CFP: ECADA 2013 Workshop

[Krzysztof Krawiec]

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THIRD ANNUAL WORKSHOP ON
Evolutionary Computation for the Automated Design of Algorithms (ECADA-2013)

to be held as part of the

2013 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2013)
July 06-10, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Organized by ACM SIGEVO
http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2013/

PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR WORKSHOP: March 28th, 2013

Workshop URL: http://homepages.dcc.ufmg.br/~glpappa/workshop.html

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Although most evolutionary computation techniques are designed to 
generate specific solutions to a given instance of a problem, some of 
these techniques can be explored to solve more generic problems. The 
main objective of this workshop is to discuss evolutionary computation 
methods for the generation of such generic algorithms and/or heuristics.

Since these methods, known as hyper-heuristics, operate at a higher 
level of abstraction, they have the advantage of producing algorithms 
which can be applied to a class of problems, rather than a solution 
specifically produced for a single instance of the problem. The 
application for these methods include data mining, machine learning, 
optimization, bioinformatics, image processing, economics etc.

The workshop welcomes original submissions on all aspects of 
evolutionary computation for designing generic algorithms and 
heuristics, which include (but are not limited to) the following
topics and themes:

- Evolutionary algorithms for designing generic combinatorial 
optimization algorithms or heuristics
- Evolutionary algorithms for designing generic machine learning 
algorithms or heuristics
- Evolutionary algorithms for designing generic function optimizers
- Evolutionary algorithms for designing generic algorithms or heuristics 
for bioinformatics
- (Meta-level) evolutionary algorithms for designing other (base-level) 
evolutionary algorithms
- Empirical comparison of different hyper-heuristics
- Theoretical analyses of hyper-heuristics
- Automatic selection of algorithmic building blocks as a pre-processing 
step for the use of hyper-heuristics
- Analysis of the trade-off between generality and effectiveness of 
different heuristics, algorithms or heuristics produced by hyper-heuristics
- Real-world applications of hyper-heuristics

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Paper Submission
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Submitted papers should follow the ACM format, and not exceed 8 pages. 
Please see the GECCO 2013 information for authors for further details. 
However, note that the review process of the workshop is not 
double-blind. Hence, authors' information should appear in the paper. 
All accepted papers will be presented at the workshop and appear in the 
GECCO workshop volume. Proceedings of the workshop will be published on 
CD-ROM, and distributed at the conference.

Papers should be submitted by 28 March, 2013 in PDF format to:
[jerry.swan –at- cs.stir.ac.uk]
containing the subject line "GECCO Workshop".

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Important Dates
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* Paper submission deadline: 28 March, 2013
* Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2013
* Camera-Ready Accepted Papers Due: April 25, 2013
* GECCO-2013: July 06-10, 2013

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Workshop Chairs
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- Gisele L. Pappa – UFMG (Federal University of Minas Gerais), Brazil
glpappa –at- dcc.ufmg.br
- John Woodward - University of Stirling, United Kingdom.
jrw –at- cs.stir.ac.uk
- Jerry Swan - University of Stirling, United Kingdom.
jsw –at- cs.stir.ac.uk
Krzysztof Krawiec - Poznan University of Technology, Poland.
krawiec –at- cs.put.poznan.pl

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For more details, please visit the workshop website at:
http://homepages.dcc.ufmg.br/~glpappa/workshop.html
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GECCO is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery Special
Interest Group on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (SIGEVO). SIG
Services: 2 Penn Plaza, Suite 701, New York, NY, 10121, USA,
1-800-342-6626 1-800-342-6626 (USA and Canada) or +212-626-0500 (Global).
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