July 12-16, 2003. Chicago, Illinois, USA

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CONFERENCE COMMITTEE:


GENERAL CHAIR: James A. Foster
PROCEEDINGS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Erick Cantu-Paz
BUSINESS COMMITTEE: David E. Goldberg, John Koza, J. A. Foster

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CHAIRS OF PROGRAM POLICY COMMITTEES:

   A-Life, Adaptive Behavior, Agents, and Ant Colony Optimization, Russell Standish
   Artificial Immune Systems, Dipankar Dasgupta
   Coevolution , Graham Kendall
   DNA, Molecular, and Quantum Computing, Natasha Jonoska
   Evolution Strategies, Evolutionary Programming, Hans-Georg Beyer
   Evolutionary Robotics, Alan Schultz , Mitchell A. Potter
   Evolutionary Scheduling and Routing, Kathryn A. Downsland
   Evolvable Hardware, Julian Miller
   Genetic Algorithms, Kalyanmoy Deb
   Genetic Programming, Una-May O'Reilly
   Learning Classifier Systems, Stewart Wilson
   Real World Applications, Rajkumar Roy, Davis, David
   Search Based Software Engineering, Mark Harman , Joachim Wegner

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WORKSHOPS CHAIR: Alwyn Barry

LATE BREAKING PAPERS CHAIR: Bart Rylander

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WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS:

Biological Applications for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (BioGEC'2003), Wolfgang Banzhaf and James A. Foster

Application of Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithms to NP-complete Problems, Francisco Baptista Pereira, Ernesto Costa, Gunther Raidl

Evolutionary Algorithms for Dynamic Optimization Problems, Jurgen Branke

Hardware Evolutionary Algorithms and Evolvable Hardware (HEAEH 2003), John C. Gallagher

Graduate Student Workshop, Maarten Keijzer, Sean Luke, Terry Riopka

Workshop on Memetic Algorithms 2003 (WOMA-IV), Peter Merz, William E. Hart, Natalio Krasnogor, Jim E. Smith

Undergraduate Student Workshop, Mark M. Meysenburg

Learning, Adaptation, and Approximation in Evolutionary Computation, Sibylle Mueller, Petros Koumoutsakos, Marc Schoenauer Yaochu Jin, Sushil Louis, and Khaled Rasheed

Grammatical Evolution Workshop (GEWS'2003), Michael O'Neill and Conor Ryan

Interactive Evolutionary Search and Exploration Systems, Ian Parmee

Analysis and Design of Representations and Operators (ADoRo'2003), Franz Rothlauf and Dirk Thierens

Challenges in Real World Optimisation Using Evolutionary Computing, Rajkumar Roy and Ashutosh Tiwari

International Workshop on Learning Classifier Systems, Wolfgang Stolzmann, Pier-Luca Lanzi, Stewart Wilson

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TUTORIAL SPEAKERS:

Parallel Genetic Algorithms, Erick Cantu-Paz

Using Appropriate Statistics, Steffan Christiensen

Multiobjective Optimization with EC, Carlos Coello

Making a Living with EC, Yuval Davidor

A Unified Approach to EC, Ken DeJong

Evolutionary Robotics, Dario Floreano

Immune System Computing, Stephanie Forrest

The Design of Innovation \& Competent GAs, David E. Goldberg

Genetic Algorithms, Robert Heckendorn

Evolvable Hardware Applications, Tetsuya Higuchi

Bioinformatics with EC, Daniel Howard

Visualization in Evolutionary Computation, Christian Jacob

Data Mining and Machine Learning, Hillol Kargupta

Evolvable Hardware, Didier Keymeulen

Genetic Programming, John Koza

Genetic Programming Theory I \& II, W. Langdon, R. Poli

Ant Colony Optimization, Martin Middendorf

Bionics: Building on Biological Evolution, Ingo Rechenberg

Grammatical Evolution, C. Ryan, M. O'Neill

Evolution Strategies, Hans-Paul Schwefel

Quantum Computing, Lee Spector

Anticipatory Classifier Systems, Wolfgang Stolzmann

Mathematical Theory of EC, Michael Vose

Computational Complexity and EC, Ingo Wegener

Software Testing via EC, J. Wegener, M. Harman

Testing \& Evaluating EC Algorithms, Darrell Whitley

Learning Classifier Systems, Stewart Wilson

Evolving Neural Network Ensembles, Xin Yao

Neutral Evolution in EC, Tina Yu

Genetics, Annie S. Wu

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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:


John Holland, "Genetic Algorithms as an Engine for the Study of Complex Adaptive Systems" July 14, 2003

