The Year 2000 Foundations of Genetic Algorithms (FOGA) workshop was the last FOGA of the 2nd millennium. This sixth biennial workshop was designed to explore theoretical issues relevant to evolutionary computation, including evolutionary programming (EP), evolution strategies (ES), genetic algorithms (GAs) and genetic programming (GP). We especially encouraged submissions from members of other communities, such as mathematicians, physicists, population geneticists, and evolutionary biologists, in the hope of providing radically novel theoretical approaches to the analysis of evolutionary computation.
FOGA was held July 21-23, 2000 in Charlottesville, VA.
Attendance at the workshop was limited; the goal was to create a small forum with close interaction among all the participants. Individuals submitting papers were given priority for attendance, and some slots were reserved for students. All individuals interested in attending indicated this by either submitting a paper or requesting attendance.
Extended abstracts as well as requests for attendance were received by February 4, 2000. Submissions addressed theoretical issues in evolutionary computation. This did not preclude the acceptance of papers that use an experimental approach, but such work had to be directed towards validation of suitable hypotheses concerning foundational matters. Work describing the application of GAs to engineering problems, for example, was not appropriate for the meeting unless it clearly raised larger issues of theoretical concern. Extended abstracts were no longer than 10 pages (11 point font). A double-blind reviewing process was employed, so authors were asked to remove references to themselves from their abstract. A separate sheet was also included that gave the title of the paper, and the name, address and affiliation of the author(s). This was not seen by the reviewers. Electronic submission of Postscript files were *especially* encouraged, provided that they were problem-free and not excessively large.
Authors of accepted papers were notified by April 15, 2000. Drafts of the full paper were due by July 7, 2000 and were distributed as part of a preprint to participants at the FOGA meeting. Authors of papers presented at the FOGA workshop were asked to contribute final versions of their papers (based on discussion/feedback at the meeting) as part a volume to be published in book form in the spring/summer of 2001.
February 4, 2000 Extended abstract due April 15, 2000 Authors notified of acceptance July 7, 2000 Drafts of full paper due July 21-23, 2000 FOGA, Charlottesville, VA
We were striving to produce a high-quality book with a uniform, professional appearance, rather than just a random collection of papers. Special LaTeX macros were prepared to allow the authors to generate camera-ready copy in the same format as the instruction sheet.
Please download the following two files:
Emile Aarts Lee Altenberg Thomas Baeck Wolfgang Banzhaf Hans-Georg Beyer Lashon Booker Joe Culberson Bob Daley Ken DeJong Kalyan Deb Marco Dorigo Larry Eshelman David Fogel Attilio Giordana Dave Goldberg John Grefenstette Bill Hart Jeffrey Horn Gary Koehler Bill Langdon Bernard Manderick Zbyszek Michalewicz Heinz Muehlenbein Una-May O'Reilly Riccardo Poli Adam Prugel-Bennett Soraya Rana Colin Reeves Jon Rowe Lorenza Saitta Dave Schaffer Marc Schoenauer Hans-Paul Schwefel Jonathan Shapiro Robert Smith Stephen Smith Michael Vose Karsten Weicker Nicole Weicker Darrell Whitley Alden Wright
The following links leave the NCARAI web site, and we are not responsible for their content.
Worthy Martin Department of Computer Science School of Engineering and Applied Science University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA 22903-2442 martin@virginia.edu William M. Spears Department of Computer Science College of Engineering University of Wyoming Laramie, Wyoming 82071 wspears arobase cs.uwyo.edu
