Being held in association with MISTA 2003. However, this is a separate event and you can register for one without registering for the other.
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08:30 Registration
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09:00 Welcome
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| 09:15 - 10:45 | David Goldberg : Genetic Algorithms | Mike Trick : Integer Programming | |
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Coffee
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| 11:15 - 12:45 | Riccardo Poli : Genetic Programming | Roman Slowinski : Rough Set Based Decision Support | |
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Lunch
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| 14:00 - 15:30 | Mark Wallace : Constraint Reasoning |
Uwe Aickelin : Artificial Immune
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Michel Gendreau : Tabu Search |
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Coffee
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| 15:45 - 17:15 | Kalyanmoy Deb : Multi-objective Optimization | Pierre Hansen : Variable Neighborhood Search | |
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Break
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| 17:30 - 19:00 |
Darrell Whitley
: Complexity Theory and The NFL Theorem
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Xin Yao : Machine Learning | |
On Tuesday 12th August 2003, just before the MISTA conference, there is a tutorial day that will allow leading reseachers to present some of the modern optimization techniques that are being used today. Each tutorial will last one and a half hours.
The tutorials are being aimed at a level applicable to students
in the first year of their PhD and, as such, will be applicable to many people
including those from industry, researchers who do not work in this field but
who wish to find out more about these techniques, as well as those working
in the field who, perhaps, need a refresher.
There there also be a book from the event, which we hope will be published about one month after. This book will have a chapter for each speaker/author. The book will be published by Kluwer.
Places will be strictly limited, so early booking is essential.
Places will be strictly limited, so early booking is essential.
The INTROS'03 main page can be seen here.
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On Tuesday 12th August 2003, just before the MISTA
conference, there is a tutorial day that will allow leading reseachers to present
some of the modern optimization techniques that are being used today. We expect
each tutorial to last about one and a half hours.
The tutorials are being aimed at a level applicable to students in the first
year of their PhD and, as such, will be applicable to many people including
those from industry, researchers who do not work in this field but who wish
to find out more about these techniques, as well as those working in the field
who, perhaps, need a refresher.
We are still in the planning stages but we expect the day to be split into 2
streams, with each speaker giving a one and a half hour tutorial.
There there also be a book from the event, which we hope will be published about one month after. This book will have a chapter for each speaker/author. the book will be published by Kluwer.
Places will be strictly limited, so early booking is essential.
The confirmed speakers/authors so far are (or see the full program here).
*Speaker and Author
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Dr Aickelin has recently been awarded the largest grant handed out by the UK Research Council's prestigious Adventure Fund (approx. $1.1 Million US-Dollar). This grant will be used to explore the most recent advances in immunology applicable to Artificial Immune Systems and Intrusion Detection. He is also a Co-Investigator and Founding Member of the EPSRC sponsored ARTIST Network for ARTifical Immune SysTems. He has given a number of tutorials on Artificial Immune Systems and is on the programme committee of first and second international conference on Artificial Immune Systems (ICARIS 2002 and 2003).
For more information or to download papers or slides, please visit http://www.aickelin.com
Dr. Dipankar Dasgupta is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the
University of Memphis, Tennessee. His research interests are broadly in the
area of Applied Artificial Intelligence, tracking real-world problems through
interdisciplinary cooperation. His areas of special interests i nclude Artificial
Immune Systems, Genetic Algorithms, Neural Networks, and their applications.
He published more than 100 papers in book chapters, journals, and international
conferences. He edited the book "Artificial Immune Systems and Their Applications"
published by Springer-Verlag, 1999, which is the first book in the field. Dr.
Dasgupta is a senior member of IEEE, ACM and regularly serves as program committee
member in many International Conferences. He first started (in 1997) organizing
special tracks and workshops on Artificial Immune Systems (AIS) and regularly
offered tutorials on the topics at International Conferences since then. Dr.
Dasgupta recently edited a special issue (on Artificial
Immune Systems) of IEEE Evolutionary Computation Journal, Volume 6, Number 3,
June 2002. His research lab regularly updates AIS Bibliography and publish on
the web (available at http://issrl.cs.memphis.edu/AIS/ais_bibliography.pdf).
He is recently nominated as the chair of IEEE Task Force on Artificial Immune
Systems.
Dr Kalyanmoy Deb (Phd in Engineering Mechanics from the University
of Alabama (Tuscaloosa)) is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering (Indian
Institute Of Technology Kanpur) and the Director of the Kanpur
Genetic Algorithms Laboratory (KanGAL) which he established in 1997.
Prof. Deb received his Bachelor's degree from IIT
Kharagpur (Mechanical Engg 1985). Before joining Alabama, Prof. Deb served
with Engineers India Limited(New Delhi) between 1985 and 1987. He was also a
Visiting Research Assistant Professor in the Department of General Engineering
at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
between 1991 and 1992 and worked at Illinois
Genetic Algorithms Laboratory (IlliGAL).
Recipient of Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant award for 2 consecutive
years at Alabama, Prof. Deb has numerous awards and honours in his name. He
has recently received the Friedrick Wilhelm Bessel Award from Humboldt
foundation in Germany to spend eight months at the University of Karlsruhe.
At present Prof. Deb is the Associate Editor of the IEEE
Transactions on Evolutionary Computation Journal (the only member from India)
and an editorial board member of the prestigious Evolutionary
Computation Journal from MIT Press. He also has the rare honour of being
the only Asian Executive Council Member of the International
Society for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (ISGEC)
Professor Deb has organized several conferences and chaired the First
Conference on Evolutionary Multicriterion Optimization (EMO 2001) held at
Zurich.
Eugene Freuder received his B.A. from Harvard and his Ph.D. from M.I.T. He recently moved to Ireland, as the recipient of a €7.5 million Principal Investigator Award from Science Foundation Ireland, to become a Science Foundation Ireland Research Professor at University College Cork, and Director of the Cork Constraint Computation Centre.. Previously he was a professor in the University of New Hampshire Department of Computer Science and Director of its Constraint Computation Center. He was elected a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence for “fundamental and sustained contributions to the field of constraint-based reasoning” and is also a Fellow of the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Constraints journal, and the Executive Chair of the Organizing Committee of the International Conferences on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming. Professor Freuder has received support for his work from the U.S. National Science Foundation, NASA, and a dozen companies, including Nokia, Oracle, Xerox, and British Telecommunications. He serves on the Technical Advisory Boards of ILOG and Celcorp.
Michel Gendreau is Professor of Operations Research and Director of the Centre for Research on Transportation at Université de Montréal. A large part of his research work focuses on the development of metaheuristics, in particular tabu search, for a variety of combinatorial problems encountered in transportation and telecommunications planning, as well as scheduling and timetabling. He has published more than 100 papers on these topics and others, most of which have appeared in leading scientific journals.
Dr. Gendreau is currently the Editor-in-chief of INFOR (the journal
of the Canadian O.R. society), the Area Editor "Heuristic Search and Learning"
of the INFORMS Journal on Computing and an Associate Editor of Transportation
Science and the Journal of Heuristics. A former President of the Canadian
Operational Research Society, Professor Gendreau is now a Vice-President
of the International Federation of Operations Research Societies. Dr.
Gendreau received in 2001 the Merit Award of the Canadian Operational Research
Society in recognition of his contributions to the development of O.R. in
Canada.
biog from his home page (also shown below)
David E. Goldberg (BSE, 1975, MSE, 1976, PhD, 1983 in Civil Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) is Professor of General Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and director of the Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory (IlliGAL, http://www-illigal.ge.uiuc.edu/). Between 1976 to 1980 he held a number of positions at Stoner Associates of Carlisle, PA, including Project Engineer and Marketing Manager. Following his doctoral studies he joined the Engineering Mechanics faculty at the University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa) in 1984. In 1990, he moved to the University of Illinois in 1990. Professor Goldberg was a 1985 recipient of a U.S. National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award, and in 1995 he was named an Associate of the Center for Advanced Study at UIUC. He is founding chairman of the International Society for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (http://www.isgec.org/), and his book Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization and Machine Learning (Addison-Wesley, 1989) is the fourth most widely cited reference in computer science according to CiteSeer (http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/cs). His research focuses on the design, analysis, and application of genetic algorithms-computer procedures based on the mechanics of natural genetics and selection-and other innovating machines. He has just completed a new monograph, The Design of Innovation (http://www-doi.ge.uiuc.edu/) that shows (1) how to design scalable genetic algorithms and (2) how such algorithms are similar to certain processes of innovation in human beings. Professor Goldberg is Consulting Editor for the Kluwer Series on Genetic Algorithms and Evolutionary Computation.
Prof Koza is the author of Genetic Programming: On the Programming of
Computers by Means of Natural Selection, MIT Press, 1992; Genetic
Programming II: Automatic Discovery of Reusable Programs, MIT Press,
1994; Genetic Programming III: Darwinian Invention and Problem-Solving
(with Forrest H Bennett III, David Andre, and Martin A. Keane), Morgan Kaufmann,
1999 and Genetic Programming IV (to be published soon). He is
also consulting editor of the Kluwer book series on Genetic Programming.
He has authored (sole or first) over 150 published papers and is co-author of
over 15 additional papers. He is a member of the editorial boards of IEEE
Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Evolutionary Computation,
Artificial Life and Evolutionary Optimization.
