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Introduction

There is growing interest in running evolutionary computation on Parallel and Distributed Computing Infrastructures. A number of technologies are already available. These include Grid and Cloud Computing, Internet Computing (e.g. SETI@home, boinc), General Purpose Computation on Graphics Processing Units (GPGPU), multi-core and many-core architectures and supercomputers. Although they are routinely used for running computing intensive applications, considerable skill is required to get the best from them. The experimenter has to consider scheduling, porting of applications, communication topologies, new parallel models and architectures, cache and memory management optimization, preemptive multitasking and simultaneous multi threading and even energy consumption. Also, the experimenter may need to change their evolutionary algorithm to fully exploit these new tools.

At EvoPAR 2012 scientists and engineers gathered to share and exchange their experiences, discuss challenges, and report state-of-the-art and in-progress research on all aspects of the application of evolutionary algorithms for improving parallel architectures and distributed computing Infrastructures. EvoPAR will assist the two-way flow of ideas between the parallel computing community and the EC community. EvoPAR 2013 will be a new, and hopefully improved edition, with similar scope.

Areas of Interests and Contributions

High quality paper submissions which demonstrate novelty in terms of methodology, application or both, were strongly encouraged.

Applications of interest included (but were not limited to):

• Parallel implementation of evolutionary algorithms.
• Optimisation of Parallel architectures by means of EAs.
• Hardware implementation of EAs, including but not limited to Field Programmable Gate Arrays.
• GP-GPU optimization.
• Improving Scheduling techniques for P2P and Grid Systems. Improving Scheduling techniques for running distributed EAs.
• Improving Fault tolerance techniques for distributed systems and Distributed EAs. Studying capabilities for coping with failures.
• Analytical modelling and performance evaluation of Parallel and Distributed Infrastructures when running EAs.
• Improvement in system performance through optimisation and tuning.
• Case studies showing the role of Parallel and Distributed Infrastructures in conjunction with Distributed EAs when solving hard real-life problems.
• Volunteer computing.
• EAs on the Cloud.

Publication Details

Accepted papers will be included in the proceedings of EvoStar

Submission Details

Submissions must be original and not published elsewhere. They will be peer reviewed by members of the program committee. The reviewing process will be double-blind, so please omit information about the authors in the submitted paper.

Submit your manuscript in Springer LNCS format.

Page limit: 10 pages to http://myreview.csregistry.org/evoapps13/.

Submission deadline: 1 November 2012 Extended to 11 November 2012

EvoPAR 2013 Programme Committee

• Una-May O'Really, MIT
• Gianluigi Folino L'ICAR-CNR, Cosenza, Italy
• Jose Carlos Ribeiro Politechnique Institute of Leiria, Portugal
• Garnett Wilson Afinin Labs, Inc., Canada
• Shigeyoshi Tsutsui Hannan University, Japan
• Malcolm Heywood Dalhousie University, Canada
• Kalyan Veermachneni, MIT
• Juan L. Jiménez, Université du Luxemburg
• William Langdon, University College London
• Denis Robilliard l'Universite du Littoral-Cote d'Opale, France
• Marco Tomassini Lausanne University, Switzerland
• Jose I. Hidalgo, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

Event

EvoPAR 2013 is a track within the EvoApplications 2013 Conference. Please see the main web pages for details.

Previous Events

• EvoPAR 2012, Málaga, April 2012
• Parallel Bioinspired Algorithms London, July 2007
• Parallel Bioinspired Algorithms Oslo, June 2005.
• WAPBA, 2008
• WAPBA, 2009
• WAPBA, 2010
• WPABA-2011 Texas, Oct 2011
• CIGPU-2008 Hong Kong, June 2008
• CIGPU-2009 Montreal, July 2009
• CIGPU-2010 Barcelona, July 2010
• CIGPU-2011 Dublin, July 2011