CALL FOR PAPERS

5^th International Conference on Evolutionary Computation Theory and Applications - ECTA 2013

Website: http://www.ecta.ijcci.org

September 20 - 22, 2013

Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal

Position Papers

Paper Submission: May 20, 2013
Authors Notification: June 25, 2013
Camera Ready and Registration: July 9, 2013

Considered a subfield of computational intelligence focused on combinatorial optimisation problems, evolutionary computation is associated with systems that use computational models of evolutionary processes as the key elements in design and implementation, i.e. computational techniques which are based to some degree on the evolution of biological life in the natural world. A number of evolutionary computational models have been proposed, including evolutionary algorithms, genetic algorithms, the evolution strategy, evolutionary programming, swarm intelligence and artificial life.

This conference intends to be a major forum for scientists, engineers and practitioners interested in the study, analysis, design, modeling and implementation of evolvable systems, both theoretically and in a broad range of application fields. ECTA welcomes both theoretical research and practical applications.

The conference also aims to foster hybrid approaches within evolutionary computation and also involving fuzzy computation and neural computation.

ECTA 2013 is part of the International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence (IJCCI 2013) that has 2 more conferences with very strong synergies between them, namely:

- FCTA: International Conference on Fuzzy Computation Theory and Applications (http://www.fcta.ijcci.org)

- NCTA: International Conference on Neural Computation Theory and Applications (http://www.ncta.ijcci.org)

These three concurrent conferences are held in parallel and registration to one warrants delegates to attend all three.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Kevin Warwick, University of Reading, United Kingdom

Leslie Smith, University of Stirling, United Kingdom

Juan J. Merelo, Universidad de Granada, Spain

Eyke Hüllermeier, Philipps University of Marburg, Germany

Belur V. Dasarathy, Information Fusion, United States

PUBLICATIONS

All accepted papers (full and short) will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support.

All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary...).

SCITEPRESS is member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/).

A short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in a SCI Series book.

The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP and EI (Elsevier Index).

AWARDS

The awards will be announced and bestowed at the conference closing session.

Please check the website for further information: http://www.ecta.ijcci.org/BestPaperAward...

CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS

Joaquim Filipe, Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal / INSTICC, Portugal

Janusz Kacprzyk, Systems Research Institute - Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

Program Chair

Agostinho Rosa, IST, Portugal

CONFERENCE TOPICS

* Genetic Algorithms

* Machine Learning

* Cognitive Systems

* Artificial Life

* Representation techniques

* Software engineering issues; Metamodelling

* Evolutionary multiobjective optimization

* Game Theory and applications

* Evolution strategies

* Evolutionary robotics and intelligent agents

* Society and cultural aspects of evolution

* Concurrent co-operation

* Co-evolution and collective behavior

* Biocomputing and complex adaptive systems

* Bio-inspired hardware and networks

* Swarm/collective intelligence

* Evolutionary art and design

* Hybrid Systems

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

http://www.ecta.ijcci.org/ProgramCommittee.aspx

Please check further details at the conference website (http://www.ecta.ijcci.org).