{"id":8,"date":"2019-06-05T10:20:56","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T08:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2023-04-06T09:01:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T07:01:20","slug":"evocop","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2023\/evocop\/","title":{"rendered":"EvoCOP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/evo_brno_2022-evocop-2-1024x512.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2108\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/evo_brno_2022-evocop-2-1024x512.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/evo_brno_2022-evocop-2-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/evo_brno_2022-evocop-2-768x384.png 768w, https:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/evo_brno_2022-evocop-2-1536x768.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/evo_brno_2022-evocop-2-2048x1024.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The 23rd 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 2023 conference will be held together with EuroGP (the 26th European Conference on Genetic Programming), EvoMUSART (the 12th European conference on evolutionary and biologically inspired music, sound, art and design) and EvoApplications (the 26th 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. Previous proceedings can be found in the <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/conference\/evocop\">EvoCOP Conference Proceedings in SpringerLink<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Download <a href=\"https:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/evo2022-evocop-flyers-prints-05062022-3.pdf\">the CFP in PDF<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">NEW:<\/span><\/strong> The proceedings of EvoCOP 2023 are available following <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/book\/10.1007\/978-3-031-30035-6\">this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Conference Chairs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Leslie P\u00e9rez-C\u00e1ceres<\/strong><br>Pontificia Universidad Cat\u00f3lica de Valpara\u00edso, Chile<br><em>leslie.perez(at)pucv.cl<\/em><\/li><li><strong>Thomas St\u00fctzle<\/strong><br>Universit\u00e9 Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium<br><em>stuetzle(at)ulb.ac.be<\/em><\/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=evo2023\">https:\/\/easychair.org\/conferences\/?conf=evo2023<\/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>18 January, 2023<\/strong> and the camera-ready deadline will be on <strong>1 February, 2023<\/strong>). At least one author of each accepted work has to register for the conference not later than <strong>27 February 2023<\/strong>, attend the conference and present the work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Programme Committee<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Richard Allmendinger<\/strong>, The University of Manchester<br>\n<strong>Matthieu Basseur<\/strong>, LISIC, Universit\u00e9 du Littoral C\u00f4te d&#8217;Opale, France<br>\n<strong>Christian Blum<\/strong>, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)<br>\n<strong>Alexander Brownlee<\/strong>, University of Stirling<br>\n<strong>Maxim Buzdalov<\/strong>, ITMO University<br>\n<strong>Arina Buzdalova<\/strong>, ITMO University<br>\n<strong>Christian Camacho Villalon<\/strong>, Universit\u00e9 Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)<br>\n<strong>Josu Ceberio<\/strong>, University of the Basque Country<br>\n<strong>Marco Chiarandini<\/strong>, University of Southern Denmark<br>\n<strong>Francisco Chicano<\/strong>, University of M\u00e1laga<br>\n<strong>Carlos Coello Coello<\/strong>, CINVESTAV-IPN<br>\n<strong>Carlos Cotta<\/strong>, Universidad de M\u00e1laga<br>\n<strong>Nguyen Dang<\/strong>, St Andrews University<br>\n<strong>Bilel Derbel<\/strong>, CRIStAL (Univ. Lille)<br>\n<strong>Marcos Diez Garc\u00eda<\/strong>, Fujitsu Research of Europe Limited, Slough, UK<br>\n<strong>Karl Doerner<\/strong>, University of Vienna<br>\n<strong>Benjamin Doerr<\/strong>, Ecole Polytechnique<br>\n<strong>Carola Doerr<\/strong>, Sorbonne University, CNRS, France<br>\n<strong>Talbi El-Ghazali<\/strong>, University