Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. ==================================================================== === Artificial Evolution 2015 (EA-2015) === === EA-2015 https://ea2015.inria.fr/ === === Lyon - France - 26-28 October 2015 === === SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Extended May 11th 2015 === ==================================================================== The Biennial International Conference on Artificial Evolution (EA-2015) will celebrate its 12th anniversary from 26 to 28 October 2015 in Lyon, France. Authors are invited to submit original papers related, but not limited to the following topics: - Evolutionary computation, evolutionary optimization, co-evolution, natural computing, soft computing. - Nature or biologically-inspired paradigm (swarm intelligence, artificial ants, artificial immune systems, cultural algorithms, scatter search and path relinking, quantum annealing etc). - Estimation of distribution algorithms and other methods based on probabilistic models. - Artificial Life, population dynamics. - Theory, algorithm design and evaluation, implementations. - Genetic Programming - Application of evolutionary paradigms to the Real World (biosciences, industry, social-economic sciences etc). Continuous and global Optimization, combinatorial and discrete optimization. - Multi-objective optimization, dynamic optimization, constraint handling. - Memetic algorithms. - Machine Learning and hybridization with other soft computing techniques. - Bioinformatics - Evolutionary robotics… The 2015 edition will continue the tradition which has been progressively established during its previous editions: - Quality: With a rigorous selection by a high profile International Program Committee, the selected papers (12 pages, LNCS format) are planned to be published by Springer (like for all previous editions). - Comfort: The single session formula of 30mn presentations eases fruitful exchanges between the authors and participants. - Best value: As a non-profit conference, only minimal conference fees are required to cover conference facilities, conference proceedings, lunches, coffee breaks, a social event and the conference banquet dinner. =============== Important dates • Conference: 26-28 October 2015 • Submission extended deadline: 11 May 2015 • Notification of acceptance: 21 June 2015 • Camera-ready paper: 12 July 2015 =============== Paper submission When submitting a paper to EA-2015, authors shall select one of the following three types of submission: • Long-size paper: original unpublished work in the classical format (max 14 pages, in Springer LNCS style). Any submission accepted as a long-size paper will be presented as an oral presentation during the conference (20 min talk + 10 min for questions). • Medium-size paper: original unpublished work in a shorter format (6-8 pages, in Springer LNCS style). Any submission accepted as a medium-size paper will be presented as a poster presentation during the conference (+ 2 min for oral presentation). • Oral presentation only: typically a paper that has already been published elsewhere which might be relevant in the scope of the conference (no restriction, any format). Any submission accepted as an oral-only paper will be presented as an oral presentation during the conference. Notice that an oral-only submission will appear in the conference pre-proceedings, but will NOT appear in the Springer LNCS post-proceedings. ============== Organizing Committee - Stéphane Bonnevay (General Chair, Local Organisation) - Véronique Deslandres (Local Organisation) - Eric Duchene (Local Organisation) - Aurelien Dumez (Admin Web) - Gérald Gavin (Local Organisation) - Laetitia Jourdan (Publicity) - Pierrick Legrand (LNCS Publication) - Sébastien Vérel (Treasurer) Steering Committee - Stéphane Bonnevay - Pierre Collet - Pierrick Legrand - Evelyne Lutton - Nicolas Monmarché - Marc Schoenauer --------------------------- Pr. Laetitia Jourdan CRIStAL/INRIA/Université Lille 1 INRIA Bureau B112 40, Avenue Halley 59650 Villeneuve d’Ascq Cedex FRANCE Mail: [log in to unmask] Phone INRIA: +33 (0)3 59 35 86 31 Phone IEEA/CRIStAL: +33 (0)3 28 77 85 82 Fax : +33 3(0)3 59 57 78 50