{"id":38,"date":"2024-06-28T20:42:06","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T18:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2025\/?page_id=38"},"modified":"2025-04-19T00:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T22:13:07","slug":"evocop","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2025\/evocop\/","title":{"rendered":"EvoCOP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/evo25-evocop-1024x512.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-118\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/evo25-evocop-1024x512.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/evo25-evocop-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/evo25-evocop-768x384.png 768w, https:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/evo25-evocop-1536x768.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/evo25-evocop-2048x1024.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/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>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.\u202f\u2060<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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*).<\/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&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/conference\/evocop\">EvoCOP Conference Proceedings in SpringerLink<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Download the CFP in PDF <a href=\"https:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/09\/evo2025-flyers-evocop.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>NEW:<\/strong>\u00a0The proceedings of EvoCOP 2025 are available in the following\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/book\/10.1007\/978-3-031-86849-8\">link<\/a>.<\/p>\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 class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Applications of metaheuristics to combinatorial optimization problems<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Theoretical developments<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Neighbourhoods and efficient algorithms for searching them<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Variation operators for stochastic search methods<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Constraint-handling techniques<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Parallelisation and grid computing<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Search space and landscape analyses<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Comparisons between different (also exact) methods<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Automatic algorithm configuration and design<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Prominent examples of metaheuristics include (but are not limited to):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Evolutionary algorithms<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Estimation of distribution algorithms<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Swarm intelligence methods such as ant colony and particle swarm optimisation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Artificial immune systems<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Local search methods such as simulated annealing, tabu search, variable neighbourhood search, iterated local search, scatter search and path relinking<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hybrid methods such as memetic algorithms<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Matheuristics (hybrids of exact and heuristic methods)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hyper-heuristics and autonomous search<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Surrogate-model-based methods<\/li>\n<\/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\">Conference Chairs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Markus Wagner<\/strong><br>Monash University, Australia<br><em>markus.wagner(at)monash.edu<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Martin Krejca<\/strong><br>Ecole Polytechnique, France<br>martin.krejca(at)polytechnique.edu<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Submission Details<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>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&nbsp;<strong>double-blind, so please omit information about the authors in the submitted paper<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Page limit<\/strong>: 14 + unlimited references pages OR 6 + unlimited references pages<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2025\/submit-paper\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"46\">these instructions<\/a> to submit a paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Programme Committee<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<strong>Richard Allmendinger<\/strong>, University of Manchester, UK<br>\n<strong>Denis Antipov<\/strong>, Sorbonne University, France<br>\n<strong>Matthieu Basseur<\/strong>, University of the Littoral Opal Coast, France<br>\n<strong>Christian