Call for papers, special issue on co-evolution

[Paul Darwen <darwen@csee.uq.edu.au>]

                            Call for Papers
                     Special Issue on Co-Evolution
   International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications

            Website: http://www.csee.uq.edu.au/~darwen/ijcia.html

 Important dates:
     Paper submission                    1 August 2001
     Notification of acceptance          1 November 2001
     Final camera-ready manuscripts      1 January 2002
     Publication of special issue        March 2002

 For enquiries please contact Paul Darwen <darwen@ieee.org>.


THEMES

The special issue will cover a range of research topics relating to
co-evolutionary methods in evolutionary computation.

Usually in evolutionary computation, the evaluation function is
hand-written by a human expert.  In co-evolution, trial solutions
in the population are evaluated by other trial solutions in either
the same evolving population, or in another population that evolves
in tandem.  The aim is to induce an upward spiral, an arms race, of
innovation and improvement.

This broad approach has been gained notable successes in a range of
tasks, including learning to play board games, schedule optimization,
and the automatic design of sorting algorithms.


REQUIREMENTS

Researchers are invited to submit original work that has not been
presented elsewhere.  Substantially revised and extended versions
of conference papers are most welcome.

Authors are invited to submit 6 copies of full papers for review.
Papers should be written in English, on A4 or US letter size paper.
The first page of each paper must include the following information:
  - title of the paper,
  - names(s) and affiliation(s) of the author(s),
  - abstract of the paper,
  - maximum 5 keywords,
  - name, postal address, phone and fax numbers and e-mail address
    of the corresponding author.


Please send 6 copies of your paper to either of:

  Paul Darwen                                Xin Yao
  Dept. of CSEE                              Dept. of Computer Science
  The University of Queensland               The University of Birmingham
  Brisbane  QLD  4072                        Birmingham B15 2TT
  Australia                                  United Kingdom
  Email: darwen@ieee.org                     Email: xin@cs.bham.ac.uk