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Evolutionary Telecommunications:
Past, Present and Future
(Invited Presenters)
A Bird-of-a-feather Workshop at GECCO 99
(1999 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference)
Tue 13 July 1999
Orlando, Florida, USA
Mark C. Sinclair
University of Essex, UK 		David Corne
University of Reading, UK 		George D. Smith
University of East Anglia, UK
In addition to presentations by two of the organisers, Mark C. Sinclair and George D. Smith, three invited presentations on future directions for evolutionary telecommunications will be given by Lawrence "David" Davis, Masaharu Munetomo and Robert E. Smith.
Lawrence "David" Davis has been applying evolutionary algorithms to real-world problems since the early 1980s. He is the editor of Genetic Algorithms and Simulated Annealing and the author/editor of Handbook of Genetic Algorithms. In 1990 Dr. Davis founded Tica Associates, a consulting firm specializing in optimization with evolutionary algorithms. Dr. Davis has worked on a number of telecommunications optimization problems, some while an employee of Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc, and some in collaboration with U S West. Dr. Davis has published more than 40 papers, many of them on topics related to optimization problems having to do with telecommunication networks.
Masaharu Munetomo received a BE in Electrical Engineering (Hons), a ME and a PhD in Information Engineering in 1993 and 1996 from Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan. In 1996, he joined the graduate school of engineering, Hokkaido University as a research associate. From June 1998 to March 1999, he was a visiting researcher in the Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory (IlliGAL), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to investigate theoretical foundation of linkage identification for GAs. His current research area includes applications of GAs to distributed systems, distributed/parallel GAs, and theoretical foundations of the GA. He is a member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEEE) and the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ). He is also a member of special interest group in multimedia and distributed systems of the IPSJ.
Robert E. Smith is Senior Research Fellow and Project Manager in The Intelligent Computing Systems Centre at The University of the West of England. Previously, he was a tenured Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics at the University of Alabama. He received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 1985, his M.S. in Engineering Mechanics in 1988, and his Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics in 1991. Dr. Smith is an active researcher in the application of adaptive and intelligent systems to engineering problems. His chief interests are genetic algorithms for machine learning. Dr. Smith is the author of 14 journal articles and more than 20 conference articles on these subjects.
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Date: 14 vi 1999
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