Workshop on
LEARNING FROM FAILURES IN EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION
to be held as part of the
GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE (GECCO-2009)
July 8-12, 2009 (Wednesday-Sunday)
Delta Centre-Ville Hotel
Montreal, Canada
Sponsored by ACM SIGEVO
http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2009
http://ls11-www.cs.tu-dortmund.de/people/beume/failures.jsp
PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR WORKSHOP: April 3, 2009 (extended)
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TOPICS (roughly)
* Concrete failures in experimental investigations
* Concrete failures in theoretical investigations
* Possibilities of 'negative papers'
* General methodological issues
INVITED SPEAKER
Hans-Paul Schwefel, TU Dortmund University
Pier Luca Lanzi, Politecnico di Milano
VISION
"No experiment is ever a complete failure, it can always serve as a
bad example". From a failed study we cannot exactly learn what we
intended to but we can always learn something. This shall be the
mission statement of this workshop.
Failures frequently happen in experimental as well as in theoretical
research. The question is what we can learn from a specific failure,
and on a higher level, how to deal with these failures. The main
emphasis is thus twofold: To inform about concrete failed approaches,
and to review and develop methods of attaining progress beyond the
failures.
Participants will present seemingly clever ideas and concepts that
somehow did not work. These can e.g. be the beginning of the train of
thoughts which already led to another successful approach, or it may
be the presentation of a problem which is still unsolved. Sharing
experiences on failures will help understanding e.g. a certain method
and its area of application, a certain problem, or the relation
between an approach and a problem. Learning that a certain method for
theoretical analysis did not provide the desired insights may give an
impression for which kind of problems and questions it is suitable.
For experimental works, there is a strengthening movement of refining
the methodology with regard to parameter analysis and enhanced
statistics.
SUBMISSIONS
We invite submissions in the range of short descriptions of an
interesting enlightening failure up to full papers. Please send your
submissions (2-8 pages in ACM style) to
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IMPORTANT DATES
Submissions due: April 3, 2009
Notification: April 10, 2009
Workshop: July 8, 14:00 - 18:00
ORGANIZATION
Nicola Beume and Mike Preuss, TU Dortmund University
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Anna I. Esparcia Alcazar, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
Carlos M. Fonseca, Universidade do Algarve
Thomas Jansen, University College Cork
Thomas Stuetzle, Universite Libre de Bruxelles
(to be extended)
INFORMATION and FEEDBACK
Please contact the organizers to subscribe for the mailing list of
this workshop. Since this is the first workshop on the topic in the
EC community, any kind of feedback is very welcome.
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