[Apologies if you received multiple copies due to cross-posting] ========================================================== Special Session on /*Evolutionary Computation in Scheduling*/ 2012 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC'2012) at WCCI'2012 June 10-15, 2012, Brisbane, Australia http://www.ieee-wcci2012.org/ http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~rxq/CEC2012ECSched.html Extended submission deadline: /*Jan 18, 2011*/ ========================================================== Due to the challenges of many real world applications in both research and practice, scheduling problems have received a significant amount of attention in a range of disciplines including artificial intelligence, operations research, engineering and computer science. Problems range from classic production scheduling to various applications in education, industry and business sections. Different constraints, objectives as well as problem characteristics have to be considered while developing efficient and intelligent computational methods for these complex and large-scale problems. Evolutionary computation has shown to be one of the most effective intelligent algorithms for solving scheduling problems. This special session is being organized as an activity of the Technical Committee of Evolutionary Computation at IEEE, and aims to explore recent research advances on all aspects of evolutionary computation on scheduling problems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Theoretical or empirical analysis of evolutionary algorithms for scheduling problems - Benchmark problems and performance metrics - Dynamic scheduling problems - Single and multi-objective scheduling - Hybrid methods for scheduling problems - Case-based planning/scheduling - Evolutionary computation in various applications (educational timetabling, network routing, personnel scheduling, production scheduling, resource constrained project scheduling, sports scheduling, self-organization of wireless networks, etc.) - Experience of applying evolutionary computation in scheduling - Comparative studies and case studies Important dates and details of how to make submissions are available at the CEC'2012 web site at WCCI'2012 http://www.ieee-wcci2012.org/ Special Session Chairs: Dr Rong Qu; School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG8 1BB; e-mail: [log in to unmask] A/P Kay Chen Tan; Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore; e-mail: [log in to unmask] -- =================================== Dr Rong Qu School of Computer Science University of Nottingham Nottingham, NG8 1BB tel: ++44 115 8466503 fax: ++44 115 8467877 URL: http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~rxq/ Call For Papers: * Special Issue of Evolutionary Computation in Scheduling, & * Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Scheduling 2012 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2012) June 10-15, 2012, Brisbane, Australia * 2013 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling (CISched'13) Singapore, 15-19 April, 2013 ===================================