NEWS: Due to a large number of request for late submissions, the EvoStar
submission sites will stay open until this Tuesday 15 November, after which no
further submissions will be accepted. Authors who have already submitted, can
update their work until this time.

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                  EvoCOP 2017 - The 17th European Conference on
             Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation
                   http://www.evostar.org/2017/cfp_evocop.php
			
                            April 19 - April 21, 2017
                             Amsterdam, The Netherlands
			
                   Part of Evo* 2017 (http://www.evostar.org)
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The 17th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial
Optimisation is a multidisciplinary conference that brings together researchers
working on evolutionary computation methods and other metaheuristics for
solving difficult combinatorial optimisation problems appearing in various
industrial, economic, and scientific domains. Prominent examples of
metaheuristics include: evolutionary algorithms, estimation of distribution
algorithms, swarm intelligence methods such as ant colony and particle swarm
optimisation, local search methods such as simulated annealing, tabu search,
variable neighbourhood search, iterated local search, scatter search and path
relinking, and their hybridisation, such as memetic algorithms. Automatic
algorithm configuration and design, meta-optimisation, model-based methods, and
hyperheuristics are also of interest. Successfully solved problems include, but
are not limited to, multi-objective, uncertain, dynamic and stochastic problems
in the context of scheduling, timetabling, network design, transportation and
distribution, vehicle routing, graph problems, satisfiability, energy
optimisation, cutting, packing, and planning problems.


The EvoCOP 2017 conference will be held in the city of Amsterdam, The
Netherlands, together with EuroGP (the 20th European Conference on Genetic
Programming), EvoMUSART (15th European conference on evolutionary and
biologically inspired music, sound, art and design) and EvoApplications
(specialist events on a range of evolutionary computation topics and
applications), in a joint event collectively known as EvoStar (Evo*).


**** Areas of Interest and Contributions ****

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Applications of metaheuristics to combinatorial optimisation problems
* Representation techniques
* Practical solution of NP-hard problems
* Neighbourhoods and efficient algorithms for searching them
* Variation operators for stochastic search methods
* Theoretical developments
* Constraint-handling techniques
* Parallelisation and grid computing
* Search space and landscape analyses
* Comparisons between different (also exact) methods
* Heuristics
* Genetic programming and Genetic algorithms
* Tabu search, iterated local search and variable neighbourhood search
* Ant colony optimisation
* Artificial immune systems
* Scatter search
* Particle swarm optimisation
* Memetic algorithms
* Hybrid methods and hybridisation techniques
* Matheuristics (hybrids of exact and heuristic methods)
* Hyper-heuristics and autonomous search
* Automatic algorithm configuration and design
* Metaheuristics and machine learning
* Surrogate-model-based methods
* Estimation of distribution algorithms
* String processing
* Scheduling and timetabling
* Network design
* Vehicle routing
* Graph problems
* Satisfiability
* Packing and cutting problems
* Energy optimisation problems
* Multi-objective optimisation
* Search-based software engineering


**** Publication Details ****

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, 5482, 6022, 6622, 7245, 7832,
8600, 9026 and 9595 for the previous proceedings).

**** Submission Details ****

Submissions must be original and not published elsewhere. The submissions will
be peer reviewed by members of the program committee. The authors of accepted
papers will have to improve their paper on the basis of the reviewers comments
and will be asked to send a camera ready version of their manuscripts. At least
one author of each accepted work has to register for the conference, attend the
conference and present the work.

The reviewing process will be double-blind, please omit information about the
authors in the submitted paper. Submit your manuscript in Springer LNCS format.

* Page limit: 16 pages

Submit your paper via https://myreview.saclay.inria.fr/evocop17
(Authors->Submit new paper)


**** Important Dates ****

EXTENDED DEADLINE: 15 November 2016
Notification: 9 January 2017
Camera-ready: 25 January 2017
Mandatory registration per paper: 1 February 2017
Student bursary deadline: 15 February 2017
Early registration discount: 1 March 2017
Registration deadline: 10 April 2017
EvoStar: 19-21 April 2017


**** EvoCOP Programme Chairs ****

     Bin Hu
     Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria
     bin.hu(at)ait.ac.at

     Manuel Lopez-Ibanez
     University of Manchester, United Kingdom
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