-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [computational.science] SEAL'06: Deadline Approaching Datum: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 11:07:40 +0800 Von: Wenjian Luo wjluo@ustc.edu.cn Organisation: "OptimaNumerics" An: Computational Science Mailing List computational.science@lists.optimanumerics.com

New deadlines: April 28, 2006: Deadline for Submission of Papers April 28, 2006: Deadline for Special Session Proposals

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The Sixth International Conference on Simulated Evolution And Learning (SEAL'06) 15-18 October 2006, Hefei, Anhui, China

Hosted and Sponsored by Nature Inspired Computation and Applications Laboratory (NICAL) Department of Computer Science and Technology University of Science and Technology of China Hefei, Anhui 230027, China

http://nical.ustc.edu.cn/seal06/

AIMS AND SCOPES ---------------

Evolution and learning are two fundamental forms of adaptation. SEAL'06 is the sixth biennial conference in the highly successful series that aims at exploring these two forms of adaptation and their roles and interactions in adaptive systems. Cross-fertilisation between evolutionarylearning and other machine learning approaches, such as neural network learning, reinforcement learning, decision tree learning, fuzzy system learning, etc., will be strongly encouraged by the conference. The other major theme of the conference is optimisation by evolutionary and other nature inspired approaches. The topics of interest to this conference include but are not limited to the following:

1. Evolutionary Learning

Fundamental Issues in Evolutionary Learning Co-Evolutionary Learning Modular Evolutionary Learning Systems Classifier Systems Representation Issues in Evolutionary Learning Artificial Immune Systems Interactions Between Learning and Evolution Credit Assignment Swarm Intelligence Collective Intelligence Comparison between Evolutionary Learning and Other Learning Approaches,

2. Evolutionary Optimisation

Combinatorial Optimisation Numerical/Function Optimisation (e.g., scheduling, allocation, planning, Hybrid Optimisation Algorithms packing, transportation, etc.) Comparison of Algorithms Nature-Inspired Algorithms (ant colony optimisation, particle swarm optimisation, memetic algorithms, simulated annealing, ...)

3. Hybrid Learning

Evolutionary Artificial Neural Networks Evolutionary Fuzzy Systems Evolutionary Reinforcement Learning Evolutionary Clustering Evolutionary Decision Tree Learning Evolutionary Unsupervised Learning Genetic Programming Other Hybrid Learning Systems Developmental Processes

4. Adaptive Systems

Complexity in Adaptive Systems Evolutionary Robotics Evolvable Hardware and Software Artificial Ecology Evolutionary Games Self-Repairing Systems Evolutionary Computation Techniques in Economics, Finance and Marketing

5. Theoretical Issues in Evolutionary Computation

Convergence and Convergence Rate of Evolutionary Algorithms Computational Complexity of Evolutionary Algorithms Self-Adaptation in Evolutionary Algorithms

6. Real-World Applications of Evolutionary Computation Techniques

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ----------------

Professor Karl Sigmund, University of Vienna, Austria Professor Zbigniew Michalewicz, University of Adelaide, Australia Professor Han La Poutre, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Netherlands Professor Gary Yen, Oklahoma State University, USA

IMPORTANT DATES ---------------

21 April 2006 Deadline for submission of full papers (<=8 pages) 19 June 2006 Notification of acceptance 14 July 2006 Deadline for camera-ready copies of accepted papers 15-18 October 2006 Conference sessions (including tutorials and workshops)

PAPER SUBMISSION ----------------

All manuscripts must be prepared in LaTeX according to Springer's llncs style (URL: http://www.springeronline.com/lncs). It is absolutely essential that you follow the instructions there. Each submitted paper must include a title, an abstract, a list of keywords, the names and addresses of all authors (including email addresses), and the body. The length of submitted papers must be no more than 8 single-spaced, single-column pages including all figures, tables and bibliography. Shorter papers are strongly encouraged. All papers must be submitted electronically via the conference website. Papers submitted via other means will not be considered.

PUBLICATIONS ------------

All accepted papers which are presented at the conference will be included in the conference proceedings, published by Springer in their Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. The best papers will be invited to further revise and extend their work to one of the following prestigious journal special issues: Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines (Springer), Connection Science (Taylor and Francis), International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications (World Scientific), and Journal of Computer Science and

Technology (Springer and China Computer Federation).

SPECIAL SESSIONS AND TUTORIALS ------------------------------

Special sessions and tutorials will be organised at the conference. The conference is calling for special session and tutorial proposals. The tutorials will be offered on 15 October 2006 (subject to sufficient number of registrations).

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE --------------------

General Chairs: Guo-Liang Chen (China) and Xin Yao (UK)

Programme Chairs: Xufa Wang (China) and Shu-Heng Chen (Taiwan)

Technical Co-Chairs:

Tzai-Der Wang (Taiwan) Hussein Abbass (Australia) Hitoshi Iba (Japan) Zengqi Sun (China) Bob McKay (South Korea)

Tutorials and Special Sessions Chair: Xiaodong Li (Australia)

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