[Event at CIG] Fourth Call for Papers: EvoCOP 2022 - The 22nd European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation

[Leslie Angelica Perez Caceres]

(Apologies for cross-posting)

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Fourth Call for Papers:

EvoCOP 2022 - The 22nd European Conference on

Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation

http://www.evostar.org/2022/evocop/

April 20 - 22, 2022

held as part of EvoStar (http://www.evostar.org)

Venue: *Somewhere On Earth!*

** EvoCOP is now CORE Rank B **

Submission deadline: November 1, 2021

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The 22nd European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial

Optimisation is a multidisciplinary conference that brings together
researchers

working on applications and theory of evolutionary computation methods and

other metaheuristics for solving difficult combinatorial optimisation
problems

appearing in various industrial, economic, and scientific domains.

Successfully solved problems include, but are not limited to,
multi-objective,

uncertain, dynamic and stochastic problems in the context of scheduling,

timetabling, network design, transportation and distribution, vehicle
routing,

stringology, graphs, satisfiability, energy optimisation, cutting, packing,

planning and search-based software engineering.

The EvoCOP 2021 conference will be held somewhere on Earth, together

with EuroGP (the 24th European Conference on Genetic Programming), EvoMUSART

(the 10th European conference on evolutionary and biologically inspired
music,

sound, art and design) and EvoApplications (the 24th European Conference on
the

Applications of Evolutionary Computation), and a new special track on
Evolutionary Machine Learning in a joint event collectively known as
EvoStar (Evo*).

Accepted papers will be published by Springer Nature in the Lecture Notes in

Computer Science series. (See https://link.springer.com/conference/evocop
for

previous proceedings.)


The best regular paper presented at EvoCOP 2022 will be distinguished

with a Best Paper Award.

EvoCOP conference is now ranked B in the CORE 2021 ranking:
http://portal.core.edu.au/conf-ranks/2195/

**** Areas of Interest and Contributions ****

EvoCOP welcomes submissions in all experimental and theoretical aspects of

evolutionary computation and other metaheuristics to combinatorial
optimisation

problems, including (but not limited to) the following areas:

* Applications of metaheuristics to combinatorial optimisation problems

* Theoretical developments

* Neighbourhoods and efficient algorithms for searching them

* Variation operators for stochastic search methods

* Constraint-handling techniques

* Parallelisation and grid computing

* Search space and landscape analyses

* Comparisons between different (also exact) methods

* Automatic algorithm configuration and design

Prominent examples of metaheuristics include (but are not limited to):

* Evolutionary algorithms

* Estimation of distribution algorithms

* Swarm intelligence methods such as ant colony and particle swarm
optimisation

* Artificial immune systems

* Local search methods such as simulated annealing, tabu search, variable

  neighbourhood search, iterated local search, scatter search and path
relinking

* Hybrid methods such as memetic algorithms

* Matheuristics (hybrids of exact and heuristic methods)

* Hyper-heuristics and autonomous search

* Surrogate-model-based methods

Notice that, by tradition, continuous/numerical optimisation is *not* part
of

the topics of interest of EvoCOP. Interested authors might consider
submitting

to other EvoStar conferences such as EvoApplications.


**** Submission Details ****

Paper submissions must be original and not published elsewhere. The
submissions

will be peer reviewed by members of the program committee. The reviewing

process will be double-blind, please omit information about the authors in
the

submitted paper. Submit your manuscript in Springer LNCS format:

http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0

Page limit: 16 pages

Submission link: coming soon

The authors of accepted papers will have to improve their paper on the
basis of

the reviewers’ comments and will be asked to send a camera-ready version of

their manuscripts. At least one author of each accepted work has to register

for the conference, attend the conference and present the work.


**** Important Dates ****

Submission deadline: November 1, 2021

EvoStar: April 20-22, 2022


**** EvoCOP Programme Chairs ****

Leslie Pérez Cáceres

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile

leslie.perez at pucv.cl<mailto:leslie.perez at pucv.cl>

Sébastien Verel

Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale (ULCO), France

verel at univ-littoral.fr<mailto:verel at univ-littoral.fr>


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Leslie Pérez Cáceres
Escuela de Ingeniería Informática
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso

Directora Diplomado en Inteligencia Artificial http://diplomadoia.inf.ucv.cl
Co-chair , EvoCOP 2022, April 20-22 http://www.evostar.org/2022/evocop/