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Conference
Reports

Shigeru Obayashi
Tohoku University, Sendai
Carlo Poloni
Università di Trieste, TrieSTe

Conference Report on 2015 IEEE Congress
on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2015)

I

EEE CEC 2015 was successfully
held during May 24-28, 2015, at
Sendai International Center, Sendai,
Japan. Evolutionary Computation is
the collective name for various problem-solving techniques inspired by
biological evolution. These techniques
have been increasingly applied to a
variety of problems from industrial
applications to scientific researches.
Particularly in Japan, industrial applications range from home appliances to
aircraft. The MRJ (Mitsubishi Regional Jet) that expects the first flight this
year is one of such successful applications and its model was exhibited during the conference.
CEC 2015 received 701 full-length
papers from 66 countries. Following the
rigorous review process, a total of 455
papers were accepted for presentation

Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MCI.2015.2472097
Date of publication: 13 October 2015

Evolutionary computation (EC) techniques have been
increasingly applied to a variety of problems from
industrial applications to scientific researches.

and publication in the proceedings,
which resulted in the acceptance rate of
64%. At the conference, we had 523 registrations from all over the globe.
Technical program consisted of 20
tutorials, 3 workshops, 7 competitions, 68
parallel sessions and 56 special sessions for
403 papers, along with a single poster session for 52 papers. The poster session
began with short oral presentations by
authors that attracted participants to visit
their posters. The conference benefited
from the EC Pioneer Award Lecture to
be delivered by Professor Thomas Bäck,
Leiden University, The Netherlands, as
well as plenary talks by three invited
speakers: Professor Carlos A. Coello

Coello, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico, Dr.
Sergio Butkewitsch Choze, General
Electric Global Research Center, U.S.A.,

CIS President, Prof. Xin Yao presented the EC
Pioneer Award to Prof. Thomas Bäck.

The first joint reception for Women In Computational Intelligence, Young Professionals and Students was held on May 26.
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