[Opt-Net] Final CfP: Theory @ GECCO 2015 (+ Special Issue in Algorithmica)

[Carola Doerr]

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                                                          CALL FOR PAPERS
  2015 GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE (GECCO-2015)
                                                            THEORY TRACK
                                               July 11-15, 2015, Madrid, 
Spain
                                                   Organized by ACM SIGEVO
http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2015/organizers-tracks.html#theory2
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The GECCO 2015 theory track welcomes all papers that address theoretical 
issues in the whole of evolutionary computation and allied sciences.
So, in addition to Genetic Algorithms, Evolutionary Strategies, Genetic 
Programming and other traditional EC areas, we also very much welcome 
theory papers in Artificial Life, Ant Colony Optimization, Swarm 
Intelligence, Estimation of Distribution Algorithms, Generative and 
Developmental Systems, Genetics-Based Machine Learning, Search Based 
Software Engineering, and more.
The theory track considers submissions performing theoretical analyses 
or concerning theoretical aspects in the areas described above.
Results can be proven with mathematical rigor or obtained via a thorough 
experimental investigation.

Topics include (but are not limited to):
- analysis methods like drift analysis, fitness levels, Markov chains, ...
- fitness landscapes and problem difficulty
- population dynamics
- representations and variation operators
- runtime analysis and black-box complexity
- self-adaptation
- single- and multi-objective problems
- statistical approaches
- stochastic and dynamic environments.

SPECIAL ISSUE:
Selected papers of the theory track will be invited to a special issue 
in Algorithmica.

IMPORTANT DATES:
January 21, 2015    Abstract submission
February 4, 2015    Full paper submission (hard)
March 20, 2015      Notification of paper acceptance
April 14, 2015        Camera ready submission
July 11-15, 2015    GECCO 2015 Conference in Madrid, Spain

TRACK CHAIRS:
Francisco Chicano, University of Malaga (Spain), chicano at lcc.uma.es
Carola Doerr, CNRS researcher at the Universite Pierre et Marie Curie - 
Paris 6 (France), Carola.Doerr at mpi-inf.mpg.de