Subject: last CFP: deadline March 3rd

From: Marchiori Elena <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 14:03:27 +0100

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--------------------  LAST CALL FOR PAPERS  ---------------------------------

 **************** SUBMISSION DEADLINE MARCH 3RD, 2000 ****************
                     
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	       CEC 2000 SPECIAL SESSION ON

         *** EVOLUTIONARY LOCAL SEARCH OPTIMIZATION ***
          ( http://www.cs.vu.nl/~elena/elso.html )

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** THEME AND TOPICS COVERED BY THE SESSION

Theme of the session:  
integration of evolutionary computation and local search techniques.
 
Topics of interest (included but not limited to): 

- algorithmic techniques
- applications
- combinatorial optimization problems, e.g., TSP, MAXSAT
- genetic local search algorithms
- Lamarckian evolutionary algorithms
- memetic algorithms
- theoretical analysis 

** ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION

Please send postscript files to:

[email-masked]

The maximum length of papers is 8 pages. Papers should be accompanied by an ASCII document containing the following information:

       title of the paper 
       abstract 
       names of authors
       contact address
       e-mail addresses
       phone and fax number(s)
       up to six keywords

** AUTHOR'S SCHEDULE

Submission of papers:   March  3rd, 2000 
Notification of acceptance/rejection: April 3rd, 2000
Camera-ready paper: April 28th, 2000

** ORGANIZERS

Thomas Baeck
Informatik Centrum Dortmund (ICD), Germany
LIACS, The Netherlands
Email: [email-masked] 

Elena Marchiori
Free University Amsterdam (VUA), The Netherlands
Email: [email-masked]