ECP
Schedule
Invitation
for Abstract Submission
For
the past three years, Evolutionary Computation in Industry
(ECI) track at Genetic and Evolutionary Computation
Conference (GECCO) has invited many managers, technology
scouts and practitioners to participate in presentations
and discussions describing how evolution-related technologies
are being used to solve real-world problems (see http://www.isgec.org/gecco-2002/eci.html, http://www.isgec.org/gecco-2003/eci.html and http://www.isgec.org/gecco-2004/eci.html).
In 2005, we will continue this tradition of project
presentations and panel discussions from members in
industry. Additionally, we want to expand our scope
to include presentations by representatives from governmental
agencies, non-profit organizations and others in the
public sectors. Moreover, a new topic on bridging academic
training and real-world usage of evolution-related
technologies is introduced. To reflect these changes,
we rename the track as Evolutionary Computation in
Practice (ECP), indicating that it will become a forum
to discuss issues related to practical application
of Evolutionary Computation.
We
invite you to present work that employs evolution-related
technologies to solve real-world problems. We are accepting
one to two page abstracts for review, with the following
themes:
· Real-world application success story;
· Real-world application lessons learned;
· Academic case study in real-world applications;
· Expectations of academic training from industry;
The
subject domains include, but not limited to the following:
· Biomedical;
· Design;
· Energy and Resource;
· Finance;
· Government and Military;
· Academic training for real-world applications;
The applied technology can be any evolution-related algorithms or its
hybrid with other techniques. For a list of evolution-related technologies,
please navigate this website. Examples of other technologies are simulated
annealing, tabu search, neural network, fuzzy logic, statistical modeling,
and decision trees.
Submission deadline: January
31, 2005
Electronic submission is sent to:
ECP2005@improvise.ws
Organizers:
Tina
Yu (ChevronTexaco Information Technology Company)
Cem
Baydar (Accenture)
Advisory
Committee:
David
Davis, NuTech Solutions, 
Rajkumar
Roy, Cranfield University, 
Mark
Jakiela, Washington University in St. Louis, 
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Frequently Asked Questions:
The Invitation for Abstract Submission solicited a
one- to
two-page abstract for review. Are these abstracts in
lieu of, or in
addition to, submission of a full-length paper to the
GECCO conference
itself?
-
ECP abstracts review is independent of GECCO papers review.
Unlike the main conference which only accepts
papers with high
technical quality, ECP presentations place emphasis on
deploying
solutions for
real-world problems. Depending on the application area
of the work, the
abstract is reviewed by the session organizer, who decides
if the work
suits the ECP theme and invite the authors to present
the work.
I've already prepared a 6-page paper. Would submission
of this
paper (rather than an abstract) be acceptable?
- Yes.
Will abstracts accepted for the ECP track be published
as full
papers (i.e., 8-10 pages) in the GECCO Proceedings?
-
No. Since ECP abstracts are not reviewed the same way
as
that of GECCO papers, they will not be published in the
GECCO
Proceedings. Previously, we either have published ECP
abstracts/papers
in a
separate volume or published the power point presentations
with GECCO
Workshop Proceedings in a CD. We have not decided how
we will handle
publications this year.
What is the relationship between the ECP track and
the Real
World Applications track, if any?
-
The Real-World Applications track at GECCO accepts papers
with high technical quality like that of the other
GECCO track
papers. The ECP track is generally suitable for researchers
and managers
from industry, who have less time to spend writing a
complete technical
paper but still
would like to relate a significant success in using the
technology to
solve a
real-world problem. Therefore, if academic publication
is important to
you, we
suggest that you submit your papers to the GECCO real-world
applications
track.
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