EvoCOP 2008 - Eighth European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation
EvoCOP detailed programme. Metaheuristics have often been shown to be effective for difficult combinatorial optimization problems appearing in various industrial, economical, and scientific domains. Prominent examples of metaheuristics are evolutionary algorithms, simulated annealing, tabu search, scatter search, memetic algorithms, variable neighborhood search, iterated local search, greedy randomized adaptive search procedures, estimation of distribution algorithms and ant colony optimization. Successfully solved problems include scheduling, timetabling, network design, transportation and distribution problems, vehicle routing, traveling salesperson, graph problems, satisfiability, packing problems, planning problems, and general mixed integer programming.
The EvoCOP series, started in 2001 and held annually since then, was the first event specifically dedicated to the application of evolutionary computation and related methods to combinatorial optimization problems. Following the general trend of hybrid metaheuristics and diminishing boundaries between the different classes of metaheuristics, EvoCOP has broadened its scope and now explicitly invites submissions on any kind of metaheuristic for combinatorial optimization.
The past events gave researchers a good opportunity to present their latest research and to discuss current developments and applications, besides stimulating closer future interaction between members of this scientific community.
EvoCOP 2008 wants to bring researchers in the field of metaheuristics together once again. Each accepted papers will be presented orally at the conference and printed in the proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series (see LNCS volumes 2037, 2279, 2611, 3004, 3448, 3906 and 4446 for the previous proceedings).
Topics include
- Applications of metaheuristics to combinatorial optimization problems
- Representation techniques
- Neighborhoods and efficient algorithms for searching them
- Variation operators for stochastic search methods
- Constraint-handling techniques
- Hybrid methods and hybridization techniques
- Parallelization
- Theoretical developments
- Search space analyses
- Comparisons between different (also exact) techniques
EvoCOP chairs Carlos Cotta, Universidad de Málaga, Spain - ccotta (at) lcc.uma.es
Jano van Hemert, University of Edinburgh - jano (at) vanhemert.co.uk
EvoCOP Programme Committee Adnan Acan Middle East Technical University, Ankara , Turkey
Hernán Aguirre Shinshu University, Nagano , Japan
Enrique Alba Universidad de Málaga , Spain
Francisco Almeida Universidad de La Laguna , Spain
Mehmet Emin Aydin University of Bedfordshire , UK
Ruibin Bai University of Nottingham , UK
Christian Bierwirth University of Bremen , Germany
Maria Blesa Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya , Spain
Christian Blum Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya , Spain
Peter Brucker University of Osnabrück , Germany
Edmund Burke University of Nottingham , UK
Rafael Caballero University of Málaga , Spain
Pedro Castillo Universidad de Granada , Spain
David W. Corne Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh , UK
Ernesto Costa Universidade de Coimbra , Portugal
Carlos Cotta University Malaga , Spain
Peter Cowling University of Bradford , UK
Bart Craenen Napier University, Edinburgh , UK
Keshav Dahal University of Bradford , UK
Karl Doerner Universität Wien , Austria
Jeroen Eggermont Leiden University Medical Center , The Nederlands
Anton V. Eremeev Omsk Branch of Sobolev Institute of Mathematics , Russia
Richard F. Hartl University of Vienna , Austria
Antonio J. Fernandez Universidad de Málaga , Spain
Francisco Fernández de Vega University of Extremadura , Spain
Bernd Freisleben University of Marburg , Germany
José Enrique Gallardo University of Málaga , Spain
Michel Gendreau Université de Montréal , Canada
Jens Gottlieb SAP , Germany
Walter Gutjahr University of Vienna , Austria
Jin-Kao Hao University of Angers , France
Emma Hart Napier University, Edinburgh , UK
Geir Hasle SINTEF Applied Mathematics , Norway
Juhos István University of Szeged , Hungary
Bryant Arthur Julstrom St. Cloud State University , USA
Mario Köppen Fraunhofer IPK, Berlin , Germany
Graham Kendall University of Nottingham , UK
Joshua Knowles University of Manchester , UK
Gary Kochenberger University of Colorado, Denver , USA
Jozef Kratica University of Belgrade , Serbia
Rhyd Lewis Cardiff University , UK
Andrea Lodi University of Bologna , Italy
José Antonio Lozano University of the Basque Country , Spain
Vittorio Maniezzo University of Bologna , Italy
Jose Marcos Moreno Universidad de La Laguna, Spain
Dirk C. Mattfeld Technische Universität Braunschweig , Germany
Helmut Mayer Universität Salzburg , Austria
Barry McCollum Queen's University Belfast , UK
Juan Julián Merelo University of Granada , Spain
Daniel Merkle Universität Leipzig , Germany
Peter Merz Technische Universität Kaiserslautern , Germany
Martin Middendorf Universität Leipzig , Germany
Julian Molina University of Málaga , Spain
Pablo Moscato University of Newcastle , Australia
Christine L. Mumford Cardiff University , UK
Nysret Musliu Vienna University of Technology , Austria
Gabriela Ochoa University of Nottingham , UK
Joaquin Pacheco University of Burgos , Spain
Francisco J. B. Pereira Universidade de Coimbra , Portugal
Adam Prügel-Bennett University of Southampton , UK
Jakob Puchinger National ICT Australia, Melbourne , Australia
Günther Raidl Vienna University of Technology , Austria
Marcus Randall Bond University, Queensland , Australia
Marc Reimann Institut für Operations Research , Switzerland
Andrea Roli Università degli Studi di Bologna , Italy
Michael Sampels Université Libre de Bruxelles , Belgium
Roberto Santana University of the Basque Country , Spain
Marc Schoenauer INRIA , France
Marc Sevaux University of South-Brittany , France
Christine Solnon University Lyon 1 , France
Giovanni Squillero Politecnico di Torino , Italy
Thomas Stuetzle Université Libre de Bruxelles , Belgium
El-ghazali Talbi Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille , France
Jorge Tavares Universidade de Coimbra , Portugal
Jano van Hemert University of Edinburgh , UK
Stefan Voss University of Hamburg , Germany
Ingo Wegener Universität Dortmund , Germany
Fatos Xhafa Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya , Spain
Takeshi Yamada NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Kyoto , Japan
Local Organising Committee Ivanoe De Falco, ICAR-CNR, Italy - evostar(at)na.icar.cnr.it
Antonio Della Cioppa, University of Salerno, Italy
Ernesto Tarantino, ICAR-CNR, Italy
Giuseppe Trautteur, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Evo* Coordinator and Administrative Contact Jennifer Willies, School of Computing, Napier University, Scotland, UK. - j.willies(at)napier.ac.uk
Publicity Chair Anna I Esparcia Alcazar, Instituto Tecnológico de Informática, Spain - aesparcia(at)iti.upv.es
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