[alife] Call for GECCO-2012 Workshop Proposals

[William Rand]

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                        CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
   2011 GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE (GECCO-2012)

                     Sponsored by ACM SIGEVO
                  http://www.sigevo.org/GECCO-2012

The GECCO-2012 Program Committee invites proposals for workshops to be 
held in conjunction with the 2012 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation
Conference (GECCO-2012) in Philadelphia, USA July 7-11.

** Important Dates **
Deadline for Workshop Proposals:  November 7th, 2011
Notification of Acceptance:       November 28th, 2011
Information and Submissions:      wrand at umd.edu

GECCO workshops provide an excellent opportunity to meet people with
similar interests, to be exposed to cutting-edge research and to 
exchange  ideas in an informal setting. Ideally, a GECCO workshop should 
focus on a  specialized research area, on an emerging research field, or 
on  interdisciplinary research area between the genetic and evolutionary
computation community and other research fields. GECCO workshops can be
two hours, half day, or a full day long. The format can be decided by 
the organizers who are encouraged to plan interactive sessions (e.g,
debate/discussion sessions, brainstorming or problem solving sessions)
which cannot be easily accommodated in the GECCO conference program.
Proposals should be mailed to: wrand at umd.edu

Each proposal must be submitted as a plain text file and must contain 
the  following information:

1. A half page description of the workshop including a clear description
of the specific topics issues on which the workshop will focus should be
identified.

2. A brief (half page) discussion of why the topic is of interest to the
genetic and evolutionary computation community and about the workshop
target audience.

3. The estimated number of potential attendees, accepted papers and
submissions. If a previous edition of the workshop has already taken 
place,  then the previous number of submissions, accepted papers, and 
attendees  should be included.

4. A draft schedule of the workshop (with a duration of either 2 hours,
half day or a full day) highlighting the planned discussion sessions
(panels, Q&A, hands-on demonstrations, problem-solving sessions,
brainstorming, etc.)

5) The complete contact information of the workshop organizers (Postal
address, E-mail, phone and fax numbers, & WWW page).

6) A brief biography of the organizers with their photos

The proposal should be accompanied by the full CVs of the organizers in 
PDF format. These should include previous experience in workshop or 
conference organization.

The organizers of an accepted workshop are responsible for its
coordination, for its publicity (e.g., for sending out call for papers),
for collecting and reviewing the papers, for providing a list of 
accepted  papers and their authors, if applicable.

Attendance at the workshops will be open to all GECCO attendees.

Note that organizers, participants and presenters must register to 
the GECCO-2012 conference. Unfortunately, organizers of a workshop do 
not receive a reduction in the registration or accommodation costs at the 
conference. Accepted workshop papers will be collected by Sheridan/ACM 
Press, and  published in a separate workshop proceedings volume. Details 
and additional deadlines will be provided once it has been decided which 
workshops will  be accepted for GECCO-2012. All accepted Workshop Papers 
must use the ACM  template for papers and must follow all ACM formatting 
rules. Accepted  workshop papers that do not use the ACM template and/or 
do not adhere to ACM formatting rules will not be published.

The deadline for the submission of workshop proposal is November 7th, 
2011. Proposals should be submitted as plain text files (no HTML) with 
the  exception of the CVs which have to be submitted as PDFs. Workshop
organizers will be notified by November 28th whether the workshop 
proposal has been accepted.

GECCO is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery Special
Interest Group on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (SIGEVO). SIG
Services: 2 Penn Plaza, Suite 701, New York, NY, 10121, USA,
1-800-342-6626 (USA and Canada) or +212-626-0500 (Global).