Special Session on
Optimization by Estimation of Distribution
Algorithms
The Sixth International
Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning
15-18
October 2006
Hefei, China
Deadline Extended to: April 30,
2006
Scope and Theme of Special Session OEDA
Recently, there has been a growing interest in evolutionary algorithms that guide the exploration of the search space by building and using probabilistic models of promising solutions. The way to make variation operators more powerful and flexible is to replace traditional variation of Genetic and evolutionary computation by the following two steps: 1. Build a probabilistic model of the selected promising solutions, and 2. sample the built model to generate a new population of candidate solutions. Algorithms based on this principle are called estimation of distribution algorithms (EDAs), but are also known as probabilistic model-building genetic algorithms (PMBGAs) and as iterated density{estimation evolutionary algorithms (IDEAs). These algorithms introduce a new paradigm of evolutionary computation without using conventional evolutionary operators such as crossover and mutation. EDAs have shown to resolve a number of problems the conventional GAs experience great difficulties with and solve a number of difficult problems quickly, accurately, and reliably. The proposed methods are increasingly used to solve various problem of practical and theoretical importance. Theory was designed to understand the dynamics of the algorithms as well as their limits.
The purpose of the special session is to present and discuss general issues of research in this area, including (but not limited to):
- recent advances in EDAs
- new theoretical and empirical results in the area
- application of EDAs to real-world problems
- hybrid intelligent techniques related EDAs and their use in optimization
- promising directions of future research
The special session of “optimization by estimation of distribution algorithms (OEDA)” aims to push onward the state-of-the-art in EDAs both theoretical as well as empirical by
- providing an opportunity for researchers to present their latest work and
- organizing a panel discussion on the most important aspects regarding EDAs.
Paper Submission
All papers will be subject to a peer review process
by at least three reviewers. All papers must follow the same requirements for
the paper format of the conference that can be found at the website: http://nical.ustc.edu.cn/seal06/.
After the final decision is made, authors will receive a notification letter
accompanied with the reports of the reviewers. All accepted papers will appear
in the conference proceedings of SEAL'2006 and at least one of the authors must
register and attend to present his/her paper at SEAL'2006.
Please Note: All papers should be
submitted via the "Paper Review System for Speical
Sessions" website: http://140.127.132.90/SpecialSession/
Please follow the instructions carefully to upload
your papers. If you experience any difficulty, please feel free to contact Mr.
Zhou Shude.
Important
Dates
Paper
submission : April 30, 200612
May 2006
Paper Acceptance :
June 19, 2006 Decision notification of
submissions will be sent out later. See the SEAL'06 Website for details: http://nical.ustc.edu.cn/seal06/
Final Papers :
July 14, 2006
Conference :
October 15-18, 2006
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All accepted papers which are registered and presented in the special sessions will be included in the conference proceedings, published by Springer in their Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. More details about paper publication can refer to http://nical.ustc.edu.cn/seal06.
Organizers:
Zhou Shude
Email: zsd03 AT mails.tsinghua.edu.cn
Sun Zengqi
Email: szq-dcs AT mail.tsinghua.edu.cn
Address: State Key Lab of Intelligent Technology and
Systems, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua
University, Beijing, 100084, China.
Technology Committee:
Martin Pelikan
(University of Missouri-St. Louis, USA)
Zhang Qingfu (University of
Essex, UK)
Marcus Gallagher （University
of Queensland, Australia）
Ying-ping Chen (National Chiao
Tung University, Taiwan)
Luo Xiong
(Tsinghua University, China)
Siddhartha Shakya (Robert Gordon
University, UK)
Bo Yuan (University of Queensland, Australia)
Cai Yunpeng
(Tsinghua University, China)
Hisashi Handa
(Okayama University, Japan)
Jose M. Peña
(Universidad
Josef Schwarz (Brno University of Technology,
Czech Republic)
Jose A. Lozano (University of the Basque
Some Links
SEAL 2006 (The
6th International Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning)
Venue
& Tourism, including Mt.
Huangshan (a Marvel of Natural Beauty), Jiuhua Mountain (a
sacred place for Buddhist pilgrims), and so on.
Please feel free to email Zhou Shude (zsd03 AT mails.tsinghua.edu.cn) if you have any questions.:-)
Last Updated: 2006-7-3