EPIA'03 - 11th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence



Call for Papers



1st Portuguese Workshop
on
Artificial Life and Evolutionary Algorithms - ALEA'03
http://www.di.uevora.pt/epia03/alea/



part of the

Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA'03)
http://www.di.uevora.pt/epia03/

4th-7th December 2003
Beja, Portugal

Aims and Scope

Artificial Life(AL) and Evolutionary Algorithms(EA) have often been shown to be effective in solving difficult complex problems appearing in various industrial, economical, and scientific domains. ALEA'03 is the first international event occurring in Portugal specifically dedicated both to the theory and application of AL and EA. This workshop will give researchers a good opportunity to present their latest research and to discuss current developments and applications, besides stimulating closer future interaction between members of these scientific communities. ALEA'03 wants to bring together outstanding international researchers in these fields for the first time in Portugal.

The workshop will consist of an invited talk, oral presentations and poster sessions. The best accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series. The other accepted papers and the posters will have a one page abstract in the same proceedings book.

The workshop is sponsored by APPIA, the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence. It will be part of a set of Workshops that, together, will constitute the Portuguese Conference on Artifical Intelligence (EPIA'03).






General topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
  • Genetic Algorithms
  • Evolutionary Strategies
  • Evolutionary Programming
  • Genetic Programming
  • Classifier Systems
  • Evolutionary Robotics
  • Parallel Evolutionary Algorithms
  • Evolution Dynamics
  • Artificial Immune System
  • Ant Colonies
  • Cultural Algorithms
  • (Particle) Swarm Algorithms

Important Dates

May, 30: Draft papers due (extended)
July, 20: Notification of acceptance
September, 13: Camera-Ready papers due
December 4th-7th: ALEA'03 International Workshop

Submission Instructions

Submissions must follow the guidelines specified in the main web page of the conference (see http://www.di.uevora.pt/epia03/). In particular , the reviewing process is double blind. Authors should remove names from the submitted papers, and should take reasonable care that their identity is disguised. References to own work can be included in the paper, but should be referred to in in the third person.

Authors should also prepare their submissions according with the instructions given given by Springer-Verlag in
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html/

Even if the submissions can be made in PDF (preferable) or PS, we encourage authors to prepare their papers in TeX ou LATEX 2e because this will be the only acceptable source formats for the camera ready final versions.

Organizing Committee

Workshop Chairs:
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Ernesto Costa, University of Coimbra, Portugal
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Francisco B. Pereira, Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra, Portugal



Program Committee:
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Carlos Fonseca, University of Algarve, Portugal
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Colin Reeves,University of Coventry,UK
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Conor Ryan, University of Limerick, Ireland
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Dario Floreano, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
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Luís Correia, New University of Lisbon, Portugal
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Luís Rocha, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA

This document was translated from LATEX by HEVEA.