To: alife@cognet.ucla.edu
Subject:  Alife Digest Volume #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

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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

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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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