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                                EvoCOP 2002

              2ND EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION
                        IN COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION

                      Kinsale, Ireland, April 3-4, 2002

                               Call for Papers

                   http://www.ads.tuwien.ac.at/evocop2002
            http://evonet.dcs.napier.ac.uk/eurogp2002/evocop.html

Evolutionary algorithms have often been shown to be effective for difficult
combinatorial optimization problems appearing in various industrial,
economical, and scientific domains. Prominent examples of such problems are
transportation problems, vehicle routing, traveling salesperson,
satisfiability, packing, network design, or general mixed integer
programming.

This year's EvoCOP 2001 (http://www.ads.tuwien.ac.at/evocop2001) was the
first international event specifically dedicated to the application of
evolutionary computation to combinatorial optimization problems. It gave
researchers a good opportunity to present their latest research and to
discuss current developments and applications, besides stimulating closer
future interaction between members of this scientific community. The success
of EvoCOP 2001 was documented by 31 submitted and 23 accepted papers, which
were published by Springer in the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science
(LNCS), Volume 2037.

EvoCOP 2002 wants to bring researchers in the field together once again.
Each accepted paper will be presented orally at the workshop and printed in
the proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series.

The workshop is sponsored by EvoNet, the Network of Excellence in
Evolutionary Computing, and will be held in conjunction with EuroGP2002, the
European Conference on Genetic Programming (April 3-5), EvoIASP, the 4th
European Workshop on Image Analysis and Signal Processing, and EvoSTIM, the
3rd European Workshop on Scheduling and Timetabling.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

   * Applications of evolutionary algorithms and related heuristics like
     simulated annealing or ant systems to combinatorial optimization
     problems
   * Representation techniques
   * Evolutionary operators
   * Constraint-handling techniques
   * Hybrid methods
   * Parallelization
   * Theoretical developments, search space analyses
   * Comparisons between different (also non-evolutionary) techniques

Submissions

To submit, send your manuscript (postscript or PDF, maximum length: 10 A4
pages) via email to [log in to unmask] no later than November 4,
2001. Formatting instructions can be found at
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/instruct/typeinst.pdf The papers will be
peer reviewed by three members of the program committee. Authors will be
notified via email on the results of the review by December 1, 2001.

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 by December 20, 2001.

By submitting a camera-ready paper, the author(s) agree that at least one
author will attend and present each accepted paper at the workshop.


Organizing Commitee:

EvoCOP Chairs:

     Jens Gottlieb
     SAP AG
     Neurottstr. 16
     69190 Walldorf, Germany
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     phone: +49(6227)7-49356
     fax: +49(6227)78-32766

     Guenther Raidl
     Institute of Computer Graphics and Algorithms
     Vienna University of Technology
     Favoritenstr. 9-11/186
     1040 Vienna, Austria
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     www.ads.tuwien.ac.at/people/Raidl.html
     phone: +43(1)58801-18616
     fax: +43(1)58801-18699

EvoCOP 2001 Program Committee:

   * Edmund Burke (UK)
   * Jie Cheng (USA)
   * David Corne (UK)
   * Carlos Cotta-Porras (Spain)
   * Peter Cowling (UK)
   * David Fogel (USA)
   * Jin-Kao Hao (France)
   * Michiel de Jong (The Netherlands)
   * Bryant Julstrom (USA)
   * Dimitri Knjazew (Germany)
   * Joshua Knowles (UK)
   * Gabriele Kodydek (Austria)
   * Mario Koeppen (Germany)
   * Jozef Kratica (Yugoslavia)
   * Ivana Ljubic (Austria)
   * Elena Marchiori (The Netherlands)
   * Dirk Mattfeld (Germany)
   * Helmut Mayer (Austria)
   * Zbigniew Michalewicz (USA)
   * Martin Middendorf (Germany)
   * Georgios Papadimitriou (Greece)
   * Colin Reeves (UK)
   * Marc Reimann (Austria)
   * Franz Rothlauf (Germany)
   * Marc Schoenauer (France)
   * Thomas Stuetzle (Germany)
   * Christine Valenzuela (UK)


Timetable :

 Submission deadline:        November 4, 2001
 Notification of acceptance: December 1, 2001
 Camera ready due:           December 20, 2001
 Workshop:                   April 3-4, 2002

Contacts:

For any information please contact the EvoCOP chairs Jens Gottlieb and
Guenther Raidl