**** Apologies if you receive multiple copies ****** Dear Colleague, Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC2000) features the following four different competitions: 1. the iterated prisoner's dilemma, 2. forecasting an artificial times series, 3. forecasting the real Dow Jones Index, and 4. visualizing the evolutionary process. Detailed descriptions including a brief introduction, a what-to-submitt section and scoring procedures can be found on the competitions web page http://www.math.iastate.edu/danwell/CEC2000/comp.html. If you have any question, feel free to contact either of the competitions chairs Dan Ashlock <[log in to unmask]> or Ralf Salomon <[log in to unmask]>. *** Please visit Congress on Evolutionary Computation: *** http://pcgipseca.cee.hw.ac.uk/cec2000/ Dr I.Kuscu CEC2000 Publicity Chair http://www.computing.surrey.ac.uk/personal/st/I.Kuscu/ %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%