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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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