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Workshop
and Summer School on Evolutionary Computing Lecture
Series by Pioneers |
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Home Check accommodation at student
village Magee Campus
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Due to low submission/attendance, technical program has been shortened to first 3 days 18-20 Aug Evolutionary systems
emerged early in the 1950s,
following pioneering work by George
Box (1953), Nils Barricelli (1954), Alex Fraser(1957), Hans Bremermann (1958),
and Richard Friedberg (1958) and have
progressed into the current active field of evolutionary computing. In the
1960s, Lawrence J. Fogel developed Evolutionary Programming, Ingo Rechenberg
and H.-P Schwefel developed Evolution Strategies during 1964-1965, John
Holland developed Genetic Algorithms during 1960-1975, and John R Koza
developed Genetic Programming in 1990s. Sadly, many of these early pioneers
are no longer alive. Most recently, Lawrence J. Fogel passed away (February
2007). This Workshop/Summer School is inspired by those pioneers of the
evolutionary computing community and their enormous contribution to the
field, in a spirit of remembrance and tribute, and as a process of passing on
their ideas to new generations of researchers. The IEEE
Computational Intelligence Society, the Intelligent Systems Research Centre,
and the School of Computing and Intelligent Systems, University of Ulster
have jointly initiated a Summer School with the aim of providing, via excellent Lectures, seminars, and discussions, state-of-the-art knowledge on Evolutionary
Computing to participants. The objective of
the Summer School is to provide a forum for discussion and dissemination of
ideas on evolutionary computing, to inspire participants to further efforts
and to contribute to advances in research. It seeks to engender participation
in the adventure of research in the field of Evolutionary Computing and will
provide up-to-date information, state-of-the-art knowledge on emerging areas
and address important issues dealing with complex, multivariate and nonlinear
systems, ranging from basic to applied research. The Workshop/Summer School
will bring prominent
experts of Evolutionary Computing tog Keynote speakers
Call for Participation: We encourage graduate students (especially PhD), post doctoral researchers,
scientists, practitioners, engineers, medical researchers, biologists,
computer scientists, physicists and applied mathematicians to submit a 4-page
(A4, IEEE format) paper on their recent research in all areas of evolutionary
computing. The submitted papers will undergo a peer-reviewed selection
process. Accepted papers will be published in
the workshop proceedings and IEEE XPlore. This lecture
series will be dedicated to the memories of the pioneers of Evolutionary
Computing including but not limited to: Important dates: Full Paper Submission June 15, 2008 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection
June 30, 2008 Submission of Camera Ready Paper July
30, 2008 Registration of Paper/Participants
July 31, 2008 Workshop 18-22 August, 2008 The
Workshop/Summer School will be held at the Magee Campus of the More recently well
known politicians and leaders have been on campus, including: US President Bill
Clinton on November 1996, HRH Princess Anne on April 2003, An Taoiseach
Bertie Ahern on March 2004, EC President Romano Prodi on April 2004, US
Senator Hilary Rodham Clinton on August 2004, UN General Secretary Kofi Annan
on October 2004, US Senator John Kerry and Teresa Heinz Kerry on March 2006.
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