Corpora: CEC2000 - Challenge and Competitions

[I.Kuscu]

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Dear Colleague,

I am pleased to announce opportunities to play challenge matches
against an evolved neural network checkers' playing program and
to participate  several competitions at the  Congress on Evolutionary
Computation,  in San Diego, July 16 - 19, 2000.

1. CHALLENGE MATCHES

Registrants at the Congress will have the opportunity to play
challenge matches against an evolved neural network checkers'
playing program. You will be able to play timed matches with the
program, with the first person to defeat the program, using only
his or her own brain power i.e. no kibitzing and no assistance from
another computer program, wins a prize of $100. Players must be
presenting a paper at CEC2000. For more information please refer to

http://pcgipseca.cee.hw.ac.uk/cec2000/challenges.html


2.  COMPETITIONS

There will be  four competitions at CEC2000.

  1.Reason vs Evolution: Prisoner's Dilemma Competition
  2.Time series prediction competitions
  3.Dow Jones Prediction Competition
  4.Visualization Competition

The rules for each competition, including deadlines and submission
formats can be found at

 http://www.math.iastate.edu/danwell/CEC2000/comp.html


Kind regards
CEC2000 Publicity Chair
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Ibrahim Kuscu,  MBA, MSc, PhD.
Department of Computing
University of Surrey
Guildford, Surrey                 Tel: +44 1483 879636
GU2 5XH                           Fax: +44 1483 876051
http://www.computing.surrey.ac.uk/personal/st/I.Kuscu/

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