EvoStar, or Evo*, is an international scientific event devoted to evolutionary computation held in Europe. Its structure has evolved over time and it currently comprises four conferences: EuroGP the annual conference on Genetic Programming, EvoApplications, the International Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation, EvoCOP, European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation, and EvoMUSART, the International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design. According to a 2016 study EvoApplications is a Q1 conference, while EuroGP and EvoCOP are both Q2. In 2021, EuroGP, EvoApplications and EvoCOP obtained a CORE rank B. Other conferences in the area include the ACM

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(GECCO), the

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(CEC) and the bi-annual

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(PPSN).

History

Originally run under the name of EvoWorkshops, the event was an outcome of EvoNet, the Network of Excellence in Evolutionary Computing, funded by the

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under the Information Societies Technology Programme, FP5-IST. EvoNet was coordinated by Terry Fogarty and managed by Jennifer Willies, both at

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at the time, and had more than 100 participating nodes. After EvoNet funding ended, support was provided by Edinburgh Napier University to help EvoStar to continue over the years. In 2014 the ''SPECIES'' Society was set up to provide an appropriate legal structure for future organisation and support of the EvoStar conferences. SPECIES support of EvoStar became effective in 2017, with Edinburgh Napier University taking a sponsoring role.

Editions

The first edition was held in Paris in 1998. Subsequent editions took place in Göteborg (1999), Edinburgh (2000), Lake Como (2001), Kinsale (2002), Essex (2003), Coimbra (2004), Lausanne (2005), Budapest (2006), Valencia (2007, first edition under the name EvoStar ), Napoli (2008), Tübingen (2009), Istanbul (2010), Torino (2011), Málaga (2012), Vienna (2013), Granada (2014), Copenhagen (2015), Porto (2016), Amsterdam (2017), Parma (2018) and Leipzig (2019). In 2020, Evostar was to be held in Seville, Spain, but due to

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, it was finally held as an online conference. In 2021 Evostar was expected to be held in Seville, but was again held as an online conference. In 2022 Evostar was held in Madrid, Spain, as a hybrid event, in person and online.

Hybrid event (2022)

The 25th edition took place on 20-22 April and was held in

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and

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(

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).
EuroGP
Eric Medvet, Gisele Pappa, Bing Xue
EvoCOP
Leslie Pérez Cáceres, Sébastien Verel
EvoMusArt
Tiago Martins, Nereida Rodríguez-Fernández, Sérgio M. Rebelo
EvoApplications
Juan Luis Jiménez Laredo, J. Ignacio Hidalgo, Kehinde Oluwatoyin Babaagba. For the first time joint event Evolutionary computation and machine learning between EuroGP and EvoApps, Wolfgang Banzhaf and Penousal Machado. As usual there were two keynotes: Gabriela Ochoa "Illuminating search spaces" on
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were on site and on line vi
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Online event (2021)

The 24th edition took place on 7–9 April and was held as an online event. Many of the online presentations were recorded and are available via the organisers' "SPECIES Society" YouTube https://www.youtube.com/c/SPECIESSociety/featured channel. EuroGP: Ting Hu, Nuno Lourenço, Eric Medvet. EvoApps: Pedro Castillo, Juanlu Jiménez-Laredo. EvoCOP: Christine Zarges, Sébastien Verel. EvoMUSART: Juan Romero, Tiago Martins, Nereida Rodríguez-Fernández. Late-breaking Abstracts: A.M. Mora, A.I. Esparcia-Alcázar https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.11804

Online event (2020)

The 23rd edition took place on 15–17 April and was for the first time in history held as an online event. Sessions were available via

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for registered participants, who could remotely present their work and interact during question time. Conference program chairs were Ting Hu and Nuno Lourenço for EuroGP, Pedro Castillo-Valdivieso for EvoApplications, Luís Paquete and Christine Zarges for EvoCOP and Anikó Ekárt and Juan Romero for EvoMUSART. Anna Esparcia-Alcázar was Coordinator, João Correia was Publicity Chair and Francisco Chicano was Electronic Media Chair. Invited speakers were José Antonio Lozano (talk on The Essence of Combinatorial Optimization Problems, video available on ) and Roberto Serra (Dynamically Critical Networks )

Leipzig (2019)

The 22nd edition took place from 24 to 26 April in the premises of

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, with Hendrik Richter as local chair. Conference program chairs were Lukas Sekanina and Ting Hu for EuroGP, Paul Kaufmann and Pedro Castillo-Valdivieso for EvoApplications, Arnaud Liefooghe and Luís Paquete for EvoCOP and Anikó Ekárt and Antonios Liapis for EvoMUSART. Anna Esparcia-Alcázar was Coordinator and Pablo García Sánchez was Publicity Chair. A total of 98 papers, short papers and late-breaking abstracts were presented in 22 conference sessions plus a general poster session The opening invited speaker was Risto Miikkulainen (on Creative AI through Evolutionary Computation) while Manja Marz gave the closing keynote (on RNA evolution with long read sequencing methods).

