{"id":291,"date":"2023-01-16T09:31:59","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T09:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.exeter.ac.uk\/ecmcdm\/?p=1"},"modified":"2023-01-16T09:31:59","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T09:31:59","slug":"ecmcdm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/ecmcdm\/2023\/01\/16\/ecmcdm\/","title":{"rendered":"Workshop on Evolutionary Computation and Decision Making"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Solving real-world optimisation problems typically involve an expert or decision-maker. Decision making tools have been found to be useful in several such applications e.g., health care, education, environment, transportation, business, and production. In recent years, there has also been growing interest in merging Evolutionary Computation (EC) and decision-making techniques for several applications. This has raised amongst others the need to account for explainability, fairness, ethics and privacy aspects in optimisation and decision-making. This workshop will showcase research that is both at the interface of EC and decision making.<\/p>\n<p>The workshop on Evolutionary Computation and Decision Making (EC + DM) to be held in GECCO 2023 aims to promote research on theory and applications in the field. Topics of interest include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Interactive multiobjective optimisation or decision-maker in the loop<\/li>\n<li>Visualisation to support DM in EC<\/li>\n<li>Aggregation\/trade-off operators &amp; algorithms to integrate decision maker preferences<\/li>\n<li>Fuzzy logic-based DM techniques<\/li>\n<li>Bayesian and other DM techniques<\/li>\n<li>Interactive multiobjective optimisation for (computationally) expensive problems<\/li>\n<li>Using surrogates (or metamodels) in DM<\/li>\n<li>Hybridisation of EC and DM<\/li>\n<li>Scalability in EC and DM<\/li>\n<li>DM and machine learning<\/li>\n<li>DM in a big data context<\/li>\n<li>DM in real-world applications<\/li>\n<li>Use of psychological tools to aid the decision-maker<\/li>\n<li>Fairness, ethics and societal considerations in EC and DM<\/li>\n<li>Explainability in EC and DM<\/li>\n<li>Accounting for trust and security in EC and DM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Submission:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We invite papers up to 8 pages relevant to the workshop and position papers of up to 2 pages showing preliminary results. We also welcome posters, demonstrations or presentations on ground-breaking theoretical and application results in the field.<\/p>\n<p>For paper submission instructions and templates, please see: <a href=\"https:\/\/gecco-2023.sigevo.org\/Paper-Submission-Instructions\">Paper submission instructions<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Keynote talk &#8216;<\/strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Decision Making in Evolutionary Optimization and Beyond&#8217;<\/span><\/span> by <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/titan.csit.rmit.edu.au\/~e46507\/\">Professor Xiaodong Li<\/a><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">(See the Keynote Section for more details)\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Important (STRICT) deadline dates:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Submission opening:\u00a0<b><i>February 13, 2023<\/i><\/b><\/li>\n<li>Submission deadline:<b><i>\u00a0April 14, 2023<\/i><\/b><\/li>\n<li>Review deadline:\u00a0<b><i>April 28, 2023<\/i><\/b><\/li>\n<li>Workshop organizers&#8217; acceptance\/rejection suggestions due:\u00a0<b><i>May 1, 2023\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/li>\n<li>Notification to authors:\u00a0<b><i>May 3, 2023<\/i><\/b><\/li>\n<li>Camera-ready papers:\u00a0<b><i>May 10, 2023<\/i><\/b><\/li>\n<li>Author\u2019s mandatory registration:\u00a0<b><i><del>May 10, 2023<\/del>, May 15, 2023<\/i><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">We follow the double-blind review process. Please make your submission is anonymous.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please feel free to contact us in case you have any questions about the session<\/p>\n<p>Tinkle Chugh: <a href=\"mailto:t.chugh@exeter.ac.uk\">t.chugh@exeter.ac.uk\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Richard Allmendinger:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:richard.allmendinger@manchester.ac.uk\">richard.allmendinger@manchester.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jussi Hakanen: <a href=\"mailto:jussi.hakanen@silo.ai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-safelink=\"true\" data-linkindex=\"1\"><span class=\"markwcp5xij64\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">jussi<\/span>.hakanen@silo.ai<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Julia Handl: <a href=\"mailto:julia.handl@manchester.ac.uk\">julia.handl@manchester.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:t.chugh@exeter.ac.uk\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-81 size-full alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/ecmcdm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/383\/2018\/11\/UOE-e1544102153817.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"82\" \/><\/a><a href=\"mailto:t.chugh@exeter.ac.uk\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-104\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/ecmcdm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/383\/2018\/11\/mbs_logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"84\" \/>\u00a0.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-263 \" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/ecmcdm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/383\/2023\/01\/Silo-logo-dark-0.5x-300x76.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"304\" height=\"77\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/ecmcdm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/383\/2023\/01\/Silo-logo-dark-0.5x-300x76.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/ecmcdm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/383\/2023\/01\/Silo-logo-dark-0.5x.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 304px) 100vw, 304px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solving real-world optimisation problems typically involve an expert or decision-maker. Decision making tools have been found to be useful in several such applications e.g., health care, education, environment, transportation, business, and production. In recent years, there has also been growing interest in merging Evolutionary Computation (EC) and decision-making techniques for several applications. This has raised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Workshop on Evolutionary Computation and Decision Making - Evolutionary Computation and Decision Making<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/ecmcdm\/2023\/01\/16\/ecmcdm\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Workshop on Evolutionary Computation and Decision Making - Evolutionary Computation and Decision Making\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Solving real-world optimisation problems typically involve an expert or decision-maker. 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