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* The Evolutionary Art, Design, and Creativity Competition
* Demolition Derby
* GPUs for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation
* Visualizing Evolution Competition
* EvoRobocode Competition
* Simulated Car Racing Championship
* Industrial Challenge
to be held as part of the
2012 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2012)
July 7-11, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Organized by ACM SIGEVO
http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2012
GECCO-2012 offers seven competitions and each of them involves a
completely different challenge!
Individual deadlines are approaching for each of the competitions – but
it is not too late to participate!
Therefore, do not miss this opportunity to be part of GECCO and join the
GECCO-2012 Competitions - http://vimeo.com/37167767
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The Evolutionary Art, Design, and Creativity Competition
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The Evolutionary Art, Design, and Creativity Competition at the Genetic
and Evolutionary Computation Conference showcases the power of
evolutionary computation through human-quality artistic works or
creativity enhancing experiences generated by or with the assistance of
evolution. Entries can be music, images, sculptures, videos, or
interactive online experiences, but are not limited to these forms of
expression; the goal is that the submissions exhibit some form of
independent creativity through genetic and evolutionary computation.
Organizers: Christian Gagné, Amy K. Hoover, Jon McCormack
Submission deadline: June 15, 2012
Official Webpage: http://eadcc.sigevolution.org
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Demolition Derby
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The Demolition Derby 2012 competition challenges you to design a racing
car controller that manages to effectively crash into other cars while
avoiding being crashed itself. Thus, the goal is simple: Wreck all
opponent cars by crashing into them without getting wrecked yourself.
Demolition Derby takes place on a large circular track (surface: asphalt,
length: 640m, width: 90m, number of laps: 1000). The sensor information is
egocentric fostering the design and optimization of local interaction
routines. The last car standing is declared winner of the match.
Organizers: Martin V. Butz
Submission deadline: July 2, 2012
Official Webpage: http://cm.inf.uni-tuebingen.de/competitions
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GPUs for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation
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This competition focuses on the applications of genetic and evolutionary
computation that can maximally exploit the parallelism provided by
low-cost consumer graphical cards. The competition will award the best
applications both in terms of degree of parallelism obtained, in terms of
overall speed-up, and in terms of programming style.
Organizers: Simon Harding
Submission deadline: June 22nd 2012
Official Webpage: http://www.gpgpgpu.com/gecco2012/
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Visualizing Evolution Competition
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This competition aims to enable participants to exhibit their cutting edge
visualizations of evolutionary processes. The competition is a general set
of guidelines and a framework within which a variety of visualization and
interaction technologies can be used to portray current work in
evolutionary computing in a compelling and elucidating manner. Hopefully,
by visualizing these processes and applying techniques from scientific
visualization and visual analytics, new insights and a broader
understanding will be achieved.
Organizers: Nicholas Sinnott-Armstrong, Daniele Loiacono
Submission deadline: June 25, 2012
Official Webpage: https://sites.google.com/site/visualizingevo/
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EvoRobocode Competition
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EvoRobocode challenges you to apply Evolutionary Computation to design a
competitive robot tank for the Robocode game!
Robocode is a programming game, where the goal is developing in Java a
robot tank to fight against other tanks. Battles can be either run in
real-time and displayed on the screen or run in a batch mode without
visualization.
Organizers: Daniele Loiacono, Moshe Sipper
Submission deadline: June 22th, 2012
Official Webpage: https://sites.google.com/site/evorobocode/
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Simulated Car Racing Championship
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The goal of the championship is to design a controller for a racing car
that will compete on a set of unknown tracks first alone (against the
clock) and then against other drivers.
The controllers perceive the racing environment through a number of
sensors that describe the relevant features of the car surroundings (e.g.,
the track limits, the position of near-by obstacles), of the car state
(the fuel level, the engine RPMs, the current gear, etc.), and the current
game state (lap time, number of lap, etc.). The controller can perform the
typical driving actions (clutch, changing gear, accelerate, break,
steering the wheel, etc.)
Organizers: Daniele Loiacono, Luigi Cardamone, Pier Luca Lanzi
Submission deadline: June 25, 2012
Official Webpage: http://games.ws.dei.polimi.it/competitions/scr/
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Industrial Challenge
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Goal of the GECCO 2012 Industrial Challenge is to develop accurate
forecasting methods for electrical energy consumption profiles. Based on
real-world energy consumption time series data, as recorded by modern
smart metering equipment, these methods should provide accurate
predictions of electrical energy consumption. As smart metering involves
large volumes of streamed time series data to be processed in reasonable
time, acceptable forecasting methods must be accurate and computationally
efficient.
The winner is rewarded with an iPad, kindly sponsored by GreenPocket!
Organizers: Oliver Flasch, Martina Friese, Thomas Bartz-Beielstein,
Wolfgang Konen, Jens Neuhalfen, Pier Luca Lanzi, Jorn Mehnen
Submission deadline: June 22, 2012
Official Webpage: http://gociop.de/gecco-2012-industrial-challenge
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