8:30-8:40: Opening remarks and panel introduction
Session I: Topics - Artificial Life, Agents
8:40-8:55: "Artificial Life Modelling of Downy Mildew of the Grapevine"
Joao Carlos Costa,
Lab. de Sistemas Evolutivos e Eng. Biomedica, Portugal
8:55-9:10: "Romero's Pilgrimage to Santa Fe: A Tale of Robot Evolution"
Christof Teuscher,
Logic Systems Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
9:10-9:25: "Embodiment as Situated Structural Coupling"
Tom Quick,
Intelligent Systems Group, Department of Computer Science,
University College London, UK
9:25-9:40: "Modified AntNet: Software Application in the evaluation and
management of a telecommunication network"
Marcos Gallego-Schmid,
Departamento de Tecnologia Electronica,
Universidad de Malaga, Spain
9:40-9:55: "Evolutionary Model for Open Source Software: Economic Impact"
Asif Khalak,
Dept of Mech Eng, MIT, Cambridge, USA
9:55-10:10: "On Modelling the Evolution of Language and Languages"
Daniel Livingstone,
University of Paisley, UK
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Session II: Topic - Genetic Programming and DNA Computing
10:45-11:00: "Evolving the Behavior of Collaborating Entities Using Genetic Programming",
Eduard Lukschandl,
Chalmers Technical University, Gothenburg, Sweden
11:00-11:15: "Scientific Discovery Using Genetic Programming"
Maarten Keijzer,
Danish Hydraulic Institute, Denmark
11:15-11:30: "Automatic Programming with Grammatical Evolution"
Michael O'Neill,
Dept. of Computer Science & Information Systems,
University of Limerick, Ireland.
11:40-11:55: "Genetic Programming of Wavelet Networks for Time Series Prediction"
Stuart W. Card,
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Syracuse University
11:55-12:10: "Java based Distributed Genetic Programming on the Internet"
Phyllis Chong,
School of Computer Science, U. of Birmingham, UK
12:10-12:25: "A Max 1s Problem in DNA Computing via GAs"
Eugene V. Antipov,
Dept. of Chem Eng and Biochemisty,
University of Delaware
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Session III: Genetic Algorithms
2:00-2:15: "Using Genetic Algorithms for Sparse Distributed Memory Initialization"
Ashraf Anwar,
University of Memphis, Tennessee
2:15-2:30: "Genetic Algorithm for the Paratransit Vehicle Routing Problem Using a
Modified Crossover Operator Based on Adjacency Relations"
Vinay Karle,
North Caroline State University, USA
2:30-2:45: "Evolutionary Algorithm for Structural Optimization"
Mark Voss,
Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Marquette University, USA
2:55-3:10: "Sexual vs Asexual Recombination for the Graph Coloring Problem with
Hybrid Genetic Algorithms"
Anna Marino,
Department of Electronics and Computer Science,
University of Southampton, UK
3:10-3:25: "Discovering Interesting Prediction Rules with a Genetic Algorithm"
Edgar Noda,
CEFET-PR, CPGEI,Brazil
3:25-3:40: "Lessons from Nature: The Benefits of Embryology"
Sanjeev Kumar
Dept of Computer Science,
University College London, UK
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Session 4: Evolutionary Hardware, Evolutionary Algorithms
4:15-4:30: "Implementing GA-accelerators using FPGAs"
Reid Porter,
Los Alamos National Lab, USA
4:30-4:45: "A New Evolutionary Hardware Approach for Logic Design"
Tatiana Kalganova,
School of Computing, Napier University, UK
4:55-5:10: "Genetic Encoding of Neural Network Processing and Control"
Talib Hussain,
Dept of Computer Science, Queens University
5:10-5:25: "Evolution and Problem Decomposition"
Richard Watson,
Volen Center for Complex Systems,
Brandeis University, USA
5:25-5:40: "Self-tuning Evolutionary System"
Lucia Sheehan,
Dept. of Computer Science & Information Systems,
University of Limerick, Ireland.
5:40-6:00: Workshop wrap-up: tally of votes for best presentation and research
feedback from panel and students for next year
With regrets:
"Medical Diagnosis Prediction using Genetic Programming"
Vili Podgorelec, University of Maribor, Slovenia
"On Estimation Distribution Algorithms"
Roberto Santana, Center of Mathematics and Theoretical Physics,
ICIMAF, Cuba