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CFP: JMMA Special Issue on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization

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                         Call for Papers:

           Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Algorithms

                         Special Issue on
      
        Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization

            (see http://www.ads.tuwien.ac.at/ecco_jmma)


Evolutionary algorithms are metaheuristics, inspired by natural evolution in a broader sense, that have often been shown to be effective for difficult combinatorial optimization problems appearing in various industrial, economical, and scientific domains. Prominent examples for such problems are
network design, packing, satisfiability, scheduling, timetabling, transportation, traveling salesperson, and vehicle routing.

This special issue particularly welcomes theoretical and empirical contributions investigating the key features of successful evolutionary algorithms for combinatorial optimization problems, like e.g. choice and properties of representations, variation operators, and constraint handling techniques.
Studies of hybrid approaches that combine ideas of evolutionary algorithms with any other method, such as problem specific heuristics, enumeration techniques, or linear programming, are also welcome. Furthermore, investigations may include search space analyses and comparisons with other (possibly
non-evolutionary) optimization methods.

The Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Algorithms is a relatively new journal published by Kluwer Academic Publishing since 2002. More information about the journal can be found at
http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/1570-1166.

Editors of the special issue:

Jens Gottlieb, SAP AG, Germany
Emma Hart, Napier University, Edinburgh, UK
Martin Middendorf, University of Leipzig, Germany
Guenther Raidl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Colin Reeves, Coventry University, UK 

Submission:

Your manuscript should be formatted according to the instructions listed on the journal's web-page (http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/1570-1166). 
Send a postscript or PDF file to ecco_jmma@ads.tuwien.ac.at before May 1, 2003.