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Alife Digest Number 078
Alife Digest, Number 078
Sunday, June 21st 1992
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Today's Topics:
Calendar of Alife-related Events
DEVO Executable and Sources Available
TISEA, Australia
Details on Biocomputation Workshop
SAB92 Reminder Notice
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Date: Sun, 21 Jun 92 18:38:09 -0700
From: liane@cs.ucla.edu (Liane Gabora)
Subject: Calendar of Alife-related Events
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CALENDAR OF ALIFE-RELATED ACTIVITIES:
Biocomputation Workshop, Monterey, CA June 22-24, 1992 v74
9th Intnl Machine Learning Conf, Aberdeen, Scotland July 1-3, 1992, v76
10th National Conference on AI, San Jose, CA Jul 12-17, 1992
14th Conf of the Cognitive Science Soc, Bloomington IN Jul 29-Aug 1, 1992
10th European Conference on AI Aug 3-7, 1992
13th International Congress on Cybernetics, Belgium Aug 24-28, 1992
Autopoiesis and Perception, Dublin, Ireland Aug 25-26, 1992 v76
Worshop on Neural Networks, Liverpool, England Sep 7-8, 1992 v74
Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, Brussels Sep 28-30, 1992 v77
State of the Art in Ecological Modelling, Kiel Germany Sep 28-Oct 2, 1992
Neural Processing Information Systems (NIPS), Denver Nov 28-Dec 3, 1992 v73
2nd International Conf on
Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, Honolulu, Hawaii Dec 7-11, 1992 v74
International Conference on System Sciences, Hawaii Jan 5-8, 1993 v74
AI and Simulation of Behaviour Conf, Birmingham UK Mar 29-Apr 2, 1993 v75
Intnl Workshop on Artifiical Neural Networks,
Barcelona Spain June 9-11, 1993 v76
(Send announcements of other activities to alife@cognet.ucla.edu)
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Note from the moderators:
Congratulations to everyone who helped make Alife III a success! We
invite anyone who attended to send their impressions, insights, or the
jist of interesting discussions they had at the conference, to the
Digest.
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Date: Mon, 1 Jun 92 13:49:00 EDT
From: Richard Clark <richard@TIS.COM>
Subject: DEVO executable and sources available
Devo.exe is now available through ftp.cognet.ucla.edu
under /alife/public/DEVO/devo.exe. Remember, it's a DOS 3.3 program
for AT-VGA.
Source code is also available in the DEVO directory. It compiles
using Microsoft Quick-C. If you are using some other compiler, then
you will need to find and replace the routines which change the video
mode and do the in/out bytes to the i/o ports.
Please remember that it was written at home for fun, and so if you
have any problems with the comments (or lack thereof), you'll have to find
someone else to whine at. :) Unfortunately, I have to work for a living
and don't have the time available to answer a lot of questions.
If anyone is interested in expanding upon this program, or would
wish me to do so (with funding) please feel free to contact me! I enjoyed
writing this, and would enjoy it once again...
Comments welcome, send to rclark@tis.com
Oh yes, just hit the <escape> key for a help menu. Sorry, no
documentation currently available. Maybe later.
Thanks,
Richard H. Clark
rclark@tis.com
[Note from Digest moderator: DEVO is a program that enables you to
create artificial organisms composed of a variety of cell types, and
simulate various aspects of the struggle for survival. See Digest #77
for more details.]
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Date: 05 Jun 92 05:48 GMT
From: AUST0258@applelink.apple.com (AUMaj Australian FilmCommission,ILA)
Subject: TISEA,Australia
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The two major themes of TISEA are 'Art and the Algorithm' and 'Whither
Cultural Diversity in the Global Village?'. A-Lifers are encouraged
to participate in TISEA - we are working to ensure a high
representation of A-Life, CA, A-Evolution and other emergent behaviour
projects. While deadlines for Workshops,Courses, Papers and Panels
have passed, submissions are invited for the Electronic Theatre,
Poster Sessions, Video-papers and Software exhibition. Contact TISEA
at either : fax: 61.2.360.2943 or 61.2.954.4002 e-mail -
anat@peg.pegasus.oz.au /or AUST0258@applelink.apple.com ATTN: Gary
Warner
ELECTRONIC THEATRE :
will present an evening titles exploring innovative computer animation,
documents of artists and research projects and recent advances in scientific
visualisation. All standard video formats and 16 mm film may be submitted.
The screening will be presented in a modern 300-seat, raked cinema. In
addition to this theatrical program an open access video facility will be
available to delegates.
