Univ. Wroclaw "Learning of Strategy Parameters in Evolutionary Programming: An Empirical Study" - - N. Saravanan, Florida Atlantic Univ. 10:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. -- Break 10:15 a.m. - 11:45 noon Genetic Algorithms Session Chairman: W.M. Spears, Navy Research Lab. "POPULATION STRUCTURE AND GA PERFORMANCE" - - B. MANDERICK, EUR - - P. SPIESSENS, VUB "An Evolutionary Algorithm for Syntax Parsing" - - J.L. Johnson, Western Washington Univ. "SIMPLE SUBPOPULATION SCHEMES" - - W.M. SPEARS, NAVY RESEARCH LAB. "EVOLVING COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATING CLASSIFIER SYSTEMS" - - L. BULL, T.C. FOGARTY, UNIV. WEST ENGLAND 11:45 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. -- Lunch 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 pm. Evolutionary Computing Session Chair: R. Freund, NCCOSC "Tuning Computer CPU Scheduling Algorithms using Evolutionary Programming" - - B. Andersen, NCCOSC "Function Optimization and Parallel Evolutionary Programming on the MasPar MP-1" - - K.M. Nelson, Florida Atlantic Univ. 2:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. -- Break 2:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. Speculations Session Chair: D.B. Fogel, Natural Selection, Inc. "GROWING AN ARTIFICIAL BRAIN: THE GENETIC PROGRAMMING OF MILLION-NEURAL-NET-MODULE ARTIFICIAL BRAINS WITH TRILLION CELL CELLULAR AUTOMATA MACHINES" - - H. DE GARIS, ATR HUM. INFO. PROC. RES. "Exploratory Modeling: Search Through Spaces of Computational Experiments" - - S. Bankes, RAND "REMARKS ON PROGRESS INSPIRED BY EVOLUTIONARY SIMULATIONS" - - R. GALAR, TECH. UNIV. OF WROCLAW "Evolutionary Algorithms in Economics: A View" - - P.G. Harrald, Simon Fraser Univ. 3:45 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. -- Break 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Panel Discussion: The Future of Evolutionary Computation Moderator: - - A.V. Sebald, U.C.S.D. Panelists: - - K.A. De Jong, George Mason Univ. - - L.J. Fogel, Natural Selection, Inc. - - H.-P. Schwefel, Univ. Dortmund - - C. Taylor, U.C.L.A. (email is porto(a)orincon.com)