Submission

All papers must be submitted through the 2019 IEEE CEC online submission system, which will be open until January 7th, 2019 (23:59 US Pacific Time). The Paper submission deadline is extended to 21 January 2019.

Each paper should have up to 8 pages, including figures, tables, and references and the templates given in the following link should be used. A maximum of two extra pages per paper is allowed (i.e, up to 10 pages), at an additional charge of US$100 per extra page, to be paid during author registration. Please, select the option "Diversity preservation mechanisms for population-based meta-heuristics" as the "Main research topic" of your paper in the submission form.

All papers will be published as regular papers in the conference proceedings. In order for your papers to be included in the conference program and proceedings, final versions of accepted papers must be submitted and corresponding registration fees must be paid by March 31st, 2019 (23:59 US Pacific Time). Please check all the details regarding the submission guidelines in this link.