Invitation
for Abstract Submission
The Evolutionary Computation in Practice (ECP) track
at Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference
(GECCO) is dedicated to the discussion of issues related
to practical application of Evolutionary Computation.
For the past four years, members from industry, governmental
agencies and other public sectors have participated
in presentations and discussions describing how evolution-related
technologies are being used to solve real-world problems.
Moreover, subjects on bridging academic training and
real-world usage are also addressed (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,
http://www.isgec.org/gecco-2005/ecp.html).
In 2006, we continue to provide a forum for EC practitioners
to exchange ideas and to promote a wider usage of the
technology.
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 Resources;
· Finance;
· Government
and Military;
· Academic training for real-world
applications;
· Computer Graphics and Gaming;
The applied technology can be any evolution-related
algorithms or its hybrid with other techniques. For
a list of evolution-related technologies, please refer
to this website. Examples
of other technologies are agent-based modeling, simulated
annealing, tabu search, neural networks, fuzzy logic,
statistical modeling, and decision trees.
Submission deadline: January 31, 2006
Electronic submission: 
Organizers:
· Tina Yu, Chevron Information Technology Company,
· Cem Baydar, Accenture, 
Advisory Committee:
· David Davis, NuTech Solutions, 
· Rajkumar Roy, Cranfield University, 
· Mark Jakiela, Washington University in St.
Louis, 
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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