***** EMO 2013 !!! Extended deadline !!! 2 September 2012 *****

EMO 2013 - the 7th International Conference on Evolutionary 
Multi-Criterion Optimization

19-22 March, 2013, Sheffield, UK
shef.ac.uk/emo2013

*** Revised submission deadline: 2 September 2012 ***

--- Call for Papers ---
The 7th International Conference on Evolutionary Multi-Criterion 
Optimization (EMO 2013) will be hosted in Sheffield, UK, from 19-22 
March 2013. EMO 2013 aims to build on the success of the 6th meeting in 
Ouro Preto, Brazil, in bringing together the EMO and multiple criteria 
decision making (MCDM) communities, and will also stimulate a new focus 
on the application of EMO and MCDM research to help solve real problems 
in government, business and industry. The conference will include:

* Invited keynote and tutorial speakers
* Core EMO track
* MCDM track
* Real-world applications track.

Following the research family tradition of the EMO community, the 
conference will be in single session format, with high-quality, 
peer-reviewed papers delivered as either oral presentations or as 
interactive poster presentations. All accepted works will be published 
as full papers in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science 
(LNCS) series (maximum 15 pages).

--- Core EMO track ---
In the core EMO track, full papers are invited on novel aspects of EMO 
theory and methodology. Topics may include, but are not limited to:

* New developments for existing classes of EMO algorithms: e.g. 
aggregation- based, dominance-based, indicator-based
* Methods for a priori, progressive and a posteriori knowledge mining of 
the problem landscape
* Methods to handle problems with more than three objectives
* Methods to handle problems featuring uncertainty in decision-space 
and/or objective-space
* Methods to handle expensive objective function evaluations
* Methods to handle dynamic problems
* Methods for interactive preference articulation and exploitation, 
including consideration of human biases
* Theoretical analysis of EMO algorithms
* New developments in collaborative and parallel EMO approaches: e.g. 
algorithm portfolios, divide-and-conquer methods, use of parallel and 
distributed hardware
* New approaches to solving different multi-criterion problem classes: 
e.g. network topology problems, assignment problems, multidisciplinary 
optimization problems
* New developments in related paradigms, e.g. ant colony optimization, 
particle swarm optimization, differential evolution, artificial immune 
systems, estimation of distribution algorithms, variable neighbourhood 
search, iterated local search, simulated annealing, Tabu search
* New paradigms for population-based multi-criterion optimization
* New benchmark problems, performance indicators, and methods for 
empirical analysis of EMO algorithms
* Hybrid EMO-MCDM methodologies.

--- MCDM track ---
Full papers are also invited for the integrated MCDM track on new 
developments in the multiple criteria decision making community that 
might be blended with EMO themes. Original research, tutorial and survey 
papers are welcome in this track.

--- Real-world applications track ---
Papers are invited from both within and outside the academy on 
real-world problems in government, business, industry and 
interdisciplinary sciences, whose solutions have benefited from the 
recent application of EMO or MCDM methods. Papers are also invited that 
address the issues that decision makers have in trusting formal 
approaches over their own experience and intuitions.

--- Important dates ---
Submission deadline:		2 September 2012
Notification of acceptance:	4 November 2012
Camera-ready submission:	2 December 2012
EMO 2013 conference:		19-22 March 2013


--- General chairs ---
Robin C. Purshouse, University of Sheffield, UK
Peter J. Fleming, University of Sheffield, UK
Carlos M. Fonseca, University of Coimbra, Portugal

--- MCDM Track chair ---
Salvatore Greco, University of Catania, Italy

--- Real-world Applications Track chair ---
Jane Shaw, Unilever, UK

--- Advisory Board ---
Melanie Albury, PA Consulting Group, UK
Gideon Avigad, ORT Braude College, Israel
John Brazier, University of Sheffield, UK
Carlos A. Coello Coello, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico
David Corne, Heriot-Watt University, UK
David Dungate, Tessella, UK
Val Gillet, University of Sheffield, UK
Salvatore Greco, University of Catania, Italy
Evan Hughes, Cranfield University, UK
Joshua Knowles, University of Manchester, UK
Jane Shaw, Unilever, UK
Ricardo Takahashi, UFMG, Brazil
Praveen Thokala, University of Sheffield, UK
Elizabeth Wanner, CEFET-MG, Brazil

--- EMO Steering Committee ---
Carlos A. C. Coello, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico
David Corne, Heriot-Watt University, UK
Kalyanmoy Deb, IIT-Kanpur, India
Peter J. Fleming, University of Sheffield, UK
Carlos M. Fonseca, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Hisao Ishibuchi, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
Joshua D. Knowles, University of Manchester, UK
Kaisa Miettinen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
J. David Schaffer, Phillips Research, USA
Lothar Thiele, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Eckart Zitzler, PH Bern, Switzerland

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