Special
session: Evolution for agent control
Overview
The problem of automatically obtaining agent controllers, being the agents soft agents or real agents like robots, was tackled
in computational intelligence with different strategies, trying to avoid a
design “by hand”, and which can be categorized in two different points of view.
On one hand, systems with learning capability have been designed and, on the
other, evolutionary processes have been run to obtain complete systems that
performed the required tasks, which have begun, for example, in the robotics
case, the evolutionary robotics
research line. That line represents an attempt to minimize the designer’s
intervention with the use of the simulated evolution to obtain, in an automatic
manner, the control system that defines the behaviours of the robot.
Both proposals have had partial success. The control systems with
learning capability have been possible in cases where training sets could be clearly defined, that is difficult in
non-structured environments, where in general the training examples appear in a
non-sorted way and among huge irrelevant information. With the second
possibility, the evolutionary systems have resolved problems in simple
environments. However, in complex ones, evolutions can imply huge processing
times, in addition to the lack of adaptability to fast changes. The combination
of the two alternatives can incorporate the advantages of both. The aim of the
special session is to present recent advances in the application of
evolutionary methods and natural computing algorithms for agent control,
together with their integration with different learning methods.
Topics areas include (but are not restricted to):
• Aspects of combination of evolution and learning:
•
Lamarckian
processes and Baldwinian
processes.
•
Memetic
algorithms.
•
New
proposals of hybridizations of natural computing algorithms like DE, PSO, ant algorithms,
or artificial immune systems with heuristics or different agent learning
methods.
•
Incorporation
of reinforcement, supervised or unsupervised learning, or a combination of
these types. Use of connectionist learning in ANN control or symbolic learning
methods such as Case Base Reasoning or Inductive Logic Programming.
• Use of multi-objective solutions for agent control.
• Co-evolution of agent control with other aspects.
• Use in robot control: Evolutionary robotics.
Paper Submission:
Manuscripts should be prepared according to the standard format and page
limit of regular papers specified in CEC2013 and submitted through the CEC2013
website: http://www.cec2013.org/. Special session
papers will be treated in the same way as regular papers and included in the
conference proceedings.
Important
Dates:
- Paper Submission: 15 March 2013
- Notification of
Acceptance: 8 April 2013
- Final Paper
Submission: 26 April 2013
Organizers:
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santos@udc.es |
University
of A Coruña, Spain |
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fmontes@uv.mx |
Universidad
Veracruzana, México |
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Program Committee:
Josh Bongard, University of Vermont
(USA)
Angelo Cangelosi, University of
Plymouth (UK)
Stéphane Doncieux,
Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique (France)
Nicolas Bredeche, Université Pierre et Marie Curie –
UPMC (France)
Onofrio Gigliotta,
University of Naples Federico II (Italy)
John Hallam, University of Southern Denmark (Denmark)
Inman Harvey, University of Sussex (UK)
Luis Felipe Marín Urías, Universidad
Veracruzana (México)
Orazio Miglino, Università de
gli Studi di Napoli Federico II (Italy)
Fernando Montes, Universidad
Veracruzana (México)
Andrew L. Nelson, Androtics LLC - Tucson (USA)
Stephano Nolfi, ISTC-CNR (Italy)
Carlos Alberto Ochoa Ortiz,
Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez (México)
José Santos, University of A Coruña (Spain)