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Cercia Workshop on Computational Intelligence and Applications ============================================================== 15th - 16th November
2005
-------------------------------------- Main Lecture Theatre, School of Medicine, University of Birmingham, UK Cercia, based at the School of Computer Science,
The University of Birmingham presents the latest developments in Computational
Intelligence in this 2-day workshop with top calibre speakers from around the
globe, both from industry and academia. For further information consult:
http://www.cercia.ac.uk. This event is
offered free of charge.
Programme Day One, 15th November
2005
------------------------------------------------------------- 9.00am Registration - Tea &
Coffee
9:30am Opening Prof. Mike Cruise, Pro. VC, University of Birmingham
& Introduction Prof. Xin Yao, University of
Birmingham
10:00am Finding Hidden Factors in Large Spatiotemporal Data Sets Prof. Erkki Oja, Helsinki University of Technology 10:50am Tea break 11:10am Evolutionary System Design Dr. Bernhard Sendhoff, Honda Research Institute Europe 12:00 LUNCH 2:00pm A Statistical Learning Theory on Knowledge Mining and Problem Solving Prof. Lei Xu, Chinese University of Hong Kong 2:50pm Fault-tolerant Design by Evolutionary Algorithms Dr. Thorsten Schnier, University of Birmingham 3:40pm Tea break 4:10pm Model based Approaches to Constructing Topographic Maps of Sparse and Structured Data Dr. Peter Tino, University of Birmingham 5:00pm Modelling of Interaction Dynamics in Internet-Based Multi-user Scenarios Dr. Ata Kaban, University of Birmingham Programme Day Two, 16th November
2005
------------------------------------------------------------- 9.00am Arrival - Tea & Coffee
9:30am Evolution of Evolutionary Computation Prof. Xin Yao, University of Birmingham 10:20am New Methods for Automated Cutting and Packing Prof. Edmund Burke, University of Nottingham 11:10am Tea break 11:30am On the application of approximate reasoning in logistics Prof. Hans-Jόrgen Zimmermann, Aachen Institute of Technology 12:20pm LUNCH 2:00 pm Collaborative Schemes of Fuzzy Clustering and Their Applications to Human-Centric Systems Prof. Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta 2:50pm Propagation time in stochastic communication networks Dr. Jon Rowe, University of Birmingham 3:40pm Closing - Prof. Xin Yao 4:00pm Tea and departing This event is free of charge, but registration is
required prior to the workshop: please contact Delia Sexton: d.sexton@cercia.ac.uk Tel: 0121 414 2215, Fax: 0121 414 2799 to register. |