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* The Evolutionary Art, Design, and Creativity Competition
* GPUs for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation
* Visualizing Evolution Competition
* EvoRobocode Competition
* Simulated Car Racing Championship
* Industrial Challenge

to be held as part of the
2013 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2013)
July 6-10, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Organized by ACM SIGEVO
http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2013
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GECCO-2013 offers six 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!


Also don't forget the great opportunities offered by GECCO-2013 
competitions:


# Win an NVIDIA TESLA K20 GPU (more info at goo.gl/VTaVr)

# Publish on a special issue of GPEM (see http://goo.gl/b0p1V)


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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
Submission deadline: June 14, 2013
Official Webpage: http://eadcc.geccocompetitions.com

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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: Daniele Loiacono, Antonino Tumeo
Submission deadline: June 14, 2013
Webpage: http://gpu.geccocompetitions.com

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Visualizing Evolution Competition
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This competition is designed to enable participants to exhibit their
cutting edge visualisations of evolutionary processes. The
competition has two streams: the first involves visualising the
evolution of a solution set to an optimisation problem using data
generated during the running of an evolutionary algorithm; this data
will be provided by the competition organisers. In the second stream,
researchers can submit a visualisation of their own data, provided it
falls within the remit of evolutionary computing. The goal of the
competition is to find visualisations that enhance our understanding
of evolutionary processes.

Organizers: David Walker, Richard Everson, Jonathan Fieldsend
Submission deadline: June 10, 2013
Official Webpage: http://viz.geccocompetitions.com

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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 21, 2013
Official Webpage: http://evorobocode.geccocompetitions.com

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Simulated Car Racing Competition
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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, Pier Luca Lanzi
Submission deadline: June 21, 2013
Webpage: http://scr.geccocompetitions.com

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Industrial Challenge
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This competition is accomplished with a partner from industry who
strives to develop innovative and reliable smart home control systems.
Accordingly the goal of this challenge is to develop accurate and
efficient forecasting methods and to apply them to real-world smart
home time series data.

Organizers: M. Friese, O. Flasch, O. Mersmann, T. Bartz-Beielstein
Submission deadline: May 31, 2013 
Official Webpage: http://ic.geccocompetitions.com