EvoIASP is the first European event specifically dedicated to the applications of evolutionary computation (EC) to image analysis and signal processing (IASP) and gives European and non-European researchers in those fields, as well as people from industry, an opportunity to present their latest research, discuss current developments and applications, besides fostering closer future interaction between members of the three scientific communities.

EvoIASP99 , the first edition of the Workshop, was held in Göteborg, Sweden, in May 1999. EvoIASP2000 will be held at Napier University, Edinburgh, UK.

The workshop is sponsored by EvoNet, the Network of Excellence in Evolutionary Computing, and is one of the activities of EvoIASP, the EvoNet working group on Evolutionary Computation in Image Analysis and Signal Processing. It will be part of EvoWorkshops2000 and will be held in conjunction with EuroGP2000 , the European Conference on Genetic Programming (April 15-16), and ICES2000 , the Third International Conference on Evolvable Systems (April 18-19).
These events will take place alongside the Edinburgh International Science Festival .

The workshop will consist of:

• An invited talk
• Oral and poster sessions with periods for discussion
• Software demos and industrial stands

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Applications of evolutionary computation to real-life IASP problems
• Evolvable vision and signal processing hardware
• Evolutionary pattern recognition
• Hybrid architectures for machine vision and signal processing including evolutionary components
• Theoretical developments
• Comparisons between different evolutionary techniques and between evolutionary and non-evolutionary techniques in IASP applications
• Financial time series analysis by means of EC techniques.

Fees

To be defined.
Registration to EvoIASP2000 will include free non-transferable registration to all other EvoWorkshops.
A reduced registration rate will be available for students.

Submissions

To submit, send your manuscript (max length: 10 A4 pages) to one of the programme co-chairs in PostScript (preferably compressed and uuencoded) BY EMAIL (see addresses below) no later than November 15, 1999. The papers will be peer reviewed by at least two members of the programme committee, of whom at least one from the evolutionary computation community and one from the image analysis or signal processing community. Authors will be notified via email on the results of the review by January 15, 2000. The Workshop Proceedings will be published by Springer in their LNCS series.

The authors of accepted papers will have two weeks to improve their paper on the basis of the reviewers' comments and will be asked to send a camera ready version of their manuscripts by February 1, 2000. The papers accepted will appear in the workshop proceedings which will be available at the workshop.

A Best Paper Award will be offered to the author(s) of the most original and innovative paper.

Organising Committee:

• Riccardo Poli, The University of Birmingham, UK (Programme co-chair) e-mail: R.Poli@cs.bham.ac.uk
• Stefano Cagnoni, University of Parma, Italy (Programme co-chair) e-mail: cagnoni@ce.unipr.it
• Terry Fogarty, Napier University, UK (EvoWorkshops2000 Coordinating chair) e-mail: T.Fogarty@dcs.napier.ac.uk
• Julian Miller, Napier University, UK (EvoWorkshops2000 Publicity chair) email: j.miller@dcs.napier.ac.uk
• Ben Paechter, Napier University, UK (EvoWorkshops2000 Publication Chair) benp@dcs.napier.ac.uk
• Peter Thomson, Napier University, UK (EvoWorkshops2000 local Chair) email: p.thomson@dcs.napier.ac.uk

• Giovanni Adorni, University of Parma, Italy
• Alistair Armitage, Napier University, UK
• Wolfgang Banzhaf, University of Dortmund, Germany
• Alberto Broggi, University of Pavia, Italy
• Stefano Cagnoni, University of Parma, Italy
• Ela Claridge, The University of Birmingham, UK
• Jason Daida, University of Michigan, USA
• Terry Fogarty, Napier University, UK
• Daniel Howard, DERA, UK
• Mario Koeppen, FhG IPK, Germany
• Evelyne Lutton, INRIA, France
• Julian Miller, Napier University, UK
• Peter Nordin, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
• Riccardo Poli, The University of Birmingham, UK
• Conor Ryan, University of Limerick, Ireland
• Jim Smith, The University of Western England, UK
• Andy Tyrrell, University of York, UK
• Hans-Michael Voigt, GFaI - Center for Applied Computer Science, Germany

Venue:

Napier University.

Accommodation:

Local arrangements:

In case help is needed regarding venue and/or accommodation, please contact

Julian Miller
e-mail: j.miller@dcs.napier.ac.uk
URL: http://www.dcs.napier.ac.uk/~julian/
Evolutionary Computation Group
Department of Computing
Napier University
219 Colinton Road
Edinburgh EH14 1DJ, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 131-455-4318
Fax: +44 (0) 131-455-4552

Workshop Web Site:
http://www.ce.unipr.it/evoiasp2000

Contacts:
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