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Call for GECCO 2008 Workshop Proposals

-----> Deadline 1. November 2007 <-----

The GECCO 2008 Program Committee invites proposals for workshops which will
be held in conjunction with the 2008 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation
Conference (GECCO 2008).

Each workshop is assumed to focus on a highly specialized research area or
emerging research field. Workshops may also focus on interdisciplinary
research between the genetic and evolutionary computation community and
other research fields. The workshops provide an excellent opportunity
to meet other researchers who share the same interests and to present recent
research and exchange ideas in an informal setting. Researchers with a
strong background in genetic and evolutionary computation are encouraged
to submit proposals.

Workshop organizers are free to chose a format for their workshop.
The duration of a workshop can either be two hours, half day or a full day
long. Organizers are encouraged to allow for interactive sessions such
as debate or discussion sessions, brainstorming or problem solving
sessions which outside of a workshop may be difficult to accommodate
inside a larger conference program.

Each proposal (plain text file) should be contain the following information:

1.) A description of the workshop topic. Specific issues on which the
    workshop will focus should be identified. (half page)
2.) A brief discussion of why the topic is of interest to the
    genetic and evolutionary computation community. What audience will
    be attending the workshop? If a previous edition of the workshop has
    already taken place then you should also specify how many
    attendants the workshop has had (half page).
3.) A schedule for the workshop with a duration of either 2 hours,
    half day or a full day. Time slots where the workshop will encourage
    interaction between workshop attendants should be marked. Previous
    workshops usually had a combination of panel discussions, question
    and answer sessions, hands-on demonstrations, small group problem
    solving sessions, brainstorming sessions, short paper presentations,
    poster sessions and debates. (1 page)
4.) Names and complete contact information (Postal address, E-mail,
    fax and telephone numbers, WWW page) of the workshop organizers.
    For each organizer a brief biography should also be provided.
5.) A list of potential attendees.
6.) An estimate of the number of accepted papers and the number of
submissions.
    If a previous edition of the workshop has already taken place then
    you also have to specify how many submissions and how many accepted
    papers the workshop had.
7.) Full CV (as PDF) of the organizers including previous experience
    in workshop or conference organization.

Organizers whose workshop proposals are accepted as a GECCO 2008 workshop
will be responsible for coordinating the workshop. They are responsible
for sending out call for papers, gathering abstracts and papers for
publication if applicable. Papers have to adhere to the ACM formatting
rules. Attendance of the workshops will be open to all GECCO attendees.
Note that ALL organizers, participants and presenters must register for
the GECCO 2008 conference. Organizers of a workshop do NOT qualify for
a reduction in the registration or accommodation costs of GECCO 2008
conference.

Accepted workshop papers will be published in a separate workshop
proceedings on CD-ROM.
Details and additional deadlines wil be provided once it has been decided
which workshops will be accepted for GECCO 2008. Note that all published
papers have to adhere to the ACM formatting rules. It is the workshop
organizers' job to enforce these formatting rules.

Workshop proposals can be submitted any time up until November 1, 2006.
Proposals should be submitted as plain text files (no HTML) with the
exception of the CVs which have to be submitted as PDFs. Workshop
organizers will be notified by November 15, whether or not their workshop
is accepted as a GECCO 2008 workshop.

Proposals should be sent by E-mail to:
ebner@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de
Marc Ebner, Universität Würzburg, Germany