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2 Mar 2001


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Subject: [GI-FB5-L] CFP: ROPNET-2001 Workshop at GECCO-2001
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 09:49:32 -0600
From: Franz Rothlauf rothlauf@illigal.ge.uiuc.edu
To: gi-fb5-l@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de
3rd and last  Call for participation
        	           Extended deadline!!
ROPNET-2001
REPRESENTATIONS AND OPERATORS FOR
                        NETWORK PROBLEMS
Bird-of-a-feather Workshop
                         at the
       Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2001
                       ( GECCO-2001 )
San Francisco, California, July 7 - 11, 2001 (Saturday - Wednesday)
           	http://www.isgec.org/GECCO-2001/
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission deadline:             	March 12, 2001
Decisions will be mailed by:           	April 5, 2001
Submissions of camera-ready papers:   	April 20, 2001
Presentation:                          	July 7, 2001
WORKSHOP SUMMARY
Finding good solutions for network design problems is important in many
 fields such as telecommunications, computer, backbone access, transportation
 and distribution networks. Over the  last years genetic algorithms have been
 applied with success to a wide variety of these different problems. One of
 the major design issues is how the network could be represented as an
 artificial chromosome and what kind of operators could be defined on the
 chromosome.
The workshop is intended to give an overview over the existing approaches
  and to discuss various  representations and operators in the context of
  genetic and evolutionary computation. It should compare theoretical
 properties and empirical performance characteristics of different
 representations and operators and try to find explanations for performance
 differences of a genetic algorithm. The workshop will be focused on
 representations and operators for network problems, but it welcomes
 interesting contributions to encoding issues that are meaningful for network
 representations.
PARTICIPATION
Presentations will be selected according to the submitted 10-page
     papers which will be reviewed by at least two members of the
     international program committee. Accepted papers will be available
     in electronic form before the workshop. Abbreviated versions of
     the papers will be later published in the workshop proceedings.
     The length of each paper will be determined by the number of
     accepted papers.
For more detailed submission guidelines and recent updates,
     see the workshop pages at
     http://btw6x2.oec.uni-bayreuth.de/ropnet/
WORKSHOP CHAIR
Franz Rothlauf
Department of Information Systems
      University of Bayreuth
      95445 Bayreuthn
      Germany
      rothlauf@uni-bayreuth.de
      Tel/Fax: +49 921 55 2819, +49 921 55 2216
Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory
      104 S. Mathews Ave.
      University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
      Urbana, IL 61801
      rothlauf@illigal.ge.uiuc.edu
ATTENDANCE
Attendance to the workshop is open to all GECCO attendees.
Further information will be posted on the workshop web pages
     ( http://btw6x2.oec.uni-bayreuth.de/ropnet/ ).
We are looking forward to your participation at the first
    workshop ROPNET-2001 which is a great opportunity to meet and
    discuss the covered topics for researchers in this area of
    research as well as the ones who would like to learn more
    about representations and networks.
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