Call for Papers

The 17th International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computing (ICGEC-2026) invites researchers, practitioners, and students from around the world to submit original, unpublished research papers on all aspects of genetic and evolutionary computing.

ICGEC-2026 provides a premier forum for presenting and discussing the latest advances in genetic algorithms, evolutionary computation, and related computational intelligence techniques. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by Springer.

Topics of Interest

We welcome submissions on, but not limited to, the following topics:

Evolutionary Algorithms

Genetic Algorithms (GA)
Genetic Programming (GP)
Evolution Strategies (ES)
Evolutionary Programming (EP)
Differential Evolution (DE)
Estimation of Distribution Algorithms (EDA)

Swarm Intelligence

Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO)
Ant Colony Optimization (ACO)
Artificial Bee Colony (ABC)
Firefly Algorithm
Bat Algorithm
Cuckoo Search

Bio-inspired Computing

Artificial Immune Systems
DNA Computing
Membrane Computing
Neural-Evolutionary Hybrids
Evolutionary Robotics

Multi-objective Optimization

Pareto-based Methods
Indicator-based Methods
Decomposition-based Methods
Many-objective Optimization

Machine Learning and Evolutionary Algorithms

Evolutionary Neural Networks
Evolutionary Deep Learning
Evolutionary Feature Selection
Evolutionary Clustering
Neuroevolution

Applications

Engineering Design and Optimization
Scheduling and Planning
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Financial Modeling
Image and Signal Processing
Control Systems
Game Playing and AI

Paper Categories

Full Papers (12-15 pages) Original research contributions presenting significant theoretical or practical results.

Short Papers (6-8 pages) Work-in-progress, preliminary results, or position papers on emerging topics.

Submission Guidelines

Papers must be written in English
All submissions must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference
Papers must follow Springer's LNCS format
Submissions will be evaluated based on originality, technical quality, significance, and clarity
All papers will undergo a rigorous double-blind peer-review process

For detailed formatting and submission instructions, please refer to the Submission Guidelines page.

Important Dates

Paper Submission Deadline: June 30, 2026
Invited Session Application Deadline: May 30, 2026
Acceptance Notification: July 15, 2026
Camera-Ready Papers Due: July 30, 2026

For all important dates, please check the Important Dates page.

Publication

All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by Springer in the series "Communications in Computer and Information Science" (CCIS), which is indexed by Scopus, EI-Compendex, DBLP, Google Scholar, and other major databases.

Contact

For questions about paper submission, please contact the program chairs or visit the Contact page.