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           IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
                            Special Issue on
        Analysis and Design of Representations and Operators
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 CALL FOR PAPERS
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Successful and efficient use of evolutionary algorithms (EAs) depends on the
choice of the problem representation and the variation operators. These
choices cannot be made independently of each other. The question whether a
certain representation leads to better performing EAs than an alternative
representation, can only be answered when the operators applied are taken
into consideration. The reverse is also true: deciding between alternative
operators is only meaningful in the context of a given representation.
Clearly, this choice is problem-dependent, but despite the importance of
choosing proper representation-operator combinations on the performance of
EAs, little general applicable theory and knowledge is available to help
understanding and guiding the construction of high-quality representations
and operators for solving problems successfully and efficiently with EAs.

The aim of the special issue is to provide a clear view of the
state-of-the-art in the analysis and design of representations and
operators. We are therefore soliciting papers that discuss the influence and
importance of a proper choice of representations and operators for EA
design, ranging from theoretical analysis to relevant and interesting
real-life applications.

TOPICS:
- Theoretical and empirical properties of representations and/or operators
- Interference between representations and operators
- Predictive performance measures for evaluating representation and operator
choices
- Practical guidelines to design representation/operator combinations for a
particular problem
- Redundant versus non-redundant problem representations
- High-locality versus low-locality representations
- Search space bias of representations and operators


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IMPORTANT DATES
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- Submission deadline:  November 30, 2004
- Notification of acceptance: February 28, 2005
- Delivery of final version: July 31, 2005
- Expected publication:  February, 2006


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GUEST EDITORS
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Franz Rothlauf
University of Mannheim, Germany
http://www.bwl.uni-mannheim.de/wifo1/team/rothlauf
rothlaufATuni-mannheim.de

Dirk Thierens
Utrecht University, The Netherlands
http://www.cs.uu.nl/staff/dirk.html
dirk.thierensATcs.uu.nl


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