GECCO '16: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2016

On behalf of the Organizing Committee, I would like to welcome you to The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2016 in Denver, Colorado, USA, July 20-24. GECCO is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (SIGEVO). It is the top quality conference in the area of evolutionary computation ensuring excellent quality by a selective reviewing process. Decisions on the acceptance of papers are made by expert track chairs handling the different areas of evolutionary computation. This ensure a high quality reviewing process making sure that only the best work in the different areas of evolutionary computation gets accepted and presented at this leading conference.

This year 381 papers were submitted to 15 different tracks, and 1740 reviews assigned. Approximately 36% of papers have been accepted as full papers, with a further 32% accepted for poster presentation.

Highlights of the conference include invited keynote presentations by Bernard Chazelle (Princeton) and Holger H. Hoos (University of British Columbia), and a plenary lecture in memory of John Holland by Stephanie Forrest (University of New Mexico).

Attending GECCO gives an unparalleled opportunity to catch up with the leading experts in the field, establish new collaborations, and also enjoy your pick from 17 free workshops and 32 free tutorials. Furthermore, 5 competitions are being run and the annual Humies event sponsored by John Koza presents the latest human competitive results in the field.