CFP for Special Session on Evolutionary Optimization in Dynamic Environments for CEC2004

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                         CALL FOR PAPERS
  Special Session on Evolutionary Optimization in Dynamic Environments
            2004 Congress on Evolutionary Computation
              Portland, Oregon, USA 19-23 June 2004
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 Many real-world optimization problems are non-deterministic and
 subject to changes over time, either with respect to the objective
 function, the decision variables, some environmental parameters, or a
 combination thereof. For dynamic optimization problems, the goal of an
 optimization algorithm is no longer to find a (stationary) optimal
 solution, but instead to continuously track the optimum in the dynamic
 environment. This presents serious challenges to traditional
 optimization techniques as well as conventional evolutionary
 algorithms. In recent years, solving dynamic optimization problems has
 received an increasing interest from the evolutionary computation
 community. A variety of approaches have been developed to address this
 issue.

 The special session aims at bringing together researchers from
 academia and industry to review the most recent advances, exchange
 latest ideas and explore future directions in the field of
 evolutionary algorithms for dynamic optimization problems. Topics of
 interest may include (but are not limited to):

  . Benchmark problems and performance measures
  . Dynamic multi-objective optimization
  . Adaptation, learning, and anticipation
  . Search for robust solutions
  . Comparative studies
  . Hybrid approaches
  . Theoretical analysis
  . Real-world applications

 Papers should follow the same formatting as CEC2004 regular papers,
 and should be submitted in PDF format by email DIRECTLY to the session
 organizers for review, and NOT through the regular CEC2004 procedure.
 Manuscripts should be submitted before 31 January 2004 and should not
 exceed 8 pages. Special session papers will be treated in the same way
 as regular papers and included in the conference proceedings.

 Submission deadline:         31 January 2004
 Notification of acceptance:  15 February 2004
 Final copy due:              1 March 2004
 Conference:                  19-23 June 2004

 Session Organizers

 Dr. Shengxiang Yang
 Department of Computer Science
 University of Leicester
 University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, U.K.
 Tel: +44(0)116 252 5341
 Fax: +44(0)116 252 3915
 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 http://www.cs.le.ac.uk/~syang

 Dr Juergen Branke
 Institute AIFB,
 University of Karlsruhe
 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
 Tel: +49 (721) 608-6585
 Fax: +49 (721) 693717
 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/~jbr/

 Special Session Program Committee:

 Yaochu Jin  (Germany)
 Ernesto Costa (Portugal)
 Anna I Esparcia-Alcazar (Spain)
 Marco Farina (Italy)
 Michael Guntsch (Germany)
 Hajime Kita (Japan)
 Dirk Mattfeld (Germany)
 Christopher Ronnewinkel (Germany)
 Lutz Schoenemann (Germany)
 Thomas Beielstein (Germany)
 Ron Morrison (USA)
 Marcus Andrews (UK)
 Tim Blackwell (UK)
 Sima Uyar (Turkey)
 Annie S Wu (USA)
 Karsten Weicker (Germany)
 Juergen Branke (Germany)
 Shengxiang Yang (UK)

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