It would be greatly appreciated if this announcement could be
shared with individuals whose research interests include
genetic and evolutionary methods, AI, and soft computing.
Thanks.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Paper Submission Deadline (EXTENDED): March 31, 2010
GEM'10
The 2010 International Conference on
Genetic and Evolutionary Methods
Date and Location: July 12-15, 2010, Las Vegas, USA
You are invited to submit a full paper for consideration. All
accepted papers will be published in the GEM conference
proceedings (in printed book form; later, the proceedings will
also be accessible online).
SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
O Genetic programming
O Genetic algorithms
O Hybrid genetic / memetic algorithms
O Artificial life
O Genetic benchmarks and software packages
O Optimization methodologies
O Swarm intelligence and optimization
O Artificial immune systems
O Evolutionary programming
O Genetics-based machine learning
O Adaptive behavior-based systems
O Fuzzy systems and evolutionary computing
O Biologically inspired systems
O Evolutionary strategies
O Combinatorial optimization problems
O Ant colony optimization
O Learning classifiers
O Agent technologies
O Parallel/distributed evolutionary algorithms
O Evolvable hardware
O Evolutionary scheduling
O Search based strategies
O Evolutionary multi-objective optimization
O Prediction methods
O Co-evolution
O Novel methodologies
O Robotics
O Biological methods
O Applications
USEFUL WEB LINKS:
To see the DBLP list of accepted papers in the last offering of GEM, go to
http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/gem/gem2009.html
The main web site of GEM'10 is accessible at
http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp10/ws/conferences/gem10
CONFIRMED ACADEMIC & TECHNICAL CO-SPONSORS (a partial list):
The Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing (BISC), University of
California, Berkeley, USA; Collaboratory for Advanced Computing and
Simulations (CACS), University of Southern California, USA; Intelligent
Data Exploration & Analysis Lab., University of Texas at Austin, Texas,
USA; Harvard Statistics Department Genomics & Bioinformatics Lab.,
Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA; BioMedical Informatics &
Bio-Imaging Lab., Georgia Institute of Technology & Emory University,
Georgia, USA; Hawkeye Radiology Informatics, Department of Radiology,
College of Medicine, University of Iowa, USA; Minnesota Supercomputing
Institute, University of Minnesota, USA; Medical Image HPC & Informatics
Lab. (MiHi Lab), University of Iowa, USA; University of North Dakota,
USA; NDSU-CIIT Green Computing & Communications Lab., North Dakota State
University, USA; Knowledge Management & Intelligent System Center (KMIS)
of University of Siegen, Germany; UMIT, Institute of Bioinformatics and
Translational Research, Austria; SECLAB of University of Naples
Federico II, University of Naples Parthenope, & Second University of
Naples, Italy; National Institute for Health Research; World Academy of
Biomedical Sciences and Technologies; High Performance Computing for
Nanotechnology (HPCNano); Supercomputer Software Department (SSD),
Institute of Computational Mathematics & Mathematical Geophysics,
Russian Academy of Sciences; Int'l Council on Medical & Care Compunetics;
The UK Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, UK; VMW Solution
Ltd.; Scientific Technologies Corporation; HoIP - Health without
Boundaries; Space for Earth Foundation; and Manjrasoft (Cloud Computing
Technology company), Melbourne, Australia.
WORLDCOMP 2010 MEMBERS OF STEERING COMMITTEE:
(Each track/conference has its own committee members - what
appears below is a partial list of members of the steering
committee of the federated event - WORLDCOMP.)
