Workshop on Evolutionary Computation and Decision Making

Posted by Mark

16 January 2023

Solving real-world optimisation problems typically involve an expert or decision-maker. Decision making tools have been found to be useful in several such applications e.g., health care, education, environment, transportation, business, and production. In recent years, there has also been growing interest in merging Evolutionary Computation (EC) and decision-making techniques for several applications. This has raised amongst others the need to account for explainability, fairness, ethics and privacy aspects in optimisation and decision-making. This workshop will showcase research that is both at the interface of EC and decision making.

The workshop on Evolutionary Computation and Decision Making (EC + DM) to be held in GECCO 2023 aims to promote research on theory and applications in the field. Topics of interest include:

Interactive multiobjective optimisation or decision-maker in the loop
Visualisation to support DM in EC
Aggregation/trade-off operators & algorithms to integrate decision maker preferences
Fuzzy logic-based DM techniques
Bayesian and other DM techniques
Interactive multiobjective optimisation for (computationally) expensive problems
Using surrogates (or metamodels) in DM
Hybridisation of EC and DM
Scalability in EC and DM
DM and machine learning
DM in a big data context
DM in real-world applications
Use of psychological tools to aid the decision-maker
Fairness, ethics and societal considerations in EC and DM
Explainability in EC and DM
Accounting for trust and security in EC and DM

Submission:

We invite papers up to 8 pages relevant to the workshop and position papers of up to 2 pages showing preliminary results. We also welcome posters, demonstrations or presentations on ground-breaking theoretical and application results in the field.

For paper submission instructions and templates, please see: Paper submission instructions

Keynote talk ‘Decision Making in Evolutionary Optimization and Beyond’ by Professor Xiaodong Li (See the Keynote Section for more details)

Important (STRICT) deadline dates: