July 2005 note: The conference was held January, 2005.
The proceedings are now available online. Click here Proceedings

The eighth "Foundations of Genetic Algorithms Conference" will be held in Aizu-Wakamatsu City, Japan, January 5-9, 2005.

Authors are invited to submit full research papers on theoretical aspects of evolutionary computation, including genetic algorithms, genetic programming, evolution strategies, and other evolutionary computation paradigms.

• Accepted papers will be published in a proceedings volume with LNCS (Springer Verlag). Revised versions of selected papers will be published in a special journal volume of "Theoretical Computer Science" (Elsevier Publishers). For publication in the proceedings volume, registration + payment of the conference fee (approx. USD 350) are required for at least one author.
• A limited number of travel grants will be available for authors.
• There will be two best student paper awards to recognize the distinguished student research.
• Attending students will have their conference fee significantly reduced.

Our sponsors include:

• ISGEC
  International Society for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation
• University of Aizu, Japan