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Alife Digest Number 106
Alife Digest, Number 106
Friday, June 25th 1993
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Today's Topics:
Calendar of Alife-related Events
Fictive alife
ICGA workshop proposal/participation request
Complex Systems Open Forum
Complex Systems Open Forum
WCCI '94 Announcement and Call for Papers
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 93 21:54:33 -0700
From: liane@CS.UCLA.EDU (Liane Gabora)
Subject: Calendar of Alife-related Events
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World Congress on Neural Networks, Portland, OR July 11-15, 1993 v95
Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, Washington July 7-9, 1993 v84
Fifth Intnl Conf on GAs, Urbana-Champaign IL July 17-22, 1993 v80,100
Dynamically Interacting Robots Workshop Late Aug, 1993 v91
Neural Networks and Telecommunications, Princeton, NJ October 18-20,1993 v100
Fluctuations and Order, Los Alamos, NM Sept 9-12, 1993 v102
Neural Information Processing Systems, Denver, CO Nov 29-Dec 2, 1993 v98
Third Conf on Evolutionary Programming, San Diego, CA Feb 24-25, 1994 v103
Cybernetics and Systems Research, Vienna April 5-8, 1994 v101,103
Intnl Conf Knowledge Rep and Reasoning, Bonn, Germany May 24-27, 1994 v101
IEEE Computational Intelligence, Lake Buena Vista FL Jun 26-Jul 2, 1994 v106
Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, Brighton, UK Aug 8-12, 1994 v101
Parallel Problem Solving in Nature, Jerusalem, Israel Oct 9-14, 1994 v102
Congress on Medical Informatics, Sao Paulo, Brazil Sept 9-14, 1995 v91
(Send announcements of other activities to alife@cognet.ucla.edu)
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Date: Tue, 8 Jun 93 14:45:27 BST
From: Paul Mc Kevitt <P.McKevitt@dcs.sheffield.ac.uk>
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Call for papers
Artificial Intelligence Review Journal
Special issue on
INTEGRATION OF
NATURAL LANGUAGE AND VISION PROCESSING
Editor:
Masoud Yazdani
Department of Computer Science
University of Exeter,
GB- EX4 4PT, Exeter
United Kingdom, EC.
E-mail: masoud@dcs.exeter.ac.uk
Guest Editor:
Paul Mc Kevitt
Department of Computer Science
Regent Court
University of Sheffield
211 Portobello Street
GB- S1 4DP, Sheffield
United Kingdom, EC.
E-mail: p.mckevitt@dcs.sheffield.ac.uk
Although there has been much progress in developing theories,
models and systems in the areas of Natural Language
Processing (NLP) and Vision Processing (VP) there has been little progress
on integrating these two subareas of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
It is not clear why there has not already been much activity in
integrating NLP and VP. Is it because of the long-time
reductionist trend in science up
until the recent emphasis on chaos theory, non-linear systems,
and emergent behaviour? Or, is it because the people who have tended to
work on NLP tend to be in other Departments, or of a different ilk,
to those who have worked on VP?
Whatever the reason, we believe it is high time to bring together
these two areas of AI research. In this endeavour, we are calling for papers
for a special issue of AI Review Journal dedicated
to site descriptions, surveys, tutorials, and viewpoints on integrated NLP
and VP research.
Papers should be sent to the addresses below by DECEMBER 30TH, 1993.
Feel free to contact Paul Mc Kevitt at the address
above for advice on the suitability of manuscripts.
The Journals Editorial Office
Artificial Intelligence Review
Kluwer Academic Publishers
P.O. Box 17
NL- 3300 AA, Dordrecht
The Netherlands
EC.
Artificial Intelligence Review
P.O. Box 230
Accord, MA 02018-0230
USA.
