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 and to 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 was held in Edinburgh, UK, in April 2000.

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. The workshop will be held in conjunction with EuroGP2001 , the European Conference on Genetic Programming (April 18-20), as part of EvoWorkshops2001 , which will be held on the first day of EuroGP.

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.

Submissions

To submit, send your manuscript (max length: 10 A4 pages) to the programme co-chair in PostScript (preferably compressed and uuencoded) BY EMAIL (see addresses below) no later than November 16, 2000. 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 December 20, 2000.

The authors of accepted papers will have 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 January 25, 2001. The accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings, published by Springer in the LNCS series, that will be available at the workshop.

Formatting instructions, templates etc can be found at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

By submitting a camera-ready paper, the author(s) agree that at least one author will attend and present each accepted paper at the workshop.

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

Organising Committee :

• Stefano Cagnoni, University of Parma (Programme Chair and General EvoWorkshops Chair) e-mail: cagnoni@ce.unipr.it
• Pier Luca Lanzi, Politecnico di Milano (Local Co-Chair) e-mail: lanzi@elet.polimi.it
• Andrea Tettamanzi, University of Milan (Local Co-Chair) e-mail: tettaman@dsi.unimi.it

• Giovanni Adorni, University of Parma, Italy
• Wolfgang Banzhaf, University of Dortmund, Germany
• Alberto Broggi, University of Pavia, Italy
• Bill Buckles, Tulane University, USA
• 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

Timetable :

Submission deadline: 25 November 2000 (EXPIRED)
Notification of acceptance: 20 December 2000
Camera ready due: 25 January 2001
Workshop: 18 April 2001

Workshop Web Site:
http://evonet.dcs.napier.ac.uk/eurogp2001/evoworkshops.html

Contacts:
For any information please contact:

Please visit EuroGP2001 Web Page for the official EvoWorkshops2001 page