[alife] Final CFP: AGRO 2007, a Special Session of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC'07)

[jast at dei.uc.pt]

[[ Apologize for multiple copies ]]

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

                        Call 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


Motivation:

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


Paper Submission:

Manuscripts should be prepared according to the standard format of regular
papers specified in CEC2007 and be restricted to a maximum of 8 pages.
Paper submission is strictly only PDF format and online through the regular
CEC2007 submission website. Special session papers will be treated in the
same way as regular papers and included in the conference proceedings.


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).


Program Committee:

Ajith Abraham, Yonsei University, South Korea
Ana Madureira, Polytechnic Institute of Oporto, Portugal
Bryant Julstrom, St. Cloud State University, USA
Carlos Cotta, University of Malaga, Spain
Ernesto Costa, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Fernando Lobo, University of Algarve, Portugal
Franz Rothlauf, University of Mannheim, Germany
Guenther Raidl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Jin-Kao Hao, University of Angers, France
Kay Chen Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Luis Correia, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Thomas Stuetzle, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Zbigniew Michalewicz, University of Adelaide, Australia


Special Session Organizers:

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

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





----------------------------------------------------------------
This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.