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13th Asia Pacific Symposium on Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems

IES09 sponsored by Kyushu University

Welcome

This Symposium aims at bringing together researchers from various countries of Asian Pacific Rim in the fields of intelligent systems and evolutionary computation to exchange ideas, present recent results and discuss possible collaborations. Researchers from elsewhere interested in collaboration with researchers from Asian Pacific Rim are also welcome.

Venue

Chikushi Hall, Kyushu University, Kasuga-city, Fukuoka, Japan

Chikushi Hall is in C-Cube building, which you can confirm in Campus Map.
To access Chikushi-campus of Kyushu University, you can check at Access Map.

Date

4th - 5th December, 2009

About IES

Intelligent and adaptive systems using evolutionary computation techniques have attracted increasing attentions in recent years. They are more robust than traditional systems based on formal logics for many real world problems. They can adapt to an unknown environment without explicitly modeling the environment. They can also be applied to a wide range of practical problems.

This Symposium aims to bring together researchers from countries of the Asian Pacific Rim in the fields of intelligent systems and evolutionary computation to exchange ideas, present recent results and discuss possible collaborations. Researchers from elsewhere are also welcome.

Scope

  • Artificial Life and Application

  • Information Technology
  • Social Networks

  • Machine Learning Systems

  • Agents and Complex Systems

  • Planning and Scheduling

  • Human Behavior Dynamics

  • Environmental Management

  • Traffic Management

  • Distributed Systems

  • Evolutionary Game Theory

  • Multi Agent Systems
  • Bioinformatics

  • Project Management

  • Management of Network Systems
  • Synchronization
  • Socio-physics

  • Human - Environment - Social Systems

  • Dynamical Systems

  • Complexity of Nature

Important Dates

Intelligent and adaptive systems using evolutionary computation techniques have attracted increasing attentions in recent years. They are more robust than traditional systems based on formal logics for many real world problems. They can adapt to an unknown environment without explicitly modeling the environment. They can also be applied to a wide range of practical problems.

Paper submission 1 October  2009 Nov. 6th
Notice of acceptance 30 October  2009 Nov. 9th
Camera ready copy 14 November 2009 Nov. 14th
Conference 4-5 December 2009

Paper Submission

All accepted papers will be also published in Proceedings of IES2009, which will be provided to the participants in CD version. All the submitted papers will need to comply with ITSSA format, except that the full paper should not exceed 8 pages including illustrations, figures and tables. Download the ITSSA format sample file from here. Affiliation, postal address, telephone and fax numbers, and Email address of the corresponding author should be supplied with the manuscript through Email.

Please send the papers to Prof. Jun Tanimoto by Email: tanimoto@cm.kyushu-u.ac.jp with a subject "IES09 MS". The dead line is 1st Oct. 2009.

Deadline for submission is extended. New deadline is Nov. 6th, 2009.

Post-publication

It is planned to republish selected papers from the conference as a special issue of International Journal of Bio-inspired Computation (IJBC).
Some of the authors will be contacted for the publication by the conference chair.

Following papers have been selected as nominees for the post-publication at hEvolutionary World; Games, Complex networks, Agent simulationsh; the special edition (working title) on International Journal of Bio-inspired Computation (IJBC).

David G. Green; Prospects for a network theory of complex adaptive systems.

Toshihiko Yamamoto, Hiroshi Sato, Akira Namatame; Evolutionary Optimized Consensus and Synchronization Networks.

Ei Tsukamoto, Susumu Shiraiyama; A Study of the Relationship between Scale-freeness and Evolution of Cooperation.

Registration

Registration fee is 12,000 JPY (about US$ 125)
Download registration form from here. And send to Prof. Tanimoto by Email: tanimoto@cm.kyushu-u.ac.jp as an attached document. Registration should be done before 14th Nov.2009. Payment is only allowed by cash on -site.

