GEM'08: July 17, 2008 Schedule

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6:45am - 5:00pm:  Registration (Second Floor, Conference Lobby: 1-5)

08:00 - 10:00am:  During this period, GEM'08 attendees are encouraged to participate
                  in sessions belonging to ICAI'08, MLMTA'08, BIOCOMP'08, IPCV'08,
                  SAM'08, DMIN'08, IKE'08, EEE'08, or FECS'08.  These sessions
                  discuss topics that overlap the scope of GEM'08.


SESSION 3-GEM:    SWARM + ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION + BIO-INSPIRED SYSTEMS (Chair: TBA)
                  July 17, 2008 (Thursday); 10:00am - 11:20am
                  (LOCATION: Silver Room)

10:00 - 10:20am:  BAF: A Bio-Inspired Agent Framework for Distributed Pervasive
                  Applications
                  O. Brousse, G. Sassatelli, T. Gil, Y. Guillemenet, M. Robert,
                  L. Torres, and F. Grize
                  LIRMM, Univ. Montpellier 2, France;
                  Universit de Lausanne Quartier UNIL-Dorigny Btiment Internef, Suisse

10:20 - 10:40am:  GA, EO, and PSO Applied to the Discrete Network Configuration Problem
                  M. Martin, E. Drucker, and W. D. Potter
                  University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA

10:40 - 11:00am:  Hardware Architecture of Pheromone-Balance Aware Ant Colony Optimization
                  Masaya Yoshikawa and Hidekazu Terai
                  Meijo University, Japan; Ritsumeikan university, Japan

11:00 - 11:20am:  A Evolutionary Algorithm for the Knowledge Reduction Based
                  on Granular Computing
                  Yong-Qin Tao, Du-Wu Cui, and Tai-Shan Yan
                  Xi'an University of Technology, Shann'xi, P. R. China;
                  Xi'an Jiaotong University, Shann'xi, P. R. China


SESSION 4-GEM:    GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONAY ALGORITHMS I (Chair: TBA)
                  July 17, 2008 (Thursday); 11:20am - 03:00pm
                  (LOCATION: Silver Room)

11:20 - 11:40am:  Hybrid Evolutionary One-Step Gradient Descent for training RNNs
                  Rohitash Chandra and Christian W. Omlin
                  Middle East Technical University, Cyprus

11:40 - 12:00pm:  Self-Adaptive Inversion Mutation for Combinatorial Representations
                  Oliver Kramer
                  University of Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

12:00 - 12:20pm:  Testbed for Genetic Algorithm for Self Spreading Nodes in MANETs
                  Cevher Dogan, M. Umit Uyar, Elkin Urrea, C. Safak Sahin, and
                  Ibrahim Hokelek
                  The City University of New York, New York, USA;
                  Telcordia Technologies, Inc., Piscataway, New Jersey, USA

12:20 - 01:20pm:  LUNCH (On Your Own)

01:20 - 01:40pm:  A New Approach for Global Optimization in High Dimension Problems
                  S. Jafari, H. R. Abdolmohammadi, M. E. Nazari, and H. A. Shayanfar
                  Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST), Tehran, Iran;
                  Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

01:40 - 02:00pm:  Pseudo-Genetic Algorithmic Composition
                  Harald Schmidl
                  Central Carolina Community College, Sanford, North Carolina, USA

02:00 - 02:20pm:  Better Huffman Coding via Genetic Algorithm
                  Cody Boisclair and Markus Wagner
                  University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA;
                  University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany

02:20 - 02:40pm:  Near Real-Time Event Detection and Prediction
                  Jeremy B. Noel and Phil Palmer
                  Surrey Space Center, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom

02:40 - 03:00pm:  Constructing Binary Decision Trees Using Genetic Algorithm
                  Sung-Hyuk Cha and Charles Tappert
                  Pace University, USA


03:00 - 03:40pm:  DISCUSSION SESSION C-GEM (Refreshments will be available)
                  July 17, 2008 (Thursday)
                  (LOCATION: Hallways - Ballrooms 1-5)

                  O. The Use of Logistic Map as a Pseudorandom Number Generator
                     for Particle Swarm Optimization
                     Ipek Eker, Kubilay Ecerkale, and S. Akir Esnaf
                     Fatih University, Turkey
                  O. Novel Biobattery
                     Neeraj K, P Y Yeshwanth Babu, and Monami Nandi
                     SRM University, India
                  O. Learning in Negotiation with Genetic Algorithms
                     Emerson Romanhuki, Marcio Fuckner, Fabricio Enembreck,
                     Braulio Avila, Edson E. Scalabrin
                     Pontifical Catholic University of Parana, Brazil


SESSION 5-GEM:    GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONAY ALGORITHMS II (Chair: TBA)
                  July 17, 2008 (Thursday); 03:40pm - 04:20pm
                  (LOCATION: Silver Room)

03:40 - 04:00pm:  Initial Population Diversity Does Not Influence Performance
                  Pedro A. Diaz-Gomez and Dean F. Hougen
                  Cameron University, Lawton, Oklahoma, USA;
                  University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA

04:00 - 04:20pm:  Genetic Algorithms for the N-Queens Problem
                  Josef Hynek
                  University of Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic


SESSION 6-GEM:    NOVEL APPLICATIONS (Chair: TBA)
                  July 17, 2008 (Thursday); 04:20pm - 06:00pm
                  (LOCATION: Silver Room)

04:20 - 04:40pm:  Evaluating a Parallel Evolutionary Algorithm on the Chess Endgame Problem
                  Wayne Iba, Joel Stewart, Daniel Rufener, Kelsey Marshman and Ben Fisk
                  Westmont Computer Science Program, USA

04:40 - 05:00pm:  The Parallelization of Membrane Computers to Find Near Optimal
                  Solutions to Cost-Based Abduction
                  Curry I. Guinn, William Shipman, and Ed Addison
                  University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA

05:00 - 05:20pm:  Memetic Approach for Multi-Objective Flexible Process Sequencing Problems
                  Jian-Hung Chen
                  Chung-Hua University, Taiwan

05:20 - 05:40pm:  Optimized Back-Propagation Algorithm for Pattern Recognition
                  Mohammed Abu Zalata and Ziad A. AlQadi
                  Al-Balqa' Applied University, Amman, Jordan

05:40 - 06:00pm:  FREE SLOT

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