Parma (2018)

The 2018 edition took place on April 4–6 in the premises of the Università degli Studi di Parma in

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, with Stefano Cagnoni as local chair. Conference program chairs were Mauro Castelli and Lukas Sekanina for EuroGP, Kevin Sim and Paul Kaufmann for EvoApplications, Arnaud Liefooghe and Manuel López-Ibáñez for EvoCOP and Juan Romero and Antonios Liapis for EvoMUSART. Coordinators were Jennifer Willies and Anna Esparcia-Alcázar and Pablo García Sánchez was Publicity Chair. A total of 116 papers, short papers and late-breaking abstracts were presented in 24 conference sessions plus a general poster session. The opening invited speaker was

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(whose talk versed on adversarial dynamics), while Penousal Machado delivered the closing keynote (on evolution art and sex).

Amsterdam (2017)

The 20th edition took place on 19–21 April in

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(Netherlands) with Evert Haasdijk and Jacqueline Heinerman serving as local chair. Conference program chairs were James McDermott and Mauro Castelli for EuroGP; Bin Hu and Manuel López-Ibáñez for EvoCOP; João Correia and Vic Ciesielski for EvoMUSART; Giovanni Squillero for EvoApplications. Lukáš Sekanina, Antonios Liapis, and Kevin Sim served as Publication Chairs of the different events. Pablo García Sánchez was the Publicity Chair, while Jennifer Willies, the Coordinator. The invited speakers were Kenneth De Jong (''EC: Past, Present and Future'') and Arthur Kordon (''Evolutionary Computation in Industry: A Realistic Overview''). A total of 210 papers were presented: 108 in EvoApplications, 34 in EuroGP, 39 in EvoCOP, and 29 in EvoMUSART.

Porto (2016)

The 19th edition took place between March 30 and April 1 in Seminário de Vilar Rua Arcediago Van Zeller in

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(Portugal) with Penousal Machado and Ernesto Costa serving as local chair. Conference program chairs were Malcolm Heywood and James McDermott for EuroGP; Bin Hu and Francisco Chicano for EvoCOP; Colin Johnson and Vic Ciesielski for EvoMUSART; Giovanni Squillero for EvoApplications. Mauro Castelli, João Correia, and Paolo Burelli were Publication Chairs of the different events. Pablo García Sánchez was the Publicity Chair, while Jennifer Willies, the Coordinator. The invited speakers were Richard Forsyth (''The evolution of BEAGLE: Confessions of a mongrel rule-breeder'') and Kenneth Sörensen (''Metaphors in metaheuristics - a symptom of a deeper ailment?''). A total of 218 papers were presented: 113 in EvoApplications, 36 in EuroGP, 44 in EvoCOP, and 25 in EvoMUSART.

Copenhagen (2015)

The 18th edition took place between 08 and 10 April in the

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(Denmark) with Paolo Burelli and Sebastian Risi serving as local chair. Conference program chairs were Penousal Machado and Malcolm Heywood for EuroGP; Gabriela Ochoa and Francisco Chicano for EvoCOP; Colin Johnson and Adrián Carballal for EvoMUSART; Antonio Mora for EvoApplications. Giovanni Squillero, João Correia, and James McDermott were Publication Chairs of the different events. Pablo García Sánchez was the Publicity Chair, while Jennifer Willies, the Coordinator. The invited speakers were Pierre-Yves Oudeyer (''Open-Source Baby Robots for Science, Education and Art'') and

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(''Non-random random mutations: Evolution of Genotype-Phenoptype mapping''). A total of 133 papers were presented: 73 in EvoApplications, 18 in EuroGP, 19 in EvoCOP, and 23 in EvoMUSART.

