Fourth Call for Papers:
EvoCOP 2022 - The 22nd European Conference on
Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation
http://www.evostar.org/2022/evocop/
April 20 - 22, 2022
held as part of EvoStar (http://www.evostar.org)
Venue: *Somewhere On Earth!*
** EvoCOP is now CORE Rank B **
Submission deadline: November 1, 2021
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The 22nd European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial
Optimisation is a multidisciplinary conference that brings together
researchers
working on applications and theory of evolutionary computation methods and
other metaheuristics for solving difficult combinatorial optimisation
problems
appearing in various industrial, economic, and scientific domains.
Successfully solved problems include, but are not limited to,
multi-objective,
uncertain, dynamic and stochastic problems in the context of scheduling,
timetabling, network design, transportation and distribution, vehicle
routing,
stringology, graphs, satisfiability, energy optimisation, cutting, packing,
planning and search-based software engineering.
The EvoCOP 2021 conference will be held somewhere on Earth, together
with EuroGP (the 24th European Conference on Genetic Programming), EvoMUSART
(the 10th European conference on evolutionary and biologically inspired
music,
sound, art and design) and EvoApplications (the 24th European Conference on
the
Applications of Evolutionary Computation), and a new special track on
Evolutionary Machine Learning in a joint event collectively known as
EvoStar (Evo*).
Accepted papers will be published by Springer Nature in the Lecture Notes in
Computer Science series. (See https://link.springer.com/conference/evocop
for
previous proceedings.)
The best regular paper presented at EvoCOP 2022 will be distinguished
with a Best Paper Award.
EvoCOP conference is now ranked B in the CORE 2021 ranking:
http://portal.core.edu.au/conf-ranks/2195/
**** Areas of Interest and Contributions ****
EvoCOP welcomes submissions in all experimental and theoretical aspects of
evolutionary computation and other metaheuristics to combinatorial
optimisation
problems, including (but not limited to) the following areas:
* Applications of metaheuristics to combinatorial optimisation problems
* Theoretical developments
* Neighbourhoods and efficient algorithms for searching them
* Variation operators for stochastic search methods
* Constraint-handling techniques
* Parallelisation and grid computing
* Search space and landscape analyses
* Comparisons between different (also exact) methods
* Automatic algorithm configuration and design
Prominent examples of metaheuristics include (but are not limited to):
* Evolutionary algorithms
* Estimation of distribution algorithms
* Swarm intelligence methods such as ant colony and particle swarm
optimisation
* Artificial immune systems
* Local search methods such as simulated annealing, tabu search, variable
neighbourhood search, iterated local search, scatter search and path
relinking
* Hybrid methods such as memetic algorithms
* Matheuristics (hybrids of exact and heuristic methods)
* Hyper-heuristics and autonomous search
* Surrogate-model-based methods
Notice that, by tradition, continuous/numerical optimisation is *not* part
of
the topics of interest of EvoCOP. Interested authors might consider
submitting
to other EvoStar conferences such as EvoApplications.
**** Submission Details ****
Paper submissions must be original and not published elsewhere. The
submissions
will be peer reviewed by members of the program committee. The reviewing
process will be double-blind, please omit information about the authors in
the
submitted paper. Submit your manuscript in Springer LNCS format:
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0
Page limit: 16 pages
Submission link: coming soon
The authors of accepted papers will have to improve their paper on the
basis of
the reviewers' comments and will be asked to send a camera-ready version of
their manuscripts. At least one author of each accepted work has to register
for the conference, attend the conference and present the work.
**** Important Dates ****
Submission deadline: November 1, 2021
EvoStar: April 20-22, 2022
**** EvoCOP Programme Chairs ****
Leslie Pérez Cáceres
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile
leslie.perez@pucv.cl<mailto:leslie.perez@pucv.cl>
Sébastien Verel
Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale (ULCO), France
verel@univ-littoral.fr<mailto:verel@univ-littoral.fr>
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Leslie Pérez Cáceres
Escuela de Ingeniería Informática
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso
Directora Diplomado en Inteligencia Artificial http://diplomadoia.inf.ucv.cl
Co-chair , EvoCOP 2022, April 20-22 http://www.evostar.org/2022/evocop/
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