Blum<\/strong>, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain<br>\n<strong>Jakob Bossek<\/strong>, Paderborn University, Germany<br>\n<strong>Alexander Brownlee<\/strong>, University of Stirling, UK<br>\n<strong>Maxim Buzdalov<\/strong>, Aberystwyth University, UK<br>\n<strong>Josu Ceberio<\/strong>, University of the Basque Country, Spain<br>\n<strong>Francisco Chicano<\/strong>, University of M\u00e1laga, Spain<br>\n<strong>Carlos Cotta<\/strong>, University of M\u00e1laga, Spain<br>\n<strong>Nguyen Dang<\/strong>, St Andrews University, UK<br>\n<strong>Bilel Derbel<\/strong>, University of Lille, France<br>\n<strong>Karl Doerner<\/strong>, University of Vienna, Austria<br>\n<strong>Benjamin Doerr<\/strong>, Ecole Polytechnique, IP Paris, France<br>\n<strong>Mehdi El Krari<\/strong>, British Antarctic Survey, UK<br>\n<strong>Mohamed El Yafrani<\/strong>, Aalborg University, Denmark<br>\n<strong>Talbi El-Ghazali<\/strong>, University of Lille, France<br>\n<strong>Jonathan Fieldsend<\/strong>, University of Exeter, UK<br>\n<strong>Carlos M. Fonseca<\/strong>, University of Coimbra, Portugal<br>\n<strong>Carlos Garc\u00eda-Mart\u00ednez<\/strong>, Univiversity of C\u00f3rdoba, Spain<br>\n<strong>Adrien Goeffon<\/strong>, University of Angers, France<br>\n<strong>Andreia Guerreiro<\/strong>, University of Coimbra, Portugal<br>\n<strong>Jin-Kao Hao<\/strong>, University of Angers, France<br>\n<strong>Geir Hasle<\/strong>, SINTEF Digital, Norway<br>\n<strong>Mario Hevia Fajardo<\/strong>, University of Birmingham, UK<br>\n<strong>Ekhine Irurozki<\/strong>, Telecom Paris, France<br>\n<strong>Anja Jankovic<\/strong>, RWTH Aachen University, Germany<br>\n<strong>Thomas Jansen<\/strong>, Aberystwyth University, UK<br>\n<strong>Andrzej Jaszkiewicz<\/strong>, Poznan University of Technology, Poland<br>\n<strong>Maria Jo\u00e3o Alves<\/strong>, University of Coimbra \/ INESC Coimbra, Portugal<br>\n<strong>Jiby Mariya Jose<\/strong>, Indian Initute of Information Technology Kottayam, India<br>\n<strong>Marie-Eleonore Kessaci<\/strong>, University of Lille, France<br>\n<strong>Ahmed Kheiri<\/strong>, University of Manchester, UK<br>\n<strong>Timo K\u00f6tzing<\/strong>, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany<br>\n<strong>Frederic Lardeux<\/strong>, University of Angers, France<br>\n<strong>Per Kristian Lehre<\/strong>, University of Birmingham, UK<br>\n<strong>Johannes Lengler<\/strong>, ETH Zurich, Switzerland<br>\n<strong>Rhydian Lewis<\/strong>, Cardiff University, UK<br>\n<strong>Manuel L\u00f3pez-Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez<\/strong>, University of Manchester, UK<br>\n<strong>Jose A. Lozano<\/strong>, University of the Basque Country, Spain<br>\n<strong>Gabriel Luque<\/strong>, University of M\u00e1laga, Spain<br>\n<strong>Krzysztof Michalak<\/strong>, Wroclaw University of Economics, Poland<br>\n<strong>Nysret Musliu<\/strong>, Vienna University of Technology, Austria<br>\n<strong>Frank Neumann<\/strong>, University of Adelaide, Australia<br>\n<strong>Gabriela Ochoa<\/strong>, University of Stirling, UK<br>\n<strong>Pietro S. Oliveto<\/strong>, Southern University of Science and Technology, China<br>\n<strong>Beatrice Ombuki-Berman<\/strong>, Brock University, Canada<br>\n<strong>Andre Opris<\/strong>, University of Passau<br>\n<strong>Luis Paquete<\/strong>, University of Coimbra, Portugal<br>\n<strong>Mario Pavone<\/strong>, University of Catania, Italy<br>\n<strong>Paola Pellegrini<\/strong>, IFSTTAR, France<br>\n<strong>Francisco Pereira<\/strong>, Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra, Portugal<br>\n<strong>Daniel Porumbel<\/strong>, CEDRIC, CNAM, France<br>\n<strong>Abraham Punnen<\/strong>, Simon Fraser University, Canada<br>\n<strong>Chao Qian<\/strong>, Nanjing University, China<br>\n<strong>Wu Qinghua<\/strong>, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China<br>\n<strong>G\u00fcnther Raidl<\/strong>, Vienna University of Technology, Austria<br>\n<strong>Elena Raponi<\/strong>, Leiden University, Netherlands<br>\n<strong>Mar\u00eda Cristina Riff<\/strong>, Federico Santa Mar\u00eda Technical University, Chile<br>\n<strong>Marcus Ritt<\/strong>, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil<br>\n<strong>Eduardo Arturo Rodriguez Tello<\/strong>, Cinvestav Tamaulipas, Mexico<br>\n<strong>Andrea Roli<\/strong>, University of Bologna, Italy<br>\n<strong>Jonathan Rowe<\/strong>, University of Birmingham, UK<br>\n<strong>G\u00fcnter Rudolph<\/strong>, TU Dortmund University, Germany<br>\n<strong>Valentino Santucci<\/strong>, University for Foreigners of Perugia, Italy<br>\n<strong>Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Saubion<\/strong>, University of Angers, France<br>\n<strong>Marcella Scoczynski Ribeiro Martins<\/strong>, Federal University of Technology &#8212; Paran\u00e1, Brazil<br>\n<strong>Kevin Sim<\/strong>, Edinburgh Napier University, UK<br>\n<strong>Thomas St\u00fctzle<\/strong>, Universit\u00e9 Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium<br>\n<strong>Dirk Sudholt<\/strong>, University of Passau, Germany<br>\n<strong>Andrew M. 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