[APDIO] Fwd: EvoCOP 2020

[APDIO <apdio@civil.ist.utl.pt>]

Gostaria de anunciar a conferência internacional EvoCOP 2020, que estou
a organizar em Sevilha, do dia 15 a 17 de abril de 2020, entre os
membros da APDIO, dado que poderá ter interesse para quem trabalha em
Investigação Operacional, em particular, otimização e heurísticas.

Com os melhores cumprimentos,

Luís Paquete

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              EvoCOP 2020 - The 20th European Conference on
         Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation
               http://www.evostar.org/2020/cfp_evocop.php

                        April 15 - 17, 2020
                            Seville, Spain

            held as part of EvoStar (http://www.evostar.org)
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The 20th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation is a multidisciplinary conference that brings together researchers working on applications and theory of evolutionary computation methods and other metaheuristics for solving difficult combinatorial optimisation problems appearing in various industrial, economic, and scientific domains.

Successfully solved problems include, but are not limited to, multi-objective, uncertain, dynamic and stochastic problems in the context of scheduling, timetabling, network design, transportation and distribution, vehicle routing, stringology, graphs, satisfiability, energy optimisation, cutting, packing, planning and search-based software engineering.

The EvoCOP 2020 conference will be held in the city of Seville, Spain, together with EuroGP (the 23rd European Conference on Genetic Programming), EvoMUSART (the 9th European conference on evolutionary and biologically inspired music, sound, art and design) and EvoApplications (the 23rd European Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation), in a joint event collectively known as EvoStar (Evo*).

Accepted papers will be published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. (See https://link.springer.com/conference/evocop for previous proceedings.)

The best regular paper presented at EvoCOP 2020 will be distinguished
with a Best Paper Award. Authors nominated for the best regular paper award will be invited for fast track publication in the Evolutionary Computation
journal (MIT Press). The invited submissions must significantly extend the
conference paper and will undergo peer review.

**** Areas of Interest and Contributions ****

EvoCOP welcomes submissions in all experimental and theoretical aspects of evolutionary computation and other metaheuristics to combinatorial optimisation problems, including (but not limited to) the following areas:

* Applications of metaheuristics to combinatorial optimization problems
* Theoretical developments
* Neighbourhoods and efficient algorithms for searching them
* Variation operators for stochastic search methods
* Constraint-handling techniques
* Parallelisation and grid computing
* Search space and landscape analyses
* Comparisons between different (also exact) methods
* Automatic algorithm configuration and design

Prominent examples of metaheuristics include (but are not limited to):

* Evolutionary algorithms
* Estimation of distribution algorithms
* Swarm intelligence methods such as ant colony and particle swarm optimisation
* Artificial immune systems
* Local search methods such as simulated annealing, tabu search, variable neighbourhood search, iterated local search, scatter search and path relinking
* Hybrid methods such as memetic algorithms
* Matheuristics (hybrids of exact and heuristic methods)
* Hyper-heuristics and autonomous search
* Surrogate-model-based methods

Notice that, by tradition, continuous/numerical optimisation is *not* part of the topics of interest of EvoCOP. Interested authors might consider submitting to other EvoStar conferences such as EvoApplications.

**** Submission Details ****

Paper submissions must be original and not published elsewhere. The submissions
will be peer reviewed by members of the program committee. The authors of
accepted papers will have to improve their paper on the basis of the reviewers'
comments and will be asked to send a camera ready version of their manuscripts.
At least one author of each accepted work has to register for the conference,
attend the conference and present the work.

The reviewing process will be double-blind, please omit information about the
authors in the submitted paper. Submit your manuscript in Springer LNCS format.

Page limit: 16 pages

More information on the submission process and the topics of EvoCop 2020 can be found at: http://www.evostar.org/2020/cfp_evocop.php

**** Important Dates ****

Submission deadline: November 1, 2019
EvoStar: April 15-17, 2020


**** EvoCOP Programme Chairs ****

    Luís Paquete
    University of Coimbra, Portugal
    paquete@dei.uc.pt

    Christine Zarges
    Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK
    c.zarges@aber.ac.uk




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Luís Paquete | paquete@dei.uc.pt
http://www.uc.pt/go/paquete
Dept. of Informatics Engineering
University of Coimbra, Portugal

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 Seville, Spain. 15-17 April 2020

 http://www.evostar.org/2020/cfp_evocop.php
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--- ECOM Track @ GECCO 2020 ---------------
 Cancun, Mexico, 8-12 July 2020

 https://gecco-2020.sigevo.org
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