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EvoCOP 2015 - The 15th European Conference on
Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation
http://www.evostar.org/2015/cfp_evocop.php
*** EXTENDED DEADLINE: NOV. 25th, 2014 ***
April 08-10, 2015
Copenhagen, Denmark
Part of Evo* 2015 (http://www.evostar.org)
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The 15th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation is a multidisciplinary conference that brings together researchers working on metaheuristics for solving difficult combinatorial optimization problems appearing in various industrial, economic, and scientific domains. Prominent examples of metaheuristics include: evolutionary algorithms, simulated annealing, tabu search, scatter search and path relinking, memetic algorithms, ant colony and bee colony optimization, particle swarm optimization, variable neighbourhood 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, travelling salesman, graph problems, satisfiability, energy optimization problems, packing problems, planning problems, and general mixed integer programming.
The EvoCOP 2015 conference will be held in the city of Copenhagen, Denmark. It will be held in conjunction with EuroGP (the 18th European Conference on Genetic Programming), EvoMUSART (13th 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 Evo*.
**** Areas of Interest and Contributions ****
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Applications of metaheuristics to combinatorial optimization problems
Novel application domains for metaheuristic optimisation methods
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 and landscape analyses
Comparisons between different (also exact) techniques
Metaheuristics and machine learning
Ant colony optimisation
Artificial immune systems
Genetic programming and Genetic algorithms
(Meta-)heuristics
Scatter search
Particle swarm optimisation
Tabu search, iterated local search and variable neighborhood search
Memetic algorithms
Hyper-heuristics and autonomous search
Estimation of distribution algorithms
String processing
Scheduling and timetabling
Network design
Vehicle routing
Graph problems
Satisfiability
Packing and cutting problems
Energy optimization problems
Practical solving of NP-hard problems
Mixed integer programming
Multi-objective optimisation
Grid computing
Combinatorial optimisation
Nature and Bio-inspired methods
Quantum computing and quantum annealing
Optimization in Cloud computing
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 and 8600 for the previous proceedings).
**** Special Issue ****
The authors of selected papers accepted for the conference will be invited to submit an extended version of the paper to a Special Issue of Evolutionary Computation (MIT Press) on Combinatorial Optimization Problems. The Special Issue will be tentatively published in Winter 2016.
Guest editors: Francisco Chicano, Christian Blum and Gabriela Ochoa.
**** 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: 12 pages
* Submission link: http://myreview.csregistry.org/evocop15/
**** Important Dates ****
Submission deadline: 25. November 2014 (extended)
EVO* event: April 08-10, 2015
**** EvoCOP Programme Chairs ****
Gabriela Ochoa
University of Stirling, Scotland, UK
gabriela.ochoa(at)cs.stir.ac.uk
Francisco Chicano
University of Malaga, Spain
chicano(at)lcc.uma.es
