text_combined: wenjian luo wrsklustceducn sorry multiple copies online paper submission system availabe c l l f r p p e r sixth international conference simulated evolution learning seal06 1518 october 2006 hefei anhui china hosted sponsored nature inspired computation applications laboratory nical department computer science technology university science technology china hefei anhui 230027 china httpnicalustceducnseal06 aims scopes evolution learning two fundamental forms adaptation seal06 sixth biennial conference highly successful series aims exploring two forms adaptation roles interactions adaptive systems crossfertilisation evolutionarylearning machine learning approaches neural network learning reinforcement learning decision tree learning fuzzy system learning etc strongly encouraged conference major theme conference optimisation evolutionary nature inspired approaches topics interest conference include limited following 1 evolutionary learning fundamental issues evolutionary learning coevolutionary learning modular evolutionary learning systems classifier systems representation issues evolutionary learning artificial immune systems interactions learning evolution credit assignment swarm intelligence collective intelligence comparison evolutionary learning learning approaches 2 evolutionary optimisation combinatorial optimisation numericalfunction optimisation eg scheduling allocation planning hybrid optimisation algorithms packing transportation etc comparison algorithms natureinspired algorithms ant colony optimisation particle swarm optimisation memetic algorithms simulated annealing 3 hybrid learning evolutionary artificial neural networks evolutionary fuzzy systems evolutionary reinforcement learning evolutionary clustering evolutionary decision tree learning evolutionary unsupervised learning genetic programming hybrid learning systems developmental processes 4 adaptive systems complexity adaptive systems evolutionary robotics evolvable hardware software artificial ecology evolutionary games selfrepairing systems evolutionary computation techniques economics finance marketing 5 theoretical issues evolutionary computation convergence convergence rate evolutionary algorithms computational complexity evolutionary algorithms selfadaptation evolutionary algorithms 6 realworld applications evolutionary computation techniques keynote speakers professor karl sigmund university vienna austria professor zbigniew michalewicz university adelaide australia professor han la poutre centrum voor wiskunde en informatica netherlands professor gary yen oklahoma state university usa important dates 21 april 2006 deadline submission full papers 8 pages 19 june 2006 notification acceptance 14 july 2006 deadline cameraready copies accepted papers 1518 october 2006 conference sessions including tutorials workshops paper submission manuscripts must prepared latex according springers llncs style url httpwwwspringeronlinecomlncs absolutely essential follow instructions submitted paper must include title abstract list keywords names addresses authors including email addresses body length submitted papers must 8 singlespaced singlecolumn pages including figures tables bibliography shorter papers strongly encouraged papers must submitted electronically via conference website papers submitted via means considered publications accepted papers presented conference included conference proceedings published springer lecture notes computer science series best papers invited revise extend work one following prestigious journal special issues genetic programming evolvable machines springer connection science taylor francis international journal computational intelligence applications world scientific journal computer science technology springer china computer federation special sessions tutorials special sessions tutorials organised conference conference calling special session tutorial proposals tutorials offered 15 october 2006 subject sufficient number registrations conference committee general chairs guoliang chen china xin yao uk programme chairs xufa wang china shuheng chen taiwan technical cochairs tzaider wang taiwan hussein abbass australia hitoshi iba japan zengqi sun china bob mckay south korea tutorials special sessions chair xiaodong li australia thu 07 aug 2008 100156 0800 uai seal06 call papers online paper submission system availabe