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Alife Digest Number 073
Alife Digest, Number 073
Tuesday, March 10th 1992
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Today's Topics:
Calendar of Alife-related Events
Alife FTP Archives Location
Re: Evolution Strategies for Optimization of Fluid Flow
NIPS -- Call for Papers
Request for Proposals for Post-NIPS Workshops
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Date: Tue, 10 Mar 92 10:05:23 -0800
From: liane@cs.ucla.edu (Liane Gabora)
Subject: Calendar of Alife-related Events
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CALENDAR OF ALIFE-RELATED ACTIVITIES:
Canadian AI Conference, Vancouver May 11-15, 1992
Artificial Life III, Santa Fe June 15-19, 1992
10th National Conference on AI, San Jose Jul 12-17, 1992
14th Conf of the Cognitive Science Soc, Bloomington IN Jul 29-Aug 1, 1992
ECAI 92, 10th European Conference on AI Aug 3-7, 1992
13th International Congress on Cybernetics, Belgium Aug 24-28, 1992
Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, Brussels Sep 28-30, 1992
State of the Art in Ecological Modelling, Kiel Germany Sep 28-Oct 2, 1992
Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), Denver Nov 28-Dec 3, 1992 v73
(Send announcements of other activities to alife@cognet.ucla.edu)
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Date: Tue, 10 Mar 92 09:45:45 -0800
From: liane@cs.ucla.edu (Liane Gabora)
Subject: Alife FTP Archives Location
Please note that the Alife anonymous ftp site has changed from
"polaris.cognet.ucla.edu" to "ftp.cognet.ucla.edu". (You will be
reminded of this change if you attempt to use the old site.)
Sincerely,
Liane Gabora and Rob Collins
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From: "Sushil Louis" <louis@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: Evolution Strategies for Optimization of Fluid Flow
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 92 9:35:24 EST
>
> Date: Thu, 13 Feb 92 17:20:39 GMT
> From: bmtech!jonr (Jonathan Rowe)
> Subject: genetic algorithms and fluid flows
>
> I'm trying to track a reference to the use of genetic algorithms
> in optimising aerofoil design. The paper is possibly by a German
> author (so my friend tells me). My library search has failed to
> find it.
The European version of genetic algorithms called "Evolution
Strategies" (ESs) have been used to optimize fluid flow. There are
some important differences between the two, most notably ESs do NOT
emphasize crossover and rely on guided mutation.
>
> Any additional references to the more general problems of using
> GAs in such fluid flow situations (e.g. ship hull design) would
> be welcome.
>
I don't have the reference, but ESs are introduced in the proceedings
of the 4th ICGA in "A Survey of Evolution Strategies". I believe that
one of the authors of that paper did the work on optimizing fluid flow.
The authors are:
Thomas Back: baeck@lumpi.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
Frank Hoffmeister: iwan@lumpi.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
Hans-Paul Schwefel: uin005@ddohrz11.bitnet
> Thanks,
>
> Jon Rowe (jonr@bmtech.uucp)
>
sushil louis
louis@cs.indiana.edu
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Date: Mon, 2 Mar 92 17:39:57 EST
From: geiger@medusa.siemens.com (Davi Geiger)
Subject: NIPS -- Call for Papers
CALL FOR PAPERS
NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS (NIPS)
-Natural and Synthetic-
Monday, November 30 - Thursday, December 3, 1992
Denver, Colorado
This is the sixth meeting of an inter-disciplinary conference
which brings together neuroscientists, engineers, computer
scientists, cognitive scientists, physicists, and mathematicians
interested in all aspects of neural processing and computation. A
day of tutorial presentations (Nov 30) will precede the regular
session and two days of focused workshops will follow at a nearby
ski area (Dec 4-5). Major categories and examples of
subcategories for paper submissions are the following;
Neuroscience: Studies and Analyses of Neurobiological
Systems, Inhibition in cortical circuits, Signals and noise
in neural computation, Theoretical Neurobiology and
Neurophysics.
Theory: Computational Learning Theory, Complexity Theory,
Dynamical Systems, Statistical Mechanics, Probability and
Statistics, Approximation Theory.
Implementation and Simulation: VLSI, Optical, Software
Simulators, Implementation Languages, Parallel Processor
Design and Benchmarks.
Algorithms and Architectures: Learning Algorithms,
Constructive and Pruning Algorithms, Localized Basis
Functions, Tree Structured Networks, Performance
Comparisons, Recurrent Networks, Combinatorial Optimization,
Genetic Algorithms.
Cognitive Science & AI: Natural Language, Human Learning and
Memory, Perception and Psychophysics, Symbolic Reasoning.
Visual Processing: Stereopsis, Visual Motion, Recognition,
Image Coding and Classification.
Speech and Signal Processing: Speech Recognition, Coding,
and Synthesis, Text-to-Speech, Adaptive Equalization,
Nonlinear Noise Removal.
Control, Navigation, and Planning: Navigation and Planning,
Learning Internal Models of the World, Trajectory Planning,
Robotic Motor Control, Process Control.
Applications: Medical Diagnosis or Data Analysis, Financial
and Economic Analysis, Timeseries Prediction, Protein
Structure Prediction, Music Processing, Expert Systems.
