[alife] CIGPU 2009 Initial Call for Papers

Garnett Wilson gwilson at cs.mun.ca
Mon Dec 1 10:30:15 PST 2008


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CIGPU 2009  INITIAL CALL FOR PAPERS        

 

The Second International Workshop and Tutorial on Computational Intelligence
on Consumer Games and Graphics Hardware (CIGPU 2009) will be held in
Montréal, Québec, Canada, as part of the Genetic and Evolutionary
Computation Conference (GECCO-2009), July 8-12, 2009.

 

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Everyone who has implemented an evolutionary algorithm or other
computational intelligence approach using graphics processing units (GPUs),
video game systems, mobile devices, cellular phones, etc. will want to
submit to this workshop.  Due to its speed, price, and availability, there
is increasing interest in using mass consumer market commodity hardware for
engineering and scientific applications. Mostly this has concentrated upon
graphics hardware, particularly GPUs, due to their ability to offer teraflop
performance on a desktop using a restricted form of parallel computing
(known as “General Purpose computing on Graphics Processing Units”,  or
“GPGPU”).  There is also increasing interest in using the computing power of
game consoles such as Microsoft's Xbox, Sony's Playstation and the Cell
processor, and portable entertainment and/or cellular phone mobile devices
for research and applications.  

 

Submissions are invited in (but not limited to) the following areas: 

-              Parallel genetic programming (GP) on GPU 

-              Parallel genetic algorithms (GA) on GPU 

-              Parallel evolutionary programming (EP) on GPU 

-              Associated or hybrid computational intelligence techniques on
GPU 

    -          Support Vector Machines

    -          Bayesian Networks

    -          Parallel search algorithms

    -          Data mining

-              Differential Evolution on GPU 

-              Computational Biology or Bioinformatics on GPU 

-              Evolutionary computation on video game platforms

-              Evolutionary computation on mobile devices

 

The workshop will be held in conjunction with the tutorial “Accelerating
Evolutionary Computation with Graphics Processing Units” by Dr. Wolfgang
Banzhaf and Dr. Simon Harding.  In addition, an nVidia®-sponsored GECCO 2009
competition on GPUs for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation has been
organized with the prize of a state-of-the-art nVidia® graphics card.

 

Workshop website: http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/external/W.Langdon/cigpu/

 

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Submissions and Publication

 

Submissions will be for papers up to 8 pages in ACM format, submitted to
gwilson at cs.mun.ca.  As the review process is double-blind, please make your
submission anonymous by removing all references to the authors.  Please see
the GECCO 2009 information for authors for further details.  All accepted
papers will be presented at CIGPU 2009 and published by Sheridan/ACM Press
in the workshop proceedings to be included on the GECCO Proceedings and
Companion Material CD and placed in the ACM Digital Library.

 

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Important Dates

 

Paper submission deadline: March 25, 2009 (Please submit to
gwilson at cs.mun.ca.)

Notification to authors: April 3, 2009

Submission of camera-ready version: April 22, 2009

Conference registration: April 27, 2009

Workshop date: July 8 or 9 (TBA), 2009

 

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Workshop Format and Schedule

 

CIGPU 2009 will be held as a full day event including:

 

-              GPU Tutorial - Accelerating Evolutionary Computation with
Graphics Processing Units (where this will shift with final scheduling)

-              Paper presentations

-              Discussion of experiences with latest GPU and commodity
device technology

-              Presentations by GPU competition entrants and subsequent
award presentation (prize of state-of-the-art nVidia® graphics card)

 

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Program Committee

 

Workshop Chairs 

-              Dr. Garnett Wilson, Department of Computer Science, 

    Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, gwilson at cs.mun.ca

-              Dr. Simon Harding, Department of Computer Science, 

    Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, simonh at cs.mun.ca

-              Dr. W.B. Langdon, Department of Computer Science, 

    King’s College London, UK, wlangdon at essex.ac.uk

-              Dr. Man Leung Wong, Department of Computing and Decision
Sciences,

    Lingnan University, Hong Kong, mlwong at ln.edu.hk

 

 

 

 

 

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Dr. Garnett Wilson, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Computer Science Department, Memorial University of Newfoundland

St. John's, NL, Canada A1B 3X5

Phone: (709) 737-4891

Email: gwilson at cs.mun.ca,  Web:  <http://www.cs.dal.ca/~gwilson>
www.cs.mun.ca/~gwilson

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