Welcome to the website of SIGEVO, the ACM Special Interest Group on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation.
Latest News
The 2nd (Summer) 2026 issue of the ACM SIGEVOlution newsletter is now available. It is dedicated to the memory of Günter Rudolph (1963-2026). In this issue you will find:
- Tributes to Günter Rudolph
- Who Found What: Searches of the Genetic Programming Bibliography
- PhD Thesis Report - Exploring the Population Dynamics of Evolutionary Algorithms using Gene Heritage
The 1st (Spring) 2026 issue of the ACM SIGEVOlution newsletter is now available. In this issue you will find:
- The 2025 ACM SIGEVO Outstanding Contribution Awardees - Prof. Mengjie Zhang and Prof. Frank Neumann
- PhD Dissertation Report - Improving Optimization Algorithms with Machine Learning and Visualization
- The 2025 ACM GECCO Impact Award - General Program Synthesis Benchmark Suite
The deadline has been extended to Friday, March 20 (anywhere on Earth).
Join SIGEVO
You are invited to join SIGEVO, a thriving ACM SIG with over 600 members, and enjoy its Member Benefits:
- Discounted registration fee for SIGEVO’s annual GECCO Conference
- SIGEVO’s quarterly on-line newsletter
- Access to content in the ACM Digital Library provided by SIGEVO, including proceedings, workshop proceedings, tutorial notes, and late-breaking papers from the annual GECCO conference
- Free subscription to the SIGEVO members email list, with calls, advance and final event programs, and news of interest to the community posted regularly.
But SIGEVO is an active SIG, also providing many Community Benefits
- Sponsorship of GECCO conferences
- Sponsorship of the FOGA workshops
- Sponsorship of SIGEVO GECCO Impact Paper Award
- Sponsorship of Student Travel Awards for participation in GECCO
- Sponsorship of Student Travel Awards for participation in FOGA
- Sponsorship of Best Paper Awards in GECCO conference tracks
- Sponsorship of Graduate Student Workshop and its awards
- Sponsorship of competitions: The annual Humies Awards for the best Human Competitive Solution plus a varying number of GECCO Competition awards
- Contribution of all GECCO print content to the ACM Digital Library
If you have suggestions for improvements to our website, or are willing to directly help, please let us know! Our officers' contact details are available here.
Prof.dr. Peter A.N. Bosman
Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), Amsterdam
Chair, ACM-SIGEVO