Travel

There are two ways to access to Fukuoka.
In flying from either Narita, Kansai ( both are main Int. airports) or Haneda ( domestic airport in Tokyo), you will arrive Fukuoka Airport. You may be able to fly to Fukuoka directly, just because Fukuoka is also Int. airport having several connections to Seoul, Singapore and other major Asian cities.
Another access to Fukuoka is domestic train service from Tokyo or Osaka area by Shin-kan-sen ( Japanese bullet train). In that case, you will arrive Hakata Station, which is the terminal of Shin-kan-sen.
In both cases, you will find detail information to access to Chikushi-Campus from either Fukuoka Airport or Hakata Station here.

Accommodation

Hotels close to Hakata Station are convenient (It takes approximately 10 to 15 minutes from Hakata Station by JR train service to Chikushi-Campus through Onojo Station).
The most recommendable hotel is NISHITETSU INN, which locates very close to Hakata Station and cost very reasonable (6,900 JPY for a single room). But it has only Japanese web page unfortunately.
However you can book through FAX (FAX. +81-92-413-5466, TEL. +81-92-413-5454). Tell your name, contact information, room type (there are 479 single rooms and 24 twin rooms) and booking date through FAX. You will be responsed from the hotel in return.

Alternatively, you fill find several choices you like and can book from here. HAKATA GREEN 1 and HAKATA GREEN 2 are the most recommendable among those, since those two locate very close to Hakata Station and cost relatively reasonable (9,870 JPY).

Program

Now available here.
This is the actually proceeded program.

Participants

Participants list.

Contact Person

Dr. Jun Tanimoto, Professor at IGSES Kyushu University

tanimoto@cm.kyushu-u.ac.jp

Co-chair

Akira Namatame, National Defence Force Academy
Jun Tanimoto, Kyushu University

Organizing Committee

David G. Green, Monash University
Mitsuo Gen, Waseda University
Osamu Katai, Kyoto University
Hidenori Kawamura, Hokkaido University

Program Committee

Bob McKay, Seoul National University
Hiroshi Sato, National Defence Force Academy
Hussein A. Abbass, University of New South Wales
Reiji Suzuki, Nagoya University


Special Talk

Special talks by up-and-coming scientists will be presented, which attract all of you.

"Swarm Oscillators" by Dr. Dan Tanaka
There exists a wide variety of physical and biological systems consisting of motile elements whose internal degrees of freedom interact with their collective macroscopic or mesoscopic order. These systems share the important property that the spatio-temporal patterns exhibited by the assemblies of elements are directly linked to their functions. Here, we study collective emergent structures of motile dynamical elements in a unified manner, ignoring system-specific details. For this purpose, we regard the elements as simplified local units that capture the essence of the behavior of the actual local units existing in the wide variety of systems. As perhaps the simplest model of motile dynamical elements, we propose a general model of gradient-taxis oscillators. From this model, we derive a novel class of normal form describing the phases and positions of the oscillators by means of center-manifold reduction and phase reduction methods. The model obtained through these reductions is quite universal, and we find that it exhibits a rich variety of patterns. This richness is due to the fact that the interaction between elements can be attractive or repulsive, depending on the internal states and positions of the elements.

Dr. Dan Tanaka

2004-2006 JSPS Research Fellow.
2005 Dr of Sci, Kyoto Univ.
2005-2009 Assoc Prof, Univ of Fukui.
2007- JST PRESTO Research Fellow.
2009- Assoc Prof, Nagoya Univ.

It's a matter for deep regret that Prof. Dr. Dan Tanaka has died very recently just before our conference. We would like to express our heartfelt condolence on his death that was too young.

"Network Science: Structure, dynamics and its applications" by Dr. Jeong, Hawoong

In this talk, I will review the history of complex network science and discuss the implications of these findings on several complex systems, including googling hidden interaction using web search engine and finding inefficiency of transportation network (Price of Anarchy) using numerical simulation on model and real road networks. Also if time allows, I'll discuss synchronizability of directed network and finding community on directed networks as well.

Dr. Jeong, Hawoong

1998 : Seoul National University (Ph. D. in Physics)
1998 ~ 2000 : Univ. of Notre Dame, Post. Doc.
2001 ~ 2001 : Univ. of Notre Dame, Research Assistant Professor
2001 ~ Present : KAIST, Assistant/Associate/Professor.


CFP

Previous Conference IES08

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