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Call for Papers -- Deadline Extended:
EvoCOP 2026 - The 26th European Conference on
Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation
https://www.evostar.org/2026/evocop/
April 8--10, 2026
held as part of EvoStar (https://www.evostar.org)
Venue: Toulouse, France
** EvoCOP is CORE Rank B **
Submission deadline: ** November 15, 2025 **
(Originally: November 1, 2025)
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The 26th 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.
Successfully addressed theoretical and translational challenges
encompass, but are not
limited to, the development and analysis of novel (components of)
evolutionary and other
metaheuristic algorithms, work on neighbourhood and landscape
structures, problem-agnostic
and problem-specific variation operators, parallelisation strategies,
and hybridizations.
The EvoCOP 2026 conference will be held together with EuroGP (the 29th
European Conference
on Genetic Programming), EvoMUSART (the 15th European conference on
evolutionary and
biologically inspired music, sound, art and design) and EvoApplications
(the 29th European
Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation), 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. Previous proceedings can be found in the EvoCOP
Conference Proceedings in
SpringerLink.
The best regular paper presented at EvoCOP 2026 will be distinguished
with a Best Paper
Award.
EvoCOP conference is 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 optimization problems
* Theoretical developments
* Neighborhoods and efficient algorithms for searching them
* Variation operators for stochastic search methods
* Constraint-handling techniques
* Parallelization 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.
Page limit: 14 + unlimited pages for references and acknowledgments
Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=evostar2026
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 ****
(New) submission deadline: ** November 15, 2025 **
EvoStar: April 8--10, 2026
**** EvoCOP Program Chairs ****
Martin Krejca
Ecole Polytechnique, IP Paris, France
martin.krejca@polytechnique.edu
Nelishia Pillay
University of Pretoria, South Africa
nelishia.pillay@up.ac.za
Please check the website for more information: http://www.evostar.org/
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