| Luis.Paquete@gmail.com 2006-04-19, 7:03 pm |
| CALL FOR PAPERS
Workshop on Empirical Methods for the Analysis of Algorithms,
EMAA 2006
9th September 2006, Reykjavik, Iceland
Held in conjunction with the
International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving From Nature (PPSN
IX)
Deadline for Submission: 31 May
** MOTIVATION **
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It is currently acknowledged that randomised decisions in search
algorithms, such as evolutionary algorithms and other metaheuristics,
improve the capability of solving decision and optimisation
problems. The assessment of these algorithms through analytical studies
is not trivial and often yields results of scarce importance for
practical applications. Researchers tend therefore to report tables
with
results of empirical tests carried out on different problem instances
and to comment on those results.
However, empirical analyses of algorithms require standard methods to
guide in the design of the experiments and to determine whether the
data
collected are enough to draw any conclusions. The use of these
empirical
methods is not yet widely spread in the field and it is not yet fully
understood which methods are appropriate for different scenarios of
analysis, such as comparison, prediction and generalisation of
algorithm performances.
EMAA 2006 aims at intensifying the discussion on empirical methods for
the analysis of search algorithms, ultimately, contributing to the
definition of a standard practise in experimental algorithmics. The
focus will be on the methodologies, not on the performance of the
algorithms themselves.
More Information:
http://www.imada.sdu.dk/~marco/EMAA
** Important Dates **
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Deadline for Submission: May, 31
Notification of acceptance: June, 25
Early Registration to the Workshop: July, 5
Accepted contributions will be published in the workshop proceedings.
** Workshop Organizers **
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Luis Paquete
Faculty of Economics and Centre for Intelligent Systems,
University of Algarve
lpaquete@ualg.pt
Marco Chiarandini
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science,
University of Southern Denmark
marco@imada.sdu.dk
Dario Basso
Department of Statistics,
University of Padova
dario@stat.unipd.it
** Program Committee **
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Thomas Bartz-Beielstein, University of Dortmund
Mauro Birattari, Universite' Libre de Bruxelles
Carlos M. Fonseca, University of Algarve
Viviane Grunert da Fonseca, University of Algarve
Juerg Huesler, University of Bern
Catherine C. McGeoch, Amherst College
Fortunato Pesarin, University of Padova
Ruben Ruiz, Valencia University of Technology
Luigi Salmaso, University of Padova
Thomas Stuetzle, Universite' Libre de Bruxelles
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