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CALL FOR PAPERS
EvoCOP 2006
6th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation
in Combinatorial Optimization
** with broadened scope! - see below **
Budapest, Hungary, April 10-12, 2006
http://evonet.lri.fr/eurogp2006/?page=evocop
Metaheuristics have often been shown to be effective for difficult
combinatorial optimization problems appearing in various industrial,
economical, and scientific domains. Prominent examples of
metaheuristics are evolutionary algorithms, simulated annealing, tabu
search, scatter search, memetic algorithms, ant colony optimization,
variable neighborhood search, iterated local search, greedy randomized
adaptive search procedures and estimation of distribution algorithms.
Successfully solved problems include scheduling, timetabling, network
design, transportation and distribution problems, vehicle routing,
traveling salesman, graph problems, satisfiability, packing problems,
planning problems, and general mixed integer programming.
The EvoCOP series, started in 2001 and held annually since then, was the
first event specifically dedicated to the application of evolutionary
computation and related methods to combinatorial optimization problems.
Following the general trend of hybrid metaheuristics and diminishing
boundaries between the different classes of metaheuristics, EvoCOP has
broadened its scope and now explicitly invites submissions on any kind
of metaheuristic for combinatorial optimization. Each accepted paper
will be presented orally at the conference and printed in the
proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Applications of metaheuristics to combinatorial optimization problems
- Representation techniques
- Neighborhoods and efficient algorithms for searching them
- Variation operators for stochastic search methods
- Constraint-handling techniques
- Hybrid methods and hybridization techniques
- Parallelization
- Theoretical developments
- Search space analyses
- Comparisons between different (also exact) techniques
Important Dates:
Submission deadline: November 4, 2005
Notification of acceptance: December 12, 2005
Camera ready papers due: January 9, 2006
Conference: April 10-12, 2006
See http://evonet.lri.fr/eurogp2006/?page=evocop for submission details
and further information.
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