Workshop Announcement and Call for Papers
Second Workshop on
SELF-ORGANIZATION IN REPRESENTATIONS FOR EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS:
Building complexity from simplicity
http://ivan.research.ucf.edu/SOEA-2005.htm
to be held as part of the
2005 GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE (GECCO-2005)
June 25-29, 2005 (Saturday-Wednesday)
Loew's L'Enfant Plaza Hotel
Washington, DC, USA
http://www.isgec.org/GECCO-2005
Organized by ACM SIG-EVO
* Papers submission deadline EXTENDED: April 14, 2005 *
The success of Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) on a wide range of
otherwise intractable problems has promoted its use. As EAs are
applied to increasingly difficult problems that require increasingly
complex solutions, they face a number of problems: premature convergence
to suboptimal solutions, stagnation of search in large search spaces,
negative epistatic effects, disruption of large building blocks, and
scalability, among others. Nature evolves instructions in the form of
genes that are used to specify the construction of organisms using a
highly non-linear process: development.
Self-organization is fundamental to the developmental process at all
levels: molecular, genetic, and cellular. With new reports of the
number of genes in the human genome being revised downwards, the role
of self-organization in complex webs of gene regulation is all the
more salient. Given these new findings, perhaps the self-organization
of genotypic instructions that transform genotype to phenotype is a
key missing ingredient necessary for unleashing the evolution of complex
and scalable solutions with emergent phenomena such as: scale-free-ness,
adaptability, innovation, evolvability, and robustness. This workshop will
focus on domain-independent methods for representing complex solutions
with self-organizable building blocks, and on developmental principles
for specifying the construction of complex systems. This workshop welcomes
submissions from computer science and engineering, as well as from
biologists on relevant topics that may help shed light on self-organizing
principles for evolutionary computation.
Topics of interest include:
* Models of complexity building using self-organization
* Emergent behavior in representations
* Methods of design and evaluation of self-organizable representational
building blocks
* Scalability of self-organizational processes to high complexities
* Self-organization theoretical approaches: complexity, chaos, synergetics,
self-organized criticality, non-equilibrium thermodynamics, etc.
* Self-organized development
* Genotype-phenotype mappings for self-organization and single & multicellular
development
* Pattern formation, morphogenesis, cellular differentiation, and growth
* Models of genetic regulatory networks, modularity, segmentation, and
compartmentalization
* Scalability & Evolvability of developmental processes
* Robustness, self-repair and regeneration in developmental processes
* Real world applications of developmental principles
Workshop Format:
This workshop seeks to bring together researchers from diverse problem domains
to informally discuss issues related to the representation of complex solutions
using self-organization of simple building blocks for evolutionary algorithms
in particular, and the issue of building complexity from simplicity in general.
We welcome technical papers describing completed or on-going research as well
as position papers outlining current research issues, approaches or research
agendas. We also welcome suggestions to panel discussions. Preprints will be
circulated by email prior to the meeting.
Workshop Submission Instructions:
The style of the paper should follow the GECCO 2005 Workshops guidelines.
Authors are requested to submit their papers in electronic form (postscript
or PDF) via email to: igaribay at cs.ucf.edu. Accepted papers will be published
in the GECCO-2005 CD-ROM.
Important Dates:
Papers Due: April 14, 2005 (April 27 for one-page position statements)
Acceptance notices: April 24, 2005
Camera Ready: April 27, 2005
Attendance: Open to all GECCO 2005 attendees
Organizers:
Ivan I. Garibay*, Sanjeev Kumar**, Ozlem Garibay* and Hal Stringer*
* Evolutionary Computation Laboratory - University of Central Florida
** Krasnow Institute for Advanced Studies - George Mason University
Program Committee:
Josh Bongard, Sibley School of Mech. and Aerospace Eng., Cornell University
Peter Eggenberger, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Zurich
Gregory Hornby, Computational Sciences Div. at NASA Ames Research Center,
Ivan Garibay, School of Computer Science, University of Central Florida
Ozlem Garibay, School of Computer Science, University of Central Florida
Sanjeev Kumar, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, George Mason University
W. B. Langdon, Computer Science, University College, London
Joseph Lewis, Computer Science Department, San Diego State University
Julian Miller, Department of Electronics, University of York
Tim Otter, Department of Biology, Albertson College of Idaho
Paul Wiegand, Naval Research Labs. Washington D.C.
Annie Wu, School of Computer Science, University of Central Florida
For more information, comments or suggestions please email Ivan Garibay at
igaribay at cs.ucf.edu or visit http://ivan.research.ucf.edu/SOEA-2005.htm
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