Call for Papers
Special Session on EC and Games:from theory to applications
2017 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC2017)
Donostia - San Sebastián, Spain, June 5-8, 2017

Aim and Scope:Game-theoretic modelling and solution methods are important in many application areas
such as: biology, robotics, defense, economics, social science, computer games and AI.
Evolutionary computation has been applied not only to searching for strategies, but also toother aspects of games such as the generation of games, learning players' behavior, designof non-player characters and more.
The aim of this special session is to bring together the IEEE-CEC community of researchers
who are interested in the theory and applications of Evolutionary Games (EG) to present
their recent research findings and work.
Note: The term evolutionary game theory commonly refers to game models of evolution innature. Here, this term refers also to game models of evolutionary computations, which may
be associated with the development of technical systems.

Topics:
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Theory including:Analysis of equilibrium and evolutionary stable strategies in evolutionary games
Pareto optimality in evolutionary games
Theoretical analysis of evolutionary games
Theoretical analysis of mechanism design and social choice
Theoretical analysis of uncertainty, robustness, and delays in evolutionary games

Computational Methods such as:
Co-evolutionary learning of strategies
Evolutionary design of NPCs
Evolutionary machine learning applied to game theoretic models
Evolutionary multi-objective games
GP, GA, ES, DE, MC and game-theoretic models
Game-generation using evolutionary computation techniques
Generalization and transfer learning in co-evolutionary learning of game strategies

Hybrid methods and games
Neuroevolution and games
One-sided evolutionary search of strategies
Rolling horizon evolutionary algorithms

Applications including:Applications of EG in computer games and AI
Applications of EG in robotics
Applications of EG in biological systems
Applications of EG in economics
Applications of EG in defense (air, land, sea, and cyber)
Applications of EG in social science
Applications of EG in engineering design and manufacturing
Real-life examples of using EG

Important dates:

Deadline for submission of full papers: 16 January 2017
Notification of acceptance: 26 February 2017
Deadline for Final paper submission: 12 March 2017
Conference dates: 5-8 June, 2017

Paper Submission:Please follow the IEEE CEC 2017 Submission Web Site. Special session papers aretreated the same way as regular conference papers. Please specify that your paper
is for the Special Session on EC and Games: from theory to applications. All papers
accepted and presented at CEC 2017 will be included in the conference
proceedings published by IEEE Explore, which are typically indexed by EI.

Members of the International Program Committee:
Simon Lucas
Mike Preuss
Yew Soon Ong
Joshua Knowles
Kay Chen Tan
Sushil Louis
Daniel Ashlock
Moshe Sipper
Jacek Mandziuk
Garrison W. Greenwood
Amiram Moshaiov
Abhishek GuptaHussein Abbass

Organizers:
Amiram Moshaiov, Abhishek Gupta, and Hussein Abbass

Biography of the Organizers
Amiram Moshaiov is a faculty member of the School of Mechanical Engineering andthe Sagol School of Neuroscience at Tel-Aviv University. Formerly, he was a faculty
member at MIT, USA. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal ofMemetic Computing and a reviewer to many other scientific journals. He is amember of the Working Group on Artificial Life and Complex Adaptive Systems ofIEEE, and was a member of the Management Board of the European Network of
Excellence in Robotics. He was the originator and Co-Chair of the IEEE/RSJ IROS
Workshop on Multi-Objective Robotics and on Multi-Competence Optimization andAdaptation in Robotics and A-life and of the related GECCO Workshop on theEvolution of Natural and Artificial System. He participated in IPCs of conferencessuch as: The IEEE Int. Conf. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, The IEEE/RSJ Int.
Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, The IEEE Congress on EvolutionaryComputation, The IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, The IEEE Sym.
on Artificial Life and The European Robotic Symposium. His research interests are inmethods such as: Computational Intelligence, Interactive Evolutionary Computation,Multi-criteria Decision Making, Multi-Objective Optimization and Adaptation, andMulti-objective Games.
Abhishek Gupta received the PhD degree in Engineering Science from the Universityof Auckland in 2014, where his initial research was focused on the mathematicalmodeling of composite materials, game modelling of their manufacturing processes
and their solution by evolutionary multi-objective optimization. He is presently a
Research Scientist in the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanyang
Technological University, Singapore. His current research interests lie in the field ofcomputational intelligence, spanning topics in memetic computing, Bayesian
optimization, multitask problem-solving, and bilevel games. Some of the key realworld applications he is interested in include intelligent engineering design, logistics
systems planning, and transportation research.
Hussein Abbass is a full Professor with the University of New South Wales, Canberra
Campus, Australia. Prof. Abbass is a fellow of the UK Operational Research Society
and a fellow of the Australian Computer Society. He is the Vice-President forTechnical Activities (2016-2017) for IEEE-CIS and the National President (2016-) for
the Australian Society for Operations Research. He is an Associate Editor of six
international journals, including the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation,and the IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, and has published 200+ refereed papers.