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Analysis of Genetic Representations and Operators (CEC 2007 Special Session) |
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Call for Papers
Analysis of Genetic Representations and Operators
(AGRO 2007)
http://agro2007.dei.uc.pt
A Special Session of the
2007 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation
(CEC 2007)
Singapore, September 25-28, 2007
http://www.cec2007.org
Motivation
This Special session will focus on the analysis and design of Genetic Representations and Operators in Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs). In the past few years, EAs have been successfully applied to a large number of optimization problems. Nevertheless, most of the research deals with applying an EA to a new problem or applying a new EA to an existing one. In most of these studies, the focus is on showing how the EA was able to solve the problem (or find better solutions) and not why it was able to solve it. The choice of a genetic representation and the associated operators cannot be made independently of each other as both of them are crucial to the efficiency of the optimisation algorithm. The question whether a certain representation leads to better performing EAs than an alternative representation (and the respective operators) is crucial to our understanding on why an EA can solve the problem successfully.
Topics of Interest:
- Representation techniques and evolutionary operators;
- Theoretical and empirical properties of representations and/or operators;
- Predictive performance measures;
- Search space analysis;
- Promising directions for future research.
Important Dates
- Paper Submission: March 15, 2007
- Decision Notification: May 15, 2007
- Camera-ready Submission: June 15, 2007
Paper Submission:
Manuscripts should be prepared according to the standard format of regular papers specified in CEC2007 and be restricted to a maximum of 8 pages. Paper submission is strictly only PDF format and online through the regular CEC2007 submission website. Special session papers will be treated in the same way as regular papers and included in the conference proceedings.
Special Session Organizers:
Francisco B. Pereira
Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra
Portugal
xico [at] dei [dot] uc [dot] pt
Jorge Tavares
University of Coimbra
Portugal
jast [at] dei [dot] uc [dot] pt
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