List of hosting institutions for the SPECIES Scholarship program in 2020. A short overview of each institution is given. More details of the supervisor, research group, available projects, and others, is provided as a PDF document in the last item
Latest news
Special issue of the GPEM journal: Integrating numerical optimization methods with genetic programming
Editors: Anna Esparcia-Alcázar & Leonardo Trujillo https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10710-020-09381-6 The two papers contained in this special section give a complementary view on how GP can be hybridized with numerical optimization methods and problems. On the one hand, by enhancing GP with powerful
SPECIES Scholarships
SPECIES offers a total of three scholarships in its areas of interest, for PhD students to work with relevant research groups. These will involve an internship of three months in one of the candidate host institutions, working under the supervision
EvoStar 2020 in Sevilla coming soon
The 23rd EvoStar conference will take place in Seville, Spain, from 15 to 17 April 2020. Join us in Sevilla, discover the latest advances in Evolutionary Computation, meet old friends and/or make new ones, Check the latest news here.
New Executive board 2019-20
A new Executive Board was elected in the AGM that took place in Leipzig on April 26th. Its members are: Wolfgang Banzhaf (treasurer) Stefano Cagnoni Anna I Esparcia-Alcázar (vice-president and secretary) Francesco Fontanella (new in 2019) J. Ignacio (Iñaki) Hidalgo
Upcoming conferences
EvoStar 2020
EvoStar, an event organized by SPECIES, will be held in Seville, Spain. EvoStar comprises of four co-located conferences run each spring at different locations throughout Europe. These events arose out of workshops originally developed by EvoNet, the Network of Excellence in Evolutionary
Evostar 2018
Evostar About EvoStar comprises of four co-located conferences run each spring at different locations throughout Europe. These events arose out of workshops originally developed by EvoNet, the Network of Excellence in Evolutionary Computing, established by the Information Societies Technology Programme
EuroGP 2018
21st European Conference on Genetic Programming About EuroGP is the premier annual conference on Genetic Programming, the oldest and the only meeting worldwide devoted specifically to this branch of evolutionary computation. It is always a very enjoyable event attracting participants
EvoMUSART 2018
7th International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design About Following the success of previous events and the importance of the field of computational intelligence, specifically, evolutionary and biologically inspired (artificial neural network, swarm, alife) music, sound,
EvoApplications 2018
21st European Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation About EvoApplications, the European Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation -formerly known as EvoWorkshops- brings together researchers in a variety of areas of application of Evolutionary Computation and other Nature-inspired
Relevant Journals
Special issue of the GPEM journal: Integrating numerical optimization methods with genetic programming
Editors: Anna Esparcia-Alcázar & Leonardo Trujillo https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10710-020-09381-6 The two papers contained in this special section give a complementary view on how GP can be hybridized with numerical optimization methods and problems. On the one hand, by enhancing GP with powerful
IEEE TEVC Special Issue: Evolutionary Computation Meets Deep Learning
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation Special Issue on “Evolutionary Computation Meets Deep Learning”. The goal of this Special Issue is to investigate both the new theories and methods on how deep learning can be achieved with different evolutionary computation algorithms and how
Evolutionary Computation
Evolutionary Computation is the leading journal in its field. It provides an international forum for facilitating and enhancing the exchange of information among researchers involved in both the theoretical and practical aspects of computational systems drawing their inspiration from nature, with
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation publishes archival quality original papers in evolutionary computation and related areas including nature-inspired algorithms, population-based methods, and optimization where selection and variation are integral, and hybrid systems where these paradigms are combined. Purely theoretical papers
Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines
Methods for artificial evolution of active components are rapidly developing branches of adaptive computation and adaptive engineering. They entail the development, evaluation and application of methods that mirror the process of neo-Darwinian evolution. Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines reports innovative