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9th Workshop on Evolutionary Computation for the Automated Design of Algorithms (ECADA)
13-17 July 2019 @ GECCO 2019, Prague, Czech Republic
Submission deadline: April 3, 2019
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CALL FOR PAPERS
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We welcome original submissions on all aspects of Evolutionary Computation for the Automated Design of Algorithms, in particular, evolutionary computation methods and other hyper-heuristics for the automated design, generation or improvement of algorithms
that can be applied to any instance of a target problem domain. Relevant methods include methods that evolve whole algorithms given some initial components as well as methods that take an existing algorithm and improve it or adapt it to a specific domain. Another
important aspect in automated algorithm design is the definition of the primitives that constitute the search space of hyper-heuristics. These primitives should capture the knowledge of human experts about useful algorithmic components (such as selection, mutation
and recombination operators, local searches, etc.) and, at the same time, allow the generation of new algorithm variants. Examples of the application of hyper-heuristics, including genetic programming and automatic configuration methods, to such frameworks
of algorithmic components are of interest to this workshop, as well as the (possibly automatic) design of the algorithmic components themselves and the overall architecture of metaheuristics. Therefore, relevant topics include (but are not limited to):
- Applications of hyper-heuristics, including general-purpose automatic algorithm configuration methods for the design of metaheuristics, in particular evolutionary algorithms, and other algorithms for application domains such as optimization, data mining,
machine learning, image processing, engineering, cyber security, critical infrastructure protection, and bioinformatics.
- Novel hyper-heuristics, including but not limited to genetic programming based approaches, automatic configuration methods, and online, offline and life-long hyper-heuristics, with the stated goal of designing or improving the design of algorithms.
- Empirical comparison of hyper-heuristics.
- Theoretical analyses of hyper-heuristics.
- Studies on primitives (algorithmic components) that may be used by hyper-heuristics as the search space when automatically designing algorithms.
- Automatic selection/creation of algorithm primitives as a preprocessing step for the use of hyper-heuristics.
- Analysis of the trade-off between generality and effectiveness of different hyper-heuristics or of algorithms produced by a hyper-heuristic.
- Analysis of the most effective representations for hyper-heuristics (e.g., Koza style Genetic Programming versus Cartesian Genetic Programming).
- Asynchronous parallel evolution of hyper-heuristics.
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IMPORTANT DATES
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- Submission deadline: April 3, 2019
- Notification of acceptance: April 17, 2019
- Camera-ready deadline: April 24, 2019
- Author registration deadline: April 24, 2019
- Workshop: one day during GECCO 2019 which runs from July 13 to 17, 2019
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PAPER SUBMISSION
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Workshop papers must be submitted using the GECCO submission system (
https://ssl.linklings.net/conferences/gecco/). After login, the authors need to select the
"Workshop Paper" submission form. In the form, the authors must select the workshop they are submitting to. To see a sample of the "Workshop Paper" submission form go to GECCO's submission site and chose "Sample Submission Forms". Submitted papers must not
exceed 8 pages (excluding references) and are required to be in compliance with the GECCO 2019 Papers Submission Instructions (
https://gecco-2019.sigevo.org/index.html/Papers+Submission+Instructions).
It is recommended to use the same templates as the papers submitted to the main tracks. It is not required to remove the author information. All accepted papers will be presented at the corresponding workshop and appear in the GECCO Conference Companion Proceedings.
By submitting a paper, the author(s) agree that, if their paper is accepted, they will:
- Submit a final, revised, camera-ready version to the publisher on or before the camera-ready deadline
- Register at least one author before April 24, 2019 to attend the conference
- Attend the conference (at least one author)
- Present the accepted paper at the conference
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WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
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The schedule will be announced on the workshop website shortly after the paper acceptance notification deadline.
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CO-CHAIRS (in alphabetical order)
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