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27th ACM Symposium On Applied Computing
March 25-29, 2012
Riva del Garda, Trento, Italy
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For the past twenty-six years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing has been a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers from around the world. SAC 2012 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP), and is hosted by The Microsoft Research - University of Trento, Centre for Computational and Systems Biology, Trento, Italy.

The Evolutionary Computation (EC) track welcomes original, unpublished papers describing advances in and applications of evolutionary computation and related techniques, including genetic algorithms, evolution strategies, evolutionary programming, memetic algorithms, genetic programming, ant colony optimization, co-evolutionary algorithms, artificial immune systems, particle swarm optimization, and classifier systems. All accepted papers will appear in the SAC 2012 Proceedings. Selected papers, not accepted as full papers, will be accepted as poster papers. These will be presented at a poster session during the Symposium and will be published as two-page extended abstracts in the Proceedings.
Peer groups with expertise in the track focus area will blindly review submissions to that track. Accepted papers will be published in the annual conference proceedings. Submission guidelines can be found on SAC 2012 Website (http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2012/)
A paper may be submitted to only one track of SAC 2012.

GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION
* Papers should represent original and previously unpublished works that are currently not under review for any journal or other conference. Both basic and applied research papers are welcome.
* Submissions will be in electronic format via this web site: https://www.softconf.com/c/sac12-tp/
* Submission must follow ths template found at this URL: http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2012/
* Authors are allowed up to eight (8) pages in the specified format, but there is a charge of US$80 for each page over six (6).
* Authors' names and addresses must not appear in the body of the submitted papers, and self-references should be in the third person. This is to facilitate blind review.
* Begin the submission process by submitting your paper's abstract on the conference web site at the URL above.
* All submitted papers must include the paper identification number (assigned when the abstract is submitted) on the front page above the title of the paper.
* No author's name may appear on more than two papers accepted to the EC track.

Note also the guidelines in the general SAC 2012 Call for Papers
(http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2012/SAC2012-CFP.pdf).

IMPORTANT DATES (all deadlines will be strictly enforced)
Aug 31, 2011: Paper Submission
Sept 31, 2011: Tutorial Proposals
Oct 12, 2011: Author Notification
Nov 2, 2011: Camera-ready copies

For additional information, visit the SAC 2012 EC Track web page (www.upo.es/eps/SAC/EC-SAC2012.html) and the general  SAC 2012 web page
(http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2012/).

TRACK CHAIRS
Federico Divina, Raúl Giráldez Rojo
School of Engineering
Pablo de Olavide University
Seville, Spain
{fdivina,giraldez} AT upo DOT es
Phone: +34 954 977592
Fax: +34 9543 48689



Program Committee

Jaume Bacardit The University of Nottingham UK
Helio Barbosa LNCC Brazil
Carlos Barranco González Pablo de Olavide University Spain
Marcio Basgalupp University of Sao Paulo Brazil
Slim BECHIKH High Institute of Management of Tunis Tunis
Lamjed BEN SAID High Institute of Management of Tunis Tunis
Andre Carvalho University of Sao Paulo Brazil
Carlos Coello Coello CINVESTAV-IPN Mexico
Federico Divina Pablo de Olavide University Spain
Khaled GHEDIRA High Institute of Management of Tunis Tunis
Raúl Giráldez Rojo Pablo de Olavide University Spain
V. Scott Gordon California State University United States
Francisco Herrera University of Granada Spain
Bryant Julstrom St. Cloud State University United States
Walter Kosters Leiden University Netherlands
Elena Marchiori Radboud Universiteit van Nijmegen Netherlands
Juan Julian Merelo Guervos University of Granada Spain
Colm O'Riordan National University of Ireland Ireland
David Pelta University of Granada Spain
Beatriz Pontes Balanza University of Seville Spain
Jakob Puchinger Austrian Institute of Technology Austria
Cristina Rubio Escudero University of Seville Spain
Duncan Ruiz Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul Brazil
Marc Schoenauer Université Paris Sud France
Lucas Silva UVA Netherlands
Konsta Sirvio Sirway Ltd. Finland
Giovanni Squillero Politecnico di Torino Italy
Jorge Tavares INRIA France
Dirk Thierens University of Utrecht Netherlands
Claudio Toledo Universidade Federal de Lavras Brazil 
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Dr. Federico Divina
Assistant Professor
School of Engineering
Pablo de Olavide University
Seville, Spain
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