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FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
EvoCOP 2010
The Tenth European Conference on Evolutionary Computation
and Metaheuristics in Combinatorial Optimization
Istanbul, Turkey, 7-9 April 2010
(Submission deadline 4th November 2009)
http://www.evostar.org
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Topics
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Metaheuristics are used to solve difficult combinatorial optimization
problems appearing in various industrial, economic, and scientific domains.
Prominent examples of metaheuristics include: evolutionary algorithms,
simulated annealing, tabu search, scatter search and path relinking, memetic
algorithms, ant colony and particle swarm optimization, variable
neighborhood search, iterated local search, greedy randomized adaptive
search procedures, estimation of distribution algorithms, and
hyperheuristics. 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 broadened
its scope in 2006, and now explicitly invites submissions on any kind of
metaheuristic for combinatorial optimization. All accepted papers will be
presented orally at the conference and printed in the proceedings published
by Springer in the LNCS series (see LNCS volumes 2037, 2279, 2611, 3004,
3448, 3906, 4446, 4972 and 5482 for the previous proceedings).
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Applications of metaheuristics to combinatorial optimization problems
- Novel application domains for metaheuristic optimisation methods
- 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
- Automated tuning of metaheuristics using machine learning, evolutionary
and other approaches
The conference will be held in conjunction with EuroGP2010 (the 13th
European Conference on Genetic Programming), EvoBIO 2010 (the 8th European
Conference on Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning and Data Mining in
Bioinformatics), and EvoWorkshops 2010 (including specialist workshops on a
range of evolutionary computation topics and applications), in a joint event
collectively known as EvoStar 2010.
Submission
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Submissions will be done electronically using the online submission service.
More details will be available at the conference website
http://www.evostar.org
Papers must be formatted following Springer LNCS guidelines, with no more
than 12 pages. The submission deadline is 4th November, 2009.
IMPORTANT: The reviewing process will be double-blind, so please omit
information about the authors in the submitted paper. The submissions will
be peer reviewed by at least three members of the program committee.
Program Chairs
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Peter Cowling (University of Bradford, UK)
Peter Merz (Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Germany)
More Information
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More detailed information on the event, including venue, committees, contact
addresses, etc., can be found at the Evo* homepage:
http://www.evostar.org
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