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Competition Sessions
WCCI 2008 will host
competitions to stimulate research in computational intelligence,
promote fair evaluations, and attract students. The competitions will
take place between December 2007 and May 2008. For questions, please
contact the Competitions Chairs Isabelle Guyon at
isabelle@clopinet.com for IJCNN2008, Leszek
Rutkowski at
lrutko@kik.pcz.czest.pl for FUZZ-IEEE2008, or
Philip Hingston at
p.hingston@ecu.edu.au for CEC2008.
-Games
Ms Pac-man: Simon Lucas -
Started - Deadline May 23, 2008
Neural Network Othello: Simon Lucas
- Started - Deadline May 23, 2008
-Navigation
Car
Racing Competition:
Daniele Loiacono,
Julian Togelius, and
Pier Luca Lanzi - February 1, 2008 - May 25, 2008
Robotic Car Racing:
Simon Lucas
Pedestrian
Trajectory for Collision Avoidance:
Nicolas Brodu
- Started - Deadline April 30, 2008
-Data mining
Ford
Classification Challenge:
Mahmoud Abou-Nasr
- Started - March 08, 2008
Time Series Forecasting Competition:
Sven F. Crone
- Started - Deadline May 18, 2008
Causality Challenge:
Causality Workbench Team
- Started - Deadline April 30, 2008
-Optimization
Mountains or Molehills: Scale-Invariant Optimisation Competition:
Cara MacNish
- Started - Deadline May 1, 2008
Large Scale
Global Optimization:
Ke Tang
- Started - Deadline March 1, 2008
Problem Specific Multi-objective Optimization:
Walking Fish Group
(canceled)
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Detailed Program
Competition Session I: Games --
Pac Man / Othello
June 3, 9:30 -10:30, Room 402
Chair: Simon Lucas |
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09:30 |
Othello Competition
Report |
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09:50 |
Ms. Pac-Man
Competition Overview |
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Simon Lucas,
University of Essex, UK |
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10:10 |
Ms. Pac-Man - Winning
Entry(s) |
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Competition Session II:
Optimization -- Scale-Invariant Optimization Competition
June 3, 10:30 -11:30, Room 402
Chair: Cara MacNish |
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10:30 |
Scale-Invariant
Optimization Competition Overview and Results |
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Cara MacNish,
University of Western Australia, Australia |
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10:50 |
What Made Them Tick?:
Contestant's Algorithm Overviews |
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TBA
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Competition Session III:
Poster Viewing, All Competitions
June 3, 14:00 -15:00, Convention Foyer
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Competition Session IV:
Robotics
June 3, 15:00 -16:50, Room 402
Chair/Co-Chairs: Daniele Loiacono, Julian Togelius, Pier Luca Lanzi, Simon
Lucas, Nicolas Brodu, and Julien Pettré |
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15:00 |
Car Racing
Competition Results |
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Daniele Loiacono,
Politecnico di Milano, Italy |
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Julian Togelius,
IDSIA, Switzerland |
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Pier Luca Lanzi,
Politecnico di Milano, Italy |
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15:20 |
Learning Controllers
for TORCS |
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Julian Togelius,
IDSIA, Switzerland |
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Daniele Loiacono,
Politecnico di Milano, Italy |
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Pier Luca Lanzi,
Politecnico di Milano, Italy |
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15:40 |
Robotic Car Racing
Competition: Current Status and Future Directions |
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Simon Lucas,
University of Essex, UK |
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16:30 |
Pedestrian Trajectory
for Collision Avoidance |
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Nicolas Brodu,
INRIA, France
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Competition Session VI: Data Mining 1 -- Ford Challenge
June 4, 09:30 -11:30, Room 402
Chair: Mahmoud Abou-Nasr |
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09:30 |
Ford Challenge Results
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Mahmoud Abou-Nasr,
Ford Motor Company, USA |
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09:50 |
AdaBoost and Semi-supervised LDA Algorithm
for Ford Classification Challenge |
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Jun Lv,
South China University of Technology, China |
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10:10 |
Mixed Ensemble Models for Ford
Classification Challenge |
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Joerg D. Wichard,
Leibniz Institut fuer Molekulare Pharmakologie, Germany |
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10:30 |
Wavelets, Fourier Transforms and Neural
Networks for Ford Classification |
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Paavo Nieminen,
University of Jyväskylä, Finland |
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10:50 |
Time-Series Classification Using Mel-Cepstrum,
Bagging CAN2 |
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Shuichi Kurogi,
Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan |
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11:10 |
Temporal Feature Extraction and an Ensemble
of MLP Ford Classification Challenge |
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Paulo J. L. Adeodato,
NeuroTech Ltd./ Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil |
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Competition Session VII: Data Mining 2 -- Causality
Competition
June 4, 14:00 -16:00, Room 402
Chair: Isabelle Guyon |
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14:00 |
Causality Competition Results |
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Isabelle Guyon,
ClopiNet, USA |
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14:20 |
Winner of the Causality Competition
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TBA |
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14:40 |
Random Sets Approach for Feature Selection
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Vladimir Nikulin,
Suncorp, Australia |
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15:00 |
An Energy-based Model for Feature Selection
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Hugo Jair Escalante, National
Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics, Mexico |
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Manuel Montes, National Institute of
Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics, Mexico |
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Enrique Sucar, National Institute of
Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics, Mexico |
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15:20 |
Mixture Models for Markov Blanket Filtering
and Classification |
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Mehreen Saeed,
National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Pakistan |
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15:40 |
Local Learning of Causal Structures Based
on Kernel Association Measures |
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Jianxin Yin,
Peking University, China |
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Zhi Geng,
Peking University, China |
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M. Kuroki,
Osaka University, Japan |
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Z. Cai, Kyoto
University, Japan
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Competition
Session VIII: Data Mining 3 -- NN5 Time Series Competition
June 4, 16:30 -18:30, Room 402
Chair: Sven Crone |
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16:30 |
Time Series Competition Results
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Sven Crone,
Lancaster University, UK |
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16:50 |
Neural Networks Ensembles Optimized via
Simulated Annealing for NN5 Competition´s Time Series
Forecasting |
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Paulo J. L. Adeodato |
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Germano C. Vasconcelos |
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Adrian L.
Arnaud |
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Rodrigo C. L. V.
Cunha |
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Domingos S. M. P.
Monteiro |
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17:10 |
Combined Neural Network Approach to NN5
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Paul Robinette,
Missouri University of Science and Technology Rolla, USA |
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John Seiffertt,
Missouri University of Science and Technology Rolla, USA |
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Donald Wunsch,
Missouri University of Science and Technology Rolla, USA |
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17:30 |
Regime Shift Detection and Mixture of
Heterogeneous Experts to Forecast Daily Cash Money Time Series:
NN5 Forecasting Competition |
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W. J. Puma-Villanueva,
UNICAMP, Brazil |
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E. P. dos Santos,
UNICAMP, Brazil |
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F. Von Zuben,
UNICAMP, Brazil |
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17:50 |
A Cerebellar Associative Memory Approach to
Financial Forecasting for NN5 Forecasting Competition |
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S. D. Teddy, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore |
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18:10 |
Panel on Organization of Future
Competitions |
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