2012 - Special Session on Evolutionary Based Hyper-heuristics and Their Applications (part of 2012 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation)

Special Session on Evolutionary Based Hyper-heuristics and Their Applications
2012 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC'2012) at WCCI'2012
June 10-15, 2012, Brisbane, Australia
Paper submission deadline: Dec 19, 2011
http://www.ieee-wcci2012.org/
http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~rxq/CEC2012EHyperheursti...

Hyper-heuristics have recently attracted an increasing research attention in a wide range of disciplines including artificial intelligence, operations research, engineering and computer science. Researchers in hyper-heuristics aim to design and develop general solvers for a range of problems rather than concerning dedicated algorithms for specific problems or problem instances. Due to its efficiency and generality in providing good enough, fast enough solutions in solving various problems with less amount of tuning effort, hyper-heuristics have been applied to a range of domains including optimization functions, combinatorial optimization, as well as scheduling, timetabling and planning.

This special session is being organized as an activity of the Intelligent Systems Applications Technical Committee of the Computational Intelligence Society at IEEE, and aims to bring together advanced developments in both research and practice of hyper-heuristics and widen the existing applications on various problems in education, industry, engineering, management and business, etc. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Applications:
- Bin packing
- Combinatorial optimization
- Engineering design
- Resource management
- Hybrid methods for scheduling problems
- Routing
- Scheduling, timetabling, planning
- Other real world problems

Theory:
- Theoretical or empirical analysis of hyper-heuristics
- Cooperative hyper-heuristics
- Multi-objective hyper-heuristics
- Hyper-heuristics in dynamic environments
- Parallel hyper-heuristics
- Benchmark problems and performance metrics in evaluation of hyper-heuristic
- Hybrid methods between hyper-heuristics and other computational intelligence techniques
- Comparative studies of hyper-heuristics and other computational intelligence techniques

Important dates and details of how to make submissions are available at the CEC'2012 web site at WCCI'2012 http://www.ieee-wcci2012.org/

Special Session Chairs:
Dr Rong Qu, School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK; e-mail: rxq-AT-cs.nott.ac.uk
Dr A. Sima Uyar, Istanbul Technical University, Computer Engineering Department, Istanbul, TURKEY; e-mail: etaner-AT-itu.edu.tr