EvoIASP2007 Ninth European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Image Analysis and Signal Processing incorporated in Evo* 2007 Valencia, Spain, 11-13 April 2007 Evolutionary algorithms have been shown to be tools which can be used effectively in the development of systems (software or hardware) for image analysis and signal processing in complex domains of high industrial and social relevance. EvoIASP is the first European event specifically dedicated to the applications of evolutionary computation (EC) to image analysis and signal processing (IASP) and gives European and non-European researchers in those fields, as well as people from industry, an opportunity to present their latest research and to discuss current developments and applications, besides fostering closer future interaction between members of the three scientific communities. The previous editions of the Workshop were held in Gothenburg, Sweden (1999), Edinburgh, UK (2000), Como, Italy (2001), Kinsale, Ireland (2002), Colchester, UK (2003), Coimbra, Portugal (2004), Lausanne, Switzerland (2005), and Budapest, Hungary (2006). The workshop will be part of Evo* 2007, a joint event which will incorporate EuroGP 2007, the 9th European Conference on Genetic Programming, EvoCOP 2007, the 7th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization, EvoBIO 2007, the 5th Conference on Evolutionary Bioinformatics, and EvoWorkshops 2007, a set of nine thematic workshops on applications of Evolutionary Computation. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * applications of evolutionary computation to real-life IASP problems, * evolvable vision and signal processing hardware, * evolutionary pattern recognition, * hybrid architectures for machine vision and signal processing * including evolutionary components, * theoretical developments, * comparisons between different evolutionary techniques and between * evolutionary and non-evolutionary techniques in IASP applications, * time series analysis by means of EC techniques. Submissions Submit your manuscript, at most 10 A4 pages long, in Springer LNCS format (instructions downloadable from http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html) using the online submission service no later than November 1st, 2006. The papers will be peer reviewed by at least two members of the program committee. Authors will be notified via email on the results of the review by December 15, 2006. 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, along with text sources and pictures, by January 8, 2007. The accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings, published in Springer LNCS Series, which will be available at the workshop. The authors of papers which receive the best reviews will be nominated for the 'Best paper Award' and invited (if of appropriate topic) to submit an extended version to Evolutionary Computation (MIT Press), for possible publication in the special issue on Evolutionary Computer Vision. Important Dates Submission deadline: 1 November 2006 Notification of acceptance: 15 December 2006 Camera ready papers due: 8 January 2007 Workshop: 11-13 April 2007 Web Addresses http://www.evostar.org Conference web page http://evonet.lri.fr/TikiWiki/tiki-index.php?page=EvoIASP Workshop web page