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Date: Mon, 15 Nov 99 17:36:50 GMT
From: David Corne <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Call for Workshop Proposals - SAB/PPSN
From: David Corne <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Call for Workshop Proposals - PPSN2000 and SAB2000
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Call for WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
in association with:
SAB2000: 6th Int'l Conf. on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior
PPSN2000: 6th Int'l Conf. on Parallel Problem Solving From Nature
College de France, Paris, France
Saturday 16th September 2000
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SAB2000 and PPSN2000 are very nearby in time and place in September
2000. SAB will take place at the College de France, Paris, between
September 11th and 15th, with PPSN following between September
18th and 22nd, located a short hop away on the Paris metro. In the
intervening weekend, 16th and 17th, both SAB and PPSN are holding
Workshops and Tutorials jointly. The workshops will be at the College
de France, on Saturday 16th.
The idea of the PPSN/SAB joint workshops is to allow the
opportunity for researchers in emerging areas of common interest
to meet face to face, present and discuss their latest work and ideas,
and perhaps push their field forward as a result. In particular, there
are many fascinating areas of intersection between the research topics
covered by PPSN and SAB, and we expect all of the accepted workshop
proposals to be of interest to a substantial proportion of delegates
from both conferences.
Our overall plan is to for about one third of the workshops to be
clearly 'joint', in the sense of having strong relevance to both
PPSN (natural computation: evolutionary, neural, cellular automata,
and so forth) and SAB (animats, robotics, perception, communicating
agents, and so on). Another third of the workshops will be more relevant
to PPSN, and the remainder more relevant to SAB.
Proposals can be for half-day or full-day workshops, but note that
limited time and resources are available, so if `full-day' is your
first thought, please consider carefully whether you could instead
make it into `half-day'.
If you would like to propose a workshop, please do the following:
(1) Email a brief note to the Workshop Chair, indicating the overall
topic of your workshop. This is quite important, partly because there
are a small number of pre-arranged workshops in development, and
partly because we are keen to try to maintain a balance of topics
in terms of relevance to both PPSN and SAB.
(2) Prepare a workshop proposal, in the following form, as plain
text:
- Name(s), and full affiliations/addresses of the proposer(s).
- Title of the proposed workshop.
- A description of the proposed workshop topic (Max 500 words),
which might appear in a CFP for it.
- A description of the proposed format of the workshop itself
(eg: half day, full day, posters, 15-minute talks, etc...).
- A realistic estimate of the number of attendees you would
expect.
- Anything else you would like to say (Max 150 words).
(3) Email your proposal to the Workshop Chair by no later than
Friday January 14th, 2000.
Attendance at all workshops will be open to all registered delegates
of either PPSN or SAB. The proposers of accepted workshops will be
expected to provide appropriate materials to the Workshop Chair
for eventual inclusion in a collective workshop pre-proceedings which
will be distributed in the registration packages for both SAB and PPSN.
This material will include a description of your workshop, short papers
from your speakers (if appropriate), handouts, and so forth. This
will be in addition to and independent of any other publication
arrangements planned for specific workshops.
The general calendar is below. Note that it provides five and a
half months for the internal organization of accepted workshops.
That is, if your workshop involves its own abstract/paper
submission/review acceptance/final-version timetable, this must
all start with your own CFP ASAP after 11 Feb, and finish with
final versions of accepted material which can be sent to the
PPSN/SAB Workshops Chair by 28 July.
Item Deadline
Send me a note about your proposed workshop ASAP
Email workshop proposal Friday 14 Jan
>Notification of accepted workshops Friday 4 Feb
Materials for the collective workshop proceedings Friday 28 July
Workshop Saturday 16 Sep
Relevant Links<
Up-to-date version of this document:
http://www.cs.reading.ac.uk/cs/research/sabppsn2000
PPSN2000: http://www.inria.fr/PPSN2000
SAB2000: http://www-poleia.lip6.fr/~sab2000
Sponsoring and Supporting Institutions:
Grateful acknowledgement to:
College de France
EVONET - European Network of Excellence in Evolutionary Computation
INRIA - French National Institute for Research in Computer Science
and Control
ISAB - International Society for Adaptive Behavior
ISGA - International Society of Genetic Algorithms
PPSN2000 is organized in association with CEC2000 and GECCO2000
We look forward to receiving your proposals!
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David Corne, PPSN/SAB Workshops Chair,
<a href=mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask],
On behalf of the SAB and PPSN Conference Chairs and Organising Cttees
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