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Artificial Intelligence Review Journal \\
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Masoud Yazdani \\
Department of Computer Science \\
University of Exeter, \\
GB- EX4 4PT, Exeter \\
United Kingdom, EC. \\
E-mail: masoud@dcs.exeter.ac.uk \\
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{\em Guest Editor:} \\
Paul Mc Kevitt \\
Department of Computer Science \\
Regent Court \\
University of Sheffield \\
211 Portobello Street \\
GB- S1 4DP, Sheffield \\
United Kingdom, EC. \\
E-mail: p.mckevitt@dcs.sheffield.ac.uk \\
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Although there has been much progress in developing theories,
models and systems in the areas of Natural Language
Processing (NLP) and Vision Processing (VP) there has been little progress
on integrating these two subareas of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
It is not clear why there has not already been much activity in
integrating NLP and VP. Is it because of the long-time
reductionist trend in science up
until the recent emphasis on chaos theory, non-linear systems,
and emergent behaviour? Or, is it because the people who have tended to
work on NLP tend to be in other Departments, or of a different ilk,
to those who have worked on VP?
Whatever the reason, we believe it is high time to bring together
these two areas of AI research. In this endeavour, we are calling for papers
for a special issue of AI Review Journal dedicated
to site descriptions, surveys, tutorials, and viewpoints on integrated NLP
and VP research.
Papers should be sent to the addresses below by {\bf December 30th, 1993.}
Feel free to contact Paul Mc Kevitt at the address
above for advice on the suitability of manuscripts.
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The Journals Editorial Office \\
Artificial Intelligence Review \\
Kluwer Academic Publishers \\
P.O. Box 17 \\
NL- 3300 AA, Dordrecht \\
The Netherlands \\
EC.\\
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Artificial Intelligence Review \\
P.O. Box 230 \\
Accord, MA 02018-0230 \\
USA. \\
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Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1993 10:03:44 -0800
From: tmaddox@netcom.com (Tom Maddox)
Subject: Fictive alife
With some trepidation, as I am a fiction writer, I put the following
requests for information or assistance before the list:
I am working on a novel (my second, to be published by Tor Books) that uses
an alife environment as a centerpiece. The idea behind it is something
approximating a real-time simulation of Los Angeles, with particular
attention being paid to activities the local authorities find
interesting--i.e., actually or potentially criminal.
The particular wrinkle I'm interested in is alife agents, lifeforms that
could be called into being at several levels (from the lowest--call it
assembly language--to the highest--call it database query language). In
effect, the system itself would give birth to the agents in order to pursue
specific queries *or* simply to manage data *or* to pursue questions the
system finds interesting for its own reasons.
Thus, I would love to hear ideas, suggestions, and critiques from anyone
interested in or working in the field concerning:
First, the general concept of an extremely rich, evolving alife habitat (or
suite of habitats); I'm familiar with the ones described in the usual
places, such as Levy's _Artificial Life_, and want to reach orders of
magnitude beyond those into an evocative infoscape that has something like
the richness of an ecosystem; *and* I'm especially interested in how this
environment could be visualized, how it would like to its designers, users,
perhaps even itself.
Second, the notion of information agents: how they might function, what
species they might form, how they might evolve; more generally, how
practicable this whole notion is.
In short, I'm after far-reaching, detailed speculation about the future
evolution of alife systems, assuming the presence of very strong
environmental pressures (those brought to bear on such systems by their
needs to produce specific answers to specific questions). If anyone wishes
to correspond directly with me, please do so; or if you feel that the list
would benefit from such speculations, by all means respond to the list.
Thanks very much,
Tom Maddox
tmaddox@netcom.com
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Subject: ICGA workshop proposal/participation request
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 93 20:35:30 -0600
From: Robert Elliott Smith.dat <rob@comec4.mh.ua.edu>
Call for Workshop Proposals
and Workshop Participation
ICGA-93
The Fifth International Conference on
Genetic Algorithms
17-21 July, 1993
University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
Early this Spring, the organizers of ICGA solicited proposals for workshops.
Proposals for six workshops have been received and accepted thus far.
These workshops are listed below.
ICGA attendees are encouraged to contact the organizers of workshops in
which they would like to participate. Email addresses for workshop
organizers are included below.
The organizers would also like to encourage proposals for additional
workshops. If you would like to organize and chair a workshop, please
submit a one-paragraph proposal, including a description of the workshop's
topic, and some idea of how the workshop will be organized.
Workshop proposals will be accepted by email only at
icga93@pele.cs.unm.edu
At the ICGA91 (in San Diego), the workshops served an important role,
providing smaller, less formal meetings for the discussion of specific topics
related to genetic algorithms research. The organizers hope that this
tradition will continue at ICGA93.