Electronic Theatre date Wednesday 11 November 1992 evening
How to submit
Send one VHS copy of the work labelled with name and contact details of
contributor, title and duration of work, to the Electronic Theatre Chair.
It must include:
1. Title of the work intended for screening
2. Indication of tape/film exhibition format
3. A statement of 100-300 words for catalogue inclusion
4. Selected curriculum vitae
5. Selected supporting material
Upon Acceptance
Upon notification of selection, participants are responsible for forwarding an
exhibition copy of the selected work to TISEA by 1 October. 3/4" U-matic tape
is preferred for exhibition.
POSTER SESSIONS :
provide an exciting opportunity for individuals to present up-to-the-minute
talks about their various areas of research and endeavour . Venues will be
equipped with basic a/v equipment - TISEA will make all efforts to accommodate
special equipment requirements given enough advance notice. Proposals which
don't fit into the traditional panel/paper format are accommodated in this
forum. Video Posters are also encouraged.Sessions will be parallel, and of up
to 45 minutes duration.
Poster Session date - all day Friday 13 November
How to submit
Send 3 copies of your proposal to the Poster Sessions Chair.
It must include:
1. Title of the presentation
2. A 200 word abstract for catalogue inclusion.
3. 3 slides of your work, properly labelled (if applicable)
4. Selected curriculum vitae
5. Selected supporting material
SOFTWARE EXHIBITION:
TISEA will be providing a demonstration room for independent and
small-scale-commercial software . A range of platforms will be made available
dependent upon demand, access and sponsorship. Forward disks to TISEA, PO Box
A307, Sydney South NSW 2000 Australia
/or contact TISEA Chair for further details -
e-mail - AUST0258@applelink.apple.com Attn: Gary Warner
VIDEO PAPERS:
of up to 45 minutes duration will be screened in an ongoing timetabled program
open to conference delegates. Forward tapes to above address.
ENTRY FORM
A copy of this form must accompany each proposal you submit. Send the
completed form, along wIth your proposal, to the Chair of the program you are
submitting to.
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NAME AFFILLIATION
ADDRESS
City State Country Postal Code
PHONE
Work Home Fax E-Mail
PROGRAM
Exhibition Electronic Theatre
Poster Sessions Video paper Software
TITLE OF SUBMITTED PROPOSAL
AUTHORISATION
I grant permission for the above referenced materials and associated visuals
to be used by the TISEA Coordinating Committee in publications relating to the
Third International Symosium on Electronic Art, including promotional
materials, in the understanding that any and all such use will always include
acknowledgement of my copyright ownership of the work.
SUPPORT SLIDE IDENTIFICATION GUIDELINES
Print following information directly on the slide mounts on the side.
Do not use labels. Do not send glass mounts (they break in the mail).
Number the slides.
Indicate TOP of image with an arrow.
Include name, telephone, fax or e-mail number.
Accompanying the slides, please attach a slide identification sheet, with the
following information for each slide:
(1) Title
(2) Dimensions of work (if applicable)
(3) Medium and method of production
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Date: Fri, 5 Jun 92 12:54:49 -0700
From: rsjuds@snll-arpagw.llnl.gov (judson richard s)
BIOCOMPUTATION WORKSHOP
Evolution as a computational process
June 22-24, 1992
Doubletree Hotel
2 Portola Plaza
Monterey, Ca 93940
Sponsored by the Institute for Scientific Computing Research at LLNL and
the Center for Computational Engineering at SNL
This workshop brings together biologists, physicists and computer
scientists with interests in the study of evolution. The premisis
of the workshop is that natural evolution is computational process
of adaptation to an ever changing environment. Mathematical theory and
computer modeling are therefore ideally suited to study evolution
and conversely, evolution may be used as a model system to study the
computational processes of optimization and emergent pattern formation.
Fifteen invited speakers will provide general reviews and summaries of their
recent research. Although oral presentations will be limited to the invited
speakers, original research contributions are solicited for poster sessions
in the following areas:
natural evolution
artificial life
genetic algorithms and optimization
List of speakers:
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Stuart Kauffman --- University of Pennsylvania, Santa Fe Institute
Alan Templeton --- Washington University, St. Louis
Daniel Hillis --- Thinking Machines Inc.
Richard Hudson --- University of California, Irvine
Steven Frank --- University of California, Irvine
Alan Hastings --- University of California, Davis
Warren Ewens --- Melbourne University and University of Philadelphia
Marcus Feldman --- Stanford University
Lee Altenberg --- Duke University
Aviv Bergman --- SRI and Stanford University
Mark Bedau --- Reed College
Heinz Muehlenbein --- University of Bonn
Eric Mjolsness --- Yale
Wolfgang Banzhaf --- Mitsubishi Electric Corp.
