IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation

The IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC) is one of the largest and most important conferences within evolutionary computation (EC), the other conferences of similar importance being Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN) and EvoStar (which comprises EuroGP, EvoApplications, EvoCOP, and EvoMUSART).

IEEE CEC, which is organized by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society began in 1994 as the IEEE Symposium on Evolutionary Computation held in Orlando, Florida. In 1995 the conference name changed to IEEE International Conference on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE ICEC) and it was held with this title through 1998. In 1999, the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, in combination with the Evolutionary Programming Society which operated the annual Evolutionary Programming Conference (1992-1999) and the IET (IEE) which operated the International Conference on Genetic Algorithms in Engineering Systems, Innovations and Applications (1995-1999) combined to co-sponsor the newly named IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, and this title continues to the present . In even years it is associated with the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI), the flagship conference of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. The conference covers most subtopics of EC, such as evolutionary robotics, multiobjective optimization, evolvable hardware, theory of evolutionary computation, and evolutionary design. Papers can also be found that deal with topics that are related to rather than part of EC, such ant colony optimization, swarm intelligence, and quantum computing.

The conference usually attracts several hundreds of attendees, as well as hundreds of papers.

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IEEE CEC 2024, Yokohama, Japan (as part of IEEE WCCI 2024) 
IEEE CEC 2023, Chicago, IL, USA
IEEE CEC 2022, Padua, Italy (as part of IEEE WCCI 2022) 
IEEE CEC 2021, Krakow, Poland (virtual due to COVID-19 pandemic)
IEEE CEC 2020, Glasgow, UK (virtual due to COVID-19 pandemic) (as part of IEEE WCCI 2020) 
IEEE CEC 2019, Wellington, New Zealand
IEEE CEC 2018, Rio, Brazil (as part of IEEE WCCI 2018) 
IEEE CEC 2017, San Sebastián, Spain
IEEE CEC 2016, Vancouver, Canada (as part of IEEE WCCI 2016) 
IEEE CEC 2015, Sendai, Japan
IEEE CEC 2014, Beijing, China (as part of IEEE WCCI 2014) 
IEEE CEC 2013, Cancún, Mexico
IEEE CEC 2012, Brisbane, Australia (as part of IEEE WCCI 2012) 
IEEE CEC 2011, New Orleans, LA, USA
IEEE CEC 2010, Barcelona, Spain (as part of IEEE WCCI 2010) 
IEEE CEC 2009, Trondheim, Norway
IEEE CEC 2008, Hong Kong, China (as part of IEEE WCCI 2008) 
IEEE CEC 2007, Singapore
IEEE CEC 2006, Vancouver, Canada (as part of IEEE WCCI 2006) 
IEEE CEC 2005, Edinburgh, UK
IEEE CEC 2004, Portland, OR, US
IEEE CEC 2003, Canberra, Australia
IEEE CEC 2002, Honolulu, Hawaii, US (as part of IEEE WCCI 2002) 
IEEE CEC 2001, Seoul, Korea
IEEE CEC 2000, San Diego, CA, US
IEEE CEC 1999, Washington DC, US
IEEE ICEC 1998, Anchorage, Alaska, US
IEEE ICEC 1997, Indianapolis, Indiana, US
IEEE ICEC 1996, Nagoya, Japan
IEEE ICEC 1995, Perth, Australia
IEEE Symposium on Evolutionary Computation 1994, Orlando, Florida, US

Evolutionary computation