Call for Hot off the Press

Description

The Hot Off the Press (HOP) track offers authors of recent papers the opportunity to present their work to the GECCO community, both by giving a talk on one of the three main days of the conference and by having a 2-page abstract appear in the Proceedings Companion, in which the workshop papers, late-breaking abstracts, and tutorials also appear. We invite researchers to submit summaries of their own work recently published in top-tier conferences and journals. Contributions are selected based on their scientific quality and their relevance to the GECCO community. Typical contributions include (but are not limited to) evolutionary computation papers that have appeared at venues different from GECCO, papers comparing different heuristics and optimization methods that have appeared at a general heuristics or optimization venue, papers describing applications of evolutionary methods that have appeared at venues of this application domain, or papers describing methods with relevance to the GECCO community that have appeared at a venue centred around this method’s domain. In any case, it is the authors’ responsibility to make clear why this work is relevant for the GECCO community, and to present the results in a language accessible to the GECCO community.

Acceptance criteria

• The HOP paper must be of significant interest to the GECCO community.
• The HOP paper must have appeared in a well-respected journal or conference proceeding. For journal publications, it suffices that the paper is finally accepted and available on the publishers webpage.
• The HOP paper must not have been published in its final form earlier than 2019.
• The core of the paper must not have been presented at a GECCO conference before.

Publication

Submitters to the HOP track have the choice between only giving a talk at the conference or giving both a talk and having their abstract appear in the GECCO Proceedings Companion. The track is equally happy with both formats. Acceptance/rejection of the submission will only be based on the acceptance criteria described above, not on the submission type.

Submission

A submission that aims at becoming a 2-page paper in the GECCO Proceedings Companion must follow relatively strict rules. It must consist of the 2-page paper that shall appear in the proceedings and a compulsory appendix with additional details. The paper part should give a concise description of the main results of the work in a language understood by the GECCO community. Where not obvious from the result, the particular interest to the GECCO audience must be clearly explained. The abstract of the 2-page paper must clearly indicate the original paper it is based on. This part of the paper, at the moment of submission, must be in the form the authors propose for its appearance in the Proceedings Companion. The compulsory appendix (which will be used for reviewing purposes alone) may contain any additional information the authors want to provide to the reviewers. It must contain a complete description regarding the way the results may have been presented at previous GECCO conferences. It must also contain a direct link to the original paper in PDF format. If the original paper appeared at a venue the reviewers might be unfamiliar with, then an explanation of its reputation is desirable. Any other arguments in favour of the paper should be provided as well. The appendix should be brief. Apart from these rules, the same formatting rules apply as for the late-breaking abstracts.

If authors of an original paper prefer to only present their result at GECCO without a 2-page paper appearing in the Proceedings Companion, then their submission does not need to follow the above rules. However, this type of submission still requires (i) a short summary of the results accessible to reviewers with a typical GECCO background, (ii) an indication of why the results are particularly interesting for the GECCO audience, (iii) a declaration regarding the extent to which they have been presented at previous GECCOs, (iv) and a link to the paper.

How to Submit

• Submission site: https://ssl.linklings.net/conferences/gecco (select category "Hot Off the Press" in the submission form)
• Submission deadline (extended): April 3, 2020 April 17, 2020, 23:59 (Anywhere on Earth)
• Notification of acceptance: April 17, 2020 May 1, 2020
• Page limit: 2 pages using ACM template. See Papers Submission Instructions.
• Author agreement: By submitting an abstract, the author(s) agree that, if their paper is accepted, they will:
  • Submit a final, revised, camera-ready version to the publisher (April 24, 2020 May 8, 2020)
  • Register at least one author who will present the paper (April 27, 2020 May 11, 2020)
  • Provide a pre-recorded version of the talk or poster and be present during its online transmission (which will occur during the days of the conference) to answer questions from the (online) audience.

Copyright

Submitters of a 2-page paper have to ensure that there is no copyright conflict with the original submission. We do not expect significant problems here. Firstly, a HOP paper is an excellent advertisement for the original paper, so it is clearly not in the interest of a publisher to make HOP submissions difficult. Secondly, a good HOP submission, to optimally address the GECCO audience with 2 pages only, in almost all cases will contain a significant amount of new text. Nevertheless, it remains the authors' duty to take care of the copyright situation. This includes the reproduction of original artwork, for which a consent of the original publisher might be required. Authors retain the copyright of the HOP abstract, so there is no problem from the ACM or GECCO side.

Accepted papers and presentations

At least one author of an accepted presentation or paper is required to register for the conference (April 27, 2020 May 11, 2020) and present the result at the conference.

More Information

For more information, contact the Hot off the Press Chair, Heike Trautmann trautmann at wi.uni-muenster.de