The deadline for paper submission has been extended, the new deadline is now SEPTEMBER 7th, 2011

For over twenty years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing has been an important forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers to interact and present their work. SAC 2012 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP), and is presented in cooperation with other ACM Special Interest Groups.

For additional information, visit the general SAC 2012 web page.

EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION TRACK

The Evolutionary Computation (EC) track welcomes original, unpublished papers describing advances in and applications of evolutionary computation and related techniques, including genetic algorithms, evolution strategies,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 2012 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 (2 + 1 additonal) extended abstracts in the Proceedings. The additional page for posters has a cost of US$80. A paper may be submitted to only one track of SAC 2012.

GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION

• Papers should represent original and previously unpublished works that are currently not under review for any journal or other conference. Both basic and applied research papers are welcome.

• Submissions will be in electronic format via this web site: https://www.softconf.com/c/sac2012/

• Submission must follow the template found at this URL: http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2012/downloads12.htm

• Authors are allowed up to eight (8) pages in the specified format, but there is a charge of US$80 for each page over six (6).

• Authors' names and addresses must not appear in the body of the submitted papers, and self-references should be in the third person. This is to facilitate blind review.

• Begin the submission process by submitting your paper's abstract on the conference web site at the URL above.

• All submitted papers must include the paper identification number (assigned when the abstract is submitted) on the front page above the title of the paper.

• No author's name may appear on more than two papers accepted to the EC track.

Note also the guidelines in the general SAC 2012 Call for Papers.

IMPORTANT DATES (all deadlines will be strictly enforced)

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011	PAPER SUBMISSIONS
OCTOBER 12, 2011	AUTHOR NOTIFICATION
NOVEMBER 2, 2011	CAMERA-READY COPY DUE
MARCH 25, 2012	CONFERENCE BEGINS

TRACK CHAIRS

Federico Divina
School of Engineering
Pablo de Olavide University
Seville, Spain
fdivina@upo.es
Phone: +34 954 977592
Fax: +34 9543 48689

Raúl Giráldez Rojo
School of Engineering
Pablo de Olavide University
Seville, Spain
giraldez@upo.es
Phone: +34 954 977998
Fax: +34 9543 48689