GECCO-2010 Second Call for Papers *** 2010 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, July 7-11, 2010, Portland, OR, USA

[Pier Luca Lanzi]

2010 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2010)
July 7-11, 2010 (Wednesday-Sunday)
Portland, Oregon, USA

Organized by ACM SIGEVO

http://www.sigevo.org/GECCO-2010

19th International Conference on Genetic Algorithms (ICGA) and the
15th Annual Genetic Programming Conference (GP)

One Conference - Many Mini-Conferences - 15 Program Tracks

The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2010) will
present the latest high-quality results in the growing field of genetic
and evolutionary computation.

Topics include: genetic algorithms, genetic programming, evolution
strategies, evolutionary programming, real-world applications, learning
classifier systems and other genetics-based machine learning, evolvable
hardware, artificial life, adaptive behavior, ant colony optimization,
swarm intelligence, biological applications, evolutionary robotics,
coevolution, artificial immune systems, and more.

IMPORTANT DATES
* Submission deadline: January 13, 2010
* Notification of paper acceptance: March 10, 2010
* Camera-ready submission: April 5, 2010
* GECCO-2010 Conference: July 7-11, 2010

ON-LINE CALENDAR& UPDATES
* Calendar (ical format):http://tinyurl.com/gecco-2010-ics
* Updates:http://twitter.com/GECCO2010

CONFERENCE FLYER
*http:www.sigevo.org/docs/cfp-gecco-2010.pdf

TUTORIALS & WORKSHOPS
GECCO-2010 offers a rich program including more than 30 tutorials and
the following international workshops:

- Seventh GECCO Undergraduate Student Workshop
- 2010 GECCO Symbolic Regression and Modeling Workshop
- Evolutionary Computation Techniques for Constraint Handling
- 1st GECCO Workshop on Visualization Methods for Genetic and
Evolutionary Computation (VizGEC)
- Medical Applications of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (MedGEC)
- Optimization by Building and Using Probabilistic Models (OBUPM-2010)
- Black Box Optimization Benchmarking 2010 (BBOB 2010)
- Entropy, Information and Complexity
- Theoretical Aspects of Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization:
Current Status and Future Trends
- Evolutionary Computation and Multi-Agent Systems
and Simulation (ECoMASS) Fourth Annual Workshop
- Thirteenth International Workshop on Learning Classifier Systems


VENUE
The Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront Hotel, located in downtown
Portland, is near the Portland Riverplace Marina, restaurants, shopping
& performing arts venues.

MORE INFORMATION
Visithttp://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2010 for information about electronic
submission procedures, formatting details, student travel grants,
the latest list of tutorials and workshop, late-breaking papers, and
more.

Conference updates are also posted on Twitter at
http://twitter.com/GECCO2010

CONTACT
For technical matters, contact Conference Chair Martin Pelikan at
pel...@cs.umsl.edu

For conference administration matters contact submit your questions to
the moderated comment system at:http://geccosupport.wordpress.com

ORGANIZERS
* Conference Chair: Martin Pelikan
* Editor-in-Chief: Juergen Branke
* Local Chair: Kumara Sastry
* Publicity Chair: Pier Luca Lanzi
* Tutorials Chair: Una-May O'Reilly
* Workshops Chair: Jaume Bacardit
* Competitions Chairs: Christian Gagn�
* Late Breaking Papers Chair: Daniel Tauritz
* Graduate Student Workshop Chair: Riccardo Poli
* Business Committee: Erik Goodman& Una-May O'Reilly
* Evolutionary Computation in Practice: Thomas Baek,
Thomas Bartz-Beielstein, Erik Goodman and Joern Mehnen

GECCO is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery Special
Interest Group for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (ACM SIGEVO).