1st International Workshop on Parallel Bioinspired Algorithms

ICPP-2005

1st International Workshop on Parallel Bioinspired Algorithms

Oslo, Norway, 14 June 2005

to be held in conjunction with the International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP'2005)

Preliminary Schedule

8:00 - 9:00	Registration
9:20 - 9:30	Welcome/Introduction of Keynote Speaker, Francisco Fernández
9:30 - 10:30	Estimation of Distribution Algorithms Session
	Initial approaches to the application of islands-based parallel EDAs in continuous domains.
	Parallel and Multi-objective EDAs to create multivariate calibration models for quantitative chemical applications
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11 - 12	Applications
	Gene Ordering in Microarray Data Using Parallel Memetic Algorithms
	Genetic Algorithms using Parallelism and FPGAs: The TSP as Case Study
12:00 - 13:30	Lunch Break
13:30 - 15:00	Analysis of Algorithms
	A Niche for Island Models, Part 1: Outliers and Local Search
	Efficiency of Parallel Exponential Evolutionary Programming
15 - 15:30	Coffee Break

Scope:

Bioinspired algorithms such as genetic and evolutionary algorithms, ant colonies, and immune systems are routinely applied to hard and large problems in a variety of areas. Over the years researchers have incorporated different forms of parallelism into these algorithms developing new algorithms and solving ever larger and harder problems. The application of Bioinspired Algorithm to solving difficult problems has shown that they can exploit high computation power and communications technology. Nevertheless any effort for increasing the performance of this kind of metaheuristics would be very welcome by the community. This workshop will gather scientists, engineers, and practitioners to share and exchange their experiences, discuss challenges, and report state-of-the-art and in-progress research on all aspects of Parallel and Distributed Bioinspired Algoritms.

The topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

Parallel Evolutionary Algorithms (PEAs), including but not limited to Genetic Algorithms, Genetic Programming, Evolutionary Programming, and Evolution Strategies.
Other biologically inspired parallel algorithms: Ant Colonies, Immune Systems, Artificial Life, Cultural Algorithms.
Cluster and Grid implementation of Bioinspired Algorithms.
Fault tolerant implementations.
Analytical modeling of Parallel Bioinspired Algorithms.
Performance evaluation.
Improvement in system performance through optimization and tuning.
Case studies showing the role of PBAs when solving hard real-life problems.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Erick Cantu-Paz, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA

Henri Casanova, University of California in San Diego, USA

Bastien Chopard, University of Geneve, Switzerland

Carlos Coello, Cinvestav, México

Carlos Cotta, University of Malaga, Spain

Francisco Fernández de Vega, University of Extremadura, Spain

Steven M. Gustafson, University of Nottingham, UK.

Francisco Herrera, University of Granada, Spain.

Ignacio Hidalgo, University Complutense of Madrid, Spain.

Juan J. Merelo, University of Granada, Spain

Riccardo Poli, University of Essex, UK

Giandomenico Spezzano, Università della Calabria, Italy

Juan M. Sánchez, University of Extremadura, Spain

WORKSHOP CHAIRS

Erick Cantú-Paz, LLNL, USA

Francisco Fernández de Vega, University of Extremadura, Spain