This event will be published by Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg in its series Lecture Notes in Computer Science and indexed by SCI-E.

Evolution is one of fundamental forms of adaptation. This workshop focuses on exploring the roles of evolution and interactions in complex adaptive systems to build evolvable intelligent systems. The topics of interest to this workshop include but are not limited to the following:
- Evolutionary Optimization
- Nature-Inspired Algorithms
- Self-replicating hardware and Self-Repairing Systems
- Evolutionary hardware design methodologies
- Theoretical Issues in Evolutionary Computation
- Real-World Applications of Evolutionary Computation Techniques

All submissions will be peer-reviewed. Acceptance will be based on:
1、originality
2、relevance
3、significance
4、presentation

All submissions must be written in English and the acceptable format is pdf (use extension .pdf). Furthermore, the final version of your paper should be, in general, written in LaTeX (either LaTeX 2.09 or 2e) according to the rules of LNCS and should not exceed EIGHT PAGES. Your paper must be submitted by using the ICCS'2007 upload engine available at:

http://www.iccs-meeting.org/iccs2007/papers/upload.php

Publication requires at least one author to register for and attend ICCS07 in order to present the accepted work.


Workshop Co-Chairs
1) Bojin Zheng, Ph.D
    South-Central University For Nationalities, Wuhan, China
    Email: zhengbojin@gmail.com
2) Yuanxiang Li, Ph.D/ Prof.
    Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
3) Jiangqing Wang, Prof.
     South-Central University For Nationalities, Wuhan, China
4) Lixin Ding, Ph.D/Prof.
    Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Program Committee (partial)
1) Yuanxiang Li (Chair), Wuhan University, China  
2) Zbigniew Michalewicz, University of Adelaide, Australia
3) Gary G. Yen, Oklahoma State University, USA
4) Bob Mckay, Seoul National University, South Korea
5) P.N. Suganthan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
6) James Kennedy, Bureau of Labor Statistics, USA
7) Jun He, University of Birmingham, UK
8) Lixin Ding, Wuhan University, China
9) Jiangqing Wang, South-Central University For Nationalities, China
10) Kai Qin,  Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
11) Jing Liang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
12) Bojin Zheng, South-Central University For Nationalities, China

Important dates
1、December 1, 2006: Deadline of Submission
2、February 3, 2007: Notification of Acceptance
3、February 16, 2007: Camera Ready Papers
4、February 19, 2007:  Early registration opens
5、March 30, 2007:  Early registration closes
6、May 27-30, 2007: ICCS 2007 conference in Beijing (China)