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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=PT link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm'><span lang=EN-GB>CALL FOR PAPERS <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm'><span lang=EN-GB>13th International Conference on Evolutionary Computation Theory and Applications<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm'><b><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm'><span lang=EN-GB>New Regular/Position Paper Submission Deadline: June 25 2021 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm'><a href="http://www.ecta.ijcci.org/"><span lang=EN-GB>http://www.ecta.ijcci.org/</span></a><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm'>October 25 - 27, 2021<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm'><span lang=EN-GB>Online Streaming <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm'><span lang=EN-GB>In Cooperation with <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm'><span lang=EN-GB>Spanish Association of Artificial Intelligence<br>Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence<br>Associazione Italiana per l'Intelligenza Artificiale<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm'><span lang=EN-GB>Considered a subfield of computational intelligence focused on combinatorial optimisation problems, evolutionary computation is associated with systems that use computational models of evolutionary processes as the key elements in design and implementation, i.e. computational techniques which are based to some degree on the evolution of biological life in the natural world. A number of evolutionary computational models have been proposed, including evolutionary algorithms, genetic algorithms, the evolution strategy, evolutionary programming and swarm intelligence. These techniques form the basis of several disciplines such as artificial life and evolutionary robotics.<span style='color:#303030;letter-spacing:.1pt'><br></span>This conference intends to be a major forum for scientists, engineers and practitioners interested in the study, analysis, design, modeling and implementation of evolvable systems, both theoretically and in a broad range of application fields. ECTA welcomes both theoretical research and practical applications.<span style='color:#303030;letter-spacing:.1pt'><br></span>The conference also aims to foster hybrid approaches within evolutionary computation and also involving fuzzy computation and neural computation.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm'><span lang=EN-GB>Conference Chair(s) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm'><span class=normal><span lang=EN-GB><a href="http://www.ecta.ijcci.org/EventChairs.aspx#JuanJulianMerelo"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>Juan Julian Merelo, </span></a>University of Granada, Spain<br><a href="http://www.ecta.ijcci.org/EventChairs.aspx#KevinWarwick"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>Kevin Warwick (honorary), </span></a>University of Reading and Coventry University, United Kingdom</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm'><span class=normal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm'><span class=normal>Program Chair(s) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm'><span class=normal><span lang=EN-GB><a href="http://www.ecta.ijcci.org/ProgramCommittee.aspx#ThomasBäck"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>Thomas Bäck, </span></a>Leiden University, Netherlands<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm'><span lang=EN-GB>With the presence of internationally distinguished keynote speakers: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm'><span lang=EN-GB><a href="http://www.ijcci.org/KeynoteSpeakers.aspx#1"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>Susana Vieira, </span></a>University of Lisbon, Portugal<br><a href="http://www.ijcci.org/KeynoteSpeakers.aspx#2"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>Joseph Rynkiewicz, </span></a>Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France<br><a href="http://www.ijcci.org/KeynoteSpeakers.aspx#3"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>Carlos Coello, </span></a>CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico<br><a href="http://www.ijcci.org/KeynoteSpeakers.aspx#4"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>Barbara Hammer, </span></a>Bielefeld University, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm'><span lang=EN-GB>Proceedings will be submitted for indexation by: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm'><span lang=EN-GB>SCOPUS, Google Scholar, The DBLP Computer Science Bibliography, Semantic Scholar, Microsoft Academic, Engineering Index (EI), Web of Science / Conference Proceedings Citation Index.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm'><span lang=EN-GB>A short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer in a SCI Series book. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm'><span lang=EN-GB>All papers presented at the conference venue will also be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Also, a short list of best papers will be invited for a post-conference special issue of the Springer Nature Computer Science journal.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm'><span lang=EN-GB>Kind regards, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm'><span lang=EN-GB>Mónica Saramago <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm'>ECTA Secretariat <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm'>Web: http://www.ecta.ijcci.org/<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm'>e-mail: <a href="mailto:%20ecta.secretariat@insticc.org">ecta.secretariat@insticc.org</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>