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Parallel Problem Solving from Nature
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Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, or PPSN, is a research conference focusing on the topic of natural computing.
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Other conferences in the area include the ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) and EvoStar (Evo*).
In 2020 PPSN got a CORE rank of A,[1] corresponding to an "excellent conference, and highly respected in a discipline area".[2]
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The idea behind PPSN emerged around 1989-1990 when Bernard Manderick, Reinhard Männer, Heinz Mühlenbein, and Hans-Paul Schwefel, realised they shared a common field of study that was not covered by the conferences on Operations Research, Physics, or Computer Science they attended regularly.[3]
The field of Genetic Algorithms had already been established in the form of the ICGA conference in 1985, but the "fathers" of PPSN wanted a wider focus, with algorithms that included problem solving, parallel computing and the use of natural metaphors (such as Darwinian evolution or Boltzmann dynamics).
The success of the first PPSN event at Dortmund encouraged its organisers to start a biennial conference series, as a European counterpart to the American-based ICGA (which in 1999 merged with the Genetic Programming conference to give rise to GECCO).
Analogies to natural processes included the thermodynamic process of annealing, immune systems and neural networks, as well as other paradigms, with Darwinian evolution being by far the most frequently used metaphor.
In this way, evolutionary algorithms and evolutionary computation became the common denominator for the PPSN approach to problem solving by mimicking evolutionary principles like population, birth and death, mutation, recombination, and natural selection.
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Editions
So far, seventeen PPSN conferences have been held: Dortmund (October 1–3, 1990), Brussels (September 28–30, 1992), Jerusalem (October 9–14, 1994), Berlin (September 22–26, 1996), Amsterdam (September 27–30, 1998), Paris (September 16–20, 2000), Granada (September 7–11, 2002), Birmingham (September 18–22, 2004), Reykjavik (September 9–13, 2006), Dortmund (September 13–17, 2008), Krakow (September 11–15, 2010), Taormina (Sicily) (September 1–5, 2012), Ljubljana (September 13–17, 2014), Edinburgh (September 17–21, 2016), Coimbra (September 8–12, 2018) Leiden (September 5–9, 2020), Dortmund (September 10-14, 2022), and Hagenberg (September 14-18, 2024).
The last-but-one edition, held in Leiden, counted on Thomas Bäck and Mike Preuss as General Chairs and Carola Doerr, Michael Emmerich and Heike Trautmann as Programme Committee Chairs. André Deutz and Hao Wang were Proceedings Chairs and Anna Esparcia-Alcázar, Ofer Shir and Vanessa Volz were Workshops, Tutorials and Competitions Chairs, respectively; Anna Kononova was Local Chair.
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Proceedings
Proceedings of PPSN have been historically published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series (except in the second edition in 1992).
- 2024: LNCS 15148,[4] LNCS 15149,[5] LNCS 15150,[6] LNCS 15151,[7]
- 2020: LNCS 12269,[8] LNCS 2070[9]
- 2018: LNCS 11101,[10] LNCS 11102[11]
- 2016: LNCS 9921[12]
- 2014: LNCS 8672[13]
- 2012: LNCS 7491,[14] LNCS 7492[15]
- 2010: LNCS 6238,[16] LNCS 6239[17]
- 2008: LNCS 5199[18]
- 2006: LNCS 4193[19]
- 2004: LNCS 3242[20]
- 2002: LNCS 2439[21]
- 2000: LNCS 1917[22]
- 1998: LNCS 1498[23]
- 1996: LNCS 1141[24]
- 1994: LNCS 866[25]
- 1992: PPSN II[26]
- 1990: LNCS 496[27]
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Keynote speakers
| 1998 Grzegorz Rozenberg, Nicholas Gessler, and Lawrence Davis | 2000 Aaron Sloman, Luc Steels and Henrik Hautop Lund | 2002 Alexander Nareyek, Roderic Guigó and William Hart | 2004 Mandyam V. Srinivasan, Benjamin W. Wah and C. Lee Giles |
| 2006 Herschel Rabitz, Nadia Busi, and Edward Tsang | 2008 Levent Tunçel, Thomas Breitling and Arndt von Haeseler | 2010 Jon Garibaldi, Zbigniew Michalewicz and Darrell Whitley | 2012 Angelo Cangelosi, Natalio Krasnogor, Panos M. Pardalos, and Leslie G. Valiant |
| 2014 Jadran Lenarčič, Thomas Bäck, A. E. (Gusz) Eiben, | 2016 Susan Stepney, Josh Bongard and Andrew Philippides | 2018 Ahmed Elgammal, Francis Heylighen and Kurt Mehlhorn | 2020 Eric Postma, Carme Torras and Christian Stöcker |
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