[EvoCOP 2026] Paper Submission Deadline Extended to November 15

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Call for Papers -- Deadline Extended:
EvoCOP 2026 - The 26th European Conference on
Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation

https://www.evostar.org/2026/evocop/

April 8--10, 2026
held as part of EvoStar (https://www.evostar.org)

Venue: Toulouse, France

** EvoCOP is CORE Rank B **

Submission deadline: ** November 15, 2025 **
(Originally: November 1, 2025)
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The 26th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in 
Combinatorial Optimisation
is a multidisciplinary conference that brings together researchers 
working on applications
and theory of evolutionary computation methods and other metaheuristics 
for solving
difficult combinatorial optimisation problems appearing in various 
industrial, economic,
and scientific domains.

Successfully solved problems include, but are not limited to, 
multi-objective, uncertain,
dynamic and stochastic problems in the context of scheduling, 
timetabling, network design,
transportation and distribution, vehicle routing, stringology, graphs, 
satisfiability,
energy optimisation, cutting, packing, planning, and search-based 
software engineering.

Successfully addressed theoretical and translational challenges 
encompass, but are not
limited to, the development and analysis of novel (components of) 
evolutionary and other
metaheuristic algorithms, work on neighbourhood and landscape 
structures, problem-agnostic
and problem-specific variation operators, parallelisation strategies, 
and hybridizations. ⁠

The EvoCOP 2026 conference will be held together with EuroGP (the 29th 
European Conference
on Genetic Programming), EvoMUSART (the 15th European conference on 
evolutionary and
biologically inspired music, sound, art and design) and EvoApplications 
(the 29th European
Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation), in a joint 
event collectively
known as EvoStar (Evo*).

Accepted papers will be published by Springer Nature in the Lecture 
Notes in Computer
Science series. Previous proceedings can be found in the EvoCOP 
Conference Proceedings in
SpringerLink.

The best regular paper presented at EvoCOP 2026 will be distinguished 
with a Best Paper
Award.

EvoCOP conference is ranked B in the CORE 2021 ranking:
http://portal.core.edu.au/conf-ranks/2195/

**** Areas of Interest and Contributions ****

EvoCOP welcomes submissions in all experimental and theoretical aspects 
of evolutionary
computation and other metaheuristics to combinatorial optimisation 
problems, including
(but not limited to) the following areas:
* Applications of metaheuristics to combinatorial optimization problems
* Theoretical developments
* Neighborhoods and efficient algorithms for searching them
* Variation operators for stochastic search methods
* Constraint-handling techniques
* Parallelization and grid computing
* Search space and landscape analyses
* Comparisons between different (also exact) methods
* Automatic algorithm configuration and design

Prominent examples of metaheuristics include (but are not limited to):
* Evolutionary algorithms
* Estimation of distribution algorithms
* Swarm intelligence methods such as ant colony and particle swarm 
optimisation
* Artificial immune systems
* Local search methods such as simulated annealing, tabu search, 
variable neighbourhood
   search, iterated local search, scatter search and path relinking
* Hybrid methods such as memetic algorithms
* Matheuristics (hybrids of exact and heuristic methods)
* Hyper-heuristics and autonomous search
* Surrogate-model-based methods

Notice that, by tradition, continuous/numerical optimisation is *not* 
part of the topics
of interest of EvoCOP. Interested authors might consider submitting to 
other EvoStar
conferences such as EvoApplications.


**** Submission Details ****

Paper submissions must be original and not published elsewhere. The 
submissions
will be peer-reviewed by members of the program committee. The reviewing
process will be double-blind, please omit information about the authors 
in the
submitted paper.

Page limit: 14 + unlimited pages for references and acknowledgments

Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=evostar2026

The authors of accepted papers will have to improve their paper on the 
basis of
the reviewers’ comments and will be asked to send a camera-ready version of
their manuscripts. At least one author of each accepted work has to register
for the conference, attend the conference and present the work.

**** Important Dates ****

(New) submission deadline: ** November 15, 2025 **
EvoStar: April 8--10, 2026

**** EvoCOP Program Chairs ****

Martin Krejca
Ecole Polytechnique, IP Paris, France
[email protected]

Nelishia Pillay
University of Pretoria, South Africa
[email protected]

Please check the website for more information: http://www.evostar.org/
And follow us at: X - https://x.com/EvostarConf and Instagram - 
https://www.instagram.com/evostarconference/
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