{"id":8,"date":"2019-06-05T10:20:56","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T08:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2021-04-07T12:04:58","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T10:04:58","slug":"evocop","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2021\/evocop\/","title":{"rendered":"EvoCOP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"569\" src=\"http:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/evo2021_banners_evocop-1-1024x569.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1389\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/evo2021_banners_evocop-1-1024x569.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/evo2021_banners_evocop-1-300x167.png 300w, http:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/evo2021_banners_evocop-1-768x426.png 768w, http:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/evo2021_banners_evocop-1-1536x853.png 1536w, http:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/evo2021_banners_evocop-1-2048x1137.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The 21st 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The EvoCOP 2021 conference will be held in the city of Seville, Spain, 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), in a joint event collectively known as EvoStar (Evo*).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accepted papers will be published by Springer Nature in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. See the <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/conference\/evocop\">EvoCOP Conference Proceedings in SpringerLink<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/book\/10.1007\/978-3-030-72904-2\">proceedings of EvoCOP 2021<\/a> are available following the link.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Download the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/evo2021_confs_evocop_flyer_extended_deadline_2_02_11_2020.pdf\">CFP in PDF format from here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fast Track Publication in Evolutionary Computation Journal<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The best regular paper presented at EvoCOP 2021 will be distinguished with a Best Paper Award. Authors nominated for the best regular paper award will be invited for fast track publication in the Evolutionary Computation journal (MIT Press). The invited submissions must significantly extend the conference paper and will undergo peer review.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Conference Chairs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Christine Zarges<\/strong><br>Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK<br>chz8(at)aber.ac.uk<\/li><li><strong>S\u00e9bastien Verel<\/strong><br>Universit\u00e9 du Littoral C\u00f4te d&#8217;Opale, France<br>verel(at)univ-littoral.fr<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Areas of Interest and Contributions<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>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:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Applications of metaheuristics to combinatorial optimization problems<\/li><li>Theoretical developments<\/li><li>Neighbourhoods and efficient algorithms for searching them<\/li><li>Variation operators for stochastic search methods<\/li><li>Constraint-handling techniques<\/li><li>Parallelisation and grid computing<\/li><li>Search space and landscape analyses<\/li><li>Comparisons between different (also exact) methods<\/li><li>Automatic algorithm configuration and design<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Prominent examples of metaheuristics include (but are not limited to):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Evolutionary algorithms<\/li><li>Estimation of distribution algorithms<\/li><li>Swarm intelligence methods such as ant colony and particle swarm optimisation<\/li><li>Artificial immune systems<\/li><li>Local search methods such as simulated annealing, tabu search, variable neighbourhood search, iterated local search, scatter search and path relinking<\/li><li>Hybrid methods such as memetic algorithms<\/li><li>Matheuristics (hybrids of exact and heuristic methods)<\/li><li>Hyper-heuristics and autonomous search<\/li><li>Surrogate-model-based methods<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Notice that, by tradition, continuous\/numerical optimisation is <strong>not<\/strong> part of the topics of interest of EvoCOP. Interested authors might consider submitting to other EvoStar conferences such as EvoApplications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Submission Details<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>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 <strong style=\"font-size: larger\">double-blind, please omit information about the authors in the submitted paper<\/strong>. Submit your manuscript in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.springer.com\/computer\/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0\">Springer LNCS format<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Page limit:<\/strong>&nbsp;16 pages<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Submission