ISAS 2001, Last Call for Papers

[Roberto Santana <rsantana@cidet.icmf.inf.cu>]

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               LAST CALL FOR PAPERS

                    ISAS 2001
        International Symposium on Adaptive Systems

    "Evolutionary Computation and Probabilistic
             Graphical Models"

      Hotel Palco and Havana Convention Center, Cuba
              March  19-23, 2001

         (  http://isas2001.tripod.com/symp )
             Deadline: December 8, 2000
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The following information has been added to the web page.

1) First tentative schedule

2) Important notes for United States Citizens and Residents

3) Information on special rates in the conference hotels

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ISAS 2001 will be held in Havana in the period 19-23 March 2001 in
the context of the International Conference CIMAF
2001.

The major themes of the symposium are evolutionary
computation or hybrid evolutionary approaches,
and bayesian learning or learning in graphical models.

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- Scientific Programme

Our main purpose is to bring together researchers,
coming from different communities, who share the
common feature of being involved in using the
dependence structure of a complex statistical model in

some aspect of evolutionary computation and other
modern heuristic or soft-computing techniques.
Cross-fertilization between graphical model research
and different soft-computing approaches, such as
genetic algorithms and other evolutionary algorithms,
as well as neural network learning, reinforcement
learning, decision tree learning, etc, will be
strongly encouraged by the conference. However, the
topics
of interest to this conference include but are not
limited to the following:

- Genetic algorithms
- Learning Bayesian Models from data.
- Genetic programming
- Mixture of Models.
- Classifier systems, evolutionary learning.
- Dynamic Bayesian Networks.
- Evolutionary optimization.
- Gaussian Graphical Models.
- Constraint, global and multiobjective optimization
- Model selection.
- Evolutionary strategies
- Monte Carlo methods.
- Graphical Models and Evolutionary Computation.
- Junction tree algorithms.
- Graphical Models and Neural Networks.
- Simulation in Graphical Models.
- Reinforcement learning.
- Theoretical Foundations of G. Models
- Bayesian and Evolutionary Data Mining.
- Stochastic algorithms
- Other soft-computing heuristics.
- Models with latent variables
- Stochastic Dynamical Systems.
- G. Models in Game Theory
- Theoretical Foundations of EC

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- Symposium chair
        Dr. Alberto Ochoa Rodríguez, Cuba

- Technical Chairs
        Heinz Muehlenbein, Germany
        Tom English,           USA
        Pedro Larrañaga,     Spain


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- Publication of papers

Conference proceedings will be published and be
available for the delegates at the conference in
printed form.  In addition the authors of the best
submissions will be invited to expand and refine
their papers for possible publication in one leading
international journal.

The working language is English.

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- Important dates:

December 8, 2000    -- >  Deadline for submission of
papers (<=8 pages)
January 19, 2001      -- >  Notification of acceptance
Febraury 1, 2001      -->   Deadline for camera-ready
copies of accepted papers and registration of
                       at least one author
March 19-23, 2001   -->    Conference

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For further information please contact:

ISAS 2001 URL:
        http://isas2001.tripod.com/symp
        http://www.members.tripod.com/~isas2001/symp/

Dr. Alberto Ochoa Rodríguez
Institute of Cybernetics, Mathematics and Physics
(ICIMAF).
Center of Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.
Calle 15 No. 551 e/ C y D.
CP. 10400. La Habana. Cuba.
Fax: 537-333373
Phone: 537-327764
aa8ar@yahoo.com
ochoa@cidet.icmf.inf.cu