Special Session for CEC99

The CEC99 Program Committee has finalized the special sessions topics. Below is the present status of the special sessions, with links to a description of the specials session.

Below is the schedule of special sessions:

• Past November 1, 1998: Email (preferred), mail or fax a letter of proposal along with a list of session participants, their paper titles and brief abstracts
• Past December 10, 1999: Notification of acceptance of special sessions.
• April 1, 1999:Final, camera-ready papers for the proceedings.

Sessions (1/22/99)

• David Fogel, Theory and Foundation of Evolutionary Computation
• Byoung-Tak Zhang, Time Series Prediction
• Ken DeJong and Ron Morrison, Dynamic Environments
• Brian Mayoh, Coevolution
• Walker Land, Evolutionary Programming and Neural Networks Applied to Breast Cancer Research
• Ian Parmee and Prabhat Hajela and Mark Jakiela, Engineering Design
• Jan Zytkow, Data Mining
• Jeff Herrmann and Bryan Norman, Scheduling
• Xin Yao, Teaching of Evolutionary Computation
• Jan Mulawka, DNA Computing
• Marco Dorigo, Ant Colony Methods
• Kumar Chellapilla, Fitness Distributions: Tools for Designing Intelligent Operators and Efficient Evolutionary Computations
• Robert G. Reynolds, Knowledge-Based Approaches to Evolutionary Computation using Cultural Algorithms, Case-Injected Genetic Algorithms and Related Techniques for Real-World Engineering Applications
• Mitsuo Gen, Advanced Adaptive Algorithms for IE/OR Problems
• Gary Fogel and Kumar Chellapilla, Evolutionary Computation and Biological Modeling
• Russ Eberhart, Particle Swarm Optimization
• Ajit Narayanan, Quantum Computing
• Ghazali Talbi, Multi-Objective Optimization With Evolutionary Algorithms