evotransfer: 1st evo* technology-transfer event

evotransfer is a novel technology-transfer event debuting this year as part of evo* 2012. Evotransfer aims at promoting the establishment of liaisons between the research community on evolutionary computation and industry, in a moment in which the economy is struggling to emerge from a crisis, and entrepreneurs are beginning again to look for opportunities to invest in solutions that may increase their competitiveness.

Evotransfer will bring an audience of potential industrial partners from all over Europe in front of evo* researchers that have valuable techniques and knowledge to contribute to the solution of real-world problems arising in all areas of business and industry.

Participating researchers will have a chance to showcase their expertise in solving real-world problems with evolutionary algorithms, and interested industrial participants will have the possibility of illustrating problems arising in their business, for which a solution is wanted.

Format

The format of the event will be completely different from the typical format of an academic workshop. The attendees will belong to two categories: technology “providers” and technology “users”.
Technology providers are academic or industrial researchers that belong to the evolutionary computation community, who have gained expertise in the application of evolutionary methods to real-world problems.
Technology users are engineers, technical staff in general, managers, and decision makers from industry, finance, and all areas of business, who are interested in learning more about what evolutionary computation might do to help them solve their problems.
a short presentation of their expertise and/or a demo of their techniques aimed at an industrial audience.
The event will run on one half day, namely Thursday morning, 12 April, and will comprise a mix of short presentations by both technology providers and users, demos, and face to face meetings.

Registration

Participation in evotransfer is included in the general evo* registration. Technology users not interested in attending the other evo* conferences and workshops will have an option to register for the evotransfer event only.
More details about the fees will be published shortly.

Chair

Prof. Andrea G. B. Tettamanzi
Università degli Studi di Milano
andrea.tettamanzi(at)unimi.it

Evotransfer will bring an audience of potential industrial partners from all over Europe in front of evo* researchers that have valuable techniques and knowledge to contribute to the solution of real-world problems arising in all areas of business and industry.

Participating researchers will have a chance to showcase their expertise in solving real-world problems with evolutionary algorithms, and interested industrial participants will have the possibility of illustrating problems arising in their business, for which a solution is wanted.

Format

The format of the event will be completely different from the typical format of an academic workshop. The attendees will belong to two categories: technology “providers” and technology “users”.
Technology providers are academic or industrial researchers that belong to the evolutionary computation community, who have gained expertise in the application of evolutionary methods to real-world problems.
Technology users are engineers, technical staff in general, managers, and decision makers from industry, finance, and all areas of business, who are interested in learning more about what evolutionary computation might do to help them solve their problems.
a short presentation of their expertise and/or a demo of their techniques aimed at an industrial audience.
The event will run on one half day, namely Thursday morning, 12 April, and will comprise a mix of short presentations by both technology providers and users, demos, and face to face meetings.

Registration

Participation in evotransfer is included in the general evo* registration. Technology users not interested in attending the other evo* conferences and workshops will have an option to register for the evotransfer event only.
More details about the fees will be published shortly.

Chair

Prof. Andrea G. B. Tettamanzi
Università degli Studi di Milano
andrea.tettamanzi(at)unimi.it

Accommodation information can be found here.

Information on how to obtain a letter of invitation and on how to apply for  travel bursaries are also available.

Due to a severe power failure the evostar submission sites have been down during the weekend. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Additionally, authors of selected evomusart papers will be invited to submit expanded versions of their work for one of the two planned special issues on Evolutionary Art and Music of the Springer journal Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines (GPEM) and of the International Journal of Arts and Technology (IJART).

For this special joint session, we encourage submission of papers that cover, among other possible ones, the following topics:

• applications of genetic programming to problems in computational biology;
• new biology-inspired models for evolving computer programs.

Papers on these subjects can be submitted either to evobio or to eurogp, and the authors are asked to indicate their intention to submit the article to the joint session by emailing to any of the Program Chairs. A committee formed by the program chairs of the two events will select papers for this special session.

Authors of selected papers that will be presented in this session will be invited to submit extended versions of their work to a planned special issue of the Springer journal Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines.

evobio program chairs

Mario Giacobini
University of Torino, Italy
mario.giacobini(at)unito.it

Leonardo Vanneschi
ISEGI, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
DISCo, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Italyl
vanneschi(at)isegi.unl.pt

William S. Bush
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA
william.s.bush(at)vanderbilt.edu

eurogp program chairs

Sara Silva
INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal
sara(at)kdbio.inesc-id.pt

Alberto Moraglio
University of Birmingham, UK
a.moraglio(at)cs.bham.ac.uk