Málaga (2012)

EvoStar 2012 took place in Málaga (Spain), in the premises of the School of Computer Science and Telecommunications (Spanish: ''ETSI Informática y Telecomunicaciones'') of the

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, 11–13 April. This edition was locally chaired by Carlos Cotta, and comprised five conferences, namely EuroGP, EvoCOP, EvoMUSART, EvoApplications (which in turn comprised 11 tracks), and EvoBIO, as well as a novel event termed EvoTransfer, oriented to present prospects for practical applications to an audience composed of company representatives. The global conference programme was composed of 144 articles, arranged in 42 sessions, plus two plenary talks by

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(on bio-inspired flying robots) and by Marco Tomassini (on

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). During the conference gala dinner held in St. Katherine's Castle ''Castillo de Santa Catalina'', Günther R. Raidl received the 2012 Award for Outstanding Contribution to EC in Europe for his championing role in evolutionary combinatorial optimization.

Torino (2011)

EvoStar 2011 took place in

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(Italy), in the premises of th
Molecular Biotechnology Center
of the

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, 27–29 April. This edition was locally chaired by Mario Giacobini, and comprised four conferences, namely EuroGP, EvoCOP, EvoBio, EvoApplications (which in turn comprised 13 tracks). The global conference programme was composed of 157 articles (29 in EuroGP,Sara Silva, James A. Foster, Miguel Nicolau, Mario Giacobini, and Penousal Machado: European Conference on Genetic Programming, EuroGP 2011, Torino, Italy, April 27–29, 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6621, Springer 2011, , doi:10.1007/978-3-642-20407-4 22 in EvoCOP,Peter Merz, Jin-Kao Hao: Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization - 11th European Conference, EvoCOP 2011, Torino, Italy, April 27–29, 2011. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6622, Springer 2011, 19 in EvoBioClara Pizzuti, Marylyn D. Ritchie, Mario Giacobini: Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning and Data Mining in Bioinformatics - 9th European Conference, EvoBIO 2011, Torino, Italy, April 27–29, 2011. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6623, Springer 2011, and 87 in EvoApplicationCecilia Di Chio, Stefano Cagnoni, Carlos Cotta, Marc Ebner, Anikó Ekárt, Anna Esparcia-Alcázar, Juan Julián Merelo Guervós, Ferrante Neri, Mike Preuss, Hendrik Richter, Julian Togelius, Georgios N. Yannakakis: Applications of Evolutionary Computation - EvoApplications 2011: EvoCOMPLEX, EvoGAMES, EvoIASP, EvoINTELLIGENCE, EvoNUM, and EvoSTOC, Torino, Italy, April 27–29, 2011, Proceedings, Part I. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6624, Springer 2011, Cecilia Di Chio, Anthony Brabazon, Gianni A. Di Caro, Rolf Drechsler, Muddassar Farooq, Jörn Grahl, Gary Greenfield, Christian Prins, Juan Romero, Giovanni Squillero, Ernesto Tarantino, Andrea Tettamanzi, Neil Urquhart, A. Sima Etaner-Uyar: Applications of Evolutionary Computation - EvoApplications 2011: EvoCOMNET, EvoFIN, EvoHOT, EvoMUSART, EvoSTIM, and EvoTRANSLOG, Torino, Italy, April 27–29, 2011, Proceedings, Part II. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6625, Springer 2011, ), plus two plenary talks by

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(on Goal-oriented texture synthesis) and by Jean-Pierre Changeux (on Models of the

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: from genes to

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Istanbul (2010)

EvoStar 2010 took place in

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(Turkey), in the premises of the ITU Suleyman Demirel Cultural Center of the

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, 7–9 April. The conference was locally chaired by Şima Uyar. Stephen Dignum served as Publicity Chair and Jennifer Willies as coordinator. It consisted of three conferences, EuroGP, EvoCOP and EvoBIO, a series of 11 EvoWorkshops and EvoPhD, the Graduate Student Workshop on Evolutionary Computation. Invited plenary speakers were

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, Jens Gottlieb and Günther Raidl.

Naples (2008)

The 2008 edition of EvoStar took place in

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(Italy), in the premises of th
Centro Congressi Federico II
of the

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, 26–28 March. The conference was locally chaired by Ivanoe De Falco, Antonio Della Cioppa and Ernesto Tarantino. Anna I Esparcia-Alcázar served as Publicity Chair and Jennifer Willies as coordinator. It consisted of three conferences, EuroGP, EvoCOP and EvoBIO, and a series of 8 EvoWorkshops. Invited plenary speaker were

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and Stefano Nolfi.

