PARALLEL PROBLEM SOLVING FROM NATURE

SIXTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

September 5-9, 2020

BEST PAPER AWARD WINNER

The winner of the best paper award of PPSN 2020 is Tobias Glasmachers and Oswin Krause with their paper The Hessian Estimation Evolution Strategy

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Grants for onsite and online participation

PPSN participants affiliated with an institution in the following countries (Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Croatia, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Republic of North Macedonia, Republic of Serbia and Turkey) are eligible to apply for ITC conference grants from COST action CA15140: Improving Applicability of Nature-Inspired Optimisation by Joining Theory and Practice (ImAppNIO).
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Keynote Speakers

We are happy to announce that Eric Postma, Carme Torras and Christian Stöcker will give a keynote lecture during PPSN 2020. 

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The Sixteenth International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN XVI) will be held in Leiden, The Netherlands on September 5-9, 2020. Leiden University and the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) are proud to host the 30th anniversary of PPSN.

PPSN was originally designed to bring together researchers and practitioners in the field of Natural Computing, the study of computing approaches which are gleaned from natural models. Today, the conference series has evolved and welcomes works on all types of iterative optimization heuristics. Notably, we also welcome submissions on connections between search heuristics and machine learning or other artificial intelligence approaches.

PPSN XVI will feature workshops and tutorials covering advanced and fundamental topics in the field of Natural Computing, as well as algorithm competitions. The keynote talks will be given by the world-renowned researchers in their fields.

Following PPSN’s unique tradition, all accepted papers will be presented during poster sessions and will be included in the proceedings. The proceedings will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series by Springer.