Evolutionary Computation Digest — Thursday, 06 July 2017, Volume 31: Issue 7 SUBMISSION ADDRESS: [log in to unmask] NEW LIST ARCHIVE: http://listserv.gmu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=EC-DIGEST-L (UN)SUBSCRIPTION INSTRUCTIONS: at the bottom of this email ******************************************************************************** Today's Topics: Announcementes --- - 07 July: GECCO Job Market CFPs (with submission deadline) ---- - 09 July (Extended): Competition on Niching Methods for Multi-modal Optimization @ GECCO - 11 July (Extended): Black Box Optimization Competition @ GECCO - 30 July (Extended): Asia-Pacific Symposium on Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems (Ha Noi) - 06 August: International Conference on the Theory and Practice of Natural Computing (Prague) - 01 December: International Conference on Bioinspired Optimization Methods and their Applications (Paris) ******************************************************************************** CALENDAR OF EC-RELATED ACTIVITIES: 15-19 July, 2017, Berlin, Germany: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2017) ******************************************************************************** Sender: Javier Ferrer <[log in to unmask]> Subject: [GECCO 2017] Job Market GECCO Job Market [http://gecco-2017.sigevo.org/index.html/Job+Market] The GECCO Job Market will be an event where people offering jobs can advertise open positions and meet with potential candidates. Any kind of positions are eligible (PhD, Postdoc, Professor, Engineer, etc.) - from the academia as well as the industry. The job market will be organized as a short session at the beginning of the lunch break on Monday, July 17. After brief presentations of the available positions, participants will have the possibility to set up face-to-face meetings for further discussions. To participate with a job offer, create a new ad at the SIGEVO web site (http://sig.sigevo.org/index.html/tiki-index.php?page=Job%20Ads). Make sure to check the “GECCO availability” option that confirms your attendance at the job market. In addition, prepare one slide describing the job (in PDF) and send it to tea.tusar[at]ijs.si by Friday, July 7. IMPORTANT DATES Friday, July 7: Deadline for submitting the ad and sending the slide Monday, July 17: Job Market at GECCO 2017 ******************************************************************************** Sender: Michael Epitropakis <[log in to unmask]> Subject: GECCO 2017 Competition on Niching Methods for Multi-modal Optimization: *9 July* Extended and Final Deadline Please consider taking part in the GECCO 2017 Competition on Niching Methods for Multi-modal Optimization, even if you cannot come to the conference. The deadline is on the *9th of July* (extended and final), so there is still time to start working on an entry. Please find more information about this competition on our web-site: http://www.epitropakis.co.uk/gecco2017/ Please also notice the updated submission format. Looking forward to receiving your entries. From the Organizers, GECCO 2017 Competition on Niching Methods for Multi-modal Optimization ******************************************************************************** Sender: [log in to unmask] Subject: BBComp: Black-Box Optimization Competition. Extended deadline: July 11. The Black Box Optimization Competition (BBComp, http://bbcomp.ini.rub.de/) organized in the scope of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO'2017, http://gecco-2017.sigevo.org/) has five tracks in the domains of single- and multi-objective optimization. BBComp is the first competition platform in the continuous domain where test problems are truly black boxes to participants. The only information known to the optimizer and participant is the dimension of the problem, bounds on all variables, and a budget of black box queries. The competition is also the first web/online optimization competition in evolutionary computation domain, it aims at attacking a growing impact of over-fitting of optimization algorithms to a narrow set of existing benchmark problems. The competition was run four times so far, attracting more than 100 unique submissions, including some state-of-the-art commercial solvers. All the material including the source code in C/C++, MATLAB, Python and Java is available at http://bbcomp.ini.rub.de . The results of the competition will be announced during GECCO'2017. Participants do not need to attend the conference or submit papers, they can even choose to be anonymous to the other participants. Extended Deadline: July 11, 2017 ******************************************************************************** Sender: Lam Thu Bui <[log in to