Entries are hereby solicited for awards totalling $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, genetic improvement, 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.
Important Dates
Friday May 30, 2025 — Deadline for entries (consisting of one TEXT file, PDF files for one or more papers, and possible "in press" documentation, see the main Humies pages, http://www.human-competitive.org/call-for-entries). Please send entries to goodman at msu dot edu
Friday June 13, 2025 — Finalists will be notified by e-mail
Friday June 27, 2025 — Any finalists who will not be in Málaga to present in person must submit a 10-minute video presentation (or the link and instructions for downloading the presentation, NOT a YouTube link) to goodman at msu dot edu. Finalists who will present in person must submit a copy of their (PowerPoint) slides for the advance use of the judges, to goodman at msu dot edu.
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
Stephanie Forrest