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 2008 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 SAC 2008 web page.

The Evolutionary Computation (EC) track welcomes original, unpublished papers describing advances in and applications of evolutionary computation and related techniques, including genetic algorithms, evolution strategies,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, and classifier systems. All accepted papers will appear in the SAC 2008 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 two-page extended abstracts in the Proceedings. A paper may be submitted to only one track of SAC 2008.

GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION

Submission and reviewing of papers will be handled through the eCMS conference management system. The URL for abstract and paper submissions is:

Please direct questions about the mechanics of paper submission to Jeff Allen, the author of eCMS, at jallen@cs.iupui.edu.

Please note the following guidelines for submitted papers.

• Papers should represent original and previously unpublished works that are currently not under review for any journal or other conference.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.
• The required file format is PDF.
• Papers should not be more than about 4,000 words. This is about 15 pages using double-spaced 11-point type and one-inch margins on all four sides of letter-size paper. Note that papers' final versions cannot exceed five pages in the two-column ACM proceedings format. Papers that fail to comply with length limitations risk immediate rejection.
• 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.

IMPORTANT DATES

Note the extension of the paper submission deadline.

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