CFP: Special Session on EC in Dynamic Environments ( WCCI 2010)

Subject:	CFP: Special Session on EC in Dynamic Environments ( WCCI 2010)
Date:	Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:29:03 GMT

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Call for Papers

Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in
Dynamic and Uncertain Environments
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2010 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI
2010)
Barcelona, Spain, 18-23 July, 2010

Submission deadline: January 31, 2010

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Many real-world optimization problems are subjected to dynamism and
uncertainties that are often impossible to avoid in practice.
For instance, the fitness function is uncertain or noisy as a result
of simulation/measurement errors or approximation errors (in the case
where surrogates are used in place of the computationally expensive
high fidelity fitness function). In addition, the design variables or
environmental conditions can be perturbed or they change over time.

The tools to solve these dynamic and uncertain optimization problems
(DOP)
should be flexible, able to tolerate uncertainties, fast to allow
reaction
to changes and adaptive. Moreover, the objective of such tools is no
longer to simply locate the global optimum solution, but to
continuously
track the optimum in dynamic environments, or to find a robust
solution
that operates properly in the presence of uncertainties.

The last decade has witnessed increasing research efforts on
handling dynamic and uncertain optimization problems using
evolutionary
algorithms and other metaheuristics, and a variety of methods have
been
reported across a broad range of application backgrounds.

This special session aims at bringing together researchers from both
academia
and industry to review the latest advances and explore future
directions in
this field. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

* Benchmark problems and performance measures
* Dynamic single - and multi-objective optimization
* Adaptation, learning, and anticipation
* Models of uncertainty and their management
* Handling noisy fitness functions
* Using fitness approximations
* Searching for robust optimal solutions
* Algorithm comparison and benchmarking
* Hybrid approaches
* Theoretical analysis
* Real-world applications

Submission procedure:

Manuscripts should be prepared according to the standard format and
page
limit of regular papers specified in WCCI2010. Instructions for
preparing
the manuscript are provided at http://www.wcci2010.org/. Submission
of
manuscripts is strictly only in PDF format and through the regular
WCCI2010
submission website. Special session papers will be treated in the
same way
as regular papers and will be included in the conference
proceedings.

Important dates:

Submission deadline: 31 January, 2010
Notification of acceptance: 15 March, 2010
Camera ready papers: 02 May, 2010
WCCI2010 Conference: 18 - 23 July, 2010

Special session chairs:

Dr David Alejandro Pelta, Department of Computer Science and A.I.
University of Granada, Spain. Email: dpelta@decsai.ugr.es

Dr Shengxiang Yang, Department of Computer Science, University of
Leicester,
UK. Email: s.yang@mcs.le.ac.uk

Dr Yaochu Jin, Honda Research Institute Europe, 63073 Offenbach am
Main,
GERMANY. Email: yaochu.jin@honda-ri.de

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