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EvoCOP 2026: European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation

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Submission Date:
2025-11-01
Notification Date:
2026-01-10
Conference Date:
2026-04-08
Location:
Toulouse, France
Years:
26
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Call For Papers

EvoCOP 2026 (European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation) is a QUALIS B2 conference held in Toulouse, France on 2026-04-08. The paper submission deadline is 2025-11-01. Acceptance notifications are sent on 2026-01-10.

The 26th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation is a multidisciplinary conference that brings together researchers working on applications and theory of evolutionary computation methods and other metaheuristics for solving difficult combinatorial optimisation problems appearing in various industrial, economic, and scientific domains. Successfully solved problems include, but are not limited to, multi-objective, uncertain, dynamic and stochastic problems in the context of scheduling, timetabling, network design, transportation and distribution, vehicle routing, stringology, graphs, satisfiability, energy optimisation, cutting, packing, planning, and search-based software engineering. Successfully addressed theoretical and translational challenges encompass, but are not limited to, the development and analysis of novel (components of) evolutionary and other metaheuristic algorithms, work on neighbourhood and landscape structures, problem-agnostic and problem-specific variation operators, parallelisation strategies, and hybridizations. The EvoCOP 2026 conference will be held together with EuroGP (the 29th European Conference on Genetic Programming), EvoMUSART (the 15th European conference on evolutionary and biologically inspired music, sound, art and design) and EvoApplications (the 29th European Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation), in a joint event collectively known as EvoStar (Evo*). Accepted papers will be published by Springer Nature in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Previous proceedings can be found in the EvoCOP Conference Proceedings in SpringerLink. Areas of Interest and Contributions EvoCOP welcomes submissions in all experimental and theoretical aspects of evolutionary computation and other metaheuristics to combinatorial optimisation problems, including (but not limited to) the following areas: Applications of metaheuristics to combinatorial optimization problems Theoretical developments Neighbourhoods and efficient algorithms for searching them Variation operators for stochastic search methods Constraint-handling techniques Parallelisation and grid computing Search space and landscape analyses Comparisons between different (also exact) methods Automatic algorithm configuration and design Prominent examples of metaheuristics include (but are not limited to): Evolutionary algorithms Estimation of distribution algorithms Swarm intelligence methods such as ant colony and particle swarm optimisation Artificial immune systems Local search methods such as simulated annealing, tabu search, variable neighbourhood search, iterated local search, scatter search and path relinking Hybrid methods such as memetic algorithms Matheuristics (hybrids of exact and heuristic methods) Hyper-heuristics and autonomous search Surrogate-model-based methods Notice that, by tradition, continuous/numerical optimisation is *not* part of the topics of interest of EvoCOP. Interested authors might consider submitting to other EvoStar conferences such as EvoApplications.
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Acceptance Ratio

Average acceptance rate: 41.6% over 21 years (2001–2022).

YearSubmittedAcceptedAccepted(%)
2022281346.4%
2021421433.3%
2020371437.8%
2019371437.8%
2018371232.4%
2017391641%
2016441738.6%
2015461941.3%
2014422047.6%
2013502346%
2012482245.8%
2011422252.4%
2009532139.6%
2008692434.8%
2007812125.9%
2006772431.2%
2005662436.4%
2004862326.7%
2003391948.7%
2002321856.3%
2001312374.2%

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