In the last keynote of @foga-conf.bsky.social , Tobias Glasmachers is talking about drift analysis in evolutionary strategies

At the Welcome session of @foga-conf.bsky.social

The program for FOGA 2025 is now available at

naco.liacs.nl/foga2025/pro...

FOGA = plenary keynotes, poster-based presentations, and networking :-)

Hope to see many of you in Leiden at the end of August.

Registrations for FOGA 2025 are open. Join us for 2.5 days packed with the latest research on foundations of evolutionary computation 🥳
naco.liacs.nl/foga2025//re...
The conference will be preceded by a meeting of the ROAR-NET COST Action: naco.liacs.nl/foga2025//ro...
We hope to see you in Leiden!

Mañana a las 12:45 Ramón Lence (The Workshop) impartirá una masterclass sobre "Diseño y evaluación de sistemas guiados por pruebas de rendimiento" en la Sala de Grados A de la ETSI Informática de la Universidad de Málaga

Mañana a las 8:45 @deors.bsky.social (Accenture) impartirá una masterclass sobre "Asistentes para codificación con IA y lo que implican para el futuro de la ingeniería del software" en la Sala de Grados A de la ETSI Informática de la Universidad de Málaga

The Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm can require exponential time to optimize linear functions. This is our last paper, accepted for publication in the Quantum Optimization Workshop at GECCO 2025 (will be in Málaga, on 14 or 15 July, 2025). Preprint available at arxiv.org/abs/2505.06404

Happy to announce that 56 papers have been submitted to FOGA 2025. We are now entering the reviewing phase
FOGA will happen from Aug. 27-29, preceded by a workshop for COST action ROAR-NET roar-net.eu on Aug 26
Looking forward to hosting the community in beautiful Leiden, NL
naco.liacs.nl/foga2025/

At the closing session of Evostar 2025 in Trieste, Italy.

FOGA submission deadline is May 2.
If you have a poster accepted to GECCO: yes, it is possible to submit the full paper of your GECCO poster to FOGA.
If in doubt about the eligibility of your submission, do not hesitate to reach out to our PC chairs, @francischicano.bsky.social + Jonathan Fieldsend

Interested in optimization using quantum computers? We organize the 4th Workshop on Quantum Optimization at GECCO 2025 in Malaga, Spain. Deadline: 26 March. Visit our webpage: sites.google.com/view/quantop...

Our last work on combinatorial optimization with quantum computers has just been published in Engineering Optimization. Take a look at www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

P. García Sánchez, A. Tonda, A.J. Fernández Leiva, C. Cotta @ccottap.bsky.social, Optimizing Hearthstone Agents using an Evolutionary Algorithm, Knowledge-Based Systems 188:105032, 2020
dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.kn...
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We are interested in fundamental research on iterative optimization, whether local search, evolutionary/genetic algorithms, swarm intelligence,...
Fundamental \superset theory, i.e., we also welcome sound empirical papers, if their main focus is to advance our understanding of key working principles

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Follow us for updates on the biannual ACM/SIGEVO Conference on Foundations of Genetic Algorithms (FOGA).
Our next edition
:: Leiden, The Netherlands
:: August 27-29, 2025
:: Paper submission deadline May 2, 2025
:: fundamental research on iterative optimization algorithms