Due to numerous requests, we have decided to extend the
submission deadline for EvoCOP 2009 to:
12 November 2008
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FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
EvoCOP 2009
Ninth European Conference on Evolutionary Computation
and Metaheuristics in Combinatorial Optimization
Tuebingen, Germany, 15-17 April 2009
(EXTENDED Submission Deadline: 12 November 2008)
http://www.evostar.org
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Topics
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Metaheuristics have often been shown to be effective for difficult
combinatorial optimization problems appearing in various industrial,
economical, and scientific domains. Prominent examples of
metaheuristics are evolutionary algorithms, simulated annealing,
tabu search, scatter search and path relinking, memetic algorithms,
ant colony and particle swarm optimization, variable neighborhood
search, iterated local search, greedy randomized adaptive search
procedures, estimation of distribution algorithms, and
hyperheuristics. Successfully solved problems include scheduling,
timetabling, network design, transportation and distribution
problems, vehicle routing, traveling salesman, graph problems,
satisfiability, packing problems, planning problems, and general
mixed integer programming.
The EvoCOP series, started in 2001 and held annually since then,
was the first event specifically dedicated to the application of
evolutionary computation and related methods to combinatorial
optimization problems. Following the general trend of hybrid
metaheuristics and diminishing boundaries between the different
classes of metaheuristics, EvoCOP broadened its scope in 2006, and
now explicitly invites submissions on any kind of metaheuristic for
combinatorial optimization. All accepted papers will be presented
orally at the conference and printed in the proceedings published
by Springer in the LNCS series (see LNCS volumes 2037, 2279, 2611,
3004, 3448, 3906, 4446 and 4972 for the previous proceedings).
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Applications of metaheuristics to combinatorial optimization problems
- Representation techniques
- Neighborhoods and efficient algorithms for searching them
- Variation operators for stochastic search methods
- Constraint-handling techniques
- Hybrid methods and hybridization techniques
- Parallelization
- Theoretical developments
- Search space analyses
- Comparisons between different (also exact) techniques
The conference will be held in conjunction with the 12th European
Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP2009), EvoBIO 2009 (7th European
Conference on Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning and Data Mining
in Bioinformatics), and EvoWorkshops 2009 (the specialist workshops
on a range of evolutionary computation topics and applications), in
a joint event collectively known as EvoStar 2009.
Submission
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Submission is now online at:
http://myreview.csregistry.org/evocop09/
More details are available at the conference website:
http://www.evostar.org
Papers must be formatted following Springer LNCS guidelines, with no more
than 12 pages. The EXTENDED submission deadline is November 12, 2008.
IMPORTANT: The reviewing process will be double-blind, so please omit
information about the authors in the submitted paper. The submissions
will be peer reviewed by at least three members of the program committee.
Program Chairs
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Carlos Cotta (Universidad de Malaga, Spain)
Peter Cowling (University of Bradford, UK)
More Information
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More detailed information on the event, including venue, committees,
contact addresses, etc., can be found at the Evo* homepage:
http://www.evostar.org
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