RWA - Real World Applications

Description

The Real-World Applications (RWA) track welcomes rigorous experimental, computational and/or applied advances in evolutionary computation (EC) in any discipline devoted to the study of real-world problems. The RWA track covers also real-world problems arising in creative arts, including design, games, and music (having been merged with the former track DETA - Digital Entertainment Technologies and Arts), and search-based software engineering problems (the SBSE track having been discontinued). The aim is to bring together contributions from the diverse application domains into a single event.

Please note that, from 2025, the track will handle strictly new real-world applications. That is, applications that are newly modelled and solved with evolutionary algorithms. In other words, we will not consider articles that use previously existing, publicly available real-world benchmark problems. If you are using existing/published real-world benchmarks, you can submit to other GECCO tracks that are relevant to your algorithmic contributions.

The focus is on applications including but not limited to:

• Papers that present novel developments of EC, grounded in real-world problems.
• Papers that present new applications of EC to real-world problems.
• Papers that analyse the features of real-world problems, as a basis for designing EC solutions.
• Papers that would fall into the DETA domain, such as ones focussing on aesthetic measurement and control, biologically-inspired creativity, interactive environments and games, composition, synthesis and generative arts.
• Papers on search-based software engineering applications, such as automatic program repair, genetic improvement, software testing, requirements analysis, and project management.

All contributions should be original research papers demonstrating the relevance and applicability of EC within a real-world problem. Papers covering multiple disciplines are welcome; we encourage the authors of such papers to write and present them in a way that allows researchers from other fields to grasp the main results, techniques, and their potential applications. Papers on novel EC research problems and novel application domains of the arts, music, and games are especially encouraged.

Scope

The real-world applications track is open to all domains and all industries.