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accept - reject recommendations, developing the programs and so on. With
numerous chairs and cochairs, all submissions (co)authored by chairs,
cochairs and general chair were handled
by CoI Chairs Gary Fogel and Hisao
Ishibuchi who had such submissions
reviewed offline to maintain the anonymity of the reviewers. Even though
Finance Chair, Robert Kozma is far
away in the USA, he regularly interacted with me and shared his valuable
exper iences gained in organizing
numerous conferences. I thank the best
paper award committee who did a

wonderful job by thoroughly evaluating
15 short-listed papers during the conference. Publication Chair, Sundaram
Suresh has contributed immensely by
registering every event with IEEE,
ensuring the copyright submissions,
setting up the PDF Xpress account,
checking plagiarism and by excluding
the prohibited authors from the published proceedings. When we have a significant keynote and tutorial program,
there is also an associated responsibility
shouldered by the respective Chair,
Swagatam Das. I also thank the international advisory committee and the pub-

licity committee for their valuable contributions to IEEE SSCI 2013. Finally,
I acknowledge the support of IEEE
Computational Intelligence Society
officers, technical committees and the
task forces to make the IEEE SSCI
2013 a great success.
IEEE SSCI 2014

The next edition of the IEEE SSCI will
be held in Orlando, Florida in December 2014. The details can be found at:
http://www.ieee-ssci.org. We look forward to another successful IEEE SSCI
meeting in the Disneyland.

Carlos A. Coello Coello
CINVESTAV-IPN Mexico City,
MÉXICO

Conference Report for 2013 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation

he 2013 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation took place
at the Fiesta Americana Grand
Coral Beach hotel, in Cancún (México)
from 20 to 23 June 2013.
We had 751 submitted papers, of
which 443 were accepted for presentation. More than 2000 authors from 62
countries submitted papers for the conference. The five top countries in terms
of number of submissions were: 1) Brazil
(with 89 papers), 2) Mexico (77), 3)
China (66), 4) Japan (58) and 5) USA
(53). We had an international program
committee consisting of more than 580
members from all over the world who
thoroughly reviewed all the conference
submissions. The program included 33
special sessions and 24 free tutorials.
There were three keynotes, four competitions, two panels, an art exhibit and a
Senior Member Elevation Clinic. The
keynote addresses included "What's Up
with Co-evolutionary Algorithms?",
that was given by Kenneth de Jong from
George Mason University (USA) while

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Date of publication: 16 October 2013

The technical sessions (both oral and poster presentations) were well attended.

Thomas Stützle from the Free University of Brussels (Belgium) spoke on
"Automated Algorithm Configuration:
Methods, Applications and Prospects,"
and Bernhard Sendhoff from Honda
Research Institute Europe (Germany)
presented "Engineering Design with
Evolutionary Computation and Data
Analytics."
The award for the overall best paper
went to Thaer Jayyousi and Robert

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Reynolds for "Using Cultural Algorithms to Generate Models of Ancient
Urban Centers: The Monte Alban
Example" and the runner up overall
paper went to Alan Lockett for "Measure-Theoretic Analysis of Performance
in Evolutionary Algorithms."
The best student paper award went
to Ricardo Cerri, Rodrigo Barros,
Andre Carvalho and Alex Freitas for "A
Grammatical Evolution Algorithm for

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