link:<\/strong> <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/easychair.org\/my\/conference?conf=evo2021\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/easychair.org\/my\/conference?conf=evo2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The authors of accepted papers will have to improve their paper on the The authors of accepted papers will have to improve their paper on the basis of the reviewers\u2019 comments and will be asked to send a camera ready version of their manuscripts (deadline in <strong>3 February 2021<\/strong>). At least one author of each accepted work has to register for the conference not later than <strong>19 February 2021<\/strong>, attend the conference and present the work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Program Committee<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><b>Khulood Alyahya<\/b>, University of Birmingham, UK<br><b>Alexander Brownlee<\/b>, University of Stirling, UK<br><b>Maxim Buzdalov<\/b>, ITMO University, Russia<br><b>Pedro Castillo<\/b>, University of Granada, Spain<br><b>Josu Ceberio<\/b>, University of the Basque Country, Spain<br><b>Francisco Chicano<\/b>, University of M\u00e1laga, Spain<br><b>Carlos Coello Coello<\/b>, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico<br><b>Carlos Cotta<\/b>, University of Malaga, Spain<br><b>Bilel Derbel<\/b>, CRIStAL (Univ. Lille), France<br><b>Karl Doerner<\/b>, University of Vienna, Austria<br><b>Benjamin Doerr<\/b>, Ecole Polytechnique, France<br><b>Carola Doerr<\/b>, Sorbonne University, CNRS, France <br><b>Talbi El-Ghazali<\/b>, University of Lille, France<br><b>Paola Festa<\/b>, University of Napoli FEDERICO II, Italy<br><b>Carlos M. Fonseca<\/b>, University of Coimbra, Portugal<br><b>Bernd Freisleben<\/b>, University of Marburg, Germany<br><b>Marcos Diez Garc\u00eda<\/b>, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK <br><b>Carlos Garc\u00eda-Mart\u00ednez<\/b>, University of C\u00f3rdoba, Spain <br><b>Adrien Goeffon<\/b>, LERIA &#8211; Universite d&#8217;Angers, France<br><b>Andreia Guerreiro<\/b>, University of Coimbra, Portugal<br><b>Jin-Kao Hao<\/b>, University of Angers, France <br><b>Bin Hu<\/b>, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria<br><b>Thomas Jansen<\/b>, Aberystwyth University, UK<br><b>Andrzej Jaszkiewicz<\/b>, Poznan University of Technology, Poland<br><b>Ayush Joshi<\/b>, University of Bath, UK<br><b>Ahmed Kheiri<\/b>, Lancaster University, UK<br><b>Mario Koeppen<\/b>, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan<br><b>Frederic Lardeux<\/b>, LERIA &#8211; University of Angers, France<br><b>Rhydian Lewis<\/b>, Cardiff University, UK<br><b>Arnaud Liefooghe<\/b>, University of Lille, France<br><b>Manuel L\u00f3pez-Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez<\/b>, The University of Manchester, UK<br><b>Jose A. Lozano<\/b>, The University of the Basque Country, Spain<br><b>Gabriel Luque<\/b>, University of M\u00e1laga, Spain<br><b>Basseur Matthieu<\/b>, LERIA Angers, France <br><b>Juan Juli\u00e1n Merelo<\/b>, University of Granada, Spain<br><b>Krzysztof Michalak<\/b>, Wroclaw University of Economics, Poland<br><b>Nysret Musliu<\/b>, TU Wien, Autria<br><b>Frank Neumann<\/b>, The University of Adelaide, Australia<br><b>Gabriela Ochoa<\/b>, University of Stirling, UK<br><b>Pietro S Oliveto<\/b>, University Of Sheffield, UK<br><b>Beatrice Ombuki-Berman<\/b>, Brock University, Department of Computer Science, Canada<br><b>Luis Paquete<\/b>, University of Coimbra, Portugal<br><b>Mario Pavone<\/b>, University of Catania, Italy<br><b>Paola Pellegrini<\/b>, IFSTTAR, France<br><b>Francisco Pereira<\/b>, Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra, Portugal<br><b>Daniel Porumbel<\/b>, CEDRIC, CNAM (Conservatoire National des Arts et M\u00e9tiers), Paris, France <br><b>Jakob Puchinger<\/b>, CentraleSup\u00e9lec, IRT-SystemX, France<br><b>Abraham Punnen<\/b>, Simon Fraser University, Canada<br><b>G\u00fcnther Raidl<\/b>, Vienna University of Technology, Austria<br><b>Mar\u00eda Cristina Riff<\/b>, Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Chile<br><b>Eduardo Rodriguez-Tello<\/b>, Cinvestav-Tamaulipas, Mexico<br><b>Hana Rudov\u00e1<\/b>, Masaryk University, Czech Republic<br><b>Valentino Santucci<\/b>, University for Foreigners of Perugia, Italy<br><b>Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Saubion<\/b>, LERIA &#8211; University of Angers, France<br><b>Patrick Siarry<\/b>, Universit de Paris 12, France<br><b>Jim Smith<\/b>, University of the West of England, UK<br><b>Thomas St\u00fctzle<\/b>, Universit\u00e9 Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium<br><b>Sara Tari<\/b>, Universit\u00e9 du Littoral C\u00f4te d&#8217;Opale, France<br><b>Renato Tin\u00f3s<\/b>, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil<br><b>Nadarajen Veerapen<\/b>, University of Lille, France<br><b>S\u00e9bastien Verel<\/b>, Universit\u00e9 du Littoral C\u00f4te d&#8217;Opale, France<br><b>Carsten Witt<\/b>, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark<br><b>Bing Xue<\/b>, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand<br><b>Takeshi Yamada<\/b>, NTT, Japan<br><b>Christine Zarges<\/b>, Aberystwyth University, UK<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 21st 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. 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