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The Sixth International Conference on Simulated Evolution And Learning
    (SEAL'06)
  15-18 October 2006, Hefei, Anhui, China
                    http://nical.ustc.edu.cn/seal06/

Hosted and Sponsored by
 Nature Inspired Computation and Applications Laboratory (NICAL)
 Department of Computer Science and Technology
 University of Science and Technology of China
 Hefei, Anhui 230027, China

AIMS AND SCOPES
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Evolution and learning are two fundamental forms of adaptation. SEAL'06
is the sixth biennial conference in the highly successful series that
aims at exploring these two forms of adaptation and their roles and
interactions in adaptive systems. Cross-fertilisation between evolutionary
learning and other machine learning approaches, such as neural network
learning, reinforcement learning, decision tree learning, fuzzy system
learning, etc., will be strongly encouraged by the conference.
The other major theme of the conference is optimisation by evolutionary
and other nature inspired approaches. The topics of interest to this
conference include but are not limited to the following:

1. Evolutionary Learning

Fundamental Issues in Evolutionary Learning      Co-Evolutionary Learning
Modular Evolutionary Learning Systems            Classifier Systems
Representation Issues in Evolutionary Learning   Artificial Immune Systems
Interactions Between Learning and Evolution  Credit Assignment
Swarm Intelligence                               Collective Intelligence
Comparison between Evolutionary Learning and Other Learning Approaches,

2. Evolutionary Optimisation

Combinatorial Optimisation        Numerical/Function Optimisation
(e.g., scheduling, allocation, planning,     Hybrid Optimisation Algorithms
packing, transportation, etc.)       Comparison of Algorithms
Nature-Inspired Algorithms (ant colony optimisation, particle swarm
optimisation, memetic algorithms, simulated annealing, ...)

3. Hybrid Learning

Evolutionary Artificial Neural Networks      Evolutionary Fuzzy Systems
Evolutionary Reinforcement Learning      Evolutionary Clustering
Evolutionary Decision Tree Learning       Evolutionary Unsupervised Learning
Genetic Programming         Other Hybrid Learning Systems
Developmental Processes

4. Adaptive Systems

Complexity in Adaptive Systems        Evolutionary Robotics
Evolvable Hardware and Software       Artificial Ecology
Evolutionary Games        Self-Repairing Systems
Evolutionary Computation Techniques in Economics, Finance and Marketing

5. Theoretical Issues in Evolutionary Computation

Convergence and Convergence Rate of Evolutionary Algorithms
Computational Complexity of Evolutionary Algorithms
Self-Adaptation in Evolutionary Algorithms

6. Real-World Applications of Evolutionary Computation Techniques

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
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Professor Karl Sigmund, University of Vienna, Austria
Professor Zbigniew Michalewicz, University of Adelaide, Australia
Professor Gary Yen, Oklahoma State University, USA
Dr. Han La Poutre, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI), Netherlands

IMPORTANT DATES
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21 April 2006     Deadline for submission of full papers (<=8 pages)
19 June 2006        Notification of acceptance
14 July 2006        Deadline for camera-ready copies of accepted papers
15-18 October 2006  Conference sessions (including tutorials and workshops)

PAPER SUBMISSION
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All manuscripts must be prepared in LaTeX according to Springer's
llncs style (URL: http://www.springeronline.com/lncs). It is absolutely
essential that you follow the instructions there. Each submitted paper
must include a title, an abstract, a list of keywords, the names and
addresses of all authors (including email addresses, and telephone and
fax numbers), and the body. The length of submitted papers must be no more
than 8 single-spaced, single-column pages including all figures, tables
and bibliography. Shorter papers are strongly encouraged.
All papers must be submitted electronically via the conference website
(http://nical.ustc.edu.cn/seal06/) or directly via paper submission wevsite
(http://140.127.132.90/). Papers submitted via other means will not be
considered.

PUBLICATIONS
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All accepted papers which are presented at the conference will be included in
the conference proceedings, published by Springer in their Lecture Notes in
Computer Science series. The best papers will be invited to further revise and
extend their work to one of the following prestigious journal special issues:
Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines (Springer), Connection Science
(Taylor and Francis), International Journal of Computational Intelligence
and Applications (World Scientific), and Journal of Computer Science and
Technology (Springer and China Computer Federation).

SPECIAL SESSIONS AND TUTORIALS
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Special sessions and tutorials will be organised at the conference.
The conference is calling for special session and tutorial proposals.
The tutorials will be offered on 15 October 2006 (subject to
sufficient number of registrations). The first accepted tutorial is announced on
our website (http://nical.ustc.edu.cn/seal06/confernce/acceptedtutorials.htm).

