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[Last CFP, Apologies for multiple postings] =============================================================================== Workshop on Landscape-Aware Heuristic Search http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/events/gecco2017-landscape/ Held in conjunction with the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2017) Berlin, Germany, 15-19 July 2017 =============================================================================== IMPORTANT DATES =============== Submission deadline: 29 March 2017 Acceptance notification: 10 April 2017 Workshop date (TBC): 15 or 16 July 2017 ABOUT THE WORKSHOP ================== Fitness landscape analysis and visualisation can provide significant insights into problem instances and algorithm behaviour. The aim of the workshop is to encourage and promote the use of landscape analysis to improve the understanding, the design and, eventually, the performance of search algorithms. Examples include landscape analysis as a tool to inform the design of algorithms, landscape metrics for online adaptation of search strategies, mining landscape information to predict instance hardness and algorithm runtime. The workshop will focus on, but not be limited to, topics such as: - Evolvability and searchability characterisation - Exploiting problem structure - Exploratory landscape analysis - Fitness landscape analysis - Fitness landscape visualisation - Fitness landscape theory - Grey-box optimisation - Informed search strategies - Local optima networks - Multi-objective fitness landscapes - Performance and failure prediction SUBMISSIONS =========== - We invite submissions of the following types of papers: - research papers (up to 8 pages) - software libraries/packages (up to 2 pages) - position papers (up to 2 pages) - Submissions of early and in-progress work are encouraged. - Papers should be in ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) format, see GECCO 2017 (http://gecco-2017.sigevo.org/) for details, and submitted as PDF files. Submissions for this workshop are not anonymised. - Accepted submissions will be presented during the workshop and will appear in the GECCO Companion proceedings. - Papers should be submitted through the workshop's Easychair page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lhs2017gecco ORGANISERS ========== Nadarajen Veerapen, Fabio Daolio, Arnaud Liefooghe, Sébastien Verel and Gabriela Ochoa University of Stirling, Scotland, UK Université Lille 1, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France Inria Lille-Nord Europe, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale, Calais, France ========== All questions about submissions should be emailed to [log in to unmask] http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/events/gecco2017-landscape/