ACM ICPC Asia Regional 2010 - Kuala Lumpur (8th- 9th Dec 2010)

ACM ICPC (Association for Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Competition) Regional 2010 telah berjaya diadakan di Universiti Islam Antarabangsa pada 8 – 9 Disember 2010. Pertandingan Pengaturcaraan peringkat Regional ini adalah pertandingan yang disertai oleh pelajar-pelajar dari beberapa universiti di sekitar Asia. Sebanyak 66 kumpulan telah menyertai pertandingan kali ini dan 37 kumpulan adalah penyertaan dari luar negara Malaysia manakala 29 kumpulan adalah dari Malaysia. UiTM adalah kontinjen yang paling besar dengan 4 kumpulan dari UiTM Malaysia, 3 kumpulan dari UiTM Trengganu dan 2 kumpulan dari UiTM Perlis. Setiap kumpulan terdiri daripada 3 orang pelajar.

Tujuan UiTM Perlis menyertai pertandingan ini adalah di antaranya untuk menyungkil bakat pengaturcaraan dari kalangan pelajar Sains Komputer dan juga menggalakkan pelajar kita untuk bersaing di peringkat antarabangsa bersama-sama pelajar antarabangsa (‘battle of the brains’). Ternyata bahawa pelajar kita mampu untuk bertanding dan seterusnya mengasah bakat mereka dalam menyelesaikan masaalah dan menulis aturcara dalam bahasa pengaturcaraan pilihan mereka utk meyelesaikan masaalah tersebut. Mereka diberi 10 soalan untuk diselesaikan dalam masa 5 jam.

Pada hari pertama di sebelah pagi, pelajar diberi masa untuk membuat ujian percubaan, tetapi disebabkan oleh masaalah rangkaian ujian tersebut tidak berjaya dilaksanakan dan kesemua peserta di beri peluang untuk menguji sistem komputer pada hari kedua. Pada petang hari pertama, pelajar di beri peluang untuk mendengar ceramah mengenai strategi menghadapi pertandingan tersebut yang dipersembahkan oleh Derek Kisman, salah seorang hakim pertandingan. . Pada hari kedua, peserta menguji lari sistem sekali lagi dan setelah beberapa masaalah teknikal dapat di atasi, petandingan dimulakan pada jam 11:25 pagi dan berakahir pada jam 4:25 petang. Mereka diberi pek makanan ringan dan juga makanan tengahari dalam dewan pertandingan. Semua jurulatih (coach) dapat mengikuti keputusan secara langsung dari bilik auditorium. Dr Steven Halim dan Felix Halim (yang penah menyertai pertandingan tersebut di peringkat dunia) berkongsi ide bersama jurulatih yang lain cara untuk membuat persediaan dan bagaimana ianya boleh dijadikan kursus elektif di peringkat pengajian.

Keputusan diumumkan pada jam 6 petang seperti berikut:

1. Chinese University Hong Kong
2. Nanyang Technological University , Singapore
3. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Kedudukan untuk Universiti Tempatan adalah seperti berikut:

1. Universiti Islam Antarabangsa
2. Universiti Islam Antarabangsa
3. Universiti Multimedia
4. Universiti Teknologi MARA Malaysia
5. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
6. Universiti Multimedia
7. Universiti Teknologi Petronas
8. Universiti Teknologi MARA Perlis

UiTM Perlis (Tensai Coder 1) telah mendapat kedudukan keseluruhan nombor 44 dan nombor 8 di kalangan universiti tempatan. Kumpulan UiTM Perlis (Tensai Coder II) pula mendpat kedudukan 58 dan nombor 21 di kalangan universiti tempatan.

Di kalangan kumpulan dari UiTM sahaja, keputusannya adalah seperti berikut:

1. UiTM Malaysia (Newbies)
2. UiTM Perlis (Tensai Coder I)
3. UiTM Malaysia
4. UiTM Malaysia
5. UiTM Trengganu
6. UiTM Perlis (Tensai Coder II)
7. UiTM Malaysia
8. UiTM Trengganu
9. UiTM Trengganu

Tensai Coder I dianggotai oleh

1. Aizat Bin Idris
2. Azmirul Izzat Bin Zubad
3. Muhammad Hasyimi Bin Zamri

Tensai Coder II dianggotai oleh

1. Dzulhafiz Bin Abdul Rahim
2. Muhammad Zikri Bin Ismail
3. Siti Syakirah Binti Sazali

Prestasi kumpulan dari UiTM Perlis adalah membanggakan walaupun mereka kurang pendedahan dan tidak mendapat banyak latihan. Dengan prestasi membanggakan ini, kita akan meneruskan usaha untuk memberi lebih banyak latihan kepada pelajar kita untuk menyertai pertandingan pada tahun hadapan pulak.

