[alife] EvoTHEORY Call for Papers

[James Marshall]

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    James



CALL FOR PAPERS

EvoTHEORY 2008

First European Workshop on Theoretical Aspects of Artificial Evolution

26-28 March, 2008, Naples, Italy

http://www.evostar.org/

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INTRODUCTION
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It is a central goal of theoretical investigations of evolutionary 
algorithms to assist practitioners with the tasks of selecting and 
designing good strategy variants and operators. Due to the rapid pace at 
which new strategy variants and operators are being proposed, 
theoretical foundations of evolutionary algorithms still lag behind 
practice. However, theoretical studies have gained much momentum over 
the last few years and have made numerous valuable contributions to the 
field of evolutionary computation.

The aim of this workshop is to find common ground among the multitude of 
theoretical approaches and identify open questions central to the field 
as a whole.

The workshop will be held from 26-28 March, 2008 in Naples, Italy
as part of the EvoStar event.

Accepted papers will be presented orally at the workshop and included
in the EvoWorkshops proceedings, published by Springer Verlag in the
Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.

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TOPICS OF INTEREST
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The theory of evolutionary algorithms today consists of a wide range of 
different approaches. Run-time analysis, schema theory, analysis of the 
dynamics of artificial evolution, and systematic empirical analysis all 
consider different aspects of bio-inspired algorithms behaviour. 
Moreover, they employ different methods and tools for attaining their 
goals, such as Markov chains, randomized algorithms, infinite population 
models, or ideas based on statistical mechanics or population dynamics. 
All aspects of analysis are of interest, including but not limited to: 
population dynamics, run-time analysis, fitness landscapes and problem 
difficulty, genetic operator design, genetic repair principles, 
self-adaptive parameters, multi-objective problems.

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND SUBMISSION DETAILS
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Submit your manuscript, at most 10 A4 pages long, in Springer LNCS
format (instructions downloadable from
http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html) 

no later than November 1, 2007.

The papers will be peer reviewed by at least three members of
the program committee. Authors will be notified via email on the
results of the review by December 15, 2007.

The authors of accepted papers will have to improve their paper on the
basis of the reviewers' comments and will be asked to send a camera
ready version of their manuscripts, along with text sources and
pictures, by January 8, 2008. The accepted papers will appear in the
workshop proceedings, published in Springer LNCS Series, which will be
available at the workshop.

Further information, including the Online Submission Details, can be found
http://www.evostar.org


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IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission:         1 November 2007
Notification:       15 December 2007
Camera ready:       8 January 2008
Workshop:           26-28 March 2008




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WORKSHOP CHAIRS
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Mario Giacobini
Department of Animal Production Epidemiology and Ecology
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
and Computational Biology Unit
Molecular Biotechnology Center
University of Torino, Italy

Jonathan Rowe
School of Computer Science
University of Birmingham
Birmingham, UK