The 2017 International Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning is scheduled for November 10-13 at Southern University of Science and Technology (Google Map | Gaode Maps).

Evolution and learning are two fundamental forms of adaptation. SEAL 2017 is the eleventh conference in the highly successful series that aims at exploring these two forms of adaptation and their roles and interactions in adaptive systems. Cross-fertilization between evolutionary learning and other machine learning approaches, such as neural network learning, reinforcement learning, decision tree learning, fuzzy system learning, etc., will be strongly encouraged by the conference. The other major theme of the conference is optimization by evolutionary approaches or hybrid evolutionary approaches.

Prospective authors are invited to submit their original unpublished work to SEAL 2017. The topics of interest to this conference include but are not limited to the following:

Evolutionary Learning:
Fundamental Issues in Evolutionary Learning
Co-Evolutionary Learning
Modular Evolutionary Learning Systems
Classifier System
Collective Intelligence
Representation Issues in Evolutionary Learning

Artificial Immune Systems
Interactions Between Learning and Evolution
Credit Assignment
Swarm Intelligence
Comparison Studies on Evolutionary Learning Algorithms

Evolutionary Optimisation:
Combinatorial Optimisation
Numerical/Function Optimisation
Hybrid Optimisation Algorithms
Simulated annealing
Comparison of Algorithms

Ant colony optimisation
Particle swarm optimisation
Brain Storm Optimization
Fireworks Algorithms
Memetic algorithms

Hybrid Learning:
Evolutionary Artificial Neural Networks
Evolutionary Fuzzy Systems
Evolutionary Reinforcement Learning
Evolutionary Clustering
Evolutionary Decision Tree Learning

Evolutionary Unsupervised Learning
Evolutionary Computation
Other Hybrid Learning Systems
Developmental Processes
Developmental Swarm Intelligence

Adaptive Systems:
Complexity in Adaptive Systems
Evolutionary Robotics
Evolvable Hardware and Software

Evolutionary Games
Self-Repairing Systems
Artificial Ecology

Theoretical Issues in Evolutionary Computation:
Computational Complexity of Evolutionary Algorithms
Self-Adaptation in Evolutionary Algorithms

Convergence and Convergence Rate of Evolutionary Algorithms

Real-World Applications of Evolutionary Computation Techniques


Publications
All accepted papers that are presented at the conference will be included in the conference proceedings. All previous SEAL proceedings were published in LectureNotes in Computer Science(LNCS) by Springer. SEAL'2017 will continue this tradition. Selected best papers will be invited for further revisions and extensions for possible publications in special issues of journals such as IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence.