Is that time of year. Rushing to get your papers ready for GECCO 2012? Here are some good news. The deadline has been pushed back to January 27 to help those last minute pushes :). You can find more infomaion at the conference website http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2012/ or you can follow GECCO 2012 updatse on Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/gecco_2012), Google+ (+GECCO http://goo.gl/F4ZTM), or Facebook (http://goo.gl/IqEbW).
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. ...
The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2011) is now inviting paper submissions. GECCO 2011 will be held in Dublin, Ireland, from July 12th till July 16th. The full text of the call for paper can be found here. More information about GECCO 2011 can be found on the conference website, Twitter, and Facebook. The paper submission deadline is January 26, 2011.
The GECCO 2011 website has been updated with detailed information of this year’s competitions. Interested? Here is the list of open competitions: Demolition derby Evolutionary art GPUs for genetic and evolutionary computation Simulated car racing championship Visualizing evolution
The call for workshop proposals for GECCO 2011 is out. The GECCO-2011 program committee invites proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the 2011 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2011) in Dublin, Ireland, July 12-16. The deadline for proposals is November 8th. More info at is available at the online call for workshop proposals document.