Valencia (2007)

The first edition under the umbrella name EvoStar took place in

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(Spain) in the Universitat Politécnica de Valencia (UPV), with Anna I Esparcia-Alcázar as local chair, Leonardo Vanneschi as Publicity Chair and Jennifer Willies as coordinator. It consisted of three conferences, EuroGP, EvoCOP and EvoBIO and the series of EvoWorkshops. Marc Ebner and Michael O'Neill were co-chairs of EuroGP, with Anikó Ekárt as Publication chair; Carlos Cotta and Jano van Hemert were co-chairs of EvoCOP; Elena Marchiori, Jason H Moore and Jagath C. Rajapakse were co-chairs of EvoBIO and Mario Giacobini was coordinator of EvoWorkshops, which consisted of seven workshops: EvoCOMNET, EvoFIN, EvoIASP, EvoINTERACTION, EvoMUSART, EvoSTOC and EvoTRANSLOG. A total of 163 papers were presented: 35 in EuroGP, 21 in EvoCOP, 28 in EvoBIO and 79 in EvoWorkshops. Invited speakers were Ricard Solé,

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and

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Areas

The areas covered include both theoretical aspects and applications of evolutionary computation, in particular

genetic programming In artificial intelligence, genetic programming (GP) is a technique of evolving programs, starting from a population of unfit (usually random) programs, fit for a particular task by applying operations analogous to natural genetic processes to t ...

, and hybridization with other

metaheuristics In computer science and mathematical optimization, a metaheuristic is a higher-level procedure or heuristic designed to find, generate, or select a heuristic (partial search algorithm) that may provide a sufficiently good solution to an optimiza ...

Competitions

A number of competitions have been held throughout the history of EvoStar, specifically i
2010
an
2011
These have been frequently related to the evolutionary games and arts and design areas. Of particular relevance has been the Mario AI Championship

Art exhibitions

The first curated

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exhibition linked to EvoStar was held in Budapest in 2006, in the ArtPool P60 space, and run under the title ''Process revealed''. Nineteen works from 8 different countries were presented, with Janis Jefferies and Tim Blackwell acting as curators. The following year, ''ArtEscapes - Variations of life in the media arts'' was launched in Valencia in conjunction with the 2007 edition of EvoStar, and spanning 5 more weeks. Anna I Esparcia-Alcázar and Paulo Urbano curated 22 works, with artists coming from 11 countries around the globe.

