The annual IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation is one of the leading events in the field of evolutionary computation.
The Conference Organizing Committee invites submissions of original, previously unpublished innovative research in any topic of evolutionary computation including, but not limited to:
Ant colony optimization and swarm intelligence
Artificial immune systems
Coevolutionary systems
Coevolution
Cultural algorithms
Differential evolution
Estimation of distribution algorithms
Evolutionary computation theory
Evolutionary developmental systems
Evolutionary programming
Evolution strategies
Genetic algorithms
Genetic programming
Heuristics
Interactive evolutionary computation
Learning classifier systems
Memetic algorithms
Multi-meme and hybrid algorithms
Molecular and quantum computing
Multi-objective evolutionary algorithms
Parallel and distributed algorithms
Particle swarm optimization
Representation and operators
Self-adaptation in evolutionary computation
Automated design of metaheuristics
Evolutionary fuzzy systems
Evolutionary neural architecture search
Evolutionary reinforcement learning
Fairness-aware optimization
Federated and secure optimization
Large language models for optimization
Metaheuristics and hyper-heuristics
Multi-objective machine learning
Neural optimization
Surrogate-assisted data-driven optimization
Combinatorial optimization
Constraint handling
Dynamic optimization
Large-scale optimization
Multi-modal optimization
Multi-objective optimization
Numerical optimization
Optimization in the presence of uncertainty
Robust optimization
Art and music
Artificial life and adaptive behavior
Autonomous mental and behavior development
Biometrics
Bioinformatics and computational biology
Classification
Clustering
Data mining
Defense and cybersecurity
Drug design
Embodied robotics
Engineering design
Evolutionary games and multi-agent systems
Evolvable hardware
Evolutionary software engineering
Evolutionary robotics
Finance and economics
Intelligent systems applications
Real-world applications
Causality and evolvability
Convergence
Fitness landscape analysis
Noisy fitness
Robustness and neutrality
Runtime analysis
Scalability and complexity analysis.
Papers for IEEE CEC 2025 should be submitted electronically through the Congress website by 15 January 2025.
All submissions will be refereed by experts in the fields and ranked based on the criteria of originality, significance, quality and clarity.
