Evostar 2015
The Leading European Event on Bio-Inspired Computation.
Copenhagen, Denmark, 8-10 April 2015
Call for papers:
EvoSTOC
Evolutionary Algorithms and Meta-heuristics in Stochastic and Dynamic Environments
Submission link:
PUBLICATION DETAILS
Submissions will be rigorously reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. Accepted papers will be presented orally at the event and included in the EvoApplications proceedings, published by Springer Verlag in a dedicated volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Submissions must be original and not published elsewhere. The submissions will be peer reviewed. 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 and attend the conference and present the work.TOPICS OF INTEREST
Many real-world optimisation problems are characterised by some types of uncertainty that need to be accounted for by the algorithms used to solve the problems. These uncertainties include noise (noisy optimisation), approximations (surrogate-assisted optimisation), dynamics (dynamic/online optimisation problems) as well as the requirements for robust solutions (robust optimisation). Dealing with these uncertainties has become increasingly popular in stochastic optimisation in recent years and a variety of new techniques have been proposed. The objective of EvoSTOC is to foster interest in metaheuristics and stochastic optimisation for stochastic and dynamic environments and to provide an opportunity for researchers to meet and to present and discuss the state-of-the-arts in the field. EvoSTOC accepts contributions, both empirical and theoretical in nature, for any work relating to nature-inspired, metaheuristics and stochastic techniques applied to a domain characterised by one or more types of uncertainty. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, any of the followings in the realm of nature-inspired, metaheuristics and stochastic computation:- noisy fitness functions
- fitness approximations / surrogate-assisted optimisation
- robust solutions and robust optimisation
- dynamic optimisation problems
- dynamic constrained optimisation problems
- dynamic multi-objective optimisation problems
- co-evolutionary domains
- online optimisation
- online learning
- big data analysis in dynamic environments
- dynamic and robust optimisation benchmark problems
- real-world applications characterised by uncertainty and online real-world applications
- the applications of nature-inspired, metaheuristics and stochastic optimisation on vulnerability and risk analysis/management
- the applications of nature-inspired, metaheuristics and stochastic optimisation on reliability and robustness of real-world systems
- optimisation in (video) games and related domains (e.g., dynamical systems)
- theoretical results (e.g., runtime analysis) for stochastic problems
Important Dates
- Submission:
1525 November 2014 - Notification to authors: 7 January 2015
- Camera-ready deadline: 21 January 2015
- EvoSTOC: 8-10 April 2015
Additional information and submission details
Submit your manuscript, at most 12 A4 pages long, in Springer LNCS format (instructions downloadable from http://www.springer.com/ computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) no later thanPage limit: 12 pages
The reviewing process will be double-blind; please omit information about the authors in the submitted paper. Further information on the conference and co-located events can be found in: http://www.evostar.org
Programme committee
- Peter A.N. Bosman (Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science, the Netherlands)
- Juergen Branke (University of Warwick, United Kingdom)
- Lam Thu Bui (Le Quy Don Technical University, Vietnam)
- Hui Cheng (University of Bedfordshire, United Kingdom)
- Ernesto Costa (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
- Andries P Engelbrecht (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
- A. Sima Etaner-Uyar (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)
- Shayan Kavakeb (Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom)
- Changhe Li (China University of Geosciences, China)
- Michalis Mavrovouniotis (De Monfort University, United Kingdom)
- Jorn Mehnen (Cranfield University, United Kingdom)
- Ferrante Neri (De Monfort University, United Kingdom)
- David Pelta (University of Granada, Spain)
- Hendrik Richter (Leipzig University of Applied Sciences, Germany)
- Anabela Simões (Institute Polytechnic of Coimbra, Portugal)
- Renato Tinós (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)
- Trung Thanh Nguyen (Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom)
- Krzysztof Trojanowski (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)
- Shengxiang Yang (De Monfort University, United Kingdom)
- Xin Yao (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom)
Track chairs
- Trung Thanh Nguyen
Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom
T.T.Nguyen(at)ljmu.ac.uk -
Michalis Mavrovouniotis
De Monfort University, United Kingdom
Mmavrovouniotis(at)dmu.ac.uk;
Important dates:
Submission Deadline: 15 November 2014
Notification: 07 January 2015
Camera-ready: 21 January 2015
Early registration discount:01 March 2015
Registration deadline:31 March 2015
EvoStar dates: 8-10 April 2015
Notification: 07 January 2015
Camera-ready: 21 January 2015
Early registration discount:01 March 2015
Registration deadline:31 March 2015
EvoStar dates: 8-10 April 2015