Proceedings

Proceedings of the EvoStar conferences are published by

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in the

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(LNCS) series.
EuroGP

EvoAPPLICATIONS
(formerl
evoWorkshops

EvoCOP- EvoMUSART
* 2022 LNCS 13223: EuroGP 2022, LNCS 13224: EvoAPPS 2022, LNCS 13222: EvoCOP 2022, LNCS 13221: EvoMUSART 2022 * 2021 LNCS 12691: EuroGP 2021, LNCS 12694: EvoAPPS 2021, 12692: EvoCOP 2021, LNCS 12693: EvoMUSART 2021 * 2020 LNCS 12101: EuroGP 2020, LNCS 12104: EvoAPPS 2020, LNCS 12102: EvoCOP 2020, LNCS 12103: EvoMUSART 2020 * 2019 LNCS 11451: EuroGP 2019, LNCS 11454: EvoAPPS 2019, LNCS 11452: EvoCOP 2019, LNCS 11453: EvoMUSART 2019 * 2018 LNCS 10781: EuroGP 2018, LNCS 10784: EvoAPPS 2018, LNCS 10782: EvoCOP 2018, LNCS 10783: EvoMUSART 2018 * 2017 LNCS 10196: EuroGP 2017, LNCS 10197: EvoCOP 2017, LNCS 10198: EvoMUSART 2017, LNCS 10199: EvoAPPS 2017 (I), LNCS 10200: EvoAPPS 2017 (II) * 2016 LNCS 9594: EuroGP 2016, LNCS 9595: EvoCOP 2016, LNCS 9596: EvoMUSART 2016, LNCS 9597: EvoApplications 2016, Part I, LNCS 9598: EvoApplications 2016, Part II, * 2015 LNCS 9025 EuroGP 2015, LNCS 9026 EvoCOP 2015, LNCS 9027 EvoMUSART 2015, LNCS 9028 EvoApplications 2015, * 2014 LNCS 8599 EuroGP 2014 LNCS 8600 EvoCOP 2014 LNCS 8601 EvoMUSART 2014 LNCS 8602 EvoApplications 2014 * 2013 LNCS 7831 - 7835 * 2012 LNCS 7244 EuroGP 2012,Alberto Moraglio, Sara Silva, Krzysztof Krawiec, Penousal Machado, Carlos Cotta: Genetic Programming - 15th European Conference, EuroGP 2012, Málaga, Spain, April 11–13, 2012. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7244, Springer 2012, https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-29139-5 7245 EvoCOP 2012,Jin-Kao Hao, Martin Middendorf: Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization - 12th European Conference, EvoCOP 2012, Málaga, Spain, April 11–13, 2012. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7245, Springer 2012, 7246 EvoBIO 2012,Mario Giacobini, Leonardo Vanneschi, William S. Bush: Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning and Data Mining in Bioinformatics - 10th European Conference, EvoBIO 2012, Málaga, Spain, April 11–13, 2012. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7246, Springer 2012, 7247 EvoMUSART 2012,Penousal Machado, Juan Romero, Adrián Carballal: Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design - First International Conference, EvoMUSART 2012, Málaga, Spain, April 11–13, 2012. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7247, Springer 2012, 7248 EvoApplications 2012 Cecilia Di Chio, Alexandros Agapitos, Stefano Cagnoni, Carlos Cotta, Francisco Fernández de Vega, Gianni A. Di Caro, Rolf Drechsler, Anikó Ekárt, Anna Isabel Esparcia-Alcázar, Muddassar Farooq, William B. Langdon, Juan J. Merelo Guervós, Mike Preuss, Hendrik Richter, Sara Silva, Anabela Simões, Giovanni Squillero, Ernesto Tarantino, Andrea Tettamanzi, Julian Togelius, Neil Urquhart, Sima Uyar, Georgios N. Yannakakis: Applications of Evolutionary Computation - EvoApplications 2012: EvoCOMNET, EvoCOMPLEX, EvoFIN, EvoGAMES, EvoHOT, EvoIASP, EvoNUM, EvoPAR, EvoRISK, EvoSTIM, and EvoSTOC, Málaga, Spain, April 11–13, 2012, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7248, Springer 2012, * 2011 LNCS 6621 EuroGP 2011 LNCS 6622 EvoCOP 2011 LNCS 6623 EvoBIO 2011 LNCS 6624 EvoApplications 2011 (part I) LNCS 6625 EvoApplications 2011 (part II) * 2010 LNCS 6021, 6022, 6023, 6024, 6025 * 2009 LNCS 5481 - 5484 * 2008 LNCS 4971, 4972, 4973, 4974 * 2007 LNCS 4445, 4446, 4447, 4448 * 2006 LNCS 3905, 3906 3907 * 2005 LNCS 3447, 3448, 3449 * 2004 LNCS 3003, 3004, 3005 * 2003 LNCS 2610, 2611 * 2002 LNCS 2278, 2279 * 2001 LNCS 2037 2038 * 2000 LNCS 1802, 1803 * 1999 LNCS 1596, 1598 * 1998 LNCS 1391

Current chairs

* EuroGP: Eric Medvet & Gisele Papa * EvoApplications: Juanlu J. Laredo * EvoCOP: Sébastien Verel * EvoMUSART: Tiago Martins * Coordinator: Anna Esparcia-Alcázar * Publicity chair: João Correia * Web & Media chair: Francis Chicano * Electronic resources coordinator: Nuno Lourenço

EvoStar Award

The EvoStar Award for Outstanding Contribution to Evolutionary Computation in Europe was established in 2006 and its first recipient was Jennifer Willies. Sara Silva EvoStar Award recipient 2018

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Bill Langdon
and Marc Schoenauer , 2012 Guenther R. Raidl , 2016 Penousal Machado , 2020 Gabriela Ochoa , - , 2009 Ernesto Costa and Stefano Cagnoni , 2013

and Elena Marchiori , 2017 James Foster and Gusz Eiben , 2021 Conor Ryan and Juan Romero , - , 2022 Aniko Ekart

Keynote speakers

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John Koza John R. Koza is a computer scientist and a former adjunct professor at Stanford University, most notable for his work in pioneering the use of genetic programming for the optimization of complex problems. Koza co-founded Scientific Games Corporati ...

