EMO 2015 - 8th International Conference on Evolutionary Multi- Criterion Optimization

EMO 2015 is the 8th International Conference on Evolutionary Multi- Criterion Optimization, aiming to continue the success of the previous EMO meetings. EMO 2015 will bring together the evolutionary multi- criterion optimization (EMO) and multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) communities. Special attention will be paid to EMO and MCDM application for solving real-world problems in government, business and industry.
The conference format will include:
- Invited plenary speakers
- EMO track
- MCDM track
- Real-world applications track
Following the tradition of the EMO community, the conference will be in single session format, with papers provided as either oral or as poster presentations.
EMO Track
Full papers are invited on novel aspects of EMO theory and methodology. Topics may include, but are not limited to:
? New developments for existing classes of EMO algorithms: e.g. aggregation- based, dominance-based, indicator-based
? Methods for a priori, progressive and a posteriori knowledge mining of the problem landscape
? Methods to handle problems with more than three objectives
? Methods to handle problems featuring uncertainty in decision-space and/or objective-space
? Methods to handle expensive objective function evaluations
? Methods to handle dynamic problems
? Methods for interactive preference articulation and exploitation, including consideration of human biases
? Theoretical analysis of EMO algorithms
? New developments in collaborative and parallel EMO approaches: e.g. algorithm portfolios, divide-and-conquer methods, use of parallel and distributed hardware
? New approaches to solving different multi-criterion problem classes: e.g. network topology problems, assignment problems, multidisciplinary optimization problems
? New developments in related paradigms, e.g. ant colony optimization, particle swarm optimization, differential evolution, artificial immune systems, estimation of distribution algorithms, variable neighbourhood search, iterated local search, simulated annealing, Tabu search
? New paradigms for population-based multi-criterion optimization
? New benchmark problems, performance indicators, and methods for empirical analysis of EMO algorithms
? Hybrid EMO-MCDM methodologies.
MCDM Track
In this track, full papers are invited for the integrated MCDM track on new developments in the multiple criteria decision making community that might be blended with EMO themes. Original research, tutorial and survey papers are welcome in this track.
Real-World Applications Track
Papers are invited from both within and outside the academy on real-world problems in government, business, industry and interdisciplinary sciences, whose solutions have benefited from the recent application of EMO or MCDM methods. Papers addressing issues that decision makers generally have in trusting formal approaches over their own experience and intuitions are also invited. Examles of real-world applications include, but are not limited to:
? Production, Manufacturing and Logistics
? Engineering design
? Financial applications
? Bioinformatics and health
? Computational intelligence and information management