Aim and Scope

Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) and other meta-heuristics have shown to be powerful in solving a wide range of global optimization problems. However, most research on evolutionary optimization has been performed on a set of test problems that are believed to represent various types of hard problems for EAs to solve. This special session aims to promote the application of EAs and other meta-heuristics to solving real-world complex engineering optimization problems. Topics of interest may cover, but are not limited to
• Surrogate-assisted evolutionary optimization of expensive problems;
• Evolutionary search for robust optimal solutions;
• Multi-objective, many-objective and multi-disciplinary optimization;
• Interactive evolutionary design;
• Co-optimization of multiple subsystems;
• Experimental and on-line evolutionary optimization;
• High-dimensional, hybrid or mixed integer optimization problems.

Papers that address one or a few of the above-mentioned issues in solving real-world engineering optimization problems found in industries, such as aerospace, automotive, and process industries are particularly welcome.

Paper Submission

Special session papers should be submitted electronically through the IEEE CEC 2013 main website. Please choose "Complex Engineering Optimization" as the topic of your paper in submission.

Organizers

• Yaochu Jin
  Department of Computing
  University of Surrey
  Guildford, UK
  Email: yaochu.jin@surrey.ac.uk


• Guosheng Hao
  School of Computer Science and Technology
  Jiangsu Normal University
  Xuzhou, China
  Email: guoshenghaoxz@tom.com

Program Committee (tentative)

• Esther Andres
  INTA, Spain
  
• Christian Blum
  Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
• Juergen Branke
  The University of Warwick
• Huanhuan Chen
  
• Richard Everson
  University Exeter, UK
• Jonathan Fieldsend
  University Exeter, UK
• Dunwei Gong
  China University of Mining and Technology, China
• Lars Graening
  Honda Research Institute Europe, Germany
• Goh Chi Keong
  Rolls-Royce Singapore Pte. Ltd, Singapore
• Khaled M Rasheed
  The University of Georgia, USA
• Bin Li
  University of Science and Technology of China, China
• Yew Soon Ong
  Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• Marc Schoenauer
  INRIA, France
• Chris Smith
  University of Surrey, UK
• Chaoli Sun
  
• Xiaoyan Sun
  China University of Mining and Technology, China
• Hideyuki Takagi
  Kyushu Institute of Design, Japan
• Kay Chen Tan
  National University of Singapore, Singapore
• Ke Tang
  University of Science and Technology of China
• Ling Wang
  Tsinghua University, China
• Chong Siang Yew
  University of Nottingham, Malaysia
• Qingfu Zhang
  University of Essex, UK