The technical program will contain plenary, contributed oral and
poster presentations with no parallel sessions. All presented
papers will be due (January 13, 1993) after the conference in
camera-ready format and will be published by Morgan Kaufmann.
Submission Procedures: Original research contributions are
solicited, and will be carefully refereed. Authors must submit
six copies of both a 1000-word (or less) summary and six copies
of a separate single-page 50-100 word abstract clearly stating
their results postmarked by May 22, 1992 (express mail is not
necessary). Accepted abstracts will be published in the
conference program. Summaries are for program committee use
only. At the bottom of each abstract page and on the first
summary page indicate preference for oral or poster presentation
and specify one of the above nine broad categories and, if
appropriate, sub-categories (For example: Poster, Applications-
Expert Systems; Oral, Implementation-Analog VLSI). Include
addresses of all authors at the front of the summary and the
abstract and indicate to which author correspondence should be
addressed. Submissions will not be considered that lack category
information, separate abstract sheets, the required six copies,
author addresses, or are late.
Mail Submissions To:
Jack Cowan
NIPS*92 Submissions
University of Chicago
Dept. of Mathematics
5734 So. University Ave.
Chicago IL 60637
Mail For Registration Material To:
NIPS*92 Registration
SIEMENS Research Center
755 College Road East
Princeton, NJ, 08540
All submitting authors will be sent registration material
automatically. Program committee decisions will be sent to the
correspondence author only.
NIPS*92 Organizing Committee: General Chair, Stephen J. Hanson,
Siemens Research & Princeton University; Program Chair, Jack
Cowan, University of Chicago; Publications Chair, Lee Giles, NEC;
Publicity Chair, Davi Geiger, Siemens Research; Treasurer, Bob
Allen, Bellcore; Local Arrangements, Chuck Anderson, Colorado
State University; Program Co-Chairs: Andy Barto, U. Mass.; Jim
Burr, Stanford U.; David Haussler, UCSC ; Alan Lapedes, Los
Alamos; Bruce McNaughton, U. Arizona; Barlett Mel, JPL; Mike
Mozer, U. Colorado; John Pearson, SRI; Terry Sejnowski, Salk
Institute; David Touretzky, CMU; Alex Waibel, CMU; Halbert White,
UCSD; Alan Yuille, Harvard U.; Tutorial Chair: Stephen Hanson,
Workshop Chair: Gerry Tesauro, IBM Domestic Liasons: IEEE
Liaison, Terrence Fine, Cornell; Government & Corporate Liaison,
Lee Giles, NEC; Overseas Liasons: Mitsuo Kawato, ATR; Marwan
Jabri, University of Sydney; Benny Lautrup, Niels Bohr Institute;
John Bridle, RSRE; Andreas Meier, Simon Bolivar U.
DEADLINE FOR SUMMARIES & ABSTRACTS IS MAY 22, 1992 (POSTMARKED)
please post
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Date: Mon, 9 Mar 92 12:26:32 EST
From: geiger@medusa.siemens.com (Davi Geiger)
Subject: Request for Proposals for Post-NIPS Workshops
CALL FOR WORKSHOPS
NIPS*92 Post-Conference Workshops
December 4 and 5, 1992
Vail, Colorado
Request for Proposals
Following the regular NIPS program, workshops on current topics
in Neural Information Processing will be held on December 4 and
5, 1992, in Vail, Colorado. Proposals by qualified individuals
interested in chairing one of these workshops are solicited.
Past topics have included: Computational Neuroscience; Sensory
Biophysics; Recurrent Nets; Self-Organization; Speech; Vision;
Rules and Connectionist Models; Neural Network Dynamics; Computa-
tional Complexity Issues; Benchmarking Neural Network Applica-
tions; Architectural Issues; Fast Training Techniques; Active
Learning and Control; Optimization; Bayesian Analysis; Genetic
Algorithms; VLSI and Optical Implementations; Integration of
Neural Networks with Conventional Software. The goal of the
workshops is to provide an informal forum for researchers to
freely discuss important issues of current interest. Sessions
will meet in the morning and in the afternoon of both days, with
free time in between for ongoing individual exchange or outdoor
activities. Specific open and/or controversial issues are en-
couraged and preferred as workshop topics. Individuals proposing
to chair a workshop will have responsibilities including: arrange
brief informal presentations by experts working on the topic,
moderate or lead the discussion, and report its high points,
findings and conclusions to the group during evening plenary ses-
sions, and in a short (2 page) written summary. Submission Pro-
cedure: Interested parties should submit a short proposal for a
workshop of interest postmarked by May 22, 1992. (Express mail
is *not* necessary. Submissions by electronic mail will also be
acceptable.) Proposals should include a title, a short descrip-
tion of what the workshop is to address and accomplish, and the
proposed length of the workshop (one day or two days). It should
state why the topic is of interest or controversial, why it
should be discussed and what the targeted group of participants
is. In addition, please send a brief resume of the prospective
workshop chair, a list of publications and evidence of scholar-
ship in the field of interest.
Dr. Gerald Tesauro
NIPS*92 Workshops Chair
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
P.O. Box 704
Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 USA
(e-mail: tesauro@watson.ibm.com)
Name, mailing address, phone number, and e-mail net address (if
applicable) must be on all submissions.
PROPOSALS MUST BE POSTMARKED BY MAY 22, 1992
Please Post
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