EvoCOP 2015 - 15th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation

The 15th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation is a multidisciplinary conference that brings together researchers working on metaheuristics for solving difficult combinatorial optimization problems appearing in various industrial, economic, and scientific domains. Prominent examples of metaheuristics include: evolutionary algorithms, simulated annealing, tabu search, scatter search and path relinking, memetic algorithms, ant colony and bee colony optimization, particle swarm optimization, variable neighbourhood search, iterated local search, greedy randomized adaptive search procedures, estimation of distribution algorithms, and hyperheuristics. Successfully solved problems include scheduling, timetabling, network design, transportation and distribution problems, vehicle routing, travelling salesman, graph problems, satisfiability, energy optimization problems, packing problems, planning problems, and general mixed integer programming.
The EvoCOP 2015 conference will be held in the city of Copenhagen, Denmark. It will be held in conjunction with EuroGP (the 18th European Conference on Genetic Programming), EvoMUSART (13th European conference on evolutionary and biologically inspired music, sound, art and design) and EvoApplications (specialist events on a range of evolutionary computation topics and applications), in a joint event collectively known as Evo*.
Areas of Interest and Contributions
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Applications of metaheuristics to combinatorial optimization problems
Novel application domains for metaheuristic optimisation methods
Representation techniques
Neighborhoods and efficient algorithms for searching them
Variation operators for stochastic search methods
Constraint-handling techniques
Hybrid methods and hybridization techniques
Parallelization
Theoretical developments
Search space and landscape analyses
Comparisons between different (also exact) techniques
Metaheuristics and machine learning
Ant colony optimisation
Artificial immune systems
Genetic programming and Genetic algorithms
(Meta-)heuristics
Scatter search
Particle swarm optimisation
Tabu search, iterated local search and variable neighborhood search
Memetic algorithms
Hyper-heuristics and autonomous search
Estimation of distribution algorithms
String processing
Scheduling and timetabling
Network design
Vehicle routing
Graph problems
Satisfiability
Packing and cutting problems
Energy optimization problems
Practical solving of NP-hard problems
Mixed integer programming
Multi-objective optimisation
Grid computing
Combinatorial optimisation
Nature and Bio-inspired methods
Quantum computing and quantum annealing
Optimization in Cloud computing
Search-based software engineering
Publication Details
All accepted papers will be presented orally at the conference and printed in the proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series (see LNCS volumes 2037, 2279, 2611, 3004, 3448, 3906, 4446, 4972, 5482, 6022, 6622, 7245 and 7832 for the previous proceedings).
Submission Details
Submissions must be original and not published elsewhere. The submissions will be peer reviewed by members of the program committee. The authors of accepted papers will have to improve their paper on the basis of the reviewers comments and will be asked to send a camera ready version of their manuscripts. At least one author of each accepted work has to register for the conference, attend the conference and present the work.
The reviewing process will be double-blind, please omit information about the authors in the submitted paper. Submit your manuscript in Springer LNCS format.
Page limit: 12 pages
EvoCOP Programme Chairs
Gabriela Ochoa
University of Stirling, Scotland, UK
gabriela.ochoa(at)cs.stir.ac.uk
Francisco Chicano
University of Malaga, Spain
chicano(at)lcc.uma.es
EvoCOP Programme Committee
Adnan Acan , Eastern Mediterranean University , Turkey
Enrique Alba , University of Malaga , Spain
Mehmet-Emin Aydin , University of Bedfordshire , UK
Ruibin Bai , University of Nottingham , UK
Matthieu Basseur , University of Angers , France
Maria J. Blesa , Technical University of Catalonia , Spain
Christian Blum , IKERBASQUE - Basque Foundation for Science , Spain
Sandy Brownlee , University of Stirling , Scotland UK
Pedro Castillo , Universidad de Granada , Spain
Francisco Chicano , Universidad de Malaga , Spain
Carlos Coello-Coello , CINVESTAV-IPN , Mexico
Peter Cowling , University of York , UK
Karl Doerner , Johannes Kepler University Linz , Austria
Benjamin Doerr , LIX-Ecole Polytechnique , France
Bernd Freisleben , University of Marburg , Germany
Adrien Goeffon , University of Angers , France
Jens Gottlieb , SAP , Germany
Walter Gutjahr , University of Vienna , Austria
Jin-Kao Hao , University of Angers , France
Emma Hart , Edinburgh Napier University , Scotland UK
Richard Hartl , University of Vienna , Austria
Geir Hasle , SINTEF Applied Mathematics , Norway
Istvan Juhos , University of Szeged , Hungary
Graham Kendall , University of Nottingham , UK
Joshua Knowles , University of Manchester , UK
Mario Koeppen , Kyushu Institute of Technology , Japan
Frederic Lardeux , University of Angers , France
Rhyd Lewis , Cardiff University , UK
Arnaud Liefooghe , University Lille 1 , France
Jose Antonio Lozano , University of the Basque Country , Spain
Gabriel Luque , University of Malaga , Spain
Penousal Machado , University of Coimbra , Portugal
Jorge Maturana , Universidad Austral de Chile , Chile
Barry McCollum , Queen's University Belfast , UK
David Meignan , University of Osnabruck , Germany
Juan Julian Merelo , University of Granada , Spain
Peter Merz , University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hannover , Germany
Martin Middendorf , University of Leipzig , Germany
Julian Molina , University of Malaga , Spain
Christine L. Mumford , Cardiff University , UK
Eric Monfroy , University of Nantes , France
Nysret Musliu , Vienna University of Technology , Austria
Gabriela Ochoa , University of Stirling , Scotland UK
Beatrice Ombuki-Berman , Brock University , Canada
Mario Pavone , University of Catania , Italy
Francisco J. Pereira , Universidade de Coimbra , Portugal
Jakob Puchinger , Austrian Institute of Technology , Austria
Günther Raidl , Vienna University of Technology , Austria
Marcus Randall , Bond University , Australia
Marc Reimann , University of Graz , Austria
Eduardo Rodriguez-Tello , Civerstav - Tamaulipas , Mexico
Peter Ross , Edinburgh Napier University , UK
Frederic Saubion , University of Angers , France
Marc Schoenauer , INRIA , France
Patrick Siarry , University of Paris 12 , France
Kevin Sim , Edinburgh Napier University , UK
Jim Smith , University of the West of England , UK
Giovanni Squillero , Politecnico di Torino , Italy
Thomas Stuetzle , Universite Libre de Bruxelles , Belgium
Andrew M. Sutton , Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena , Germany
El-ghazali Talbi , Universite des Sciences et Technologies de Lille , France
Renato Tinós , University of Sao Paulo , Brasil
Jano van Hemert , University of Edinburgh , UK
Nadarajen Veerapen , University of Stirling , Scotland UK
Sebastien Verel , Universite du Littoral Cote d'Opale , France
Takeshi Yamada , NTT Communication Science Laboratories , Kyoto-Japan