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Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2016)</span></p>
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by ACM SIGEVO</span></p>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://gecco-2016.sigevo.org">http://gecco-2016.sigevo.org</a></span></p>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://lis2.epfl.ch/events/workshops/GECCO2016/">http://lis2.epfl.ch/events/workshops/GECCO2016/</a></span></p>
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Submission Deadline: April 3rd, 2016</span></p>
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Topic ===</span></p>
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style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Evolution
by natural selection has shaped life over billions of years
leading to the emergence of complex organism capable of
exceptional cognitive abilities. These natural evolutionary
processes have inspired the development of Evolutionary
Algorithms (EAs), which are optimization algorithms widely
popular due to their efficiency and robustness. Beyond their
ability to optimize, EAs have also proven to be creative and
efficient at generating innovative solutions to novel problems.
The combination of these two abilities makes them a tool of
choice for the resolution of complex problems.</span></p>
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style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Even
though there is evidence that the principle of selection on
variation is at play in the human brain, as proposed in
Changeux’s and Edelman’s models of Neuronal Darwinism, and more
recently expanded in the theory of Darwinian Neurodynamics by
Szathmáry, Fernando and others, not much attention has been paid
to the possible interaction between evolutionary processes and
cognition over physiological time scales. Since the development
of human cognition requires years of maturation, it can be
expected that artificial cognitive agents will also require
months if not years of learning and adaptation. It is in this
context that the optimizing and creative abilities of EAs could
become an ideal framework that complement, aid in understanding,
and facilitate the implementation of cognitive processes.
Additionally, a better understanding of how evolution can be
implemented as part of an artificial cognitive architecture can
lead to new insights into cognition in humans and other animals.</span></p>
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style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The
goals of the workshop are to depict the current state of the art
of evolution in cognition and to sketch the main challenges and
future directions. In particular, we aim at bringing together
the different theoretical and empirical approaches that can
potentially contribute to the understanding of how evolution and
cognition can act together in an algorithmic way in order to
solve complex problems. In this workshop we welcome approaches
that contribute to an improved understanding of evolution in
cognition using robotic agents, in silico computation as well as
mathematical models.</span></p>
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style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Keywords:
Evolutionary Computation, Evolution, Cognition, Darwinian
Neurodynamics, Neuronal Darwisnism, robotics.</span></p>
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Invited speakers ===</span></p>
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</span><span
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Szathmary</span></p>
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Jeff Krichmar</span></p>
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invited speakers will be announced in the near future.</span></p>
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Organizers ===</span></p>
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Stéphane Doncieux, University Pierre and Marie Curie, France</span></p>
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Joshua Auerbach, EPFL, Switzerland</span></p>
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Richard Duro, Universidade da Coruna, Spain</span></p>
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Harold P. de Vladar, Parmenides Foundation, Germany</span></p>
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Workshop format ==</span></p>
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style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">This
is a half day workshop with invited talks and a session
dedicated to posters, videos and demonstrations. The session
will start with a short teaser of posters and demonstrations.
Videos will also be displayed afterwards. </span></p>
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Submissions and deadlines ===</span></p>
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style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Submission:
extended abstracts (2-4 pages) following ACM template should</span></p>
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sent in electronic form (pdf) to </span><span
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href="mailto:eic_2016@isir.upmc.fr"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:eic_2016@isir.upmc.fr">eic_2016@isir.upmc.fr</a></a></span></p>
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style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">April
3rd, 2016: Papers Submission Deadline</span></p>
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4th, 2016: Camera-Ready Paper Submission</span></p>
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21st, 2016: Workshop</span></p>
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accepted abstract will be presented in one or more of the
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style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">2-minutes
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submission email should specify in which of these formats you
would like to present.</span></p>
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works, position papers as well as overviews of author's recent</span></p>
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style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">work
are all welcome.</span></p>
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abstracts will be included in the GECCO workshop proceedings,
unless explicitly required by the authors (for copyright reason,
for instance).</span></p>
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