
Genetic Algorithms Digest   Monday, April 13 1992   Volume 6 : Issue 14

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Today's Topics:
	- CFP: Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
	- ECAI92 Advance Information
	- Int. Symposium on AI, CANCUN, MEXICO

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

 Canadian AI Conference, Vancouver,                           May 11-15, 1992
 COGANN, Combinations of GAs and NNs, @ IJCNN-92 (v5n31)      Jun 6,     1992
 ARTIFICIAL LIFE III, Santa Fe, NM                            Jun 15-19, 1992
 Evolution as a computational process, Monterey (v6n9)        Jun 22-24, 1992
 ML-92, Machine Learning Conference, Aberdeen (v6n8)          Jul  1-3,  1992
 10th National Conference on AI, San Jose,                    Jul 12-17, 1992
 FOGA-92, Foundations of Genetic Algorithms, Colorado (v5n32) Jul 26-29, 1992
 COG SCI 92, Cognitive Science Conference, Indiana, (v5n39)   Jul 29-1,  1992
 ECAI 92, 10th European Conference on AI (v5n13)              Aug  3-7,  1992
 Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, Brussels, (v5n29)      Sep 28-30, 1992
 SAB92, From Animals to Animats, Honolulu (v6n6)              Dec  7-11, 1992

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From: "Martin Charles Golumbic" <GOLUMBIC@HAIFASC3.VNET.IBM.COM> and
      GOLDBERG@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 92 14:06:16 IDT
Subject: CFP: Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence

   The Call for Papers for the second special issue of the Annals of Math
   and AI has been continued.  Attached is the continuing announcement.
   Dave Goldberg


         Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence

                        Call for Papers

          Second Special issue on Genetic Algorithms in AI

   Before his death, Gunar Liepins had issued a call for papers for
   a second special issue of the Annals of Math and AI devoted to the
   topic of "Genetic Algorithms in AI".  The original deadline for
   submissions was announced as February 1992.  The editors of the
   Annals will complete this special issue, and intend to continue to
   publish such special issues periodically.  Therefore,

   (1) The deadline for submitting full length papers to this second
   special issue will be extended to July 31, 1992.  Four copies should be
   sent to Prof. Martin Golumbic, Editor-in-Chief, Annals of Math and AI,
   IBM Israel Science and Technology, Technion City, Haifa, Israel, or to
   the guest editors Prof. David Goldberg, Dept. of General Engineering
   University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801  and  Prof. Michael Vose,
   Dept. of Computer Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996.

   (2)  Authors who already submitted papers to Gunar Liepins or referees
   who may have received correspondence from him are asked to contact
   Martin Golumbic <golumbic@haifasc3.vnet.ibm.com> to assure that any
   material which may have been lost or unrecorded can be recovered.

   (3)  The first special issue on GA in AI (edited by Gunar Liepins) has
   appeared as Vol. 5, No. 1 (April 1992).  For further information on this
   issue, please contact the publisher < neabbs!baltzer at relay.eu.net >
   The contents is as follows:
      A formal analysis of the role of multi-point crossover in genetic
	  algorithms, K.A. DeJong and W.M. Spears
      Characterizing crossover in genetic algorithms,
	  G.E. Liepins and M.D. Vose
      Construction of high-order deception functions using low-order
	  Walsh coefficients, D.E. Goldberg
      Deception, dominance and implicit parallelism in genetic search,
	   D. Whitley
      Modeling genetic algorithms with Markov chains,
	   A.E.Nix and M.D. Vose

   The second special issue of the Annals of Mathematics and Artificial
   Intelligence devoted to genetic algorithms and classifier systems is
   planned for 1993.  Papers with significant mathematical content
   addressing central genetic algorithm and classifier system issues and
   behavior are being solicited for consideration as indicated above.
   Full length versions of selected papers will be published.
   All submissions will be refereed.  Topics of interest include,

     -  extensions of schema analysis
     -  computational complexity
     -  convergence proofs for GAs
     -  characterization of GAs in terms of fixed points and their stability
     -  analysis of GA hard problems
     -  comparative analysis of different recombination operators
     -  approaches to constrained optimization
     -  GA approaches to multi-objective optimization
     -  population distributional properties
     -  dynamics of credit assignment

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From: ECAI92 Vienna Conference Service <ecai92@ai.univie.ac.at>
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1992 12:23:23 +0100
Subject: ECAI92 Advance Information

   [Editor's Note:  The following announcment has been shortened to fit into
   the digest.  The complete text of this announcement is available on the
   GA-List ftp server (ftp.aic.nrl.navy.mil) in
   /pub/galist/conferences/ecai92 -- Alan]

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    Advance Information - ECAI92 - Advance Information - ECAI92 - VIENNA
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	10th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 92)

		      August 3-7, 1992, Vienna, Austria


			    Programme Chairperson
		Bernd Neumann, University of Hamburg, Germany

			Local Arrangements Chairperson
	   Werner Horn, Austrian Research Institute for AI, Vienna

   The  European  Conference  on  Artificial  Intelligence  (ECAI)  is  the
   European  forum for scientific exchange and presentation of AI research.
   The aim of the conference is to cover all aspects of AI research and  to
   bring  together  basic  research  and  applied  research.  The Technical
   Programme will  include  paper  presentations,  invited   talks,  survey
   sessions, workshops,  and  tutorials.  The  conference  is  designed  to
   cover all subfields of AI, including non-symbolic methods.

   ECAIs are held in alternate years and  are  organized  by  the  European
   Coordinating  Committee  for  Artificial  Intelligence (ECCAI). The 10th
   ECAI in 1992 will be hosted  by  the  Austrian  Society  for  Artificial
   Intelligence  (OGAI).  The  conference  will  take  place  at the Vienna
   University of Economics and Business Administration.


