The 1st (Spring) 2026 issue of the ACM SIGEVOlution newsletter is now available. In this issue you will find:
The deadline has been extended to Friday, March 20 (anywhere on Earth).
The SIGEVO Best Dissertation award recognizes excellent thesis research by doctoral candidates in the field of evolutionary computing. Dissertations will be reviewed for technical depth and significance of the research contribution, potential impact on the field of evolutionary computing and beyond, and quality of presentation.
ACM SIGEVO announces its 2023 Outstanding Contributions, Dissertation and Impact Awards. Details can be found here:
ACM SIGEVO Outstanding Contribution Award
SIGEVO Dissertation Award
SIGEVO Impact Award
Congratulations to all award winners.
The 2023 ACM SIGEVO Elections have concluded.
The election results can be found here: https://www.acm.org/elections/sigs/election-results
Congratulations for the newly elected members of the board.
FOGA 2023 is going to take place from August 30 to September 1 at HPI in Potsdam, Germany. We invite you to submit your high-quality papers that aim at improving our understanding of randomized search heuristics and related algorithms.
We are proud to announce that Kalyanmoy Deb was named an ACM fellow for technical contributions in evolutionary multi-objective optimization algorithms and multi-criterion decision support. Many congratulations to Kalyanmoy for this achievement! After Darrell Whitley, who was named ACM fellow in 2019, Kalyanmoy is the second ACM fellow of our community. ACM Fellows comprise an elite group that represents less than 1% of the Association’s global membership.
2022 ACM fellows
The ACM SIGEVO Executive Board stands with the people of Ukraine and supports their democratically elected Government and territorial sovereignty. We join institutions and leaders from across the world in condemning in the strongest possible terms the unjustified attack by Russia on Ukraine and the violation of international law. As scientists, we are also saddened by the oppression of free speech in Russia and highly respect the courage of all Russians who speak up against the war and call for peace. Our thoughts and hopes are with everybody affected by this crisis.
In support of our colleagues in Ukraine, GECCO 2022 will waive all registration fees for researchers from Ukrainian institutions.
The annual Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2021) took place from July 10 to 14. The conference was a pure online event where the base was located in Lille, France. With more than 940 participants it was a great success. The particpants enjoyed a lot of interaction using platforms like gather and whova. The scientific quality of GECCO was great and many insightful and excellent papers have been presented by the participants. Relevant goals of GECCO are to be sustainable and to reduce the carbon footprint and to be inclusive and also allow researchers with low travel budget to participate in GECCO. For next year, we are looking forward to a hybrid GECCO (remote only participation will be possible) located in the US.
FOGA21 will be held from September 6 to September 8 at FH Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences, Dornbirn, Austria.
FOGA offers the opportunity to present your work towards a better understanding of the working principles behind your favorite EA or Randomized Search heuristic. We would be happy to show you the scenery, however, the decision has been made to run FOGA as an online event. We are looking forward to your submissions.
GECCO 2021 will run as pure online conference!
This year we witnessed immense progress in technologies that facilitate our virtual interactions and there are many interesting solutions that we can implement. Therefore, we are looking forward to a great conference, and the organizers' team is working hard to make GECCO'21 a great and original experience. We count on you all in helping us out at that.