of Lille<br>\n<strong>Jonathan Fieldsend<\/strong>, University of Exeter<br>\n<strong>Carlos M. Fonseca<\/strong>, University of Coimbra<br>\n<strong>Alberto Franzin<\/strong>, Universit\u00e9 Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)<br>\n<strong>Bernd Freisleben<\/strong>, TU Darmstadt<br>\n<strong>Carlos Garc\u00eda-Mart\u00ednez<\/strong>, Computing and Numerical Analysis Dept. Univ. of C\u00f3rdoba<br>\n<strong>Adrien Goeffon<\/strong>, LERIA &#8211; Universite d&#8217;Angers<br>\n<strong>Andreia Guerreiro<\/strong>, University of Coimbra<br>\n<strong>Jin-Kao Hao<\/strong>, University of Angers, France<br>\n<strong>Geir Hasle<\/strong>, SINTEF Digital<br>\n<strong>Mario Inostroza-Ponta<\/strong>, Departamento de Ingenier\u00eda Inform\u00e1tica, Universidad de Santiago de Chile<br>\n<strong>Ekhine Irurozki<\/strong>, Telecom Paris<br>\n<strong>Thomas Jansen<\/strong>, Aberystwyth University<br>\n<strong>Andrzej Jaszkiewicz<\/strong>, Poznan University of Technology<br>\n<strong>Marie-Eleonore Kessaci<\/strong>, Universit\u00e9 de Lille, Laboratoire CRIStAL<br>\n<strong>Ahmed Kheiri<\/strong>, Lancaster University<br>\n<strong>Frederic Lardeux<\/strong>, LERIA &#8211; University of Angers<br>\n<strong>Rhydian Lewis<\/strong>, Cardiff University<br>\n<strong>Arnaud Liefooghe<\/strong>, Univ Lille, CNRS, Inria, Centrale Lille, UMR 9189 CRIStAL<br>\n<strong>Manuel L\u00f3pez-Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez<\/strong>, The University of Manchester<br>\n<strong>Jose A. Lozano<\/strong>, The University of the Basque Country<br>\n<strong>Gabriel Luque<\/strong>, University of M\u00e1laga<br>\n<strong>Krzysztof Michalak<\/strong>, Wroclaw University of Economics<br>\n<strong>Elizabeth Montero<\/strong>, Universidad Andres Bello<br>\n<strong>Nysret Musliu<\/strong>, TU Wien<br>\n<strong>Gabriela Ochoa<\/strong>, University of Stirling<br>\n<strong>Pietro S Oliveto<\/strong>, University Of Sheffield<br>\n<strong>Beatrice Ombuki-Berman<\/strong>, Brock University, Department of Computer Science<br>\n<strong>Luis Paquete<\/strong>, University of Coimbra<br>\n<strong>Mario Pavone<\/strong>, University of Catania<br>\n<strong>Paola Pellegrini<\/strong>, IFSTTAR<br>\n<strong>Francisco Pereira<\/strong>, Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra<br>\n<strong>Pedro Pinacho<\/strong>, Universidad de Concepci\u00f3n<br>\n<strong>Daniel Porumbel<\/strong>, CEDRIC, CNAM (Conservatoire National des Arts et M\u00e9tiers), Paris, France<br>\n<strong>Jakob Puchinger<\/strong>, EM Normandie Business School<br>\n<strong>Abraham Punnen<\/strong>, Simon Fraser University<br>\n<strong>G\u00fcnther Raidl<\/strong>, Vienna University of Technology<br>\n<strong>Mar\u00eda Cristina Riff<\/strong>, Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria<br>\n<strong>Marcus Ritt<\/strong>, Instituto de Informatica, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul<br>\n<strong>Eduardo Rodriguez-Tello<\/strong>, Cinvestav-Tamaulipas<br>\n<strong>Andrea Roli<\/strong>, University of Bologna<br>\n<strong>Hana Rudov\u00e1<\/strong>, Masaryk University<br>\n<strong>Valentino Santucci<\/strong>, University for Foreigners of Perugia<br>\n<strong>Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Saubion<\/strong>, LERIA &#8211; University of Angers<br>\n<strong>Kevin Sim<\/strong>, Edinburgh Napier University<br>\n<strong>Jim Smith<\/strong>, University of the West of England<br>\n<strong>Dirk Sudholt<\/strong>, University of Passau<br>\n<strong>Sara Tari<\/strong>, Universit\u00e9 du Littoral C\u00f4te d&#8217;Opale<br>\n<strong>Renato Tin\u00f3s<\/strong>, USP<br>\n<strong>Nadarajen Veerapen<\/strong>, University of Lille<br>\n<strong>S\u00e9bastien Verel<\/strong>, Universit\u00e9 du Littoral C\u00f4te d&#8217;Opale<br>\n<strong>Markus Wagner<\/strong>, The University of Adelaide<br>\n<strong>Carsten Witt<\/strong>, Technical University of Denmark<br>\n<strong>Christine Zarges<\/strong>, Aberystwyth University<br>\n<strong>Fangfang Zhang<\/strong>, Victoria University of Wellington<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 23rd 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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