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FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
2015 GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE (GECCO-2015)
EVOLUTIONARY COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION AND METAHEURISTICS TRACK (ECOM-2015)
July 11-15, 2015, Madrid, Spain
Organized by ACM SIGEVO
http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2015/organizers-tracks.html#ecom
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ECOM-2015 aims to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of high quality research on metaheuristics for combinatorial optimization problems. Plenty of hard problems in a huge variety of areas, including logistics, network design, bioinformatics, engineering, business, etc., have been tackled successfully with metaheuristic approaches. For many problems the resulting algorithms are considered to be state-of-the-art. Apart from evolutionary algorithms, the class of metaheuristics includes prominent members such as tabu search, iterated local search, variable neighborhood search, memetic algorithms, simulated annealing, GRASP, ant colony optimization and others.
The ECOM track encourages original submissions on all aspects of evolutionary combinatorial optimization and metaheuristics, including, but not limited to:
• Applications of metaheuristics to combinatorial optimization problems
• Theoretical developments in combinatorial optimization and metaheuristics
• Representation techniques
• Neighborhoods and efficient algorithms for searching them
• Variation operators for stochastic search methods
• Search space and landscape analysis
• Comparisons between different (also exact) techniques
• Constraint-handling techniques
• Hybrid methods, adaptive hybridization techniques and Memetic Computing Methodologies
• Hyper-heuristics for combinatorial optimization problems
• Insight into problem characteristics of problem classes
IMPORTANT DATES:
January 21, 2015 Abstract submission
February 4, 2015 Full paper submission (hard deadline)
March 20, 2015 Notification of paper acceptance
April 14, 2015 Camera ready submission
July 11-15, 2015 GECCO 2015 Conference in Madrid, Spain
TRACK CHAIRS:
Carlos Cotta (University of Málaga, Spain): ccottap (at) lcc.uma.es
Francisco B. Pereira (Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra, Portugal): xico (at) dei.uc.pt
