Workshop Description
Evolutionary Computation (EC) is a class of meta-heuristic search algorithms inspired by nature evolution. Typical ECs include Genetic Algorithm (GA), Genetic Programming (GP)£¬Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Differential Evolution (DE), and Estimation of Distribution Algorithm (EDA). In the past decades, EC has undergone a rapid development and many improved EC variants have been proposed. The applications of ECs are also multiplying fast, including continuous optimization, combinatorial optimization, classification, time series prediction, evolutionary multi-objective optimization. The objective of this workshop is to reflect the recent developments of EC and its applications in sensor networks, smart cities, and others.
The main topics include but are not limited to:
- Genetic Algorithm.
- Differential Evolution.
- Particle Swarm Optimization.
- Genetic Programming.
- Ant Colony Optimization.
- Parallelization of EC.
- Multi-objective EC.
- Multi-tasking EC.
- Memetic EC.
- Cooperative Co-evolutionary EC.
- Theoretical analysis of EC.
- Applications of EC.
Paper Submission
All papers need to be submitted electronically through EasyChair submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=uic2018. (Track name to be announced)
The materials presented in the papers should not be published or under submission elsewhere. Each paper is limited to 6 pages including figures and references using IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscripts style (two columns, single-spaced, 10 fonts). You can confirm the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Author Guidelines at the following web page: http://www.computer.org/web/cs-cps/ . Once accepted, the paper will be included into the IEEE conference proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press. At least one of the authors of any accepted paper is requested to register the paper at the conference.
Important Dates
Workshop paper submission deadline: July 5, 2018
Notification of acceptance: July, 15, 2018
Camera-ready & Registration: August 8, 2018
Organizers
This workshop will be organized by Dr. Jinghui Zhong and Dr. Liang Feng.
Dr. Jinghui Zhong is is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China. He received his Ph.D. degree from the School of Information Science and Technology, Sun YAT-SEN University, China, in 2012. During 2013 to 2016, He worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research interests include: evolutionary computation such as genetic programming, and the applications of evolutionary computation.
Dr. Liang Feng is currently an Assistant Professor at the College of Computer Science, Chongqing University, China. He received the PhD degree from the School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2014. He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Computational Intelligence Graduate Lab, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research interests include Computational and Artificial Intelligence, Memetic Computing, Big Data Optimization and Learning, as well as Transfer Learning.
Program Committee Members:
Chao Qian, University of Science and Technology of China, ChinaWang Rui, National University of Defense Technology, China
Wenyin Gong, China University of Geosciences, China
Wei-Jie Yu, San Yat-Sen University, China
Wei-Neng Chen, South China University of Technology, China
Xiao-Min Hu, Guangdong University of Technology, China
Xianneng Li, Dalian University of Technology, China
Ying Lin, San Yat-Sen University, China
Yue-Jiao Gong, South China University of Technology, China
Zexuan Zhu, Shenzhen University, China
Zhi-Hui Zhan, South China University of Technology, China
Zhou Wu, Chongqing University, China
...(to be announced)