Mark your calendar now / GECCO-2004 conference in Seatlle June 26-30, 2004 / Paper submission deadline: January 15, 2004

["John Koza" <john@johnkoza.com>]

                              CALL FOR PAPERS

         2004 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation COnference (GECCO-2004)

         June 26-30, 2004 (Saturday-Wednesday) Seattle, Washington, USA

         A recombination of the 9th Genetic Programming Conference (GP)
         and the 13th International Conference on Genetic Algorithms (ICGA)

                            http://www.isgec.org

                  Paper Submission Deadline: January 15, 2004


The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2004) will
present the latest high-quality results in the growing field of
genetic and evolutionary computation. Topics include: genetic
algorithms (GA); genetic programming (GP); evolution strategies (ES);
evolutionary programming (EP); learning classifier systems (LCS);
evolvable hardware (EH); real-world applications (RWA); artificial
life, adaptive behavior, agents, and ant colony optimization (AAAA);
biological applications (BIO); evolutionary robotics (ER);
evolutionary scheduling and routing (ESR); search based software
engineering (SBSE); Co-evolution (COEV); Artificial Immune Systems
(AIS), and other areas to be announced.


CONFERENCE CHAIR: Riccardo Poli
BUSINESS COMMITTEE: David E. Goldberg, John Koza, Riccardo Poli
PROCEEDINGS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Kalyanmoy Deb
WORKSHOPS CHAIR: Stefano Cagnoni
COMPETITIONS CHAIR: Simon Lucas
LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR: Mike Cattolico
PUBLICITY CHAIR: John Koza
LATE BREAKING PAPERS CHAIR: Maarten Keijzer


PROGRAM TRACKS AND CHAIRS
Genetic Programming: Lee Spector
Genetic Algorithms: Dirk Thierens
Evolution Strategies, Evolutionary Programming: Hans-Georg Beyer
Real World Applications: Andrea Tettamanzi
Learning Classifier Systems: Pier Luca Lanzi
Evolvable Hardware: Andy Tyrrell
Biological Applications: James Foster and Wolfgang Banzhaf
Articial Life, Adaptive Behavior, Agents, & Ant Colony Opt.: Owen Holland
Evolutionary Robotics: Dario Floreano
Evolutionary Scheduling and Routing: Edmund Burke
Search Based Software Engineering: Mark Harman
Co-evolution: Paul Darwen
Artificial Immune Systems: Dipankar Dasgupta


ONE CONFERENCE - MANY MINI-CONFERENCES
Each paper submitted to GECCO will be rigorously reviewed, in a blind
review process, by one of at least thirteen separate and independent
program committees specializing in various aspects of genetic and
evolutionary computation. These committees make their own final
decisions on submitted papers for their areas, subject only to
conference-wide space limitations and procedures. Keywords will be
used to help match referees to papers.


FREE TUTORIALS
The conference will include over 30 free tutorials from some of the
world's foremost experts in several topics of interest to genetic and
evolutionary computation researchers and practitioners.

Introductory Tutorials
Genetic Algorithms: Erik Goodman
Genetic Programming: John Koza
Evolution Strategies: Thomas Bäck
A Unified Approach to EC: Ken De Jong
Learning Classifier Systems: Tim Kovacs
Probabilistic Model-building GAs: Martin Pelikan
Particle Swarm Optimization: Russ Eberhart

Advanced Tutorials
Genetic Programming Theory: W. B. Langdon
Genetic Algorithm Theory: Jonathan Rowe
Bioinformatics: James Foster, Wolfgang Banzhaf
Taxonomy and Coarse Graining in EC: Chris Stephens
No Free Lunch: Darrell Whitley
Multiobjective Optimization with EC: Kalyanmoy Deb
Computational Complexity and EC: Ingo Wegener
Evolvable Physical Media: Julian Miller
Evolvable Hardware Applications: Tetsuya Higuchi
Representations: Franz Rothlauf
Theoretical Population Genetics: Lee Altenberg
Bionik: Building on Biological Evolution: Ingo Rechenberg
Spatially Structured EAs: Marco Tomassini

Tutorials on Specialized Techniques and Applications
Interactive Evolution: Hideyuki Takagi
Evolutionary Fault Tolerant Systems: Garry Greenwood
GP for Symbolic Regression: Maarten Keijzer
Grammatical Evolution: Conor Ryan
Evolutionary Robotics: Dario Floreano
Evolutionary Music: Al Biles
EAs for Combinatorial Optimization: Peter Ross
Optimization in Dynamic Environments: Jürgen Branke
Evolutionary Algorithms for Design: Ian Parmee
Evolving Neural Networks: Xin Yao

Other tutorials to be announced.


WORKSHOPS
Several workshops on a variety of EC-related topics will be held
during GECCO-2004. See www.isgec.org for the latest list of topics
and scheduling information, or suggest a workshop by contacting
Stefano Cagnoni: cagnoni@ce.unipr.it


ABOUT SEATTLE
The conference will be held at the Red Lion Hotel on Fifth Avenue in
Seattle, with nearby student housing. This is readily accessible to
the Seattle/Tacoma international airport by public transportation,
shuttles, and taxi, and is uniquely positioned within a bustling and
fascinating downtown neighborhood featuring the best shopping,
theaters and cultural attractions on the West Coast. For Seattle
tourist information, visit www.seeseattle.com


HOW TO SUBMIT A PAPER TO THE GECCO CONFERENCE
The deadline for ARRIVAL of submissions is THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 2004.
See http://www.isgec.org for details on paper and electronic submissions,
including procedures and formatting details. The conference proceedings
will be published in book form and on CD-ROM and distributed at the
conference.
The GECCO review process is "double blind," meaning that reviewers
should not be able to infer the identities of the authors of the
papers that they are reviewing (and, of course, that authors will not
know the identities of their reviewers).
Each paper MUST identify a category under which it will be
reviewed. Possible categories include:
Genetic Algorithms
Genetic Programming
Evolution Strategies and Evolutionary Programming
Learning Classifier Systems
Evolvable Hardware
Real-World Applications
Biological Applications
Evolutionary Robotics
Artificial Life, Adaptive Behavior, Agents and Ant Colony Optimization
Evolutionary Scheduling and Routing
Search Based Software Engineering
Coevolution
Artificial Immune Systems

Other categories as may be subsequently added on the web site
To help match referees to papers authors are additionally required to
provide keywords describing the content of their paper.
Review criteria will include significance of the work, novelty,
clarity, writing quality, and sufficiency of information to permit
replication (if applicable). The first-named author (or other
corresponding author designated by the authors when submitting) will
be notified of acceptance or rejection (in early March 2004).
By submitting a paper, the author(s) agree that, if their paper is
accepted, they will submit a final revised camera-ready version by the
deadline for camera-ready papers (in late March, 2004), they will
register at least one author by the deadline for camera-ready papers,
and at least one author will attend and present the accepted paper at
the conference.

The material in papers must represent substantially new work that has
not been previously published by conferences, journals, or edited
books in the evolutionary computation field. GECCO permits a paper to
be submitted that is substantially similar to a paper being submitted
contemporaneously for review in another conference; however, if the
submitted paper is accepted by the GECCO conference, 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
involved.)


ISGEC EXECUTIVE BOARD
Erik D. Goodman (chair)
David Andre John R. Koza
Wolfgang Banzhaf Una-May O'Reilly
Kalyanmoy Deb Ingo Rechenberg
Kenneth De Jong Marc Schoenauer
Marco Dorigo Lee Spector
David E. Goldberg Darrell Whitley
John H. Holland Annie Wu