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EvoCOP 2010
The Tenth European Conference on Evolutionary Computation
and Metaheuristics in Combinatorial Optimization
Istanbul, Turkey, 7-9 April 2010
http://www.evostar.org
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Topics
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Metaheuristics are used to solve difficult combinatorial optimization problems appearing
in various industrial, economic, and scientific domains. Prominent examples of
metaheuristics include: 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, 4972 and 5482 for the previous proceedings).
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Applications of metaheuristics to combinatorial optimization problems
- Novel application domains for metaheuristic optimisation methods
- 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
- Automated tuning of metaheuristics using machine learning, evolutionary and other
approaches
The conference will be held in conjunction with EuroGP2010 (the 13th European
Conference on Genetic Programming), EvoBIO 2010 (the 8th European Conference on
Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning and Data Mining in Bioinformatics), and
EvoWorkshops 2010 (including specialist workshops on a range of evolutionary
computation topics and applications), in a joint event collectively known as EvoStar 2010.
Submission
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Submissions will be done electronically using the online submission site
http://myreview.csregistry.org/evocop10/
More details on EvoCOP will be 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 11th November, 2009.
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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Peter Cowling (University of Bradford, UK)
Peter Merz (Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Germany)
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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