Mark C. Sinclair: Links

• Conferences
• Learned Societies
• Optical Telecommunications Network Design
• Evolutionary Algorithms: General
• Evolutionary Algorithms: GP
• Ant Colony Optimisation
• Particle Swarm Optimisation
• Evolving Eyes (or an Artificial Vision System)
• Creation & Evolution

Conferences

• GLOBECOM 2001: IEEE 2001 Global Telecommunications Conference (25-29 Nov 01)
• IAT-2001: 2nd Asia-Pacific Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (23-26 Oct 01)
• ICICS 2001: 3rd International Conference on Information, Communications & Signal Processing (15-18 Oct 01)
• DCRN2001: 3rd International Workshop on Design of Reliable Communication Networks (7-10 Oct 01)
• ICES2001: 4th International Conference on Evolvable Systems: From Biology To Hardware (3-5 Oct 01)
• ATAL-2001: 8th International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures and Languages (1-3 Aug 01)
• SCI 2001: The 5th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (22-25 Jul 01)
• MIC'2001: 4th Metaheuristics International Conference (16-20 Jul 01)
• GECCO-2001: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation COnference (7-11 Jul 01)
• ROPNET-2001: Representations and Operators for Network Problems, a Bird-of-a-feather Workshop at GECCO-2001, (7 Jul 01)
• CIMCA 2001: International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling Control and Automation (9-11 Jul 01)
• IAWTIC 2001: International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technology and Internet Commerce (9-11 Jul 01)
• 9th IFIP Working Conference on Performance Modelling and Evaluation of ATM & IP Networks (27-29 Jun 01)
• SOCO/ISFI 2001: 4th International ICSC Symposia on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems for Industry (26-29 Jun 01)
• ICC 2001: IEEE International Conference on Communications (11-15 Jun 01)
• 5th International Conference on Autonomous Agents (28 May - 1 Jun 01)
• 2001 IEEE Workshop on High Performance Switching and Routing (29-31 May 01)
• ISDA 2001: Workshop on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (28-30 May 01)
• CEC2001: 2001 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (27-30 May 01)
• Networld+Interop 2001 Engineers Conference (9-10 May 01)
• ISIMP2001: 2001 International Symposium on Intelligent Multimedia, Video & Speech Processing (2-4 May 01)
• IEEE INFOCOM 2001: The Conference on Computer Communications (22-26 Apr 01)
• ICANNGA 20001: 5th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms (22-25 Apr 01)
• EvoIASP2001: 3rd European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Image Analysis and Signal Processing (18 Apr 01)
• EuroGP2001: 4th European Conference on Genetic Programming (18-20 Apr 01)
• Particle Swarm Optimization Workshop (6-7 Apr 01)
• OFC 2001:Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibit (17-22 Mar 01)
• EC'01: 2001 WSES International Conference on Evolutionary Computations (11-15 Feb 01)
• 16th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2001) Evolutionary Computation and Optimization Track (11-14 Mar 01)
• ONDM 2001: Fifth Working Conference on Optical Network Design and Modelling (5-6 Feb 01)
• AROB 6 ('01): 6th International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics (15-17 Jan 01)
• GLOBECOM 2000: IEEE 2000 Global Telecommunications Conference (27 Nov - 1 Dec 00)
• MATA'00: 2nd International Workshop on Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications (18-20 Sep 00)
• PPSN IV: 6th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (16-20 Sep 00)
• ANTS'2000: From Ant Colonies to Artificial Ants: 2nd International Workshop on Ant Algorithms (8-9 Sep 00)
• Artificial Life VII: 7th International Conference on Artificial Life (1-6 Aug 00)
• UKPEW 2000: 16th Annual UK Performance Engineering Workshop (24-25 Jul 00)
• SCI 2000: 4th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (23-26 Jul 00)
• CSNDSP2000: 2nd International Symposium on Communication Systems Networks & Digital Signal Processing (18-20 Jul 00)
• CEC 2000: 2000 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (16-19 Jul 00)
• GECCO-2000: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (8-12 Jul 00)
• RASC 2000: International Conference on Recent Advances in Soft Computing 2000 (29-30 Jun 00)
• EIS'2000: 2nd International ICSC Symposium on Engineering of Intelligent Systems (27-30 Jun 00)
• ECCV 2000: 6th European Conference on Computer Vision (26 Jun - 1 Jul 00)
• ICC 2000: International Conference on Communications (18-22 Jun 00)
• NOC 2000: European Conference on Networks & Optical Communications (6-9 Jun 00)
• Networking 2000 (14-19 May 00)
• ACDM 2000: Adaptive Computing in Design and Manufacture (26-28 Apr 00)
• ICES2000: 3rd International Conference on Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware (17-19 Apr 00)
• EvoTel'2000: 2nd European Workshop on Evolutionary Telecommunications (17 Apr 00)
• EVOIASP2000: 2nd European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Image Analysis and Image Processing (17 Apr 00)
• EuroGP2000: 3rd European Conference on Genetic Programming (15-16 Apr 00)
• DRCN2000:Second International Workshop on the Design of Reliable Communication Networks (9-12 Apr 00)
• IEEE INFOCOM 2000: The Conference on Computer Communications (26-30 Mar 00)
• ONDM2000: 4th Working Conference on Optical Network Design and Modeling (7-8 Feb 00)
• AROB 5 ('00): 5th International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics (26-28 Jan 00)
• ECAL'99:5th European Conference on Artificial Life (13-17 Sep 99)
• EUFIT'99: The 1999 European Congress on Intelligent Techniques and Soft Computing (13-16 Sep 99)
• UKPEW'99: 15th Annual UK Performance Engineering Workshop (22-23 Jul 99)
• CEC'99: 1999 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (ICEC/EP/GALESIA) (6-9 Jul 99)
• Recent Advances in Soft Computing'99 (1-2 Jul 99)
• EuroEctel'99: First European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Telecommunications (27 May 99)
• EuroGP'99: Second European Workshop on Genetic Programming (26-27 May 99)
• AISB Symposium on Creative Evolutionary Systems (6-7 Apr 99)
• IEEE INFOCOM'99: The Conference on Computer Communications (21-25 Mar 99)
• ONDM'99: 3rd Working Conference on Optical Network Design and Modelling (8-9 Feb 99)

