[alife] CFP: Analysis of Genetic Representations and Operators - a Special Session of CEC2007

[Jorge Tavares]

                                                                       C 
all for Papers

                                        Analysis of Genetic  
Representations and Operators
                                                                         
  (AGRO 2007)
                                                               http:// 
agro2007.dei.uc.pt


                 A Special Session of the 2007 IEEE Congress on  
Evolutionary Computation
                                                                         
  (CEC 2007)
                                                    Singapore,  
September 25-28, 2007
                                                            http:// 
www.cec2007.org/


This Special session will focus on the analysis and design of Genetic  
Representations and
Operators in Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs). In the past few years,  
EAs have been successfully
applied to a large number of optimization problems. Nevertheless,  
most of the research deals with
applying an EA to a new problem or applying a new EA to an existing  
one. In most of these studies,
the focus is on showing how the EA was able to solve the problem (or  
find better solutions) and not
why it was able to solve it.

The choice of a genetic representation and the associated operators  
cannot be made
independently of each other as both of them are crucial to the  
efficiency of the optimisation
algorithm. The question whether a certain representation leads to  
better performing EAs than an
alternative representation (and the respective operators) is crucial  
to our understanding on why an
EA can solve the problem successfully.


Topics of Interest:
- Representation techniques and evolutionary operators;
- Theoretical and empirical properties of representations and/or  
operators;
- Predictive performance measures;
- Search space analysis;
- Promising directions for future research.

	
Important Dates
Paper Submission: March 15, 2007
Decision Notification: May 15, 2007
Camera-ready Submission: June 15, 2007


Best of AGRO 2007: Special Issue from the International Journal on  
Natural Computing
Improved versions of selected papers accepted for presentation at  
AGRO-2007 will be invited for
submission to a Special Issue of the International Journal on Natural  
Computing (Springer).


Paper Submission:
Manuscripts should be prepared according to the standard format of  
regular papers specified in
CEC2007 webpage and be restricted to a maximum of 8 pages. Paper  
submission is strictly only
PDF format and online through the regular CEC2007 submission website at:
http://ieee-cis.org/conferences/cec2007/upload.php
Please submit to the main research topic designated as “SS01”:  
Analysis of Genetic
Representations and Operators”. Special session papers will be  
treated in the same way as regular
papers and included in the conference proceedings.



Special Session Organizers:

Francisco B. Pereira (xico [at] dei [dot] uc [dot] pt)
Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra,
Portugal

Jorge Tavares (jast [at] dei [dot] uc [dot] pt)
University of Coimbra,
Portugal