Evolutionary Computation Technical Committee
Who We Are
The Evolutionary Computation Technical Committee (ECTC) is established to promote the research, development, and teaching of computational techniques that use non-deterministic methods to adapt their behavior over time. These techniques are inspired by adaptive methods found in nature and solve problems by modelling evolutionary processes. Any such computational technique shall be referred to as an evolutionary computation (EC).
What We Do
The ECTC shall engage in various activities in order to promote EC as a viable technology, including but not limited to the following:
- Recommend candidates to the Awards Committee for the CIS Pioneer Award in the EC area
- Nominate papers for Outstanding Paper Awards to the Awards Committee from papers published in the Transactions on EC
- Propose special sessions to the CIS-sponsored conference organizers
- Participate in paper reviews and selection for CIS-sponsored conferences and publications
- Promote IEEE Senior Members and Fellows program
- Collaborate on production of tutorials and book series with the Multimedia Committee
- Maintain the Committee's website
- Facilitate local chapters activities and organize specialized workshops or meetings
- The ECTC will assist in soliciting conference proposals and actively work with the organizers of CIS-sponsored conferences to ensure their technical excellence
- When requested by the CIS, the ECTC will evaluate and report on the technical merits of conference or symposium proposals submitted to the CIS
Committee Membership
- Bing Xue, Chair
- Nelishia Pillay and Pietro Oliveto, Vice Chairs
Current directory of Chairs and members: Evolutionary Computation Technical Committee Members
ECTC members are appointed to serve one year term. Reappointment is allowed.
Chair is appointed by CIS President. 2 Vice Chairs are appointed by Chair and endorsed by CIS VP of Technical Activities. TC Members are appointed by Chair and endorsed by CIS VP of Technical Activities. (Number of members varies, typically less than 20)
If you are interested in being considered for a position on one of our Technical Committees, please send an email to cis-info@ieee.org with a link to your CV.
Task Forces
- TF1: Theoretical Foundations of Bio-inspired Computation, Chair: Martin Krejca, Vice Chairs: Chao Qian, Dirk Sudholt
- TF2: Artificial Immune Systems, Chair: Wenjian Luo, Vice Chair: Uwe Aickelin, Mario Pavone
- TF3: Artificial Life and Complex Adaptive Systems, Chair: Stefano Nichele, Vice Chairs: Joseph Lizier, Hiroki Sayama
- TF4: Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments Chair: Michalis Mavrovouniotis, Vice Chairs: Shengxiang Yang, Changhe Li
- TF5: Evolutionary Computer Vision and Image Processing, Chair: Harith Al-Sahaf, Vice Chairs: Ying Bi; Pablo Mesejo
- TF6: Large Scale Global Optimization, Chair: Mohammad Nabi Omidvar, Vice Chair: Antonio La Torre and Yuan Sun
- TF7: Nature-Inspired Constrained Optimization, Chair: Helio Barbosa, Vice Chairs: Heder Soares Bernardino and Efrén Mezura-Montes
- TF8: Evolutionary Computation for Feature Selection and Construction, Chair: Bach Nguyen Hoai, Vice Chairs: Yaochu Jin and Bing Xue
- TF9: Data-Driven Evolutionary Optimization of Expensive Problems, Chair: Ran Cheng, Vice Chairs: Jonathan Fieldsend and Abishek Gupta
- TF10: Multi-modal Optimization, Chair: Mike Preuss, Vice Chairs: Andries Engelbrecht and Xiaodong Li
- TF11: Decomposition-based Techniques in Evolutionary Computation, Chair: Bilel Derbel, Vice Chair: Ke Li; Qingfu Zhang
- TF12: Evolutionary Bilevel Optimization, Chair: Ankur Sinha, Vice Chair: Hemant Kumar Singh
- TF13: Automated Algorithm Design, Configuration and Selection, Chair: Nelishia Pillay, Vice Chair: Rong Qu
- TF14: Benchmarking, Chair: Ales Zamuda, Vice Chairs: Mike Preuss and Markus Wagner
- TF15: Evolutionary Scheduling and Combinatorial Optimisation, Chair: Yi Mei, Vice-Chairs: Jialin Liu, Fangfang Zhang