WELCOME TO THE HOME PAGE OF THE SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
ADAPTIVE COMPUTING IN DESIGN AND MANUFACTURE
(ACDM 2004)
APRIL 20th - 22nd, 2004 at ENGINEERS HOUSE, CLIFTON, BRISTOL, UK
Sponsored by the University of the West of England and the UK Adaptive Computing in Design and Manufacture Network.
!! STOP PRESS !!
!! EPSRC Funding Available (Seriously Reduced Registration) for Students making Poster Presentations !!
!Poster Call deadline extended to take advantage of this funding!
(see Poster Call and Submissions)
This sixth evolutionary / adaptive computing in design and manufacture conference is sponsored by the University of the West of England and the UK Adaptive Computing in Design and Manufacture Network. The Conference will be held at Engineers House in the Clifton District of Bristol in the South West of England from April 20th-22nd, 2004.
The Conference series will be over ten years old in 2004 and, as in previous years, the intention of this well-established bi-ennial event is to explore the integration of evolutionary / adaptive search, exploration and optimisation and associated Computational Intelligence (CI) technologies (e.g. neural computing, intelligent agent systems, fuzzy logic etc) across a wide spectrum of design and manufacturing activities.
The Conference has always maintained a single stream format of paper presentations complemented by poster sessions. The aim is to promote and support a highly interactive meeting where there is ample opportunity for discussion relating to problem areas concerning both the underlying technologies and the application areas. The Conference generally attracts an international audience of around seventy delegates and provides an opportunity for participants to discover new techniques and concepts whilst discussing and improving existing technologies within an informal and relaxed environment.
Typical application areas have ranged across a broad spectrum, from the design of engineering systems / components through architectural and network design to the design of chemical compounds and food products. In terms of manufacturing, areas of interest have included scheduling and planning, facility layout, supply chain design and robotics.
More generic areas relating to multi-objective and constraint satisfaction, support of innovation and creativity and the handling of uncertainty and ill-definition also play a major role. Further information relating to the main areas of interest can be found in the first call.
Springer-Verlag will again be publishing the associated book comprising those papers that have been selected by the Scientific Committee for presentation.
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The International Society of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (ISGEC)
The European Network of Excellence in Evolutionary Computation (EVONET)
The UK Engineering and Physical Science Research Council
UK Institution of Electrical Engineers
UK Institution of Civil Engineering
UK Institution of Mechanical Engineers
UK Institution of Engineering Designers
UK Institute of Energy
The British Computer Society
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CHAIR, ACDM LECTURE & KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
The Conference will be chaired by Professor Ian Parmee of the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK and will host ACDM Lecturer and the following Keynote Speakers one of which will commence proceedings on each day:
The ACDM Lecture :
'The Everyday Engineering of Engineering and Organizational Innovation'
will be presented by:
Director,
Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory (IlliGAL)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
The Keynote talks will be presented by:
Director, Smart Engineering Systems Lab (SESL)
University of Missouri Rolla, USA.
'Artificial Life: How Can it Impact on Engineering Practices of the Future?'
Head of the Applied Computing and Mechanics Laboratory
The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland
'Agents, Evolution, and The Edge of Chaos:
Possible Implications for Design and Manufacturing'
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The Conference is served by an excellent Scientific Committee most members of which have been with us since the first event in 1994. All papers are reviewed by at least three members of this Committee.
| C. Anumba, Loughborough University, UK | J. Miles, University of Cardiff, UK | |
| T. Arciszewski, George Mason Uni, USA | C. Moore, Cardiff University, UK | |
| T. Baeck, ICD, Germany | G. Parks, University of Cambridge, UK | |
| G. Bugmann, Uni of Plymouth, UK | I. Parmee, UWE, Bristol, UK | |
| R. Balling, Brigham-Young Uni, USA | S. Patel, Unilever Research, UK | |
| E. Burke, Nottingham University, UK | A. Pipe, UWE, Bristol, UK | |
| B. Carse, UWE, Bristol, UK | C. Poloni, University of Trieste, Italy | |
| C. Coello Coello, CINVESTAV, Mexico | W. Punch, Michigan State Uni, USA | |
| D. Corne, University of Exeter, UK | D. Savic, University of Exeter,UK | |
| K. De Jong, George Mason Uni, USA | M. Schoenauer, Ecole Polytech, France | |
| C. Dagli, University of St. Louis, USA | H-P Schwefel, Uni. of Dortmund, Germany | |
| K. Deb, Indian Inst of Technology, Kanpur | E. Semenkin, Siberian Aerospace Academy | |
| M. T. M. Emmerich, ICD/CASA, Germany. | A. Smith, Auburn University,USA | |
| M. Gen, Ashikaga Inst. of Technology, Japan | I. Smith, EPFL, Switzerland | |
| J. Gero , University of Sydney, Australia | P. Sen, University of Newcastle, UK | |
| D. Grierson, University of Waterloo, Canada | G. Smith, University of East Anglia, UK | |
| E. Goodman, Michigan State Uni, USA | J. Taylor, Kings College, London, UK | |
| P. Hajela, Rensselaer Polytech Institute, USA | A. Thompson, Sussex University, UK | |
| C. Harris, University of Southampton, UK | G. Walters, University of Exeter, UK | |
| C. Hillermeier, Siemens Research, Germany | D. Whitley, Colorado State University, USA | |
| P. Husbands, University of Sussex, UK | G. Thierauf, Uni. of Essen, Germany | |
| A. Keane, University of Southampton, UK | X. Yao, University of Birmingham, UK | |
| F. Lohnert, Daimler Chrysler, Germany | A. Zalzala, Heriot-Watt University,UK | |
| M. Maher, University of Sydney Australia |
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Engineers' House, Clifton, Bristol
Directions and map to Engineers' House click here.
Bristol is linked directly to London, the Midlands, South Wales, the North and the South West of England by the M4/M5 motorway system being around two hours drive from London and a little less from Heathrow airport. Excellent rail links to the major airports are available whilst the South West is also served by regional airports at Plymouth, Exeter and Bristol. National coach services are available from all major cities. More detailed travel information and appropriate Maps will be posted shortly.
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The following hotels are 10 to 20 minutes walk from Engineers' House:
Avon Gorge Hotel
Sion Hill, Clifton,
Bristol, BS8 4LD
Telephone: 0117 973 8955
Facsimile: 0117 923 8125
Email:
info@avongorge-hotel-bristol.com
http://www.avongorge-hotel-bristol.com/
Clifton Hotel
***Reduced rates available for ACDM delegates - £62.00 per night (£60.00 per night if booking 3 nights or more); Breakfast and VAT included; Please quote 'ACDM' when making booking****
St Paul's Road, Clifton, Bristol BS8
1LX
Telephone: 0117 973 6882
Fax: 0117 974 1082
Rodney Hotel, Bristol
4 Rodney Place
Bristol En Gb B58 4hy
http://www.bristol-hotels-tours.net/rodney_hotel.html
Seeleys Hotel
17-27 St Pauls Road,
Clifton, Bristol U.K BS8 1LX
Telephone: +44 (0) 117 973 8544 (PBX)
Fax: +44 (0) 117 973 2406
http://www.seeleys.demon.co.uk/
Victoria Square Hotel, Bristol
Victoria Square
Clifton Bristol BS8 4EW
http://www.bristol-hotels-tours.net/bw_victoria_square_hotel.html
Westbourne Hotel
40-44
St Pauls Rd
Clifton, Bristol, BS8 1LR
http://www.bristol-hotelsonline.com/Westbourne-Hotel.htm
Washington Hotel
St Paul's Road, Clifton, Bristol BS8
1LX
Telephone: 0117 973 3980
Fax: 0117 974 1082
http://www.s-h-systems.co.uk/hotels/washingt.html
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CALLS FOR PAPERS/POSTERS
As in previous years, the intention is to explore the integration of evolutionary / adaptive search, exploration and optimisation and associated Computational Intelligence (CI) technologies (e.g. neural computing, intelligent agent systems, fuzzy logic etc) across a wide spectrum of design and manufacturing activities. Areas of specific interest include but are not restricted to:
the development and integration of appropriate evolutionary and adaptive computing strategies with conceptual, embodiment and detailed design.
novel application of appropriate evolutionary / adaptive computing strategies to or integration with complex manufacturing systems
scheduling and planning; facility layout; supply chain design and management; optimisation of organisational structure
co-operative frameworks supporting the utilisation of evolutionary /adaptive search and other CI technologies within a design / manufacturing environment.
the application of novel adaptive computing techniques and strategies that address specific design / analysis problems of high complexity.
evolutionary and adaptive strategies for component modelling and systems identification.
design search and exploration; human-centred aspects and interactive evolutionary decision-support systems.
modelling of and searching across, uncertain / poorly-defined decision-making environments.
multi-objective satisfaction and optimisation.
search and optimisation within heavily constrained domains.
Web / Grid-based evolutionary tools for design and manufacture - accessibility and utility.
provision of multi-disciplinary search and optimisation requirements within distributed Problem Solving Environments (PSEs).
reducing computational expense during detailed design, analysis and optimisation.
best practice re integration with high-performance computing, parallel architectures etc
supporting innovative and creative design .
development and integration of aesthetic fitness measures.
data mining; the identification of optimal design information; appropriate presentation of data generated from evolutionary search, exploration and optimisation.
evolvable hardware design.
evolutionary and adaptive computing in manufacturing robotics.
Applied, theoretical, results-oriented and speculative papers from both academe and industry will all be considered for inclusion. Application papers must exhibit novel aspects relating to evolutionary / adaptive / computational system design and implementation.
Paper submissions
must be original and related to the overall subject area of the Conference.
Initial papers should be no longer than six pages (A4) at 10pt Times New Roman typeface. Please include author's names,
addresses (email included) and affiliation. Margins of 20mm should be maintained all round but overall format is flexible in the first instance.
All preliminary papers should be submitted electronically in pdf, postscript or MS Word
format. Accepted papers will receive a layout guide for the preparation of final
camera-ready papers.
All papers will be reviewed and those selected will be published in the ACDM
proceedings and authors
will have the opportunity to present their work in an appropriate Conference
session.
Important Dates:
7th November 2003: Submission of paper for review
15th
December 2003:
Notification of acceptance
15th January 2004:
Camera-ready copy required
All submissions to Ian Parmee on:
ian.parmee@uwe.ac.uk
SUBMISSION OF POSTERS
!! Extension to Poster Submission Deadline!!
Poster submissions
must be original and related to the overall subject area
of the Conference. Extended poster abstracts should be no longer than two pages
(A4) at 10pt Times New Roman typeface. Please include author's names,
addresses (email included) and affiliation. Margins of 20mm should be
maintained all round but overall format is flexible in the first instance.
All preliminary abstracts should be submitted electronically in postscript, pdf or
MS Word format. Accepted poster abstracts will receive a layout guide for the
preparation of final camera-ready papers.
STOP PRESS !!!! Due to EPSRC support, funding is available for PhD Students presenting Posters at the Conference. Phd Students having Poster submissions accepted and not presenting papers in the main sessions can register at a reduced rate of £40.00. This will cover meals and refreshments during the Conference plus one copy of the main Conference Proceedings and the Poster Proceedings !!!!
Poster submission deadline has
been significantly extended so that students can take advantage of this funding.
All extended abstracts wil be reviewed and those selected for poster
presentation will be published in the ACDM poster proceedings. All authors
will have the opportunity to present their posters on the afternoon of the
21st April.
Important dates:
5th March
2004:
Submission of poster abstracts
10th March 2004: Notification of acceptance
25th March 2004: Camera-ready copy required
All submissions to Ian Parmee on:
ian.parmee@uwe.ac.uk
KEYNOTES
Artificial Life: How Can it Impact on Engineering Practices of the Future?
Cihan Dagli
Smart Engineering Systems Lab (SESL)
University of Missouri-Rolla, Rolla, MO, USA
Engineering Systems of this century need to be smart to meet the challenge of flexibility and customized design requirements imposed on production systems by a dynamically changing global economy. The term ‘smart’ in this context indicates physical media that can interact with their environment and adapt to changes both in space and time through their ability to manipulate by self- awareness and perceived models of the world based on both quantitative and qualitative information. Researchers are looking for ways to achieve this goal by imitating nature. This includes simulation and emulation of complex living things like plants and animals. Artificial life is evolving as a field of study that is devoted to underlying biological phenomena, and recreating these dynamics in other physical media making them accessible to new kinds of experimental manipulation and testing. In this talk possible impacts of this new approach to engineering will be discussed and research areas that will benefit from it will de identified.
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Dr. Dagli is a
Professor of Engineering
Management and Director
of the Smart
Engineering Systems Lab (SESL)
at the University
of Missouri-Rolla.
He received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Industrial Engineering from the Middle
East Technical University in
1971 and 1972 respectively, and a Ph.D. from the School of Manufacturing
and Mechanical Engineering at the University
of Birmingham, United Kingdom
in 1979, where from 1976 to 1979 he was a British Council Fellow. His areas of
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Ian Smith
Applied Computing and Mechanics Laboratory
The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland
There
is much recent evidence to support the use of advanced search algorithms in
engineering. Advantages have been demonstrated in fields of design, diagnosis,
planning and control. However, when objective functions are incomplete and when
environments are uncertain, performance may fall drastically. Systems that
include prior case knowledge provide opportunities for systems to adapt and
learn in uncertain environments. This talk will demonstrate advantages of mixing
stochastic search with case based reasoning through a recent study of a
structure that learns.
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Ian
Smith (PhD Cantab) is Professor of Structural Engineering at EPFL -
The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. He is the Head of
the Applied Computing and Mechanics Laboratory and current Chair of the
Structural Engineering Institute. His interests are active and intelligent structures, advanced computing and
new measurement systems for large civil engineering structures.
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Agents,
Evolution, and The Edge of Chaos:
Possible Implications for Design and Manufacturing
Robert E. Smith
The Intelligent Computing Systems Centre
University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
With the rising emphasis on multi-disciplinary, collaborative design, increasingly integrated with manufacture, the entire product life cycle is becoming more clearly identifiable as a multi-agent, complex, dynamical system. This talk begins by taking the novel view that such multi-agent systems can be seen as evolutionary in character, with birth, death, mutation, and the exchange of gene-like and meme-like information between entities. The view will show how the lessons of evolutionary computation can be interpreted and utilized within the context of complex, multi-agent systems. Given this view, the talk will proceed to consider how lessons from complex adaptive systems theory may be utilized within such systems, and how this may influence design and manufacture in the future.
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Dr. Smith conducts research and development efforts in complex systems based artificial intelligence, including evolutionary algorithms, machine innovation, knowledge representation, evolving agents, and cooperative computation. He has authored 20 journal articles, 7 invited book chapters, and over 40 conference papers on these subjects. He is a former Director of The Intelligent Computer Systems Centre at UWE, and former Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Alabama. He has conducted research projects for the U.S. Army Strategic Defense Command, The Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratories, NASA, Boeing, NSF, DERA, British Aerospace, Airbus, and British Telecom. He is a former Associate Editor of The IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, and a current, associate editor of the journal Evolutionary Computation. |
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The Everyday Engineering of Engineering and Organizational Innovation
David E. Goldberg
Director, Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory (IlliGAL)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
The talk explores the engineering of competent GAs, genetic algorithms that
solve hard problems, quickly, reliably, and accurately and how those ideas are
leading to (1) broadly scalable GAs in very difficult problem domains, (2)
information technology infrastructure for innovation in organizations, and (3)
new quantities theories of organizational structure and efficiency. The talk
explores the common technological and methodological threads of these seemingly
unrelated areas, and why they are important to adaptive computing practitioners.
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David E. Goldberg received his BSE in 1975, his MSE in 1976, and his PhD in 1983, all in Civil Engineering from the University of Michigan. From 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. In 1990, he joined the Department of General Engineering at the University of Illinois. His awards and recognition include being named a recipient of a U.S. National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1985 and an Associate of the Center for Advanced Study at UIUC in 1995. He was founding chairman (1999) and is a Senior Fellow (2003) of the International Society for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, 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. He serves as the director of the Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory, and his research focuses on the design, analysis, and application of genetic algorithms—computer procedures based on the mechanics of natural genetics and selection. His most recent book, The Design of Innovation: Lessons from and for Competent Genetic Algorithms (2002, Kluwer), shows how to design scalable genetic algorithms and how such algorithms are similar to certain processes of human innovation. He is also author of Life Skills and Leadership for Engineers (1995, McGraw-Hill), and his affiliation with UIUC’s Technology Entrepreneur Center led him to join the founding teaching team for a business plan workshop course now offered regularly to young entreprenurial engineers. Professor Goldberg is currently developing quantitative theories of business organization as well as tools for organizational innovation via online integration of data mining, chance discovery, and interactive and human-based genetic algorithms. |
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REGISTRATION COSTS & FORM
Registration Fee per delegate (inclusive of lunches and teas)
Full Registration
Before 15th March 2004: £275.00
After 15th March 2004: £325.00
Student Registration
(Student registration must be accompanied by a letter of certification from the Supervisor/Head of Department)
Before 15th March 2004 £175.00
After 15th March 2004 £225.00
Conference Banquet
£ 28.50 (including wine)
To be held on the evening of Wednesday, 21st April at the Avon Gorge Hotel, Sion Hill, Clifton (five minutes walk from Engineers' House). Drinks at 19.00 on the terrace overlooking the Gorge with a wonderful views of Brunel's Clifton suspension bridge. Dinner to be served at 20.00.
Payment
Payment can be made by cheques drawn on a UK bank, or International Money Orders in UK Sterling only, Cheques / Money Orders must be made payable to "University of the West of England".
Payment may also be made by Visa/Mastercard.
Please download REGISTRATION FORM
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Tuesday, 20th April |
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09.00: |
Welcome - I. C. Parmee |
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09.15:
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Keynote Artificial Life: How Can it Impact on Engineering Practices of the Future? Professor Cihan Dagli |
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10.05: |
Coffee |
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10.30: |
Session One Chair: I. C. Parmee |
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Metamodel Assisted Multi-objective Optimisation Algorithms and their Application in Airfoil Design M. Emmerich, B. Naujocks |
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Mechanical Component Design for Multiple Objectives using Generalised Differential Evolution S. Kukkonen, J. Lampinen |
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Multidisciplinary Aircraft Conceptual Design Optimisation Using a Hierarchical Asynchronous Parallel Evolutionary Algorithm (HAPEA) L. F. González, E. J. Whitney, K. Srinivas, K. C. Wong, J. Périaux |
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New Strategies in Differential Evolution V. Feoktistov, S. Janaqi |
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12.10: |
Lunch |
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13:15: |
Session Two Chair: |
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Design Search and Optimisation using Radial Basis Functions with Regression Capabilities A.J. Keane |
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CSAA: A Constraint Satisfaction Ant Colony Framework K. Mertens. T. Holvoet |
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Adaptive Search for an Optimum in a Problem of Oil Stabilisation Process Design A. Zilinskas, E. Fraga, A. Mackute, A. Varoneckas |
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Quantum-Inspired Evolution Algorithm: Experimental Analysis F. Alfares, M. Alfares, I.I. Esat |
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| 15.00 | Coffee |
| 15.25 | Session Three Chair: |
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Job Shop Scheduling using Multi-Agent Systems A. M. Booth |
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An Effective Real Parameter Genetic Algorithm for Multi-modal OptimisationP. Ballester, J. Carter |
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Improving Robot Manipulator Performance with Adaptive Neuro-Control A. G. Pipe, A. Lenz |
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Evolutionary Simulated Annealing Algorithms for Uncapacitated Facility Location Problems V. Yigit, M. E. Aydin, O. Turkbey |
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| 17.05 | Close |
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19.00 onwards |
Social Evening - venue and details to be announced |
| Wednesday, 21st April | |
| 09.00 |
Keynote: Mixing Maths with Cases Professor Ian Smith |
| 09.50 | Coffee |
| 10.15 | Session Four Chair: |
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Morphogenic Evolutionary Design: Cellular Automata Representations in Topological Structural Design R. Kicinger, T. Arciszewski, K. Dejong |
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Genetic Optimisation of Machine Tool Paths M.K.A. Mohd Ariffin, N.D.Sims , K.Worden |
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Extraction of Emerging Multi-Objective Design Information from COGA Data J.A. Abraham, I.C. Parmee |
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Robust Solutions in Engineering Design - Stochastic Simulation vs DACE R.A. Bates, H. P. Wynn |
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| 12.00 | Lunch |
| 13.00 |
ACDM Lecture: The Everyday Engineering of Organizational and Engineering Innovation Professor David E. Goldberg |
| 14.00 | Session Five Chair: |
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Enhancing Automated Process Design with Cognitive Agents, Distributed Software Components and Web Repositories I. E. Stalker, E. Fraga |
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Dynamic Graph Drawing with a Hybridized Genetic Algorithm B. Pinaud, P. Kuntz, R. Lehn |
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| 14.50 | Coffee |
| 15.10 | Poster Session |
| Details to follow | |
| 17.00 | Close |
| 19.30 | Conference Banquet - venue to be announced |
| Thursday, 22nd April | |
| 09.00 |
Keynote:
Agents,
Evolution, and The Edge of Chaos: Dr. Robert E. Smith |
| 09.50 | Coffee |
| 10.15 | Session Six Chair: |
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Building Compact Rulesets for Describing Continuous-Valued Problem Spaces Using a Learning Classifier System D. Wyatt, L. Bull, I. C. Parmee |
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Genetic Programming Within Civil Engineering D. Shaw, J. Miles, A. Gray |
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A Technique for Evaluation of Interactive Evolutionary Systems M. Shackelford, D. W. Corne |
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Balanced Random and Adaptive Interval Arithmetic for Systems of Linear Interval Equations J. Zilinskas, I. Bogle |
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| 12.00 | Lunch |
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Automating the Analysis of Wafer Data Using Adaptive Resonance TheoryNetworksE. Miguelañez, A. M. Zalzala, P. Tabor |
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Adaptive Computing in Support of Traffic Management K. Penev |
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An Online Hierarchical Fuzzy Rule Based System for Mobile Robot Controllers A. Waldock, B. Carse, C. Melhuish |
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An Efficient Genetic Algorithm to solve the Manufacturing Cell Formation Problem W. R. Vega, M. S. Fuentes, M. C. Pacheco |
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| 14.40 | Coffee |
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Interactive Evolutionary Strategy Based Discovery of Image Segmentation Parameters P. Caleb-Solly, J. Smith |
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Job-Shop Scheduling using the Clonal Selection Technique C. A. Coello Coello, D. C. Rivera, N. C. Cortez |
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Application of Artificial Neural Networks in Differential Pulse Code Modulation SchemeH. B. Bahar |
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Tool Wear Prediction Approach for Turning Operations Based on General Regression Neural Network (GRNN) Technique. E.A. Almeshaiei, S.E. Oraby, M. A. Mahmoud |
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| 16.40 | Closing Remarks |
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