15th - 16th November
2005
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Main Lecture Theatre, School
of Medicine,
University of Birmingham, UK
Cercia, based at the School of Computer Science,
The University of Birmingham presents the latest developments in Computational
Intelligence in this 2-day workshop with top calibre speakers from around the
globe, both from industry and academia. For further information
consult:
http://www.cercia.ac.uk. This
event is offered free of charge.
Programme Day One, 15th November
2005
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9.00am Registration - Tea &
Coffee
9:30am Opening Prof. Mike Cruise, Pro. VC, University of
Birmingham
& Introduction Prof. Xin Yao, University of
Birmingham
10:00am Finding Hidden Factors in Large Spatiotemporal Data
Sets Prof. Erkki Oja, Helsinki University of
Technology
10:50am Tea break
11:10am Evolutionary System
Design Dr. Bernhard Sendhoff, Honda Research Institute Europe
12:00
LUNCH
2:00pm A Statistical Learning Theory on Knowledge Mining
and Problem Solving Prof. Lei Xu, Chinese University of Hong
Kong
2:50pm Fault-tolerant Design by Evolutionary Algorithms Dr.
Thorsten Schnier, University of Birmingham
3:40pm Tea
break
4:10pm Model based Approaches to Constructing Topographic Maps
of Sparse and Structured Data Dr. Peter Tino, University of
Birmingham
5:00pm Modelling of Interaction Dynamics in Internet-Based
Multi-user Scenarios Dr. Ata Kaban, University of
Birmingham
Programme Day Two, 16th November
2005
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9.00am Arrival - Tea & Coffee
9:30am
Evolution of Evolutionary Computation Prof. Xin Yao, University of
Birmingham
10:20am New Methods for Automated Cutting and Packing
Prof. Edmund Burke, University of Nottingham
11:10am Tea
break
11:30am On the application of approximate reasoning in logistics
Prof. Hans-Jόrgen Zimmermann, Aachen Institute of
Technology
12:20pm LUNCH
2:00 pm Collaborative Schemes of
Fuzzy Clustering and Their Applications to Human-Centric Systems
Prof. Witold Pedrycz, University of
Alberta
2:50pm Propagation time in stochastic communication networks
Dr. Jon Rowe, University of Birmingham
3:40pm Closing - Prof. Xin
Yao
4:00pm Tea and departing
This event is free of charge, but registration is
required prior to the workshop: please contact
Delia Sexton: d.sexton@cercia.ac.uk Tel: 0121 414
2215, Fax: 0121 414 2799 to register.