[alife] EvoPhd 2010 CfP

Cecilia Di Chio cecilia at stams.strath.ac.uk
Tue Jan 12 14:49:53 PST 2010


************************ CALL FOR PAPERS ************************

EvoPhD 2010
Fifth European Graduate Student Workshop on Evolutionary Computation

Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
7th - 9th April 2010

This is the fifth European workshop on evolutionary
computation that focuses on the work of PhD students.
For the first time this year, submissions to EvoPhD are open
both to students who are still working on their PhD and
to researchers who have completed their work in 2009.

Moreover, starting from this year, EvoPhD has instituted the
**First European PhD award**, awarding the best PhD-summary
submission with the publication on the
*Journal of Artificial Evolution and Application* (JAEA).

The main aims of EvoPhD are (i) to give students feedback on the
current state of their thesis, and (ii) to give the opportunity to
newly finished researchers to present a summary of their
PhD work to an audience of internationally recognised experts
in the field of Evolutionary Computation.

As usual, the workshop also provides students with contacts and
professional networking opportunities, which helps them
to integrate into the community.

For students, the aim of a submission is to get
feedback on the current state of their thesis.
Submissions will be evaluated by members of a
high-quality committee that consists of long running
members of the community with the goal to provide
in-depth feedback. Students are required to submit a paper
that summarizes the research performed and planned as
part of their dissertation.

For new researchers, the workshop is an opportunity to give
broader visibility to their original research, both by presenting
to an audience of internationally recognised EC experts, and thanks to
the possibility to have their work published on an international
journal of EC.

The number of participants is limited. Accepted papers
will be published in a CD with ISSN 1974-4145, that will
be disseminated among the participants of the event.

The workshop is part of Evo*2010, which combined form
Europe's premier co-located events in the field of
evolutionary computing. The next event takes place in
Istanbul, Turkey. Featuring the latest in theoretical
and applied research, the topics include recent genetic
programming challenges, evolutionary and other meta-heuristic
approaches for combinatorial optimization, evolutionary
algorithms in the biosciences, in music and art domains, in
image analysis and signal processing systems, in hardware
optimisation and as applied to a range of industrial and
financial optimisation problems.


Evo*2010 web address: http://evostar.org


Topics include, but are not limited to,

* Any topic that fits in the scope of the conferences and
 workshops
* Bio-inspired computing, such as evolutionary computing,
 ant colony optimization, swarm intelligence, and neural
 networks
* Local optimisation methods (tabu search, simulated annealing)
* All flavours of evolutionary computation (genetic programming,
evolution strategies, genetic algorithms, memetic algorithms, etc.)
* Combinatorial optimisation with bio-inspired computing
* Application of evolutionary computation to real-life problems
* Hybrid architectures that include bio-inspired components
* Theory on a relevant area of bio-inspired computing


Submission Information

*The deadline for submission has been extended to the 31st January 2010.
*
The page limit is 14 A4 pages for students' submissions and
20 A4 pages for PhD summary submissions, both in Springer LCNS format.
Submissions should be e-mailed in PDF or gzipped postscript to
evophd at vanhemert.co.uk
* Please read the formatting and content guidelines on the web page
http://evostar.org *

Organising Committee

Program Chairs

   Jano van Hemert
   jano at vanhemert.co.uk
   University of Edinburgh, UK

   Mario Giacobini
   mario.giacobini at unito.it
   University of Torino, Italy

   Cecilia Di Chio
   cecilia at stams.strath.ac.uk
   University of Strathclyde, UK


Local Chair

   Şima Uyar
   Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
   etaner at itu.edu.tr


Publicity Chair

   Stephen Dignum
   University of Essex, United Kingdom
   sandig at essex.ac.uk


-- 
Cecilia Di Chio
PostDoctoral Researcher

Department of Statistics and Modelling Science, University of Strathclyde
Livingstone Tower, 26 Richmond Street, Glasgow, G1 1XH, UK
Tel: +44 (0)141 548 3599              Fax: +44 (0)141 552 2079

The University of Strathclyde is a charitable body, registered in Scotland,
number SC015263.



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