Call for papers: EvoCOP 2004

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

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                    CALL FOR PAPERS

                      EvoCOP 2004

   4th European Conference on EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION
            IN COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION

     University of Coimbra, Portugal, April 5-7, 2004

   Held together with EuroGP 2004 and EvoWorkshops 2004

          (Previous events: Lake Como, Italy, 2001, 
        Kinsale, Ireland, 2002, Colchester, UK, 2003)


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 scheduling, timetabling, network design, 
transportation and distribution problems, vehicle routing, traveling 
salesperson, other graph problems, satisfiability, packing problems, 
planning problems, and general mixed integer programming.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 
- Applications of evolutionary algorithms and related meta-heuristics 
  like simulated annealing, tabu search, memetic algorithms, or ant 
  systems to combinatorial optimization problems; 
- representation techniques; 
- evolutionary operators; 
- constraint-handling techniques; 
- hybrid methods and hybridization techniques; 
- parallelisation; 
- theoretical developments; 
- search space analyses; 
- comparisons between different (also non-evolutionary) techniques. 

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


Important dates:

   Submission deadline:                 14 November 2003
   Notification of acceptance:          19 December 2003
   Camera ready papers for workshop:    16 January  2004
   Conference:                          5-7 April   2004

For full details about submissions and updated news about the conference
please visit the conference web page:

   http://evonet.dcs.napier.ac.uk/eurogp2004/evocop/


Chairs:

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


Program Committee:

   Juergen Branke, Edmund Burke, David Corne, Ernesto Costa,
   Carlos Cotta, Peter Cowling, David Davis, Marco Dorigo,
   Karl Doerner, Anton Eremeev, Terry Fogarty, David Fogel,
   Jin-Kao Hao, Jano van Hemert, Mikkel Jensen, 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, Christine Mumford, Francisco Pereira,
   Marcus Randall, Colin Reeves, Marc Reimann, Claudio Rossi,
   Franz Rothlauf, Andreas Sandner, Marc Schoenauer, 
   Christine Solnon, Thomas Stuetzle, El-ghazali Talbi,
   Edward Tsang, Darrell Whitley, Xin Yao