ICGA93 workshops (if you wish to partipate, please write directly to the
workshop's organizer):
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Genetic Programming
Organizer: Kim Kinnear (kim.kinnear@sun.com)
Engineering Applications of GAs (structural shape and topology optimization)
Organizer: Mark Jakiela (jakiela@MIT.EDU)
Discovery of long-action chains and emergence of hierarchies in classifier
systems
Organizers: Alex Shevorshkon
Erhard Bruderer (Erhard.Bruderer@um.cc.umich.edu)
Niching Methods
Organizer: Alan Schultz (schultz@aic.nrl.navy.mil)
Sam Mahfoud (mahfoud@gal4.ge.uiuc.edu)
Combinations of GAs and Neural Nets (COGANN)
Organizer: J. David Schaffer (ds1@philabs.Philips.Com)
GAs in control systems
Organizer: Terry Fogarty (tc_fogar@pat.uwe-bristol.ac.uk)
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Date: Wed, 9 Jun 93 12:16:41 EST
From: david@rsbs13.anu.edu.au (David Green)
Subject: Complex Systems Open Forum
COMPLEX SYSTEMS FORUM
An International Information Network
The last few years have seen an extraordinary growth of interest in
complex systems. From ecology to economics, from particle physics
to parallel computing, a new vocabulary is emerging to describe
discoveries about wide-ranging and fundamental phenomena. Many of
the terms have already become familiar: artificial life,
biocomplexity, cellular automata, chaos, criticality, fractals,
learning systems, neural networks, non-linear dynamics, parallel
computation, percolation, self-organization, and many more.
Together they point to the emergence of new paradigms, cutting
across traditional disciplines, for dealing with complex systems.
To facilitate discussion on all aspects of this exciting new field,
the Australian National University's Bioinformatics Facility has
set up a new listserver to provide an open forum for researchers
and other interested people. It is intended that the forum will
serve as a medium (amongst other things) for announcements
(conferences, preprints, software, etc), discussion of research
issues, reviews, etc.
This Forum is one of a series of new initiatives by the Australian
National University to foster research (both in Australia and
internationally) on complex systems. The forum is backed up by the
complex systems information services already provided to the network
by the Facility. See below for more details. Watch for further new
services and activities to be announced soon.
SUBSCRIBING TO THE MAILING LIST
To join the mailing list for complex systems information just send an
email message to the automatic list server ...
listserv@life.anu.edu.au
Your message should include the line
subscribe complex <your name>
(e.g. subscribe complex Joe Bloggs )
Also send any requests (e.g. help, unsubscribe, index etc) to
the above address.
SENDING INFORMATION TO THE MAILING LIST
To distribute an item for public distribution to members of the
mailing list, send an electronic mail message to the address ...
complex@life.anu.edu.au
Remember that ANY message you send to the list will be read by EVERYONE
on the list, so be careful about what you say and how you say it!
AVOID sending messages that are not intended for public distribution.
Send all queries, comments etc to the moderator ...
david.green@anu.edu.au
ACCESS TO COMPLEX SYSTEMS INFORMATION
You can access information on all aspects of complex systems from
the information server in the following ways:
Anonymous FTP
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The information available includes a wide variety of software,
bibliographies, preprints on all aspects of complex systems.
command line ftp life.anu.edu.au
login name anonymous
password your electronic mail address
path cd /pub/complex_systems
Gopher protocol
---------------
Besides direct access to all FTP information, the gopher
server offers on-line access to relevant newsgroups, on-line
databases and direct links to relevant international services.