Dr. Selim Aissi
Chief Strategist - Security, Manageability and Virtualization,
Ultra Mobile Group, Intel Corporation, USA
Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia
Coordinator & General Co-Chair, Professor, Computer Science,
Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Supercomputing (Springer),
Co-Editor/Board, Journal of Computational Science (Elsevier),
Advisory Board, IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing,
Elected Fellow, Int'l Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine,
The University of Georgia, USA
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Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy
Member, National Academy of Engineering,
IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow,
Professor, Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences
University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
Prof. Hyunseung Choo
ITRC Director of Ministry of Information & Communication, Korea,
Director, ITRC: Intelligent HCI Convergence Research Center, Korea,
Director, Korea Information Processing Society,
Assoc. Editor, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology,
Assoc. Editor, Transactions on Computational Science, Springer-Verlag;
Director, Korean Society for Internet Info. (KSII) + Society for Sim.;
Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
Prof. Andy Marsh
Director HoIP (Healthcare over Internet Protocol),
Secretary-General WABT (World Academy of Biomedical Science & Tech.),
Vice-president ICET (Int'l Council for Engineering & Technology),
Vice-president ICMCC (Int'l Council on Medical & Care Compunetics),
Visiting Professor, University of Westminster, UK
Prof. Layne T. Watson
IEEE Fellow, NIA Fellow, ISIBM Fellow, Fellow of The National
Institute of Aerospace, Departments of Computer Science & Math,
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, USA
Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh
Member, National Academy of Engineering,
IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, AAAS Fellow, AAAI Fellow, IFSA Fellow,
Director, Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing,
Professor, University of California, Berkeley, USA
URL: http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp10/ws/conferences/gem10
PURPOSE / HISTORY:
GEM'10 Conference is being held jointly (same location and dates)
with a number of other research conferences (WORLDCOMP).
WORLDCOMP is the largest annual gathering of researchers in computer
science, computer engineering and applied computing. We anticipate
to have 2,000 or more attendees from over 85 countries participating
at WORLDCOMP Congress. A number of individual research tracks of
the Congress have been held for many years; for example, PDPTA has
been held annually since 1995 (PDPTA'10 is the 16th annual
conference); ERSA has been held annually since 2001 (ERSA'10 is the
10th annual conference); ICAI has been held annually since 1999
(ICAI'10 is the 12th annual conference); GEM has been held
annually since 2004 (GEM'10 is the 7th annual conference;
originally it was offered as part of ICAI). Other tracks of
WORLDCOMP Congress have similar records.
The motivation behind this federated congress is to assemble
a spectrum of affiliated research conferences into a coordinated
research meeting held in a common place at a common time. The
main goal is to provide a forum for exchange of ideas in a
number of research areas that interact. The model used to form
GEM facilitates communication among researchers from all
over the world in different fields of computer science,
computer engineering, applied computing, AI, and soft computing.
Both inward research (core areas) and outward research (multi-
disciplinary, inter-disciplinary, and applications) will be
covered during the conference. GEM makes concerted effort
to reach out to participants affiliated with diverse entities
(such as: universities, institutions, corporations, government
agencies, and research centers/labs) from all over the world.
GEM'10 will be composed of research presentations, keynote
lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel discussions,
and poster presentations. In recent past, keynote/tutorial/panel
speakers have included (as part of the federated event):
Prof. David A. Patterson (pioneer/computer architecture, U. of
California, Berkeley), Dr. K. Eric Drexler (known as Father of
Nanotechnology), Prof. John H. Holland (known as Father of
Genetic Algorithms; U. of Michigan), Prof. Ian Foster (known as
Father of Grid Computing; U. of Chicago & ANL), Prof. Ruzena
Bajcsy (pioneer/VR, U. of California, Berkeley), Prof. Barry
Vercoe (Founding member of MIT Media Lab, MIT), Dr. Jim Gettys
(known as X-man, developer of X Window System, xhost; OLPC),
Prof. John Koza (known as Father of Genetic Programming,
Stanford U.), Prof. Brian D. Athey (NIH Program Director, U. of
Michigan), Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna (pioneer, U. of Southern
California), Dr. Jose L. Munoz (NSF Program Director and
Consultant), Prof. Jun Liu (Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard U.),
Anousheh Ansari (CEO, Prodea Systems & first female private
space explorer), and many other distinguished speakers. To get
a feeling about the events' atmosphere, see the 2009 delegates
photos available at:
http://www.pixagogo.com/1672514104
2008 delegates photos can be viewed at:
http://www.pixagogo.com/8658134154
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS, PUBLICATION, INDEXING INFORMATION:
Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by
uploading them to the evaluation web site at:
http://worldcomp.cviog.uga.edu/
Submissions must be uploaded by March 31, 2010 and they must
be in either MS doc (but not docx) or pdf formats (about 5
to 7 pages - single space, font size of 10 to 12). All
reasonable typesetting formats are acceptable (later, the
authors of accepted papers will be asked to follow a
particular typesetting format to prepare their final papers.)
