From owner-dma-list@NIC.SURFNET.NL Tue Feb 17 23:41:45 1998 Received: from CS.Stanford.EDU (CS.Stanford.EDU [171.64.64.64]) by robotics.Stanford.EDU (8.8.7/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA06649; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 23:41:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from listserv-mail.surfnet.nl (listserv-mail.surfnet.nl [192.87.5.141]) by CS.Stanford.EDU (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA08042; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 23:43:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from listserv-mail (192.87.5.141) by listserv-mail.surfnet.nl (LSMTP for Windows NT v1.1a) with SMTP id <0.2B4A4A10@listserv-mail.surfnet.nl>; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 8:42:39 +0100 Received: from NIC.SURFNET.NL by NIC.SURFNET.NL (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8c) with spool id 26129 for DMA-LIST@NIC.SURFNET.NL; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 08:42:40 +0100 Received: from utmfu6.math.utwente.nl by listserv.surfnet.nl (LSMTP for Windows NT v1.1a) with SMTP id <0.2BC3E6E0@listserv.surfnet.nl>; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 8:42:40 +0100 Received: from utmfu0.math.utwente.nl (utmou1.math.utwente.nl) by utmfu6.math.utwente.nl with ESMTP (1.40.112.8/16.2) id AA071727690; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 08:41:31 +0100 Received: by utmfu0.math.utwente.nl ($Revision: 1.36.108.11 $/16.2) id AA008727688; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 08:41:29 +0100 Mailer: Elm [revision: 66.36.1.1] Approved-By: DMANET Message-ID: <199802180741.AA008727688@utmfu0.math.utwente.nl> Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 08:41:28 MET Reply-To: mdorigo@ulb.ac.be Sender: DMANET From: DMANET Subject: ANTS'98 - From Ant Colonies to Artificial Ants To: DMA-LIST@NIC.SURFNET.NL X-Status: Status: ORf We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. ------------------------------------------------------------------ ANTS'98 - From Ant Colonies to Artificial Ants: First International Workshop on Ant Colony Optimization Brussels, Belgium, October 15-16, 1998 CALL FOR EXTENDED ABSTRACTS (version of the Feb 15, 1998: up-to-date information on the workshop can be found at http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/ants98/ants98.html) SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP The behavior of ant colonies and how they coordinate complex activities like foraging and nest building has since long time fascinated researchers in ethology and animal behavior, who have proposed many models to explain these capabilities. Recently, algorithms taking inspiration from the behavior of real ant colonies have been applied to solve many types of optimization problems. This new approach to distributed optimization is known as "Ant Colony Optimization". Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) has been applied successfully to a large number of difficult combinatorial problems like the quadratic assignment and the traveling salesman problems, to routing in telecommunications networks, to clustering and sorting problems, etc. ANTS'98 is the first event entirely devoted to Ant Colony Optimization and more in general to algorithms inspired by the observation of ant colonies behavior. Also of great interest to the workshop are models of ant colonies behavior which could stimulate new algorithmic approaches. The aims are to give researchers in both real ants behavior and in ant colony optimization an opportunity to meet, to present their latest research, and to discuss current developments and applications. The two-day event will be held in Brussels, Belgium, from October 15 to October 16, 1998. In the evening of October 14 there will be a tutorial on ant colony optimization. RELEVANT RESEARCH AREAS Submissions are invited that describe: (1) Models of aspects of real ant colonies behavior, (2) Empirical and theoretical research in Ant Colony Optimization. Submissions that describe the application of Ant Colony Optimization methods to real-world problems are encouraged. SUBMISSION OF EXTENDED ABSTRACTS Format: Extended abstracts should be of approximately 3 pages plus one title page (4 pages all together). All accepted abstracts will be presented at the workshop. All attendees will receive a copy of all abstracts that are accepted for presentation at the conference. The title page must contain the title of the paper, the names and addresses of all authors, and the full address of the first author (or the contact person), including phone, fax and e-mail. An electronic version (compressed PostScript) of the title page plus extended abstract, and an electronic version of the title page only (plain ASCII), should be emailed by May 31, 1998 to ants98@iridia.ulb.ac.be. Only if electronic submission is not possible, then authors can send four hard copies of the extended abstract to the Program Chair. REGISTRATION AND FURTHER INFORMATION Up-to-date information about the workshop will be made available at the ANTS'98 web site (http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/ants98/ants98.html). For information about local arrangements, registration forms, etc., please refer to the above mentioned web site, or contact the local organizer at the address below. A registration fee of BF 6,500 will cover local organization expenses, coffee breaks, and a social dinner on the Thursday 15 evening. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline 31 May 1998 Notification of acceptance 15 Jul 1998 Camera ready copy of abstract 1 Sep 1998 Workshop 15-16 Oct 1998 ANTS'98 CONFERENCE COMMITTEE PROGRAM CHAIR AND LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS Marco DORIGO, IRIDIA, Universite' Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium PROGRAM COMMITTEE Emile AARTS (Philips Research Labs, Eindhoven, The Netherlands) Hugues BERSINI (IRIDIA, ULB, Belgium) Eric BONABEAU (Santa Fe Institute, NM) Endre BOROS (RUTCOR, State University of New Jersey, NJ) Alberto COLORNI (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Jean-Louis DENEUBOURG (Universite' Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) Gianni DI CARO (IRIDIA, ULB, Belgium) Marco DORIGO (IRIDIA, ULB, Belgium) David FOGEL (Natural Selection, La Jolla, CA) Luca M. GAMBARDELLA (IDSIA, Lugano, Switzerland) Deborah GORDON (Stanford University, CA) Alan HERTZ (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland) Tad HOGG (Xerox, Palo Alto, CA) Owen HOLLAND (University of West England, Bristol, UK) Vittorio MANIEZZO (Universita' di Bologna, Italy) Katsunori SHIMOHARA (ATR & NTT, Kyoto, Japan) Dominique SNYERS (ENST de Bretagne, Brest, France) Thomas STUETZLE (Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany) Eric TAILLARD (IDSIA, Lugano, Switzerland) Gilles VENTURINI (Universite' de Tours, France) Chris WINTER (British Telecom, UK) SUBMISSIONS ADDRESS Extended abstracts should be emailed to: ants98@iridia.ulb.ac.be PROGRAM CHAIR ADDRESS Marco Dorigo, Ph.D. Chercheur Qualifie' du FNRS Tel +32-2-6503169 IRIDIA CP 194/6 Fax +32-2-6502715 Universite' Libre de Bruxelles Secretary +32-2-6502729 Avenue Franklin Roosevelt 50 http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/dorigo/dorigo.html 1050 Bruxelles http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/ants98/ants98.html Belgium http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/dorigo/ACO/ACO.html CONFERENCE LOCATION Avenue A. Buyl 87 Building C - 4th floor (IRIDIA, Dorigo's lab, is at the 5th floor of the same building). There will be arrows and indications to the workshop room. LIMITED NUMBER OF PLACES The number of participants will be limited. If you intend to participate please fill in and send the intention form available at the workshop web page, or drop a line to ants98@iridia.ulb.ac.be. -- ****************************************************** Contributions to be spread via DMANET are submitted to DMANET@math.utwente.nl Replies to a message carried on DMANET should NOT be addressed to DMANET but to the original sender. The original sender, however, is invited to prepare an update of the replies received and to communicate it via DMANET. DISCRETE MATHEMATICS AND ALGORITHMS NETWORK (DMANET)