GEM'07: June 25, 2007 Schedule

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6:30am - 5:00pm:  Registration (Second Floor, Conference Lobby: 1-5)


08:30 - 08:45am:  WORLDCOMP'07 Opening Remarks
                  Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia (General Chair & Coordinator)
                  University of Georgia, Georgia, USA
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

08:45 - 09:45am:  Keynote Lecture 1:
                  Humans in Real and Virtual Space
                  Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy
                  University of California, Berkeley, USA
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

09:50 - 10:50am:  Keynote Lecture 2:
                  Innovation
                  Prof. John H. Holland
                  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

10:55 - 11:55am:  Keynote Lecture 3:
                  Challenges in Consumer Electronics for 21st Century
                  Steve Leibson
                  Tensilica, Inc.
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

11:55a - 12:40p:  LUNCH (On Your Own)


12:40 - 01:20pm:  DISCUSSION SESSION A-GEM'07 (Refreshments will be available)
                  June 25 (Monday)
                  (LOCATION: Hallways - Ballrooms 1-5)

                  O.  A GP-Evolved Formulation for the Relative Permittivity
                      of Water and Steam
                      S. V. Fogelson and W. D. Potter
                      University of Georgia, Georgia, USA
                  O.  Comparative Optimization of Infiltration Parameters
                      Kusum Deep, P. K. Parhi, and K. N. Das
                      Indian Institute of Technology, India
                  O.  A Life Cycle Model for Optimal DG Allocation on Distribution
                      Networks to Reduce Active Losses and Investment Costs
                      Mehdi Ehsan and Alireza Soroudi
                      Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
                  O.  Optimizing Turbo Code Interleaver for Satellite Communications
                      by Genetic Algorithms
                      Nabil Ouddane, Pavel Kromer, and Vaclav Snasel
                      VSB Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
                  O.  Improving Parallel Performance of Particle Swarm Optimization
                      Algorithm
                      Raheel Ahmad, Yung-chuan Lee, Shahram Rahimi, and Bidyut Gupta
                      Southern Illinois University, USA
                  O.  An Investigation into Heuristic Search Algorithms for
                      Optimization of Engineering Problems
                      Mehdi Ehsan and Alireza Soroudi
                      Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran


01:20 - 03:20pm:  During this period, GEM'07 attendees are encouraged to participate
                  in sessions belonging to ICAI'07, MLMTA'07, IPCV'07, or DMIN'07.
                  These sessions discuss topics that overlap the scope of GEM'07.

03:20 - 03:40pm:  BREAK


SESSION 1-GEM:    GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONAY ALGORITHMS + PROGRAMMING
                  Chairs:  Drs. Chengpeng Bi* and Zeeshan-ul-hassan Usmani**
                  *University of Missouri, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
                  **Florida Institute of Technology, USA
                  June 25, 2007 (Monday); 03:40pm - 06:00pm
                  (LOCATION: Silver Room)

03:40 - 04:00pm:  Searching for Snake-in-the-Box Codes with Evolved
                  Pruning Models
                  Daniel R. Tuohy, Walter D. Potter, and Darren A. Casella
                  Stottler Henke Associates, Inc., USA;
                  University of Georgia, USA

04:00 - 04:20pm:  Application of Evolutionary Programming to Land Use
                  Allocation Problem
                  Bataa Lkhagvasuren, Yoshiaki Sakakura, Eric W. Cooper, and
                  Katsuari Kamei
                  Ritsumeikan University, Japan

04:20 - 04:40pm:  Uniform MANET Node Distribution for Mobile Agents Using
                  Genetic Algorithms
                  Elkin Urrea, C. Safak Sahin, M. Umit Uyar, Ibrahim Hokelek,
                  Michael Conner, Giorgio Bertolli, Hooshang Sharif, and
                  Christian Pizzo
                  City University of New York, New York, USA;
                  Telcordia Tech. Inc., Piscataway, New Jersey, USA;
                  U.S. Army Communications-Electronics RD&E Center, New Jersey, USA

04:40 - 05:00pm:  Improving GA Performance Using Relative Fitness
                  Chongshan Zhang and Khaled Rasheed
                  University of Georgia, USA

05:00 - 05:20pm:  Solving Clustering Problems Using Hybrid Approaches
                  Enrique Dominguez and Jose Munoz
                  E.T.S.I.Informatica - University of Malaga, Spain

05:20 - 05:40pm:  Initial Population for Genetics Algorithms: A Metric Approach
                  Pedro A. Diaz-Gomez and Dean F. Hougen
                  University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma, USA

05:40 - 06:00pm:  Small-World Island Genetic Algorithms
                  David L. Hibler
                  Christopher Newport University, USA


06:00 - 09:00pm:  FIVE TUTORIALS  (planned)

                  Robust Resource Allocation for Heterogeneous Parallel and
                  Distributed Computing Systems
                  Prof. H. J. Siegel
                  Abell Endowed Chair Distinguished Professor of ECE & Professor of CS;
                  Director, ISTeC Center; Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
                  Location: Ballroom 6

                  Developing Enterprise Web Services and Mobile/Wireless Systems
                  Dr. Sandeep Chatterjee
                  Chief Executive Officer, Cyndeo LLC, USA
                  Location: Ballroom 7

                  Intelligent Pattern Recognition and Applications
                  Prof. Patrick Wang, IAPR Fellow
                  Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
                  Location: Gold Room

                  Introduction to Uncertainty and Fuzzy Logic with Data Mining Applications
                  Mini-Tutorial (one-hour)
                  Ashu M. G. Solo
                  Principal/R&D Engineer, Maverick Technologies America Inc., USA
                  Location: Ballroom 1

                  Systems Biology in Present Day Bioinformatics: Tools, Tricks, Ticks and Traps
                  Prashanth Suravajhala
                  Roskilde University, Greater Copenhagen, Denmark
                  Location: Ballroom 8


09:10 - 11:30pm:  CONFERENCE RECEPTION DINNER & BANQUET KEYNOTE - June 25 (Monday)
                  Dr. Jack Y. Yang and Dr. Mary Qu Yang
                  Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery of Human Genome and Competitive
                  Genomes, Past, Future, and the Impact on the Science and Medicine
                  Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA and
                  National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, USA
                  (LOCATION: Ballrooms 1-5)

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