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.
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 GECCO
Tracks. Examples of other technologies
are agent-based modeling, simulated annealing, tabu
search, neural networks, fuzzy logic, statistical
modeling, and decision trees.
Submission Deadline:
to be announced
Organizers:
· Thomas Bartz-Beielstein, Cologne
University of Applies Sciences - 
· David Davis, VGO Associates - 
· Jörn Mehnen, Cranfield University - 
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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