Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 12:17:08 +0000
From: T.D.Collins@open.ac.uk (Trevor Collins)
Subject: GECCO'99: EC Visualization Workshop - Call for particitaion
A Birds-of-a-feather Workshop at the
Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO'99)
Orlando, Florida, USA - July 13th, 1999
> Workshop Topic: Evolutionary Computation Visualization
> Workshop Overview
Software visualization is an area of computer science devoted to supporting
people's understanding and effective use of computer software. Within
Evolutionary Computation ("EC") visualization is increasingly being used as
a means for supporting peoples' understanding of their algorithm's
behavior. This workshop offers a timely opportunity for people interested
in the possibilities of visualization to see the current state of the art,
discuss the contribution that this work makes, and influence the future
work done in this area.
> Workshop Presentations
The workshop will consist of five presentations and an open-forum
discussion. Mark Bedau from Reed College, Oregon, will present some of his
work on visualizing the evolutionary activity of alleles. John James
Collins of the University of Limerick, Ireland, will present work on the
visualization of a GA's search behaviour using principal component
analysis. Hartmut Pohlheim will present some of the EC visualizations he
has been using at Daimler Chrysler in Berlin, Germany. William M. Spears
from the Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC, will be presenting an
overview of some multidimensional visualization techniques he has been
using. Finally, Annie Wu, also from the Naval Research Laboratory, will
present "VIS," a GA visualization tool that she developed for use on the
Virtual Virus project. After these presentations there will be an
open-forum discussion in which everyone attending the workshop will have
the opportunity to participate.
> Anticipated Audience
As the aim of software visualization is to improve peoples' understanding
and use of computer software, it is hoped that this workshop will be of
interest to anyone exploring the development, application and/or
dissemination of EC.
> Further Information
Further details regarding the workshop are available on the workshop's website:
http://www-iet.open.ac.uk/pp/t.d.collins/workshops/gecco-99/
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