The 25th 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.
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.
Successfully addressed theoretical and translational challenges encompass, but are not limited to, the development and analysis of novel (components of) evolutionary and other metaheuristic algorithms, work on neighbourhood and landscape structures, problem-agnostic and problem-specific variation operators, parallelisation strategies, and hybridizations.
The EvoCOP 2025 conference will be held together with EuroGP (the 28th European Conference on Genetic Programming), EvoMUSART (the 14th European conference on evolutionary and biologically inspired music, sound, art and design) and EvoApplications (the 28th European Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation), in a joint event collectively known as EvoStar (Evo*).
Accepted papers will be published by Springer Nature in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Previous proceedings can be found in the EvoCOP Conference Proceedings in SpringerLink.
Download the CFP in PDF here.
NEW: The proceedings of EvoCOP 2025 are available in the following link.
Areas of Interest and Contributions
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:
- Applications of metaheuristics to combinatorial optimization problems
- Theoretical developments
- Neighbourhoods and efficient algorithms for searching them
- Variation operators for stochastic search methods
- Constraint-handling techniques
- Parallelisation and grid computing
- Search space and landscape analyses
- Comparisons between different (also exact) methods
- Automatic algorithm configuration and design
Prominent examples of metaheuristics include (but are not limited to):
- Evolutionary algorithms
- Estimation of distribution algorithms
- Swarm intelligence methods such as ant colony and particle swarm optimisation
- Artificial immune systems
- Local search methods such as simulated annealing, tabu search, variable neighbourhood search, iterated local search, scatter search and path relinking
- Hybrid methods such as memetic algorithms
- Matheuristics (hybrids of exact and heuristic methods)
- Hyper-heuristics and autonomous search
- Surrogate-model-based methods
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.
Conference Chairs
- Markus Wagner
Monash University, Australia
markus.wagner(at)monash.edu - Martin Krejca
Ecole Polytechnique, France
martin.krejca(at)polytechnique.edu
Submission Details
Accepted papers will be published by Springer Nature in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Submissions must be original and not published elsewhere. They will be peer reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. The reviewing process will be double-blind, so please omit information about the authors in the submitted paper.
Page limit: 14 + unlimited references pages OR 6 + unlimited references pages
If your paper has at most 6 pages of content (plus additional pages for references), then we consider it a short paper. If your paper has between 7 and 14 pages of content (plus additional pages for references), then we consider it as a full paper. In case of acceptance, a short paper will get a shorter time slot for presentation at EvoCOP than a full paper; exact durations are yet to be decided.
Follow these instructions to submit a paper.
Programme Committee
Richard Allmendinger, University of Manchester, UKDenis Antipov, Sorbonne University, France
Matthieu Basseur, University of the Littoral Opal Coast, France
Christian Blum, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain
Jakob Bossek, Paderborn University, Germany
Alexander Brownlee, University of Stirling, UK
Maxim Buzdalov, Aberystwyth University, UK
Josu Ceberio, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Francisco Chicano, University of Málaga, Spain
Carlos Cotta, University of Málaga, Spain
Nguyen Dang, St Andrews University, UK
Bilel Derbel, University of Lille, France
Karl Doerner, University of Vienna, Austria
Benjamin Doerr, Ecole Polytechnique, IP Paris, France
Mehdi El Krari, British Antarctic Survey, UK
Mohamed El Yafrani, Aalborg University, Denmark
Talbi El-Ghazali, University of Lille, France
Jonathan Fieldsend, University of Exeter, UK
Carlos M. Fonseca, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Carlos García-Martínez, Univiversity of Córdoba, Spain
Adrien Goeffon, University of Angers, France
Andreia Guerreiro, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Jin-Kao Hao, University of Angers, France
Geir Hasle, SINTEF Digital, Norway
Mario Hevia Fajardo, University of Birmingham, UK
Ekhine Irurozki, Telecom Paris, France
Anja Jankovic, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Thomas Jansen, Aberystwyth University, UK
Andrzej Jaszkiewicz, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Maria João Alves, University of Coimbra / INESC Coimbra, Portugal
Jiby Mariya Jose, Indian Initute of Information Technology Kottayam, India
Marie-Eleonore Kessaci, University of Lille, France
Ahmed Kheiri, University of Manchester, UK
Timo Kötzing, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany
Frederic Lardeux, University of Angers, France
Per Kristian Lehre, University of Birmingham, UK
Johannes Lengler, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Rhydian Lewis, Cardiff University, UK
Manuel López-Ibáñez, University of Manchester, UK
Jose A. Lozano, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Gabriel Luque, University of Málaga, Spain
Krzysztof Michalak, Wroclaw University of Economics, Poland
Nysret Musliu, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Frank Neumann, University of Adelaide, Australia
Gabriela Ochoa, University of Stirling, UK
Pietro S. Oliveto, Southern University of Science and Technology, China
Beatrice Ombuki-Berman, Brock University, Canada
Andre Opris, University of Passau
Luis Paquete, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Mario Pavone, University of Catania, Italy
Paola Pellegrini, IFSTTAR, France
Francisco Pereira, Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra, Portugal
Daniel Porumbel, CEDRIC, CNAM, France
Abraham Punnen, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Chao Qian, Nanjing University, China
Wu Qinghua, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Günther Raidl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Elena Raponi, Leiden University, Netherlands
María Cristina Riff, Federico Santa María Technical University, Chile
Marcus Ritt, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Eduardo Arturo Rodriguez Tello, Cinvestav Tamaulipas, Mexico
Andrea Roli, University of Bologna, Italy
Jonathan Rowe, University of Birmingham, UK
Günter Rudolph, TU Dortmund University, Germany
Valentino Santucci, University for Foreigners of Perugia, Italy
Frédéric Saubion, University of Angers, France
Marcella Scoczynski Ribeiro Martins, Federal University of Technology — Paraná, Brazil
Kevin Sim, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
Thomas Stützle, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Dirk Sudholt, University of Passau, Germany
Andrew M. Sutton, University of Minnesota, USA
Sara Tari, University of the Littoral Opal Coast, France
Renato Tinós, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Niki van Stein, Leiden University, Netherlands
Nadarajen Veerapen, University of Lille, France
Sébastien Verel, University of the Littoral Opal Coast, France
Hao Wang, Leiden University, Netherlands
Carsten Witt, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Furong Ye, Leiden University, Netherlands
Christine Zarges, Aberystwyth University, UK
Fangfang Zhang, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Weijie Zheng, Harbin Institute of Technology, China