CFP: EvoCOP 2003

["Gottlieb, Jens" <jens.gottlieb@sap.com>]

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                 CALL FOR PAPERS

                   EvoCOP 2003

   3RD EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION
            IN COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION

       Part of EuroGP 2003 and EvoWorkshops 2003, 
       University of Essex, UK, April 14-16, 2003

(Previous workshops: Lake Como, Italy, 2001, Kinsale, Ireland, 2002)


Evolutionary algorithms have often been shown to be effective 
for difficult combinatorial optimization problems appearing in 
various industrial, economical, and scientific domains. Prominent 
examples of such problems are transportation problems, vehicle 
routing, traveling salesperson, satisfiability, packing, network 
design, or general mixed integer programming.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 
- Applications and case studies of evolutionary algorithms and 
  related meta-heuristics like simulated annealing, tabu search, or 
  ant systems to combinatorial optimization problems 
- Representation techniques 
- Evolutionary operators 
- Constraint-handling techniques 
- Hybrid methods 
- Parallelization 
- Theoretical developments, search space analysis 
- Comparisons between different (also non-evolutionary) techniques 

A special issue of the Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Algorithms 
on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization will be published. 
Authors of selected EvoCOP papers will be invited to submit an extended 
version for consideration in this special issue. 

The workshop proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS
series and will be available at the workshop.


Important dates:

   Submission deadline:                 20 November 2002
   Notification of acceptance:          20 December 2002
   Camera ready papers for workshop:    17 January 2003
   Workshop:                            14-16 April 2003

For full details about submissions and updated news about the workshop
please visit the workshop web pages:

   http://www.ads.tuwien.ac.at/evocop2003
   http://evonet.dcs.napier.ac.uk/eurogp2003/evocop.html


Chairs:

   Jens Gottlieb, jens.gottlieb@sap.com
   Guenther Raidl, raidl@ads.tuwien.ac.at


Program Committee:

   Emile Aarts, Edmund Burke, David Corne, Carlos Cotta-Porras, 
   Peter Cowling, David Davis, Marco Dorigo, Gusz Eiben, 
   David Fogel, Jin-Kao Hao, Jano van Hemert, Nick Jakobi, 
   Bryant Julstrom, Dimitri Knjazew, Joshua Knowles, Gabriele Kodydek,
   Mario Koeppen, Jozef Kratica, Ivana Ljubic, Elena Marchiori, 
   Dirk Mattfeld, Helmut Mayer, Peter Merz, Zbigniew Michalewicz, 
   Martin Middendorf, Marcus Randall, Colin Reeves, Marc Reimann, 
   Claudio Rossi, Franz Rothlauf, Marc Schoenauer, Thomas Stuetzle, 
   El-ghazali Talbi, Edward Tsang, Christine Valenzuela, Xin Yao