The GECCO 2018 Program Committee invites the submission of technical papers describing your best work in genetic and evolutionary computation. Full papers of at most 8 pages are aimed to present original new work that meets the high-quality standards of GECCO. Accepted full papers appear in the ACM digital library as part of the MAIN PROCEEDINGS of GECCO. For full papers, a separate abstract needs to be submitted first by January 30, 2018. Full papers are due by the non-extensible deadline of February 6, 2018.

Besides the traditional GECCO full papers, poster-only papers of at most 2 pages can be submitted. These are aimed to present original and new work that has not yet reached the stage of the more mature, complete research results that are typically published in full papers at GECCO. The review of poster-only papers follows the same double-blind process described above. However, accepted poster-only papers appear in the ACM digital library as part of the COMPANION PROCEEDINGS of GECCO. Poster-only papers are due by the non-extensible deadline of February 6, 2018, and no abstract needs to be submitted first.