--- apologies for cross posting ---- ------------------------------------------------------- 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 ) ------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------- - 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 ------------------------------------------------------ - Symposium chair Dr. Alberto Ochoa Rodríguez, Cuba - Technical Chairs Heinz Muehlenbein, Germany Tom English, USA Pedro Larrañaga, Spain ------------------------------------------------------ - 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 ------------------------------------------- - 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. ------------------------------------- - 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 --------------------------------------------- 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 [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%