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=== Lyon - France - 26-28 October 2015 ===

=== SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Extended May 21th 2015 ===

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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.

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Important dates
• Conference: 26-28 October 2015

• Submission extended deadline: 21 May 2015

• Notification of acceptance: 21 June 2015

• Camera-ready paper: 12 July 2015

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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• Long-size paper: original unpublished work in the classical format (max 14 pages, in Springer LNCS style).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.

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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