The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be
limited to 7 (IEEE style) pages. Papers must not have been
previously published or currently submitted for publication
elsewhere. The first page of the draft paper should include:
title of the paper, name, affiliation, postal address, and
email address for each author. The first page should also
identify the name of the Contact Author and a maximum of 5
topical keywords that would best represent the content of
the paper. Finally, the name of the conference (ie. GEM)
must be stated on the first page.
Full papers will be evaluated for originality, significance,
clarity, impact, and soundness. Each paper will be refereed
by two experts in the field who are independent of the
conference program committee. The referees' evaluations will
then be reviewed by one member of the program committee who
will recommend a decision to the chair of the track that
the paper has been submitted to. The chair will make the
final decision. Lastly, the final papers will be reviewed
by one member of the program committee.
All accepted papers will be published in the respective
conference proceedings (in both, printed book form as well as
online). The proceedings will be indexed in Inspec / IET /
The Institute for Engineering and Technology, DBLP / Computer
Science Bibliography, and others.) The printed proceedings
will be available for distribution on site at the conference.
In addition to the publication of the proceedings, selected
authors will be invited to submit extended versions of their
papers for publication in a number of research books being
proposed/contracted with various publishers (such as, Springer,
Elsevier, IOS, ...) - these books would be composed after the
conference. Also, many chairs of sessions and workshops will
be forming journal special issues to be published after the
conference.
IMPORTANT DATES:
March 31, 2010: Submission of papers (about 5 to 7 pages)
April 15, 2010: Notification of acceptance (+/- two days)
May 5, 2010: Final papers + Copyright + Registration
July 12-15, 2010: The 2010 International Conference on Genetic
and Evolutionary Methods (GEM'10)
URL: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/
MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:
The Program Committee includes members of chapters of World
Academy of Science (chapters: supercomputing; scientific
computing; AI; imaging science; databases; simulation;
software eng.; embedded systems; internet & web technologies;
communications; computer security; & bioinformatics.) The
Program Committee for GEM'10 conference is currently
being formed. Many who have already joined the committees
of individual tracks are renowned leaders, scholars,
researchers, scientists and practitioners of the highest
ranks; many are directors of research labs., fellows of
various societies, heads/chairs of departments, program
directors of research funding agencies, deans and provosts.
You can view the list of program committee of the last two
offerings of GEM at:
http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp08/ws/conferences/gem08/committee
http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp09/ws/conferences/gem09/committee
Program Committee members are expected to have established
a strong and documented research track record. Those
interested in joining the Program Committee should email
H. R. Arabnia ([log in to unmask]) the following information for
consideration/evaluation: Name, affiliation and position,
complete mailing address, email address, a one-page biography
that includes research expertise and the name of the conference
offering to help with (ie, GEM).
LOCATION OF CONFERENCE:
GEM'10 will be held at Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas,
Nevada, USA (with any overflows at other near-by hotels).
This is a mega hotel with excellent conference facilities and
over 3,000 rooms. It is minutes from the airport with 24-hour
shuttle service to and from the airport. This hotel has many
recreational attractions, including: waterfalls, spa, pools,
sunning decks, Easy River, wave pool, nightly shows, many
restaurants, ... The hotel is adjacent to CityCenter
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CityCenter ) which is the
largest private development in the United States' history
(costing over $11 Billion); this offers access to additional
recreational and entertainment attractions. The negotiated
room rate for conference attendees is very reasonable.
