2003 Congress on Evolutionary Computation Canberra, Australia, December 8-12, 2003

Call for Special Sessions Proposals

The 2003 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, co-sponsored by the IEEE Neural Networks Society, the Evolutionary Programming Society, the IEAust, and the IEE, will be held in Canberra, Australia, 8th - 12th December 2003.

2003 Congress on Evolutionary Computation is now inviting special session proposals. All special sessions are to be organized around a specific topic in order to encourage in-depth discussions. Special sessions will be an integral part of the conference. All accepted papers in the special sessions will be included in the published conference proceedings. All special session papers will be reviewed, and the review process will be coordinated and supervised by the special session organizer(s).

Each proposal should contain at least the following information:

(1) Title of the session;

(2) Name of the organizer(s) and their detailed contact addresses;

(3) One or two paragraphs describing the theme and topics covered by the session.

To propose a special session, please email your proposal to CEC'03 Special Sessions Co-Chair, Dr KC Tan (eletankc@nus.edu.sg). Enquiries about special sessions may be sent to the same address. The proposal will be evaluated and notification of acceptance/rejection will be returned as soon as practical. We are aiming at within two weeks of the proposal submission. The accepted special sessions will be posted and updated here regularly.

Accepted Special Sessions (click here)

More Details for Special Session Organizers:

(1) The papers in your session can be a mixture of invited and openly solicited papers. To maintain the quality of the papers, all invited papers should be reviewed. Session organizers can be reviewers. Special session papers should be submitted to the Session Organizer(s) directly for review (and should not be submitted through the conference web page). Acceptance/rejection decisions for the special session papers are made and communicated to the authors by the Session Organizer(s).

(2) If you accept more papers than that could be fitted into a single session (each session normally has 6 papers), we will allocate two or more sessions to you. If you only receive fewer than 6 papers for your session, we will merge your session into the regular sessions. In any case, paper quality is our first priority.

(3) The submission deadline for your special session should ideally follow the regular paper submission deadline, i.e., June 14, 2003. But there is some flexibility since you will be responsible for organizing reviews. However, the deadline for submitting camera-ready copies will be firm, i.e., September 9, 2003. Otherwise, papers may not be included in the proceedings.
 

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