Welcome to the website of SIGEVO, the ACM Special Interest Group on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation.
ACM SIGEVO announces its 2023 Outstanding Contributions, Dissertation and Impact Awards. Details can be
found here:
Outstanding Contributions Awards: https://sig.sigevo.org/index.html/tiki-index.php?page=ACM%20SIGEVO%20Outstanding%20Contribution%20Award
Dissertation Award: https://sig.sigevo.org/index.html/tiki-index.php?page=SIGEVO%20Dissertation%20Award
Impact Award: https://sig.sigevo.org/index.html/tiki-index.php?page=SIGEVO%20Impact%20Award
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.
Kalyanmoy Deb named as ACM Fellow
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.
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SIGEVO Executive Board Statement on the Ukraine war
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.
2021 edition of GECCO is largest GECCO ever!
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.
We are proud to announce that Darrell Whitley was named an ACM fellow for technical and professional leadership in the field of genetic and evolutionary computation. Many congratulations to Darrell for this achievement. The accomplishment underpins the technologies that define the digital age and greatly impact our professional and personal lives. ACM Fellows comprise an elite group that represents less than 1% of the Association’s global membership.
press release 2019 ACM fellows
GECCO 2019 took place in Prague, July 13-17, 2019.
FOGA 2019 took place in Potsdam, Germany, August 26-29. 15 papers out of 31 submissions were presented, contributing to advancing our understanding of the working principles behind evolutionary algorithms and related randomized search heuristics.
Check the GECCO authorship network presented in Berlin by Gabriela Ochoa, Editor in Chief of GECCO 2017, and Editor in Chief of SIGEVO Newsletter.
Link to Open Access to all GECCO and FOGA proceedings since 2016 - unlimited, but from this web site only
You are invited to join SIGEVO, a thriving ACM SIG with over 600 members, and enjoy its Member Benefits:
But SIGEVO is an active SIG, also providing many Community Benefits
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.
Franz Rothlauf
Professor of Information Systems, Universität Mainz
Chair, ACM-SIGEVO
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ACM SIGEVO announces its 2023 Outstanding Contributions, Dissertation and Impact Awards. Details can be
found here:
Outstanding Contributions Awards: https://sig.sigevo.org/index.html/tiki-index.php?page=ACM%20SIGEVO%20Outstanding%20Contribution%20Award
Dissertation Award: https://sig.sigevo.org/index.html/tiki-index.php?page=SIGEVO%20Dissertation%20Award
Impact Award: https://sig.sigevo.org/index.html/tiki-index.php?page=SIGEVO%20Impact%20Award
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.
Kalyanmoy Deb named as ACM Fellow
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
SIGEVO Executive Board Statement on the Ukraine war
In support of our colleagues in Ukraine, GECCO 2022 will waive all registration fees for researchers from Ukrainian institutions.
2021 edition of GECCO is largest GECCO ever!
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.
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.
We are proud to announce that Darrell Whitley was named an ACM fellow for technical and professional leadership in the field of genetic and evolutionary computation. Many congratulations to Darrell for this achievement. The accomplishment underpins the technologies that define the digital age and greatly impact our professional and personal lives. ACM Fellows comprise an elite group that represents less than 1% of the Association’s global membership.
press release 2019 ACM fellows
- 172 contributed papers and 104 posters from 13 program tracks;
- 33 Tutorials and 25 workshops in the pre-conference days;
- Check the web site for the results of the Competitions, Humies, Best Paper Awards, ...
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.
Franz Rothlauf
Professor of Information Systems, Universität Mainz
Chair, ACM-SIGEVO