{"id":8,"date":"2019-06-05T10:20:56","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T08:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2022-04-19T09:24:59","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T07:24:59","slug":"evocop","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2022\/evocop\/","title":{"rendered":"EvoCOP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/evo2022_conf_4-1024x512.png\" alt=\"evocop2022 logotype\" class=\"wp-image-391\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The 22nd 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 2022 conference will be held together with EuroGP (the 25th European Conference on Genetic Programming), EvoMUSART (the 11th European conference on evolutionary and biologically inspired music, sound, art and design) and EvoApplications (the 25th 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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Download the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/evo2022_evocop_flyer_AF_03_extended_V_1_11_21.pdf.pdf\">CFP in PDF from here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">NEW<\/span><\/strong>: The EvoCOP proceedings can be found following <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/book\/10.1007\/978-3-031-04148-8\">this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Conference Chairs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>S\u00e9bastien Verel<\/strong><br>Universit\u00e9 du Littoral C\u00f4te d\u2019Opale, France<br>verel(at)univ-littoral.fr<\/li><li><strong>Leslie P\u00e9rez-C\u00e1ceres<\/strong><br>Pontificia Universidad Cat\u00f3lica de Valpara\u00edso, Chile<br>leslie.perez(at)pucv.cl<\/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 *not* 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&nbsp;<strong>double-blind, please omit information about the authors in the submitted paper<\/strong>. Submit your manuscript in&nbsp;<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 href=\"https:\/\/easychair.org\/conferences\/?conf=evo2022\">https:\/\/easychair.org\/conferences\/?conf=evo2022<\/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 (notifications will be sent on <strong>26 January, 2022<\/strong> and the camera-ready deadline will be on <strong>9 February, 2022<\/strong>). At least one author of each accepted work has to register for the conference not later than <strong>7 March 2022<\/strong>, attend the conference and present the work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Programme Committee<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Maria Jo\u00e3o Alves<\/strong>, Faculty of Economics of University of Coimbra \/ INESC Coimbra, Portugal<br><strong>Khulood Alyahya<\/strong>, University of Birmingham, UK<br><strong>Christian Blum<\/strong>, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain<br><strong>Alexander Brownlee<\/strong>, University of Stirling, UK<br><strong>Maxim Buzdalov<\/strong>, ITMO University, Russia<br><strong>Marco Chiarandini<\/strong>, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark<br><strong>Francisco Chicano<\/strong>, University of M\u00e1laga, Spain<br><strong>Carlos Coello Coello<\/strong>, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico<br><strong>Nguyen Dang<\/strong>, St Andrews University, UK<br><strong>Bilel Derbel<\/strong>, CRIStAL (University of Lille), France<br><strong>Marcos Diez Garc\u00eda<\/strong>, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK<br><strong>Karl Doerner<\/strong>, University of Vienna, Austria<br><strong>Benjamin Doerr<\/strong>, Ecole Polytechnique, France<br><strong>Carola Doerr<\/strong>, Sorbonne University, CNRS, France<br><strong>Talbi El-Ghazali<\/strong>, University of Lille, France<br><strong>Jonathan Fieldsend<\/strong>, University of Exeter, UK<br><strong>Carlos M. Fonseca<\/strong>, University of Coimbra, Portugal<br><strong>Carlos Garc\u00eda-Mart\u00ednez<\/strong>, Computing and Numerical Analysis Dept. Univ. of C\u00f3rdoba, Spain<br><strong>Adrien Goeffon<\/strong>, LERIA &#8211; Universite d&#8217;Angers, France<br><strong>Andreia Guerreiro<\/strong>, University of Coimbra, Portugal<br><strong>Jin-Kao Hao<\/strong>, University of Angers, France<br><strong>Mario Inostroza-Ponta<\/strong>, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Chile<br><strong>Ekhine Irurozki<\/strong>, Telecom Paris, France<br><strong>Thomas Jansen<\/strong>, Aberystwyth University, UK<br><strong>Andrzej Jaszkiewicz<\/strong>, Poznan University of Technology, Poland<br><strong>Marie-Eleonore Kessaci<\/strong>, Universit\u00e9 de Lille, Laboratoire CRIStAL, France<br><strong>Ahmed Kheiri<\/strong>, Lancaster University, UK<br><strong>Frederic Lardeux<\/strong>, LERIA &#8211; University of Angers, France<br><strong>Rhydian Lewis<\/strong>, Cardiff University, UK<br><strong>Arnaud Liefooghe<\/strong>, University of Lille, CNRS, Inria, France<br><strong>Manuel L\u00f3pez-Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez<\/strong>, The University of Manchester, UK<br><strong>Gabriel Luque<\/strong>, University of M\u00e1laga, Spain<br><strong>Basseur Matthieu<\/strong>, Universit\u00e9 du Littoral C\u00f4te d&#8217;Opale, France<br><strong>Krzysztof Michalak<\/strong>, Wroclaw University of Economics, Poland<br><strong>Elizabeth Montero<\/strong>, Universidad Andres Bello, Chile<br><strong>Christine Mumford<\/strong>, Cardiff University, UK<br><strong>Nysret Musliu<\/strong>, TU Wien, Austria<br><strong>Gabriela Ochoa<\/strong>, University of Stirling, UK<br><strong>Pietro S Oliveto<\/strong>, University Of Sheffield, UK<br><strong>Luis Paquete<\/strong>, University of Coimbra, Portugal<br><strong>Mario Pavone<\/strong>, University of Catania, Italy<br><strong>Paola Pellegrini<\/strong>, IFSTTAR, France<br><strong>Francisco Pereira<\/strong>, Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra, Portugal<br><strong>Pedro Pinacho<\/strong>, Universidad de Concepci\u00f3n, Chile<br><strong>Daniel Porumbel<\/strong>, CEDRIC, CNAM (Conservatoire National des Arts et M\u00e9tiers), France<br><strong>Jakob Puchinger<\/strong>, CentraleSup\u00e9lec, IRT-SystemX, France<br><strong>G\u00fcnther Raidl<\/strong>, Vienna University of Technology, Austria<br><strong>Mar\u00eda Cristina Riff<\/strong>, Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Chile<br><strong>Eduardo Rodriguez-Tello<\/strong>, Cinvestav-Tamaulipas, Mexico<br><strong>Andrea Roli<\/strong>, University of Bologna, Italy<br><strong>Hana Rudov\u00e1<\/strong>, Masaryk University, Czech Republic<br><strong>Valentino Santucci<\/strong>, University for Foreigners of Perugia, Italy<br><strong>Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Saubion<\/strong>, LERIA &#8211; University of Angers, France<br><strong>Marcella Scoczynski Ribeiro Martins<\/strong>, Federal University of Technology, Parana, Brasil<br><strong>Patrick Siarry<\/strong>, Universit de Paris 12, France<br><strong>Jim Smith<\/strong>, University of the West of England, UK<br><strong>Thomas St\u00fctzle<\/strong>, Universit\u00e9 Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium<br><strong>Sara Tari<\/strong>, Universit\u00e9 du Littoral C\u00f4te d&#8217;Opale, France<br><strong>Renato Tin\u00f3s<\/strong>, University of Sao Paulo, Brasil<br><strong>Nadarajen Veerapen<\/strong>, University of Lille, France<br><strong>Markus Wagner<\/strong>, The University of Adelaide, Australia<br><strong>Carsten Witt<\/strong>, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark<br><strong>Takeshi Yamada<\/strong>, NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan<br><strong>Christine Zarges<\/strong>, Aberystwyth University, UK<br><strong>Fangfang Zhang<\/strong>, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 22nd 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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