Name=Complex systems
Host=life.anu.edu.au
Type=1
Port=70
Path=1/complex_systems
World Wide Web protocol
-----------------------
Besides access to all of the above, the hypermedia server offers
introductory tutorials, preprints and papers on-line. The URL
for this service is ...
http://life.anu.edu.au/complex_systems/complex.html
or link via the servers home page ...
http://life.anu.edu.au/
_______________________________________________________
For more information contact the moderator ...
name Dr David G. Green
Address Research School of Biological Sciences &
Centre for Information Science Research,
Australian National University,
GPO Box 475 Canberra 2601 AUSTRALIA
Email David.Green@anu.edu.au
Phone 61-6-249-2490 (RSBS) / 61-6-249-5031 (ANUSF)
61-6-249-5111 (switch)
Fax 61-6-249-4437 (RSBS) / 61-6-247-3425 (ANUSF)
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Date: Wed, 9 Jun 93 12:17:55 EST
From: david@rsbs13.anu.edu.au (David Green)
Subject: Complex Systems Open Forum
COMPLEX SYSTEMS FORUM
An international information network
The last few years have seen an extraordinary growth of interest in
complex systems. From ecology to economics, from particle physics
to parallel computing, a new vocabulary is emerging to describe
discoveries about wide-ranging and fundamental phenomena. Many of
the terms have already become familiar: artificial life,
biocomplexity, cellular automata, chaos, criticality, fractals,
learning systems, neural networks, non-linear dynamics, parallel
computation, percolation, self-organization, and many more.
Together they point to the emergence of new paradigms, cutting
across traditional disciplines, for dealing with complex systems.
To facilitate discussion on all aspects of this exciting new field,
the Australian National University's Bioinformatics Facility has
set up a new listserver to provide an open forum for researchers
and other interested people. It is intended that the forum will
serve as a medium (amongst other things) for announcements
(conferences, preprints, software, etc), discussion of research
issues, reviews, etc.
This Forum is one of a series of new initiatives by the Australian
National University to foster research (both in Australia and
internationally) on complex systems. The forum is backed up by the
complex systems information services already provided to the network
by the Facility. See below for more details. Watch for further new
services and activities to be announced soon.
SUBSCRIBING TO THE MAILING LIST
To join the mailing list for complex systems information just send an
email message to the automatic list server ...
listserv@life.anu.edu.au
Your message should include the line
subscribe complex <your name>
(e.g. subscribe complex Joe Bloggs )
Also send any requests (e.g. help, unsubscribe, index etc) to
the above address.
SENDING INFORMATION TO THE MAILING LIST
To distribute an item for public distribution to members of the
mailing list, send an electronic mail message to the address ...
complex@life.anu.edu.au
Remember that ANY message you send to the list will be read by EVERYONE
on the list, so be careful about what you say and how you say it!
AVOID sending messages that are not intended for public distribution.
Send all queries, comments etc to the moderator ...
david.green@anu.edu.au
ACCESS TO COMPLEX SYSTEMS INFORMATION
You can access information on all aspects of complex systems from
the information server in the following ways:
Anonymous FTP
-------------
The information available includes a wide variety of software,
bibliographies, preprints on all aspects of complex systems.
command line ftp life.anu.edu.au
login name anonymous
password your electronic mail address
path cd /pub/complex_systems
Gopher protocol
---------------
Besides direct access to all FTP information, the gopher
server offers on-line access to relevant newsgroups, on-line
databases and direct links to relevant international services.
Name=Complex systems
Host=life.anu.edu.au
Type=1
Port=70
Path=1/complex_systems
World Wide Web protocol
-----------------------
Besides access to all of the above, the hypermedia server offers
introductory tutorials, preprints and papers on-line. The URL
for this service is ...
http://life.anu.edu.au/complex_systems/complex.html
or link via the servers home page ...
http://life.anu.edu.au/
_______________________________________________________
For more information contact the moderator ...
name Dr David G. Green
Address Research School of Biological Sciences &
Centre for Information Science Research,
Australian National University,
GPO Box 475 Canberra 2601 AUSTRALIA
Email David.Green@anu.edu.au
Phone 61-6-249-2490 (RSBS) / 61-6-249-5031 (ANUSF)
61-6-249-5111 (switch)
Fax 61-6-249-4437 (RSBS) / 61-6-247-3425 (ANUSF)
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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1993 10:36:33 -0700
From: gjacobs@qualcomm.com (Gary Jacobs)
Subject: WCCI '94 Announcement and Call for Papers
HARD FACT IN A WORLD OF FANTASY
A world of sheer fantasy awaits your arrival at the IEEE World Congress on
Computational Intelligence next year; our host is Walt Disney World in
Orlando Florida. Simultaneous Neural Network, Fuzzy Logic and
Evolutionary Programming conferences will provide an unprecedented
opportunity for technical development while the charms of the nearby Magic
Kingdom and Epcot Center attempt to excite your fancies.
The role imagination has played in the development of Computational
Intelligence techniques is well known; before they became "innovative" the
various CI technologies were dismissed as "fantasies" of brilliant minds.
Now these tools are real; perhaps it's only appropriate that they should be
further explored and their creators honored in a world of the imagination, a
world where dreams come true.
Share your facts at Disney World; share your imagination. Come to the IEEE
World Congress on Computational Intelligence.
It's as new as tomorrow.
Gary Jacobs
gjacobs@qualcomm.com
(619)597-5029 voice
(619)452-9096 fax
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***CALL FOR PAPERS***
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IEEE WORLD CONGRESS ON COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE
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* IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks *
* FUZZ/IEEE '94 *
* IEEE International Symposium on Evolutionary Computation *
June 26 - July 2, 1994
Walt Disney World Dolphin Hotel, Lake Buena Vista, Florida
Sponsored by the IEEE Neural Networks Council
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IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NEURAL NETWORKS
Steven K. Rogers, General Chair
rogers@afit.af.mil
Topics:
Applications, architectures, artificially intelligent neural networks,
artificial life, associative memory, computational intelligence,
cognitive science, embedology, filtering, fuzzy neural systems, hybrid
systems, image processing, implementations, intelligent control,
learning and memory, machine vision, motion analysis, neurobiology,
neurocognition, neurodynamics, optimization, pattern recognition,
prediction, robotics, sensation and perception, sensorimotor systems,
speech, hearing and language, system identification, supervised and
unsupervised learning, tactile sensors, and time series analysis.
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FUZZ/IEEE '94
Piero P. Bonissone, General Chair
bonissone@crd.ge.ge.com
Topics:
Basic principles and foundations of fuzzy logic, relations between
fuzzy logic and other approximate reasoning methods, qualitative and
approximate-reasoning modeling, hardware implementations of fuzzy-
logic algorithms, design, analysis, and synthesis of fuzzy-logic
controllers, learning and acquisition of approximate models, relations
between fuzzy logic and neural networks, integration of fuzzy logic
and neural networks, integration of fuzzy logic and evolutionary
computing, and applications.
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IEEE CONFERENCE ON EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION
Zbigniew Michalewicz, General Chair
zbyszek@mosaic.uncc.edu
Topics:
Theory of evolutionary computation, evolutionary computation
applications, efficiency and robustness comparisons with other direct
search algorithms, parallel computer applications, new ideas
incorporating further evolutionary principles, artificial life,
evolutionary algorithms for computational intelligence, comparisons
between different variants of evolutionary algorithms, machine
learning applications, evolutionary computation for neural networks,
and fuzzy logic in evolutionary algorithms.
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INSTRUCTIONS FOR ALL THREE CONFERENCES
Papers must be received by December 10, 1993. Papers will be reviewed
by senior researchers in the field, and all authors will be informed
of the decisions at the end of the review proces. All accepted papers
will be published in the Conference Proceedings. Six copies (one
original and five copies) of the paper must be submitted. Original
must be camera ready, on 8.5x11-inch white paper, one-column format in
Times or similar fontstyle, 10 points or larger with one-inch margins
on all four sides. Do not fold or staple the original camera-ready
copy. Four pages are encouraged. The paper must not exceed six pages
including figures, tables, and references, and should be written in
English. Centered at the top of the first page should be the complete
title, author name(s), affiliation(s) and mailing address(es). In the
accompanying letter, the following information must be included: 1)
Full title of paper, 2) Corresponding authors name, address, telephone
and fax numbers, 3) First and second choices of technical session, 4)
Preference for oral or poster presentation, and 5) Presenter's name,
address, telephone and fax numbers. Mail papers to (and/or obtain
further information from): World Congress on Computational
Intelligence, Meeting Management, 5665 Oberlin Drive, #110, San Diego,
California 92121, USA (email: 70750.345@compuserve.com, telephone:
619-453-6222).
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