IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine - February 2020 - 4

Conference
Reports

Mengjie Zhang
Victoria University of Wellington, NEW ZEALAND
Kay Chen Tan
City University of Hong Kong, HONG KONG SAR

Conference Report on 2019 IEEE Congress
on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2019)

Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MCI.2019.2937595
Date of current version: 10 January 2020

Tourism New Zealand. By including a
variety of topics in evolutionary computation, IEEE CEC provides a forum to
bring together researchers and practitioners from all over the world to present
and discuss their research findings on
evolutionary computation.
IEEE CEC 2019 received 791 submissions and over 530 registrations from
authors spanning 73 countries and regions. Among the submissions, a large
number of papers demonstrated refreshing theories and concepts, supported by
strong, compelling analytical and empirical analyses. Each paper was reviewed by
at least two reviewers (and most papers
received three or more reviews each).
Based on rigorous reviews, 443 highquality papers were accepted for oral and
poster presentations. The accepted papers
represent a diverse view of the latest
advances in the area and give a preview
of the next steps in our commitment to
drawing inspiration from nature for solving real and practical problems. The
organizing committee is truly humbled
by this impressive display of support for
the congress.

FIGURE 1 General Co-Chair (Mengjie Zhang)
delivering the opening speech at IEEE
CEC 2019.

FIGURE 2 Attendees socializing and indulging in delectable food and drinks at the
Welcome Reception.

he IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC) is
a leading event in the area of
evolutionary computation. The conference encompasses a broad set of topics,
including a variety of evolutionary
computation techniques and applications in a wide range of real-world
problems. In 2019, IEEE CEC was held
from 10-13 June at Te Papa Tongarewa,
the National Museum of New Zealand,
located in the capital city, Wellington,
which presents all the traditional culture
and history of New Zealand. Since the
first CEC, which took place in Orlando
in 1994, the 2019 congress also marked
the 26th milestone.
IEEE CEC has traditionally been
sponsored by the IEEE Computational
Intelligence Society (IEEE CIS). This
year, the congress also received financial
support from YiXue Education, ONRG
and Facebook, and great support from
Victoria University of Wellington and

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On 10th June, there were 18 free tutorials and 3 workshops that cover a wide
range of topics and offer a great opportunity to disseminate in-depth information
on specific areas of evolutionary computation. These topics range from multi-/
many-objective optimization, large-scale
optimization, hyper-heuristics, evolutionary machine learning, computer vision, to
theory and real-world applications. In
order to generate the most benefit for
researchers and students to exchange ideas
with established researchers in the field, a
large amount of effort had been made to
ensure that these tutorials were in highquality and free to all attendees.
IEEE CEC 2019 also featured a public lecture and four plenary talks including an industry plenary talk, given by
top researchers in the field of evolutionary computation:
❏ What Can Evolutionary Computation Do for You? (public lecture) by
Prof Xin Yao
❏ Research Trends in Evolutionary
Multi-Objective Optimization: Past,
Present and Future by Prof Hisao
Ishibuchi

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