
Genetic Algorithms Digest   Wednesday, November 13 1991   Volume 5 : Issue 35

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Today's Topics:
	- Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN)
	- Errata^2
	- Email address change for TCGA
	- CFP - Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
	- CFP - Cellular Automata meeting in London

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CALENDAR OF GA-RELATED ACTIVITIES: (with GA-List issue reference)

 First European Conference on Artificial Life (v5n10)         Dec 11-13, 1991
 Canadian AI Conference, Vancouver, (CFP 1/7)                 May 11-15, 1992
 COGANN, Combinations of GAs and NNs, @ IJCNN-92 (v5n31)      Jun 6,     1992
 10th National Conference on AI, San Jose, (CFP 1/15)         Jul 12-17, 1992
 FOGA-92, Foundations of Genetic Algorithms, Colorado (v5n32) Jul 26-29, 1992
 ECAI 92, 10th European Conference on AI (v5n13)              Aug  3-7,  1992
 Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, Brussels, (v5n29)      Sep 28-30, 1992

 (Send announcements of other activities to GA-List@aic.nrl.navy.mil)

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From: UIN005%DDOHRZ11.bitnet@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 91 10:30:31 SET
To: ga-list@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil
Subject: Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN)

   Due to the confusion about an announcement spread by some people from
   Zurich/Switzerland, the real estate of PPSN conferences has to be
   clarified:

   The real first PPSN I workshop took place at Dortmund in October 1990.
   That was the event for which the title Parallel Problem Solving from
   Nature (PPSN) was suggested by David Goldberg and was chosen by the
   organizers Reinhard Maenner, Heinz Muehlenbein and Hans-Paul Schwefel.

   The real second PPSN II conference will be held at Brussels in September
   1992, the chief organizer being Bernard Manderick. Calls for Papers have
   been sent out. If somebody missed it, please ask bernard@arti.vub.ac.be.

   First during PPSN I at Dortmund and again during the fourth ICGA at San
   Diego, the GA community and the PPSN community agreed upon coordinating
   cis- and transatlantic activities in the common field of Evolutionary
   Algorithms, since both want to cooperate and not to compete. One point
   explicitly agreed upon was that every even year will see a PPSN
   conference in Europe, Israel, or elsewhere in the East of the Atlantic,
   whereas every odd year will see an ICGA in the U.S.A., Canada, Mexico,
   or elsewhere in the West of the Atlantic Ocean.

   Despite the fact that we do not yet have a common society with executives
   from both groups on both sides of the Atlantic, nobody else than the
   organizers of the PPSN I and PPSN II meetings do have the right to use
   the term Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN) for related or less
   related activities. The workshop announced for December 1991 at Zurich,
   which makes use of the term PPSN in its title, does not belong to our
   conference series and has not been agreed upon in the PPSN community
   as defined above.
   We think that re-using the name of a
   successful event without contacting its organizers does not meet the
   usual standards in the scientific community.

   Hans-Paul Schwefel      Reinhard Maenner        Bernard Manderick
   University of Dortmund  University of Mannheim  University of Brussels

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From: <@ua1ix.ua.edu:rob@galab2.mh.ua.edu>
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 91 16:29:12 CDT
Subject: Errata^2

   Hi,
    The errata I announced in galist v5n32 included the corrected object values
   and weights associated with the knapsack problem used in my Master's thesis.
   Theses values are correct. However, quick addition will show you that the 
   sums (inadvertently included in the table I posted) included weight
   totals that were off by one. The correct final four lines for the table are
   shown below (in LaTeX) format.

Total:	&	91	&	122	&	13	&	15\\
\hline
\multicolumn{3}{c|}{\ }	&	 $\sum_{i=1}^{17} x_i v_i = 71$ &	 $\sum_{i=1}^{17} x_i v_i = 87$\\
\multicolumn{3}{c|}{\ }	&	 $\sum_{i=1}^{17} x_i w_i = 60$	&	 $\sum_{i=1}^{17} x_i w_i = 100$\\

   Once again, these errata *do not* effect the qualitative or quantitative
   results in my thesis. I only post them to allow for scientific 
   reproducibility. Thanks again to Dipankar Dasgupta for notifying me of these
   errors.

   Robert Elliott Smith
       Department of Engineering of Mechanics
       The University of Alabama
       P. O. Box 870278
       Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487
   <<email>> @ua1ix.ua.edu:rob@galab2.mh.ua.edu 
   <<phone>> (205) 348-1618
   <<fax>> (205) 348-8573    

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From: <@ua1ix.ua.edu:rob@galab2.mh.ua.edu>
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 91 14:15:17 CST
Subject: Email address change for TCGA

   Please note: Due to system version problems that are beyond my control,
   the address used for TCGA report requests in the past can fail from some
   sites. Please use the email address shown below in the future. Thanks.

   Robert Elliott Smith
       Department of Engineering of Mechanics
       The University of Alabama
       P. O. Box 870278
       Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487
   <<email>> @ua1ix.ua.edu:rob@galab2.mh.ua.edu 
   <<phone>> (205) 348-1618
   <<fax>> (205) 348-8573    

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From: liepins <liepins@utkux1.utk.edu>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 91 07:22:04 -0500
Subject: CFP - Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence

			 Call for Papers

	  Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence

   Papers are being solicited for a second special issue of the Annals of
   Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence devoted to the mathematical
   foundations of genetic algorithms. Topics of interest include but are
   not limited to: 

   . constrained optimization results
   . finite sampling properties
   . dynamic properties
   . stability and fixed points
   . convergence results
   . characterization of easy and difficult problems
   . stopping rules
   . complexity analysis

   All submissions will be fully refereed.  Submission deadline is February
   7, 1992.  We hope to have the issue out by early 1993.  Please send four
   copies of all manuscripts to

			    Dr. Gunar Liepins
			    MS 6360 Bldg 6025
		      Oak Ridge National Laboratory
			      PO Box 2008
			Oak Ridge, TN 37830-6360

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From: Ashok Gupta <gupta@prl.philips.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 91 12:16:40 GMT
Subject: CFP - Cellular Automata meeting in London

			     The British Computer Society 
			  Parallel Processing Specialist Group

				       Second
				  Call For Papers

				  One day Meeting
					 On

				 CELLULAR  AUTOMATA

				     Feb 12 1992
				  Imperial College
				     London, U.K.


    o  Special Purpose Hardware for Cellular Automata

    o  Cellular Automata Simulation on other architectures

    o  Software Systems for Cellular Automata

    o  Use of Cellular Automata models to simulate systems in the physical
	 and biological sciences

    o  Visualisation of Cellular Models


   Provisional List Of Speakers :-

       G.S. Pawley   Univ of Edinburgh
       R. Taylor     Univ of York
       F. George     Univ of Edinburgh
       B. Martin     Univ of Lyon, France
       A. Broggi     Parma, Italy


   If you wish to contribute please send a brief abstract to :-

       Prof. Dennis Parkinson
       A.M.T.
       65 Suttons Park Avenue
       Reading
       U.K.
       RG6 1AZ
       Telephone: +44 734 661111     Electronic Mail :-  dp@amthq.co.uk

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