1st International Workshop on
Deep Learning in Pervasive Computing (PerDL 2021)
part of
IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing (PerCom)
March 22-26, Kassel (Germany)
Call for Papers
The most recent advances in artificial intelligence, as concerns both
software and hardware, are fostering a multitude of smart devices
capable to recognize and to react to music, images, as well as to
other “stimuli”. These autonomous things, from robots to cameras to
healthcare devices, could exploit recent advances in Internet of
Things and resort to pervasive and distributed computing techniques in
order to avoid constant connection to the Cloud.
Nice surprise : #bloxberg goodies arrived today

The bloxberg summit 2020 was planned to take place from March 2 to 4, 2020 at the Harnack House in Berlin, Germany. It was my first event that was cancelled because of COVID-19.
I really looked forward to participating in this event, meeting members of the bloxberg consortium from high-ranking research institutions worldwide.
Today, goodies from this event arrived. What a nice surprise! Many thanks to the organizers of this event. I will pass this materials to my students working on blockchain topics.
CFP: 2021 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation

Kraków, Poland. June 28 – July 1, 2021. More: http://cec2021.mini.pw.edu.pl/
Papers for IEEE CEC 2021 should be submitted electronically through the Congress website at http://cec2021.mini.pw.edu.pl, and will be refereed by experts in the fields and ranked based on the criteria of originality, significance, quality and clarity.
FOGA 2021: Call-For-Papers

In 2021, the FOGA conference will be held from September 6 to September 8 at Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences in Dornbirn, Austria. Call-For-Papers (link):
https://www.fhv.at/fileadmin/user_upload/foga/20_FOGA_Plakat_A4_A3_web.pdf
Prof. Xin Yao is the recipient of the prestigious 2020 IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award.
Impacting both the foundational and practical aspects of computational intelligence, Xin Yao’s accomplishments in advancing evolutionary computation and machine learning are making it easier to solve complex optimization problems. Congratulations! More can be found here.
Free Preprint: “Expected Improvement versus Predicted Value in Surrogate-Based #Optimization” Available on Cologne Open Science
The publication “Expected Improvement versus Predicted Value in Surrogate-Based Optimization”, written by Frederik Rehbach, Martin Zaefferer, Boris Naujoks, and Thomas Bartz-Beielstein, deals with the correct parameterization for model-based optimization algorithms. The publication is available on Cologne Open Science.
Continue readingEvolutionary Computation Digest — Sunday, 26 July 2020, Volume 34: Issue 8
EC Digest is available here: https://listserv.gmu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=EC-DIGEST-L;ee852d34.2007
Today’s Topics:
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– BibTeX for GECCO 2020
– Winners of the 2020 Humies Human-Competitive Awards
CFPs (with submission deadline)
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– 01 August (Extended): Theory and Practice of Natural Computing
(Taoyuan, Taiwan)
– 07 August: Game Benchmark Competition @ PPSN 2020
– 01 November: EvoCOP @ EvoStar 2021 (Seville)
– 01 November: EuroGP @ EvoStar 2021 (Seville)
– 31 January, 2021: IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (Kraków)
IDE+A Vortrag zu ‘Time Series Missing Data Visualization’ auf useR! Conference 2020
Unter normalen Umständen hätte die useR! Conference, die weltgrößte Konferenz für die Anwender der Statistiksprache R, dieses Jahr zum ersten mal parallel an zwei Standorten (St. Louis, USA und München) stattfinden sollen.
Stattdessen gab es aufgrund der von COVID-19 bedingten Umstände eine andere Art von Premiere – ein rein virtuelles Format. Das von Prof. Dr. Thomas Bartz-Beielstein geleitete Institut IDE+A hat einen interessanten Vortrag zu “Visualization of missing data and imputations in time series” beigesteuert. Steffen Moritz ging in dem Vortrag auf neueste Entwicklungen im Bereich Visualisierung von fehlenden Messwerten in Zeitserien ein. Insbesondere auch auf die Möglichkeiten, die das imputeTS R Paket in diesem Bereich bietet.
Alle Vorträge der diesjährigen useR! sind auf dem Youtube Channel des R-Consortium online verfügbar.
SIGEvolution Newsletter now available

Volume 13, Issue 2 is now available at http://www.sigevolution.org/
In this issue you will find:
- Virtual conferences: the next big thing or a temporary emergency measure?
- Evolutionary AI site with expert podcasts and a COVID-19 intervention demo
- Forthcoming evolutionary computation conferences
- Call for papers
30th Workshop “Computational Intelligence” – Deadline verlängert
Aufgrund der besonderen Situation wird die Deadline zum Einreichen der Kurzbeiträge für den “30th Workshop Computational Intelligence”, Berlin, 26. – 27. November 2020 auf den 31.7.2020 verlängert.
Die restliche Terminkette bleibt davon unberührt:
31. Juli 2020 – Kurzfassung der Beiträge (1 Seite) (verlängert)
16. August 2020 – Benachrichtigung der Autoren
25. September 2020 – Langfassung der Beiträge (4-20 Seiten) und Anmeldefrist
25. November 2020 – Anreise
26.-27. November 2020 – Workshop