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*** CALL FOR PAPERS - GECCO 2012 GreenGEC Workshop ***
*** Green and Efficient Energy Applications of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation ***
*** 2012 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2012) ***
*** http://greengec2012.uni.lu ***
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*** SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MARCH 28 2011 ***
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*** July 7-11, 2012, Philadelphia, USA ***
*** Organized by ACM SIGEVO ***
*** http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2012 ***
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Organizers:
Alexandru-Adrian TANTAR, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Emilia TANTAR, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Peter BOSMAN, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Netherlands


Global increases in living standards, diminishing natural resources and environmental concerns
place energy amongst the most important global issues today. On the consumer side, there is an
increasing need for more efficient, smart, uses of energy, be it in large-scale computing systems
and data warehouses, in homes or in office buildings. On the producer side, there is a push toward
the use of sustainable, green, energy sources, which often come in the form of less reliable sources
such as wind energy. In addition, future energy systems are often envisioned to be "smart", consisting
of massive amounts of small generators, such as solar panels, located at consumers, effectively
turning consumers into potential producers whenever they have a surplus of energy. The management,
control and planning of, and efficient use of energy in (future) energy systems brings about many
important challenges.

Energy systems are not only real-world systems, they are also one of the most important foundations
of the modern world. Especially with the upcoming required changes to make more efficient use of
energy and to shift towards a global use of sustainable, green energy sources, there are many challenges
in mathematics and computer science. Real-world challenges, such as those arising in (future) energy
systems, are typically highly complex because of the many aspects to be considered that are often
disregarded in theoretical research such as dynamic changes, uncertainty and multiple objectives.
In many situations therefore, problem-specific algorithms are infeasible or impractical. Instead, flexible
and powerful approaches such as evolutionary algorithms (EAs) can often provide viable solutions.
Typical real-world challenges that are addressed by EAs are of the optimization type. This covers the use
of EAs to optimize issues ranging from energy consumption (e.g. scheduling, memory/storage
management, communication protocols, smart sensors, etc.) to the planning and design of energy
systems at many levels, ranging from small printed circuit boards to entire transmission networks.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers interested in addressing challenging issues
related to the use of evolutionary computation for applications in (future) energy systems. The workshop
is a follow up of the GreenIT Evolutionary Computation workshop held at GECCO 2011.

The workshop covers all energy-related applications of evolutionary computation, including but not limited to:

- planning of (future) (smart) energy systems
- network design optimization
- management and control of (future) (smart) energy systems
- stability of smart energy systems
- dynamic demand and supply matching in smart energy systems
- smart homes, buildings, offices, streets, ...
- energy-efficient optimization and its applications
- energy-efficient scheduling algorithms
- optimization of energy-efficient protocols
- modeling-representations, simulation and validation for energy consumption optimization problems
- large scale and high-dimensional energy-efficient optimization
- energy-aware smart grids
- thermal optimization in cloud computing/data centers
- online dynamic optimization for energy efficient systems
- energy optimization in uncertain environments
- learning and anticipation
- robustness and performance guarantees
- real-world energy efficient optimization problems
- management and profiling tools for energy efficient systems

Both theoretical papers and papers describing practical experiences are welcome. We invite submissions
up to 8 pages in ACM format. The talks should present recent research ideas, identify new challenging
problems or show obtained results. Both theoretical papers and papers describing practical experiences
will be welcome. Accepted papers will be published in a separate workshop proceedings associated to
the GECCO conference which also appears in the ACM Digital Library.

Important Dates:

• March 28th, 2012 - Papers submission deadline
• April 9th, 2012 - Decision Notification
• April 16, 2012 - Camera-Ready Submissions and Copyright Forms due for Accepted Papers
• May 2, 2012 - registration dealdine

Submission:

Submissions should not exceed 8 pages in ACM style. Refer to http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2012 for format
details. All accepted papers will be presented orally at the workshop and included in the workshop proceedings.
However, unlike GECCO, we do not require having papers submitted in anonymous format. Papers may be
submitted by March 28, 2012 in PostScript or PDF format to greengec2012@uni.lu.

Copyright Form and Camera-Ready Papers:

As the workshop proceedings will be published by ACM, authors of accepted papers must submit a copyright
form assigning copyright to ACM. Authors are responsible for sending their copyright form to the ACM and
submitting electronic (PDF) versions of their workshop materials by April 16, 2012. Camera-ready format and
submission instructions will be posted on the conference web site.

Workshop chairs:

• Pascal Bouvry, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
• Alexandru-Adrian Tantar, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
• Emilia Tantar, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
• Peter A.N. Bosman, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), Netherlands
• Samee U. Khan, North Dakota State University, USA
• Bernabé Dorronsoro, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
• Grégoire Danoy, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Contact (Workshop Organizers): For information related to the workshop feel free to contact the workshop
organizers at alexandru.tantar@uni.lu, emilia.tantar@uni.lu, peter.bosman@cwi.nl.