   PROGRAMME STRUCTURE

   Mon-Tue (Aug 3-4): Tutorials and Workshops
   Wed-Fri (Aug 5-7): Invited Talks, Paper Presentations, Survey Sessions
   Tue-Fri (Aug 4-7): Industrial Exhibition


   ======================== INVITED LECTURES ==============================

   Stanley J.Rosenschein (Teleos Research, Palo Alto, Calif., USA):
      Perception and Action in Autonomous Systems

   Oliviero Stock (IRST, Trento, Italy):
      A Third Modality of Natural Language? 
      Promising Trends in Applied Natural Language Processing

   Peter Struss (Siemens AG, Muenchen, Germany):
      Knowledge-Based Diagnosis - An Important Challenge and Touchstone
      for AI

   =================== TECHNICAL PAPERS PROGRAMME =========================

   This will consist of papers selected from the 680 that were submitted.
   These papers will be given in parallel sessions held from August 5
   to 7, 1992. The topics of the papers include:

   - Automated Reasoning
   - Cognitive Modeling
   - Connectionist and PDP Models for AI
   - Distributed AI and Multiagent Systems
   - Enabling Technology and Systems
   - Integrated Systems
   - Knowledge Representation
   - Machine Learning
   - Natural Language
   - Philosophical Foundations
   - Planning, Scheduling, and Reasoning about Actions
   - Principles of AI Applications
   - Reasoning about Physical Systems
   - Robotics
   - Social, Economic, Legal, and Artistic Implications
   - User Interfaces
   - Verification, Validation & Test of Knowledge-Based Systems
   - Vision and Signal Understanding

   For detailed information and registration material please contact the
   conference office:
      ADV
      c/o ECAI92
      Trattnerhof 2
      A-1010 Vienna, Austria
      Tel: +43-1-5330913-74, Fax: +43-1-5330913-77, Telex: 75311178 adv a

   or send your postal address via email to: ecai92@ai.univie.ac.at

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From: "Centro de Inteligencia Artificial(ITESM)" <ISAI@TECMTYVM.MTY.ITESM.MX>
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 92 13:05:57 CST
Subject: Int. Symposium on AI, CANCUN, MEXICO


	  INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
       The Artificial Intelligence Technology Transfer Conference

	       APPLICATIONS IN MANUFACTURING AND ROBOTICS

			 December 7-11, 1992
			   Cancun, Mexico

		    C A L L   F O R    P A P E R S


	The Fifth International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence
	will be held in Cancun Mexico on December 7-11, 1992.
	The Symposium is sponsored by the ITESM (Instituto Tecnologico
	y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey) in cooperation with the
	International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Inc.,
	   the American Association for Artificial Intelligence,
	the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence,
       The European Coordinating Committee for AI, the Sociedad Mexicana
       de Inteligencia Artificial and IBM of Mexico.

	Papers from all countries are sought that:
   (1)  Present applications of artificial intelligence technology
	to the solution of problems in Manufacturing, robotics and
	related areas.
   (2)  Describe research on techniques to accomplish such applications,
   (3)  Address the problem of transfering the AI Technology especially
	in the context of the Free Trade Agreement among Canada, USA
	and Mexico.

       Areas of application include but are no limited to:
	  plant design, process planning, product design, scheduling,
	  assembly, production control, computer-integrated manufacturing,
	  inspection, qulality control, transportation problems, client
	  support, distribution, marketing, decision support, process
	  control, motion control, supervisory and expert control, alarm
	  diagnosis, equipment maintenance, energy savings and pollution
	  control.

       Technology Transfer includes but is not limited to:
	  strategies for introducing and institutionalizing AI technology,
	  human resources formation in AI, justification of AI projects,
	  cooperation programs in the context of the Free Trade Agreement,
	  impact of AI and automation in the social environment of the
	  company.

      AI techniques include but are not limited to:
	  computer vision and digital image processing, speech and natural
	  language understanding, pattern recognition, machine learning,
	  motion planning, neural nets, genetic algorithms, heuristic
	  search, uncertainty management, task planning, parallelism,
	  expert systems, knowledge engineering, knowledge acquisition
	  and representation, and case-based, geometric, temporal, spatial,
	  nonmonotonic, common sense and probabilistic reasoning.

      Persons wishing to submit a paper should send five copies written
   in English to:
		 Hugo Terashima, Program Chair
		 Centro de Inteligencia Artificial, ITESM.
		 Sucursal de Correos "J", Monterrey, N.L.
		 64849 MEXICO
	  Tel.(52-83) 58-2000 ext. 5134
	  Telefax (52-83) 58-1400 Dial ext.5143 or 58-2000 Ask ext.5143
	  Net address: isai at tecmtyvm.bitnet or terashim at mtecv2.mty.
	  itesm.mx.

	  The paper should identify the area and technique to which it
   belongs. Papers will be evaluated with respect to their originality,
   correctness, clarity and relevance. Use a serif type font, size 10,
   single-spaced with a maximum of 10 pages. No papers will be accepted
   by electronic means.

   Important dates:
	  Papers must be received by April 30,1992. Authors will be
   notified of acceptance or rejection by June 30,1992. A final copy
   of each accepted paper, camera ready for inclusion in the Symposium
   proceedings, will be due by July 31,1992.

   Honorary Conference Chair: Raj Reddy, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
   General Chair: Francisco Cantu-Ortiz, ITESM, Mexico
   General Co-Chair: Randy Goebel, University of Alberta, Canada

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