APPLICATIONS OF EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION (EC)

at The 41th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (ACM SAC 2026)

 For the past fourty years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing has been a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers from around the world. SAC 2026 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP) and Microsoft Research.

The Evolutionary Computation (EC) track welcomes original, unpublished papers describing advances in and applications of evolutionary computation and related techniques, including genetic algorithms, evolution strategies, evolutionary programming, memetic algorithms, genetic programming, ant colony optimization, co-evolutionary algorithms, artificial immune systems, particle swarm optimization, and classifier systems.

All accepted papers will appear in the SAC 2026 Proceedings. Selected papers, not accepted as full papers, will be accepted as poster papers. These will be presented at a poster session during the Symposium and will be published as three-page extended abstracts in the Proceedings.

Peer groups with expertise in the track focus area will blindly review submissions to that track. Accepted papers will be published in the annual conference proceedings. Submission guidelines can be found on SAC 2026 Website.

A paper may be submitted to only one track of SAC 2026.

Paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of the paper/poster in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the paper. This is a requirement for the paper/poster to be included in the ACM digital library. No-show of registered papers and posters will result in excluding them from the ACM digital library.

IMPORTANT DATES (all deadlines will be strictly enforced): 

September 26, 2025 (EST)

• Submission of regular papers and SRC research abstracts

October 10, 2025

• Submission of Tutorial Proposals

October 24, 2025

• Notification of Tutorials Acceptance

October 31, 2025

• Notification of paper acceptance/rejection

October 31, 2025

• Notification of SRC acceptance/rejection

December 5, 2025

• Camera-ready copies of accepted papers/SRC

December 12, 2025

• Author registration due date

We are working on a proposal for a special issue of a journal where authors of the best papers of the tracks will be invited to submit an extended version of their articles. 

For additional information, visit the  general  SAC 2026 web page.