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                    ISAS 2001
        International Symposium on Adaptive Systems

     "Evolutionary Computation and Probabilistic
             Graphical Models"

      Hotel Palco and Havana Convention Center,
              March  19-23, 2001

         (  http:://isas2001.tripod.com/symp )

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To be hold in Havana in the period 19-23 March 2001 in
the context of the International Conference CIMAF
2001.
The major themes of the symposium are evolutionary
computation or hybrid evolutionary approaches,
and bayesian learning or learning in graphical models.


This symposium follows the successful ISAS’99
(International Symposium on Adaptive Systems)
held in Havana in the context of CIMAF’99 conference,
and aims at exploring these two research
activities and their roles and interactions in
Adaptive Systems.

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- Scientific Programme

Our main purpose is to bring together researchers,
coming from different communities, who share the
common feature of being involved in using the
dependence structure of a complex statistical model in

some aspect of evolutionary computation and other
modern heuristic or soft-computing techniques.
Cross-fertilization between graphical model research
and different soft-computing approaches, such as
genetic algorithms and other evolutionary algorithms,
as well as neural network learning, reinforcement
learning, decision tree learning, etc, will be
strongly encouraged by the conference. However, the
topics
of interest to this conference include but are not
limited to the following:

- Genetic algorithms
- Learning Bayesian Models from data.
- Genetic programming
- Mixture of Models.
- Classifier systems, evolutionary learning.
- Dynamic Bayesian Networks.
- Evolutionary optimization.
- Gaussian Graphical Models.
- Constraint, global and multiobjective optimization
- Model selection.
- Evolutionary strategies
- Monte Carlo methods.
- Graphical Models and Evolutionary Computation.
- Junction tree algorithms.
- Graphical Models and Neural Networks.
- Simulation in Graphical Models.
- Reinforcement learning.
- Theoretical Foundations of G. Models
- Bayesian and Evolutionary Data Mining.
- Stochastic algorithms
- Other soft-computing heuristics.
- Models with latent variables
- Stochastic Dynamical Systems.
-  G. Models in Game Theory
- Theoretical Foundations of EC

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- Symposium chair
        Dr. Alberto Ochoa Rodríguez, Cuba

- Technical Chairs
        Heinz Muehlenbein, Germany
        Tom English,           USA
        Pedro Larrañaga,     Spain

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- Program Committee

Alejandro Rosete, Cuba
Alice Smith, USA
Alina Ruiz,  Cuba
Amilcar Cardoso, Portugal
Antonio Salmerón, Spain
Byoung-Tak Zhang, Korea
Carlos Coello, Mexico
Colin Fyfe, UK
Concha Bielza, Spain
David Heckerman, USA
David Dowe, Australia
Edgar Oropesa, Cuba
Enrique Sucar, Mexico
Ernesto Costa, Portugal
Guenter Rudolph, Germany
Gulnara Baldoquín, Cuba
Hans-Heinrich Bothe, Germany
Heinz Muehlenbein, Germany
Henry Tirri, Finland
Hossein Arsham, USA
Iñaki Inza, Spain
Jean-Francois Angers, Canada
Jiri Pospichal, Slovakia
Joe Whittaker, UK
Joe Suzuki, Japan
Joerg Lemm, Germany
Jorge Muruzabal, Spain
Jose A. Gámez, Spain
José A. Lozano, Spain
José Ruiz Schulloper, Cuba
Juan C. Jimenez, Cuba
Kalyanmoy Deb, India
Katya R. Vázquez, México
Kennet A. De Jong, USA
Luis M de Campos, Spain
Luis Ortiz, USA
Marcus Gallagher, Australia
Marek J. Druzdzel, USA
Marta Soto, Cuba
Martin Pelican, USA
Michael Conrad, USA
Michele Sebag, France
Luciano García, Cuba
Osvaldo Velez Lang, Colombia
Paolo Giudici, Italy
Pedro Larrañaga, Spain
Peter Angeline, USA
Ramón Sangüesa, Spain
Robert Cowell, UK
Roberto Santana, Cuba
Russ Eberhart, USA
Serafin Moral, Spain
Thilo Mahnig, Germany
Thomas English, USA
Thomas Richardson, USA
Uffe Kjaerulff, Denmark


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- Publication of papers

Conference proceedings will be published and be
available for the delegates at the conference in
printed form.  In addition the authors of the best
submissions will be invited to expand and refine
their papers for possible publication in one leading
international journal.

The working language is English.

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- Important dates:

December 8, 2000    -- >  Deadline for submission of
papers (<=8 pages)
January 19, 2001      -- >  Notification of acceptance
Febraury 1, 2001      -->   Deadline for camera-ready
copies of accepted papers and registration of
                       at least one author
March 19-23, 2001   -->    Conference

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For further information please contact:

ISAS 2001 URL:
        http://isas2001.tripod.com/symp
        http://www.members.tripod.com/~isas2001/symp/

Dr. Alberto Ochoa Rodríguez
Institute of Cybernetics, Mathematics and Physics
(ICIMAF).
Center of Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.
Calle 15 No. 551 e/ C y D.
CP. 10400. La Habana. Cuba.
Fax: 537-333373
Phone: 537-327764
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