VISUALISING EVOLUTION COMPETITION
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
Submission Deadline for this competition: June 10th, 2013
GOAL
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 (the data is available from the competition website,
http://www.vizgec.ex.ac.uk/competition/index.php). 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.
RULES
Entries to the Visualising Evolution Competition should comprise a program and
relevant data. If the competition data is not used, competitors should submit
data collected from running an evolutionary computing algorithm along with their
visualisation program. The materials required for submission are as follows:
* The visualisation program and any instructions necessary to install and run
it;
* Data for the application if the competition data is not used;
* A two-page description of the visualisation program, the evolutionary
process being visualised, and any insight gained through use of the
visualisation.
SCORING
The submissions will be scored by an expert panel, which will judge based on the
criteria of originality, quality, and relevance:
* Originality: this criterion is primarily to show that a submission is unique
and creative;
* Quality: a submission scoring high on this criterion will be visually
appealing, easy to interact with, and easy to interpret;
* Relevance: this criterion evaluates the submission on its relevance and
applicability to real world evolutionary problems.
SUBMISSION
All submissions should be sent to [log in to unmask] by June 10th 2013. The
authors of the best entry will be invited to submit a paper to a special issue
the Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines journal covering the GECCO
competitions.
