EvoStar comprises of five co-located conferences run each spring at different locations throughout Europe.  These events arose out of workshops originally developed by EvoNet, the Network of Excellence in Evolutionary Computing, established by the Information Societies Technology Programme of the European Commission, and they represent a continuity of research collaboration stretching back nearly 20 years.

The five conferences include

EuroGP 17th European Conference on Genetic Programming

EvoBIO  12th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning and Data Mining in Computational Biology

EvoCOP 14th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation

EvoMUSART 3rd International Conference (and 12th European event) on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design

EvoApplications  16th European Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary and bio-inspired Computation including the following tracks

• EvoCOMNET Application of Nature-inspired Techniques for Communication Networks and other Parallel and Distributed Systems

• EvoCOMPLEX  Applications of algorithms and complex systems

• EvoENERGY  Evolutionary Algorithms in Energy Applications

• EvoFIN Track on Evolutionary Computation in Finance and Economics

• EvoGAMES   Bio-inspired Algorithms in Games

• EvoHOT   Bio-Inspired Heuristics for Design Automation

• EvoIASP  Evolutionary computation in image analysis, signal processing and pattern recognition

• EvoINDUSTRY The application of Nature-Inspired Techniques in industrial settings

• EvoNUM Bio-inspired algorithms for continuous parameter optimisation

• EvoPAR  Parallel and distributed Infrastructures

• EvoRISK Computational Intelligence for Risk Management, Security and Defense Applications

• EvoROBOT Evolutionary Computation in Robotics

• EvoSTOC Evolutionary Algorithms in Stochastic and Dynamic Environments