CFP - Special Session on Evolvable Machines (IEEE CEC 2005)

IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation

Edinburgh, UK
September 2nd to 5th., 2005

Special Session on Evolvable Machines
Chairs: Nadia Nedjah and Luiza de Macedo Mourelle

Methods for artificial evolution of components, such as programs and hardware, are rapidly developing branches of alternative design methodology for machine engineering. They include the development, evaluation and application of methods that mirror the process of the Darwinian theory of natural selection and produce, as results, computational expressions, e.g. algorithms, or machines, e.g. mechanical or electronic devices. This special session will be devoted to reporting innovative and significant progress in automatic evolutionary design methodology of machines. The topics covered by the session are:
- Evolvable Hardware;
- Genetic Programming;
- Evolutionary Robotics;
- Evolutionary Machine Design Experiences.

Accepted papers will be included in the proceedings of CEC which will be published by IEEE. Selected papers will be published in a planned special session of Journal of Universal Computer Science (J.UCS) published by Springer. Papers are solicited on topics above and the time schedule is:

Paper Submission: April, 11th., 2005
Provisional Notification: May 19th., 2005
Camera-Ready Submission: June 11th., 2005

For further details please, contact the session chairs:

Nadia Nedjah
Electronics Engineering & Telecommunications, Engineering Faculty,
State University of Rio de Janeiro
nadia@eng.uerj.br

Luiza de Macedo Mourelle
System Engineering & Computation, Engineering Faculty, State
University of Rio de Janeiro
ldmm@eng.uerj.br

tel: +55 21 2587 7442
fax: +55 21 2587 7374