Keseluruhan keputusan di sini: http://www.iium.edu.my/acmicpc/upload/html/

Galeri Gambar di UIA: http://www.iium.edu.my/acmicpc/upload/ACMICPCRegionalMalaysia2010/index.html

Barisan para hakim


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Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN LION 5, Jan 17-21, 2011, Rome, Italy

LION 5, Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN,
Rome - Italy, Jan 17-21 2010

Short call for papers:

The LION conference aims at exploring the intersections between machine learning, artificial intelligence, mathematical programming and algorithms for hard optimization problems. The main purpose of the event is to bring together experts from all these areas to present and discuss new ideas, new methods, general trends, challenges and opportunities in applications as well as in research aiming at algorithmic advances. The conference program will consist of plenary presentations, introductory and advanced tutorials, technical presentations, and it will give ample time for discussions.

Scope of the conference

The large variety of heuristic algorithms for hard optimization problems raises numerous interesting and challenging issues. Practitioners are confronted with the burden of selecting the most appropriate method, in many cases through an expensive algorithm configuration and parameter tuning process, and subject to a steep learning curve. Scientists seek theoretical insights and demand a sound experimental methodology for evaluating algorithms and assessing strengths and weaknesses. A necessary prerequisite for this effort is a clear separation between the algorithm and the experimenter, who, in too many cases, is "in the loop" as a crucial intelligent learning component. Both issues are related to designing and engineering ways of "learning" about the performance of different techniques, and ways of using past experience about the algorithm behavior to improve performance in the future. Intelligent learning schemes for mining the knowledge obtained from different runs or during a single run can improve the algorithm development and design process and simplify the applications of high-performance optimization methods. Combinations of algorithms can further improve the robustness and performance of the individual components provided that sufficient knowledge of the relationship between problem instance characteristics and algorithm performance is obtained.

Important Dates

Submission deadline	October 16, 2010
Notification of acceptance	November 27, 2010
Conference	January 17-21, 2011
Camera ready for post-proceedings	February 18, 2011

Relevant Research Areas

LION 5 solicits contributions dealing with all aspects of learning and intelligent optimization. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Metaheuristics such as tabu search, iterated local search, evolutionary algorithms, memetic algorithms, ant colony optimization, and particle swarm optimization
• Hybridizations of metaheuristics with other techniques for optimization
• Supervised, unsupervised and reinforcement learning applied to heuristic search
• Reactive search optimization
• Self-adaptive algorithms
• Hyperheuristics
• Algorithm portfolios and off-line tuning methods
• Multiscale and multilevel methods
• Algorithms for dynamic, stochastic and multi-objective problems
• Interface(s) between discrete and continuous optimization
• Experimental analysis and modeling of algorithms
• Theoretical foundations
• Parallelization of optimization algorithms
• Memory-based optimization
• Software engineering of learning and intelligent optimization methods.

IJCAI-11 22nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Call for papers

The IJCAI-11 Program Committee invites submissions of technical papers for IJCAI-11, to be held in Barcelona, Spain, July 19-22, 2011. Submissions are invited on significant, original, and previously unpublished research on all aspects of artificial intelligence.

The theme of IJCAI-11 is “Integrated and Embedded Artificial Intelligence” (IEAI) with a focus on artificial intelligence that crosses discipline boundaries within AI, and between AI and other disciplines. Building systems often requires techniques from more than one area (e.g. both machine learning and natural language processing, or both planning and preference representation). In addition, larger systems often have AI components embedded within that provide intelligent functionalities such as learning and reasoning. The conference will include a special track dedicated to such work.

Important dates

• Abstract submission: Jan 19, 2011 (11:59PM, UTC-12)
• Paper submission: Jan 24, 2011 (11:59PM, UTC-12)
• Author feedback: Feb 28-Mar 3, 2011 (11:59PM, UTC-12).
• Notification of acceptance/rejection: Mar 31, 2011
• Camera-ready copy due: Apr 15, 211
• Technical sessions: Jul 19-22, 2011

Details

http://ijcai-11.iiia.csic.es/

List of keywords

Agent-based and Multiagent Systems

• Agent Theories and Architectures
• Agent Communication
• Agreement Technologies Argumentation
• Auctions and Market-Based Systems
• Coordination and Collaboration
• Distributed AI
• E-Commerce
• Game Theory
• Multiagent Learning
• Multiagent Planning
• Multiagent Systems
• Simulation and Emergent Behavior
• Social Choice

Constraints, Satisfiability, and Search

• Applications
• Constraint Optimization
• Constraint Satisfaction
• Distributed Constraints
• Dynamic Programming
• Evaluation and Analysis
• Global Constraints
• Heuristic Search
• Meta-heuristics
• Quantifier Formulations
• Satisfiability
• Modeling
• Search
• Solvers and Tools
• Symmetry

Knowledge Representation, Reasoning and Logic

• Action, Change and Causality
• Automated Reasoning and Theorem Proving
• Beliefs and Knowledge
• Common-Sense Reasoning
• Computational Complexity
• Description Logics and Ontologies
• Diagnosis and Abductive Reasoning
• Geometric, Spatial, and Temporal Reasoning
• Knowledge Representation
• Logic Programming
• Many-Valued and Fuzzy Logics
• Nonmonotonic Reasoning
• Preferences
• Qualitative Reasoning
• Reasoning with Beliefs

