Papers describing late-breaking developments in the field of genetic and evolutionary computation are being solicited for presentation at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation 2005 Conference (GECCO-2005) to be held on June 25-29 (Saturday-Wednesday), 2005 at the Loews L'Enfant Plaza Hotel in Washington, D.C. USA, and inclusion in a special CD-ROM to be distributed to all attendees of the conference. This special CD-ROM is distinct from the conference proceedings.

Late-breaking papers will be briefly examined for relevance and minimum standards of acceptability, but will not be peer reviewed in detail. Paper acceptance decisions will be made as soon as possible after receipt of the submission, so late-breaking papers may be submitted any time between now and the May 6, 2005 deadline.

Note that all papers included in the Late Breaking Papers CD-ROM must also be presented at GECCO-2005. At least one author of each Late Breaking Paper must register for GECCO-2005, or the paper will not appear in the Late Breaking Papers CD-ROM.

All late-breaking papers will be presented orally in special sessions held during GECCO-2005.

Authors will individually retain copyright (and all other rights) to their late-breaking papers and should feel free to submit them (either before or after the above deadline) for publication by other conferences or journals.

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

Late Breaking Papers must be UPLOADED in electronic (PDF) camera-ready format no later than 6 May 2004. Late-breaking papers must be uploaded in camera-ready form in accordance with the camera-ready GECCO-2005 format specifications that can be found at the GECCO-2005 web site. Late-breaking papers should be no more than EIGHT (8) pages in length. Please be aware of the new ACM style.

To submit please: All 3 of the following items must be submitted by May 6, 2005. Because the late-breaking papers are published on a very tight time schedule, please be very attentive in carrying out each of the following 3 steps correctly no later than May 6, 2005:

(1) Upload a PDF electronic copy of your paper to http://www.bwl.uni-mannheim.de/wifo1/Gecco2005/index.htm

Late-breaking papers must be submitted in camera-ready form in accordance with the camera-ready GECCO-2005 format specifications that can be found at the GECCO-2005 web site. Late-breaking papers should be no more than 8 pages in length. Please be very careful about formatting your paper (and testing it, by printing it out) because of the very tight time schedule. No paper-based submissions can be accepted.

(2) FAX a SIGNED "permission to publish" (that can be downloaded here) or at
http://www.bwl.unimannheim.de/wifo1/Gecco2005/permission_to_publish _LBP.pdf) to the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (FAX: +1-650-321-4457). No paper-based submissions can be accepted.

If there are any problems or questions, please contact Franz Rothlauf

(3) At least one presenter of the paper must have paid the registration fee and be registered for GECCO-2005 by May 6, 2005. Registration may be accomplished in several ways (including FAX and credit card). For registration go here

Since there will be no opportunity for revisions, authors should be especially careful that their original submission is fully compliant with all requirements above.

PRODUCING A PDF VERSION OF YOUR MANUSCRIPT

PDF documents can be produced either by using commercial software available from Adobe or by using free conversion tools for Windows or the ps2pdf and pdflatex utilities under Unix/Linux. In addition, recent versions of MS Word may be able to save directly in PDF format. Please, preview your PDF file with acrobat reader to check that all the fonts and figures are properly reproduced before submitting the manuscript.

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