Richard Lenski, "How the digital leopard got his spots: thinking about evolution inside the box," July 15, 2003
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MEMBERS OF THE PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Hussein Abbass
Adam Adamopoulos
Alexandru Agapie
Jose Aguilar
Jesus Aguilar
Hernan Aguirre
Chang Wook Ahn
Uwe Aickelin
Enrique Alba
Javier Alcaraz Soria
Dirk Arnold
Tughrul Arslan
Atif Azad
Meghna Babbar
Vladan Babovic
Bv Babu
Thomas Back
Julio Banga
Francisco Baptista Pereira
Alwyn Barry
Cem Baydar
Thomas Beielstein
Theodore Belding
Fevzi Belli
Ester Bernado-Mansilla
Tom Bersano-Begey
Hugues Bersini
Hans-Georg Beyer
Filipic Bogdan
Andrea Bonarini
Lashon Booker
Peter Bosman
Terry Bossomaier
Klaus Bothe
Leonardo Bottaci
Juergen Branke
Wilker Bruce
Peter Brucker
Anthony Bucci
Dirk Bueche
Magdalena Bugajska
Larry Bull
Edmund Burke
Martin Butz
Stefano Cagnoni
Xiaoqiang Cai
Erick Cantu-Paz
Uday Chakraborty
Weng-Tat Chan
Alastair Channon
Ying-Ping Chen
Shu-Heng Chen
Junghuei Chen
Prabhas Chongstitvatana
John Clark
Lattaud Claude
Manuel Clergue
Carlos Coello Coello
David Coley
Philippe Collard
Pierre Collet
Clare Bates Congdon
David Corne
Ernesto Costa
Peter Cowling
Bart Craenen
Jose Cristobal Riquelme Santos
Keshav Dahal
Paul Darwen
Dipankar Dasgupta
Lawrence Davis
Anthony Deakin
Kalyanmoy Deb
Ivanoe De Falco
Hugo De Garis
Antonio Della Cioppa
A Santos Del Riego
Brahma Deo
Dirk Devogelaere
Der-Rong Din
Phillip Dixon
Jose Dolado Cosin
Marco Dorigo
Keith Downing
Kathryn Dowsland
Gerry Dozier
Rolf Drechsler
Stefan Droste
Marc Ebner
R. Timothy Edwards
Norberto Eiji Nawa
Aniko Ekart
Christos Emmanouilidis
Hector Erives
Felipe Espinoza
Matthew Evett
Zhun Fan
Marco Farina
Robert Feldt
Francisco Fernandez
Sevan Ficici
Peter John Fleming
Stuart Flockton
Dario Floreano
Cyril Fonlupt
Carlos Fonseca
Stephanie Forrest
Alex Freitas
Clemens Frey
Chunsheng Fu
Christian Gagne
M. Gargano
Ivan Garibay
Josep Maria Garrell i Guiu
Alessio Gaspar
Michel Gendreau
Zhou Gengui
Pierre Gerard
Andreas Geyer-Schulz
Tushar Goel
Fabio Gonzalez
Jens Gottlieb
Kendall Graham
Buster Greene
John Grefenstette
Darko Grundler
Dongbing Gu
Steven Gustafson
Charles Guthrie
Pauline Haddow
Hani Hagras
Hisashi Handa
Georges Harik
Mark Harman
Emma Hart
William Hart
Inman Harvey
Michael Herdy
Jeffrey Hermann
Arturo Hernandez Aguirre
Francisco Herrera
Jurgen Hesser
Robert Hierons
Mika Hirvensalo
John Holmes
Tadashi Horiuchi
Daniel Howard
William Hsu
Jianjun Hu
Jacob Hurst
Hitoshi Iba
Kosuke Imamura
Iñaki Inza
Christian Jacob
Thomas Jansen
Segovia Javier
Yaochu Jin
Bryan Jones
Natasha Jonoska
Hugues Juille
Bryant Julstrom
Mahmoud Kaboudan
Charles Karr
Balakrishnan Karthik
Sanza Kazadi
Maarten Keijzer
Graham Kendall
Didier Keymeulen
Michael Kirley
Joshua Knowles
Gabriella Kokai
Arthur Kordon
Bogdan Korel
Erkan Korkmaz
Tim Kovacs
Natalio Krasnogor
Kalmanje Krishnakumar
Renato Krohling
Sam Kwong
Gary Lamont
William Langdon
Pedro Larrañaga
Jesper Larse
Marco Laumanns
Paul Layzell
Martin Lefley
Claude Le Pape
Kwong Sak Leung
Warren Liao
Derek Linden
Michael Littman
Xavier Llora
Fernando Lobo
Jason Lohn
