OBUPM-2000: Extended abstracts deadline reminder

[Martin Pelikan <pelikan@illigal.ge.uiuc.edu>]

                            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


REMINDER
 
This is a reminder that the deadline for extended abstracts (which 
are, however, not mandatory) to the OBUPM-2000 Workshop at GECCO-2000 
is in only a week from now. The OBUPM-2000 workshop invites discussion 
on general issues of research on optimization algorithms that guide 
the search by building probabilistic models of promising solutions 
found so far. The workshop lasts for half a day. 

Participation to the workshop will be selected according to 
the submitted 10-page papers. The submission of extended abstracts 
is *NOT* mandatory; however, we strongly encourage the authors to 
send the abstract in order for us to be able to assign appropriate 
reviewers for each paper and thus improve the quality of the review 
process so that the best papers are selected for presentation.

The deadline for sending us the extended abstract is February 1, 2000. 
The abstract should be no longer than 1 page (formatted in some
reasonable 
way) and should be sent in plain-text format to
pelikan@illigal.ge.uiuc.edu. 
The deadline for submitting the papers which are to be in GECCO-2000 
proceedings format and no longer than 10 pages total, is February 15,
2000. 
Final camera-ready papers will be due April 20, and their length will be 
assigned according to the number of accepted presentations. The workshop 
has 26 total pages in the proceedings. For further information on
submission
of the abstracts and/or papers, please see the workshop homepage at
http://www-illigal.ge.uiuc.edu/obupm/


WORKSHOP 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


We are looking forward to your participation at what promises to be
the biggest workshop in the area. Please, contact the organizers 
(pelikan@illigal.ge.uiuc.edu) for questions or suggestions regarding 
this workshop.


Martin

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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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