We invite original, previously unpublished contributions from researchers, practitioners and educators across the full breadth of evolutionary computation, from theoretical foundations to real world applications.

Paper Topics

  • 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

  • Automated design of heuristics

  • 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 optimization

  • Algorithm portfolios

  • 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

  • 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

  • AI ethics and governance

  • Causality and evolvability

  • Convergence

  • Fitness landscape analysis

  • Robustness and neutrality

  • Runtime analysis

  • Scalability and complexity analysis

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