Michael Lones
Sushil Louis
Manuel Lozano
Jose Antonio Lozano
Jose Lozano
Pier Luca Lanzi
Sean Luke
John Lusth
Evelyne Lutton
Nicholas Macias
Ana Madureira
Spiros Mancoridis
Martin Martin
Pete Martin
Arita Masanori
Iwata Masaya
Keith Mathias
Dirk Mattfeld
Giancarlo Mauri
David Mayer
Jon Mccormack
Robert Mckay
Nicholas Mcphee
Lisa Meeden
Jorn Mehnen
Karlheinz Meier
Ole Mengshoel
Mark Meysenburg
Zbigniew Michalewicz
Martin Middendorf
Risto Miikkulainen
Julian Miller
Brian Mitchell
Chilukuri Mohan
David Montana
Byung-Ro Moon
Frank Moore
Alberto Moraglio
Manuel Moreno
Yunjun Mu
Sibylle Mueller
Masaharu Munetomo
Kazuyuki Murase
William Mydlowec
Zensho Nakao
Tomoharu Nakashima
Olfa Nasraoui
Bart Naudts
Mark Neal
Chrystopher Nehaniv
David Newth
Miguel Nicolau
Nikolay Nikolaev
Fernando Nino
Stefano Nolfi
Peter Nordin
Bryan Norman
Wim Nuijten
Leandro Nunes De Castro
Gabriela Ochoa
Victor Oduguwa
Charles Ofria
Gustavo Olague
Markus Olhofer
Michael O'Neill
Una-May O'Reilly
Franz Oppacher
Jim Ouimette
Charles Palmer
Liviu Panait
Gary Parker
Anil Patel
Witold Pedrycz
Martin Pelikan
Marek Perkowski
Sanja Petrovic
Hartmut Pohlheim
Riccardo Poli
Tom Portegys
Reid Porter
Marie-Claude Portmann
Mitchell A. Potter
Walter Potter
Jean-Yves Potvin
Dilip Pratihar
Alexander Pretschner
Adam Prugel-Bennett
William Punch
Gunther Raidl
Khaled Rasheed
Tom Ray
Tapabrata Ray
Victor Rayward-Smith
Patrick Reed
John Reif
Andreas Reinholz
Rick Riolo
Jose Riquelme
Denis Robilliard
Katya Rodriguez-Vazquez
Marc Roper
Brian Ross
Franz Rothlauf
Jon Rowe
Rajkumar Roy
Gunter Rudolph
Thomas Runarsson
Conor Ryan
Bart Rylander
Kazuhiro Saitou
Ralf Salomon
Eugene Santos
Kumara Sastry
Yuji Sato
David Schaffer
Martin Schmidt
Thorsten Schnier
Marc Schoenauer
Sonia Schulenburg
Alan C. Schultz
Sandip Sen
Bernhard Sendhoff
Kisung Seo
Franciszek Seredynski
Jane Shaw
Martin Shepperd
Alaa Sheta
Robert Shipman
Olivier Sigaud
Anabela Simoes
Mark Sinclair
Abhishek Singh
Andre Skusa
Jim Smith
Robert Smith
Donald Sofge
Alan Soper
Terence Soule
Lee Spector
Andreas Spillner
Russell Standish
Harmen Sthamer
Adrian Stoica
Wolfgang Stolzmann
Matthew Streeter
V Sundararajan
Gil Syswerda
Walter Tackett
Keiki Takadama
Uwe Tangen
Alexander Tarakanov
Ernesto Tarantino
Gianluca Tempesti
Hugo Terashima-Marin
Sam Thangiah
Scott Thayer
Lothar Thiele
Dirk Thierens
Adrian Thompson
Jonathan Thompson
Jonathan Timmis
Ashutosh Tiwari
Marco Tomassini
Andy Tomlinson
Jim Torresen
Paolo Toth
Michael Trick
Shigeyoshi Tsutsui
Andy Tyrrell
Jano Van Hemert
Clarissa Van Hoyweghen
Leonardo Vanneschi
David Van Veldhuizen
Robert Vanyi
Manuel Vazquez-Outomuro
Oswaldo Velez-Langs
Hans-Michael Voigt
Roger Wainwright
Matthew Wall
Jean-Paul Watson
Ingo Wegener
Joachim Wegener
Karsten Weicker
Peter Whigham
Ronald While
Darrell Whitley
R. Paul Wiegand
Kay Wiese
Dirk Wiesmann
Janet Wile
Janet Wiles
Wendy Williams
Stewart Wilson
Mark Wineberg
Alden Wright
Annie Wu
Zheng Wu
Chia-Hsuan Yeh
Ayse Yilmaz
Tian-Li Yu
Tina Yu
Hongnian Yu
Ricardo Zebulum
Andreas Zell
Byoung-Tak Zhang
Lyudmila A. Zinchenko
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ISGEC EXECUTIVE BOARD:

