ECTA 2016 - 8th International Conference on Evolutionary Computation Theory and Applications

Considered a subfield of computational intelligence focused on combinatorial optimisation problems, evolutionary computation is associated with systems that use computational models of evolutionary processes as the key elements in design and implementation, i.e. computational techniques which are based to some degree on the evolution of biological life in the natural world. A number of evolutionary computational models have been proposed, including evolutionary algorithms, genetic algorithms, the evolution strategy, evolutionary programming and swarm intelligence. These techniques form the basis of several disciplines such as artificial life and evolutionary robotics.
This conference intends to be a major forum for scientists, engineers and practitioners interested in the study, analysis, design, modeling and implementation of evolvable systems, both theoretically and in a broad range of application fields. ECTA welcomes both theoretical research and practical applications.
The conference also aims to foster hybrid approaches within evolutionary computation and also involving fuzzy computation and neural computation.
CONFERENCE CHAIR
Joaquim B Filipe, Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal / INSTICC, Portugal
PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Juan Julian Merelo, University of Granada, Spain
Fernando Melício, Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, Portugal
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Karlheinz Meier, Universität Heidelberg, Germany
Thomas Stützle, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier, University Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, France
Una-May O'Reilly, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, United States
INVITED SPEAKER
Daniel Chirtes, EASME - Executive Agency for SMEs - European Commission, Romania