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Call for papers: EvoCOP 2005



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                    CALL FOR PAPERS

                      EvoCOP 2005

   5th European Conference on EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION
            IN COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION

     Lausanne, Switzerland, March 30 - April 1, 2005

   Held together with EuroGP 2005 and EvoWorkshops 2005

 (Previous events: Lake Como, Italy, 2001, Kinsale, Ireland, 2002,
       Colchester, UK, 2003, Coimbra, Portugal, 2004)


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;
- parallelization;
- 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:                 5 November 2004
   Notification of acceptance:          10 December 2004
   Camera ready papers for workshop:    14 January  2005
   Conference:                          30 March - 1 April 2005

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

   http://www.evonet.info/eurogp2005/evocop


Chairs:

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


Program Committee:

   Adnan Acan, Hernan Aguirre, Enrique Alba, Emin Aydin, Jean Berger,
   Christian Bierwirth, Christian Blum, Juergen Branke, Edmund Burke,
   David Corne, Ernesto Costa, Carlos Cotta, Peter Cowling, 
   Bart Craenen, David Davis, Marco Dorigo, Karl Doerner, Anton Eremeev, 
   David Fogel, Michael Guntsch, Walter Gutjahr, Jin-Kao Hao, Emma Hart, 
   William Hart, Jano van Hemert, Joerg Homberger, Mikkel Jensen, 
   Bryant Julstrom, Graham Kendall, Joshua Knowles, Gabriele Koller, 
   Mario Koeppen, Jozef Kratica, Ivana Ljubic, Elena Marchiori,
   Dirk Mattfeld, Helmut Mayer, Daniel Merkle, Peter Merz, 
   Zbigniew Michalewicz, Martin Middendorf, Pablo Moscato, 
   Christine Mumford, Francisco Pereira, Adam Pruegel-Bennett, 
   Jakob Puchinger, Marcus Randall, Colin Reeves, Marc Reimann,
   Franz Rothlauf, Andreas Sandner, David Schaffer, Marc Schoenauer,
   Christine Solnon, Giovanni Squillero, Thomas Stuetzle, 
   El-ghazali Talbi, Edward Tsang, Ingo Wegener, Darrell Whitley, 
   Xin Yao, Takeshi Yamada