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* EvoCOMPLEX 2018 - Evolutionary Algorithms and Complex Systems
* Parma, Italy, 4-6 April 2018
* A track of EvoApplications, part of Evo* 2018 (http://www.evostar.org)
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* Extended submission Deadline: 10 November 2017
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SCOPE
Complex systems are ubiquitous in physics, economics, sociology, biology, computer science, and many other scientific areas. Typically, a complex system is composed of smaller aggregated components, whose interaction and interconnectedness are non-trivial (e.g., interactions can be high-dimensional and non-linear, and/or the connectivity can exhibit non-trivial topological features such as power-law degree distribution, and high clustering coefficient). This leads to emergent properties of the system, not anticipated by its isolated components. Furthermore, when the system behaviour is studied form a temporal perspective, self-organisation patterns typically arise.
Studying complex systems requires composite strategies that employ various different algorithms to solve a single difficult problem. Components of such strategies may solve consecutive phases leading to the main goal (for example, consider an oil deposit exploration strategy composed of a complex memetic search algorithm and of a direct FEM solver), may be used to approach particular sub-tasks from different perspectives (as, for example, in multi-scale approaches), or may solve the main problem in different ways that are aggregated to form the final solution (as, for example, in hyper-heuristics, island GAs or multi-physics approaches).
EvoCOMPLEX 2018 covers all aspects of the interaction of evolutionary algorithms -and metaheuristics in general- with complex systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the use of evolutionary algorithms for the analysis or design of complex systems, such as for example:
- complex networks, e.g., social networks, ecological networks, interaction networks, etc.
- chaotic systems- self-organizing systems, such as e.g., multiagent systems, social systems, etc.
- iterated function systems and cellular automata
- multi-scale, multi-physics and multi-goal systems
- other complex systems not included above
Relevant topics also include the use of complex systems and tools thereof to model, analyse or improve the performance of straightforward and complex evolutionary-based strategies evolutionary algorithms, such as for example:
- complex population structures
- synergy of component algorithms
- self-organized criticality and emergent behavior
- attractors
- convergence, computational complexity and stopping conditions
- other applications of complex systems to EAs.
PUBLICATION DETAILS
Accepted papers will appear in the proceedings of EvoApplications, published in a volume of the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, which will be available at the Conference. Submissions must be original and not published elsewhere. The submissions will be peer reviewed by at least three 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 and attend the conference and present the work.
This year EvoApplications is accepting two kinds of submission: full papers and short papers. Full papers require novel and complete research work and have a limit of 16 pages. Short papers should present complete research or interesting preliminary results and have a limit of 8 pages. Both types of submission will undergo the same double blind review process and all accepted papers will be included in the LNCS proceedings. Based on reviewers’ assessment, accepted full papers will be presented as full length talks, and authors of accepted short papers will present a short talk as well as present a poster. All authors of accepted papers will be given the opportunity to further disseminate their work in poster sessions.
Selected EvoApplications papers will be invited to submit to a special issue of the Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines (2016 Impact Factor: 1.514)
SUBMISSION DETAILS
Submissions must be original and not published elsewhere. They will be peer reviewed by members of the program committee. The reviewing process will be double-blind, so please omit information about the authors in the submitted paper. Submit your manuscript in Springer LNCS format. Please provide up to five keywords in your Abstract. Page limit: 8 pages (short papers) or 16 pages (full papers).
Submission link: https://myreview.saclay.inria.fr/evoapps18/
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission Deadline: 10 November 2017
Notification: 3 January 2018
Camera-ready: 15 January 2018
EvoStar dates: 4-6 April 2018
EvoCOMPLEX Track Chairs
Carlos Cotta
Universidad de Málaga, Spain
ccottap(At)lcc.uma.es
Robert Schaefer
AGH University of Science and Technology,Poland
schaefer(At)agh.edu.pl
