Evostar 2017

Evolutionary Algorithms and Meta-heuristics in Stochastic and Dynamic Environments

The recipients of the "EvoAPPLICATIONS Best Paper Awards" will be invited to submit an extended version of their works to a special issue of Memetic Computing.

Following the success of previous events and the importance of the field of evolutionary and bio-inspired computation for dynamic optimization problems, the EvoSTOC 2017 will run its 14th edition as a track of EvoApplications, the 20th European Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary and bio-inspired Computation.

PUBLICATION DETAILS

Submissions will be rigorously reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. Accepted papers will be presented orally at the event and included in the EvoApplications proceedings, published by Springer Verlag in a dedicated volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Submissions must be original and not published elsewhere. The submissions will be peer reviewed. The authors of accepted papers will have to improve their paper on the basis of the reviewers’ comments and will be asked to send a camera-ready version of their manuscripts. At least one author of each accepted work has to register for the conference and attend the conference and present the work.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Many real-world optimisation problems are characterised by some types of uncertainty that need to be accounted for by the algorithms used to solve the problems. These uncertainties include noise (noisy optimisation), approximations (surrogate-assisted optimisation), dynamics (dynamic/online optimisation problems) as well as the requirements for robust solutions (robust optimisation). Dealing with these uncertainties has become increasingly popular in stochastic optimisation in recent years and a variety of new techniques have been proposed. The objective of EvoSTOC is to foster interest in metaheuristics and stochastic optimisation for stochastic and dynamic environments and to provide an opportunity for researchers to meet and to present and discuss the state-of-the-arts in the field. EvoSTOC accepts contributions, both empirical and theoretical in nature, for any work relating to nature-inspired, metaheuristics and stochastic techniques applied to a domain characterised by one or more types of uncertainty. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, any of the followings in the realm of nature-inspired, metaheuristics and stochastic computation:

• noisy fitness functions
• fitness approximations / surrogate-assisted optimisation
• robust solutions and robust optimisation
• dynamic optimisation problems
• dynamic constrained optimisation problems
• dynamic multi-objective optimisation problems
• co-evolutionary domains
• online optimisation
• online learning
• big data analysis in dynamic environments
• dynamic and robust optimisation benchmark problems
• real-world applications characterised by uncertainty and online real-world applications
• the applications of nature-inspired, metaheuristics and stochastic optimisation on vulnerability and risk analysis/management
• the applications of nature-inspired, metaheuristics and stochastic optimisation on reliability and robustness of real-world systems
• optimisation in (video) games and related domains (e.g., dynamical systems)
• theoretical results (e.g., runtime analysis) for stochastic problems

Additional information and submission details

Submit your manuscript, at most 16 A4 pages long, in Springer LNCS format (instructions downloadable from http://www.springer.com/ computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).
Page limit: 16 pages
The reviewing process will be double-blind; please omit information about the authors in the submitted paper. Further information on the conference and co-located events can be found in: http://www.evostar.org

Track chairs

• Trung Thanh Nguyen
  Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom
  T.T.Nguyen(at)ljmu.ac.uk
• Michalis Mavrovouniotis
  Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom
  michalis.mavrovouniotis(at)ntu.ac.uk;