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REMINDER: OBUPM-2000 Deadline is Feb/15/2000!
REMINDER: OBUPM-2000 Workshop paper submission is due February 15, 2000!
OBUPM-2000
OPTIMIZATION BY BUILDING AND USING
PROBABILISTIC MODELS 2000
organized by
Martin Pelikan, Heinz Muehlenbein, and Alberto Ochoa Rodriguez
to be held on Saturday, July 8, 2000
Las Vegas, Nevada
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
PAPER SUBMISSION
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. If you can not submit the paper by February 15,
please contact organizers for a deadline extension.
For more detailed submission guidelines, see the workshop pages at
http://www-illigal.ge.uiuc.edu/obupm/index.html
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 the OBUPM-2000 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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