EvoApplications 2016 track on Evolutionary Computation in Image Analysis, Signal Processing and Pattern Recognition Call for Papers

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                             EvoIASP 2016             
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                     EvoApplications 2016 track on
              "Evolutionary  Computation in Image Analysis,  
               Signal Processing and Pattern Recognition"

       incorporated into Evostar 2016 (http://www.evostar.org)
              Porto, Portugal,  30 March - 1 April 2016

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     Special issue of "Evolutionary Intelligence" (Springer) on 
          "Evolutionary Image Analysis, Signal Processing 
                     and Pattern Recognition"
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CALL FOR PAPERS
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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, held  yearly since  1999, has been  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.

Since  2009,  EvoIASP  has  become  a track  of  EvoApplications,  the
Conference  on Applications  of Evolutionary  Computation, one  of the
events which take place under the common name of Evostar.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- applications   of  evolutionary   computation  to   real-life  image
  analysis, signal processing and pattern recognition problems
- evolvable vision and signal processing hardware
- hybrid approaches  to machine vision, signal  processing and pattern
  recognition including evolutionary components
- theoretical developments
- comparisons  between different  evolutionary techniques  and between
  evolutionary  and  non-evolutionary  techniques in  image  analysis,
  signal processing and pattern recognition applications
- time series analysis by means of EC techniques.

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Proceedings
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The Proceedings of Evostar  2016, including EuroGP, EvoCOP, EvoMusArt,
EvoApplications, will be published by Springer in the LNCS Series.


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Special issue of Evolutionary Intelligence (Springer) on "Evolutionary
Image Analysis, Signal Processing and Pattern Recognition"
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This year, the authors of the  best papers accepted by EvoIASP will be
invited to submit  an extended version of their  paper, whose positive
reviews  by  the  conference  PC  will be  forwarded  to  the  journal
reviewers, to an upcoming special issue of "Evolutionary Intelligence"
(Springer,  http://link.springer.com/journal/12065)  on  "Evolutionary
Image Analysis, Signal Processing and Pattern Recognition".

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Submissions  
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Submit your manuscript, at most 16 A4 pages long, in Springer LNCS
format (instructions are downloadable from http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0)
at http://myreview.csregistry.org/evoapps16/
no later than November 1, 2015.  The papers will be peer reviewed by
at least two members of the program committee. Authors will be
notified on the results of the review in early January 2016.

The authors of accepted papers  will be invited to improve their paper
on the  basis of the  reviewers' comments and  asked to send  a camera
ready  version  of their  manuscripts,  along  with  text sources  and
pictures within  two weeks from  the notification of  acceptance.  The
accepted papers will  appear in the proceedings of  Evo*, published in
Springer Lecture  Notes on Computer  Science Series shortly  after the
conference.

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Student Bursaries
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We anticipate  the availability of several bursaries  for students and
young scientists  partially covering  travel and lodging  expenses and
registration for the  whole Evostar event.  Priority will  be given to
young scientists who will present their work at the conference.


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Web address             http://www.evostar.org
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IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission deadline:             1 November 2015  
Notification:                    4 January  2016
Camera-ready deadline:          18 January  2016

Early registration discount:    25 February 2016
Registration deadline:          24 March    2016
Bursary application deadline: late February 2016