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CFP: OBUPM-2000 Workshop at GECCO-2000

                     2nd Call For Participation

                            OBUPM-2000

                  OPTIMIZATION BY BUILDING AND USING
                      PROBABILISTIC MODELS 2000

                      Bird-of-a-feather Workshop
                               at the 
            Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2000
                           ( GECCO-2000 )

      Las Vegas, Nevada, July 8 - 12, 2000 (Saturday - Wednesday) 

                        A recombination of 
    the Fifth Annual Genetic Programming Conference (GP-2000) and 
    the International Conference on Genetic Algorithms (ICGA-2000) 

                            organized by

    Martin Pelikan, Heinz Muehlenbein, and Alberto Ochoa Rodriguez

                 to be held on Saturday, July 8, 2000


WORKSHOP SUMMARY

Recently, there has been a growing interest in evolutionary algorithms
that guide the exploration of the search space by building and using
probabilistic models of promising solutions (e.g. PBIL, cGA, UMDA,
BMDA, MIMIC, FDA, and BOA). These algorithms have shown to resolve a 
number of problems the conventional GAs experience great difficulties 
with and solve a number of difficult problems quickly, accurately, and 
reliably. The workshop invites discussion on general issues of research 
in this area, including (but not limited to): 

      - recent advances in the optimization by building and using
        probabilistic models 
      - theoretical and empirical results in the area 
      - application of the methods based on probabilistic modeling
        to real-world problems 
      - various probabilistic modeling techniques and their use in
        optimization 
      - promising directions of future research 


PARTICIPATION
 
Presentations will be selected according to the submitted 10-page 
papers which will be reviewed by at least two members of the 
international program committee. Accepted papers will be available 
in electronic form before the workshop. Abbreviated versions of 
the papers will be later published in the workshop proceedings. 
The length of each paper will be determined by the number of 
accepted papers. The workshop has 26 pages in the proceedings.

For more detailed submission guidelines, see the workshop pages at
http://www-illigal.ge.uiuc.edu/obupm/index.html

IMPORTANT DATES 

Extended abstract submission deadline: February 1, 2000
Paper submission deadline:             February 15, 2000
Decisions will be mailed by:           April 1, 2000
Submissions of camera-ready papers:    April 20, 2000


WORKSHOP CHAIRS

Martin Pelikan 
Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory 
104 S. Mathews Ave. 
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 
Urbana, IL 61801 
pelikan@illigal.ge.uiuc.edu 
Tel/Fax: (217) 333-2346, (217) 244-5705 
  

Heinz Muehlenbein 
GMD- Forschungszentrum Informationstechnik 
53754 Sankt Augustin 
Germany 
muehlenbein@gmd.de 
Tel/Fax: +49 2241 142405, +49 2241 142342 
  

Alberto Ochoa Rodriguez 
Center of Mathematics and Theoretical Physics 
Institute of Cybernetics, Mathematics and Physics 
Calle 15 No. 551 entre C y D. 
CP 10400. Havana. Cuba. 
a8ar@mailcity.com 
ochoa@cidet.icmf.inf.cu 
Tel/Fax: 537 - 327764, 537 - 333373


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Hans-Georg Beyer, University of Dortmund, Germany. 
Erick Cantu-Paz, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California. 
Uday K. Chakraborty, Jadavpur University, India. 
Kalyanmoy Deb, Indian Institute of Technology, India. 
Marcus Gallagher, University of Queensland, Australia. 
David E. Goldberg, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois. 
Hillol Kargupta, Washington State University, Washington. 
Pedro Larraņaga, University of the Basque Country, Spain. 
Thilo Mahnig, GMD, ART.AiS, Germany. 
Masaharu Munetomo, Hokkaido University, Japan. 
Jiri Ocenasek, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic. 
Jiri Pospichal, Slovak Technical University, Slovakia. 
Jozef Schwarz, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic. 
Dirk Thierens, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. 
Byoung-Tak Zhang, Seoul National University, Korea. 


ATTENDANCE

Attendance to the workshop is open to all GECCO-2000 attendees.
GECCO-2000 is a joint meeting of the Fifth Annual Genetic Programming 
Conference (GP-2000) and the International Conference on Genetic 
Algorithms (ICGA-2000). The conference is administered by the Amercian 
Association for Artificial Intelligence, 445 Burgess Drive, Menlo Park, 
CA 94025 USA. Phone: 650-328-3123. Fax: 650-321-4457. GECCO-2000 is 
operated by the International Society for Genetic Algorithms, Inc., 
a Massachusetts not-for-profit corporation and Genetic Programming, Inc., 
a California Corporation. Last year, GECCO-99 had 619 attendees and is a 
the largest and most inclusive conference in the field of genetic and 
evolutionary computation. For more information on GECCO-2000, please
visit the home-page at 
http://www.genetic-algorithm.org/GECCO2000/gecco2000mainpage.htm

Further information about the workshop will be posted on the workshop 
web pages (www-illigal.ge.uiuc.edu/obupm/index.html) as it becomes 
available.

We are looking forward to your participation at what promises to be
the biggest workshop in the area. Please, contact the organizers for 
questions or suggestions regarding this workshop.

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 Martin Pelikan
 Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory
 University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
 117 Transportation Building 
 104 S. Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801
 tel: (217) 333-2346, fax: (217) 244-5705
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