[GECCO CFP] [final CfP w/ ext. subm. deadline] 13th Workshop on Evolutionary Computation for the Automated Design of Algorithms (ECADA) @ GECCO 2023

Fri Apr 14 06:23:47 CDT 2023

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13th Workshop on Evolutionary Computation for the Automated Design of Algorithms (ECADA)

Under the auspices of the 25th ACM Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO 2023)<https://gecco-2023.sigevo.org/> July 15-19, 2023

Note that GECCO 2023 will be a hybrid conference, with the in-person portion in Lisbon, Portugal

Extended Submission deadline: April 17, 2023

https://bonsai.auburn.edu/ecada/GECCO2023/

Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Rong Qu<https://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~pszrq/>, Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham<https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/>, United Kingdom

Keynote Title: A General Model and Framework for Automated Algorithm Design

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CALL FOR PAPERS

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We welcome original submissions on all aspects of Evolutionary Computation for the Automated Design of Algorithms, in particular, evolutionary computation methods and other hyper-heuristics for the automated design, generation or improvement of algorithms that can be applied to any instance of a target problem domain. Relevant methods include methods that evolve whole algorithms given some initial components as well as methods that take an existing algorithm and improve it or adapt it to a specific domain. Another important aspect in automated algorithm design is the definition of the primitives that constitute the search space of hyper-heuristics. These primitives should capture the knowledge of human experts about useful algorithmic components (such as selection, mutation and recombination operators, local searches, etc.) and, at the same time, allow the generation of new algorithm variants. Examples of the application of hyper-heuristics, including genetic programming and automatic configuration methods, to such frameworks of algorithmic components are of interest to this workshop, as well as the (possibly automatic) design of the algorithmic components themselves and the overall architecture of metaheuristics. Therefore, relevant topics include (but are not limited to):

● Applications of hyper-heuristics, including general-purpose automatic algorithm configuration methods, for the design of evolutionary algorithms, other metaheuristics and other algorithms for application domains such as optimization, data mining, machine learning, image processing, engineering, cyber security, critical infrastructure protection, and bioinformatics.

● Novel hyper-heuristics, including but not limited to genetic programming based approaches, automatic configuration methods, and online, offline and life-long hyper-heuristics, with the stated goal of designing or improving the design of algorithms.

● Empirical comparison of hyper-heuristics.

● Theoretical analyses of hyper-heuristics.

● Studies on primitives (algorithmic components) that may be used by hyper-heuristics as the search space when automatically designing algorithms.

● Automatic selection/creation of algorithm primitives as a preprocessing step for the use of hyper-heuristics.

● Analysis of the trade-off between generality and effectiveness of different hyper-heuristics or of algorithms produced by a hyper-heuristic.

● Analysis of the most effective representations for hyper-heuristics (e.g., Koza style Genetic Programming versus Cartesian Genetic Programming).

● Asynchronous parallel evolution of hyper-heuristics.

For more detailed information, see the ECADA at GECCO 2023 workshop website (https://bonsai.auburn.edu/ecada/GECCO2023/).

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IMPORTANT DATES

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- Submission deadline: April 14, 2023 April 17, 2023

- Notification of acceptance: May 3, 2023

- Author registration deadline: May 10, 2023

- Camera-ready deadline: May 10, 2023

- Workshop: during GECCO 2023 which runs July 15-19, 2023

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PAPER SUBMISSION

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Workshop papers must be submitted using the GECCO submission system (https://ssl.linklings.net/conferences/gecco/). After login, the authors need to select the "Workshop Paper" submission form. In the form, the authors must select the workshop they are submitting to. To see a sample of the "Workshop Paper" submission form, go to GECCO's submission system and select "Sample Submission Forms". Submitted papers must not exceed 8 pages (excluding references) and are required to be in compliance with the GECCO 2023 Papers Submission Instructions (https://gecco-2023.sigevo.org/Paper-Submission-Instructions). It is recommended to use the same templates as the papers submitted to the main tracks.  Each paper submitted to this workshop will be rigorously reviewed in a double-blind review process. In other words, authors should not know who the reviewers of their work are and reviewers should not know who the authors are. To this end, the following information is very important: Submitted papers should be ANONYMIZED. This means that they should NOT contain any element that may reveal the identity of their authors. This includes author names, affiliations, and acknowledgments. Moreover, any references to any of the author's own work should be made as if the work belonged to someone else. All accepted papers will be presented at the ECADA workshop and appear in the GECCO 2023 Conference Companion Proceedings. By submitting a paper, the author(s) agree that, if their paper is accepted, they will:

● Submit a final, revised, camera-ready version to the publisher on or before the camera-ready deadline.

● Register at least one author by the author registration deadline to participate in the conference.

● Provide a pre-recorded version of the talk and be present during its online transmission (which will occur during the days of the conference) to answer questions from the (online) audience.

As a published ACM author, you and your co-authors are subject to all ACM Publications Policies (https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/toc), including ACM's new Publications Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects (https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/research-involving-human-participants-and-subjects).

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WORKSHOP CHAIRS (in alphabetical order)

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Emma Hart (mailto:e.hart at napier.ac.uk)

Daniel R. Tauritz (mailto:dtauritz at acm.org)

John R. Woodward (mailto:j.woodward at lboro.ac.uk)

For more detailed information, see the ECADA at GECCO 2023 workshop website (https://bonsai.auburn.edu/ecada/GECCO2023).
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