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FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
EvoCOP 2007
Seventh European Conference on Evolutionary Computation
(and metaheuristics) in Combinatorial Optimization
Valencia, Spain, 11-13 April 2007
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, and 3906 for the previous proceedings). In addition,
negotiations are underway for post-publication of extended versions
of selected papers.
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 10th European
Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP2007), the Fifth European
Conference on Evolutionary Computation (EvoBIO2007) and EvoWorkshops2007,
a collection of application-oriented workshops in the field of
evolutionary computation.
Submission
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Submit your manuscript (PDF or postscript, max. 12 pages, Springer LNCS
style) electronically using the online submission service at
http://evonet.lri.fr/EvoCOP07-Submission/
no later than November 10, 2006. 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.
Authors will be notified on the results of the review by December 15, 2006.
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 by January 8, 2007.
Important Dates
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Submission deadline: 10 November 2006
Notification of acceptance: 15 December 2006
Camera ready papers due: 8 January 2007
Events: 11-13 April 2007
Program Chairs
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Carlos Cotta (Universidad de Malaga, Spain)
Jano van Hemert (National e-Science Institute, University of Edinburgh, 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
