CFP: OBUPM-2000 Workshop at GECCO-2000

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

                     1st Call for participation

                            OBUPM-2001

                  OPTIMIZATION BY BUILDING AND USING
                      PROBABILISTIC MODELS 2001

                      Bird-of-a-feather Workshop
                               at the 
          Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2001
                           ( GECCO-2001 )

  San Francisco, California, July 7 - 11, 2001 (Saturday - Wednesday) 

                        A recombination of 
    the Sixth Annual Genetic Programming Conference (GP-2001) and 
    the International Conference on Genetic Algorithms (ICGA-2001) 

                            organized by

                   Martin Pelikan and Kumara Sastry

                 to be held on Saturday, July 7, 2001


WORKSHOP SUMMARY

Algorithms that replace two-parent recombination of genetic 
algorithms by building and simulating a probabilistic model 
of promising solutions have received much attention over 
the past years. The proposed methods resolve many problems 
of other evolutionary algorithms and are increasingly used 
to solve various problem of practical and theoretical importance. 
Theory was designed to understand the dynamics of the algorithms 
as well as their limits.

The purpose of this workshop is to 
- review and describe the basic principles of discussed methods, 
- present recent developments in the covered area of research, 
- discuss current problems and future directions of research 
  in this area, and 
- encourage communication among active researchers in the area 
  and other participants. 

The length of the workshop is 4 hours. The workshop will start
by an introduction to the field by Martin Pelikan. This will be
followed by about 5-7 presentations. The workshop will finish
with a panel discussion.

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. 

For more detailed submission guidelines and recent updates, 
see the workshop pages at
http://www-illigal.ge.uiuc.edu/obupm2001/index.html

IMPORTANT DATES (subject to change)

Paper submission deadline:             February 15, 2001
Decisions will be mailed by:           April 1, 2001
Submissions of camera-ready papers:    April 20, 2001

WORKSHOP CHAIRS

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

ATTENDANCE

Attendance to the workshop is open to all GECCO attendees.
 
Further information will be posted on the workshop web pages
(www-illigal.ge.uiuc.edu/obupm2001/index.html) as it becomes 
available.

We are looking forward to your participation at the second
workshop OBUPM-2001 which is a great opportunity to meet and 
discuss the covered topics for researchers in this area of 
research as well as the ones who would like to learn more 
about using probabilistic models for a more powerful 
recombination.