[Event at CIG] [EvoCOP 2027] Call for Papers

[Nelishia Pillay]

(Apologies for cross-posting)

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Call for Papers:
EvoCOP 2027 - The 27th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in
Combinatorial Optimisation

https://www.evostar.org/2027/evocop/

31 March - 2 April 2027 held as part of EvoStar (https://www.evostar.org)

Venue: Mainz, Germany

** EvoCOP is CORE Rank B **

Submission deadline: November 1, 2026
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The 27th 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.

Successfully addressed theoretical and translational challenges encompass,
but are not limited to, the development and analysis of novel (components
of) evolutionary and other metaheuristic algorithms, work on neighbourhood
and landscape structures, problem-agnostic and problem-specific variation
operators, parallelisation strategies, and hybridizations. ⁠

The EvoCOP 2027 conference will be held together with EuroGP (the 30th
European Conference on Genetic Programming), EvoMUSART (the 16th European
conference on evolutionary and biologically inspired music, sound, art and
design), EvoApplications (the 30th European Conference on the Applications
of Evolutionary Computation), and EvoLearn (the 1st International
Conference on Evolutionary Computation and 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. Previous proceedings can be found in the EvoCOP
Conference Proceedings in SpringerLink.

The best regular paper presented at EvoCOP 2027 will be distinguished with
a Best Paper Award.

EvoCOP conference is 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 optimization problems
* Theoretical developments
* Neighborhoods and efficient algorithms for searching them
* Variation operators for stochastic search methods
* Constraint-handling techniques
* Parallelization 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.

Page limit: 14 + unlimited pages for references and acknowledgments

Submission link: TBD

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 2026
EvoStar: 31 March - 2 April 2027

**** EvoCOP Programme Chairs ****

Nelishia Pillay
University of Pretoria, South Africa
nelishia.pillay at up.ac.za

Bing Xue
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
bing.xue at ecs.vuw.ac.nz

Please check the website for more information: http://www.evostar.org/
And follow us at: X - https://x.com/EvostarConf and Instagram -
https://www.instagram.com/evostarconference/
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