CALL FOR PAPERS (EC)ČAI ECAI Workshop on Evolutionary Computation Riva del Garda, Italy 28 August 2006 ***************** DEADLINE: 15 April 2006 ************************** Evolutionary Computation (EC) has been attracting more and more researchers in the last years. Europe is playing a primary role in EC, which is testified both by the number and quality of European contributions to the literature in the field and by the relevance that European Conferences in EC and related fields have acquired through the years. Such conferences have fostered the creation of a rather wide European community of researchers in EC. As usually happens with scientific disciplines which are entering their maturity stage, also in the EC community the need is felt for i.) more direct contacts and comparisons with people working in related disciplines or tackling, with different techniques, problems similar to the many to which EC offers effective solutions; ii.) the development of hybrid systems which could take advantage of the best features offered by EC techniques and by techniques belonging to Artificial Intelligence (AI) at large; iii.) "enrolment" of young students and researchers who can sustain the development trend of the field and guarantee a future as brilliant as the present, or possibly even more brilliant, to the discipline. The organization of a workshop at ECAI aims at satisfying these needs for the chances it offers of interaction, knowledge exchange, and debate with the most prominent representatives of AI research worldwide. The workshop will comprise tutorials and technical presentations, in order to address the participation of as wide an audience as possible, from researchers and students who are already working in the field of Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Intelligence, to representatives of industry and everybody who is interested in approaching evolutionary computation from the point of view of both basic research and applications. CALL FOR PAPERS Papers are sought, reporting original research results on topics which include, but are not limited to: - Evolutionary computation theory - Real-world applications - Comparison between results of evolutionary methods and the state of the art in different application fields - Hybrid evolutionary/non-evolutionary methods Papers must be submitted by April 15, 2006. Contributions must be in English and must be submitted by email, in Postscript or pdf format, to the address ec2ai2006@ce.unipr.it . Papers must not exceed 5 pages in the same format used for regular submissions to ECAI 2006 (for further details see http://ecai2006.itc.it). Participants in the workshop are required to register for the main conference, as well. Web site: http://www.ce.unipr.it/people/cagnoni/ec2ai2006