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
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Honorary General Chair: Qingshi Zhu (China)

General Chairs: Guo-Liang Chen (China) and Xin Yao (UK)

Programme Chairs: Xufa Wang (China) and Shu-Heng Chen (Taiwan)

Technical Co-Chairs:

Tzai-Der Wang (Taiwan)
Hussein Abbass (Australia)
Hitoshi Iba (Japan)
Zengqi Sun (China)
Bob McKay (South Korea)

Tutorials and Special Sessions Chair: Xiaodong Li (Australia)

Organising Chair: Wenjian Luo (China)

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
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Abbass, Hussein (Australia)
Bhattacharyya, Shiddhartha (USA)
Blair, Alan (Australia)
Bonabeau, Eric (USA)
Carvalho, Andre C P L F de (Brazil)
Cao, Wenming (China)
Caulfield, John (USA)
Chen, Enhong (China)
Chen, Guoqing (China)
Chen, Shu-Heng (Taiwan)
Chen, Shyi-Ming (Taiwan)
Cheng, Xiaochun (UK)
Chidambaran, N. K. (USA)
Cho, Sung-Bae (South Korea)
Chu, Chao-Hsien (USA)
Coello, Carlos A. Coello (Mexico)
Darwen, Paul (Australia)
Dash, Jr, Gordon H. (USA)
Deb, Kalyanmoy (India)
Engelbrecht, AP (South Africa)
Fyfe, Colin (UK)
Gallegati, Mauro (Italy)
Gao, Jun (China)
Handa, Hisashi (Japan)
Heymann, Daniel (USA)
Hayward, Serge (France)
Hiot, Lim Meng (Singapore)
Hingston, Philip (Australia)
Hiroshi, Furutani (Japan)
Ishibuchi, Hisao (Japan)
Izumi, Kiyoshi (Japan)
Jain, Lakhmi (Australia)
Jiao, Licheng (China)
Jin, Yaochu (Germany)
Jo, Jun (Australia)
Kaboudan, Mak (USA)
Kahraman, Cengiz (Turkey)
Kaizoji, Taisei (Japan)
Kang, Lishan (China)
Keber, Christian (Austria)
Kendall, Graham (UK)
Kim, Jong-Hwan (South Korea)
Klos, Tomas (Netherlands)
Ko, Po-Chang (Taiwan)
Kubota, Naoyuki (Japan)
Kuldeep, Kumar (Australia)
Kuo, Tzu-Wen (Taiwan)
Lajbcygier, Paul (Australia)
Lawless, William (USA)
Lee, JangMyung (South Korea)
Lee, Yuh-Jye (Taiwan)
Leung, Kwong-Sak (Hong Kong)
Li, Bin (China)
Li, Tong (China)
Liang, Yiwen (China)
Lin, Ping-Chen (Taiwan)
Luo, Wenjian (China)
Marostica, Ana (Argentina)
McKay, Bob (South Korea)
Michalewicz, Zbigniew (Australia)
Miyamoto, Sadaaki (Japan)
Nakao, Zensho (Japan)
Mo, Hongwei (China)
Namatame, Akira (Japan)
Nishizaki, Ichiro (Japan)
North, Michael (USA)
Ohkura, Kazuhiro (Japan)
Pei, Jihong (China)
Pichl, Lukas (Japan)
Rechnagel, Friedrich (Australia)
Riechmann, Thomas (Germany)
Sasaki, Yuya (USA)
Sato, Yuji (Japan)
Shi, Zhongzhi (China)
Soon, Ong Yew (Singapore)
Suganthan, Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam (Singapore)
Sun, Zhaohao (Australia)
Szeto, Kwokyip (Hong Kong)
Takadama, Keiki (Japan)
Tan, Kay Chen (Singapore)
Tan, Ying (Hongkong)
Tang, Maolin (Australia)
Tang, Yong (China)
Tano, Shun'ichi (Japan)
Terano, Takao (Japan)
Tohme, Fernando (Argentina)
Tsaih, Rua-huan (Taiwan)
Tsao, Chueh-Yung (Taiwan)
Tseng, Chiu-Che (USA)
Vadakkepat, Prahlad (Singapore)
Velez-Langs, Oswaldo (Spain)
Verma, Brijesh (Australia)
Vila, Xavier (Spain)
Vriend, Nicholas J. (UK)
Wang, Bing-Hong (China)
Wang, Han (Singapore)
Wang, Lipo (Singapore)
Wang, Shinn-Wen (Taiwan)
Wang, Tzai-Der (Taiwan)
Wang, Xufa (China)
Wang, Zengfu (China)
Wang, Zhiliang (China)
Wang, Zidong (UK)
Westerhoff, Frank (Germany)
Whigham, Peter (New Zealand)
While, Lyndon (Australia)
Wiles, Janet (Australia)
Xue, Weimin (China)
Yang, Shengxiang (UK)
Yao, Xin (UK)
Yen, Gary (USA)
Yu, Tina (Canada)
Yu, Xinghuo (Australia)
Zhao, Mingsheng (China)
Zhao, Qiangfu (Japan)
Zhang, Byoung-Tak (South Korea)
Zhang, Ling (China)
Zhang, Qingfu (UK)
Zheng, Zijian (USA)
Zhong, YiXin (China)
Zhou, Zhi-Hua (China)