GECCO 2025 will have a number of competitions ranging from different types of optimization problems to games and industrial problems. If you are interested in a particular competition, please follow the links to their respective web pages (see list below).
In addition to the competitions listed on this page, GECCO also hosts the Humies Award for human-competitive results produced by genetic and evolutionary computation.
Information for authors of "2-page Competition Abstracts"
After logging into GECCO's submission site https://ssl.linklings.net/conferences/gecco/, click on "Make a new submission", then selection "Competition Entry", and then select the respective competition. Please follow the Paper Submission Instructions for preparing your abstract.
The following timeline will apply for the Competition entries:
- Submission opening: March 12, 2025
- Submission deadline: April 12, 2025
- Notification: April 28, 2025
- Camera-ready:
May 5, 2025May 12, 2025 - Author's mandatory registration:
May 8, 2025May 15, 2025
To accompany your competition entry, you may additionally submit an abstract for review (if your competition offers it). The abstract must be no more than 2 pages prepared as per GECCO formatting. The accepted abstracts will be published in the GECCO Companion Proceedings. The authors will also be invited to present their work in poster session.
Note that not all competitions offer this (if in doubt, please check with the respective competition organisers). The submission is (in general) voluntary, except when explicitly made mandatory by a competition. Please also note that as with all GECCO papers/posters, the accepted abstract must be accompanied with at least one author registration for being published.
To competition organizers: should you wish to, you can submit the description of your competition as a 2-page abstract. The formatting and registration requirements are the same as for the other competition papers.
More Information
For more information, contact the Competition Chairs,
Yuri Lavinas, yuri.lavinas at ut-capitole.fr
Hemant Singh, h.singh at adfa.edu.au
List of Competitions
| Title | Organizers |
|---|---|
| 2026 Competition on Evolutionary Computation in the Energy Domain: Fairness-aware Pricing in Energy Communities |
Fernando Lezama, GECAD-Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal José Almeida, GECAD, Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal Joao Soares, GECAD-Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal Filipe Sousa, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (ISEP), Portugal Zita Vale, Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal |
| AbstractSwarm Multi-Agent Logistics Competition |
Daan Apeldoorn, Institute of Medical Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics (IMBEI), University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany & IU International University of Applied Sciences, Germany Alexander Dockhorn, SDU Metaverse Lab, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark Torsten Panholzer, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, IMBEI Medical Informatics, Germany |
| Automated Design Competition |
Maciej Komosinski, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Konrad Miazga, Poznan University of Technology, Poland |
| Competition on Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Problems with Worker Flexibility under Uncertainty (FJSSP-WU Com) |
Michael Hellwig, Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences, Austria Thomas Steinberger, Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences, Austria David Hutter, Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences, Austria |
| Competition on LLM-designed Evolutionary Algorithms |
Roman Senkerik, Tomas Bata University in Zlin, A.I.Lab, Faculty of Applied Informatics, Czech Republic Adam Viktorin, Tomas Bata University in Zlin, Czech Republic Niki van Stein, Leiden University, Netherlands Thomas Bäck, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), Leiden University, Netherlands Lars Kotthoff, Sorbonne University, France |
| Dynamic Stacking Optimization in Uncertain Environments |
Johannes Karder, University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Austria Stefan Wagner, University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Austria |
| Explainable ride-sharing optimisation for sustainable traffic organisation |
Bernhard J. Berger, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany Christina Plump, University of Bremen, German Research Center of Artificial Intelligence, Germany Rolf Drechsler, University of Bremen, German Research Center of Artificial Intelligence, Germany |
| Interpretable Control Competition |
Giorgia Nadizar, Université Toulouse Capitole, France Luigi Rovito, University of Trieste, Italy Eric Medvet, University of Trieste, Italy Dennis G. Wilson, ISAE-SUPAERO, University of Toulouse, France Florent Teichteil Koenigsbuch, ANITI Toulouse and Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace, France |
| Machine Learning for Evolutionary Computation - Solving the Vehicle Routing Problems (ML4VRP) |
Rong Qu, University of Nottingham, UK Weiyao Meng, University of Nottingham, UK Isaac Triguero, University of Granada, Spain Mustafa MISIR, Duke Kunshan University, China |
| Numerical Global Optimization Competition on GNBG–III Property Aware Test Suite |
Rohit Salgotra, AGH University of Krakow, Poland Kalyanmoy Deb, Michigan State University, USA Amir H Gandomi, University of Technology Sydney, Australia |
| SpOC: Space Optimisation Competition |
Max Bannach, European Space Agency, Netherlands Dario Izzo, Advanced Concepts Team – European Space Agency, Netherlands |
| The Benchmark Design Challenge for Continuous Optimization |
Diederick Vermetten, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, LIP6 Niki van Stein, Leiden University, Netherlands |