CALL FOR PAPERS
EvoTHEORY 2008

First European Workshop on Theoretical Aspects of Artificial Evolution

26-28 March, 2008, Naples, Italy

http://www.evostar.org/

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INTRODUCTION
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It is a central goal of theoretical investigations of evolutionary
algorithms to assist practitioners with the tasks of selecting and
designing good strategy variants and operators. Due to the rapid
pace at which new strategy variants and operators are being
proposed, theoretical foundations of evolutionary algorithms still
lag behind practice. However, theoretical studies have gained much
momentum over the last few years and have made numerous valuable
contributions to the field of evolutionary computation.

The aim of this workshop is to find common ground among the
multitude of theoretical approaches and identify open questions
central to the field as a whole.

The workshop will be held from 26-28 March, 2008 in Naples,
Italy, as part of the EvoStar event.

Accepted papers will be presented orally at the workshop and
included in the EvoWorkshops proceedings, published by Springer
Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.

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TOPICS OF INTEREST
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The theory of evolutionary algorithms today consists of a wide
range of different approaches. Run-time analysis, schema theory,
analysis of the dynamics of artificial evolution, and systematic
empirical analysis all consider different aspects of bio-inspired
algorithms behaviour.
Moreover, they employ different methods and tools for attaining
their goals, such as Markov chains, randomized algorithms,
infinite population models, or ideas based on statistical
mechanics or population dynamics. All aspects of analysis are of
interest, including but not limited to: population dynamics,
run-time analysis, fitness landscapes and problem difficulty,
genetic operator design, genetic repair principles, self-adaptive
parameters, multi-objective problems.

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND SUBMISSION DETAILS
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Submit your manuscript, at most 10 A4 pages long, in Springer
LNCS format (instructions downloadable from
http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376
-0,00.html)
no later than November 1, 2007.

The papers will be peer reviewed by at least three members of
the program committee. Authors will be notified via email on the
results of the review by December 15, 2007.

The authors of accepted papers will have to improve their paper
on the basis of the reviewers' comments and will be asked to
send a camera ready version of their manuscripts, along with
text sources and pictures, by January 8, 2008. The accepted
papers will appear in the workshop proceedings, published in
Springer LNCS Series, which will be available at the workshop.

Further information, including the Online Submission Details,
can be found in
http://www.evostar.org

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission: 1 November 2007
Notification: 15 December 2007
Camera ready: 8 January 2008
Workshop: 26-28 March 2008

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WORKSHOP CHAIRS
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Mario Giacobini
Department of Animal Production Epidemiology and Ecology
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
and Computational Biology Unit
Molecular Biotechnology Center
University of Torino, Italy

Jonathan Rowe
School of Computer Science
University of Birmingham
Birmingham, UK