Special Sessions

Authors wishing to submit papers for inclusion in a Special Session must follow the IEEE CEC 2023 Submission Guidelines for preparing and submitting their papers. To make sure the papers will be included in the Special Session, please make sure you select the desired Special Session name in the Main Research topic. Special Session papers will be reviewed as other regular conference papers and those accepted will be included in the conference proceedings published by IEEE Explore.

Large-scale multi-objective optimization in emerging applications

Ye Tian, Cheng He, Handing Wang, Ran Cheng, Xingyi Zhang, Kay Chen Tan, and Yaochu Jin (field910921@gmail.com)

Data-Driven Evolutionary Optimization of Computationally Expensive Problems

Chaoli Sun, Jonathan Fieldsend, and Yew-Soon Ong (chaoli.sun.cn@gmail.com)

Computational Intelligence and Man-Machine Collaboration (CIMMC)

Leo Chen, He Ye, and Qi Shuai (leo.chen@ieee.org)

Evolutionary Computation in Healthcare Industry

Cheng He, Handing Wang, Ron Qu, and Yaochu Jin (chenghe_seee@hust.edu.cn)

Evolutionary Computer Vision and Image Processing (ECVIP)

Harith Al-Sahaf, Ying Bi, and Pablo Mesejo (Harith.Al-Sahaf@ecs.vuw.ac.nz)

Evolutionary Multitasking

Liang Feng, Abhishek Gupta, and Yew Soon Ong (liangf@cqu.edu.cn)

Evolutionary Deep Learning and Applications

Yanan Sun, Bing Xue, Chuan-Kang Ting, and Mengjie Zhang (ysun@scu.edu.cn)

Evolutionary Transfer Learning and Transfer Optimisation

Bing Xue, Liang Feng, Yew Soon Ong, and Mengjie Zhang (Bing.Xue@ecs.vuw.ac.nz)

Computational intelligence for industrial sustainability (CIIS)

Yi Chen, Yang Luo, Yufan Zheng, Long Huang, Yuyi Zhu, and Haochuan Jiang (yi.chen02@xjtlu.edu.cn)

Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (ECiDUE)

Michalis Mavrovouniotis, Changhe Li, and Shenxiang Yang (mavrovouniotis.michalis@ucy.ac.cy)

Bilevel Optimization: Methods and Applications

Hemant Kumar Singh, Ankur Sinha, and Kalyanmoy Deb (h.singh@adfa.edu.au)

Memetic Computing (MC)

Zexuan Zhu, Ferrante Neri, Chuan-Kang Ting, Maoguo Gong, and Yaqing Hou (zhuzx@szu.edu.cn)

Evolutionary Computation for Automated Design of Machine Learning and Search

Jorge Mario Cruz-Duarte, Ivan Amaya, and Nelishia Pillay (nelishia.pillay@up.ac.za)

Adaptive Evolutionary Computation and Swarm Intelligence Algorithms

Kyle Robert Harrison, Beatrice Ombuki-Berman, and Andries Engelbrecht (bombuki@brocku.ca)

Quantum Artificial Intelligence

Zakaria Abdelmoiz DAHI, Gabriel Luque, Francisco Chicano (zadahi@uma.es)

Secure, Privacy-Preserving, and Fairness-Aware Optimization

Zakaria Abdelmoiz Dahi, Gabriel Luque, and Francisco Chicano (zadahi@uma.es)
Qiqi Liu, Guo Yu, Xilu Wang, Yuping Yan, and Yaochu Jin (qiqi6770304@gmail.com)

Evolutionary Multiobjective Machine Learning (EMOML)

Ruwang Jiao, Bing Xue, and Mengjie Zhang (ruwangjiao@gmail.com)

Evolutionary Computation for Feature Selection, Extraction and Dimensionality Reduction

Bach (Hoai) Nguyen, Bing Xue, Mengjie Zhang, and Yoachu Jin (Hoai.Bach.Nguyen@ecs.vuw.ac.nz)

AutoDesign4EC: Automated Algorithm Design for Evolutionary Computation

Tome Eftimov, Carola Doerr, Manuel López-Ibáñez, and Peter Korošec (tome.eftimov@ijs.si)

Nature-Inspired Constrained Optimization

Heder S. Bernardino, Helio J.C. Barbosa, Rituparna Datta, and Efrén Mezura-Montes (emezura@uv.mx)

Partitioning and Clustering for Evolutionary Computation

Seyed Jalaleddin Mousavirad, Diego Oliva, Erik Cuevas, and Ripon K. Chakrabortty (jalalmousavirad@gmail.com)

Special Session in Games

Hamna Aslam, Marco Scirea, and Josh Aaron Miller (hamna025@gmail.com)

Evolutionary Scheduling and Combinatorial Optimization

Yi Mei, Su Nguyen, Gang (Aaron) Chen, and Fangfang Zhang (yi.mei@ecs.vuw.ac.nz)

Candidate Solution Representation and Fitness Landscape Manipulation

Andrea Tangherloni, Paolo Cazzaniga, and Daniele M. Papetti (andrea.tangherloni@unibg.it)

Optimization Methods for Bioinformatics and Bioengineering

Shouyong Jiang, James Hughes, and Richard Allmendinger (shouyong.jiang@abdn.ac.uk)

Evolutionary Computation for Music, Art, and Creativity

Chuan-Kang Ting, Francisco Fernández de Vega, and Chien-Hung Liu (ckting@pme.nthu.edu.tw)

Nature-inspired Computing in Intelligent Network Systems

Rung-Tzuo Liaw and Chuan-Kang Ting rtliaw@csie.fju.edu.tw)

Evolutionary Algorithms for Complex Optimization in the Energy Domain

João Soares, Fernando Lezama, Zita Vale, and Kumar (Venayagamoorthy jan@isep.ipp.pt)

Constrained Multimodal Multiobjective Optimization

Jing Liang, Caitong Yue, Boyang Qu, and Kunjie Yu (liangjing@zzu.edu.cn)

Evolutionary Computation for Symbolic Regression and Applications

Qi Chen, Bing Xue and Mengjie Zhang (qi.chen@vuw.ac.nz)

Advances in Decomposition-based Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization (ADEMO)

Saúl Zapotecas, Bilel Derbel, Ke Li, and Qingfu Zhang (szapotecas@inaoep.mx)

Genetic Programming and Machine Learning for Scheduling

Fangfang Zhang, Mengjie Zhang, Yi Mei, and Su Nguyen (fangfang.zhang@ecs.vuw.ac.nz)

Computational learning theory and advances from Heuristics to Hyperheuristics: new trends and applications in hard optimization, and constraint reasoning

Hajer Ben Othman, Sadok Bouamama, Moez Hammami, and Patrick Siarry (sadok.bouamama@ensi-uma.tn)