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EvoPhD 2010
Fifth European Graduate Student Workshop on Evolutionary Computation
Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
7th - 9th April 2010
This is the fifth European workshop on evolutionary
computation that focuses on the work of PhD students.
For the first time this year, submissions to EvoPhD are open
both to students who are still working on their PhD and
to researchers who have completed their work in 2009.
Moreover, starting from this year, EvoPhD has instituted the
*First European PhD award*, awarding the best PhD-summary
submission with the publication on the
Journal of Artificial Evolution and Application (JAEA).
The main aims of EvoPhD are (i) to give students feedback on the
current state of their thesis, and (ii) to give the opportunity to
newly finished researchers to present a summary of their
PhD work to an audience of internationally recognised experts
in the field of Evolutionary Computation.
As usual, the workshop also provides students with contacts and
professional networking opportunities, which helps them
to integrate into the community.
For students, the aim of a submission is to get
feedback on the current state of their thesis.
Submissions will be evaluated by members of a
high-quality committee that consists of long running
members of the community with the goal to provide
in-depth feedback. Students are required to submit a paper
that summarizes the research performed and planned as
part of their dissertation.
For new researchers, the workshop is an opportunity to give
broader visibility to their original research, both by presenting
to an audience of interntionally recognised EC experts, and thanks to
the possibility to have their work pubblished on an international
journal of EC.
The number of participants is limited. Accepted papers
will be published in a CD with ISSN 1974-4145, that will
be disseminated among the participants of the event.
The workshop is part of Evo*2010, which combined form
Europe's premier co-located events in the field of
evolutionary computing. The next event takes place in
Istanbul, Turkey. Featuring the latest in theoretical
and applied research, the topics include recent genetic
programming challenges, evolutionary and other meta-heuristic
approaches for combinatorial optimization, evolutionary
algorithms in the biosciences, in music and art domains, in
image analysis and signal processing systems, in hardware
optimisation and as applied to a range of industrial and
financial optimisation problems.
Evo*2010 web address: http://evostar.org
Topics include, but are not limited to,
* Any topic that fits in the scope of the conferences and
workshops
* Bio-inspired computing, such as evolutionary computing,
ant colony optimization, swarm intelligence, and neural
networks
* Local optimisation methods (tabu search, simulated annealing)
* All flavours of evolutionary computation (genetic programming,
evolution strategies, genetic algorithms, memetic algorithms, etc.)
* Combinatorial optimisation with bio-inspired computing
* Application of evolutionary computation to real-life problems
* Hybrid architectures that include bio-inspired components
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