CFP: EvoCOP 2004

Dear colleague,

we kindly want to inform/remind you about the forthcoming submission 
deadline (November 14) of the EvoCOP 2004 conference.
Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email.

Best regards,
        Guenther Raidl and Jens Gottlieb

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                    CALL FOR PAPERS

                      EvoCOP 2004

   4th European Conference on EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION
            IN COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION

     University of Coimbra, Portugal, April 5-7, 2004

   Held together with EuroGP 2004 and EvoWorkshops 2004

Evolutionary algorithms have often been shown to be effective for
difficult combinatorial optimization problems appearing in various
industrial, economical, and scientific domains. Prominent examples of
such problems are scheduling, timetabling, network design,
transportation and distribution problems, vehicle routing, traveling
salesperson, other graph problems, satisfiability, packing problems,
planning problems, and general mixed integer programming.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Applications of evolutionary algorithms and related meta-heuristics
like simulated annealing, tabu search, memetic algorithms, or ant
systems to combinatorial optimization problems;
- representation techniques;
- evolutionary operators;
- constraint-handling techniques;
- hybrid methods and hybridization techniques;
- parallelisation;
- theoretical developments;
- search space analyses;
- comparisons between different (also non-evolutionary) techniques.

The conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS
series and will be available at the conference.


Important dates:

   Submission deadline:                 14 November 2003
   Notification of acceptance:          19 December 2003
   Camera ready papers for workshop:    16 January  2004
   Conference:                          5-7 April   2004

For full details about submissions and updated news about the conference
please visit the conference web page:

   http://evonet.dcs.napier.ac.uk/eurogp2004/evocop/


Chairs:

   Jens Gottlieb, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   Guenther Raidl, [EMAIL PROTECTED]


Program Committee:

  Emin Aydin, Jean Berger, Jürgen Branke, Edmund Burke,
  David Wolfe Corne, Ernesto Costa, Carlos Cotta, Peter Cowling,
  David Davis, Karl Doerner, Marco Dorigo, Anton V. Eremeev,
  Terry Fogarty, David B.  Fogel, Jin-Kao Hao, Jano van Hemert,
  Jörg Homberger, Mikkel Thomas Jensen, Bryant Arthur Julstrom,
  Dimitri Knjazew, Joshua Damian Knowles, Gabriele Kodydek,
  Mario Köppen, Jozef Kratica, Ivana Ljubic, Elena Marchiori,
  Dirk Mattfeld, Helmut Mayer, Peter Merz, Zbigniew Michalewicz,
  Martin Middendorf, Christine L. Mumford, Francisco J. B. Pereira,
  Adam Prügel-Bennett, Marcus Randall, Colin Reeves, Marc Reimann,
  Claudio Rossi, Franz Rothlauf, Andreas Sandner, Marc Schoenauer,
  Christine Solnon, Thomas Stützle, El-ghazali Talbi,
  Edward P. Tsang, Ingo Wegener, Darrell Whitley, Xin Yao,
  Takeshi Yamada