ECCO 2014 - Special Session Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization

Due to the challenges of many real world applications in both research and practice, combinatorial optimization problems represent important research areas. They have received a significant amount of attention in a wide range of disciplines including operational research, artificial intelligence, computer science, engineering, manufacturing, and management, and so on. Different constraints, objectives as well as problem characteristics have to be considered while developing efficient and intelligent computational methods for these complex and large-scale problems. Evolutionary computation algorithms have been applied to a range of domains in combinatorial optimization.
SCOPE
This special session aims to bring together state-of-the-art research on evolutionary computation in a wide range of combinatorial optimization problems. Examples of computational algorithms include ant colony systems, artificial immune systems, cultural algorithms, evolutionary strategies, genetic algorithms, genetic programming, evolutionary based hyper-heuristics, memetic algorithms, path relinking, particle swarm optimization and scatter search, etc.
Topics of applications include but not limited to:
2D/3D strip packing and bin packing
assignment problem
cutting stock
scheduling, dynamic scheduling and rescheduling
educational timetabling
grid scheduling
knapsack problems
multi-objective scheduling
network routing
personnel scheduling
portfolio optimisation
production scheduling
project scheduling
recourse allocation
space allocation
sports timetabling
transport scheduling
and many more
SUBMISSIONS
Please follow the IEEE CEC/WCCI 2014 Submission Web Site. Please select the corresponding special session name ("Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation") as the 杜ain research topic in submission. Special session papers as included as regular conference papers.
Paper submissions: 20 December 2013
Notification of acceptance: 15 March 2014
Final paper submission: 15 April 2014
ORGANIZERS
All enquiries should be sent to Rong Qu (rong.qu-AT-nottingham.ac.uk), A. Sima Uyar (etaner-AT-itu.edu.tr) or M. Toulouse (michel.toulouse-AT-cirrelt.ca).
A/P Dr Rong Qu
School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, UK
A/P A. Sima Uyar
Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
Prof. M. Toulouse
Oklahoma State University, Oklahoma, USA