The First IEEE Symposium on Combinations of Evolutionary Computation and Neural Networks

Co-sponsored by
IEEE Neural Network Council
The Center for Excellence in Evolutionary Computation

May 11-13, 2000
The Camberley Gunter Hotel, San Antonio, TX, USA

• Registration
• Accommodation
• Advanced Programme
• Camera-Ready Copy Submission

Call For Papers

The recent increasing interest in the synergy between evolutionary computation and neural networks provides an impetus for a symposium dedicated to furthering our understanding of this synergy and the potential utility of hybridizing evolutionary and neural techniques. The First IEEE Symposium on Combinations of Evolutionary Computation and Neural Networks will offer a forum that focuses specifically on the hybridization of evolutionary and neural computation. In particular, papers are solicited in the areas of

• evolutionary training of neural networks,
• evolutionary design of network topologies,
• evolution of learning (weight updating) rules,
• evolving solutions to inverse neural network problems,
• the performance of alternative variation operators in designing neural networks,
• comparisons between evolutionary and other training methods,
• evolving developmental rules for neural network design, and
• the use of coevolution in optimizing neural networks for pattern recognition (including handwriting recognition, document processing, financial forecasting, etc.), gaming, or other applications.

Other topics that combine evolutionary and neural computation are also welcome. Submitted papers should represent unpublished, original work.

Paper Submission

Send three (3) copies of your manuscript to

Xin Yao
School of Computer Science
The University of Birmingham
Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT
U.K.
Email: x.yao@cs.bham.ac.uk

All three hardcopies should be printed on 8.5 by 11 inch or A4 paper using 11 point Times. Allow at least one inch (25mm) margins on all borders. A paper must include a title, an abstract, and the body and references. It must also include the names and addresses of all authors, their email addresses, and their telephone/fax numbers. The length of submitted papers must be no more than 15 single-spaced, single-column pages, including all figures, tables, and references. Shorter papers are encouraged.

In addition to hardcopies, please send a postscript file of your paper (gzipped if possible) to facilitate electronic reviewing to the following email address: x.yao@cs.bham.ac.uk. Please check the symposium's web site http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~xin/ecnn2000 for more details as they become available.

Submission Deadline

December 1, 1999

Programme Committee

General Chair: Xin Yao

Programme Committee Chair: D.B. Fogel

Program Committee:

H. Adeli	P.J. Angeline	K. Chellapilla	J.-C. Chen
S.-B. Cho	G.W. Greenwood	L. Guan	T. Hussain
N. Kasabov	S. Lucas	N. Murshed	V. Nissen
M. Rizki	R. Salomon	G. Yen	D. Van Veldhuizen
B.-T. Zhang	Q. Zhao

The Symposium follows The 9th IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE2000), Hilton Palacio del Rio, San Antonio, TX, USA, 7-10 May 2000.

Last update: 12 March 2000