Erik D. Goodman (chair)
David Andre
Wolfgang Banzhaf
Kalyanmoy Deb
Kenneth De Jong
Marco Dorigo
David E. Goldberg
John H. Holland
John R. Koza
Una-May O'Reilly
Ingo Rechenberg
Marc Schoenauer
Lee Spector
Darrell Whitley
Annie S. Wu
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COUNCIL OF AUTHORS:


Erick Cantu-Paz (chair), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
David Andre, University of California - Berkeley
Plamen P. Angelov, Loughborough University
Vladan Babovic, Danish Hydraulic Institute
Wolfgang Banzhaf, University of Dortmund
Forrest H. Bennett III, FX Palo Alto Laboratory, Inc.
Hans-Georg Beyer, University of Dortmund
Jüergen Branke, University of Karlsruhe
Martin Butz, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Runwei Cheng, Ashikaga Institute of Technology
David A. Coley, University of Exeter
Marco Dorigo, IRIDIA, Universite Libre de Bruxelles
Rolf Drechsler, University of Freiburg
Emanuel Falkenauer, Optimal Design and Brussels University ULB
Stephanie Forrest, University of New Mexico
Mitsuo Gen, Ashikaga Institute of Technology
Andreas Geyer-Schulz, Abteilung fuer Informationswirtschaft
David E. Goldberg, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jens Gottlieb, SAP AG
Wolfgang A. Halang, Fernuniversitaet
John H. Holland, University of Michigan \& Sante Fe Institute
Hitoshi Iba, University of Tokyo
Christian Jacob, University of Calgary
Robert E. Keller, University of Dortmund
Dimitri Knjazew, SAP AG
John R. Koza, Stanford University
Sam Kwong, City University of Hong Kong
W. B. Langdon, University College, London
Dirk C. Mattfeld, University of Bremen
Pinaki Mazumder, University of Michigan
Zbigniew Michalewicz, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Melanie Mitchell, Oregon Health and Science University
Ian Parmee, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Frederick E. Petry, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Riccardo Poli, University of Essex
Moshe Sipper, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
William M. Spears, University of Wyoming
Wallace K.S. Tang, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Adrian Thompson, University of Sussex
Michael D. Vose, University of Tennessee
Man Leung Wong, Lingnan University
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COUNCIL OF EDITORS:

Erick Cantu-Paz (chair), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Karthik Balakrishnan, Fireman's Fund Insurance Company
Wolfgang Banzhaf, University of Dortmund
Peter Bentley, University College, London
Lance D. Chambers, Western Australian Department of Transport
Dipankar Dasgupta, University of Memphis
Kenneth De Jong, George Mason University
James A. Foster
Francisco Herrera, University of Granada
William B. Langdon, University College, London
Evelyn Lutton
Pinaki Mazumder, University of Michigan
Eric Michielssen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta
Rajkumar Roy, Cranfield University
Elizabeth M. Rudnick, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Marc Schoenauer, INRIA Rocquencourt
Terence Soule
Lee Spector, Hampshire College
Jose L. Verdegay, University of Granada, Spain

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COUNCIL OF CONFERENCES:

Riccardo Poli (chair)

The purpose of the Council of Conferences is to provide information about the numerous conferences that are available to researchers in the field of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, and to encourage them to coordinate their meetings to maximize our collective impact on science.

ACDM, Adaptive Computing in Design and Manufacture, 2004, Ian Parmee

EuroGP, European Conference on Genetic Programming, Portugal, April 2004, Ernesto Costa,

EvoWorkshops, European Evolutionary Computing Workshops, Portugal, April 2004, Stefano Cagnoni,

FOGA, Foundations of Genetic Algorithms Workshop, 2004

GECCO 2004, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Seattle, June, 2004, Riccardo Poli

INTROS, INtroductory TutoRials in Optimization, Search and decision support methodologies August 12, 2003, Nottingham, UK, Edmund Burke,

MISTA, 1st Multidisciplinary International Conference on Scheduling: Theory and Applications August 8-12, 2003, Nottingham, UK, Graham Kendall

PATAT'04, 5th international conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling, Pittsburgh, USA, August 18-20 2004, Edmund Burke

WSC8, 8th Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications, September 29th - October 10th, 2003, Internet (hosted by University of Dortmund), Frank Hoffmann,

An up-to-date roster of the Council of Conferences is available online at http://www.isgec.org/conferences.html.

Please contact the COC chair Riccardo Poli for additions to this list.

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