GECCO '09 2009 - GECCO '09: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference A recombination of the 18th International Conference on Genetic Algorithms (ICGA) and the 14th Annual Genetic Programming Conference (GP)

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Category GECCO '09 2009

Deadline: January 28, 2009 | Date: July 08, 2009

Venue/Country: Montreal, Canada

Updated: 2010-06-04 19:32:22 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

2009 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference

Wednesday¨CSunday July 8¨C12, 2009 Montr¨¦al, Canada

Largest Conference in the Field of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation

A recombination of the 18th International Conference on Genetic

Algorithms (ICGA) and the 14th Annual Genetic Programming

Conference (GP)

www.sigevo.org/gecco-2009

Free Tutorials and Workshops: Two days of free

tutorials and workshops (included with conference

registration) presented by some of the world's foremost

experts in topics of interest to genetic and evolutionary

computation researchers and practitioners.

Proceedings will be published and distributed to all

registered attendees.

Review Process

Each paper submitted to GECCO will be rigorously

reviewed, in a blind review process, meaning that

reviewers should not be able to infer the identities of the

authors of the papers under review, and, of course, that

authors will not know the identities of their reviewers.

One of at least 15 separate and independent program

committees specializing in various aspects of genetic

and evolutionary computation review submitted papers.

These committees make their own final decisions on

submitted papers for their areas, subject only to

conference-wide space limitations and procedures.

Review criteria includes significance of the work, novelty,

clarity, writing quality, and sufficiency of information to

permit replication, if applicable.

GECCO notifies the first-named author (or other

corresponding author designated by the authors at

submission) of acceptance or rejection by March 11,

2009.

About the Conference Venue Delta Centre-Ville hotel is

located in the heart of downtown, where Old Montreal

and new Montreal blend seamlessly, and adjacent to

vibrant nightlife, boutique shops and eclectic cuisine. For

more information on Delta Centre-Ville, please visit

www.deltahotels.com/hotels/hotels.php?hotelId=35.

Visiting GECCO-2009 will be a great opportunity to visit

the Montr¨¦al Jazz Festival (July 2-12, 2009).

Program Tracks: Three

days of presentations of

the latest high-quality

results in 15 separate and

independent program

tracks specializing in

var ious aspec t s of

genetic and evolutionary

computation.

Submit a final, revised, camera-ready version

to the publisher by April 22, 2009.

Register at least one author to attend the

conference by April 27, 2009.

Attend the conference (at least one author).

Present the accepted paper at the conference.

More Information

Visit www.sigevo.org/gecco-2009 for information

about deadlines, student travel grants, hotel

reservations, student housing, student workshop, the

latest list of topics, late-breaking papers, and more.

For matters of science and program content,

contact Conference Chair Franz Rothlauf at

rothlaufuni-mainz.de.

For general help and administrative matters contact

Support at gecco-admintigerscience.com.

How to Submit a Paper

Meet the Submission Deadline: Wednesday,

January 14, 2009.

Submit substantially new work: The material in a

paper must represent substantially new work that has

not been previously published by conferences, journals,

or edited books in the genetic and evolutionary

computation field. GECCO allows submissions of

material that is substantially similar to a paper being

submitted contemporaneously for review in another

conference. However, if the submitted paper is accepted

by GECCO, the authors agree that substantially the

same material will not be published by another

conference in the evolutionary computation field.

Material may be later revised and submitted to a journal,

if permitted by the journal.

Visit www.sigevo.org/gecco-2009 for detailed

instructions, including categories, keywords, and

formatting requirements. Be sure to check the web page

for changes that may appear as the paper submission

deadline approaches.

Accept author agreement: By submitting a paper, the

author(s) agree that, if their paper is accepted, they will:

One Conference ¨C Many Mini-Conferences

GECCO Organizers

Conference Chair: Franz Rothlauf

Editor-in-Chief: G¨?nther Raidl

Business Committee: Wolfgang Banzhaf

Erik Goodman

Publicity Chair: Martin Pelikan Una-May O'Reilly

Workshop Chair: Anna I. Esparcia

Competitions Chair: Pier Luca Lanzi

Tutorials Chair: Martin V. Butz

Late Breaking Papers Chair: Ying-ping Chen

Local Chair: Christian Gagn¨¦

Evolutionary Computation in Practice Chair: Thomas Bartz-Beielstein, David

Davis, Jörn Mehnen

Graduate Student Workshop Chair: Steve Gustafson

Undergraduate Student Workshop Chair:

Frank Moore

Clare Bates Congdon, Larry Merkle

and

Program Tracks and Chairs:

Artificial Life, Evolutionary Robotics, Adaptive Behavior,

Evolvable Hardware: Giovanni Squillero, Rolf Drechsler

Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence: Thomas St¨?tzle,

Mauro Birattari

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology: Clare Bates Congdon, Martin

