Call for Papers

The annual IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation is one of the leading events in the field of evolutionary computation.

The Conference Organizing Committee invites submissions of original, previously unpublished innovative research in any topic of evolutionary computation including, but not limited to:

Algorithms

• Ant colony optimization and Swarm Intelligence
• Artificial immune systems
• Coevolutionary systems
• Coevolution
• Cultural algorithms
• Differential evolution
• Estimation of distribution algorithms
• Evolutionary computation theory
• Evolutionary developmental systems
• Evolutionary programming
• Evolution strategies
• Genetic algorithms
• Genetic programming
• Heuristics
• Interactive evolutionary computation
• Learning classifier systems
• Memetic algorithms
• Multi-meme and hybrid algorithms
• Molecular and quantum computing
• Multi-objective evolutionary algorithms
• Parallel and distributed algorithms
• Particle swarm optimization
• Representation and operators
• Self-adaptation in evolutionary computation

Machine Learning for Optimization and Evolutionary Learning

• Automated design of Metaheuristics
• Evolutionary fuzzy systems
• Evolutionary neural architecture search
• Evolutionary reinforcement learning
• Fairness-aware optimization
• Federated and secure optimization
• Large language models for optimization
• Metaheuristics and hyper-heuristics
• Multi-objective machine learning
• Neural optimization
• Surrogate-assisted data-driven optimization

Optimization

• Combinatorial optimization
• Constraint handling
• Dynamic optimization
• Large-scale optimization
• Multi-modal optimization
• Multi-objective optimization
• Numerical optimization
• Optimization in the presence of uncertainty
• Robust optimization

Related Topics

• Art and music
• Artificial life and adaptive behavior
• Autonomous mental and behavior development
• Biometrics
• Bioinformatics and computational biology
• Classification
• Clustering
• Data mining
• Defense and cybersecurity
• Drug design
• Embodied robotics
• Engineering design
• Evolutionary games and multi-agent systems
• Evolvable hardware
• Evolutionary software engineering
• Evolutionary robotics
• Finance and economics
• Intelligent systems applications
• Real-world applications

Theory

• Causality and evolvability
• Convergence
• Fitness landscape analysis
• Noisy fitness
• Robustness and neutrality
• Runtime analysis
• Scalability and complexity analysis

Important Dates

• Special Session & Workshop Proposals Deadline: November 15, 2024
• Competition & Tutorial Proposals Deadline: December 15, 2024
• Paper Submission Deadline: January 31, 2025
• Paper Acceptance Notification: March 18, 2025
• Final Paper Submission & Early Registration Deadline: May 1, 2025

All submissions will be refereed by experts in the fields and ranked based on the criteria of originality, significance, quality and clarity.