Machine Learning

• Active Learning
• Case-based Reasoning
• Classification
• Cost-Sensitive Learning
• Data Mining
• Deep Learning
• Ensemble Methods
• Evolutionary Computation
• Feature Selection/Construction
• Kernel Methods
• Learning Graphical Models
• Learning Preferences or Rankings
• Learning Theory
• Machine Learning
• Neural Networks
• Online Learning
• Reinforcement Learning
• Relational Learning
• Semi-Supervised/Unsupervised Learning
• Structured Learning
• Time-series/Data Streams
• Transfer, Adaptation, Multi-task Learning

Multidisciplinary Topics And Applications

• AI and Natural Sciences
• AI and Social Sciences
• Art and Music
• AI and Ubiquitous Computing Systems
• Autonomic Computing
• Brain Sciences
• Cognitive Modeling
• Computational Biology and e-Health
• Computer Games
• Computer-Aided Education
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Intelligent Database Systems
• Intelligent User Interfaces
• Interactive Entertainment
• Knowledge-based Software Engineering
• Personalization and User Modeling
• Philosophical and Ethical Issues
• Real-Time Systems
• Security and Privacy
• Validation and Verification

Natural-Language Processing

• Dialogue
• Discourse
• Information Extraction
• Information Retrieval
• Machine Translation
• Morphology and Phonology
• Natural Language Generation
• Natural Language Semantics
• Natural Language Summarization
• Natural Language Syntax
• Natural Language Processing
• Psycholinguistics
• Question Answering
• Speech Recognition and Understanding
• Text Classification

Planning and Scheduling

• Activity and Plan Recognition
• Applications of Planning
• Conformant/Contingent Planning
• Hierarchical Task Networks
• Hybrid Systems
• Markov Decisions Processes
• POMDPs
• Plan Execution and Monitoring
• Planning Algorithms
• Planning under Uncertainty
• Real-time Planning
• Robot Planning
• Scheduling
• Search in Planning and Scheduling
• Theoretical Foundations of Planning

Robotics and Vision

• Behavior and Control
• Cognitive Robotics
• Human Robot Interaction
• Localization, Mapping, State Estimation
• Manipulation
• Motion and Path Planning
• Multi-Robot Systems
• Robotics
• Sensor Networks
• Vision and Perception

Uncertainty in AI

• Approximate Probabilistic Inference
• Bayesian Networks
• Decision/Utility Theory
• Exact Probabilistic Inference
• Graphical Models
• Preference Elicitation
• Sequential Decision Making
• Uncertainty

Web and Knowledge-based Information Systems

• Information Extraction
• Information Integration
• Information Retrieval
• Knowledge Acquisition
• Knowledge Engineering
• Knowledge-based Systems
• Ontologies
• Recommender Systems
• Semantic Web
• Social Networks
• Source Wrapping
• Web Mining
• Web Search
• Web Technologies

ICEC 2010 - International Conference on Evolutionary Computation

-- CALL FOR PAPERS--

ICEC 2010 - International Conference on Evolutionary Computation
website: http://www.icec.ijcci.org

24 - 26 October 2010
Valencia - Spain

Dear Colleague,

ICEC welcomes the submission of position papers.
A position paper presents an arguable opinion about an issue. The goal of a position paper is to convince the audience that your opinion is valid and worth listening to, without the need to present completed research work and/or validated results. It is, nevertheless, important to support your argument with evidence to ensure the validity of your claims. A position paper may be a short report and discussion of ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research (bibliographic, experimental, theoretical, or other) focused on one of the conference topic areas. The acceptance of a position paper is restricted to the categories of "short paper" or "poster", i.e. a position paper is not a candidate to acceptance as "full paper".
All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support and will be also available at the SciTePress Digital Library. BNQL

Don't hesitate contacting me should you have any questions.

Best regards,
Vera Coelho
ICEC Secretariat

Av. D. Manuel I, 27A 2. esq.
2910-595 Setubal, Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 100 033
Fax: +44 203 014 8638
e-mail: icec.secretariat@insticc.org

IMPORTANT DATES
Position Paper Submission: June 25, 2010
Authors Notification (position papers): July 14, 2010
Final Position Paper Submission and Registration: July 26, 2010

CONFERENCE TOPICS
> Genetic Algorithms
> Representation Techniques
> Software Engineering Issues; Metamodelling
> Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization
> Evolutionary Art and Design
> Game Theory and Applications
> Evolution Strategies
> Machine Learning
> Artificial Life
> Cognitive Systems
> Evolutionary Robotics and Intelligent Agents
> Society and Cultural Aspects of Evolution
> Concurrent Co-operation
> Co-evolution and Collective Behavior
> Swarm/Collective Intelligence
> Biocomputing and Complex Adaptive Systems
> Bio-inspired Hardware and Networks


PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
(see list at http://www.icec.ijcci.org/program_committee.asp)
Program Chair: Agostinho Rosa, IST, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal

IJCCI KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
James Bezdek, University of Melbourne, Australia
Antonio Sala, Technical University Valencia, Spain
Simon M. Lucas, University of Essex, U.K.
Panos Pardalos, University of Florida, U.S.A.


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In cooperation with AAAI and WfMC

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