Learned Societies

• Institution of Electrical Engineers Home Page
• IEEE Home Page
• IEEE Communications Society Online
• IEEE Computer Society
• LEOS: IEEE Lasers and Electro Optics Society
• OSA: Optical Society of America OpticsNet
• The Royal Society

Optical Telecommunications Network Design

• ACTS Photonics Technologies Area (HORIZON) Billboard
• ACTS AC058 HORIZON: Horizontal Action on Optical Networks
• ACTS AC029 WOTAN: Wavelength-agile Optical Transport and Access Network
• ACTS AC066 OPEN: Optical Pan European Network
• COST 239: Ultra-high Capacity Optical Transmission Networks
• Broadband Communications Networks Group, Dept. of Information Technology, University of Gent (WDMSim)
• Optical Networks Group, UCL
• BT Research & Development
• Network Modelling in the 21st Century: Royal Society Discussion Meeting, 6/7 December 1999

Evolutionary Algorithms: General

• The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to Evolutionary Computation
• ENCORE: The Electronic Appendix to The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to Evolutionary Computation
• The Genetic Algorithms Archive, The Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence, Washigton D.C., USA
• GA-LIST ftp Archive
• CMU Artificial Intelligence Repository
• EvoNet: The European Network of Excellence in Evolutionary Computing
• Evolutionary Computation Research Group, Napier University, Edinburgh
• Evolutionary Computation Group, Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh
• Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems at COGS, University of Sussex, Brighton
• EEBIC: Evolutionary and Emergent Behaviour Intelligence and Computation Group, University of Birmingham
• MAG: Mathematical Algorithms Group, University of East Anglia
• PEDAL: Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Architecture Laboratory, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Reading
• GARAGe: MSU Genetic Algorithms Research and Applications Group
• IlliGAL: Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory
• Principia Evolvica: Evolutionary Algorithms in Action, An Interactive Tutorial based on Java Applets and Mathematica Notebooks
• PdPLab:Parallel and Distibuted Processing Laboratory
• Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life
• List of References on Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization
• Moshe Sipper's Complex Adaptive Systems and Artificial Life Page
• EvaLife's BBase on Evolutionary Computation, Artificial Life, and Genetics

Evolutionary Algorithms: GP

• Langdon's GP Bibliography, in text or searchable form
• John Koza's Home Page
• EvoGP Working Group of EvoNet: The European Network of Excellence in Evolutionary Computing
• Proc. of EuroGP'98: First European Workshop on Genetic Programming, Paris, France, April 1998
• Sean Luke's Patched lil-gp Kernel

Ant Colony Optimisation

• Ant Colony Optimisation homepage
• Ants for Network Routing
• My own Ant Colony Optimisation applet

Particle Swarm Optimisation

• Yuhui Shi's Particle Swarm Optimizer page
• Chilukuri K. Mohan's Particle Swarm Optimization Homepage
• My own Particle Swarm Optimisation applet

Evolving Eyes (or an Artificial Vision System)

• (For) DNA Science, Elizabeth Finkel, Darwin will rest easier thanks to flies with eyes on their wings
• (Against) The Biblical Creation Society, The eye in a twinkling?
• (For) 2think.org's Does an objective look at the human eye show evidence of creation?
• (Against) Creation Science's The Eye by David Menton
• (For) Don Lindsay's How Could An Eye Evolve?
• (For) The Talk.Origins Archive: Cretinism or Evilution? No. 3 An Old, Out of Context Quotation by E.T. Babinski

Creation & Evolution

• (Both) Was Darwin Wrong? - The critics of evolution: book reviews by Gert Korthof
• (Both) amazon.com's entry for Michael Denton's Evolution: A Theory in Crisis
• (Evolution) A Critique of Michael Denton's Evolution: A Theory in Crisis (1995) by Mark I. Vuletic
• (Creation) A Theory in Crisis: Institute for Creation Research review of Denton's book "Evolution: A Theory in Crisis"
• (Evolution) 2think.org's review of Michael Denton - Evolution: A Theory In Crisis