Middendorf

Combinatorial Optimization and Metaheuristics: Christian Blum,

Carlos Cotta

Estimation of Distribution Algorithms: Peter Bosman, Jörn Grahl

Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization: Joshua Knowles,

David Corne

Evolution Strategies and Evolutionary Programming: Hans-

Georg Beyer

Generative and Developmental Systems: Ken Stanley, Julian F. Miller

Genetic Algorithms: Jano van Hemert, Tom Lenaerts

Genetic Programming: Marc Ebner

Genetics-Based Machine Learning: Jaume Bacardit

Real World Applications: Michael O'Neill

Search Based Software Engineering: Massimiliano Di Penta

Theory: Benjamin Doerr, Thomas Jansen, Riccardo Poli

Parallel Evolutionary Systems: Enrique Alba

2009 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference

Wednesday¨CSunday July 8¨C12, 2009 Montr¨¦al, Canada

Largest Conference in the Field of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation

A recombination of the 18th International Conference on Genetic

Algorithms (ICGA) and the 14th Annual Genetic Programming

Conference (GP)

www.sigevo.org/gecco-2009

The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2009) will present the

latest high quality results in the growing field of genetic and evolutionary computation. Topics

include: genetic algorithms, genetic programming, evolution strategies, evolutionary

programming, real-world applications, learning classifier systems and other genetics-based

machine learning, evolvable hardware, artificial life, adaptive behavior, ant colony

optimization, swarm intelligence, biological applications, evolutionary robotics, coevolution,

artificial immune systems, and more.

SIGEVO Officers

Chair: Darrell Whitley

Vice Chair: John R. Koza

Secretary: Una-May O'Reilly

Treasurer: Wolfgang Banzhaf

SIGEVO Executive Committee

Darrell Whitley (chair)

Wolfgang Banzhaf

Erick Cant¨?-Paz

Dave Davis

Kalyanmoy Deb

Kenneth DeJong

Marco Dorigo

David E. Goldberg

Erik D. Goodman

John H. Holland

John R. Koza

Una-May O'Reilly

Riccardo Poli

Franz Rothlauf

Marc Schoenauer

Lee Spector

Dirk Thierens

More Information Annie S. Wu

Visit www.sigevo.org/gecco-2009 for updates on tutorials and workshops,

as well as information about electronic submission procedures, formatting

details, student travel grants, hotel reservations, travel discounts, student

housing, graduate student workshop, the latest list of topics, late-breaking

papers, and more.

To Propose a Tutorial or Workshop

To propose a tutorial, contact Martin Butz at mbutzpsychologie.uni-wuerzburg.de

To propose a workshop, contact Anna I. Esparcia at annaiti.upv.es

Please include "GECCO" in your subject line.

Planned Free Tutorials

Introductory

Genetic Algorithms Erik Goodman

Genetic Programming Riccardo Poli,

Nic McPhee

Evolution Strategies Thomas Bäck

EC: A Unified Approach Kenneth De Jong

Financial Evolutionary Computation Christopher D. Clack

Ant Colony Optimization Christian Blum

Learning Classifier Systems Pier Luca Lanzi

Probabilistic Model Building GAs Martin Pelikan

Grammatical Evolution Conor Ryan

Statistical Analysis for Evolutionary Computation:

Introduction Mark Wineberg,

Steffen Christensen

Evolutionary Neural Networks Risto Miikkulainen,

Kenneth O. Stanley

Advanced

GA Theory Jonathan Rowe

GP Theory I&II William B. Langdon,

Riccardo Poli

No Free Lunch Darrell Whitley

Bioinformatics Jason Moore

Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization Eckart Zitzl er

Constraint Handling Techniques Used with Eas Carlos Coello Coello

Statistical Analysis for Evolutionary Computation:

Advanced Techniques Mark Wineberg,

Steffen Christensen

Representations for Evolutionary Algorithms Franz Rohlauf

Computational Complexity and EC Thomas Jansen,

Frank Neumann

Experimental Research in EC Mike Preuss,

Thomas Bartz-Beielstein

Elementary Landscape Analysis for TSP,

Graph Coloring, Graph Partitioning, and MAXSAT Andrew Sutton,

Darrell Whitley

Specialized

A Billion Bits or Bust: Little Models and Efficiency

Enhancement for Fast , Effective Genetic Algorithms

on Extremely Large, Hard Problems David E. Goldberg

Accelerating Evolutionary Computation with

Graphics Processing Units Wolfgang Banzhaf

Evolving Quantum Computer Algorithms Lee Spector

Symbolic Regression Maarten Keijzer

An Information Perspective on EC Yossi Borenstein

Generative and Developmental Systems Kenneth O. Stanley

(Genetic and) Evolutionary Computer Vision Mengjie Zhang,

Stefano Cagnoni,

Gustavo Olague

Evolutionary Design Ian Parmee

Large scale data mining using

Genetics-Based Machine Learning Jaume Bacardit

Xavier Llor¨¤

Evolutionary Multiobjective Combinatorial

Optimization Rajeev Kumar

Applications of Evolutionary Neural Networks Risto Miikkulainen

Kenneth O. Stanley

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-

0701, USA. Telephone: 1 800 342-6626 (US & Canada) +1 212 626-0500 (Global) Fax: +1 212-944-1318