CALL FOR PAPERS
(EC)²AI
ECAI Workshop on Evolutionary Computation
(incorporating GSICE06)
Riva del Garda, Italy
28 August 2006
Evolutionary Computation (EC) has been attracting more and more
researchers in the last years. Europe is playing a primary role in EC,
which is testified both by the number and quality of European
contributions to the literature in the field and by the relevance that
European Conferences in EC and related fields have acquired through
the years. Such conferences have fostered the creation of a rather
wide European community of researchers in EC. As usually happens with
scientific disciplines which are entering their maturity stage, also
in the EC community the need is felt for
i.) more direct contacts and comparisons with people working in
related disciplines or tackling, with different techniques, problems
similar to the many to which EC offers effective solutions;
ii.) the development of hybrid systems which could take advantage of
the best features offered by EC techniques and by techniques belonging
to Artificial Intelligence (AI) at large;
iii.) "enrolment" of young students and researchers who can sustain
the development trend of the field and guarantee a future as brilliant
as the present, or possibly even more brilliant, to the discipline.
The organization of a workshop at ECAI aims at satisfying these needs
for the chances it offers of interaction, knowledge exchange, and
debate with the most prominent representatives of AI research
worldwide.
The workshop will comprise tutorials and technical presentations, in
order to address the participation of as wide an audience as possible,
from researchers and students who are already working in the field of
Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Intelligence, to
representatives of industry and everybody who is interested in
approaching evolutionary computation from the point of view of both
basic research and applications.
(EC)²AI will incorporate, and significantly extend towards an
international audience, GSICE 2006, the second Italian Workshop on
Evolutionary Computation (Giornata di Studio Italiana sul Calcolo
Evolutivo), sponsored by the Italian Association for Artificial
Intelligence (AI*IA). A successful first edition of GSICE has been
held in Milan in September 2005, concurrently with the Ninth Congress
of AI*IA.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Papers are sought, reporting original research results on topics which
include, but are not limited to:
- Evolutionary computation theory
- Real-world applications
- Comparison between results of evolutionary methods and the state of
the art in different application fields
- Hybrid evolutionary/non-evolutionary methods
Papers must be submitted by April 15,2006. Contributions must be in
English and must be submitted by email, in Postscript or pdf format,
to the address gsice2006 at ce.unipr.it.
Papers must not exceed 5 pages in the same format used for regular
submissions to ECAI 2006 (for further details see
http://ecai2006.itc.it).
Web site: http://www.ce.unipr.it/gsice2006
