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Representations and Operators workshop at GECCO 2003
Second Call for participation
ADoRO-2003
(please apologize crosspostings)
Workshop on ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF REPRESENTATIONS AND OPERATORS
Bird-of-a-feather Workshop
at the
Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2003
(GECCO-2003)
July 12-16, 2003 (Saturday - Wednesday)
Chicago, Illinois, USA
to be held on Saturday, July 12, 2003
WORKSHOP SUMMARY
Successful and efficient use of evolutionary algorithms (EAs) depends on the
choice of the genotype representation and the genetic operators. These
choices cannot been made independently of each other. The question whether a
certain representation leads to better performing EAs than an alternative
representation, can only be answered when the operators applied are taken
into consideration. The reverse is also true: deciding between alternative
operators is only meaningful for a given representation. The application of
different types of evolutionary search operators like, for example, mutation
or crossover, should result in offspring that inherit some useful
information from their parents. If a specific operator- representation
combination does not guarantee this, EAs turn into random search and guided
search becomes impossible. Despite the importance of choosing proper
representation-operator combinations on the performance of EAs, little
general applicable theory and knowledge is available to help understanding
and guiding the construction of successful and efficient EAs.
The purpose of the workshop is to provide a platform where these issues can
be discussed. Relevant topics are (but not limited to):
- Theoretical and empirical properties of representations and/or
operators
- Predictive performance measures for evaluating representation and
operator choices
- Practical guidelines to help EA-users to design superior
operator/representation pairs
- Redundant versus non-redundant genotype coding
- High-locality versus low-locality representations
- Search space bias of representations and operators
- Promising directions of future research
The workshop continues the tradition of the
- Workshop on Representations and Operators for network problems (ROPNET
2001) at GECCO2001 and the
- Workshop on Representations for Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms at
last years GECCO2002.
PARTICIPATION
We invite you to submit a 6-page paper which will be reviewed by
members of the international program committee. Accepted papers
will be available in electronic form before the workshop.
Abbreviated versions of the papers will be published later in
the workshop proceedings. The final 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.bwl.uni-mannheim.de/Adoro
IMPORTANT DATES (subject to change)
Paper submission deadline: February 28, 2003
Decisions will be mailed by: March 24, 2003
Submissions of camera-ready papers: April 7, 2003
Workshop in New York: July 12, 2003
WORKSHOP CHAIRS
Franz Rothlauf
Department of Information Systems
University of Mannheim
68131 Mannheim
Germany
franz@rothlauf.com
Tel/Fax: +49 621 181 1689, +49 621 181 1692
Dirk Thierens
Institute of Information and Computing Sciences
Universiteit Utrecht
PO Box 80.089 3508TB Utrecht
The Netherlands
dirk@cs.uu.nl
Tel/Fax: +31 - 30 - 253 4031, +31 - 30 - 251 3791
ATTENDANCE
Attendance to the workshop is open to all GECCO attendees.
Further information will be posted on the workshop web pages
( http://www.bwl.uni-mannheim.de/Adoro/ )
as soon as it becomes available.
We are looking forward to your participation at the
workshop ADoRO-2002 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 representations and operators.