[alife] Analysis of Genetic Representations and Operators at CEC-2007: Deadline Extended March 31

[Jorge Tavares]

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Dear Colleague,

The submission deadline of AGRO 2007 has been extended to March 31,  
2007.

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                         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.


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