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From: monty@watson.open.ac.uk (Tony Hirst)
Subject: Online w/s - Evolutionary Electronics
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        1st On-line Workshop on SOFT COMPUTING (WSC1)
             August 19 (Mon.) - 30 (Fri.), 1996

                  		Special Session on

      		EVOLUTIONARY ELECTRONICS
               
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                    Call for Papers and 

         Invitation to take part in the Discussion
        
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As part of the 1st on-line workshop on soft computing, we call for papers
for the special session on 'Evolutionary Electronics'. The session is
intended as a forum for discussing the use of evolutionary computing
techniques in electronics design and manufacturing, and the application of
reconfigurable logic as the medium for the rapid prototyping of (evolved)
digital logic designs.

The session welcomes survey  and tutorial style papers.
The areas of interest include but are not limited to :

        a. Evolving anlogue circuits
        b. Intrinsic/extrinsic evolvable hardware
        c. VLSI placement, routing and testing using evolutionary
algorithms
        d. Hardware implementations of evolutionary algorithms
        e. Evolutionary co-design
        f. Embryonics
        g. Implicit fault tolerance afforded by evolutionary design
        h. Field programmable gate arrays
       (i.  Hardware implemented neural networks)
        

The contributions can be in the form of :

     a) 6 page (max) Original paper, to be published in the workshop
        proceedings. In the case of survey or tutorial style papers 
        authors are encouraged to submit the paper in several 
        parts (such as part I and part II with the same title).     
     b) 6 page (max) paper on your already published work 
     c) YOUR PARTICIPATION in the discussion during the workshop

PLEASE NOTE: 

The DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION of abstracts and main text is Aug. 5, 1996

WSC1 will accept  both  ORIGINAL and ALREADY PUBLISHED papers  (in
electronic form). It is intended that original papers will be published in
the conference proceedings.

Please refer to the ORIGINAL CALL FOR PAPERS below for the
submission and further details.

To submit  a paper  for the  special session, use  the same submission
procedure as for the WSC1 workshop, but, please, CLEARLY INDICATE THAT
YOUR PAPER IS FOR THE SPECIAL SESSION ON EVOLUTIONARY ELECTRONICS.

For any queries about the special session (only) 
please send email to:

    a.j.hirst@open.ac.uk

To contact the WSC1 organisers:

   http://www.bioele.nuee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/wsc1/


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                    ORIGINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
===============================================================

From: furuhashi@nuee.nagoya-u.ac.jp (Takeshi FURUHASHI)
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 13:46:10 +0900
Subject: WSC1

 This is the preliminary CFP for the 1st Online Workshop on Soft 
Computing. This is also available on WWW. The URL is

    http://www.bioele.nuee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/wsc1/

        CALL FOR PAPERS

     The 1st Online Workshop on Soft Computing (WSC1)

         Aug. 19 (Mon) - Aug. 30 (Fri)

    On Internet (WWW (World Wide Web) ) Served by Nagoya University

 We call for your papers for online discussions using the Internet.
The purpose of this workshop is to give its attendees opportunities to
exchange informaiton and ideas on various aspects of Soft Computing
and  "save travel expenses" without having to visit foreign countries.
We aim to have ample discussion time between the authors and attendees
make them visible to everyone on the Internet.

 This is the 3rd workshop of On-line Workshop series on Internet. The 
first on-line workshop(WEC1) was held on Oct. 9 - 20, 1995. In spite 
of the very short preparation time ( 2 weeks ) for the workshop, 22 
papers were submitted and great many people visited the home page:

    http://www.bioele.nuee nagoya-u.ac.jp/wec

 Encouraged by the unprecedented repercussions, we held the second on-
line workshop(WEC2) on March 4 - 22, 1996. More people showed great 
interest into the workshop. You can still visit the home page at:

    http://www.bioele.nuee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/wec2

 The scope of the 3rd on-line workshop is expanded from those of the 
preceding workshops. We call for your papers on Soft Computing. The 
great merit of this workshop series is that you can save travel 
expenses without having to visit and attendees and make them visible 
to everyone on the Internet.

 The WSC1 will welcome original contributions. The proceedings is 
planned to be published. We all look forward to your active 
participation.

TOPICS:
 Fuzzy Logic
 Neuro - Computing
 Genetic Computing
 Probabilistic Reasoning
 Chaos Computing
 Hybrid Systems

IMPORANT DATES:
 Deadline for Submission of Abstracts and Main Text: Aug. 5, 1996
 Opening the papers to the public:                   Aug. 12, 1996
 Workshop Weeks:                                     Aug. 19-30, 1996

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:
 Send an abstract and main text to the address below.

    mail address is : wsc@bioele.nuee.nagoya-u.ac.jp

   The abstract should be in text file. The main text should be in 
text file or in ps ( PostScript ) file. The size of the paper should 
be either A4 ( metric ) or letter size. Papers should be written in 
Times or similar font style, 10 points or larger with 2.5 cm margins 
on all four sides. If you write your paper with LaTeX, you can use 
"IEEEtran.sty" and "wscsample.tex" which is available from

    http://www.bioele.nuee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/wsc1/form/IEEEtran.sty
    http://www.bioele.nuee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/wsc1/form/wscsample.tex

   Another alternative is that if you prepare a WWW page for your 
main text, please send us only the abstract and tell us the Internet 
address ( URL ), and yours will be linked to our WWW page.

   The steering committee will make your abstracts visible on the 
Internet. The home page address is:

    URL: http://www.bioele.nuee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/wsc1/

  *Note:
    This workshop will accept papers both original and already 
published. If your paper is not original, please clarify the 
source of your paper. Your paper will not be included in the 
proceedings.

    If your paper is an original one, you need to send ps file or 
camera - ready manuscript of your main text. The paper should not 
exceed 6 pages in length. Please also send us the copyright form by 
postal mail or facsimile. The proceedings including your original 
contribution will be published. The copyright form is available 
also from

    http://www.bioele.nuee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/wsc1/form/copyright.ps
    http://www.bioele.nuee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/wsc1/form/copyright.txt

DISCUSSION PROCEDURE:
 1. Read the abstracts.
 2. Copy the main texts ( ps files ) of interested papers.
 3. Send questions and comments to
    wsc@bioele.nuee.nagoya-u.ac.jp
 (The steering committee will send the questions to the authors and 
receive answers from the authors, and make the Q&A visible on the 
Internet.) 
 4. Read the answers from the authors on
    http://www.bioele.nuee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/wsc1/
 5. Repeat the above steps 3 and 4 until you are satisfied.

OFFICIAL LANGUAGE: English
 (Notice should be made that the main texts in ps files should not 
include any fonts other than English.)

 For further information, contact:
    Takeshi Furuhashi
    Dept. of Information Electronics
    Nagoya University,
    Furo-cho, Chikusaku
    Nagoya 464-01, Japan
    Tel. +81-52-789-2792
    Fax. +81-52-789-3166


        Paper Submission Form
Title :
Authors :
Affiliation :
Address :
Phone :
Fax :
e-mail :
Source(if your paper is already published):
Keywords :
Link(if you have a WWW home page of the paper) :
Abstract :

