Call for Papers
2015 IEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC2015) in Sendai, Japan.
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Special Session on Many-Objective Optimization
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(Motivation)
Evolutionary algorithms are particularly suited to solve multi-objective optimization problems because they can find a set of Pareto optimal solutions in a single run of the algorithm. So far, multi-objective EAs have been successfully applied mostly in two and three objectives problems. However, multi-objective EAs face several difficulties when we try to solve many-objective optimization problems, which optimize four or more objective functions simultaneously. At least, the following difficulties have been recognized in recent researches of evolutionary many-objective optimization.

1. The convergence deterioration of solutions toward Pareto front
2. The approximation of high dimensional entire Pareto front with a limited number of solutions
3. The presentation of obtained solutions in the high dimensional objective space and the decision making of a single final solution from them
4. The search performance evaluation of search algorithms
5. This special session focus on evolutionary many-objective optimization to tackle problems in many-objective optimization including the above mentioned difficulties.

(Scope)
-Algorithm design
-Preference based search
-Dimensionality reduction of the objective space
-Benchmark problems
-Visualization of high dimensional space and decision making
-Search performance metrics

(Important Dates)
-Paper submission deadline: January 16, 2015 (EXTENDED!)
-Paper acceptance notification: February 20, 2015
-Final paper submission deadline: March 13, 2015
-Conference dates: May 25-28, 2015

(Paper Submission)
Special session papers are treated the same as regular papers and must be submitted via the CEC 2015 submission website. When submitting choose the "Many-Objective Optimization" special session from the "Main Research Topic" list.

(Organizer)
Hiroyuki Sato
E-mail: sato [at] hc.uec.ac.jp
Affiliation: The University of Electro-Communications
Special Session URL: http://hs.hc.uec.ac.jp/en/CEC15_MO.html
Conference URL: http://sites.ieee.org/cec2015/