GECCO 2012 - GECCO '12 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference

GECCO Organizers
General Chair: Jason Moore
Editor-in-Chief: Terry Soule
Proceedings Chair: Anne Auger
Local Chair: Marylyn Ritchie
Publicity Chair: Xavier LlorÃ
Tutorials Chair: Gabriela Ochoa
Students Chair: Josh Bongard
Workshops Chairs: Bill Rand
Competitions Chair: Daniele Loiacono
Evolutionary Computation in Practice: Joern Mehnen,
Thomas Bartz-Beielstein, David Davis
Business Committee: Wolfgang Banzhaf, Marc Schoenauer

Planned Program Tracks
Ant Colony Optimization/Swarm Intelligence
Artificial Life/Evolvable Hardware/Generative and Developmental
Systems/Robotics
Digital Entertainment Technologies and Arts
Evolutionary Combinatorial Optimization and Metaheuristics
Evolutionary Computation in Practice
Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization
Estimation of Distribution Algorithms/Evolution Strategies/Evolutionary
Programming
Formal Theory
Genetic Algorithms
Genetics-Based Machine Learning
Genetic Programming
Parallel Evolutionary Systems
Real World Applications
Search-Based Software Engineering/Self-* Search

Planned Free Tutorials
Introductory Tutorials
Genetic Algorithms
Genetic Programming
Evolutionary Computation: A unified view
Probabilistic Model-building Genetic Algorithms
Learning Classifier Systems
Ant Colony Optimization
Evolution Strategies and Covariance Matrix Adaptation
Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization
Statistical Analysis for Evolutionary Computation

Advanced Tutorials
No Free Lunch Theorems
Computational Complexity and EC
Evolving Quantum Computer Algorithms
Advanced Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization
Constraint-Handling Techniques used with Evolutionary Algorithms Representations for evolutionary algorithms
Fitness Landscape Analysis
Large Scale Data Mining using Genetics-Based Machine Learning
Evolutionary Game Theory
Synthetic Biology

To Propose a Tutorial or Workshop
A detailed call for workhop and tutorial proposals will be posted later so stay tuned! Meanwhile, for enquiries regarding tutorials contact gecco2012tutorialssigevolution.org while for enquiries about workshops contact gecco2012workshopssigevolution.org
For general help and administrative matters contact GECCO support at
gecco2012sigevolution.org

SIGEVO Executive Committee
Anne Auger
Wolfgang Banzhaf
Juergen Branke
Kalyanmoy Deb
Kenneth DeJong
Anna Esparcia-Alcazar
Erik D. Goodman
John Holland
John Koza Pier Luca Lanzi
Una-May O'Reilly
Martin Pelikan
Riccardo Poli
Franz Rothlauf
Marc Schoenauer
Lee Spector
Kenneth Stanley
Darrell Whitley (chair)