WOMA II - Second call for papers

[Natalio Krasnogor <Natalio2.Krasnogor@uwe.ac.uk>]

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Dear Colleague,

You are invited to submit papers to the "2nd Workshop on Memetic
Algorithms (WOMA II)".

WOMA II will be held within the "Genetic and Evolutionary Computation
Conference (GECCO-2001)" 
in San Francisco, California, U.S.A. the 7th of July 2001 at the Holiday
Inn Golden Gateway Hotel.
The Workshop is open to the participation of all GECCO-2001 attendees.

Memetic algorithms (MAs) are evolutionary algorithms (EAs) that apply a
separate
local search process to refine individuals (i.e. improve their fitness
by 
hill-climbing). Under different contexts and situations, MAs are also
known as hybrid EAs, 
genetic local searchers, Baldwinian EAs, Lamarkian EAs, Cultural
Algorithms, etc.

Combining global and local search is a strategy used by many successful
global
optimization approaches, and MAs have in fact been recognized as a
powerful algorithmic paradigm for
evolutionary computing.  In particular, the relative advantage of MAs
over EAs is quite consistent on complex search spaces.

It is the purpose of this workshop to bring together researchers working
on the general topic of Memetic Algorithms.  This workshop is the second
edition
of a previous Workshop held at GECCO2000 in Las Vegas last year. It will
provide a forum for
both:
 - identifying and exploring the key issues that affect the theory,
design and application of
MAs and 
 -  the development of new collaborations between people involved with
MAs in the academia and industry.

The topics of interest are (but not limited to):

*	Theory of Memetic Algorithms and Memetics. 
*	Applications of MAs on continuous, discrete and mixed domains. 
*	Memetic Algorithms for multi-objective optimization.
*	Hybridization issues for constrained problems. 
*	MAs applied to dynamic optimization. 
*	Frameworks for describing and classifying MAs. 
*	Practical guidelines to combine local search and EAs. 
*	Scalability of MAs. 
*	Distinction between `intelligent' evolutionary operators and local
search. 
*	Distributed/Parallel MAs. 
*	Tools and software engineering of MAs.
 
Submission details like deadlines, style, publication, etc are described
in WOMA II
web page at http://www.csm.uwe.ac.uk/~n2krasno/WOMAII/WOMAII.html.

Authors are invited to submit 2 to 4 pages-long extended abstracts
papers.
The papers must fulfill GECCO-2001 main conference papers formatting
instructions.
The planned deadlines for authors are:


* March 26, Paper submission deadline (electronic copies preferable).
* April  7, Notification of paper acceptance/rejection.
* April 20, Camera ready paper (ONLY hard copies accepted).
* July   7, WOMA II in San Francisco.



The organizers of WOMA II will appreciate if you can send a letter of
intention
that will help with  organizational matters. 

Furthermore, if you have any inquiry please don't hesitate to contact
any of the organizers.


Looking forward to meeting you in WOMA II!!!

William Hart
Natalio Krasnogor
Jim Smith.

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Contact Details:


William E. Hart 
Optimization/Uncertainty Estimation Dept
(9211), MS 1110 
P.O. Box 5800, Sandia National Labs 
Albuquerque, NM 87185-1110 
Phone: (505) 844-2217 
FAX  : (505) 845-7442 
Email: wehart@sandia.gov
Web  : www.cs.sandia.gov/~wehart/main.html

Natalio Krasnogor
Intelligent Computer Systems Centre 
Faculty of Computer Studies and Mathematics 
University of the West of England 
Coldarbour Lane, 
Bristol, BS16 1QY 
United Kingdom. 
Phone: +44 (0) 117 3443357 
FAX  : +44 (0) 117 9750416  
Email: natalio2.krasnogor@uwe.ac.uk
Web  : www.csm.uwe.ac.uk/~n2krasno

Jim E. Smith
Intelligent Computer Systems Centre
Faculty of Computer Studies and Mathematics 
University of the West of England
Coldarbour Lane,
Bristol, BS16 1QY 
United Kingdom.
Phone: +44 (0) 117 3443161 
FAX  : +44 (0) 117 9750416
Email: jim.smith@ics.uwe.ac.uk 
Web  : www.csm.uwe.ac.uk/~jsmith


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 NATALIO KRASNOGOR                Intelligent Computer Systems Centre 
 Research Assistant               Faculty of  Computer Studies and
Mathematics
 Visiting Lecturer		  Frenchay Campus, Office 3p30	
                                  University of the West of England 
 Tel.: +44 - 0117 - 3443357       Coldarbour Lane
 Fax.: +44 - 0117 - 3443182       Bristol, BS16 1QY          
 				  United Kingdom. 
 
 URL: http://www.csm.uwe.ac.uk/~n2krasno  
 
 e-mail: Natalio2.Krasnogor@uwe.ac.uk 
         nkrasno@cs.sandia.gov         
         nkrasnogor@hotmail.com 

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