Call for Humies

Call For Entries
for 15th Annual (2018) "Humies" Awards
for Human-Competitive Results
Produced by Genetic and Evolutionary Computation

To be Held at
Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO)
July 15-19, 2018 (Sunday - Thursday)
in Kyoto, JAPAN


Entries are hereby solicited for awards totaling $10,000 for human-competitive results that have been produced by any form of genetic and evolutionary computation (including, but not limited to genetic algorithms, genetic programming, evolution strategies, evolutionary programming, learning classifier systems, grammatical evolution, gene expression programming, differential evolution, etc.) and that have been published in the open literature between the deadline for the previous competition and the deadline for the current competition.

The competition will be held as part of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO) conference operated by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group (SIG) on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (SIGEVO). Entries chosen to be finalists will be made at the conference. The winners of the awards will be announced during the conference.

Deadline: Wednesday June 6, 2018
Please send entries to koza at human-competitive dot org
See http://www.human-competitive.org for full details and previous winners.

JUDGING COMMITTEE

  • Erik Goodman
  • Una-May O'Reilly
  • Wolfgang Banzhaf
  • Darrell Whitley
  • Lee Spector
  • PUBLICITY CHAIR: William Langdon