[alife] CALL FOR PAPERS - CEC 2012 Special Session on Complex Networks and Evolutionary Computation

[Weicai Zhong]

(apologies for cross-postings)
CALL FOR PAPERS

CEC 2012 Special Session on Complex Networks and Evolutionary Computation
Brisbane, Australia, 10-15 June, 2012

*Submission deadline: Dec 19, 2011

For CEC 2012: http://www.ieee-wcci2012.org/ieee-wcci2012/
For Special Session:
http://see.xidian.edu.cn/faculty/liujing/cec12_ss_complex_networks_ec.htm

The application of complex networks to evolutionary computation (EC) has
received considerable attention from the EC community in recent years. The
most well-known study should be the attempt of using complex networks, such
as small-world networks and scale-free networks, as the potential
population structures in evolutionary algorithms (EAs). Structured
populations have been proposed to as a means for improving the search
properties because several researchers have suggested that EAs populations
might have structures endowed with spatial features, like many natural
populations. Moreover, empirical results suggest that using structured
populations is often beneficial owing to better diversity maintenance,
formation of niches, and lower selection pressures in the population
favouring the slow spreading of solutions and relieving premature
convergence and stagnation. Moreover, the study of using complex networks
to analyse fitness landscapes and designing predictive problem difficulty
measures is also attracting increasing attentions. On the other hand, using
EAs to solve problems related to complex networks, such as community
detection, is also a popular topic.

This special session seeks to bring together the researchers from around
the globe for a creative discussion on recent advances and challenges in
combining complex networks and EAs. The special session will focus on, but
not limited to, the following topics:
    Complex networks and fitness landscape analysis
    Complex networks and problem difficulty prediction
    Evolutionary dynamics on complex networks
    Evolutionary algorithms based on complex networks
    Community detection using evolutionary algorithms
    Community detection using multi-objective evolutionary algorithms
    Real world applications of evolutionary algorithms based on complex
networks

Important Dates and Paper Submission:

Paper submission deadline:          Dec 19, 2011
Paper acceptance notification date: Feb 20, 2012
Final paper submission deadline:    April 2, 2012


Special Session Organizer:

    Jing Liu
    Key Laboratory of Intelligent Perception and Image Understanding of
Ministry of Education of China, Xidian University, China, Xi'an 710071,
Shaanxi,  China.
    neouma at mail.xidian.edu.cn
    http://see.xidian.edu.cn/faculty/liujing/


Program Committee:

    Ricardo M. Araujo, Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil (Confirmed)
    Lam T. Bui, The Le Quy Don Technical University, Vietnam (Confirmed)
    Yuehui Chen, University of Jinan, China (Confirmed)
    Manuel Clergue, Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, France
(Confirmed)
    David G. Green, Monash University, Australia (Confirmed)
    Yong-Hyuk Kim, Kwangwoon University, Korea (Confirmed)
    Luis C. Lamb, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
(Confirmed)
    Jing Liu, Xidian University, China
    Kourosh Neshatian, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
(Confirmed)
    Roberto Santana, University of the Basque Country, Spain (Confirmed)
    Andy Song, RMIT University, Australia (Confirmed)
    Sébastien Verel, University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France (Confirmed)
    Li Zhang, Soochow University, China (Confirmed)
    Mengjie Zhang, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
(Confirmed)