unmask]> Subject: CFP: Submission deadline extended: July 30, 2017, The 21st Asia Pacific Symposium on Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems (IES 2017) Due to numerous requests from authors, the paper submission deadline has been extended to July 30, 2017. ----------------------------------------------------------------- The 21st Asia Pacific Symposium on Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems (IES 2017) Hanoi, Vietnam, November 15-17, 2017 (http://fit.lqdtu.edu.vn/ies2017) The Asia-Pacific Symposium on INTELLIGENT AND EVOLUTIONARY SYSTEMS first took place in 1997 in Canberra and since then, the Asia-Pacific IES Symposiums have become prestigious incubators of research ideas, as well as facilitators of research collaboration. The Symposiums aim to bring together researchers and practitioners from countries of the Asia-Pacific Region in the fields of intelligent systems and evolutionary computation to present ongoing work, exchange ideas, and discuss future collaboration. Researchers from elsewhere interested in collaboration with researchers from the Asia-Pacific Region are most welcome. IES 2017 will be held in Ha Noi, the capital of Vietnam, during November 15-17, 2017, and organized by the Le Quy Don Technical University. IES2017 welcomes fundamental science, methodology, method, and practical application papers in the IES Symposiums’ traditional range of topics, which includes but is not limited to: Artificial Intelligence Artificial Life and Societies Machine Learning Neural Networks Data Science and Decision Analytics Evolutionary and Nature Inspired computation Game Theory Human/Brain-Computer Interaction Agents and Complex Systems Cognitive and Developmental Systems Robotics Systems Intelligent Transport Systems ******************************************************************************** Sender: GRLMC <[log in to unmask]> Subject: TPNC 2017: 2nd call for papers 6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF NATURAL COMPUTING TPNC 2017 Prague, Czech Republic December 18-20, 2017 http://grammars.grlmc.com/TPNC2017/ AIMS: TPNC is a conference series intending to cover the wide spectrum of computational principles, models and techniques inspired by information processing in nature. TPNC 2017 will reserve significant room for young scholars at the beginning of their career and particular focus will be put on methodology. The conference aims at attracting contributions to nature-inspired models of computation, synthesizing nature by means of computation, nature-inspired materials, and information processing in nature. Submissions have to be uploaded to: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tpnc2017 DEADLINES (all at 23:59 CET): Paper submission: August 6, 2017 Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: September 6, 2017 Final version of the paper for the LNCS proceedings: September 16, 2017 Early registration: September 16, 2017 Late registration: December 4, 2017 Submission to the post-conference journal special issue: March 20, 2018 ******************************************************************************** Sender: El-ghazali Talbi <[log in to unmask]> Subject: CFP BIOMA'2018 @Paris BIOMA 2018 8th International Conference on Bioinspired Optimization Methods and their Applications 16-18 May 2018 Paris, France http://bioma2018.sciencesconf.org/ The 8th International Conference on Bioinspired Optimization Methods and their Applications BIOMA 2018 will be held in Paris (France) on May 16-18, 2018. http://bioma2018.sciencesconf.org/ BIOMA is one of the main events focusing on the progress of the area of bioinspired optimization methods and their applications. As in the seven previous editions, BIOMA 2018 will provide an opportunity to the international research community in optimization to discuss recent research results, to develop new ideas and collaborations in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere. BIOMA 2018 welcomes papers that cover any aspects of bioinspired optimization research such as new algorithmic developments, high-impact applications, new research challenges, theoretical developments, implementation issues, and experimental studies. BIOMA 2018 strives for a high-quality program that will be completed by a number of invited talks and special sessions. Important dates - Submission deadline Dec 1, 2017 - Notification of acceptance Feb 15, 2018 - Final papers Mar 1, 2018 Paper submission : We will accept submissions in two different formats. - S1: Extended abstracts of a maximum of 3 pages - S2: Long papers of a maximum of 12 pages Proposals of invited sessions - Deadline Nov 1, 2017. 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