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[darrell whitley <whitley@CS.ColoState.EDU>]

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Call For Late-Breaking Papers - GECCO - Submission deadline May 29, 2000
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			       GECCO-2000
           2000 GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE
  http://www.genetic-algorithm.org/GECCO2000/gecco2000mainpage.htm

     8-12 July, 2000,  Riviera Hotel, Las Vegas,  Nevada USA

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

                           Organized by the
International Society for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (ISGEC)

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Call For Late-Breaking Papers - GECCO - Submission deadline May 29, 2000
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Late-breaking papers provide conference attendees with information about
research that was initiated, enhanced, improved, or completed after the
conference's original paper submission deadline in January.
Late-breaking papers will be published in a late-breaking papers book to be
distributed to all conference attendees. This special book is distinct from
the conference proceedings published by Morgan Kaufmann.

In addition, each accepted late-breaking paper will be presented in a 10-15
minute oral presentation (depending on number of acceptances) in a special
track devoted entirely to late-breaking papers.

The deadline for arrival of camera-ready papers at AAAI offices is Monday May 29, 2000.  

GECCO-2000 Late Breaking Papers
c/o AAAI, 445 Burgess Drive, Menlo Park, CA 94025 USA.
Phone: 650-328-3123. FAX: 650-321-4457. E-MAIL: gecco@aaai.org.

Because of the lack of time for revision, late-breaking papers must be
submitted in fully compliant camera-ready form along with a signed 
"permission to publish" form. Late-breaking papers must be no more
than 8 pages in length. No FAX or E-mail submissions can be accepted.
Submissions will be subjected to an abbreviated "accept or reject" review
process based on content, quality, novelty, relevance, and full 
compliance with the requirements for camera-ready papers.

To submit a late-breaking paper to GECCO-2000, send

(A) two (2) camera-ready copies (printed with very high quality by laser printer),
(B) the SIGNED "permission to publish" form (available at GECCO-2000 web site), and
(C) if at least one author of the paper has not already registered to attend
the GECCO-2000 conference, a registration form and payment for at least one
author must accompany the submission.

Authors of late-breaking papers will retain copyright (and all other rights)
to their late-breaking papers and should feel free to submit them elsewhere
(either before or after the above deadline) for publication.
Since there will be no opportunity for revisions, authors should be
especially careful that their original submission is fully compliant with
all requirements above and contained in the Call for Late-Breaking Papers on
the GECCO-2000 home page.

Visit www.isgec.org for additional information.
Or go to www.genetic-algorithm.org/GECCO2000/gecco2000mainpage.htm

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			       GECCO-2000
           2000 GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE
  http://www.genetic-algorithm.org/GECCO2000/gecco2000mainpage.htm

     8-12 July, 2000,  Riviera Hotel, Las Vegas,  Nevada USA

GENERAL CHAIR: Darrell Whitley,  Colorado State University, whitley@cs.colostate.edu 

PROGRAM CHAIRS: 

Genetic Programming and Evolvable Hardware (GP/EH):     Lee Spector  
Genetic Algorithms/Classifier Systems (GA/CS):  David Goldberg and Erick Cantu-Paz 
Evolution Strategies/Evolutionary Programming (ES/EP):  Hans-Georg Beyer
Real World Computing:   Ian Parmee

FREE TUTORIALS 

Wolfgang Banzhaf -- Genetic Programming with Linear Genomes
Hans-Georg Beyer -- Introduction to Evolution Strategies
Forrest H Bennett III -- Analog Circuit Design via GP 
Russell Deaton and Stephen Karl -- Introduction to DNA Computing 
Marco Dorigo -- Introduction to Ant Colony Optimization 
Alex Freitas -- Data Mining with Evolutionary Algorithms
David Goldberg -- An Idiosyncratic Introduction to GAs
Robert Heckendorn -- Polynomial Time Walsh Analysis 
Tetsuya Higuchi -- Evolvable Hardware 
John R. Koza -- Introduction to Genetic Programming 
William B. Langdon -- Genetic Programming Data Structures 
Zbigniew Michalewicz -- Constraint Optimization using EAs
Peter Nordin -- Machine Code Genetic Programming 
Tom Ray -- Tierra Tutorial
Guenter Rudolph -- Theory of Real Coded EAs
Conon Ryan -- Automatic Parallelization Using GP
Alan Schultz and Mitch Potter -- Evolutionary Robotics
Michael Vose -- Genetic Algorithm Theory 

BIRD-OF-A-FEATHER WORKSHOPS

Thematic workshops on a variety of topics will be held during the conference.
Annie Wu (aswu@cs.ucf.edu) will again chair the workshops and is
seeking proposals for workshop topics.