EvoSTOC 2018 - Evolutionary Algorithms and Meta-heuristics in Stochastic and Dynamic Environments

Following the success of previous events and the importance of the field of evolutionary and bio-inspired computation for dynamic optimization problems, the EvoSTOC 2018 will run its 15th edition as a track of EvoApplications, the 20th European Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary and bio-inspired Computation.
PUBLICATION DETAILS
Submissions will be rigorously reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. Accepted papers will be presented orally at the event and included in the EvoApplications proceedings, published by Springer Verlag in a dedicated volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Submissions must be original and not published elsewhere. The submissions will be peer reviewed. 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 and attend the conference and present the work.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
Many real-world optimisation problems are characterised by some types of uncertainty that need to be accounted for by the algorithms used to solve the problems. These uncertainties include noise (noisy optimisation), approximations (surrogate-assisted optimisation), dynamics (dynamic/online optimisation problems) as well as the requirements for robust solutions (robust optimisation). Dealing with these uncertainties has become increasingly popular in stochastic optimisation in recent years and a variety of new techniques have been proposed. The objective of EvoSTOC is to foster interest in metaheuristics and stochastic optimisation for stochastic and dynamic environments and to provide an opportunity for researchers to meet and to present and discuss the state-of-the-arts in the field. EvoSTOC accepts contributions, both empirical and theoretical in nature, for any work relating to nature-inspired, metaheuristics and stochastic techniques applied to a domain characterised by one or more types of uncertainty. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, any of the followings in the realm of nature-inspired, metaheuristics and stochastic computation:
noisy fitness functions
fitness approximations / surrogate-assisted optimisation
robust solutions and robust optimisation
dynamic optimisation problems
dynamic constrained optimisation problems
dynamic multi-objective optimisation problems
co-evolutionary domains
online optimisation
online learning
big data analysis in dynamic environments
dynamic and robust optimisation benchmark problems
real-world applications characterised by uncertainty and online real-world applications
the applications of nature-inspired, metaheuristics and stochastic optimisation on vulnerability and risk analysis/management
the applications of nature-inspired, metaheuristics and stochastic optimisation on reliability and robustness of real-world systems
optimisation in (video) games and related domains (e.g., dynamical systems)
theoretical results (e.g., runtime analysis) for stochastic problems
Additional information and submission details
Submit your manuscript, at most 16 A4 pages long, in Springer LNCS format (instructions downloadable from http://www.springer.com/ computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).
Page limit: 16 pages
The reviewing process will be double-blind; please omit information about the authors in the submitted paper. Further information on the conference and co-located events can be found in: http://www.evostar.org
Track chairs
Michalis Mavrovouniotis
Nottingham Trent University
michalis.mavrovouniotis-AT-ntu.ac.uk
Trung Thanh Nguyen
Liverpool John Moores University
T.T.Nguyen-AT-ljmu.ac.uk