John Koza is a member of the board for the International Society for Genetic
and Evolutionary Computation (ISGEC) and in 1996, 1997, and 1998 he chaired
the Genetic Programming Conferences
Riccardo Poli received the laurea in Electronic Engineering with Summa Cum Laude (in 1989) and the PhD in Biomedical Engineering (in 1993) from the University of Florence, Italy, earning the prize for the best Italian PhD thesis in the field. There he worked as a research fellow on the application of genetic algorithms to the evolution of neural networks until 1994. From 1994 to 2001, he has been first a lecturer and then a reader in the School of Computer Science of the University of Birmingham. From 2001 to present he has been a professor with the Department of Computer Science of the University of Essex where he founded the Natural and Evolutionary Computation (NEC) group which is an associate node of EvoNet, the European Network of Excellence in Evolutionary Computation. Prof Poli has published more than 100 papers on neural networks, evolutionary algorithms (particularly genetic programming), and image/signal processing and has co-authored with Bill Langdon the book Foundations of Genetic Programming, Springer, February, 2002. He is a co-chair of EvoGP, the EvoNet working group on genetic programming. He has been program co-chair of EuroGP'98, EuroGP'99 and EuroGP 2000, the European Conference on Genetic Programming, and local chair for EuroGP 2003. Prof Poli was the chair of the GP deme at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2002 and programme co-chair of the prestigious Foundations of Genetic Algorithms Workshop (FOGA-7). He will be general chair for GECCO 2004. He has given invited tutorials at eight international conferences (PPSN'98, GECCO'00, EuroGP'01, CEC'01, GECCO'01, EuroGP'02, GECCO'02 and GECCO'03). He is also an associate editor of the Evolutionary Computation Journal and of the Journal of Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines and serves as a reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation and several other journals. Dr Poli is also programme committee member of several international events. He and Nic McPhee won the EuroGP 2001 best paper award for their work on the GP schema theory.
Roman Slowinski, head of the Laboratory of Intelligent Decision Support Systems
within the Institute of Computing Science, Poznan University of Technology,
Poland.
Research interests:
Co-author and editor of books on: Operational Research for Computer Scientists (in Polish, WNT, 1983), Stochastic versus Fuzzy Approaches to Multiobjective Mathematical Programming under Uncertainty (Kluwer, 1990), Intelligent Decision Support - Handbook of Applications and Advances of Rough Set Theory (Kluwer, 1992), Fuzzy Sets in Decision Analysis, Operations Research and Statistics (Kluwer, 1998), Scheduling under Fuzziness (Springer, 2000), Multiple-Criteria Decision Aiding (Kluwer, 2001).
Editorial activity:
On editorial or advisory board of:
Major awards:
Mike Trick is a researcher and educator in the field of operations research, with a specialization in computational methods in optimization. After receiving his doctorate in industrial engineering from Georgia Tech, Dr. Trick embarked on two years of postdoctoral fellowships, first at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications in Minneapolis, then at the Institut fuer Oekonometrie und Operations Research in Bonn, Germany. He then joined the faculty of the Graduate School of Administration at Carnegie Mellon University, first as an Assistant Professor of Operations Research in 1989, currently as a Professor of Operations Research. The students of GSIA awarded him the George Leland Bach Award as the top teacher in the program in 1991 and renominated him for that award in 1997, 1998, and 2000. In 1992, Dr. Trick was awarded the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, the only such award in the mathematical sciences that year, and has received funding from many industrial and government agencies including Motorola, Bellcore, and Major League Baseball. In 1997, Trick was appointed President of the Carnegie Bosch Institute for Applied Studies in International Management, an institute for research and education in international management. In 1995, he was appointed the founding Editor of INFORMS Online, the electronic information service of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, a 14,000 member professional society. In 2000, he was elected president of that society, holding the titles President-Elect(2001), President (2002), and Past President (2003).
His research is focussed on modelling and solving large scale industrial combinatorial optimisation problems. The challenge is to support simple models and flexible solving, with hybrid algorithms involving techniques from AI and OR.
Founder Chair of the Conference on Practical Applications of Constraint Technology, he is currently an editor of the Constraints Journal, and the Journal of Heuristics. He has published a book "Communicating with Databases in Natural Language", edited several book and journal special issues, and written many articles in the areas of natural language processing, databases and constraint technology.
He is an invited speaker at this year's international Constraint Programming conference.
Darrell Whitley is a Professor of Computer Science Department at Colorado State University and Director of the Colorado State Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL).
His areas of interest are artificial intelligence, genetic algorithms, heuristic search, neural networks and scheduling. From 1993 to 1997 Prof. Whitley served as Chair of the Governing Board of the International Society for Genetic Algorithms and currently serves on the Governing Board of the International Society for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation.
From 1997 to 2002 Prof. Whitley served as Editor-in-Chief for the journal Evolutionary Computation published by MIT Press.
He serves on the editorial board of the Journal on Heuristics and the Journal of AI Research (JAIR). He also played a key role in the creation of the Foundations of Genetic Algorithms (FOGA) meetings. He and his students pioneered the first industrial prototypes of genetic algorithm schedulers over 10 years ago. He and his students also developed some of the first systems combining genetic algorithms and artificial neural networks. His publications along with those of many of his students are part of the GENITOR homepage.
Xin Yao has been appointed as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation from 1 January 2003. He has also edited the following journals
Xin has edited a number of books/proceedings, published many journal papers, conference papers and book chapters.
He has a number of research interests, including