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Alife Digest Number 104
Alife Digest, Number 104
Tuesday, May 25th 1993
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Today's Topics:
Calendar of Alife-related Events
Re: GP on C or C++
Request for Book Titles
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Date: Tue, 25 May 93 22:38:00 -0700
From: liane@CS.UCLA.EDU (Liane Gabora)
Subject: Calendar of Alife-related Events
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Intnl Workshop on Neural Networks, Barcelona Spain June 9-11, 1993 v76
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
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: Wed, 19 May 93 09:50:43 PDT
From: tackett@ipld01.hac.com (Walter Alden Tackett)
Subject: Re: GP on C or C++
> I heard GP environment on C or C++ are available.
> If so, how can I get them.
>
> Thank you.
> J. Mizoguchi
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SGPC: Simple Genetic Programming in C
by Walter Alden Tackett and Aviram Carmi
(gpc@ipld01.hac.com)
Available via anonymous ftp to sfi.santafe.edu in the directory
pub/Users/tackett
^note the caps...
This is a pretty stable version of the code, but not very good
documentation IMHO. Most of the people we have given it to have been
able to use it though with little or no handholding. PLEASE send us
your comments and recommendations to:
gpc@ipld01.hac.com
Time/Life operators are standing by...
What you need to know about the code: it does the same things that
Rice's (aka Koza's) simple LISP does and is set up to handle multiple
populations as well (e.g., for co-evolution). It is written in C, and
manipulates raw parse-tree structures which may be read and written
in LISP form for backwards compatibility.
You must provide three modules, PROBLEMsetup.c, PROBLEMfitness.c,
and PROBLEMproto.h, where PROBLEM is some descriptive name of the
problem. E.G., in the version we ship we include REGRESSIONsetup.c and
REGRESSIONfitness.c, Which do Koza's simple regression problem. We
also include SIN*.c which performs regression on a sinusoid. We have
also added a crude X interface for the REGRESSION problem. As a 3rd
example for your enlightenment we include ADFfitness and ADFsetup.
The ADF (Antimean Detection Filter) problem shows you how to build a
simple 2-class "dendritic" classifier described in Experiment 2 of my
ICGA93 paper "Genetic Programming for Feature Discovery and Image
Discrimination in the sfi account).
PROBLEMsetup contains functions to setup the function table, the
terminals table, and code for the functions in the function table.
PROBLEMproto.h contains prototypes for the user defined functions.
PROBLEMfitness contains functions to evaluate and validate populations
and trees, early termination, and definition of the fitness (training
and test) cases.
You should not need to modify any of the other myriad files.
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Date: Wed, 19 May 93 15:48:02 -0700
From: stork@crc.ricoh.com (David G. Stork)
Subject: Request for Book Titles
For a multi-book review in the forthcoming journal "Artificial Life," I would
appreciate book lists or bibliographies of books on artifical life, genetic
programming, genetic algorithms, including:
Popular books for the non-scientific lay audience
Technical books
Textbooks
Dissertations in book form
I would be especially interested in classic books (even before Holland's) that
would be of interest to current readers. Please do NOT send titles on the
theory of biological evolution itself, nor neural networks, etc. If there are
any science fiction novels that are particularly relevant -- either from a
scientific or historical perspective -- I'd like to hear about those too.
Dr. David G. Stork
Chief Scientist and
Head, Machine Learning and Perception
Ricoh California Research Center
2882 Sand Hill Road Suite 115
Menlo Park, CA 94025-7022 USA
415-496-5720 (w)
415-854-8740 (fax)
stork@crc.ricoh.com
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Date: Mon, 24 May 93 13:51:04 BST
From: Paul Mc Kevitt <P.McKevitt@dcs.sheffield.ac.uk>
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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