I just got a note from Pier Luca Lanzi about some raw number on this year’s GECCO 2011 conference. The numbers are stagering. I will start with the numbers from the previous editions since GECCO become an ACM conference, just to build up suspense. The numbers of paper submissions to the main conference for the previous editions are listed below.
| Year | Submissions |
|---|---|
| 2006 | 446 |
| 2007 | 577 |
| 2008 | 451 |
| 2009 | 531 |
| 2010 | 373 |
And after this prelude, here comes the number of submission for this year: 686. Yes you read it correctly 686 papers submitted to the conference. The number just brakes the record of submissions since GECCO joined ACM. 686 papers is 109 papers more than the previous 2007 record. But, do you want to know what is even better than that? That you can still participate by submitting workshop and late breaking papers. Do you want to learn more about it, just check the conference calendar.