=09=09 [Apologies for multiple copies] =09=09=09 EVOBIO 2003 1ST EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION AND BIOINFORMATICS University of Essex, April 14-16, 2003 http://www.cs.vu.nl/~evobio/evobio.html http://evonet.dcs.napier.ac.uk/eurogp2003/evobio.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ EvoBIO is the first workshop of the newly formed EvoNet (European Network o= f Excellence in Evolutionary Computation) working group on bioinformatics. EvoBIO covers research in all aspects of computational intelligence in bioinformatics and computational biology. The emphasis is on algorithms based on evolutionary computation, on neural networks and on other novel optimisation and machine learning methods, that address important problems in molecular biology, genomics and genetics= , that are computationally efficient, and that have been implemented and test= ed in simulations and on real datasets. The goal of the workshop is to present recent research results, including significant work-in-progress, and to identify and explore directions of future research, besides stimulating closer interaction between members of this scientific community working on Bioinformatics. Each accepted paper will be presented orally at the workshop and printed in the proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series. The workshop is sponsored by EvoNet, the Network of Excellence in Evolutionary Computing, and will be held in conjunction with EuroGP2003, th= e European Conference on Genetic Programming (April 14-16). Submissions To submit, send your manuscript (postscript or PDF, maximum length: 10 A4 pages) via email to evobio@cs.vu.nl no later than November 20, 2002. Formatting instructions can be found at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/instruct/typeinst.pdf The papers will be peer reviewed by three members of the program committee. Authors will be notified via email on the results of the review by December 20, 2002. The authors of accepted papers will have to improve their paper on the basi= s of the reviewers' comments and will be asked to send a camera ready version of their manuscripts by January 17, 2003. 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Organizing Commitee: EvoBIO Chairs: Dave W. Corne School of Computer Science, Cybernetics University of Reading d.w.corne@reading.ac.uk http://www.personal.rdg.ac.uk/~ssscorne/ phone: +44 118 931 8983 fax: +44 118 975 1994 Elena Marchiori Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Free University Amsterdam de Boelelaan 1081a 1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands elena@cs.vu.nl http://www.cs.vu.nl/~elena phone: +31(0)20 444 7738 fax: +31(0)20 444 7653 EvoBIO 2003 Program Committee : * Jesus S. Aguilar-Ruiz, University of Seville (Spain) * Wolfgang Banzhaf, University of Dortmund (Germany) * Jacek Blazewicz, Institute of Computing Science, Poznan (Poland) * Carlos Cotta-Porras, University of M=E1laga (Spain) * Bogdan Filipic, Department of Intelligent Systems, Ljubljana (Slovenia) * Gary B. Fogel, Natural Selection, Inc. (USA) * James Foster, University of Idaho (USA) * Steven A. Frank, University of California, Irvine (USA) * Jin-Kao Hao, LERIA, Universite d'Angers, (France) * William Hart, Sandia National Labs (USA) * Francisco Herrera, University of Granada (Spain) * Daniel Howard, QinetiQ (UK) * Antoine van Kampen, AMC University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands) * Maarten Keijzer, Free University Amsterdam (The Netherlands) * Douglas B. Kell, University of Wales (UK) * W.B. Langdon, UCL (UK) * Bob MacCallum, Stockholm University (Sweden) * Brian Mayoh, Aarhus University (Denmark) * Andrew C.R. Martin, University of Reading (UK) * Peter Merz, Eberhard-Karls-Universit=E4t T=FCbingen (Germany) * Martin Middendorf, Catholic University Eichstatt-Ingolstadt (Germany) * Jason Moore, Vanderbilt University Medical Center (USA) * Pablo Moscato, The University of Newcastle (Australia) * Martin Oates, British Telecom Plc (UK) * Jon Rowe, University of Birmingham (UK) * Jem Rowland, Aberystwyth, The University of Wales (UK) * Vic J. Rayward-Smith, University of East Anglia (England) * El-ghazali Talbi, Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale de Lille (France) * Eckart Zitzler, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Switzerland) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Important Dates: Submission deadline: November 20, 2002 Notification of acceptance: December 20, 2002 Camera ready due: January 17, 2003 Workshop: April 14-16, 2003 Contacts: For any information please contact the EvoBIO chairs at evobio@cs.vu.n= l