Schedule
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Sunday - June 21
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm RECEPTION
Monday - June 22
10:00 am - 10:45 am Kaufmann Evolution and co-evolution
at the edge of chaos
10:45 am - 11:30 am Hastings Use of optimization techniques to
study multilocus population genetics
11:45 am - 12:30 pm Altenberg Theory on the evolution and
complexity of the genotype-phenotype
map
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm LUNCH
2:00 pm - 2:45 pm Templeton Gene tree overlay algorithms: a
powerful methodology for studying
evolution
2:45 pm - 3:30 pm Bedau Measuring evolutionary activity
in noisy artificial systems
4:00 pm - 4:45 pm Muehlenbein Evolutionary algorithms as a research
tool for a new evolutionary theory
7:00 pm BANQUET - MONTEREY AQUARIUM
After Dinner Speaker - Warren Ewens
Tuesday - June 23
10:00 am - 10:45 am Banzhaf An introduction to RNA-like
algorithms with applications to
sequences of binary numbers
10:45 am - 11:30 am Hillis Simulated evolution and the Red Queen
Hypothesis
11:45 am - 12:30 pm Frank Coevolutionary genetics of hosts
and parasites
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm LUNCH
2:00 pm - 2:45 pm Bergman Learning your environment
2:45 pm - 3:30 pm Feldman Recombination and evolution
4:00 pm - 7:30 pm POSTER SESSION
Wednesday - June 24
10:00 am - 10:45 am Mjolsness Connectionist grammars in evolution
and development
10:45 am - 11:30 am Hudson Title to be announced
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm GROUP LUNCH DISCUSSIONS AT LOCAL RESTAURANTS
Instructions for Registration:
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There will be no parallel sessions, and the workshop will be structured to
stimulate and facilitate the active involvement of all attendees.
There will be sessions on the first 2 days from 9:00 AM till 5:00 PM with
1-2 hrs lunch breaks. On the third day there will be a morning session
and a short afternoon session only (maybe one talk until 3:00 PM).
Registration fees are $100 for full-time Ph.D. students and $250 for all
others. Fees include admission to a banquet, at the Monterey aquarium,
to be held on Monday night. (There is a $50 discount for students presenting
posters at the meeting.)
To obtain registration materials and housing
information, please contact the Meeting Coordinator.
For information only please contact eeckman@mozart.llnl.gov
Electronic abstract submissions only at jb@s1.gov
Meeting coordinator:
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Chris Ghinazzi
P.O. Box 808, L-426
Lawrence Livermore Laboratory
Livermore, CA 94550
phone: (510) 422-7132
email: ghinazzi@verdi.llnl.gov
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Please complete this form and return it to: Evolution as a Computational
Process, c/o Chris Ghinazzi, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
P.O. Box 808, L-426, Livermore, CA 94550-9900. Phone (510)422-7132 or
FAX: (510)422-7819
REGISTRATION FORM
Name:
Title:
Organization:
Address:
City:
State:
Zip:
Country:
Citizenship:
Telephone:
email address:
Registration Fees:
Regular $250
Student $100
Student w/poster $50
Are you submitting a poster? yes no
Total Payment Enclosed $________
Check or Money Order (payable in US dollars to UC Regents)
Requests for refunds will no longer be granted. Attendance is on a
first-pay, first-serve basis.
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Subject: SAB92 Reminder Notice
Date: Mon, 08 Jun 92 14:00:40 EDT
From: Stewart Wilson <wilson@smith.rowland.org>
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
* R E M I N D E R *
* From Animals to Animats: *
2nd International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior
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Honolulu, Hawaii, December 7-ll, 1992
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* OBJECT: To bring together researchers in ethology, *
psychology, ecology, cybernetics, artificial intelligence,
* robotics, and related fields to further understanding of *
the behaviors and underlying mechanisms that allow animals
* and, potentially, robots to adapt and survive in uncertain *
environments.
* *
DEADLINE -- Submissions must be received by the organizers
* by JULY 15, 1992 *
* To receive the full Conference Announcement and Call for *
Papers, please contact one of the Organizers:
* *
Jean-Arcady Meyer meyer@wotan.ens.fr
* meyer@frulm63.bitnet *
* Herbert Roitblat roitblat@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu *
roitblat@uhunix.bitnet
* *
Stewart Wilson wilson@smith.rowland.org
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* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
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