Special Session on "Evolutionary Based Hyperheuristics and Their Applications"

Call for Papers

Special Session on Evolutionary Based Hyperheuristics and Their Applications
IEEE CEC2012, at WCCI2012
June 10-15 Brisbane, Australia
Session chairs
Rong Qu, A. Sima Uyar

Hyper-heuristics have recently attracted an increasing research attention in a wide range of disciplines including artificial intelligence, operations research, engineering and computer science. Researchers in hyper-heuristics aim to design and develop general solvers for a range of problems rather than concerning dedicated algorithms for specific problems or problem instances. Due to its efficiency and generality in providing “good enough, fast enough” solutions in solving various problems with less amount of tuning effort, hyper-heuristics have been applied to a range of domains including optimization functions, combinatorial optimization, as well as scheduling, timetabling and planning.

This special session is being organized as an activity of the Intelligent Systems Applications Technical Committee of the Computational Intelligence Society at IEEE, and aims to bring together advanced developments in both research and practice of hyper-heuristics and widen the existing applications on various problems in education, industry, engineering, management and business, etc. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Applications:

Bin packing

Combinatorial optimization

Engineering design

Resource management

Hybrid methods for scheduling problems

Routing

Scheduling, timetabling, planning