Artificial Life and Evolutionary Algorithms (ALEA)

Artificial Life and Evolutionary Algorithms (ALEA) deals with the study and simulation of life and evolution. Inspired by a range of different domains including biology, chemistry, physics and social sciences, it captures the main processes of natural systems and recreates them in artificial environments, leading to the development of new computational approaches that can address large, complex and dynamic problems from different domains. 

Topics of Interest

  • Artificial Chemistries 
  • Artificial Immune Systems 
  • Classifier Systems 
  • Complex Networks 
  • Emergent Behaviors 
  • Evolution and Learning Dynamics
  • Evolutionary Algorithms 
  • Evolutionary Machine Learning 
  • Evolutionary Optimization 
  • Evolutionary Robotics 
  • Evolution of Neural Networks 
  • Genetic Programming 
  • Hyper-heuristics 
  • Hybrid Approaches 
  • Multi-objective Optimization 
  • Origins of Life 
  • Parallel Evolutionary Algorithms 
  • Self-organizing Systems 
  • Swarm Intelligence

Organizing Committee

Ivo Gonçalves INESC Coimbra, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Mauro Castelli, NOVA IMS, Portugal
Luca Manzoni, University of Trieste, Italy
Leonardo Trujillo, Technical Institute of Tijuana, Mexico
Carlos Henggeler Antunes, INESC Coimbra, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Program Committee 

Carlos Henggeler Antunes, INESC Coimbra, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Stefano Cagnoni, University of Parma, Italy
Mauro Castelli, NOVA IMS, Portugal
Luís Correia, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Carlos M. Fonseca, University of Coimbra, Portugal
James Foster, University of Idaho, USA
Ivo Gonçalves, INESC Coimbra, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Jin-Kao Hao, University of Angers, France
Malcolm Heywood, Dalhousie University, Canada
Ting Hu, Queen’s University, Canada
Colin Johnson, University of Kent, UK
Gabriel Kronberger, University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Austria
William B. Langdon, University College London, UK
Arnaud Liefooghe, University of Lille, France
Fernando G. Lobo, University of Algarve, Portugal
Penousal Machado, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Luca Manzoni, University of Trieste, Italy
Eric Medvet, University of Trieste, Italy
Rui Mendes, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Pablo Mesejo Santiago, INRIA, France
Luis Paquete, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Francisco B. Pereira, Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra, Portugal
Petr Pošík, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
Thomas Stützle, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Leonardo Trujillo, Technical Institute of Tijuana, Mexico
Ender Özcan, University of Nottingham, UK