GECCO 2025 will have a number of competitions ranging from different types of optimization problems to games and industrial problems. If you are interested in a particular competition, please follow the links to their respective web pages (see list below).
In addition to the competitions listed on this page, GECCO also hosts the Humies Award for human-competitive results produced by genetic and evolutionary computation.
Information for authors of "2-page Competition Abstracts"
After logging into GECCO's submission site https://ssl.linklings.net/conferences/gecco/, click on "Make a new submission", then selection "Competition Entry", and then select the respective competition. Please follow the Paper Submission Instructions for preparing your abstract.
The following timeline will apply for the Competition entries:
- Submission opening: March 12, 2025
- Submission deadline: April 12, 2025
- Notification: April 28, 2025
- Camera-ready: May 5, 2025
- Author's mandatory registration: May 5, 2025
To accompany your competition entry, you may additionally submit an abstract for review (if your competition offers it). The abstract must be no more than 2 pages prepared as per GECCO formatting. The accepted abstracts will be published in the GECCO Companion Proceedings. The authors will also be invited to present their work in poster session.
Note that not all competitions offer this (if in doubt, please check with the respective competition organisers). The submission is (in general) voluntary, except when explicitly made mandatory by a competition. Please also note that as with all GECCO papers/posters, the accepted abstract must be accompanied with at least one author registration for being published.
To competition organizers: should you wish to, you can submit the description of your competition as a 2-page abstract. The formatting and registration requirements are the same as for the other competition papers.
More Information
For more information, contact the Competition Chairs,
Yuri Lavinas, yuri.lavinas at ut-capitole.fr
Hemant Singh, h.singh at adfa.edu.au
List of Competitions
| Title | Organizers |
|---|---|
| 2025 Competition on Evolutionary Computation in the Energy Domain: Summer Finals of the Risk-based Energy Scheduling |
José Almeida, GECAD, Polytechnic of Porto Fernando Lezama, GECAD-Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal Joao Soares, GECAD-Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal Bruno Canizes, GECAD-Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal Filipe Sousa, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (ISEP) Zita Vale, Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal |
| Anytime Algorithms for Many-affine BBOB Functions |
Diederick Vermetten, Leiden Institute for Advanced Computer Science Carola Doerr, CNRS and Sorbonne University, France Thomas Bäck, LIACS, Leiden University, The Netherlands Jacob de Nobel, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science |
| Automated Design Competition |
Maciej Komosinski, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Konrad Miazga, Poznan University of Technology Agnieszka Mensfelt, Poznan University of Technology, Poland |
| Benchmarking Niching Methods for Multimodal Optimization |
Ali Ahrari, University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia Jonathan Fieldsend, University of Exeter, UK Mike Preuss, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science Xiaodong Li, RMIT University, Australia Michael G. Epitropakis, The Signal Group |
| Competition on LLM-designed Evolutionary Algorithms |
Adam Viktorin, Tomas Bata University in Zlin, CZ Roman Senkerik, Tomas Bata University in Zlin, Faculty of Applied Informatics, Czech Republic Michal Pluhacek, Tomas Bata University in Zlin, A.I.Lab, Czech Republic Niki van Stein, Leiden University Thomas Bäck, LIACS, Leiden University, The Netherlands Lars Kotthoff, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, School of Computing, University of Wyoming, US |
| Dynamic Stacking Optimization in Uncertain Environments |
Johannes Karder, University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria Stefan Wagner, University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria Sebastian Leitner, University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria |
| Evolutionary Algorithms for the Large-scale Earth Observation Satellite Scheduling Problem |
Alex Vasegaard, Aalborg University Jonathan Guerra, Airbus defence and space |
| Evolutionary Submodular Optimisation |
Aneta Neumann, The University of Adelaide, Australia Saba Sadeghi Ahouei, The University of Adelaide, Australia Jacob de Nobel, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science Diederick Vermetten, Leiden Institute for Advanced Computer Science Thomas Bäck, LIACS, Leiden University, The Netherlands Frank Neumann, University of Adelaide, Australia |
| Interpretable Control Competition |
Giorgia Nadizar, Università degli Studi di Trieste, Italy Luigi Rovito, University of Trieste Dennis G. Wilson, ISAE-SUPAERO, University of Toulouse, France Eric Medvet, University of Trieste |
| Numerical Global Optimization Competition on GNBG-II generated Test Suite |
Amir H Gandomi, University of Technology Sydney Kalyanmoy Deb, Michigan State University, USA Rohit Salgotra, Faculty of Physics & Applied Computer Science, AGH University of Science & Technology, Poland |
| Planet Wars AI Challenge | Simon Lucas, Queen Mary University of London |