, 1999

, Dana Ballard and David Fogel , 2000 David Goldberg , 2001

Enrico Coen Enrico Sandro Coen (born 29 September 1957) is a British biologist who studies the mechanisms used by plants to create complex and varied flower structures. Coen's research has aimed to define the developmental rules that govern flower and lea ...

and Lee Altenberg , 2002 Chrystopher L Nehaniv and

Ingo Wegener Ingo Wegener (December 4, 1950 in Bremen – November 26, 2008 in Bielefeld) was an influential German computer scientist working in the field of theoretical computer science. Education and career Wegener was educated at the Bielefeld University. ...

, 2003 David Goldberg and Christopher Stephens , 2004 Stephanie Forrest and Zbigniew Michalewicz , - , 2005 Matteo Fischetti and Alberto Piazza , 2006 Rich Terrile and Stefan Voss , 2007 Ricard Solé,

and

, 2008

and Stefano Nolfi , 2009 Stuart Hameroff and

Peter Schuster Peter K. Schuster (born 7 March 1941) is a theoretical chemist known for his work with the German Nobel Laureate Manfred Eigen in developing the quasispecies model. His work has made great strides in the understanding of viruses and their replica ...

, 2010

, Jens Gottlieb and Günther Raidl , 2011 Craig Reynolds and Jean-Pierre Changeux , - , 2012

and Marco Tomassini , 2013 A E Eiben and Richard Watson , 2014 Thomas Schmickl, Federico Morán and

Susan Stepney Susan is a feminine given name, from Persian "Susan" (lily flower), from Egyptian '' sšn'' and Coptic ''shoshen'' meaning "lotus flower", from Hebrew ''Shoshana'' meaning "lily" (in modern Hebrew this also means "rose" and a flower in general), ...

, 2015 Pierre-Yves Oudeyer and

, 201
Richard Forsyth
and Kenneth Sörensen , 2017 Kenneth A De Jong and Arthur Kordon , 2018

and Penousal Machado , - , 2019 Risto Miikkulainen and Manja Marz , 2020 José Antonio Lozano and Roberto Serra , 2021 Susanna Manrubia and Darrell Whitley , 2022 Gabriela Ochoa and Pedro Larrañaga , , , , -

Outstanding Students

The EvoStar Outstanding Student Mentions were established in 2018 in order to recognise the good work of EvoStar students, who represent the future of the evolutionary computation community. Papers were selected that had obtained an overall review score greater than or equal to a given mark or that had been nominated for a Best Paper Award, and whose first author was a student registered to attend EvoStar. In 2020 a new category was added, Recent Graduates, to include authors who had carried out the work presented as students and who had graduated since the time of submission. Following these rules the Outstanding Students mentions were as follows: * 2018 : Filipe Assunção, Mosab Bazargani, Alexander Berman, Sondre Engebraten, Tiago Martins, Almuth Meier, Rafaela Priscila Cruz Moreira, Robert Jacob Smith, Sara Tari, Sarah Louise Thomson, Laura Sani * 2019 : Benedikte Wallace, Hoang Thanh Le, Illya Bakurov, Jitka Kocnova, Jonathan Kelly, Jörg Stork, Muhammad Sheraz Anjum, Nam Le, Riccardo Gervasi, Robert Smith, Samaneh Azari, Sarah L. Thomson, Shima Afzali, Timothy Atkinson, Timon van de Velde * 2020 : Kehinde Babaagba, Leonardo Lucio Custode, Takahiro Ishihara, Karlo Knezevic, João Macedo, Guang Peng, Anil Saini * 2020 Recent graduates : Raneem Qaddoura, Marialaura Previti, Mohammed Baraq Mushtaq * 2021 : Aidan Murphy, Ailin Chen, Allison Lahnala, Amirhossein Rajabi, Andreea Avramescu, Anja Jankovic, Christian Cintrano, Gonzalo Carazo-Barbero, Jamie Caldwell, Michal Piňos, Miguel Ángel Domínguez Ríos, Nádia Carvalho, Quentin Renau, Raphaël Cosson, Ricardo Henrique Remes de Lima, Ruba Abu Khurma, Stefano Sarti, Tiago Sousa, Zimeng Lyu, Zongyu Yin * 2021 Recent graduates : Alejandro Romero, Erlend Gjesteland Ekern, Francisco Braga

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the International Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation
EvoCOP
the European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation
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the International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design.
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