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<div>NEWS: Due to a large number of request for late submissions, the EvoStar</div>
<div>submission sites will stay open until this Tuesday 15 November, after which no</div>
<div>further submissions will be accepted. Authors who have already submitted, can</div>
<div>update their work until this time.</div>
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<div> EvoCOP 2017 - The 17th European Conference on</div>
<div> Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation</div>
<div> http://www.evostar.org/2017/cfp_evocop.php</div>
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<div> April 19 - April 21, 2017</div>
<div> Amsterdam, The Netherlands</div>
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<div> Part of Evo* 2017 (http://www.evostar.org)</div>
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<div>The 17th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial</div>
<div>Optimisation is a multidisciplinary conference that brings together researchers</div>
<div>working on evolutionary computation methods and other metaheuristics for</div>
<div>solving difficult combinatorial optimisation problems appearing in various</div>
<div>industrial, economic, and scientific domains. Prominent examples of</div>
<div>metaheuristics include: evolutionary algorithms, estimation of distribution</div>
<div>algorithms, swarm intelligence methods such as ant colony and particle swarm</div>
<div>optimisation, local search methods such as simulated annealing, tabu search,</div>
<div>variable neighbourhood search, iterated local search, scatter search and path</div>
<div>relinking, and their hybridisation, such as memetic algorithms. Automatic</div>
<div>algorithm configuration and design, meta-optimisation, model-based methods, and</div>
<div>hyperheuristics are also of interest. Successfully solved problems include, but</div>
<div>are not limited to, multi-objective, uncertain, dynamic and stochastic problems</div>
<div>in the context of scheduling, timetabling, network design, transportation and</div>
<div>distribution, vehicle routing, graph problems, satisfiability, energy</div>
<div>optimisation, cutting, packing, and planning problems.</div>
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<div>The EvoCOP 2017 conference will be held in the city of Amsterdam, The</div>
<div>Netherlands, together with EuroGP (the 20th European Conference on Genetic</div>
<div>Programming), EvoMUSART (15th European conference on evolutionary and</div>
<div>biologically inspired music, sound, art and design) and EvoApplications</div>
<div>(specialist events on a range of evolutionary computation topics and</div>
<div>applications), in a joint event collectively known as EvoStar (Evo*).</div>
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<div>**** Areas of Interest and Contributions ****</div>
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<div>Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:</div>
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<div>* Applications of metaheuristics to combinatorial optimisation problems</div>
<div>* Representation techniques</div>
<div>* Practical solution of NP-hard problems</div>
<div>* Neighbourhoods and efficient algorithms for searching them</div>
<div>* Variation operators for stochastic search methods</div>
<div>* Theoretical developments</div>
<div>* Constraint-handling techniques</div>
<div>* Parallelisation and grid computing</div>
<div>* Search space and landscape analyses</div>
<div>* Comparisons between different (also exact) methods</div>
<div>* Heuristics</div>
<div>* Genetic programming and Genetic algorithms</div>
<div>* Tabu search, iterated local search and variable neighbourhood search</div>
<div>* Ant colony optimisation</div>
<div>* Artificial immune systems</div>
<div>* Scatter search</div>
<div>* Particle swarm optimisation</div>
<div>* Memetic algorithms</div>
<div>* Hybrid methods and hybridisation techniques</div>
<div>* Matheuristics (hybrids of exact and heuristic methods)</div>
<div>* Hyper-heuristics and autonomous search</div>
<div>* Automatic algorithm configuration and design</div>
<div>* Metaheuristics and machine learning</div>
<div>* Surrogate-model-based methods</div>
<div>* Estimation of distribution algorithms</div>
<div>* String processing</div>
<div>* Scheduling and timetabling</div>
<div>* Network design</div>
<div>* Vehicle routing</div>
<div>* Graph problems</div>
<div>* Satisfiability</div>
<div>* Packing and cutting problems</div>
<div>* Energy optimisation problems</div>
<div>* Multi-objective optimisation</div>
<div>* Search-based software engineering</div>
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<div>**** Publication Details ****</div>
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<div>All accepted papers will be presented orally at the conference and printed in</div>
<div>the proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series (see LNCS volumes</div>
<div>2037, 2279, 2611, 3004, 3448, 3906, 4446, 4972, 5482, 6022, 6622, 7245, 7832,</div>
<div>8600, 9026 and 9595 for the previous proceedings).</div>
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<div>**** Submission Details ****</div>
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<div>Submissions must be original and not published elsewhere. The submissions will</div>
<div>be peer reviewed by members of the program committee. The authors of accepted</div>
<div>papers will have to improve their paper on the basis of the reviewers comments</div>
<div>and will be asked to send a camera ready version of their manuscripts. At least</div>
<div>one author of each accepted work has to register for the conference, attend the</div>
<div>conference and present the work.</div>
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<div>The reviewing process will be double-blind, please omit information about the</div>
<div>authors in the submitted paper. Submit your manuscript in Springer LNCS format.</div>
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<div>* Page limit: 16 pages</div>
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<div>Submit your paper via https://myreview.saclay.inria.fr/evocop17</div>
<div>(Authors->Submit new paper)</div>
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<div>**** Important Dates ****</div>
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<div>EXTENDED DEADLINE: 15 November 2016</div>
<div>Notification: 9 January 2017</div>
<div>Camera-ready: 25 January 2017</div>
<div>Mandatory registration per paper: 1 February 2017</div>
<div>Student bursary deadline: 15 February 2017</div>
<div>Early registration discount: 1 March 2017</div>
<div>Registration deadline: 10 April 2017</div>
<div>EvoStar: 19-21 April 2017</div>
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<div>**** EvoCOP Programme Chairs ****</div>
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<div> Bin Hu</div>
<div> Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria</div>
<div> bin.hu(at)ait.ac.at</div>
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<div> Manuel Lopez-Ibanez</div>
<div> University of Manchester, United Kingdom</div>
<div> manuel.lopez-ibanez@manchester.ac.uk</div>
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